As you trek to the polls today....

Thank the (Vulcan) gods for the Internet.

(And if you ask me for realz, of course, I'll give you my opinion.)

After a year: Nimoy fan/patron Bonnie Moss reflects

It's amazing how the one-year anniversary of Leonard Nimoy's passing stirred up again so many feelings for fans around the world and especially online. We remember how news of his passing melted down the Internet for a weekend, and was a wake-up call that his appeal had gone mainstream because Trek and its ideals had gone mainstream.

So it was an echo, a major echo, that we felt as Feb. 27 passed this year. So many felt compelled to share their feelings online, to marvel at how it had been a year already and still they felt the loss. By a quirk of timing, we even got his visage as the final frame of the 2016 Oscars "In Memorial" reel.

I helped my friend, The Con of Wrath survivor/donor and lifelong Leonard fan/patron Bonnie Moss, to share her memories of Leonard on several podcasts and interviews at the time (at right, with LN)—especially after the North Carolina gallery show of his work she helped curate, that went on just after his death. 

And then last weekend, as the timing led us to revisit those feelings for many of us, Bonnie shared an email with her friends about that one-year anniversary... and she gave me permission to share it with Trekland:

This Year Was Different:
(Bonnie Moss)

It's hard to comprehend it has been 12 months since losing one of the most beloved actors and individuals of our generation, Leonard Nimoy.  A year without his tweets making insightful and timely comments on today's world events. A year without hearing more commentary on his prior work, his profession in general or his current passions. A year without that still melodic voice, handsome visage and genuine affection for fans, expressed in new and future manifestations. We miss you. Daily.

I also give thanks that we were able to share part of those 83 years with you. Leonard Nimoy was a man of true diversity in his gifts and talents, who also admired and represented the broader diversity on this planet and beyond. He continued to challenge himself, he learned from his mistakes and he stayed true to his core values.

He loved his wife and family-even the challenges of blending two entities into one appear to have been met and he would be SO moved and proud by the ongoing respect and affection still in evidence among his loved ones. Thank-you, Susan Nimoy, for your efforts in this and for your impact on Leonard's health. You gave us more years with him than we might not have had otherwise.

Leonard would have loved celebrating Star Trek's 50th this year. He was looking forward to it. He certainly would have found a way to be part of it, by skype, social media or through another creative conduit, given his health limitations. Instead, we will honor and treasure his memory. The two upcoming documentaries currently in production through his two children, Julie and Adam, will be an important part of this acknowledgement.

On a personal note- thanks, Leonard, for 35 years of great performances and personal kindnesses. From our first meeting: "Why are you in the rain? Come on (backstage)--you'll get wet!"  To our last: "So good to see you again."

Thank-you for taking care of us. It was good to see you too…

                                     

                            Both photos courtesy Bonnie White: Below, at a 1979

                            performance of Vincent.

A debut eve two-fer: Fresh from stage, Todd Haberkorn reflects on Spock's "Lolani" mind-meld

Yes, this is a look back, but hey:

A chat with Todd Haberkorn is always a fun visit—even when it was shot back during the filming of Star Trek Continues' "Lolani" last fall—and portends what may be in store for Todd's process of Spockifying himself as the mirror universe-based "Fairest of Them All" debuts online at noon Eastern on June 15.

We filmed this just after he shot the pivotal mind-meld scene in Episode 2, and yes the makeup and the uniform undershirt are still in place, as Todd graciously delayed the end of his final day of shooting for a few minutes for our chat. You can also see makeup supervisor Tim Vittetoe prepping removal in the background.

I still have more vidchats and "B-roll" background video from both "Lolani" and the new "Ep3" mirror show to share; stay tuned as I unspool more. And don't forget to catch up on the  "Official Star Trek Continues" Facebook page for ongoing news and more STC BTS, as well...

What do think about Todd's, er, thoughts about the mind meld?

Prime importance

Base! Dibs! I’m gettin’ this on the record first!

Actually, it’s a good thing I’m not a cynic, or else I’d already be out there making the point that Leonard’s role in ST ’09 was specifically called “Spock PRIME” … meaning that he existed in the Prime Timeline … or perhaps, more exactly, the “Primetime Line.” Meaning… anything else was not ready for Prime Time?

Or implying, by process of deduction, that anything else actually comes from the Sub-Prime Timeline?

Well, we all know just how much trouble the Sub-Primes have caused lately …

(Baddump-bump)

Did Obama just have a 'Galileo Seven' moment?

You guys know it is not the intent of Trekland to inject politics unduly into these diatribes ... unless of course it's a treatise on the New Essentialists or the Terra Primers, or even the anti-Coridan bloc....

But did Obama just meet his Taurus II?

SPOCK: Strange. Step by step I have done the correct and logical thing...

MCCOY: And brought our furry friends down on our necks.

SPOCK: Yes. I seem to have miscalculated regarding them ... inculcated resentment on your part.

Aside from the cheesy, too-easy rhyme of "Barack" and "Spock"... and recalling that it's no secret the President is a Trekkie... an interesting thought crossed my mind this week, amid the spectacle of the President changing tone to sell his stimulus package in the Senate against withering attacks by Republicans and "10-to-1" calls against it by those whipped up by conservative talk radio. Like Spock on his first command with a shuttlecraft crew in "The Galileo Seven," the president seemed content that a rational, unconcerned trust in the facts and deductive logic of history would be quite enough to rationally carry the day.

Then the wall of fear and emotion set in, and quicker'n Bones could say, "It'll take more than logic to get us out of this," the president pivoted back into political-reality retorts and metaphors that got his point across. It's as if the lightbulb went off that "making the correct command decision, in the logical order" was not enough.

KIRK: You mean, you reasoned that it was time for an emotional outburst.

Don't worry. I'm not going overboard with any "Obama is a Vulcan" meme.

Spock never did hoops.