James Doohan dies

[GarySeven]

Played Scotty on Star Trek

Apologize if this has been posted before.


I saw him once just before the first Star Trek movie came out. He was drunk off his ass.

Still, a great guy.


Please, donate to fight Alzheimers:
http://www.alz.org/

[Hobo]

1. Live Long and Prosper

Mr Scott.


Hobo

[dave29]

2. She's breakin up, Jim

:(

[kliljedahl]

3. I partied with him one night

We both got drunker than hell. Great guy, RIP Scotty


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Greeby]

4. : (

:cry: Having a grandmother whos in a home riddled with altzheimers, means I get especially upset when someone dies of it :cry:

[Az_lefty]

5. Sheesh...I thought you said James Dobson

[Greeby]

6. Nope

Nah, he'll outlive us all courtesy of those satanic rituals ;)

[Ian David]

7. James Doohan, 'Scotty,' Dies At 85

James Doohan, 'Scotty,' Dies At 85

POSTED: 11:31 am EDT July 20, 2005
UPDATED: 1:04 pm EDT July 20, 2005

LOS ANGELES -- The publicist for James Doohan says the actor who played Scotty on "Star Trek" has died at his home in Redmond, Wash. He was 85. The cause of his death was pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.

n Doohan's biography on the official Star Trek Web site, Doohan is described as once being the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Forces."

Doohan's "Star Trek" character often played a central role in the series and movies, troubleshooting problems on the Starship Enterprise to save the day.

Doohan was born March 3, 1920, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and left home at age 19 to join the Canadian Forces, fighting with the Allies in World War II. He then became a captain in the Royal Canadian Artillery and led troops into battle on D-Day, the Web site said.

Besides starring as the chief engineer aboard the "Enterprise" in the original Star Trek series, which debuted on NBC in 1966, Doohan had parts in more than 100 motion pictures and television series, including "The Twilight Zone," "Outer Limits," "Fantasy Island," "Loaded Weapon 1" and "Double Trouble."

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Don't know about Scotty, but Spock is a big Dem supporter:

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=Nimoy&txtState=%28all+states%29&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt2006=Y&txt2004=Y&txt2002=Y&Order=N

[Canuckistanian]

16. I didn't know he was Canadian...

Amazing. Next thing you'll be telling me that William Shatner is Canadian, too!

[Ian David]

17. And Shatner is Jewish, too. And Nimoy.

That's why Enterprise looks like a big yarmulke.

[Felix Mala]

8. I think he had Alzheimer's.

All his tribbles are behind him.

[Gormy Cuss]

9. Only at DU

Only here would we find out that Montgomery Scott died from Gary Seven.

[GarySeven]

13. Isis told me.

BTW have you seen Terri Garr? She borrowed my pen 40 years ago and still hasn't given it back.

[hyphenate]

10. Jimmy was a great guy

and from so many conventions, I met him many times, and we even went out to dinner once with other people as well. Back in 1975 or 76, we were at the NYC convention (one of the first ones--went to both, but can't recall which one this story is from), Jimmy got on stage to introduce himself, and the first thing he did was to let everyone know how to pronounce his name. So he made up a little rhyme to remind everyone: Jimmy Doohan, what's you doing, when you're doin, what you're doin!

There was a story that came from some friends about a CreationCon. Creation managed, over the course of years, to put many fan run conventions out of business by paying exhorbitant fees to performers, and thus killing the little cons who couldn't afford to pay such high fees. But the original guys from TOS were canny. They enjoyed doing fan run conventions more than Creation, and so, if they were in some way obligated to do a CreationCon, they made sure that Creation paid for the privilege. At one convention, Jimmy was having a party up in his suite, and had like 25 fans with him, and he called room service and had them deliver steak dinners for everyone. :D

When Jimmy came to a con in Boston about 20 or so years ago, a local ST group I was with got to take him out to dinner. What was funny was that the restaurant staff recognized him and everyone in the restaurant made a trip into the room we were in to see him. I remember I sat next to him through dinner. He was great. He will be missed incredibly. With DeForest Kelley and Mark Lenard gone, Jimmy makes three. :(

[GalleryGod]

14. Wonderful Post! Got to buy Jimmy a Scotch in '94.

At the Valley Forge convention...he was signing autographs at the time. So I offered. He accepted. A helluva man.

Thanks for your remembrances.

[Hugin]

11. So sad.

May he voyage where all good men have gone before.

It really saddened me to read about his passing.

x(

[Ryano42]

12. Apparently...Heaven needs help in Engineering!

Fare thee well Jimmy! Thank you! :beer: :cry:

[GalleryGod]

15. Roger that!

But...It'll take EIGHT sol-ar dayyyyyyys Kep-tin !:bounce: