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July 21, 2005
Vail Scotty
The man who played - was - Star Trek's inimitable engineer, Montgomery Scott, has passed away. A man whose Scottish accent never actually was Scottish, but who came to epitomise everything Scottish on screen, James Doohan was roguish to the core, riding the Star Trek wave like a Celtic hero, laughing over a cold one till his barrel-shaped body shook like a kilt in the wind, and fathering his last child at 80.
Let's all raise a glass to Scotty today, in the hopes that when at last he was beamed up there, he's giving them all he's got, Captain!
Posted by jj at July 21, 2005 6:12 AM
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Quoted from another blog...
"To honor the man, I'm sure many of us while be playing some TOS episodes tonight (or TNG's "Relics.") In addition, I'm going to suggest that folks who can watch Denise Crosby's documentary "Trekkies." In it, there's a sequence where James Doohan describes an interaction he had with a fan which is as beautiful and compelling as anything you'd care to hear. The gist is how he received a letter from a fan who he could tell was depressed and suicidal. He called her (I think it was a her) up and said, "I'm going to be doing a convention in such-and-such city in a few weeks, and I want to see you there." At the convention he met her and told her where his next appearance would be and that he wanted to talk to her there. And so on and so on. After a while, they lost touch, but years later she came up to him at a convention to thank him for taking an interest in her life--in many ways saving her life--and that she had become an electrical engineer. Doohan told this story some times later in life when his faculties were clearly deteriorating, but seeing him tell the story in "Trekkies"--well, if that won't make you mist up, you've got a heart of stone.
Condolences to the family, with the hope that they can take some comfort in how many lives he touched--even those not as dramatically as that one fan whose life he saved."
Posted by: Stephen Soymonoff at July 21, 2005 8:30 AM
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