'Live long and prosper:' Star Trek fans say goodbye to Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy created a character in Spock who made it ok to be me. A mixed race kid with brains and talent. Being astride two worlds and a geek to boot was cool.

Mr Spock was my “hero” as a child and teenager. I grew up with a strict catholic upbringing but from early on I could not warm to religion. I just did not believe (and still do not) in a “god”. But I was taught that godless people have no ethics and moral, so I kept quiet and thought something is wrong with me. On top of it I was a tomboy and the silly display of “girlish” emotions left me baffled.
Then came Star Trek and Mr. Spock. He showed me that moral and ethics don’t need religion, that you can be good even if you are “godless”. He also showed me the beauty of logic; and that being logical doesn’t mean that you are cold or not incapable of emotions. Or incapable of dreams and ideas.
Mr. Spock planted the seeds which turned me later into a scientists. And his approach to logic helped me to find my own “second star to the right and straight on 'til morning”.

This is going to be pretty niche, buuuuut:

Decades before Michael Bay ruined it, the primary school me was a big fan of the Transformers comics, but the cartoon never sat that well with me because it was very silly and the nominally fearsome bad guys all had stupid screechy voices. And the one time it lived up to what the comics had put in my head was the animated movie, and Leonard Nimoy's gravelly, menacing Galvatron (I do realise how absurd this sounds) was the heart of it. I daresay he knocked the whole voiceover out in an afternoon and forgot about it, and of course it's not a 'good' film unless compared to the works of Michael Bay. But I always bloody loved him for that little bit of my childhood. Cheers LN!