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  • cookiecrookcookiecrook Member Posts: 4,540 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I want to once again express my heartfelt condolences to the friends, family, and fans of Leonard Nimoy. Everyone at Cryptic Studios was saddened to hear of his passing and we want to make sure we never forget the cultural impact of the man or the character he played. To that end, the Star Trek Online team will implement a standing in-game memorial to Spock and Leonard Nimoy this Thursday March 5th with our regular weekly maintenance.

    In this way, we hope to keep his memory as alive in our game as he is in all of our hearts.

    LLAP

    Steve Ricossa
    Executive Producer

    If this isn't too much to ask as a longterm goal to add to the game. Could a permanent memorial map be added to the game with memorials to Kelly, Doohan, and Nimoy, along with Roddenberry and his wife along with other Star Trek actors? This could could be added to if any others happen, but hopefully don't, pass away. Where to place such a place that could be accessed by all I'm not sure of but perhaps something similar to the Autobot Ark from G1 Transformers that roams the galaxy.
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  • pops70pops70 Member Posts: 13 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Rest In Peace Mr. Nimoy. As Spock you inspired people to use logic. Think before you act. The iconic prescence you leave behind will never be filled. Fair seas.
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  • wttroiwttroi Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    May he rest in peace.

    I think the inworld memorial is a nice idea, however personally I consider it unfair towards others who inspired us and are not equally recommended namely
    James Doohan and DeForest Kelly

    Imho they equally inspired and it be only fair if there be an equal memorial

    And well, a few are surely to follow, too.

    Maybe a nice memorial near the academy in a nice park


    but ok, its just my 2 cents ...
  • allyoftheforceallyoftheforce Member Posts: 736 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    I wonder if Cryptic will give temporary diplomatic immunity for KDF players to visit Vulcan when the memorial is put up? Spock may have been Federation, but I'm sure there are plenty in the Empire that would pay their respects. This is coming from a Fed only player.
  • ncc42662ncc42662 Member Posts: 72 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    idashla wrote: »
    An additional memorial for Nimoy could be installed somewhere. A pedestal with the Torpedo Casing from the ST3 movie.

    I think that is a wonderful idea. I would suggest sitting within the Mutara Nebula
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  • lieutenantusherlieutenantusher Member Posts: 56 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    "By understanding every life comes to an end. When time demands it. Loss of life is to be morned but only if it's wasted." - Mr. Spock

    Mr. Nimoys life is very much one to be celebrated. He will be missed but live on in his work and the many people he's made an impact on.

    LLAP
  • pioneeringepochpioneeringepoch Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    On hearing of the passing of Leonard Simon Nimoy(1931-2015) yesterday, I put together some of my writing about him to serve as a sort of quasi-eulogy. I have also integrated his life and my own since both he and I have had a keen interest in autobiography. Some readers may find this personal synchronicity annoying and for this I apologize before readers get going here with the following prose-poetic work. Readers who prefer short and pithy posts are simply advised to either skim or scan or stop reading now.-Ron Price, Australia
    Preamble 1:

    Nimoy was an American actor, film director, poet, singer and photographer. He was known for his role as Spock in the original Star Trek series (1966–69), and his roles in multiple film, television and video-game sequels. I won't give you chapter and verse of his bio-data, beyond some general remarks below, because you can read about him in cyberspace, and you can even watch a eulogistic-video that went online in the first 24 hours after his passing.

    Nimoy was born to Jewish immigrant parents in Boston, Massachusetts in the decade before my parents met in the late 1930s or very early 1940s. He began his career at the same stage in the life-span as I did, in his early twenties. He and I had quite different careers, his beginning in the 1950s and mine in the 1960s. At first he taught acting classes in Hollywood and made minor film and television appearances through the 1950s, as well as playing the title role in Kid Monk Baroni. Foreshadowing his fame as a semi-alien, he played Narab, one of three Martian invaders in the 1952 movie serial Zombies of the Stratosphere.

    Preamble 2:

    In the 1960s I began several PT jobs as I finished high school and went through university. Then in 1967, my first FT job was teaching Inuit children on Baffin Island. In the 1950s I was introduced to the Baha'i Faith which had been in Canada for a little more than half a century at the time, and had only several hundred believers in all of Canada when my mother joined in '53. Nimoy had a Jewish background the details of which you can read about on Wikipedia.

    In 1965, Nimoy made his first appearance in the rejected Star Trek pilot The Cage, and went on to play the character of Mr. Spock until 1969 by which time I had left Baffin Island to return to the Golden Horseshoe. Star-Trek was followed by eight feature films and guest slots in the various spin-off series.

