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I was never a Star Trek fan. That'd be other peoples' turf. But I'd watch it, once in a while after school.
Kirk never really clicked with me; he was always right, always won, always got the girl, always came up with the right answer. Spock? Illogically logical - couldn't dig it. McCoy rubbed me the wrong way.
No, my favorite Strek character was always Scotty, the irascible ChEng on the Enterprise. "My ideer of deploomessay's a looded fezzerrrr" was, in various permutations, my personal value statement through much of my teens and twenties.
James Doohan, the veteran character actor who spent nearly the past forty years playing the part, died this morning at age 85:
Doohan had said farewell to public life in August 2004, a few months after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
The Canadian-born Doohan was enjoying a busy career as a character actor when he auditioned for a role as an engineer in a new space adventure on NBC in 1966. A master of dialects from his early years in radio, he tried seven different accents.
"The producers asked me which one I preferred," Doohan recalled 30 years later. "I believed the Scot voice was the most commanding. So I told them, 'If this character is going to be an engineer, you'd better make him a Scotsman.'"
Cue the pipes.
(Via King)
Thorley Winston left a comment about Doohan's WWII experience. I'd never heard about this, so I checked further:
At 19, James escaped the turmoil at home by joining the Canadian army, becoming a lieutenant in artillery. He was among the Canadian forces that landed on Juno Beach on D-Day. "The sea was rough,'' he recalled. "We were more afraid of drowning than the Germans.''
The Canadians crossed a minefield laid for tanks; the soldiers weren't heavy enough to detonate the bombs. At 11:30 that night, he was machine-gunned, taking six hits: one that took off his middle right finger (he managed to hide the missing finger on screen), four in his leg and one in the chest. Fortunately the chest bullet was stopped by his silver cigarette case.
And then, there's his background as an actor:
After the war Doohan on a whim enrolled in a drama class in Toronto. He showed promise and won a two-year scholarship to New York's famed Neighborhood Playhouse, where fellow students included Leslie Nielsen, Tony Randall and Richard Boone.
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James Doohan - filmography
Posted by: RBMN at July 20, 2005 01:22 PMhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001150/
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Skinwalker: Curse of the Shaman (2005) (V) .... Judge Peterson
The Duke (1999) .... Clive Chives
Through Dead Eyes (1999)
Bug Buster (1998) .... Sheriff Carlson
Star Trek: Generations (1997) (VG) (voice) .... Capt. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
"Homeboys in Outer Space" (1996) TV Series .... Pippen
Storybook (1995) .... Uncle Monty
Star Trek: Generations (1994) .... Capt. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
New York Skyride (1994)
Star Trek: Judgment Rites (1994) (VG) (voice) .... Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scotty
"The Bold and the Beautiful" (1987) TV Series .... Damon Warwick (1993, 1998)
Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) .... Scotty
Amore! (1993) .... Dr. Landon
Double Trouble (1992/I) .... O'Brien
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Enhanced (1992) (VG) (voice) .... Montgomery Scott
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) .... Capt. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
Knight Rider 2000 (1991) (TV) .... James 'Scotty' Doohan
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) .... Capt. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) .... Capt. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) .... Cmdr./Capt. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1983) (VG) (voice) .... Scotty
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) .... Cmdr. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
"Jason of Star Command" (1979) TV Series .... Commander Canarvin (1979-1980)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) .... Cmdr. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
"Tarzan and the Super 7" (1978) TV Series .... Commander Canarvin
Danny (1977)
"Star Trek" (1973) TV Series (voice) .... Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott/Lt. Arex/Additional voices
Man in the Wilderness (1971) .... Benoit
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) .... Follo
Jigsaw (1968) .... Building Superintendent
One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966) .... Philip Bainbridge
Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966) (TV) .... Lt. Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
"Star Trek" (1966) TV Series .... Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
Scalplock (1966) (TV) .... Scrimp
Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965) .... Les
The Satan Bug (1965) (uncredited) .... Bit
36 Hours (1965) (uncredited) .... Bishop
The Wheeler Dealers (1963) (uncredited) .... Defense Attorney
The Labyrinth (1963/I) (TV)
The Business of Farming (1961)
Test Pilot (1957/I)
Flight Into Danger (1956) (TV)
The Cage (1956)
Strike in Town: Revised (1956)
Strike in Town (1955)
"Space Command" (1953) TV Series .... Phil Mitchell
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Two other things to mention. Doohan was the creator of the original Klingon language in Star Trek the Motion Picture. The other is that he was a WWII veteran who served with the Canadian Royal Artillery and lost his right middle finger on D-Day. He was one of many WWII veterans who publicly thanked Steven Spielberg for not downplaying the realism of the invasion of Normandy.
Posted by: Thorley Winston at July 20, 2005 01:56 PM"Two other things to mention. Doohan was the creator of the original Klingon language in Star Trek the Motion Picture."
Without which geeks and nerds worldwide would have no common rite of passage whatsoever.
" The other is that he was a WWII veteran who served with the Canadian Royal Artillery and lost his right middle finger on D-Day."
Another "last great act of defiance" gone horribly awry.
All in good fun, for a guy who could reportedly give and take a joke. RIP, Mr. Doohan.
Posted by: Josh at July 20, 2005 02:55 PMOne of the great scenes in movie history:
Cap'n Kirk asks Scotty why all his work-time estimates always seem to be increased by a factor of two. His response:
"How else would I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?"
Words to live by to success in Corporate America.
Posted by: Dave at July 20, 2005 03:56 PMDave, I think he increased it by a factor of four.
They had a DS9 episode where Miles O'Brien clued Worf in on the trick when some engineers tried to claim it would take eight hours to do a two hour job. Apparently it only took them a century to catch on to that trick - just like Corporate America ;)
Posted by: Thorley Winston at July 20, 2005 04:11 PMI guess my point is....miracle workers are NEVER "downsized".
Posted by: Dave at July 20, 2005 04:28 PMOffsubject:
I was over on the Daily (Commie) KOS site and noticed one of his advertisements was for a nearly naked beach volleyball woman. A fetching lass at that.
Aren't we ALWAYS being lectured by these male-breasted liberal pussies that we are not supposed to treat women as sex objects?
If you're a liberal, money trumps ethics....I guess.
Posted by: Dave at July 20, 2005 04:34 PMAround 1990, I was curious about Star Trek conventions and attended one with my roommates. Jimmy Doohan was there and let us sit on his lap when we asked to have our picture taken with him. He was a very gracious fatherly figure, "down to earth," with a great sense of humor.
My favorite Scotty scene was Star Trek IV, when they travel back to 20th century America to bring back a pair of whales. Scotty sits down to a Mac computer, and gives it an order. When it doesn't respond, a tech tells him that he has to use the mouse. Scotty replies, "How quaint." He picks up and puts the mouse to his mouth and purrs, "Hello, Computer!"
RIP, Jimmy. You were a hero on and off screen.
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