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UPCOMING
EVENTS
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Friday, March 13: The UAC-ANKh
Star Trek Art Project
• Saturday, March 21: Memorial
Service for ENS2 Chris White
NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
• In Memoriam: ENS2 Christopher
White
• Treklanta announces Anne
Lockhart as guest of honor
• Star Trek fan films
selected for consideration
• Treklanta announces additional
Artists in our Artists Alley
• Treklanta embroidered polo
shirts now available for preorder
• Personnel Records
• Classified Ads
• Library Computer
• Recent Chapter Event Photos
SIDEBAR
• Welcome Aboard!
• February
& March Membership
Renewals
• About the Republic
• For More Information
• USS Republic Online
• Crew Roster
• News from TheNYTimes.com
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Leonard Nimoy, Spock of Star
Trek, Dies at 83
— Harve
Bennett, Star Trek Producer,
Dies at 84 |
UPCOMING
EVENTS
The
UAC-ANKh Star Trek Art Project
An Homage to the History of the African
Diaspora on Star Trek
6:00-9:00 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2015
Aviation Community Cultural Center
3900 Aviation Circle NW, Atlanta GA 30336
(404) 612-8600 |
Join
your members and friends aboard the USS Republic on
this very special and unique away mission to Joseph R. Wheeler
III's original fan canon-based one-man Star Trek-themed
art show at the brand new Aviation Community Cultural Center
just off Fulton Industrial Boulevard at Interstate 20 near
Six Flags in eastern Atlanta. This event is FREE
and open to the public with NO admission charge!
I am
artist Joseph R. Wheeler III and I want to share with you
a very important and special art show at Fulton County's brand
new Aviation Community Culture Center (ACCC)! The show
is a dedication to the long and little-known expansive history
of the African Diaspora in Star
Trek!
The ACCC gallery is proud to host this collection of
works as it relates to the history of Blacks in aviation,
celebrating over 50 actors and actresses who have continued
the legacy Nichelle Nichols sparked with a Black presence
in Gene Roddenberry's classic vision. This is a fan
art fantasy canon project entitled The UAC-ANKh Project. (UAC
= United African Confederation; Ankh = Ancient Egyptian symbol
of eternal life.) I invite you with hopes that you will
find interest in supporting this show, spreading the word
and attending the opening on March 13, 2015!
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Memorial
Service for ENS2 Chris White
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Saturday March 21, 2015
Georgia Perimeter College, Building CL
Jim Cherry Learning Resource Center
555 North Indian Creek Drive
Clarkston GA 30021
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 ENS2
Chris White was a member of the USS Republic
from 2008 to 2013. Information about his recent
passing can be found in the news article below. A
memorial service for Chris is being planned by his
mother, ENS2 Marilyn Teague, for Saturday morning,
March 21. Marilyn writes:
I am planning a Star Trek/Star Wars type ceremony.
Chris LOVED the SyFy show Face Off, so if people
come in costume, that would have made him happy! He
also loved the show Hard Core Pawn and other pawn shows,
but well, that was him. He was big on Star Trek
AND Star Wars, so there will be a surprise there! If
you can make it, that would be great. If not, we totally
understand. Sci-fi costumes are optional. Black is always
a good choice, and was Chris' favorite color to wear.
Marilyn needs a head count of those who plan to attend. Please
RSVP to Marilyn
Teague if you can join us. Also, longtime
friend of the family Leigh Boros is looking for photos
of Chris to display at the service. If you have any
photos of Chris you can share with his friends and family,
please contact Leigh directly at Invisiblemonkey@pobox.com.
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NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
In
Memoriam: ENS2 Christopher White
August 6, 1973 - February 19, 2015 |
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USS Republic is saddened to announce the recent passing
of former member Ensign 2nd Class Christopher Kirk White
at the Visiting Nurses Hospice Center in Atlanta after a long
battle with several serious illnesses, ultimately succumbing
to complications from osteomyelitis. Chris was the son
and stepson of former members Ensigns 2nd Class Marilyn
and Robert Teague. He was 41.
