Leonard Nimoy’s sci-fi career beyond Star Trek

Leonard Nimoy as the voice of science fiction

Leonard Nimoy started voice acting as Spock in Star Trek: The Animated Series, but he did more of it as his career progressed, including in several genre projects.

He voiced Galvatron in the 1986 Transformers movie, for instance, and Mr. Moundshroud in The Halloween Tree (1993), a film narrated by and based on the works of science fiction Grand Master Ray Bradbury.

Around the turn of this century, Nimoy also voiced animated versions of himself in episodes of creator Matt Groening’s series The Simpsons and Futurama. To be strictly accurate, he voiced his own head in the latter series.

Even as only his head, Nimoy brought gravitas!

Around the same time, Nimoy and his fellow Star Trek alumnus John de Lancie formed Alien Voices, an audio theater company dedicated to dramatizing classic science fiction by the likes of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. Unfortunately, judging from its dormant Facebook page, Alien Voices appears to have died in 2015 along with Nimoy.

But the voice and face of Leonard Nimoy live on for science fiction fans.

His work as Spock remains his most enduring contribution the genre.

Even so, from Zombies of the Stratosphere to Fringe, he’ll forever be associated with speculative entertainment, a genre in which, as his most famous character was fond of saying, “There are always possibilities.”

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