Guest El Chalupacabra Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?_r=0 Very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Yeah. Just read this. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 I haven't been this sad about a celebrity dying since Randy Savage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kurgan Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 A sad day for geekdom. He will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Ima watch me some old skool Trek tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Alot of people are sad about this, but I wonder how many are named after him like I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest El Chalupacabra Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I think if any character personifies Star Trek, it's Nimoy's Spock, including Kirk. Spock is probably one of the most well-known characters, sci fi, or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kurgan Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 As fitting and emotional now as when I first saw this in the theaters back in '82 when Spock was totally my child hood hero. R.I.P Leonard Nimoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest El Chalupacabra Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 This kind of got overshadowed by Leonard Nimoy's death, but Harve Bennet passed away two days prior, on Feb 25t, 2015. Ironic that inside a week, we lost two giants inHe was 84, and among other things, famous for the Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, and especially Star Trek 2-5 movies, best of which being TWOK. Arguably, Bennett was AS important to Star Trek as Gene Roddenberry, himself. It was Bennett and Meyer that was responsible for essentially saving Star Trek with the movie series (Star Trek 1 might have been popular with fans, but it was Star Trek II that really caused a re-surge in Star Trek popularity), which led to Star Trek's spinoffs TNG and 4 TNG movies, DS9, VOY, and ENT. Not to mention I grew up on Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman reruns. The show is hoaky now, but II have many fond memories of those shows. RIP. http://deadline.com/2015/03/harve-bennett-dies-star-trek-movie-producer-1201387026/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.CAllen Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 I had no idea until I saw your post that he'd died. You're right; it was absolutely overshadowed. I forget when and where I read an article about how the two great underacknowledged creative forces for Trek are him for the movies and Gene Coon for the original series but that always seemed accurate enough from the behindthescenes books and stuff. He was also a producer on Time Trax. That was a really great show.[citation needed] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Oh man, I thought Bennett had already been dead a number of years already. Agree completely, Chalup, about his significant involvement with the Trek films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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