WEBVTT 00:25.400 --> 00:30.400 Hi, I'm Susan Bay Nimoy. I was married to Leonard 00:30.400 --> 00:33.900 Nimoy for 32 years. Leonard was my acting teacher 00:33.900 --> 00:42.100 in 1961 and we re-met again, when Leonard was preparing 00:42.100 --> 00:47.500 to direct Star Trek IV. I'd like to start by talking 00:47.500 --> 00:51.900 about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 00:51.900 --> 00:56.700 which is COPD the disease that killed Leonard. He 00:56.700 --> 01:00.400 was in the last years of his life 4 years before 01:00.400 --> 01:04.900 he passed, he was sent to Dr. Belperio, who runs the 01:04.900 --> 01:08.400 pulmonary division of UCLA. And for the first time, 01:08.400 --> 01:14.500 Dr. Belperio gave Leonard's problem a name and 01:14.500 --> 01:18.900 began treating him for COPD. And he stopped smoking 01:18.900 --> 01:25.400 30 years before he was diagnosed with COPD and because 01:25.400 --> 01:29.800 of the care that he got at UCLA through Dr. Belperio 01:29.800 --> 01:34.700 and because there, they have shown their research. 01:34.700 --> 01:39.500 They're really, really, really honing in, to a way 01:39.500 --> 01:46.800 to medicate and hopefully, to cure COPD. I've donated 01:46.800 --> 01:52.200 to the prop store auction, Leonard's favorite toy 01:52.200 --> 01:58.100 His pinball machine and the ears that Spock wore 01:58.100 --> 02:03.000 that Leonard wore in "Into Darkness" the last Star 02:03.000 --> 02:09.000 Trek movie Leonard made. Ahh the pinball machine. 02:09.000 --> 02:13.700 We had it in our house in Lake Tahoe, and the kids would 02:13.700 --> 02:16.900 play. It's a wonder we're talking to each other. 02:16.900 --> 02:21.700 That pinball machine that I donated to this auction 02:21.700 --> 02:26.400 was the source of bloodletting in our, in our lives. 02:26.400 --> 02:30.900 The boys of which there were five would take on each 02:30.900 --> 02:33.400 other and that pinball machine from morning to night. 02:33.400 --> 02:38.600 And they would end up fighting over who cheated, 02:38.600 --> 02:42.400 who won and then Leonard stepped in and he played them 02:42.400 --> 02:46.300 and they all lost.. But we still talk to each other. 02:46.300 --> 02:51.300 If you are a Star Trek fan and a fan of Leonard Nimoy's 02:51.300 --> 02:55.700 bringing that pinball machine into your life would 02:55.700 --> 03:00.100 be a wonderful Adventure. It would be, you could 03:00.100 --> 03:03.200 turn it off and look at it. And remember that Leonard 03:03.200 --> 03:07.300 Nimoy spent hours and hours playing with his kids 03:07.300 --> 03:11.100 and Grandchildren, and I think you would find that 03:11.100 --> 03:15.600 experience playing with your kids or your grandchildren 03:15.600 --> 03:20.100 would be a continuation of Leonards pleasure 03:20.100 --> 03:27.800 in that pinball machine. The Spock ears were very 03:27.800 --> 03:35.100 much, a part of of Spock, a part of Leonard, and Leonard 03:35.100 --> 03:38.300 was very involved in the creation of those ears 03:38.300 --> 03:45.700 over time. And they are a memento in the same way as 03:45.700 --> 03:50.400 live long and prosper is or a lot of the memorabilia 03:50.400 --> 03:56.500 But there are not many of them around. And so the 03:56.500 --> 03:59.900 set that I've given in Leonard's honor to raise 03:59.900 --> 04:04.100 money for COPD. They're very precious. So if you 04:04.100 --> 04:11.500 love Spock, if you loved Spock, Leonard, go big! I 04:11.500 --> 04:17.200 think Leonard Incorporated a lot of Spock into his 04:17.200 --> 04:25.800 life. Leonard was by nature, a very wonderful combination 04:25.800 --> 04:34.200 of cerebral and emotional. And he learned playing 04:34.200 --> 04:38.800 