Had Nimoy turned down the role, Roddenberry would have approached Martin Landau.

Nimoy approached ILM early in development and helped create storyboards for the optical effects sequences.

The script was finished by October 1990, five months after Nimoy was approached to write the story.

* Heinlein revealed in the liner notes to the Leonard Nimoy – read album The Green Hills of Earth that he partially based Rhysling's unique abilities on a blind machinist he worked with at the Philadelphia Naval Yards during World War II.

He has interviewed singers Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Eric Burdon and Gordon Lightfoot, comedian George Carlin, writer Dean Koontz, hard science fiction writer Greg Bear, X-Files Writer / Creator Chris Carter, TV talk host Regis Philbin, Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy, actor Dan Aykroyd, former Luftwaffe pilot Bruno Stolle, actress Jane Seymour, actress Ellen Muth, actor and TV host Robert Stack, human rights lawyer John Loftus, legendary disc jockey Casey Kasem and frequent guests physicist Michio Kaku and SETI astronomers Seth Shostak and H. Paul Shuch.

* Jeff Nimoy, Emmy Award-winning voice actor and writer

The majority of the cast has appeared in a role in the Star Trek universe: Patrick Stewart played Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Whoopi Goldberg played Guinan, Leonard Nimoy played Mr. Spock, Christopher Lloyd played Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Ed Begley, Jr. played Henry Starling in two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, George Hearn played Dr. Berel in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and B. J.

In the 1950s he started producing films, first working as assistant ( and later associate ) producer for Jack Broder and Realart Pictures on such films as Bride of the Gorilla, Battles of Chief Pontiac ( featuring Lon Chaney, Jr .), Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla and Kid Monk Baroni ( featuring a 21-year-old Leonard Nimoy as a street kid turned boxer ).

* Jeff Nimoy: U. S. Director of Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02, and Digimon Data Squad ( Savers ).

Alexander's background recalls the association of both Nimoy and Patrick Stewart with Shakespeare roles, as well as the film turn by Shakespearean Christopher Plummer as a Klingon.

For Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( 1984 ) director Leonard Nimoy and writer-producer Harve Bennett wanted the Klingons to speak a proper language instead of made-up gibberish and so commissioned Okrand to develop the phrases Doohan had come up with into a full language.

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew, led by Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), first officer Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ), in the 23rd century.

Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley declined to appear.

Nimoy turned down the chance to direct the feature as well as reprise the role of Spock.

Initially, Filmation was only going to use the voices of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Majel Barrett.

Leonard Nimoy refused to sign up to lend his voice to the series unless Nichelle Nichols and George Takei were added to the cast — claiming that Sulu and Uhura were of importance as they were proof of the ethnic diversity of the 23rd century and should not be recast.

" Exquisite chemistry " among Kelley, William Shatner, and Leonard Nimoy manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captain James T. Kirk and science officer Spock, respectively.

Captains: Robert April ( James Doohan, Gene Roddenberry ), Christopher Pike ( Jeffrey Hunter ), James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), Willard Decker ( Stephen Collins ) ( refit ), Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) ( refit )

The record received good reviews, and the video for " Liverpool " featured Leonard Nimoy, which helped to generate further publicity.

It is included on his first 1967 album Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space.

A very abridged spoken word reading of " There Will Come Soft Rains " and " Usher II " was made in 1975 with Leonard Nimoy as narrator.

According to Shatner, early Star Trek reviews called his performance " wooden ", with most of the show's acting praise and media interest going to Nimoy.

Data is in many ways a successor to the original Star Treks Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), in that the character offers an " outsider's " perspective on humanity.

The 1970 cast from left: Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Lupus, and Peter Graves.

For example, " The Great Paris " ( Leonard Nimoy ), Hand's replacement in the fourth and fifth seasons, was also an actor, make-up artist, magician and " master of disguise.

According to the DVD commentary of the film, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, actors Leonard Nimoy and Kirstie Alley, portraying Spock and Saavik respectively, spoke their lines in English, and later dubbed in alien dialogue ( at least partially designed by linguist Marc Okrand ) that corresponded with the movements of their mouths in the scene.

