Star Trek’s Scotty dies
p2pnet.net OT News:- Canada�s James Doohan, chief engineer Montgomery Scott on Star Trek’s Enterprise, is dead at the age of 85, a victim of Alzheimer’s, pneumonia – and a good old age.
Doohan’s Scotty served with Captain James T Kirk, played by William Shatner, another Canadian actor, and Leonard Nimoy�s Mr Spock.
�They starred together for three seasons before US network NBC cancelled it because of weak ratings,� says the BBC, adding:
“But the team was reassembled when the franchise hit the big screen. Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released in cinemas in 1979. Doohan appeared in seven big screen episodes of Star Trek, and continued to voice the franchise’s video games into the late 1990s.�
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BBC – Star Trek’s Scotty: Your tributes, July 20, 2005
July 20th, 2005 at 7:33 pm
holy crap! i had a premonition about this just last night. incredible. and he recently fathered a child too!
it’s pretty funny how many people believe he was scottish. and in fact, he was always a big draw in scotland when he visited there. i saw people there crowd around him wherever he went.
oh well, he’s in a better place.
thanks for everything scotty. see you on the other side.
July 20th, 2005 at 10:46 pm
Hat’s off to you James. you were one of a kind. You gave me many years of laughs and pleasure. Scotty was my favoriate charactor on the show when I watched it as a child and later in reruns. Time for you to rest.
Rick
July 20th, 2005 at 11:18 pm
Props to “Scotty”. Perhaps now he CAN defy the laws of physics!
July 21st, 2005 at 12:31 am
Right on.
July 21st, 2005 at 1:03 am
gee, no-one is complaining that this isn’t a p2p-type news item. there’s usually at least one idiot who whines about that.
July 21st, 2005 at 2:24 am
It is a sad day to hear this. The character “Scotty” was one of a kind. James gave a piece of himself in the process, breathing life into a film script. Even here, that honesty of imparting himself into the part is reflected by the comments.
Be at peaceful rest, James. You have left us and been beamed up to the great Enterprise In The Sky.