Chris and Marilyn joined the USS Republic in 2008 and
Robert joined a year later. The Teague family was active
with the Republic for the next five years, attending
many of our events and activities. Chris proudly
served as the Video Room Director for TrekTrax Atlanta (now
Treklanta) in 2011 and 2012, and was a member of the convention's
Security staff in 2013.
Born at Grady Hospital in Atlanta in 1973, Christopher Kirk
White was named after Captain Christopher Pike and Captain
James T. Kirk by his mother, with whom he started attending
local conventions such as the Atlanta Comics & Fantasy Fair
when he was as young as 8 years old. Following in his
mother's fandom, Chris grew up to be a huge fan of Star
Trek and Star Wars, and was a volunteer at Dragon*Con
for more years than anyone can remember.
The USS Republic extends its sincerest condolences
to Marilyn and Robert and their family. A memorial service
is planned for Chris on March 21; please see the details above
and join us if you can. Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.
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Treklanta
announces Anne Lockhart as celebrity guest of honor
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 Treklanta
is pleased to announce that Ms. Anne Lockhart has been
confirmed to appear at our 2015 convention! Ms.
Lockhart is best known to science fiction fans as Lieutenant
Sheba in the original Battlestar Galactica TV series.
She is the daughter of June Lockhart, who is also well-known
to science fiction fans as Maureen Robinson in the original
Lost in Space TV series.
In addition to her role in Battlestar Galactica, Ms.
Lockhart has made dozens of guest appearances in network television
shows, beginning with Lassie in 1959 and all the way
up to her current role as a dispatcher on the NBC drama series
Chicago Fire. Science fiction fans may also remember
her as Jennifer in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
episode "A Dream of Jennifer."
Ms. Lockhart has also appeared in many movies, including Jory,
Joyride, Troll, Just Tell Me You Love Me,
The Graduates of Malibu High, The Oasis, A
Dog's Tale, Daybreak and Hollywood, It's a Dog's
Life. She has also appeared in hundred of commercials
and has worked extensively in voice acting. Ms. Lockhart
is also an expert horsewoman, has won championships in cutting,
reining, team penning and barrel racing, and has raised over
five million dollars for her children's charity, Pro-Celebrity
Rodeos.
At Treklanta 2015, Ms. Lockhart will attend our exclusive
VIP Champagne Reception, host two Q&A hours, serve as a judge
for the Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant and as a presenter
for the Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards, and
be available for autographs and photo opps.
Preregister for Treklanta 2015 now at www.treklanta.org,
where you can also book your hotel room at our discounted
group rate, preorder your souvenir convention t-shirt and
learn about our many other guests, events and activities.
Please help us spread the word about Ms. Lockhart's upcoming
appearance at Treklanta 2015 by sharing this announcement
with all your fellow Battlestar Galactica friends and
fan groups! |
| Treklanta
announces Star Trek fan films selected for consideration |
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Treklanta
is pleased to announce the
independent Star Trek fan films that have been nominated,
submitted and/or selected for consideration for the first
annual Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards, and which
meet the eligibility requirements as previously announced
on our web site and Facebook page. In chronological
order of release date, the sixteen fan films that will be
reviewed and judged by our distinguished panel of judges are:
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1/8/2014
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Star
Trek Continues "Lolani" |
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1/13/2014
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Project:
Potemkin "The Night the Stars Fell from the Sky" |
(0:54:46)
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1/14/2014
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Star
Trek: Rendezvous "The Inquiry" |
(0:16:25)
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4/5/2014
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Star
Trek: Secret Voyage "Rise of the Gongdea" |
(0:35:09)
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5/1/2014
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Starship
Exeter "The Tressaurian Intersection" |
(0:51:46)
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5/28/2014
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Star
Trek: Reliant "Supply and Demand" |
(0:22:23)
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6/15/2014
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Star
Trek Continues "Fairest of Them All" |
(0:40:33)
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6/22/2014
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Star
Trek Natures Hunger "Star Trek Encounters
Silence of the Lambs" |
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6/27/2014
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Starship
Valiant "Legacy" |
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7/14/2014
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Project:
Potemkin "Command Decision" |
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7/26/2014
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Star
Trek: Axanar "Prelude to Axanar" |
(0:21:09)
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8/4/2014
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Starship
Farragut "Conspiracy of Innocence" |
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9/29/2014
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Star
Trek: Reliant "Stalemate" |
(0:06:17)
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10/31/2014
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Star
Trek Natures Hunger "Dorothy's Awesome Shuttlecraft
Adventure" |
(0:22:26)
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11/11/2014
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Project:
Potemkin "Holding Pattern" |
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Star
Trek New Voyages: Phase II "Mind-Sifter" |
(1:17:38)
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These films are currently being reviewed and judged by our
panel of industry professionals, comprised of Diana Botsford,
Peter David, Keith DeCandido, Michael DeMeritt
and Susan Sackett. The nominees for
each of the nine categories in which awards will be presented
will be announced later this month, and the winners will be
announced at Treklanta in the awards ceremony scheduled for
12:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 26. For more information
about the Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards, please
visit its Facebook
Page.