The neck pinch itself ( referred to in scripts as ' FSNP ', or ' Famous Spock Neck Pinch ') was created by Leonard Nimoy, who objected to a scene in one early episode that required Spock to knock a guard unconscious by hitting him over the head.

Nimoy thought that such overt violence was uncharacteristic of the strictly-logical Spock, and suggested the neck pinch as a less-emotional alternative.

He would write a few pages, show it to Nimoy and Bennett for consultation, and return to his office to write some more.

Nimoy's hiring of Meyer was not only beneficial because Meyer knew the material and could write fast ( having produced The Wrath of Khans screenplay in twelve days ), but if Meyer was to direct it would offset any acrimony from Shatner, whose ire would have been aroused if Nimoy returned to direct his third Star Trek feature after The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home.

Regina Marvinny, editor of Tricorder Readings, encouraged fans in the early 1970s to write " what-if " stories about meeting Leonard Nimoy.

The Sullivan show appearance was to take place shortly before Berry would muster out of the Army, and although he thought it presumptuous to write the Hollywood studios asking them to watch his performance on Toast of the Town, Nimoy didn ’ t, and sent telegrams to several studios and talent agents asking them to watch Berry on the show.

Reportedly, Leonard Nimoy was asked to wear it and refused, so it was passed on to Shatner ; when he also refused, Nimoy reluctantly agreed to wear it.

Nimoy created the sign himself from his childhood memories of the way kohanim ( Jewish priests ) held their hand when giving blessings.

When a new Star Trek series was planned in the late 1970s, Nimoy was to be in only two out of eleven episodes, but when the show was elevated to a feature film, he agreed to reprise his role.

His photography studies at UCLA occurred after Star Trek and Mission: Impossible, when Nimoy seriously considered changing careers.

However, Nimoy would express relief in later interviews and appearances that when he explained the concept to William Shatner, he understood it immediately, and Nimoy credits Shatner's reaction to the nerve pinch in the episode as what really sold it.

In 2009, Nimoy was honored by his childhood hometown when the Office of Mayor Thomas Menino proclaimed the date of November 14, 2009 as Leonard Nimoy Day in the City of Boston.

The pain and inconvenience were so great that when producer Robert H. Justman jokingly proposed plastic surgery, Nimoy momentarily considered doing so.

Nimoy, raised an Orthodox Jew ( but not a kohen ), used the salute when saying " Live long and prosper.

Attending the screening with Nimoy, Bennett was amazed the film proved as entertaining to the Russians as it did with American audiences ; he said " the single most rewarding moment of my Star Trek life " was when the Moscow audience applauded at McCoy's line, " The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.

The story claimed Nimoy personally ripped up all of the photographs and negatives when he learned about the unauthorized photo session, because he feared harm to the franchise if it ever came to light.

Designer Michael Okuda had finished a schematic of the Enterprises decks when Nimoy pointed out he had misspelled " reclamation "; while Okuda was fairly certain no one else would notice the single spelling error on the print, he had to fix it.

Although he sometimes commands the ship when both Captain Kirk and first officer Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) are off the ship ( as third senior officer ), Scotty asserts in the TNG episode " Relics " that he " never wanted to be anything else but an engineer ".

Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) commands the Enterprise, serving as a training ship, at the beginning of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ( 1982 ), but Kirk assumes command when the ship investigates problems with Project Genesis.

Nimoy wrote that when he was a child, his grandfather took him to an Orthodox synagogue.

In an interview with Sondra Marshak, published in Star Trek Lives ( written by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak and Joan Winston ), Leonard Nimoy explained that when he complained about the script to producer Fred Freiberger, Freiberger said, " This script is going to be what ' Miri ' should have been.

* Narrative voice acting is provided by Leonard Nimoy, who reads a quotation related to a technology when it is discovered.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was filming in a nearby studio, and Garry Marshall arranged for the actors William Shatner ( James T. Kirk ) and Leonard Nimoy ( Spock ) to appear fully costumed, out of camera shot, behind a door in one scene in order to elicit genuine surprise from Al Pacino when he opened it.