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Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man
by William Shatner
A touching tribute from William Shatner to his fellow Star Trek alumnus Leonard Nimoy after the Spock actor's passing in 2015. It's an inside look at how the two men's friendship changed over time, and at how the Star Trek phenomenon enabled them to stay in one another's lives through movie sequels and fan conventions long after most TV castmates would have fallen out of touch. (In one particularly revealing moment, Shatner contrasts his friendship with Nimoy to the one he later shared with James Spader; apparently Shatner felt very close to his Boston Legal costar while they were filming, but has barely spoken to him since their show went off the air in 2008.) The author draws a lot of interesting parallels between himself and Nimoy, from their shared Jewish heritage to their sputtering acting careers in the time before Star Trek made them household names. It's ultimately a personal account of one friend mourning another, and you don't have to be a Trekkie yourself to be moved by this portrait of Leonard Nimoy from someone who knew him best.