'For the Love of Spock' is a moving love letter to an icon and a father
 

'For the Love of Spock' is a moving love letter to an icon and a father
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Spock, an iconic presence on the original Star Trek ****** and its multiple incarnations over the next 50 years, might have been a**ther all-but-forgotten TV character, like Alf or Doby Gillis — if **t for Leonard Nimoy.

As written, Spock was supposed to be logical, emotionless. But Nimoy imbued the alien with a striking humanity telegraphed through tiny gestures — an eyebrow raise, a furrowed brow.

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