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Star Trekโ€™s original Mr. Spock beams down for vaccine-boosting billboard campaign

Mr. Spockโ€™s visage graces a pro-vaccination billboard in Los Angeles. (Julie Nimoy via Twitter)

Itโ€™s been almost seven years since Leonard Nimoy, the actor who created the role of Mr. Spock on โ€œStar Trek,โ€ passed away due to respiratory disease โ€” but his character may be coming soon to a billboard near you, as part of a widening campaign to encourage COVID-19 vaccination.

The first round of the campaign, organized by Nimoyโ€™s family and L.A. Care Health Plan with the blessing of ViacomCBS, has been in the works in Los Angeles since last May. One billboard design features Nimoy in his Mr. Spock role, giving the split-fingered Vulcan salute with the headline โ€œSave Humanity: Get Vaccinated! Itโ€™s the Logical Thing to Do.โ€ The other design shows mask-wearing humans in a Star Trek glow and takes full advantage of Spockโ€™s โ€œLive Long and Prosperโ€ catchline.

โ€œThe phrase โ€˜Live Long and Prosperโ€™ spreads a message that my dad strongly believed in โ€” not only for a long and healthy life, but it also represents peace, tolerance, diversity and unity,โ€ Julie Nimoy, the actorโ€™s daughter, said in a news release. โ€œThis project really is a continuation of his mission on lung health.โ€

Julie Nimoyโ€™s husband, David Knight, told GeekWire in an email that the โ€œL.A. campaign is only the first stop.โ€

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โ€œNew billboards in N.Y., Boston, Chicago, D.C., Seattle and Miami are already being discussed,โ€ Knight wrote. โ€œIn addition, weโ€™re currently speaking with the World Health Organization about additional billboards specifically on vaccine equity in major cities across the world.โ€

Knight and his wife are in charge of the Nimoy Knight Foundation, a nonprofit that aims to heighten awareness about lung disease and prevention as a tribute to Leonard Nimoy. The foundation is also working to get a Vulcan-salute statue built outside Bostonโ€™s Museum of Science.

Last month, Julie Nimoy lent a sterling silver โ€œLive Long and Prosperโ€ necklace to Jeff Bezosโ€™ Blue Origin space venture for a suborbital trip to space, as a follow-up to Star Trek captain William Shatnerโ€™s spaceflight in October.
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