"Today’s song is one of my own, for the great Leonard Nimoy. I had the pleasure of seeing him on Broadway in the late 1970s, in a production of Equus. I can’t remember why I titled this “Spook” instead of “Spock,” perhaps I was embarrassed to have written a song based on a Star Trek episode. The lyric concerns the episode Operation Annihilate where Spock is blinded in an experiment. Bones thinks the blindness permanent and blames himself. But no, Vulcans have a second eyelid, and Spock is alive and well, and overhears Bones saying that Spock is the best First Officer in Starfleet history. What an amazing creation was Spock, burned forever into our collective minds …"
See Dean Wareham's blog from Feb. 27, 2015, shortly after Leonard Nimoy died:
http://deanwareham.com/blog/112236414439
"Today’s song is one of my own, for the great Leonard Nimoy. I had the pleasure of seeing him on Broadway in the late 1970s, in a production of Equus. I can’t remember why I titled this “Spook” instead of “Spock,” perhaps I was embarrassed to have written a song based on a Star Trek episode. The lyric concerns the episode Operation Annihilate where Spock is blinded in an experiment. Bones thinks the blindness permanent and blames himself. But no, Vulcans have a second eyelid, and Spock is alive and well, and overhears Bones saying that Spock is the best First Officer in Starfleet history. What an amazing creation was Spock, burned forever into our collective minds …"
@wakalix I read this as well. What a cool subject for a Galaxie 500 song! RIP Leonard Nimoy, and long live Spock!
@wakalix I read this as well. What a cool subject for a Galaxie 500 song! RIP Leonard Nimoy, and long live Spock!