Spock about the power of taking the emotion out of 04:38.800 --> 04:44.100 situations. He was great at taking a breath. He was 04:44.100 --> 04:48.400 great at processing it and which is not to say he was 04:48.400 --> 04:51.800 devoid of emotion or anger or any of that. He wasn't. 04:51.800 --> 04:56.400 He was very human, but he learned in playing Spock, 04:56.400 --> 05:03.900 That Spock's strength was to take the emotion out 05:03.900 --> 05:08.900 of it, but to be led by his heart. So I think Leonard 05:08.900 --> 05:14.200 was the absolute embodiment of those dualities 05:14.200 --> 05:21.900 in Spock. Well Star Trek was conceived to represent 05:21.900 --> 05:25.700 what a meritocracy looks like. Where you 05:25.700 --> 05:33.200 could have Asian, Black, Multinational people living 05:33.200 --> 05:37.500 in a spaceship and working out whatever problems 05:37.500 --> 05:41.800 they had. The world is comprised of many peoples. 05:41.800 --> 05:47.000 And so people who lived on the edge, or people who felt 05:47.000 --> 05:51.000 marginalized felt welcome in the Star Trek world 05:51.000 --> 05:54.400 In the years that I was married to Leonard and we would 05:54.400 --> 05:59.100 go places, people would come over to him and say thank 05:59.100 --> 06:02.900 you. Thank you. I could come out as a gay man or woman 06:02.900 --> 06:10.700 because of you. I could express my work, my art which 06:10.700 --> 06:14.500 was wild and deeply personal, and crazy, and uncensored, 06:14.500 --> 06:19.300 because of Star Trek. I felt included because of 06:19.300 --> 06:24.200 Star Trek. And even when I talk about this, I'm so 06:24.200 --> 06:27.500 deeply moved by the effect that Star Trek had on 06:27.500 --> 06:31.800 people's lives and Leonard did too, he just he felt honored 06:31.800 --> 06:34.900 all the time because he was part of that franchise. 06:38.000 --> 06:42.700 Leonard Nimoy thought he would grow up and be a photographer. 06:42.700 --> 06:47.200 And he started by turning his parents apartment 06:47.200 --> 06:53.600 into a dark room and he developed all of those early 06:53.600 --> 07:00.000 photographs and he went to UCLA to study under 07:00.000 --> 07:04.100 Robert Heineken and photography was a great joy. 07:04.100 --> 07:08.000 He would go into that dark room. He would say to me, honey 07:08.000 --> 07:12.400 I am going to be in the dark room for just a few minutes, 07:12.400 --> 07:21.300 You just don't worry. I'll be down, so I'd look at my watch 07:21.300 --> 07:23.900 and I would buzz him and I'd say I'm going to go to sleep. He said, 07:23.900 --> 07:26.400 oh, what time is it? I said, it's 12:30. He said I'm 07:26.400 --> 07:30.200 so sorry. I said just do it. You love doing it, just 07:30.200 --> 07:33.600 do it. So it became an ongoing passion. Leonard never 07:33.600 --> 07:37.400 traveled anywhere without his camera. 07:37.400 --> 07:42.400 He did three books of Photography that I think are 07:42.400 --> 07:47.700 exquisite. One is the Shekhina that has been out for 07:47.700 --> 07:50.800 quite a while, and the other is the full body project. 07:50.800 --> 07:56.900 I talked to Leonard about his photography work 07:56.900 --> 08:00.500 on the Shekhina book, all the women in that book are drop 08:00.500 --> 08:04.000 dead gorgeous, they have beautiful breasts, and they're thin, 08:04.000 --> 08:07.400 and I said, but what about the rest of us? What about 08:07.400 --> 08:11.700 taking a look at full-bodied women and seeing them 08:11.700 --> 08:14.800 as beautiful. They certainly feel they are beautiful. 