Leonard Nimoy Hospitalized For Chest Pains

[Archae]

Source: TMZ

Leonard Nimoy was rushed to the hospital after severe chest pains prompted a 911 call ... TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources say the legendary "Star Trek" star was transported to UCLA Medical Center last Thursday.

We're told paramedics weren't taking chances with Captain Spock and got him in front of a doctor ASAP. Nimoy's been in and out of hospitals multiple times in the last few months.

Nimoy announced he was suffering from COPD back in 2014, and even though he quit smoking more than 30 years ago ... he blames his illness on decades of lighting up.

We've reached out to Nimoy's rep for comment ... but no word back yet.

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Hopefully this will come out all right, would hate to lose Spock.

[chillfactor]

1. may he be in the best hands possible.....

and that he gets better..my thoughts and prayers are with him....

[Art_from_Ark]

7. May the Force be with him

Whoops! Different space movie

[47of74]

8. "Do you even know who I am?"

No he wasn't a little rascal.

[Omaha Steve]

2. Marta and I met him at a champagne fund raiser during his Vincent one man show

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He had a fever from the flu. That was months before the start of filming for Star Trek I.

K&R!

OS

[burrowowl]

3. DITTO!

[silvershadow]

4. I watched him on Star Trek and on In Search Of. Sad that he has COPD. Ugly illness. nt

[SoapBox]

5. Get well Spock!

My best wishes.

[lastlib]

6. Live long and prosper, Leonard!

[47of74]

9. Agreed

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. Think of how many science junkies have been called "Spock" in school....

I was one.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Hoping for the best!

Do get well!

[davidpdx]

12. Hang in their Captain Spoke

Someone has to be around to keep William Shatner in line.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

13. Is it too late for a mindmeld with Bill Shatner? It worked once before.

Get well soon Leonard!

[onehandle]

14. Smoking is a plague. I enjoy his Twitter stream, which has a fair amount of anti-smoking Tweets.

Rest and return, sir.

Praying for you.

[Coventina]

15. Best wishes, Mr. Nimoy.

[Xithras]

16. Hey TMZ, that's "Ambassador" Spock

By the early 1990's (2368? 45233.1?), Spock had retired from Starfleet and had become an ambassador for the Federation. Nimoy has played "Ambassador Spock" in every Trek movie and TV episode appearance since The Undiscovered Country. Even in that movie, he was actually playing a diplomat, even though he hadn't formally be granted the title of "ambassador" yet.

/geek

I'd offer Nimoy my prayers, but that would be illogical.

[Calista241]

17. Live Long and Prosper.

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Get well soon Spock.

Nimoy is also one of the great voice narrators of all time IMO.

[cascadiance]

18. Yes indeed!

[tabasco]

19. Get well soon, buddy!

I've never met you but I feel like we're old pals.

[Aristus]

20. Hope he recovers soon. And I'm glad he quit smoking.

Paying a billion-dollar multinational corporation for the privilege of destroying your functional lung surface and then dying is not logical...

[yurbud]

21. the reporter couldn't resist saying "transported" instead of "taken"