Star-swapping: Leonard Nimoy is quitting to let Zachary Quinto (right) replace him
It has been more than four decades since Star Trek�s pointy-eared Vulcan Mr Spock first explored the distant corners of the cosmos.
But at 79, actor Leonard Nimoy has decided his space travelling days are over and is beaming himself up from the flight deck of the U.S.S. Enterprise and into retirement.
Nimoy, one of the most recognisable and best loved characters from the sci-fi series that began in 1966, announced that he wanted to �get off the stage� and give young actor Zachary Quinto a clear run at the role he took over for last year�s Star Trek movie.
Nimoy said he was giving up acting altogether, but only after one final voyage home to Vulcan - the small Canadian town that has adopted the actor as an honorary citizen.
Calling it a day: Leonard Nimoy, pictured a fortnight ago, is bringing down the curtain on his acting career at 79
Nimoy has banked millions of dollars from playing Spock in the long-running TV series and seven Star Trek movies, as well as appearing at numerous conventions of Trekkies - the show�s fans who dress as their favourite characters and even have their own language, Vulcan, in honour of their hero.
�Since Star Trek began, I�ve never had to worry about where the next job was,� said Nimoy, who enjoyed a successful career in TV and movies before the groundbreaking space series began.
Nimoy revived his own love affair with the Star Trek franchise after a dark period in the 1970s in which he feared being typecast and attempted to distance himself from the role that made him famous.
His 1975 autobiography was called I Am Not Spock.
After resolving what he describes as �a definite identity crisis�, Nimoy re-released his autobiography in 1995, and renamed it, I Am Spock.�
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