Since weāve got you on the line, letās touch on some other things. You mentioned Twitter and Facebook. You are very active on them. Itās like youāre the new George Takei.
LN: It snuck up on me. I had no idea. I love it. Itās a great world out there and itās a great way of communicating with a lot of people in a very quick way. Iām on Twitter fairly regularly. I donāt do an awful lot of tweeting. There are some people I see that tweet all day, every day. They start in the morning and say, āGood morning,ā then are on it all day. I donāt do that. I pop up. I try to tweet when Iāve got something really interesting to say or some idea that I think is meaningful. I donāt tweet when I go to the drug store.
Thereās so much out there right now ā iPads, for example ā that are unmistakably Star Trek tech becoming reality. What from Trek has not been realized yet that you hope to see someday?
LN: Well, Iād love to be able to do a mind meld. That would be very helpful. But the technology has really, astoundingly, followed some of the Star Trek items that we used. (Early) cell phones were like communicators. There are the tablets, iPads and all of that, and they have so much of the information that we used to get on the tricorder. And weāre awfully close to a lot of those items that were so wonderfully imaginative 40, 45 years ago. Theyāre in the culture now.
()ā¦ You were in New York late last month for the arrival of NASAās Enterprise shuttle following its final voyage. You were on hand as well for the rollout of the shuttle back in 1976. How full-circle was it for you to bookend the history of the Enterprise?
LN: It was really quite an emotional experience for me. I remember that day very, very well, when it rolled out. I was flying my own plane at the time, and I got permission to land it on their runway [in Palm Beach, California]. I flew it out from the Santa Monica Airport and landed. Ā I got out of my plane and walked over to the guest area, and there we were [most of the TOS cast], all gathered. A few minutes later, those hangar doors opened up and out rolled the Enterprise. The Air Force band was playing the theme from Star Trek. It was very touching, very exciting.
I was there the first time the first shuttle came back from outer space and landed. To be out there and hear that double sonic boom Ā overheadā¦ it was awesome. People were saying, āThere it is! There it is!ā You could see it coming down and landing. Itās awesome, just awesome, what scientists and engineers have accomplished. We tend to take these things for granted, but we shouldnāt. They are amazing accomplishments.
To be there again to say goodbye [to the Enterprise] was great. Iād love to be there when it gets installed on the Intrepid, but I will certainly visit again on the Intrepid after itās been put in place. I understand that it will be in an enclosed environment, so it will be viewable all year round. I think itās a great thing.
Full interview atĀ https://intl.startrek.com/article/leonard-nimoy-interview
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