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"Star Trek's" Leonard Nimoy Dies; ISIS Using Social Media Like Weapon; Aaron Hernandez Trial Wraps Up.
Aired February 27, 2015 - 14:30 ET
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DEFOREST KELLY, ACTOR: See this stuff on the end? It's like a sapling only a thousand times stronger.
WILLIAM SHATNER, ACTOR: Do your stuff to find it.
LEONARD NIMOY, ACTOR: Jim!
SHATNER: Spock!
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ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR: He beamed up the big and the small screen with his signature phrase, "Live long and prosper." "Star Trek" legend, Leonard Nimoy, has died at the age of 83. The Emmy Award- wining actor was not just the legendary Mr. Spock, he was also an acclaimed director. His most popular film the 1987 movie "Three Men and A Baby," Remember that one?
Last year, Nimoy shared with the world he had lung disease.
CNN's Jason Carroll beams back with an incredible look back.
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NIMOY: That's quite logical, Captain.
JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Leonard Nimoy will always be remembered as Spock, the half human, half Vulcan he portrayed for decades on the big screen and the small screen. His character debuted in the original "Star Trek" series September 8th, 1966.
NIMOY: You may be correct, Captain.
CARROLL: Spock's life on board the starship Enterprise took him to many worlds. In reality, Nimoy's love for acting began right here on earth in his hometown.
NIMOY: I started acting when I was a little boy about 8 years old in neighborhood settlement houses in Boston and grew up with it.
Live long and prosper.
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CARROLL: As beloved as Spock is with his audiences, in his early career he played a lot of characters audiences love to hate.
NIMOY: I had done a lot, pushed people around and got my comeuppance.
They can smell a winner.
CARROLL: Nimoy's big break came when a producer took notice of the young actor in an episode of the '60s Marine Corps drama "The Lieutenant." That producer? Gene Rodinberry, who say something special in Nimoy's Spock.
SHATNER: He invented that character. They had made an earlier pilot in which nobody grasped the edges of the character.
GEORGE TAKEI, ACTOR: With his imagination and his innovation, his creativity, made that character one interestingly humanized and so rivetingly intriguing.
CARROLL: Despite all the "Star Trek" spin-offs, dozen movies, five series, countless conventions, the first series lasted only three seasons. 79 episodes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My favorite episode was called "Amokton." In that episode we heard the words "live long and prosper" for the first time and we saw Spock do this for the first time.
NIMOY: One of our classic arts.
CARROLL: Nimoy went on to star in a number of series following that. He had other loves, poetry and photography.
NIMOY: the answer.
CARROLL: In the '90s, Spock appeared in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and when J.J. Abrams rebooted the movies in 2009 and 2013, the original Spock was there, too.
NIMOY: 35 years ago, I left the Enterprise for the first time.
CARROLL: NASA's shuttle Enterprise named after the starship and when it retired in 2012, Nimoy was there to talk about it. Tell us what you are feeling today?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tell us what you're feeling today.
NIMOY: It feels like a reunion.
CARROLL: In his later years, he spoke about the dangers of smoking after being diagnosed with lung disease.
NIMOY: I quit a long time ago. Why is this happening to me? But it's a lesson that I had to learn. CARROLL: His character Spock may have prided himself on being
emotionless, but, in the end, that could not be further from who the man was to his family and friends.
NIMOY: I always shall be your friend.
SHATNER: First and foremost a long and deep friendship, love that I have for Leonard. He is, in essence, the brother I never had. You turned around and went --
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NIMOY: Live long and prosper.
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CABRERA: He left his mark.
Up next, the terror group ISIS using social media like a weapon, recruiting many of its new members via the Internet. So how can the war be won online? We'll discuss.
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JEB BUSH, (R), FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: -- needs to be to re-engage with a strong military and a strong presence. We can't disengage with the world and expect good results. When we pull back, voids are filled. We need to re-establish relationships with countries that we have managed to mess up. We've managed to mess up almost every relationship in the world, if you think about it, including Canada, which is hard to do.
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CABRERA: Of course, that is Jeb Bush talking foreign policy at CPAC, a gathering of conservative minds right now, as the world's attention is turned to terrorism in recent days and months. ISIS, of course, we know sending a powerful siren song to impressionable teens here in North America. And too many of them are responding.
