By City News Service
May 10, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - L.A. Care Health Plan is collaborating with the family of the late “Star Trek” actor Leonard Nimoy on a billboard and social media campaign to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations and mask use.
The “Live Long and Prosper” campaign will make use of the catch phrase popularized by Spock, the character played by Nimoy on the television series that aired from 1966-69 on NBC, and in several subsequent big-screen versions.
Nimoy was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2013, and dedicated the last two years of his life to raising awareness about the progressive lung disease. Officials said his family is confident that if he were alive today, he would be an outspoken proponent of mask use and vaccination during the COVID-19 crisis, which has seen so many suffer lung damage.
There are not a lot of normal intersections between the far future and the mechanics of delivering health care, but in the face of a global pandemic, situations make for, as they say, strange bedfellows. With the world in the grips of wrestling with COVID-19, the family of science fiction legend
Leonard Nimoy saw a series of billboards around Los Angeles and appreciated the imagery, projecting the idea of people protecting themselves and others from the ravages of the latest coronavirus. After a lengthy series of conversations between the Nimoy family, ViacomCBS and L.A. Care, the nation s largest public health plan, a plan was launched to encourage vaccinations and mask usage.
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Star Trek: Discovery, the Section 31 spinoff is still in limbo as others announced after it are in production or even in the process of releasing more seasons.
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Julie Nimoy is proud to continue her father,
Leonard Nimoy s enduring legacy not only as an actor but also as an artist and humanitarian. As viewers were introduced to Leonard s Mr. Spock in 1966 on
Star Trek: The Original Series, the actor continued to play the role until the end with his final appearance in
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) before his passing in 2015. Leonard acted along with his film successor
Zachary Quinto, who played the younger version in two of the three
J. J. Abrams Kelvin Universe films for Paramount. Julie and her brother
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Star Trek fans recently commemorated what would ve been the 90th birthday of Leonard Nimoy, and the actor s family has done what they could to help ensure his legacy is preserved for generations to come. This includes an incredible statue called The Leonard Nimoy Memorial, which has gotten support from various
Star Trek faces as of late, including William Shatner.
Though much has been made of reported tension between the two
Star Trek leads over the years, a recent conversation with Julie Nimoy, the daughter of Leonard Nimoy, and her husband David Knight revealed that William Shatner has been nothing but supportive in their efforts to preserve Leonard Nimoy s legacy. I spoke to the couple about the recent Blu-ray release of their documentary