Nimoy transports to Ohio arts center (2006)

Leonard Nimoy and his wife beamed up for a visit to the contemporary arts center at Ohio State University, which will receive $40,000 from their charitable foundation.

The gift to the Wexner Center for the Arts is the largest share of the $425,000 being distributed to 21 U.S. art organizations.

The actor, best known for his role as Spock on "Star Trek," is also a movie director and art photographer. The Nimoy Foundation, founded in 2003, has given the Wexner Center $90,000 in grants for artist residencies.

Nimoy, 75, and his wife, Susan Bay-Nimoy, 63, who serves as vice chairwoman of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, toured the center Tuesday. In an interview with The Columbus Dispatch, Nimoy said contemporary art leads to the exploration and expansion of one's mind.

"And to go to that rather than run away from it is where the excitement is - to explore it, ask questions about it, research it, talk to people about it," he said.

Nimoy, who enjoys black- and-white photography, said it allows him to create an object.

"I love the idea that I can get up in the morning with an idea and by the end of the day have something that I can give to you, hang on the wall or give to a gallery," he said.

“William and Walter will finally face off in the finale,” confirms consulting producer Akiva Goldsman, who is directing the two-part episode (written by exec producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman). “These [characters] have so much that they’re bringing to bear. And Leonard and John are two fantastic actors.”

The William/Walter reunion is just one of several mythology-related payoffs Fringe has in store in this season’s final episodes. “We’re going to be looking very closely into Peter’s [Joshua Jackson] identity, Walter’s choices in the past, and Walter’s choices in the future,” reveals Goldsman. “And by the end of the season, we’re all going over to the other side.

"I'm looking forward to making a root connection to Vulcan," said Nimoy, adding he wants to "shake some hands" and "make some friends" during his visit.

Nimoy said he no longer feels rooted to the neighborhood he grew up and began his acting career in.

"I grew up in the city of Boston in a neighborhood I felt very connected to," Nimoy told CBC News on Sunday from his home in Los Angeles, Calif. "The neighborhood was subsequently torn down and replaced by many expensive high-rise condominiums. When I go back there I feel rootless."

"It can be confirmed," said Dayna Dickens, tourism co-ordinator on Friday. "Leonard Nimoy is definitely coming to Vulcan."

The actor who played Mr. Spock on the original Star Trek series is scheduled to attend the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo in April, but he will first make an appearance in Vulcan on April 23, she said.

"We don't know any details of what he'll be doing when he gets here," Dickens added. "That's still being negotiated."

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However, Nimoy's visit is not a Vulcan Tourism event — it's a Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo event hosted in Vulcan, she said.

"Well, for some reason I always managed to say the wrong thing around Leonard, or do the wrong thing. There was a clumsiness on my part for which for which I cannot entirely account. Leonard is a highly intelligent, extremely talented, and very professional guy. And for a long time we worked very well, and earnest, together, and then, for whatever reason or series of reasons, we sort of rubbed each other funny, and I read his memoir, and he said he was very upset shooting Star Trek II the day they shot the death of Spock, when I showed up dressed as Sherlok Holmes to shoot the scene."

(Meyer goes on to say he never dressed up as Sherlok Holmes in his life. But he was going places after filming had finished for the day, and had simply shown up for work already dressed in his finest.)

"That's what I mean when I say we somehow, sometimes we'd get out of sync with each other. I have nothing but the greatest respect for him. But for some reason he made me feel or act clumsy."

In a much younger version of himself, Ashley Edward Miller used to set up the camera in front of his television as a way capturing the magic of the original "Star Trek" series that he could play back whenever he wanted.

Watching the voyages of Kirk, Spock and McCoy on the USS Enterprise inspired Miller to do many things. But never did he expect he would actually put words into the mouth of Leonard Nimoy, a legend in his own right. Miller however got to do that not just once, but twice on the Fox series "Fringe." That included the most recently aired episode "Grey Matters," which aired Dec. 10 penned by himself and regular writing partner Zack Stentz.

"It was certainly exciting, and it has been exciting that we've been able to have him" on the show," Miller told Alpha Waves Radio in a show that premieres online Thursday. "We've actually written three [episodes] now, and had two air. Of the two that have aired, Leonard was in both of those episodes, and that is tremendously exciting for a geek to write for Leonard."

Many of our recent scientific advances were first predicted by science fiction: cloning, genetic engineering, even a computer that can beat you at chess. Does science fiction help us prepare for the future or fill us with fear? And are real scientists influenced by science fiction? This hour, we'll talk about the relationship between science and science fiction with special guest Leonard Nimoy.

Guests: Leonard Nimoy Actor, Director, Author Beverly Hills, California John Cramer Professor, Physics University of Washington Seattle, Washington Robert Sawyer Science Fiction Writer President Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Toronto, Canada

Mr. TAKEI: I did a run in Equus here in Los Angeles. And Leonard came to see me. Leonard Nimoy.

SIMON: Yeah.

Mr. TAKEI: ...who had done the play in New York. And he came back stage, and grinned his wry and very diplomatic grin at me, and said, You were better.

SIMON: Aw. Yeah.

Mr. TAKEI: I mean, what else could he have said?

SIMON: Well, what a compliment.

Mr. TAKEI: He is such a great diplomat.