Mr Spock’s final frontier

Actor Leonard Nimoy died yesterday, aged 83. US president Obama described Nimoy’s Mr Spock as ‘cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the centre of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future’.

Tributes have been paid to former Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy, who died yesterday, aged 83.

The actor’s wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, told the New York Times that he died of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.