Preregistered memberships to Treklanta 2015 are $40 and hotel
rooms at our special convention rate of only $89 per night
are still available. Visit our web
site to preregister and book your hotel room NOW! |
| Treklanta
announces three additional Guest Artists in our Artists Alley |
Treklanta
is pleased to announce that three new artists will be attending
the convention as Artist Guests of Honor in our first-ever
Artists Alley & Art Show. Joining our previously
announced Artist Guests of Honor Ms. Katie Bracewell,
Ms. Carly Strickland and Mr. Dimitri Walker
will be Mr. Daniel Flores, Mr. Peter Lücker
and Mr. Joseph R. Wheeler III.
 Born
in East Los Angeles with a pencil in his hand, Daniel Flores
was a creative child, drawing on every surface he could find.
Mr. Flores' imagination would start taking off with
images of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Bugs Bunny and stories of
Aztec bravery as told by his history teacher in Mexico City,
where he attended middle school. By high school,
his skills were well-known by anyone who met him, and his
nickname became "Dan The Man." By his senior year, the
nickname was shortened to just "DTM," and that's what
it is today.
DTM never entered any art contests and was not interested
in learning about art in a classroom setting. Drawing
is his preferred learning style, and by doing, he has added
several other art skills to his pool of talents, including
tattoos, fine art, graphic design and mobile game illustration.
Ever since arriving in Atlanta in 1994, DTM has been deeply
involved in the arts community, starting with group art shows
to curator of the Mano
A Mano art exhibit series. In 2002, his tattoo
studio won Creative Loafing's Best of Atlanta award.
Since 2004, he has participated in over 25 group art
shows in the Atlanta area. In 2005, his art was shown
at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta as part of the Art Beats
+ Lyrics art show. With his wife, Aisha Flores, DTM
ventured into the web design field in 2006 and founded Denominator
Graphics with a focus on building web sites for young
artists in order for them to have an online portfolio and
the opportunity to promote their art to potential fine art
collectors. DTM was published in the July 2012 issue
of ImagineFX magazine. Also in 2012, DTM founded
the nonprofit organization Art
Is King, whose mission is to develop resources, events
and connections that educate artists and supports the arts
community.
Art is Daniel Flores' passion, and his creativity overflows
with nonstop art projects. Art is DTM's profession,
and he's thankful for the opportunity to create. Visit
his personal web site at Delta
Tango Mike.
 Peter
Lücker, who goes by the nickname "Float," is a formerly
Atlanta-based artist now living in Madison, Alabama, working
in the media of canvas painting, collage, digital art and
design. His style focuses on bright colors and iconic
images from pop culture. Using cartoons, comics, science
fiction & fantasy, graffiti and street art as inspiration,
"Float" brings his own spin to furniture refurbishing, sticker
design, art prints and more. Visit his Facebook
page at Float
Shop.
 Joseph
R. Wheeler III is the artist, founder and president of
OnyxCon. A proud Southerner, Mr. Wheeler was born and
raised in Atlanta, Georgia, where he attended public school
and graduated with honors from Benjamin Elijah Mays High School
in 1993. He completed his foundation studies at Pratt
Institute in Brooklyn, New York, then went on to study drawing,
painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture at the Atlanta
College of Art (now SCAD Atlanta), where he acquired his Bachelor
of Fine Arts degree in 1997.
