only three seasons, 79 episodes. my favorite episode was called a mock time. in that episode, we heard the words live long and prosper prtfor the first time and saw spock do this for the first time. reporter: nimoy went to star in a number of tv shows and pursued over passions. photography and poetry publishing a book in 1977. the answer has been here before. reporter: in the 80s, appeared in star trek the next generation kwgs and when j.j. rebooted the films, the original spock was there too. 35 years ago, i met the enterprise for the first time. reporter: enterprise named after the star ship and when retired in 2012 nimoy was there to talk about it. tell us what you feel today. a reunion. reporter: he spoke about the danls of spoking after being diagnosed with a lung disease.