In an age where the word is overused, the half-man, half-alien was truly an iconic character. Spock on the 60s TV series Star Trek, both lived long and prospered, before dying at the age of 83. Leonard Nimoy, who popularised the gesture in his role as Mr. Is there a more famous TV gesture than the Vulcan Salute? Transcript The Man Who Was Spock Leonard Nimoy, best known for playing the character Spock in the Star Trek television shows and films, died at 83. The baby boom generation came of age under the twin pillars of Spock - Doctor and Mister - but it’s the Mister from “Star Trek” that has more resonance now. The original “Star Trek” that was created by Gene Roddenberry and went on the air in 1966 lasted only three seasons, but it has never really left the picture: It lives on and on in reruns, remakes, movie adaptations, comedy skits, Halloween costumes, conventions, memorabilia, fan fiction and endless campy parodies on YouTube.

Peabody of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show came close, but he was a beagle and quite affectionate in his fusty way.)īefore the word Asperger’s was in common parlance, before Sheldon showed up on “The Big Bang Theory,” there was Spock, the half-Vulcan, half-human science officer on the Starship Enterprise who revered reason and eschewed emotion. But until “Star Trek,” television didn’t really have anyone that distinctively - and irresistibly - coldblooded, cerebral and punctilious. Crime fiction and the movies offered Sherlock Holmes as the ultimate aloof, brainy hero.

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