An important fixture in the Atlanta arts community, Mr. Wheeler
has been dedicated for over 20 years as an arts instructor
and Therapeutic Creative Activities Specialist for both youth
arts organizations and the senior citizen population, focusing
on adult day programs for Alzheimer's/disabled seniors. Mr.
Wheeler has faced the challenges to Atlanta's arts community
with unfaltering service, maintaining progressive and innovative
contributions to the arts.
As a professional artist, Mr. Wheeler's career continues to
be praised with accolades in publications such as The International
Review of African American Art, published by Hampton University,
and Black Comix: African American Independent Comics Art
and Culture, the internationally and domestically distributed
"Who's Who" of Black comics, conventions, creators
and more. Currently, Mr. Wheeler is very busy growing
his organization OnyxCon and the OnyxCon Institute, working
with school groups and organizations such as Atlanta's public
libraries. His latest historic masterpiece is an
homage to the history of the African diaspora in Star Trek
canon. The piece, entitled "The UAC-ANKh Project,"
is a fan art work that features a chosen 50-plus faces of
known and often overlooked legendary characters (actors and
actresses) from the Star Trek TV and film series. Visit
his web site at The
New Art Order.
Please visit the Treklanta
web site for
more information about our guests, events and activities;
preregister your membership; and book your hotel room. We
look forward to seeing you at Treklanta! |
| Treklanta
embroidered polo shirts now available for preorder |
NOW
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!
High-quality
pique polo shirts with the Treklanta logo embroidered
in white with a black drop shadow on the left breast. These
comfortable, versatile and fashionable two-button collared
polo shirts are available in all sizes from Small to 4XL in
your choice of Black, Royal Blue, Maroon, Gold, Green or Red.
Shirts must be ordered by Friday, April 10, and will
be available for pick-up from Registration at Treklanta on
Friday, April 24. Shirts will NOT be available for sale
at the convention! Show your pride and support of Treklanta
and order yours today by visiting the VOLUNTEER page on our
web site at www.treklanta.org
and clicking the "Add to Cart" PayPal links to choose your
size and color. Thanks, and see you there! |
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Personnel
Records
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Ensign
Gaylen Greve
Decatur, Georgia
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Ensign
Vicki Greve
Decatur, Georgia
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| STARFLEET
Academy Course Completions |
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Congratulations
to ENS3 Tiffany
Johnson, who received a grade of HONORS for the
STARFLEET Academy course "Officer's Command College"
from the Institute of Leadership Studies, completed
on February 1, 2015. |
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 STARFLEET
Academy is a special collection of correspondence courses
available to every STARFLEET member. Over 60 Academy
Colleges offer courses spanning all aspects of Star Trek
and science fiction; some courses even cover non-sci-fi real
world topics. Each college offers dozens of different
courses at varying levels of challenge from super-easy to
really hard. In total, there are nearly 1,000 different
courses available. Take
a course today!
Something
special going on in your life? Submit
your Personnel Record for publication in the next
issue of The Republiqué! |
Classified
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Canon PowerShot A590 IS Digital Camera. All original
components, accessories and user manuals included. $25.
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Library
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USS
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Where
Is the United Federation of Planets? || Feb.
14, 2015
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Seated:
Ensign "Wolfy," Ens Vicki Greve.
Standing: Ens Carly May, ENS1 Sue Lin Lange, Ens John May,
XO Adm Mike Henigan, R2Z2 ZC Adm Kelly Hilliard, Ens Gaylen
Greve, CO FCapt Eric L. Watts, Dr. Larry Krumenaker.
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Dr.
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presentation identified all the "real" planets,
stars and astronomical objects that are mentioned by name
in the history of Star
Trek
and laid them all out on a galactic map.
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Captain
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Ensigns
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Dr.
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ENS1
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R2Z2
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AnachroCon
Fan Table || February 27–March
1, 2015
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USS
Republic CO FCapt and Treklanta Chairman Eric L.
Watts manned the Treklanta fan table at AnachroCon pretty
much by himself for pretty much the entire weekend. Thanks
in part to that gigantic seven-foot-tall banner featuring
our celebrity guests of honor, four new Treklanta memberships
were sold and a lot of people heard about the convention
for the first time.
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WELCOME
ABOARD!
