KGW Vault: Leonard Nimoy talks Spock, Star Trek in 1967 

He lived long enough to get the idea

RIP, Leonard!

In fact he wrote a book of himself in his relation with personage Spock (I believe it was in the beginning of 70s) called I am not Spock. He was a upset about the people's "confusion" about him and his character. I believe he made up his mind on the contrary direction when fame and money just arrive for him in the 80s. Brasil

@@Libertyjack1 oh don't blame the man for thinking Nimoy died in the 70s 80s

​@@KRYPTOS_K5 Indeed Mr. Nimoy did: _I Am Not Spock_ (1975) was the first volume of his autobiography, in fact, followed exactly two decades later by the second and final volume, titled -- of course -- _I Am Spock_ (1995).

Zachary Quinto in the JJ Abrams reboots did great too, but of course Nimoy will always be Spock.

@SnoopyDoo ... I got a chuckle out of his explanation to her of the beaming technology. She acted as if it was a real thing to beam somewhere and he responded to her as if it was, too. So he was messing with her & us just a little bit. lol 😊

@@crichter1724 I think Nimoy initially thought she was asking if such a process *would* be painful. Then, from her follow-up questions, it wasn’t clear if she thought there was some stunt work involved, or thought that they really were teleporting, or was teasing him by pretending to think that they were.

"Having your molecules scattered? Nah!"

And he didn't even raise an eye brow at that question!! So polite!

he's dead...

@@marmac83 Pretty sure he means, “Even now, in this interview…”

what about Bones?

Have you ever noticed how often there are comments with people saying that they miss Leonard Nimoy? Look at several videos about him a just take a minute to notice just how incredibly often that people say that they miss him.

Too true. couldn't have said it better myself.

Except to the Vietnamese….

I agree. The whole world is such a different place.

@@paultoensing3126What do you mean by that? Did you understand the comment?

@@4KindnessGal Take courage...We will again be a humble and gracious Nation...but not until we learn some very hard Lessons...

I know. She asked like it was a real experience. He answered it really well too.

@@4KindnessGalExactly. He could have responded with something like, "What? Are you kidding me?" but he answered respectfully.

@@JustWasted3HoursHere Believe it or not, I picked up on that.

We all do. 😢

Spock was Gene Roddenberry's personification of the Enlightenment. In a lot of ways he was the intended star of the show.

To be fair, I think both work really well precisely because of their differences, a show solely focused on Spock or Kirk would not have worked well, it is precisely their interactions along with Bones that makes the show so great to watch.

Baba Wawa.

Church Lady

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He didn't say the ship COULDN'T go faster than warp 8...he said they try to avoid going faster than warp 8 because of the stress/strain it would put on the ship.

@@truthinbottle99 My point is that if each warp is 1x the speed of light, as they state, I would still take them over two weeks to get to our nearest star. At that rate of speed, I don’t think they’d have the range of adventures shown in the three seasons of Star Trek, in their five year journey. Also, if the Enterprise is stressing at warp 8, I don’t think sustained 100 warp is in the equation.

Nimoy got it wrong, it's the cube of itself. So warp speed would be 512x the speed of light, and warp 1 would be 1x the speed of light.

That’s all I was saying, that Nimoy’s math didn’t make sense. I mean, if you’re going to have a spaceship go faster than the speed of light (the crew seems to do OK with standing around while the g-forces involved would crush them), you might as well make it a speed that can actually get somewhere.