Nimoy is Spock, Spock is Nimoy

Everybody on the planet knows that Gene Roddenberry created Mr. Spock, the laconic, imperturbable extra-terrestrial First Officer for the Starship Enterprise.

But Mr. Spock doesn’t belong to Roddenberry, even though he is the grand exalted progenitor of everything that was, is, and forever will be “Star Trek.”

Mr. Spock belongs to Leonard Nimoy, who died Friday at age 83. And though he doesn’t take Spock with him, he and Spock remain inseparable.

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