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Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man
by William Shatner
Just finished this Father's Day present and it is the first of its kind I have read about anything to do with Star Trek etc. The latter was very popular with my mates and I during our school years but that was then and this is now, the movies are not on my faves list. It was of its time, what endures though is the character Nimoy created, like Bowie and Ziggy beware of going down that path as identity crises are hard to avoid. I think this book tries to shed some light on the enigma that was Mr Nimoy and the aura that never left him once Spock came to visit.
It is neither biography nor autobiography and you would have to read it to make your own mind up. Maybe I never will. Certainly I learned much of their lives and it was interesting to go back to those filming days and understand the limitations of such work and the perils and joys experienced of those who won their places in that world. But a part of me from way back then still prefers Spock to Kirk, neither were entirely convincing characters in my mind, Kirk always came across as a brute, not perhaps the best material for such a ship let alone its mission. Spock was unique and one cannot escape the feeling everyone watched that show for him. It must be hard to live in the shadow of such creations.
It is neither biography nor autobiography and you would have to read it to make your own mind up. Maybe I never will. Certainly I learned much of their lives and it was interesting to go back to those filming days and understand the limitations of such work and the perils and joys experienced of those who won their places in that world. But a part of me from way back then still prefers Spock to Kirk, neither were entirely convincing characters in my mind, Kirk always came across as a brute, not perhaps the best material for such a ship let alone its mission. Spock was unique and one cannot escape the feeling everyone watched that show for him. It must be hard to live in the shadow of such creations.