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YES. And it extends beyond feeling attached to them because of their contribution to arts or to a show I have A LOT of feelings for. For a long time I avoided reading and watching anything about the real lives of the actors of TOS because in my mind they could forever be a family, a tight-knit group onto which I could project all kinds of fuzzy shit. And I knew the reality of tv and hollywood is very non-fuzzy. But I eventually succumbed, when there was nothing else TOS-related to consume. So I learned about the sourness, the feuds etc (which I summarily stored away in a compartment that I just don’t think about). But I also found out what amazing people Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley must have been. When a large part of your life is lived under the public eye, you cannot fake the honesty, decency and compassion these two have demonstrated over and over again. Of course, they had bad traits and must have been difficult to be around at times but that’s humans for you.
I genuinely think about them every day and try to incorporate the things I love about them in my day-to-day life and avoid the shitty ones (I decided to quit smoking in large part thanks to Leonard Nimoy). And I genuinely grieve and miss them. When someone you’ve never even met can affect you so, it’s only logical, right?
Does anyone ever really miss and grieve anyone they've never met, never even lived in the same generation as?
Cuz I'm really missing DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy like they just died.
Star Trek or Porno
This was apparently Deforest Kelley’s favorite picture of himself…
De wrote a poem called The Yellow Balloon which I’ve never heard and cannot find (if anyone has it, please post). At this convention or personal appearance, either he brought out the balloon while he read the poem or most likely, a fan gave him the balloon in honor of the poem.
I believe the other man is David Gerrold who wrote “The Trouble with Tribbles”.
This is for Kris if he reads this.
Leonard Nimoy, from I Am Not Spock (1975)
'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.
George Takei
I wanted to cast a woman as second in command. NBC said no way.
Gene Roddenberry
To cast Mr. Spock, I made a phone call to Leonard, and he came in. That was it.
Gene Roddenberry
Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.
Gene Roddenberry
We still love Star Trek, it's just a shame that the eternally new one always has to bite the dust! Probably the running gag!
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Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner and DeForest Kelley, 1987
he said the thing!!!
OMG, it took me ages to find this but it was worth it! I'm laughing so much, please watch this clip from 11 YEARS BEFORE STAR TREK was made I'm dying
[The Millionaire (1955) TV series - s2 e4 - The Iris Millar Story]
*sighs dreamily* 😍😍😍
...he's so PRETTY HELP ME
You guys don't understand just how stunning this man is to me
showed this image to my coworker who does not speak the language of nerds and before I could be like "Yo I need this dude so bad" she said "Aww, is that your grandpa?" and I still don't really know how to react to that question
Star Trek 1x29: Operation—Annihilate!, 1967
A man once walked into a lush national park with winding rivers, gorgeous wild flowers, and the tallest oak trees he’d ever seen. Fascinated by the trees, he walked over to them and began thinking out loud.
“How did they get so big?” He asked himself
Much to his surprise, the trees actually answered. They said “we’ll tell you if you do one thing for us.”
The man obviously had to know the origin of these huge talking trees, so he agreed.
“You need to go on a date with the actor who plays Leonard McCoy,” said the trees.
“No way!” The man yelled. “I’m happily married, I’m not going to start going out with him!”
The trees begged him to do it for them, but he kept refusing.
He just couldn’t see DeForest for the trees.
"Kirk out"
"Second star to the right, and straight on till morning," Kirk told Chekov at the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. After he said that, they gave the original characters a few seconds of screen time before fading out. Then across a screen of stars, the actors signed their names (and I might have teared up ALOT lol). I then took the final images and those signatures and combined them into a gif. Such a good movie (minus the slow clap near the end lol)
Deforest Kelley meets Patrick Stewart during the making of the first season of TNG, which happened right next to Star Trek V: the Final Frontier.
Mccoy but a bit more Deforrest Kelly
(btw it says: doctor sawbones, he is my spirit animal!!)
1/25/23 (5/5)
