Spock is dead.

[Alcuin]

Leonard Nimoy died today, Friday 27 February 2015. New York Times article here (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?_r=0).

[Valandil]

Yes - sad to hear.

Reminds me of a Star Trek computer game I had. The first time I did something wrong, Spock dies - and this message comes up:

* SPOCK IS DEAD - GAME OVER! *

[Earniel]

Oh god, I think I remember that game.

I was very sad to hear this; the orginal Star Trek series was my introduction to SF and I never really left after that. I owe a lot of that to Spock and Leonard Nimoy's portrayal of him.

[Alcuin]

Something to tie Mr Spock to Tolkien.

Leonard Nimoy singing “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU)

[Midge]

And here's the cast of the Hobbit reading "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuPTg4Y6ho8)

My hubby LOVES to say "Bilbo Baggins" the way Evangeline Lilly does in this video.