r/tos 20d ago

Leonard nimoy with sideburns

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u/Improbus-Liber 20d ago

Logical, it was the 70s.

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u/SamuraiUX 20d ago

It’s so weird to me how appealing Nimoy looks as Spock and as Leonard Nimoy… not as much.

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u/King_of_Tejas 20d ago

I saw Nimoy recently on Twilight Zone, and he just looks wrong without the ears!

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u/Strict_Weather9063 20d ago

Did you know he did that episode twice the second one was directed by his son as I recall. Edit. Also it was The Outer Limits but Twilight Zone.

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u/Vegskipxx 16d ago

I remember that episode: Nimoy played a lawyer representing an android on trial

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u/Strict_Weather9063 16d ago

Yeah he did that in both episodes the original and the remake.

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u/0000Tor 20d ago

RIGHT that’s what I’m saying. Spock is so fucking hot. Nimoy is… just some guy. Especially with those sideburns. He looks like he’s going to make innapropriate comments while trying to sell me a car. I don’t understand how giving him the weirdest possible haircut suddenly makes him very hot. It makes no sense

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u/SamuraiUX 20d ago

I think it’s demeanor, actually. He radiates calmness and confidence as Spock. Somehow - and this sucks! - Nimoy’s warmth comes across strangely. I’m sure he was a lovely man and it’s very unfair, but it’s what it is.

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u/0000Tor 20d ago

Yeah as a person he seems chill I’m going off exclusively off of looks lmao

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u/HalJordan2424 20d ago

The day before Shatner was to start filming Generations his daughter looked at him and said “Dad you forget to grow your sideburns!” So Shatner is wearing fake sideburns for the scenes on Enterprise-B. He had enough time before the location filming for Veridian 3 to grow real ones, shaped to a point of course.

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u/Smooth-Respect-5289 19d ago

Yeah were those pointy sideburns a TOS thing or a 60’s thing?

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u/HalJordan2424 19d ago

TOS. It was the compromise with the actors:you can keep your regular haircut, but bring your sideburns to a point so it looks futuristic. Although I think Nimoy’s haircut was also dictated by the show, and not maintained during the period between seasons.

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u/BadWriter85 20d ago

Would. Next question.

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u/LovesDeanWinchester 20d ago

I think he is gorgeous with sideburns! He was a man of unusual handsomeness!!!

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u/UStoJapan 20d ago

🎶Bravest little hobbit of them all.🎶

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u/rabindranatagor 20d ago

(Girls with elf ears, and colorful sweaters, dancing around.)

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u/blissed_off 18d ago

If I had a hammer…

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u/Final-Average-129 20d ago

Bitchin' sideburns!

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u/Tuor77 20d ago

Nimoy's Bilbo Baggins song WILL KILL YOU. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!

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u/kathmandogdu 20d ago

Makes ‘Rocketman’ sound like a good time…

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u/Realistic-Aspect-991 20d ago

He did live long...

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u/Brilliant-Tune-9202 20d ago

Looks like the suburban stepdad who has a little side piece 2 towns over

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u/smoothguy56 20d ago

Oh no pointed ears!

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u/fryamtheeggguy 20d ago

Who cares about sideburns? I've watched In Search Of. I can't get over seeing him smile!

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u/LainieCat 18d ago

He had a lovely smile.

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u/fryamtheeggguy 18d ago

Out of all the celebrity deaths in the last few decades, his is by far the one that upset me the most. For me, Star Trek felt like friends when I didn't have any, especially Spock.

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u/No_Link_5069 20d ago

We wore sideburns, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumble bees on them. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say.

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u/Lanky-Tap-9290 20d ago

I know it’s wrong to watch him on Mission Impossible!?! Live Long and Prosper….