    Preamble 3:

    The character has had a significant cultural impact, and it had garnered Nimoy three Emmy Award nominations; TV Guide named Spock one of the 50 greatest TV characters. After the original Star Trekseries, Nimoy starred in Mission: Impossible for two seasons, hosted the documentary series In Search of..., narrated Civilization IV, and made several well-received stage appearances. He also had a recurring role in the science fiction series Fringe.

    Nimoy's fame as Spock was such that both of his autobiographies, I Am Not Spock (1975) and I Am Spock(1995), were written from the viewpoint of sharing his existence with the character. I had taken an interest in Nimoy because I, too, had developed an interest in autobiography by the time Nimoy had completed both volumes, and I was on my way to an early retirement, a sea-change to a small town by the sea in Tasmania, at the age of 55 after a 50 year student-and-paid-employment life, 1949 to 1999.-Ron Price, Pioneering Over Five Epochs, 28/2/'15.
    STAR-TREK

    Modern Man in Search of A Soul1

    Section 1:

    You can read about the documentary Star-Trek: The True Story, at the following link. This doco was originally televised on 5/1/'13 in the US on the Discovery Channel. I will not give you, therefore, the details of this program that I watched last night,2 as the cocktail of anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medication for my bipolar I disorder began to take effect and produce its sleepy-euphoric state, and as I was enjoying my late-night snack. Go to: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star...The_True_Story.

    I have enjoyed many of the Star-Trek episodes over the years since its inception in 1966 when I was just beginning my teacher training to obtain a B.Ed. from the University of Windsor to add to my three year B.A. at McMaster University where I had been a student in a four-year honours sociology, history and philosophy course in Ontario Canada.1 -Ron Price with thanks to: 1 Carl Jung, 1933, and 2ABC TV,10:55 to 11:40 p.m. 28 July 2013.

    The Star Trek franchise created by Roddenberry has produced story material for five decades, all of my adult-life. It resulted in six television series consisting of 726 episodes, and twelve feature films. The popularity of the Star Trek universe and films inspired the parody, homage, and cult film Galaxy Quest in 1999 which was released as I was retiring from a 50 year student-working life: 1949-1999.Star-Trek also inspired many books, video games and fan films set in the various "eras" of the Star Trek universe which readers can read about in detail at Wikipedia.

    Section 2:

    I watched many episodes of Star-Trek
    back in the 1980s and 1990s while my
    son was growing-up….I never became
    the enthusiast both he and his mother,
    my wife, were and still are, as this TV
    series continues its life beyond its first
    decades toward the century: 1966-2066.

    I found it interesting, somewhat surprising,
    to hear about Roddenbery’s shortcomings
    and failings as a human being......So often
    we know so little about the real person in
    life.....even if they run-the-gauntlet of the
    TV interview. Perhaps that is why Freud
    said......"true biography can't be written".

    Still, writers will keep trying to unearth the
    inside story of some human being. And so
    it is that biographies and autobiographies
    will continue on their merry-way into the
    future as we try to understand ourselves!!1

    Leonard Nimoy is a good example of such
    a writer who plumbed-the-depths of his self
    in his two volumes of Spock-autobiography.

    Section 3:

    1 “A man like me,” wrote Freud, “cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion,” in Schiller's words---a tyrant.” Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller(1759-1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. “I have found my tyrant,” continued Freud,“and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now… it has come so much the nearer.” Perhaps sci-fi was Roddenberry’s ‘tyrant’. I certainly know the tyrants in my life; indeed, there are several. I slowly became accustomed to them in the 1950s and 1960s: (i) before graduating from university in 1966/7 and (ii) before working within the Baha'i administrative Order in Canada's most southerly city, Windsor Ontario, in 1966/7.

    1.1 “The life-work of Freud had been devoted to understanding as fully as possible the world of man’s soul. To Freud psyche and soul were the same, conscious and unconscious mental life. Psychoanalysis is the science of the soul.”--Erich Fromm, The Art of Listening, Constable, London, 1994, p.75.

    1.2 Dreams are the result of the activity of our own soul. -Sigmund Freud in Freud and Man’s Soul, Bruno Bettleheim, A.A. Knopf, NY, 1983, p.71. The goal of psychoanalysis is to integrate the emotional life and the intellectual life. idem. Your unconsciousness is your companion. Persona is a protection. In my case my dreams, at least since going on my present cocktail of medications, seem to be the result of the affects of my medications on my brain.

    1.3 “I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador. A conquistador is an adventurer, if you want it translated, and in my case it is a conquistador with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort.”–Freud in a Letter to Wilhelm Fliess, Feb. 1, 1900. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess 1887-1904 (1985).

