{"id":96180,"date":"2015-02-27T15:41:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=96180"},"modified":"2015-02-27T18:37:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T23:37:53","slug":"r-i-p-leonard-nimoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=96180","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWhile I was never a Trekkie, I watched Star Trek<\/i> growing up in their endless re-runs and can barely separate out the television show from my actual real-life childhood. They are<\/i> my memories. Star Trek<\/i> was like The Brady Bunch<\/i> in that way: always on, everywhere, background noise, constant. Others can speak about the role of Spock and what it meant to them (the elegies have been coming fast and furious, and there are some great ones out there! The emotion is so palpable!), how deeply the role of Spock has gotten into our cultural DNA. (Alan Sepinwall’s piece about Spock is fantastic.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

My deepest thanks to Jessica Ritchey, for linking to this clip, of Leonard Nimoy reciting Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy in Yiddish. <\/p>\n

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