President Obama is an admitted Star Trek fan, and a fan of one character in particular: Mr. Spock, the pointy-eared Vulcan played by Leonard Nimoy.
“Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy,” Obama said in a statement released by the White House Friday after Nimoy’s death. “Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future.
“I loved Spock,” Obama said.
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