--- title: Leonard Nimoy: Zachary Quinto, Conan O'Brien Remember Star Trek Actor description: The Star Trek actor paid tribute to Nimoy on Conan canonical: https://time.com/3749126/zachary-quinto-remembers-leonardy-nimoy-conan/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-18T15:59:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:52.381Z og:title: Watch Zachary Quinto Celebrate Leonard Nimoy's 'Beautiful and Full Life' og:description: The 'Star Trek' actor paid tribute to Nimoy on 'Conan' og:url: https://time.com/3749126/zachary-quinto-remembers-leonardy-nimoy-conan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Zachary Quinto Celebrate Leonard Nimoy's 'Beautiful and Full Life' twitter:description: The 'Star Trek' actor paid tribute to Nimoy on 'Conan' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Zachary Quinto Celebrate Leonard Nimoy's 'Beautiful and Full Life' by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 18, 2015 3:59 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 18, 2015 3:59 PM UTC Zachary Quinto stopped by _Conan_ Tuesday night, where the conversation quickly turned to the recent death of Leonard Nimoy. Quinto is known for playing Spock in the modern _Star Trek_ franchise, a role he inherited from Nimoy. The two Spocks became very close, Quinto explained, so losing him was obviously difficult. “But I feel so grateful that I knew him and he was such an instrumental figure in my life,” Quinto said. “He lived a beautiful life and a full life.” Conan then shared a memory from back when he worked as a writer on _The Simpsons_ and Nimoy agreed to do an episode. “I freaked out,” Conan said, “because he was such an indelible part of my childhood.” _Read next:_[ _Zachary Quinto Remembers ‘Father Figure’ Leonard Nimoy_](http://time.com/3729463/zachary-quinto-leonard-nimoy/) ### 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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