08:14.800 --> 08:19.600 Maybe they would be by owning their size and you capturing 08:19.600 --> 08:23.300 that, maybe it might be an uplifting and beautiful 08:23.300 --> 08:26.100 experience for women looking at the book and, you 08:26.100 --> 08:30.200 know, when we had a showing of those pieces, those 08:30.200 --> 08:35.900 pictures that he took, the men loved it because they, 08:35.900 --> 08:38.400 live with women who are always saying I'm too fat 08:38.400 --> 08:42.100 too fat. Look at my stomach, and the women 08:42.100 --> 08:44.500 were terrified because there by the grace of God 08:44.500 --> 08:48.900 go I. Like if you really dove into a box of cookies, 08:48.900 --> 08:52.400 you could end up looking like that. So it stimulated 08:52.400 --> 08:55.700 a lot of conversation about body image and so forth 08:55.700 --> 09:00.500 and he took magnificent photographs and those two 09:00.500 --> 09:06.600 were my favorite books, though he's made four. 09:06.600 --> 09:10.900 insite into Leonard's last day of shooting on Star 09:10.900 --> 09:18.000 Trek Into Darkness was really bittersweet. There 09:18.000 --> 09:22.700 wasn't anybody on set who wasn't aware that this 09:22.700 --> 09:27.200 was the last Star Trek movie that Leonard would be 09:27.200 --> 09:32.100 doing and it was very poignant to see Leonard and 09:32.100 --> 09:36.600 Zachary Quinto talking together and playing a scene 09:36.600 --> 09:41.400 together. And quite frankly, it was highly emotional 09:41.400 --> 09:48.900 for JJ, for all of us. And so it was really a moving 09:48.900 --> 09:54.500 experience. I should also share something hilarious. 09:54.500 --> 10:01.100 Leonard was asked to walk a very narrow path which 10:01.100 --> 10:06.000 was boardered by a lot of bright lights, looking towards 10:06.000 --> 10:09.300 something beyond the camera and I thought to myself, 10:09.300 --> 10:14.900 that is a very narrow pathway and after JJ 10:14.900 --> 10:18.300 showed us both what it was going to look like, 10:18.300 --> 10:22.800 I thought not only is it narrow, but those lights 10:22.800 --> 10:26.300 are going to be blinding. I felt it was very dangerous, 10:26.300 --> 10:30.000 but I didn't say anything. So as Leonard was walking 10:30.000 --> 10:32.900 down on action, as he was walking down that path, 10:32.900 --> 10:38.300 he slipped and his leg went into the Ravine and he 10:38.300 --> 10:44.000 fell flat on his face and broke his nose. So needless 10:44.000 --> 10:48.000 to say, JJ and crew were mortified and they picked 10:48.000 --> 10:52.200 him up and there was a scratch on his nose, and 10:52.200 --> 10:54.600 they called the doctor at Paramount, and the nurses 10:54.600 --> 10:59.000 came with ice and Leonard was in good spirits and 10:59.000 --> 11:01.700 JJ turned to me and he said, oh my God. Oh my God. What 11:01.700 --> 11:05.800 what should I do? And I said, get all the ice cream 11:05.800 --> 11:11.000 that you can find cuz that is, for Leonard, one of 11:11.000 --> 11:14.000 his greatest joys and you can even put some on his 11:14.000 --> 11:16.500 nose. No, not really. He'll eat the ice cream. He'll 11:16.500 --> 11:18.700 feel much better. He said really? I 11:18.700 --> 11:21.700 said, absolutely. So they brought in a wheelbarrow 11:21.700 --> 11:26.300 full of ice cream and Leonard was so happy. And he 11:26.300 --> 11:29.900 said okay, make me a sundae, and then after they all 11:29.900 --> 11:32.200 they took a break and everybody had some ice cream. 11:32.200 --> 11:37.100 They took Leonard to the hopital. He was fine and was well 11:37.100 --> 11:44.700 enough to shoot tomorrow, the next day rather. Okay guys 11:44.700 --> 11:49.100 and gals you can go to propstore.com and see all 11:49.100 --> 11:53.000 the items i've offered for this auction and bid 11:53.000 --> 11:57.900 bid high, bid with a full heart. Thank you.