--- title: Leonard Nimoy Dead: Appreciation + Remembrance of Life and Career description: The actor, who died Feb. 27, leaves a legacy of friendship, mindfulness and understanding canonical: https://time.com/3726567/leonard-nimoy-dead-mysticism-star-trek/ author: James Poniewozik article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-27T19:01:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:20.443Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Leonard Nimoy Dead: Appreciation + Remembrance of Life and Career og:description: The actor, who died Feb. 27, leaves a legacy of friendship, mindfulness and understanding og:url: https://time.com/3726567/leonard-nimoy-dead-mysticism-star-trek/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5569f372be94e29/6987817335ba6f7748c07533/leonard-nimoy2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock in the STAR TREK episode, "Spock's Brain." which aired on Sept. 20, 1968. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Leonard Nimoy Dead: Appreciation + Remembrance of Life and Career twitter:description: The actor, who died Feb. 27, leaves a legacy of friendship, mindfulness and understanding twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5569f372be94e29/6987817335ba6f7748c07533/leonard-nimoy2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # He Was the Cosmos: How Leonard Nimoy Made Spock a Mystical Force > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [James Poniewozik](https://time.com/author/james-poniewozik/) ## James Poniewozik Feb 27, 2015 7:01 PM UTC  Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock in the STAR TREK episode, "Spock's Brain." which aired on Sept. 20, 1968. Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock in the STAR TREK episode, "Spock's Brain." which aired on Sept. 20, 1968.CBS/Getty Images by [James Poniewozik](https://time.com/author/james-poniewozik/) ## James Poniewozik Feb 27, 2015 7:01 PM UTC As an acting challenge, Mr. Spock was—to borrow an adjective from the Enterprise’s science officer himself—a curious one: a central figure in a drama whose chief characteristic was not showing emotion. And yet he became the character that _Star Trek_‘s audience loved most of all. That owes much to his creator, Gene Roddeberry, of course, but also to Leonard Nimoy, who died Feb. 27 at age 83, who invested into Spock every ounce of his own humanity. Though Spock was the embodiment of logic—the counterweight to swaggery Capt. Kirk and hotheaded Bones McCoy—Nimoy himself felt a spiritual, mystical bond to the alien character. Nimoy created Spock’s signal gesture, the Vulcan salute, from the Jewish priestly gesture that represented the letter shin, and thus the name of the Almighty. (Nimoy was born to Orthodox parents in Boston and witnessed the blessing himself as a child.) This choice meant a lot: in the hands of another actor, Spock’s rigid reserve might have played as an absence—the cold nothingness of logic in place of human heart. As Nimoy interpreted it, it was a presence, the suggestion of greater currents of wisdom beyond the electrical jolts our hearts and brains pump out. Combined with Nimoy’s mellifluous voice and wry stage presence, this gave Spock a kind of hipster beat-poetry character that was oddly in step with the times in the fiery, spiritually questing ’60s. The idea of subordinating one’s own passions to the larger universe was a spiritual idea that goes beyond any particular religion, even beyond religion itself. Part of the reason Spock’s counsel was so effective was not just his intelligence, loyalty and logic, but his ability to see beyond the ego—the self-subjectivity that drove Kirk—to focus on a larger and more eternal whole. (Or as he put it in his death scene in the film _The Wrath of Khan_: the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few—”or the one.”) To say that Spock had no emotion wasn’t true. He was in fact part-human, constantly wrestling to keep his emotion in control. This gave drama to his very being, and Nimoy, with his careful cadence, showed how being Spock was a job that required constant mental effort. Watch clips of _Star Trek_, and you quickly see that Nimoy’s performance is in fact full of emotion: there are knowing smiles, rapt pauses of concentration, deliberate speeches that play musically like prayers. What Nimoy did was to strip his performance not of emotion, but of “feelings”—the little flailings of affect that most actors (and non-actors) rely on. The cliché is to say that this made Spock “more human than any of us,” but again, he after all was partly human in ancestry. He occupied a space between us and the purely alien, giving us perspective on ourselves. That job, honestly, probably required an actor who was himself a bit of an eccentric, in the best, unashamed way; beyond his acting work, he recorded music and spoken-word albums and composed free-verse poetry. Artistically as well, he was an explorer. Many actors who become so wholly identified with single characters spend a lifetime running away from them. Not Nimoy, who embraced Spock (and reprised him many times) and welcomed the hold the character had on generations. And why shouldn’t he have? In his quizzical alien, he created something bigger than himself, a figure of friendship, mindfulness and understanding that, long after Leonard Nimoy is gone, will keep spreading ripples across the universe. _Read next:_ [_How Leonard Nimoy Almost Wasn’t Spock_](http://time.com/3726316/leonard-nimoy-dead-spock-history/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ### See Leonard Nimoy's Long and Prosperous Life in Photos  Leonard Nimoy in The Outer Limits in 1964. ABC/Getty Images  Leonard Nimoy with wife Sandra Zober attend an event in Los Angeles,Calif. in 1966. Michael Ochs Archives—Getty Images  Leonard Nimoy, circa 1968. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images  Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock and William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in season 3 of Star Trek in 1968. CBS/Getty Images  Leonard Nimoy as Paris and Lee Meriwether as Tracey in Mission Impossible in 1969. CBS/Getty Images  Leonard Nimoy in Catlow, 1971. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images  Leonard Nimoy in The Alpha Caper in 1973 Everett  NASA's space shuttle Enterprise rolled out of the Palmdale manufacturing facilities and was greeted by NASA officials and cast members from Star Trek in 1976\. From left: NASA Administrator Dr. James D. Fletcher; DeForest Kelley, who portrayed Dr. "Bones" McCoy on the series; George Takei (Mr. Sulu); James Doohan (Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott); Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura); Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock); series creator Gene Roddenberry; an unnamed NASA official; and, Walter Koenig (Ensign Pavel Chekov). NASA  Leonard Nimoy hosts The Unexplained in 1976. Everett  Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock in 1984. Paramount/Everett  Leonard Nimoy guest stars in The Big Bang Theory. CBS/Getty Images  Leonard Nimoy guest stars on Fringe Fox  Leonard Nimoy and Luke Wilson, presenters during 5th Annual TV Land Awards - Show at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. in 2007. Chris Polk—FilmMagic/Getty Images  Leonard Nimoy guest stars as Mr. Spock in Star Trek in 2009. 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