It's worse than that - he's dead, Jim!
Today, Bitty Soda is saddened to report that James Doohan, aka Chief Engineer Scott on Star Trek, is dead at the age of 85.
I don't mind telling you all that Scotty was always my favorite character on the original series, and I don't even mind the implication that goes with that - namely, that I have watched enough Star Trek to formulate opinions on things like favorite characters. I've loved the franchise ever since the release of The Voyage Home, and Scotty was a big part of that. There was just something about his down-to-earth practicality, his loyalty, his warmth, his burr (incidentally, Doohan himself was actually Canadian, not Scottish) - I loved the guy. (I even think he was sort of hot circa 1968. I don't mind admitting this, either.)
And I can't even tell you how thrilled I was when I took my mother to the Empire State Building and we discovered that he was the star of the New York Skyride.
So today I felt the need to pay a small tribute to James Doohan. He will definitely be sorely missed.
Incidentally, I got to do a very brief and very bad Scotty imitation at Movieoke a couple of weeks ago, during a reenactment of Khan's death scene. I consider it one of my personal Movieoke highlights - certainly not up there with the Elle Driver/Budd scene from Kill Bill, Vol. 2, but pretty far up there nonetheless.
I don't mind telling you all that Scotty was always my favorite character on the original series, and I don't even mind the implication that goes with that - namely, that I have watched enough Star Trek to formulate opinions on things like favorite characters. I've loved the franchise ever since the release of The Voyage Home, and Scotty was a big part of that. There was just something about his down-to-earth practicality, his loyalty, his warmth, his burr (incidentally, Doohan himself was actually Canadian, not Scottish) - I loved the guy. (I even think he was sort of hot circa 1968. I don't mind admitting this, either.)
And I can't even tell you how thrilled I was when I took my mother to the Empire State Building and we discovered that he was the star of the New York Skyride.
So today I felt the need to pay a small tribute to James Doohan. He will definitely be sorely missed.
Incidentally, I got to do a very brief and very bad Scotty imitation at Movieoke a couple of weeks ago, during a reenactment of Khan's death scene. I consider it one of my personal Movieoke highlights - certainly not up there with the Elle Driver/Budd scene from Kill Bill, Vol. 2, but pretty far up there nonetheless.
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STAR TREKKIN' across the universe. (Only going forward 'cause we can't find reverse!)
High-five for inadvertently reminding me of a classic song from my youth.
You can hear the full song here.
Oh, we come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill! We come in peace, shoot to kill, Scotty, beam me up!
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