Vandaag is een zwarte dag voor ons science fiction nerds en geeks, want zojuist is bekend geworden dan Leonard Nimoy die beter bekend is als Mr.Spock uit de Star Trek TV serie en films, is overleden op 83 jarige leeftijd. Deze acteur werd eerder deze week al opgenomen na dat hij in elkaar was gestort in zijn huis in Beverly Hills. Dif-tor heh smusma mijn vriend, en dat is Vulcan voor Live long and prosper.

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.

His 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, which he attributed to years of smoking, a habit he had given up three decades earlier. He had been hospitalized earlier in the week.