[capsfromtrek]

[yeltumpar]

I <3 William Shatner on Twitter

[lifeisducky]

I love how they respond to him, as if he is actually a captain, even more.

[grandpafucker-deactivated202310]

Nasa confirmed for huge fucking nerds

[lordicexx]

This is awesome and priceless and people that work on space stuff are the best people of all time.

[prettyarb]

Honestly this just about brings me to tears.

Roddenberry, Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols and all the rest of the original Star Trek cast and crew had no small role in making the moon landing as important as it was.  A few years before they set that lunar module down, this little TV show came along and fanned the dream into wildfire with an image of what humanity in space could actually look like—not only peaceful on our own world, endlessly curious, and prosperous enough to pursue it, but an active force for good in the greater universe.  Carrying not what’s most toxic about us, but what’s best about us out to the stars.

Everybody who has worked at NASA or any other space agency for the past 50 years is waiting for the day when that unmanned probe doing a flyby on a comet can be controlled from the bridge of a space-faring vessel.  When we’re not just looking at that comet through a color-coded sonar map, but we can look out a porthole and see it tumbling by with our own eyes.  When as a species we can finally outgrow hate and fear and violence, and turn our faces with joy toward all the beauties and wonders that lie waiting to be discovered.

And every time he does this, Shatner is reminding them of what that hope feels like.

[audrizzle]

This was too great to not repost.

[annaknitsspock]

Adding this one:

[beyondspock]

[insertspockhere]

Yes. Yes, he is.

[bluespock-blog]

how to vulcan 101

[just-shower-thoughts]

A crow with murder in its eyes…means it is quite family orientated.

[teamklingon]

[nerdegory]

Live long and paws purr.

[emotionallyspockmatized]

[emotionallyspockmatized]

[emotionallyspockmatized]

[natanula-deactivated20150401]

[iheartleonardnimoy]

[emotionallyspockmatized]

iheartleonardnimoy:

How we all miss you! We will never see such heartwarming tweets again. There will never be another one like you. <3 

[cheerleader-gerard-enthusiast]

[emotionallyspockmatized]

thecaptainjackkelly:

Nathan Fillion sums up exactly how I feel right now. LLAP and thank you, Leonard. You did so much.

[the-fury-of-a-time-lord]

[readysteadytrek]

[emotionallyspockmatized]

readysteadytrek:

We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world, a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel that sacrifice a vain or empty one… and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this. Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, …his was the most …human.

He created hope and love in all of us, and gave this generation and so many more to come a vision that we can all better ourselves. Those words apply to Leonard Nimoy greatly. Wise, and very human. R.I.P Leonard Nimoy.

[oswinstark]

[emotionallyspockmatized]

oswinstark:

Well now I’m crying a lot again.

[beyondspock]

[emotionallyspockmatized]

beyondspock:

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

If the New York Times reports this, it must be true, and yet I am in shock and refuse to believe.