10 reasons Spock was the greatest sci-fi icon of all time

With the death today of Leonard Nimoy, science fiction, has lost one of its original icons.

Starting with the original Star Trek in 1966, Nimoy's Spock was a character for ages: laconic, inscrutable, occasionally dryly witty.

He was at the centre of many of Star Trek's great moments. The high-camp of Spock's Brain (a hilarious highlight of season three of 'Classic Trek').