    1.4 “The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which it may be optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little.”

    Ron Price......29/7/’13 to 28/2/'15.
    STAR TREK: THE LAST STAGE OF HISTORY OPENS

    "The Hanging Gardens, a current project of the Baha’is in Haifa, will be the most beautiful gardens in the world."-These are the words of Ya’acov Ron, the then Managing Director of the Haifa Tourism Board.

    Just after the first message to youth
    in the third year of that Plan,1 and
    in the same week that I left home
    to complete my university life in
    teacher-training in Canada's most
    southerly city of Windsor Ontario,
    a sci-fi epic2 with the thrill of those
    Saturday morning serials began and
    it took us on a wagon train to stars
    and galaxies where no man had ever
    gone before. It was a world of the
    imagination. The House of Justice
    had taken those youth right back to
    basics travelling in a quite familiar
    galaxy, dealing with 3 great fields
    of service3 & radiating the Message
    to those among our contemporaries.

    Meanwhile, in a poetic and romantic land
    of dreams, in far-off galaxies, Rodenberry
    Land, our perceptual reality was framed as
    part of a new shift of vision to a planetary
    civilization, electronic information systems
    and world-wide webs: we were all getting
    ready, little did we know, for a very great
    fertilization of seeds long ago planted and
    a begeming of our lives with these new &
    heavenly teachings. For they had come with
    confirmations & assistance from a threshold
    of Oneness that is now in Hanging Gardens.

    Ron Price
    1/1/'97 to 28/2/'15.

    1 The Nine Year Plan: 1964-1973
    2 term used to describe Star Trek in the script of the TV program “Star Trek-30 Years and Beyond”.
    3 Universal House of Justice, First ‘Message to Youth’ on 10 June 1966.
    end of document
    __________________
    MARRIED FOR 48 YEARS, A TEACHER FOR 32, A STUDENT FOR 18, A WRITER AND EDITOR FOR 16, AND A BAHA'I FOR 56(IN 2015)
  • tarastheslayertarastheslayer Member Posts: 1,541 Bug Hunter
    edited March 2015
    I want to once again express my heartfelt condolences to the friends, family, and fans of Leonard Nimoy. Everyone at Cryptic Studios was saddened to hear of his passing and we want to make sure we never forget the cultural impact of the man or the character he played. To that end, the Star Trek Online team will implement a standing in-game memorial to Spock and Leonard Nimoy this Thursday March 5th with our regular weekly maintenance.

    In this way, we hope to keep his memory as alive in our game as he is in all of our hearts.

    LLAP

    Steve Ricossa
    Executive Producer

    I'm glad to hear this will be done, I'll certainly head over to see it when it is implemented.
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  • spoksheldonspoksheldon Member Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    it would be good to make a statue of leonard nimoy as spock in the fountain at the regural maintaince on march 5.
  • suntarusuntaru Member Posts: 40 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    May Fair Winds and Following Seas carry you in the next Journey of your Life and Thank you for letting me be there to watch most of your Career.
  • yakodymyakodym Member Posts: 363 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Requiescat in pace :-(
  • kriss257kriss257 Member Posts: 116 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    RIP Leonard Nimoy. \V/ palm.
    10Chars and I play them ALL.

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  • bayonettawiccanbayonettawiccan Member Posts: 180 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    I want to once again express my heartfelt condolences to the friends, family, and fans of Leonard Nimoy. Everyone at Cryptic Studios was saddened to hear of his passing and we want to make sure we never forget the cultural impact of the man or the character he played. To that end, the Star Trek Online team will implement a standing in-game memorial to Spock and Leonard Nimoy this Thursday March 5th with our regular weekly maintenance.

    In this way, we hope to keep his memory as alive in our game as he is in all of our hearts.

    LLAP

    Steve Ricossa
    Executive Producer

    Damn decent of you. Thanks for this. I'll be sure to check this out Thursday when I log in.

    We lost a friend, a father, a grandfather, an artist, a Sci-Fi icon, a legend. His mind in his own way was just as intuitive and intelligent as the character we all know he played so well. He was the reason why I am a Science Fiction fan. Wish I could have met him, but I am glad I was alive in his lifetime.

    LLAP Mr. Nimoy. I'm sure you're in a better place now.

    To quote a character from a Brandon Lee (who like Leonard, I deeply miss) film and I believe it qualifies here:
    If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
  • admiralsvakadmiralsvak Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    R.I.P Mr. Spock, Godspeed to wherever you are now in heaven with the other trek people that are no longer with us *Does Vulcan hand salute*
  • velquavelqua Member Posts: 1,220 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    RIP Mr. Nimoy, and thank you for your contribution to humanity.

