Trekkies in mourning;'SCOTTY' is dead:

Trekkies are mourning the loss of actor James Doohan who played 'Scotty' in 'Star Trek' . He died on Wednesday 20th July 2005.He was 85 years old.
Born in Canada,James Doohan was a master of accents & it was with Gene Roddenberry that he settled for a 'Scottish accent' hence: U.S.S. Enterprise First Engineer 'Montgomery Scott' was created.
'Star Trek' premiered in the U.S.A. on t.v. in September 1966.Britain didn't get the series until July 1969 (a year after the show had been cancelled)when it was aired by BBC-1 in the vacated 'Dr.Who' Saturday tea-time slot.
It soon aquired a cult-following.I can vaguely remember the BBC 'build-up' to this "new American sci-fi series" in 1969 because at the time I was an avid 'Dr.Who' watcher.




Are there any 'Trekkies' out there in Hipland who would like to join me in a final farewell to 'Scotty'?:



Eulogy: .......please stand....& remove baseball caps..........ready?......for the very last time;please repeat after me......:
....one.......two.....three......






"Beam me up, Scotty!" .

 

I have watched it once or twice when I was little only because my father would watch it sometimes.... but I really didn't care for it.

But I'll say farewell anyway

In the pic above which one is Scotty???

 

Thanks - 'Scotty' is the Man on the far left of the picture; in the red uniform.

You never know - If you get to see an episode: - you might like it now you are older?.

 

your probably right!

its amazes me how many things I like now that I never used to!

My husbands a hugh fan of Stargate and Stargate atlantis, and I couldn't stand either of them for such a long time but I actually enjoy watching Stargate sometimes, and I don't like to miss an episode of Atlantis

 

I have to admit that I have never seen 'Stargate' or 'Stargate Atlantis'.

I have the first 12 episodes of the original 'Star Trek' on Video-Tape.

There is a DVD Box-Set available but you need to take out a second mortgage in order to afford it!.

- Maybe you could buy your husband 'Star Trek' on videotape or DVD when secretly you are buying it to watch yourself!.

"To Boldly go.....into the retail store......" -Captain Kirk.

 

This guy was really idolized...this is the 5th or so thread I've seen about his death. I just never realized how popular Star Trek was,with every type of people,until this guy died.
I've seen some of the movies,mostly when I was younger. The one I particularly remember was when they went back to the 80's...that one was really good.

 

That was: 'Star Trek:The Voyage Home'.That was one of the best of the Film series.

 

I used to watch Star Trek all the time as a child. You will be greatly missed James (Scotty). Now your real journey begins.

 

Scotty was pretty good. ABC cancelled Star Trek after only three seasons, yet it became one of the greatest cult following TV shows. It's strange how shows become popular after they are long gone.

Someone on a TV comedy show did a sketch with Scotty. He kept asking him question after question about the Enterprise. Finally, Scotty blew up and told him to quit asking dumb questions.

There's a tape on Ebay that you can find that shows all the out-takes from the original Star Trek, like the floating robot smashing into the automatic door (Shhhh) that they forgot to open; the crew shoveling coal into the furnace in the engineering room (like a choo choo train); and the Enterprise drifting off into space sounding like an old jalopy and finally exploding in a huge fireball.

Oh yeah, and the one where the gooey pancake-like blob accidentally hit Spock on the ass instead of the back.

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Saturday Night Live did two great sketches of Star Trek in the late 80s, one where they turned the Enterprise into a restaurant and another where Shatner was at a Trekkie convention with a bunch of hapless half-wit teen boys and ended up insulting them all (Get a life people! It's just a TV show!)

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I just saw the skit with William Shatner not long ago...it is so funny and I couldn't help but wonder if it did offend the real Trekkies that may have watched the skit.

 

Yeah, before the sketch started Shatner said, "I hope this doesn't offend anyone. Remember, it's just comedy." I thought that sketch was hilarious. "On sale now in the lobby, copies of DeForrest Kelly's latest album, 'He's Dead, Jim'

The trekkie thing has died out. It was at its peak in the 80s. I think mainly because baby boomers had reached adulthood and were harking back on their childhood. The Shatner sketch was around 1986, in the peak of it.

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William Shatner was in a British radio commercial recently that went: " Hi,I'm William Shatner; living in the home of Ed & Sue"............It was quite funny & quaint.I can't even remember what he was advertising.


Yes- the 'Trekkie convention' thing may have died down a little but the show has been 'immortalized' & it holds a special & unique place in television history.

Was it first networked on 'ABC' television? in the U.S.;I wasn't sure.

In Britain , we got it first ,in July 1969 on BBC1:




"This is..................BBC1...............now a new series:................STAR TREK."

 

the dude who played scotty was shot six times during the D-Day battles in WW2.....and still went on to have a big career and live to a haughty old age after his military career....

Respects.

 

Wow! - as many as six times!!!.
I guess some people are built to last all the rigours of life.

 

yup, a ladyfriend of mine described him as "a huge piece of prime canadian stock" on a different forum.......think she summed him up perfectly Some dude.

 

...........probably all the Lumberjacking they do.......

 

enterprise killed it..... I was a trekkie, and enterprise killed it, I was made a trekkie by tng.....

 

I have for a long time thought that the original Star Trek was really more of a study of the human mind only using science fiction as a medium. The double pilot episode called The Menagerie that had Jeffrey Hunter in Captain role ( he died shortly afterwards, so I guess that is why they brought in William Shatner) essentially dealt with the perception and reality.
Another episode dealt with revulsion.You know it when you encounter it,but it is difficult to define.There was another episode that dealt with you wildest fantasies and deepest fears.Addiction and how the body can end up controlling the mind has also been dealt with.

 

And let's not forget the episode about the hippies! Remember Dr. Sevrin, the crazy leader, and his band of hippie followers who took over the enterprise but were disappointed to find that there was no Eden.

The original Star Trek had social commentaries embedded within it. That's what made it interesting.

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