Remembering One of the Classiest Actors, Who Created one of the Classiest Characters, on THE Classiest TV Franchise Ever

It's been a long time since I've posted on The Flaming Nose.  Nothing can get me back here faster than the death of a beloved Star Trek actor.  Fewer characters have become more iconic than Mr. Spock.

I will try to make this brief.  Let's start with Star Trek being one of the first prime time television shows I remember seeing first-run.  I was six years old when it debuted and loved it from the first act of the first episode.  Spock was one of the main ingredients in a recipe that would turn out the most delicious television and movie franchises in modern entertainment.  Spock and Star Trek transcend Sci-Fi.

On to Leonard Nimoy.  A man who always embraced his Spock alter-ego without fear of it typecasting him for the rest of his career.  Every interview I've seen and article I've read indicate he was a class act.  His character no less classy - pure logic wrapped in the package of a loyal friend and commandant.  The actors who portrayed the main characters in the original series created magic, and although Star Trek Ruler-of-the-Universe Gene Roddenberry created them, and the writers put the brilliant words in their mouths, these superb actors literally created their personas.  Nimoy led the charge with a myriad of nuances and acting choices that turned Spock into the beloved Vulcan we came to know.

Nimoy was truly a gifted actor.  Beyond Star Trek, he was superb in Mission Impossible.  There in lies a huge connection to The Flaming Nose.  Both Trek and Mission were Desilu Productions - projects personally championed by Lucille Ball.  After those endeavors, Nimoy hosted a non-fiction (some would say) seventies TV classic, "In Search Of..."  

Nimoy was also a film director, poet and photographer.  

Leonard Nimoy, dead at age 83.  RIP.