1 New Member in January!
Ens Daniel Cowart
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FEBRUARY
& MARCH
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
These members' dues expired in February
or will expire in March. Please renew now!
ENS1 Mark A. Ozanick
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ABOUT
THE REPUBLIC
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The
USS Republic NCC-1371 was originally commissioned
as a chapter of STARFLEET International on May 14, 1988,
at the Dixie-Trek convention in Atlanta, Georgia. As
of January 31, 2015, the Republic crew includes 33
members who are active members of STARFLEET in good
standing.
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The
Republic plans and coordinates an active schedule
of events for its members, but does not hold meetings
on a consistently fixed date each month.
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Because
the USS Republic is a duly commissioned chapter
of STARFLEET International and is bound and governed by
its Constitution and By-Laws, membership in STARFLEET
is a prerequisite for membership in the Republic. STARFLEET
dues for one person are $20 for a "Standard Membership"
or $10 for an "E-Membership" and chapter dues are $10
per person for either membership option. A
combined payment for all dues is collected by the Republic
(family discounts are available with certain conditions
and restrictions). Additional information about
the two STARFLEET membership options, amounts due for
additional family members, payment options and payment
instructions is on the "How to Join" page of our award-winning
web site.
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| Leonard
Nimoy, Spock of Star Trek, Dies at 83 |
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By
Virginia Heffernan
February 27, 2015
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| Leonard
Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful
global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien
first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television
and movie juggernaut Star Trek, died on Friday morning
at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He
was 83. |
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wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, confirmed his death, saying the cause
was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. |
| Mr.
Nimoy announced last year that he had the disease, attributing
it to years of smoking, a habit he had given up three decades
earlier. He had been hospitalized earlier in
the week. |
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artistic pursuits—poetry, photography and music in addition
to acting—ranged far beyond the United Federation of Planets,
but it was as Mr. Spock that Mr. Nimoy became a folk hero,
bringing to life one of the most indelible characters of
the last half century: a cerebral, unflappable, pointy-eared
Vulcan with a signature salute and blessing: "Live long
and prosper" (from the Vulcan "Dif-tor heh smusma"). |
| Mr.
Nimoy, who was teaching Method acting at his own studio
when he was cast in the original Star Trek television
series in the mid-1960s, relished playing outsiders, and
he developed what he later admitted was a mystical identification
with Spock, the lone alien on the starship's bridge. |
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he also acknowledged ambivalence about being tethered to
the character, expressing it most plainly in the titles
of two autobiographies: I Am Not Spock, published
in 1975, and I Am Spock, published in 1995. |
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the first, he wrote, "In Spock, I finally found the best
of both worlds: to be widely accepted in public approval
and yet be able to continue to play the insulated alien
through the Vulcan character." |
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Trek, which had its premiere on NBC on Sept. 8, 1966,
made Mr. Nimoy a star. Gene Roddenberry, the creator
of the franchise, called him "the conscience of Star
Trek"—an often earnest, sometimes campy show that employed
the distant future (as well as some special effects that
appear primitive by today's standards) to take on social
issues of the 1960s. |
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stardom would endure. Though the series was canceled
after three seasons because of low ratings, a cultlike following—the
conference-holding, costume-wearing Trekkies, or Trekkers
(the designation Mr. Nimoy preferred)—coalesced soon after
Star Trek went into syndication. |
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fans' devotion only deepened when Star Trek was spun
off into an animated show, various new series and an uneven
parade of movies starring much of the original television
cast, including—besides Mr. Nimoy—William Shatner (as Captain
Kirk), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), George Takei (the helmsman,
Sulu), James Doohan (the chief engineer, Scott), Nichelle
Nichols (the chief communications officer, Uhura) and Walter
Koenig (the navigator, Chekov). |
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the director J. J. Abrams revived the Star Trek film
franchise in 2009, with an all-new cast including Zachary
Quinto as Spock, he included a cameo part for Mr. Nimoy,
as an older version of the same character. Mr. Nimoy
also appeared in the 2013 follow-up, Star Trek Into Darkness. |
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zeal to entertain and enlighten reached beyond Star Trek
and crossed genres. He had a starring role in the
dramatic television series Mission: Impossible and
frequently performed onstage, notably as Tevye in Fiddler
on the Roof. His poetry was voluminous, and he
published books of his photography. |
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also directed movies, including two from the Star Trek
franchise, and television shows. And he made records,
singing pop songs as well as original songs about Star
Trek, and gave spoken-word performances—to the delight
of his fans and the bewilderment of critics. |
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all that was subsidiary to Mr. Spock, the most complex member
of the Enterprise crew, who was both one of the gang
and a creature apart, engaged at times in a lonely struggle
with his warring racial halves. |
| In
one of his most memorable Star Trek performances,
Mr. Nimoy tried to follow in the tradition of two actors
he admired, Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff, who each
played a monstrous character—Quasimodo and the Frankenstein
monster—who is transformed by love. |
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Episode 24, which was first shown on March 2, 1967, Mr.
