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To Scotty: James Doohan

Postby ashfire » Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:39 pm

To one who made Star Trek great, kept the Enterprise moving and beamed them up to safety. To Scotty
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Postby Nate » Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:44 pm

Oh, wow...I did a google search as soon as I saw this thread. I had no idea.

On a completely related topic, anyone know what his faith was, if any?
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Postby Rachel » Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:05 pm

Scotty was always my favorite character.
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Postby shooraijin » Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:46 pm

Nuts, and here I was going to post the obituary "first."

I don't know what his faith was. We can only presume God will beam him up.

My dad had met DeForest Kelley a few times (this was when Dad was working at a veterinary clinic in the Van Nuys area), and found him a very pleasant, approachable sort who always maintained that his success in Star Trek was just a result of being in the right place at the right time. It seems James Doohan was another one of those.
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Postby kazekami » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:29 pm

My mom told me about that a while ago. When I was reading a book.
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Postby FadedOne » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:32 pm

Scotty is freakin awesome.

Here's to classic Star Wars. So corny it's great.

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Postby shooraijin » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:37 pm

By the way, here's the CNN obit.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/20/obit.doohan.ap/index.html
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Postby The Grammarian » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:51 pm

FadedOne wrote:Scotty is freakin awesome.

Here's to classic Star Wars. So corny it's great.

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Postby Rev. Doc » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:09 pm

Somewhat strange on the anniversary of the first step on the moon. He was also my favorite character.
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Postby Demosthenes » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:11 pm

I always loved Scotty :[
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Postby termyt » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:06 am

Farewell, Scotty.



Fun fact: Did you know Doohan was actually Irish, not Scottish?
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Postby dragonshimmer » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:38 am

:( I grew up watching that show...I pray that his soul is at peace
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Postby The Grammarian » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:09 pm

termyt wrote:Farewell, Scotty.



Fun fact: Did you know Doohan was actually Irish, not Scottish?



With a surname like Doohan? I would hope so.
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Postby Rachel » Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:50 pm

I learned how to do my fake Irish accent by watching Star Trek.
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Postby the_lizardqueen » Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:51 pm

First Bones, now Scotty :(

I'm also hoping for the best for him in afterlife.
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Postby Stephen » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:46 pm

Bummer. Just heard about this myself. Such is growing old I guess...all the TV and Movie stars will slowly grow old and die. Odd thought really.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:13 pm

I was surprised that he lived in Redmond,which is outside of Seattle.I knew he
was from Vancouver,BC but I didn't realize until I read his obituary that he lived
in the Seattle area.
Can't say what his faith was.All I know is that Shatner and Nimoy are both Jewish
and Kelley was a Southern Baptist.
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Postby ashfire » Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:32 pm

Being that he was Irish he would be Protestant or Catholic.
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Postby shooraijin » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:03 pm

That narrows it down ;)
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Postby soul alive » Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:40 pm

i love the old star trek show, one of my favorite old corny shows. and scotty was one of my favorite characters. the obit they had in the paper was very touching.
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Postby ZiP » Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:43 pm

Good ole Doohan, I'll never forget how he gave the finger to the Germans... Literally...

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Postby ashfire » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:38 am

I happen to be channel surfing last night and the episode of STNG (On Spike TV) was on that Scotty appeared on where he was stuck in the transpoter for 75 years of the star ship he was captain of after it was damaged and the crew had no where to go.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:20 pm

They broke the mold when it came to chief engineers when they created
Scotty.The only one that came really close was O'Brien on DS9,IMHO. :thumb:
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Postby Sephiroth » Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:04 am

Here's to Scotty, may he be in the right place.
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Postby FadedOne » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:58 am

The Grammarian wrote:Trek. It's Star Trek .

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I KNOW. I was just half asleep when I wrote that. :red: :bang:
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Postby Godly Paladin » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:19 am

Did anyone else know that he was missing a finger? I never knew that until I read an article about him a day or two ago. He always managed to conceal it onscreen...
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Postby Technomancer » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:42 am

I was surpised at hearing that too. I'd never even heard that he fought at Juno.
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