“You know, he’s not dead - not as long as we remember him”
They will need someone who can play bagpipes when his cremains are launched.
Is that the one where Scotty said they were calling Kirk a tribble-felcher or whatever, and that wasn’t what made him lose control, it was only when they insulted the Enterprise that starting he kicking Klingon ass?
That was a great scene.
Ah, this thread has reminded me of a lot of great scenes/lines of Doohan’s. Star Trek certainly would have been less of a show without him.
From what I heard, he did like the women. At one Con he groped (butt grab) a friend of mine. :eek:
There is a good article on Scotty in the Arts & Living section of the Washington Post.
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Stand down, Mr. Scott. Rest in peace, and enjoy a well-deserved and eternal “bout of shore leave.”
James Doohan was the guest of honor at the very first Trek Convention I attended in 1975 (holy crap 30 years…)
He was a lot of fun, he tooled with a kid who had what then passed for a cam-corder (it was a behemoth of a camera), walking, waving right up to the lens.
He later did some of the other voices he performed in the ST Animated series (like Mr. Arex).
I met him one last time in 1986 at a different convention. He was still a charmer and I even had the good fortune to share a dinner with him there (me and 15 other lucky convention goers). He told us great WWII stories and other Trek tales.
I had a picture taken with him and had it on my desk at work. So many people thought it was my dad that I added a sign saying it was Scotty.
RIP James - you will be missed.
on countdown last night george takei spoke with keith obermann about mr doohan. lovely stories about mr doohan. mr takei spoke of mr doohan’s love for life and trying new things, by recounting a story of them going out for sushi in the early '60’s. sushi was not very well known then, but mr doohan was game for trying some.
mr obermann quipped, “he went where no canadian had gone before.” totally cracked up mr takei.
may his memory be eternal.
Radar is short-handed?
(Sorry for the pun.)
James " Jimmy " Doohan was more than an actor. He was humbled many times by strangers who told him that I became an engineer because you inspired me.
Now that his life has ended at age 85, Doohan has gone where no live man has gone before.
I wish Shatner could have accepted the typecasting as well as Doohan. About the only actor I can think of who took typecasting as well was Alan Hale, Jr. He knew and accepted the fact that he will always be the Skipper.
Doohan was a class act.
I did like that bit on TNG with Geordi. When Geordi started spouting stuff about how the manual gives the specs of whatever they were working on, Scotty says, “Who do you think wrote the manual?”
And a wee dram of 15-year-old Glenfiddich single malt as well.
Home is the sailor, home from sea:
Her far-borne canvas furled
The ship pours shining on the quay
The plunder of the world.
…
'Tis evening on the moorland free,
The starlit wave is still:
Home is the sailor from the sea,
The hunter from the hill.
—A.E. Housman
God rest ye, Mr. Doohan
You can see the interview here, along with a transcript of the interview. Not surprisingly, Takai says he was a great drinking buddy. 
Now he’ll have some time to catch up on his technical journals!
Actually his left hand is deformed. It also seems to be the one that his clip board covered throughout his run on MASH.