Lived Long And Prospered

[JasMc1973]

Spock's deed

RIP

[Scunnered]

Ach

[G-Man]

Uch, that's made me a wee bit sad.

[BremnerLorimerGray]

[Fairbairn]

Boldly gone.

[Lamia]

Boooo

[thplinth]

In the early 80's the original Star Trek's were all shown on tv (early evening maybe I forget exactly when). I lapped them up. It was the same time I was having to study science at school and it really resonated, it was proper science fiction. I mind some chemistry teacher telling us one day that carbon and silicon are similar in they have 4 available bonds but carbon is the one that plays a massive role in life on earth not silicon so maybe in other worlds silicon would be one life is based on....Shortly after Star Trek had a silicon based life form planet episode.

It seemed like the science was as much a character as the character theatre it had. Loved that series. Never took to the later incarnations as they ramped up the soap opera to the expense of the science I felt.

Favourite character, well has to be Science Officer Spock.

[Toepoke]

He's dead Jim

[teecee-]

Not as you know it.

[DonnyTJS]

Vaguely on topic: You know that daft Vulcan salute - the whole-hand V-flick?

I can do it dead easy with my left (non-dominant) hand, but can't do it at all with my right. The missus (one of those southpaw freaks) can do it with both, but finds it harder with her dominant left.

Is this a general rule?

[irnbruman]

Is he really deid - or been beamed up?

[Return of Yermaw]

I said to some friends a couple of years back that the only celebrities/movie stars I would genuinely be sad about when they died would be Nimoy and Shatner. And for once I was right - genuinely quite sad.

[Toepoke]

Vaguely on topic: You know that daft Vulcan salute - the whole-hand V-flick?

I can do it dead easy with my left (non-dominant) hand, but can't do it at all with my right. The missus (one of those southpaw freaks) can do it with both, but finds it harder with her dominant left.

Is this a general rule?

I did some early research into this back in the 70s coz I could only do it with my left hand (I'm left handed btw). Simply I used my left hand to hold the right hand fingers in the correct position for a few minutes and thereafter I was like an ambidextrous Vulcan.

Possibly my pre-teen fingers were easier to train but worth a try...

Edited February 27, 2015 by Toepoke

[Caledonian Craig]

Gutted to see that Leonard Nimoy has passed away at the age of 83.

Nimoy played Mr. Spock (not Doctor Spock despite what the BBC say) in Star Trek and he was immense in that role. Surely, he made that character the most famous alien in film or television history.

As a young boy I remember sitting in front of the TV eagerly awaiting the start of another episode of Star Trek on BBC1 on Friday nights at 7pm. It transported me to another world and Leonard played his part in making me fascinated in space.

RIP Leonard.

[Mindimoo]

Vaguely on topic: You know that daft Vulcan salute - the whole-hand V-flick?

I can do it dead easy with my left (non-dominant) hand, but can't do it at all with my right. The missus (one of those southpaw freaks) can do it with both, but finds it harder with her dominant left.

Is this a general rule?

I can do it with both, I'm right handed.

[Caledonian Craig]

His salute he says came about when he went to a Jewish wedding as a boy. He was told not to look at one moment but as a boy he couldn't resist a peek and I think the married couple were being blessed with a salute which went on to become Spock's salute.

[Flora MaDonald]

Didn't realise he was Ukranian.

[Return of Yermaw]

Didn't realise he was Ukranian.

Pretty sure he was born in Boston - parents Ukrainian. Shatner Canadian - a young actor there with Christopher Plummer who would go on to play the marvellous Cold War Chang.........

[Robroysboy]

He's dead Jim

[G-Man]

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP.

Seemingly his last tweet.

[Grim Jim]

Vaguely on topic: You know that daft Vulcan salute - the whole-hand V-flick?

I can do it dead easy with my left (non-dominant) hand, but can't do it at all with my right. The missus (one of those southpaw freaks) can do it with both, but finds it harder with her dominant left.

Is this a general rule?

Takes effort for me either hand (I even have to concentrate on the devil's horns at gigs too so they don't come up wrong ), but had to give a Vulcan salute to Leonard. Especially after BremLG's video. RIP

[Kirk]

Vaguely on topic: You know that daft Vulcan salute - the whole-hand V-flick?

I can do it dead easy with my left (non-dominant) hand, but can't do it at all with my right. The missus (one of those southpaw freaks) can do it with both, but finds it harder with her dominant left.

Is this a general rule?

Jst checked im in the same situation as yer mrs. Although being left handed i still use mY right as my dominant hand.

[biffer]

Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnn!!!!

[Robroysboy]

Didn't realise he was Ukranian.

Neither did I, must have lived in America for most of his life though I imagine.

[Toepoke]

Neither did I, must have lived in America for most of his life though I imagine.

All of it. Although he spoke Yiddish as his first language, so I doubt he had too much affinity for Ukraine.

He certainly lived a full life!...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy