Wednesday, July 20, 2005

"Beam me up, Scotty!"


James Doohan, best-known as Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, died early this morning at home in Redmond, Washington.

Though I'm accused of being a Trekkie (read: Geek) by many, I can honestly say I've never attended a single Star Trek convention in my life. And I never will.

Even so, I can say that I've seen every episode of the original series at least a dozen times each. While I'll leave the impassioned proclamations of the greatness of Chief Scott to others, I will say that he created one of the more memorable characters in that original series and that without him it would not have been the same show.

2 comments:

Simian Logician said...

Geek.

The best one ever, however, was this two-parter:

http://www.ericweisstein.com/fun/startrek/TheMenageriePartOne.html

Pike was masterful.

Trouble with Tribbles was also good.

Paul Hogue said...

Useless Trivia time:

Growing up I use to always hear about how one of my mother's friends (old school chum; you know,the "We've been friends since kindergarten," sort of thing) was married to the guy who got the screenwriting credit for "Tribbles," David Gerrold if I remember it right.

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