    Live long, and prosper.
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  • rodiclonusrodiclonus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    hravik wrote: »
    Any chance of adding James Doohan and DeForest Kelley?
    They're already in the Spectres arc IIRC.
  • razzroddrazzrodd Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    r.i.p spock
  • suzanna3suzanna3 Member Posts: 81 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    I wonder if Cryptic will give temporary diplomatic immunity for KDF players to visit Vulcan when the memorial is put up? Spock may have been Federation, but I'm sure there are plenty in the Empire that would pay their respects. This is coming from a Fed only player.

    Yes, I agree, many KDF would like to be able to see the monument and pay their respects.

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  • r24681012r24681012 Member Posts: 173 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    while its great your doing this you should also doing memorials for deforest kelly and james doohan as its not fair to have one for leonard nimoy and not for the others maybe a memorial wall of some kind
  • themariethemarie Member Posts: 1,055 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    r24681012 wrote: »
    while its great your doing this you should also doing memorials for deforest kelly and james doohan as its not fair to have one for leonard nimoy and not for the others maybe a memorial wall of some kind

    50 billion yes votes for this please.
  • captinjacksparowcaptinjacksparow Member Posts: 114 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    r24681012 wrote: »
    while its great your doing this you should also doing memorials for deforest kelly and james doohan as its not fair to have one for leonard nimoy and not for the others maybe a memorial wall of some kind

    I agree wholeheartedly. \\//
  • dogofegyptdogofegypt Member Posts: 44
    edited March 2015
    I think I have come up to the certain idea (haven't read through all the pages though, maybe someone else has already said something alike),
    We need the Starfleet Museum as a memorial and social location. Maybe not the whole thing but something that would remind us the most notable characters.
  • tancrediivtancrediiv Member Posts: 728 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Will the monument be time-gated?

    Oh come on!

    Ok. Only for you.:rolleyes:

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  • cookiecrookcookiecrook Member Posts: 4,540 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Will the monument be time-gated?

    No, but it might cost us Dilithium to enter. :P
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  • cilcoynecilcoyne Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Leonard Nimoy lived long and prospered; he will be deeply missed and remembered fondly by all who he inspired. I'm proud of the STO community in the outpouring of respect for the great man over the last few days and I hope to visit the in game memorial one day.
  • xdotsxxdotsx Member Posts: 60 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Online-article of a large Austrian newspaper: http://derstandard.at/2000012349069/Star-Trek-Online-1000-Spieler-nehmen-Abschied-von-Leonard-Nimoy


    Translation (shortened, due to redundancy of facts in the article):



    "Star Trek Online": 1000 players bid farewell to Leonard Nimoy.

    Developer Cryptic wants to erect memorial in the actors' honour.



    According to a report on Reddit, about 1000 players gathered in the MMO "Star Trek Online" in dozens of instances on the virtual planet Vulcan, to bid farewell to Spock-actor Leonard Nimoy. Nimoy died on friday after a long illness at age 83.

    Developer Cryptic also expressed their sadness in an official forum post. A memorial is to be erected in the MMO on the 5th of May.


    Translation of Steve Ricossas forum post, no need to re-translate


    Nimoy attended the presentation of "Star Trek Online" on the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas in 2008. The game was released for the PC in February 2010.
  • katee1313katee1313 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    RIP Mr. Nimoy, You won't be forgotten...
  • alchevsk1992alchevsk1992 Member Posts: 280 Arc User
    edited March 2015
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  • captaind3captaind3 Member Posts: 2,449 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Can't wait to see the memorial tomorrow.

    Peace and Eternal Life.
    robeasom wrote: »
    I prefer to have him on the Vulcan map maybe where that fountain is some Romulans will still probably see him as a failure for failing to stop the destuction of there homeworld
    Which would be utterly hypocritical as Romulans destroyed Romulus.

    That's now a public fact in this timeline. And the main power of Romulans currently are led by D'Tan, Spocl's protege.
    daveyny wrote: »
    Rest in Peace dear Mr. Nimoy.

    Thank you for all your years of entertaining us as Mr. Spock.

    I would also like to thank you for all the Non-Trek things you did during your life that brought myself and others such joy such as these...

    Mars

    Bilbo


    and one of my favorite moments from the past...

    Merv


    You shall Live Long And Prosper in our memories dear sir.

    :(

    And my personal favorite, GALVATRON! All hail.
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  • sentinel64sentinel64 Member Posts: 901 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    As we approach the unveiling of the dedication to our hero, Mr Leonard "Spock" Nimoy, I am leaving one more show of appreciation to him and all he has given us through Star Trek and his other works in Sci Fi and entertainment.

    LLAP
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