Rest in Peace Leonard Nimoy

Well, in the alternate-reality "Star Trek" universe of the past two motion pictures, Commander Spock [Zachary Quinto] and Lieutenant Uhura [Zoe Saldana] are lovers, so I'd suppose that it's not point-blank impossible.

I'd venture it's "fascinating"--well, interesting anyway--that Leonard Nimoy didn't wish to have Spock appear in "Star Trek: Generations," seemingly having finished portraying the character with "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country," yet he ended up playing him twice more as the only prime-reality "Trek" persona to appear in the alternate-reality universe.

"There is an old Vulcan saying: Only Nixon could go to China." --Mr. Spock [Leonard Nimoy], "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country"

--C.K.

That was the "Columbo" episode involving the temporary (dissolving) vs. permanent surgical thread, right...?? --C.K.

I thought Spock was initially meant to be Uhura's love interest in the show until William Shatner's planet sized ego got in the way of that particular plot development.

Spock spanking Uhura was " logical" LLAP.

I just feel for Spock's children: Sheldon, Leonard, Howard and Raj. Maybe even Stewart. They have to be heartbroken and simply devastated.

RIP, Mr Spock ...

I wouldn't be surprised to see them dedicate an episode to Nimoy.

The way that Mr. Spock's character quickly developed in the original "Star Trek" series, I'd find it difficult to imagine him having a long-term romantic interest (despite Nurse Chapel's obvious attraction to him), although it turned out that he did have a fiancee' via a Vulcan arranged marriage.

In the show's first episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before," in which Majel Barrett (Gene Roddenberry's wife, who ended up portraying Ms. Chapel) played Captain Kirk's executive officer, Spock is shown to be a highly intelligent science officer, but not necessarily an emotionally repressed individual. That brief initial version of the guy, I could envision him as having a regular girlfriend, but his characterization as Captain Kirk's "logical" second-in-command changed that image for me.

Of course, William Shatner was known for wanting his character (Kirk) to be the focus of the program, including the captain being the womanizing 'stud' among the male characters.

Kirk once did rather stupidly threaten to spank an attractive but bratty alien woman, it was a foolish idea because a touch of her tears purportedly would 'enslave' any male to her will--that's a poor choice of someone to corporally chastise, I'd figure... --C.K.

Kirk wasn't particularly known for his intellect, though. Probably a product of the way Shatner played him.

Seems he was more successful in avoiding being captured by his most famous role than some or than the Spitting Image puppet satire sketch had it. A Nimoy figure was being interviewed for an acting role and the interviewers kept on calling him Mr Spock, to which he replied, "My name is Leonard Nimoy. I am an actor!" They gave him a passage to read and he went: "To be or not to be - that is illogical, Captain."

An important but seldom mentioned note we should all be aware of in Nimoy's career is that he was the Director of the much under-rated comedy "Holy Matrimony" where Patricia Arquette (the current star of CSI: Cyber ) plays the widow of a dead hoodlum on the run from his gang with a bundle of cash who due to the strange religious doctrines of his family's Fundamentalist community ends up getting "married" to his 12 year old brother in order to hide out from the gang and find the stashed cash. Although the "marriage" is never sexually consummated of course there's a lot of screwball comedy along the lines of Matt Damon's relations with Mattie Ross in "True Grit" but with a gender role reversal...including a scene where Arquette's "spouse" is refusing to get in a car with her to get away from the gang so she picks him up and carries him to it smacking his butt when he protests "You can't do this to me! I'm your husband!" Nimoy's personal religious views about the Almighty having a feminine aspect probably attracted him to this sort of film. I'm sure many of you'd like it.