Leonard Nimoy

I just thought it was very interesting that there's kind of like the big names in Star Trek when he came into the fold.

Later, Nimoy was like, he was a nice guy once you got to know him, but he was kind of gruff.

The guy he was replacing the previous showrunner, he did not like him.

He said, I'm glad he came in a few days before I left because it would have been interminable if it had been two weeks.

Bob Jessaman said, Coon was a sensitive – sorry.

Leonard Nimoy said he was a sensitive kind of man once he got to know him.

But on the surface, he came across as a crusty James Cagney, Spencer Tracy type, the sort of guy you'd see cast as the tough 1940s newspaper editor.

Bob Jessman believed that Coon, based on appearance alone, would have made perfect casting for the cold, cruel banker who forecloses on the widow's mortgage.

He wasn't in the first one.

In 1967, Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, said he thought that hiring Koenig would help the solution to the demographic problem because Spock, William Shatner, and Lear Nimoy, Captain Kirk, It was William Shatner, Captain Kirk, Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock.

We're both middle-aged is what he called them.

They were 35 at the time.

But...

Was it just a money thing? Is that why they wouldn't let him on the cartoon? Yeah, but I mean, they weren't going to let anybody on the cartoon other than Shatner, Nimoy, and DeForest Kelly.

And it took Nimoy to fight for everyone that he could.

But yeah, unfortunately, he couldn't save Chekhov.

Chekhov was the red shirt in that case.

But...

For years, guys like Takei and even Shatner, they didn't make a lot of money at these conventions.

And some of them, I met Nimoy.

it feels like I've lost part of my childhood.

I mean, he, he was only five years younger than William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.

William Shatner, of course, still around at 95 years old.

I don't think the guy's ever going to die.

I love your hair.

In fact, Chekhov got the third most fan mail letters next to Shatner and Nimoy.

Chekhov said, I didn't really have much to do in the Star Trek series.

He was there.

Koenig said, I don't even think he remembered my name.

Shatner was like, the rest of the Star Trek cast was like, ah.

The only guy he seemed to recognize was Nimoy.

He and Nimoy were close.

Go on the dark web or on your local internets.

and look for Leonard Nimoy doing his various album material.

I'm just going to leave it at that.

Yeah, it was very common for TV stars in the 60s and 70s to sign contracts that required them to record audio as well, right? So you have Lorne Green did things like Ringo, right? Some great stuff, right? Then you have Leonard Nimoy.

This is where the world got William Shatner doing spoken word poetry, by the way.

They were obliged under their Star Trek contract to record a certain number of albums or songs or something.

I don't know the finer points of it.

But there is recordings of various albums being torn to pieces by Leonard Nimoy.

Koenig's death leaves William Shatner, who played Captain James D. Kirk, and Takei as the owner-surviving members of the original series' main cast.

Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, and DeForest Kelly, who played Spock, Uhura, Scotty, and Dr. Leonard Bones McCoy, have all died.

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Koenig's death leaves William Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk, and Take as the only surviving members of the original series' main cast.

Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock, Nichelle Nichols, Yuhura, James Dohan Scotty, and DeForest Kelly, who played Dr. Leon Bones McCoy, have died.

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He wasn't in the first one.

In 1967, Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, said he thought that hiring Koenig would help the solution to the demographic problem because Spock, William Shatner, and Lear Nimoy, Captain Kirk, It was William Shatner, Captain Kirk, Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock.

We're both middle-aged is what he called them.

They were 35 at the time.