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Michael Dorn as Worf, a Klingon, in the 1998 movie, Star Trek: Insurrection. Paramount Pictures/Getty Images hide caption
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Actor Leonard Nimoy in 2006. RIC FRANCIS/AP hide caption
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock. The character's mixed Vulcan and human heritage set him apart from the rest of the Star Trek crew. Getty Images hide caption
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock in the Star Trek episode "Plato's Stepchildren" in 1968. CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images hide caption
Actor Leonard Nimoy died Friday in Los Angeles at the age of 83. Matt Sayles/AP hide caption
The crew of Star Trek: Voyager Paramount/The Kobal Collection hide caption
Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, a man living in someone else's dream. The 1998 movie The Truman Show asks us to look at experience and reality with fresh eyes. Melinda Sue Gordon/The Kobal Collection/Paramount hide caption
The USS Zumwalt, the first in a new class of "stealth" destroyers. U.S. Navy/General Dynamics hide caption
The 'Star Trek' actress had to be talked into the role of Lt. Uhura in the franchise's big screen reboot by her mother and friends. The original Lt. Uhura was urged to not quit by Martin Luther King. Paramount Pictures hide caption
That's a light saber, sir, not a phaser. (President Obama in September 2009, during a White House event promoting Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.) Roger L. Wollenberg /UPI /Landov hide caption
A sea of self-motivated individuals or a web of interdependent talents? Both, of course. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Actress Nichelle Nichols -- "Lt. Uhura" -- at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on Nov. 3, 2010. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images hide caption