We reported earlier this week that players of the MMO Star Trek Online gathered in-game to pay their respects to late Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy and about the game's plans to formally immortalize Nimoy with a memorial.
Those plans have now come to life, as developer Cryptic Studios has added not one, but two Nimoy memorials to the game's universe today.
The first is on planet Vulcan, Spock's homeworld, at the site where players gathered shortly after news of Nimoy's death to pay tribute to the science-fiction icon. The statue depicts Nimoy's Spock character doing his signature Vulcan Salute, with the worlds "Live Long And Prosper" sprawled across the base of the memorial.
A second Nimoy memorial can be found on New Romulus in-game as well. While the statue will be the same, this memorial reads "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Star Trek Online's executive producer Stephen Ricossa explains the reasoning behind the second memorial and further steps the developers are taking to remember Nimoy in a new blog post:
"We will be adding the same statue to New Romulus with the inscription 'The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few', as building toward Romulan and Vulcan reunification was one of Spock's great life works. The Romulan Republic would not exist without his teachings. Through the next week we will also hang black flags of mourning in Earth Spacedock, Qo'noS, and New Romulus, so everyone that passes through those hubs will know we have lost someone important to us all."
Each statue will also serve as a memorial for other Star Trek icons who have passed, including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
"Last Friday we lost someone dear to us," Ricossa says in the blog post. "All of us. Not just the people of the Star Trek community, but anyone who ever tried with varying success to make the Vulcan salute. Anyone who ever said 'Live Long and Prosper,' whether or not they knew who brought that phrase into our cultural lexicon, and anyone who can understand the impact a positive public figure can have on the world. Leonard Nimoy was more than just a Star Trek icon-he was a cultural icon. His passing has been felt farther and wider than I think he could have possibly known, and I feel it's that humility, despite all of his skills, talents, and fame, that made him someone we all care about."
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