Later today, the ashes of James Doohan, who played Lt. Commander Scott on Star Trek, will be launched into orbit:
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — If all goes as planned Saturday, the cremated remains of the actor who portrayed “Scotty” aboard Star Trek’s starship Enterprise will sail into suborbital space aboard a rocket launched from the southern New Mexico desert.
Actor James Doohan’s remains, along with those of Apollo 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper and about 200 others, are aboard the second private rocket scheduled to be launched at Spaceport America. The commercial spaceport is being developed in Upham, New Mexico.
A fitting tribute I would think.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:39 am
I always liked James Doohan. A very humble man, and very accepting of the typecasting that he dealt with because he was on Star Trek. He loved his fans and remembered that they were the reason he was on TV.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
CR,
I agree. I never met him of course, but he didn’t strike me as having the same kind of arrogance that Shatner has always seemed to have.
One of my favorite episodes of The Next Generation is Relics where Scotty is rescued from a transporter loop. I’ve always liked the scene where he goes to the holodeck and asks to see the bridge of the Enterprise “no bloody A, B, C, or D”