It’s a sad day today. Star Trek is one of my favorite shows of all-time, and Scotty was one of my favorite characters on the show.
‘Star Trek’s’ Scotty, James Doohan, dead at 85
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor James Doohan, best known as Scotty, the feisty, Scottish-accented chief engineer on television’s original “Star Trek” series, died on Wednesday at his home in Redmond, Washington, his manager said. He was 85.
Doohan, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease last summer, died of complications from that degenerative illness and pneumonia, Steve Stevens told Reuters.A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Doohan was a prolific voice actor on Canadian radio before making his move into television in the 1950s.
But he will be remembered for playing Lt. Commander Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, the can-do chief engineer aboard the starship USS Enterprise on the original “Star Trek” series, which ran from 1966-69 on NBC. He reprised the role for several big-screen “Star Trek” features.
One of his character’s chief functions on the show was to operate the transporter used to “beam” crew members to and from the Enterprise — often in response to an order that entered the pop culture as the catch phrase “Beam me up Scotty.”
Doohan’s last public appearance was in October, when he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Reuters/VNU
Posted on July 20th, 2005 by Paul
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Aw man, that’s a real bummer.
That really stinks i hope he was saved
I’m in the generation that just adored Star Trek. One of my favorite all-time movies is still The Wrath of Khan.
I have a 28 year old friend who just does’t get it. How incredible that universe was to immerse yourself into!
One of my favorite theologians and experts on postmodernism was a Trekker–Stan Grenz. He used the original series and the Next Generation as a metaphor of the Modern and Postmodern eras. For instance, whereas Captain Kirk’s crew stood in awe of the cold logic of Mr Spock, Jean-Luc Picard’s new breed of explorers relied heavily on Counsellor Troi, a gifted woman with intuitive ability to read the hidden feelings of others.
His conclusion:
“Our society is in the throes of a monumental transition, the movement from modernity to postmodernity. The emerging generation – those raised on “Star Trek: The Next Generation†– is already imbued with many aspects of the postmodern mind. Confronted by this new context, we dare not fall into the trap of wistfully longing for a return to the modernity that gave evangelicalism its birth – indeed, we simply cannot turn back the clock – for we are not called to minister in the past, but in the contemporary context….â€