Today Leonard Nimoy, most famous for playing Spock in the original Star Trek television series and its many spin-offs and films, passed away. His performance in that role will not be fading from our cultural memory anytime soon and rightly so.
The appeal of the Spock character has much to do with the conflict of his lineage, born to a Human mother and Vulcan father. Vulcans pride themselves on their devotion to logic, stoically disregarding their emotions. In Spock we see the conflict common to all of us. Made in the divine image, each human being is imbued with reason. However, due to the Fall our reason and appetitive desires are in conflict with each. We are as St. Paul describes in his letter to the Romans: “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.”
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