EXCLUSIVE: Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock came from two different planets but William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy bonded over Star Trek slights, anti-Semitic slurs, bad marriages and battles with alcohol - until their final falling out

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    The USS Enterprise captain writes about relationship with his poker-faced first officer in a memoir honoring the first anniversary of Nimoy death
    Nimoy was driving a taxi in Los Angeles when then Senator John F. Kennedy tried to stiff him for the $1.25 fare
    When tapped for the role of Spock, the actor wasn't comfortable with his 'Dumbo ears' but Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry insisted
    Nimoy created the Vulcan salute - inspired by his synagogue congregation forming the shape of the Hebrew letter 'shin' to hide their eyes
    Shatner admits he was jealous when Spock became the most important character and received the most fan mail
    Nimoy was a functioning alcoholic who would have his assistant sneak him drinks in a paper cup
    He stopped speaking to Shatner  a few years before he died. 'It is something I will wonder about and regret forever,' Shatner writes