of all the souls I have encountered in my travels...

[jeanne_dark]

I didn't expect the emotion that washed over me when I found out Leonard Nimoy had died earlier today. I had to keep from crying at my desk at work, and had to go to the bathroom for a moment to myself. And I had dinner with my brother earlier, and he said that it was the same for him, except that instead of going to the bathroom, he had to step

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[captainsblog]

You're the only other person I've seen mention MI in your remembrance, and I thank you. That was my first real experience seeing the man act, in his first long-term role after taking off the ears. Sure, I'd watched a couple of eps on the NBC first-run, and I knew in a vague, eight-year-old-ha-ha way that there was This Guy Named Spock, but that show was on at 10 p.m. for most of its run and me, well, eight (nine at the end).

On the other hand, CBS ran MI in the 7:30 block, so I could watch that. Nimoy fit perfectly into the actors-acting-as-actors personas of that show, which changed from week to week. I didn't remember Landau/Bain (who he and a couple of other actresses replaced, and who I didn't get to know until years later in reruns), so he was as integral to my memories of the show as Jim and Barney. As is this "crew," for which, for me, he will also always be Jim's second-in-command:

[jeanne_dark]

M:I is my mom's absolute favorite tv show, and to this day, I associate it with watching the reruns with my mom growing up. When it first came out on dvd, I made sure to get every season for her.

I'm the opossite of you: I never quite forgave Paris for not being Rollin Hand, who was pretty much my first childhood crush. In fact, between Spock and Paris, my brother and I have long joked that Nimoy was the poor man's Martin Landau, what with being called upon to replace him. That's just a joke though, because Nimoy was a class act all on his own who no one can replace.