‘Star Trek’ Star James Doohan Dies (AP)

July 20th, 2005 by tamarin2087 Leave a reply »

 RIP Scotty.  All "beam me up" jokes left to the reader.

‘Star Trek’ Star James Doohan Dies (AP) – AP – James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures who responded to the command "Beam me up, Scotty," died early Wednesday. He was 85.

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  1. Anonymous says:
    July 20, 2005 at 2:08 pm

    “I like Captain Kirk, but I “I like Captain Kirk, but I sure don’t like Bill. He’s so insecure that all he can think about is himself.”

    Wow…

  2. Anonymous says:
    July 20, 2005 at 2:52 pm

    At 11:30 that night, he was

    At 11:30 that night, he was machine-gunned, taking six hits: one that took off his middle right finger (he managed to hide the missing finger on screen), four in his leg and one in the chest. Fortunately the chest bullet was stopped by his silver cigarette case.

     

    This is the wow for me.  Sounds like he would have been fun to buy a beer for and just listen to some stories. 

  3. Anonymous says:
    July 21, 2005 at 8:39 am

    It gets better…

    Snipping from our friend Eric Burns at Websnark:

     

    The thing is… since he couldn’t be an artilleryman any more… he retrained as a pilot, joining the Royal Canadian Air Force and flying as a Pilot Observer for the British for the rest of the war.

    The man lost a finger and nearly lost his life on D-Day… and retrained to fly planes that accompanied B-17s on bombing runs.

    The world didn’t deserve someone that good.

     

    Wow, indeed.

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