Spock is indeed transformed. Under the influence
of aphrodisiacal spores he discovers on the planet Omicron
Ceti III, he lets free his human side and announces his
love for Leila Kalomi (Jill Ireland), a woman he had once
known on Earth. In this episode, Mr. Nimoy brought
to Spock's metamorphosis not only warmth, compassion and
playfulness, but also a rarefied concept of alienation. |
| "I
am what I am, Leila," Mr. Spock declares after the spores'
effect has worn off and his emotions are again in check.
"And if there are self-made purgatories, then we all
have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone
else's." |
| Born
in Boston on March 26, 1931, Leonard Simon Nimoy was the
second son of Max and Dora Nimoy, Ukrainian immigrants and
Orthodox Jews. His father worked as a barber. |
| From
the age of 8, Leonard acted in local productions, winning
parts at a community college, where he performed through
his high school years. In 1949, after taking a summer
course at Boston College, he traveled to Hollywood, though
it wasn't until 1951 that he landed small parts in two movies,
Queen for a Day and Rhubarb. |
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continued to be cast in little-known movies, although he
did presciently play an alien invader in a cult serial called
Zombies of the Stratosphere, and in 1961 he had a
minor role on an episode of The Twilight Zone. His
first starring movie role came in 1952 with Kid Monk
Baroni, in which he played a disfigured Italian street-gang
leader who becomes a boxer. |
| Mr.
Nimoy served in the Army for two years, rising to sergeant
and spending 18 months at Fort McPherson in Georgia, where
he presided over shows for the Army's Special Services branch.
He also directed and starred as Stanley in the Atlanta
Theater Guild's production of A Streetcar Named Desire
before receiving his final discharge in November 1955. |
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then returned to California, where he worked as a soda jerk,
movie usher and cab driver while studying acting at the
Pasadena Playhouse. He achieved wide visibility in
the late 1950s and early 1960s on television shows like
Wagon Train, Rawhide and Perry Mason.
Then came Star Trek. |
| Mr.
Nimoy directed the movies Star Trek III: The Search for
Spock (1984) and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
(1986), which he helped write. In 1991, the same year
that he resurrected Mr. Spock on two episodes of Star
Trek: The Next Generation, Mr. Nimoy was also the executive
producer and a writer of the movie Star Trek VI: The
Undiscovered Country. |
| He
then directed the hugely successful comedy Three Men
and a Baby (1987), a far cry from his science fiction
work, and appeared in made-for-television movies. He
received an Emmy nomination for the 1982 movie A Woman
Called Golda, in which he portrayed the husband of Golda
Meir, the prime minister of Israel, who was played by Ingrid
Bergman. It was the fourth Emmy nomination of his
career—the other three were for his Star Trek work—although
he never won. |
| Mr.
Nimoy's marriage to the actress Sandi Zober ended in divorce.
Besides his wife, he is survived by his children,
Adam and Julie Nimoy; a stepson, Aaron Bay Schuck; six grandchildren
and one great-grandchild; and an older brother, Melvin. |
| Though
his speaking voice was among his chief assets as an actor,
the critical consensus was that his music was mortifying.
Mr. Nimoy, however, was undaunted, and his fans seemed
to enjoy the camp of his covers of songs like "If I Had
a Hammer." (His first album was called Leonard
Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space.) |
| From
1977 to 1982, Mr. Nimoy hosted the syndicated series In
Search Of...," which explored mysteries like the Loch
Ness monster and UFOs. He also narrated Ancient
Mysteries on the History Channel and appeared in commercials,
including two with Mr. Shatner for Priceline.com. He
provided the voice for animated characters in Transformers:
The Movie in 1986 and The Pagemaster" in 1994. |
| In
2001, he voiced the king of Atlantis in the Disney animated
movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and in 2005 he furnished
voice-overs for the computer game Civilization IV. More
recently, he had a recurring role on the science fiction
series Fringe and was heard, as the voice of Spock,
in an episode of the hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory. |
| Mr.
Nimoy was an active supporter of the arts as well. The
Thalia, a venerable movie theater on the Upper West Side
of Manhattan, now a multi-use hall that is part of Symphony
Space, was renamed the Leonard Nimoy Thalia in 2002. |
| He
also found his voice as a writer. Besides his
autobiographies, he published A Lifetime of Love: Poems
on the Passages of Life in 2002. Typical of Mr.
Nimoy's simple free verse are these lines: "In my heart/Is
the seed of the tree/Which will be me." |
| In
later years, he rediscovered his Jewish heritage, and in
1991 he produced and starred in Never Forget, a television
movie based on the story of a Holocaust survivor who sued
a neo-Nazi organization of Holocaust deniers. |
| In
2002, having illustrated his books of poetry with his photographs,
Mr. Nimoy published Shekhina, a book devoted to photography
with a Jewish theme, that of the feminine aspect of God. His
black-and-white photographs of nude and seminude women struck
some Orthodox Jewish leaders as heretical, but Mr. Nimoy
asserted that his work was consistent with the teachings
of the kabbalah. |
| His
religious upbringing also influenced the characterization
of Spock. The character's split-fingered salute, he
often explained, had been his idea: He based it on the kohanic
blessing, a manual approximation of the Hebrew letter shin,
which is the first letter in Shaddai, one of the Hebrew
names for God. |
| "To
this day, I sense Vulcan speech patterns, Vulcan social
attitudes and even Vulcan patterns of logic and emotional
suppression in my behavior," Mr. Nimoy wrote years after
the original series ended. |
| But
that wasn't such a bad thing, he discovered. "Given
the choice," he wrote, "if I had to be someone else, I would
be Spock." |
| Daniel
E. Slotnik and Peter Keepnews contributed reporting. |
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Harve
Bennett, Star Trek Producer, Dies at 84 |
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By
Margalit Fox
March 6, 2015
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| Harve
Bennett, producer of four Star Trek films and an
Emmy-winning TV movie, died on Feb. 25 in Medford, Ore.
He was 84. |
| A
friend, Terry Lee Rioux, said the cause was complications
of a recent fall. |
| Mr.
Bennett was best known for producing four of the original
six Star Trek movies, starting with Star Trek
II: The Wrath of Khan in 1982 and ending with Star
Trek V: The Final Frontier in 1989. His death
came two days before that of Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock
in all six films and the original TV series, but was announced
only this week. |
| Mr.
Bennett also produced several noted mini-series, among them
Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), starring Peter Strauss
and Nick Nolte, and From Here to Eternity (1979),
starring Natalie Wood and William Devane. He received
an Emmy Award as the executive producer of A Woman Called
Golda (1982), a TV dramatization of the life of Golda
Meir, starring Ingrid Bergman. |
| The
son of a father who was a lawyer and a mother who was a
newspaper reporter—a rare calling for a woman of the period—Mr.
Bennett was born in Chicago on Aug. 17, 1930. His
parents' aspirations for him were inscribed in his very
name: Harvard Bennett Fischman. |
| Mr.
Bennett was the producer or executive producer of a string
of shows in the 1970s and afterward, including The Mod
Squad, The Invisible Man, The Six Million
Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. |
| His
other credits as an executive producer include a short-lived
television revival of The Quiz Kids in 1981; The
Jesse Owens Story, a 1984 TV movie starring Dorian Harewood;
and, with Steven Spielberg, Invasion America, a 1998
animated science fiction series. |
| Mr.
Bennett, who moved to Oregon after retiring from Hollywood,
was divorced twice. Survivors include his third wife,
Jani. |
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