Oh man. No.

Give him his pic

http://www.smithway.org/fanpix/vip/vip-01.jpg

Sired a child at age 80??? Jeebus!

Never really saw any of his work, but sounds like he was a hell of a guy. RIP

RIP, Jimmy. You were really hot in your day. I shall wear my black G-string in remembrance: black for your death, and a g-string because the design took some engineering skills.

And Ace, yeah, I knew he was missing a finger and it was only visible in two Star Trek episodes. (You would kind of expect me to know that, wouldn't you?) When I was 17 I worked at a convention he was the guest at, but I NEVER saw him because he was constantly swarmed by fans. And I wasn't really that interested to see him anyway as I've never been a Trekkie.

Later,
bbeck

I never knew he took six machinegun rounds on Juno Beach. Now I know why I always had confidence when he'd take the con.

My favorite Scotty episode was "Enterprise Incident." In addition to his staring down three battlecruisers without blinking, he had that wonderful "Captain...? Captain Kirk." moment. Not only did his face show pleasure at discovering Kirk was alive, but you could see the glee as it dawned on him that the whole thing was a Federation secret mission.

Kirk: "Do we still have those Romulan officers in the brig?"
Scotty: "Aye."
Kirk: "I'll need a Romulan uniform."
Scotty: "It'll be a pleasure."

Thirty-five years of pleasure and counting.
James Doohan, RIP.

A smart conservative with a black g-string. To really get the full affect, you'll have to wear it upside down on your head, so's it looks more like the Star Trek symbol on the uniforms.

Yup, Doohan hid the missing finger quite well.

RIP, Scotty.

Compos, I let my husband do that. :)

I just called him and told him the news at work. I'm sure he's spreading the word there as he works with a couple of Trekkies.

Later,
bbeck

Good thing he was a smoker, huh?

I'll miss him...

Didn't he also invent Vulcan and Klingon languages? Or is that urban legend?

OOOPS! No, he did not. This is what happens when you don't do due diligence. Please ignore comment above.
(slinks off, embarassed)

RIP Scotty.

I didn't even know he was wounded at Normandy. And apparently smoking saved his life. At least from another bullet in the chest.

Yes, according to his autobiography, James Doohan has four fingers on his right hand, having lost a finger to a German bullet. When he showed up at the aid station asking for help with his hand, the doctor said, "Sure. You want some help with that leg, too?"
Had four bullets in the flesh and hadn't noticed, the hand had hurt so much.

In the famous scene where he points to the self-destruct controls of the USS Constellation, saying to Kirk that thirty seconds after he presses that button, POOF! ... he had to use a stuntman's hand as a double.

The close-ups of Scotty moving levers on the Transporter were also done with hand-doubles.

He did most of the voices for the ST animated series.

Rumor has it that Jimmy Doohan was so tough he actually once blocked Bob Dole's Cock. A stalemate of titans, indeed.

I still tear up (SHUT IT!) at that scene in STII where Scotty is carrying his almost-dead nephew onto the bridge, cut to sickbay, then the boy asks, "Is the word given?"

I always wondered about that scene.

Your dying nephew needs a doctor, where do you take him?

A) Sickbay
B) "Shore Leave" planet (They fixed up McCoy and threw in some Playboy Bunnies to boot)
C) Talos IV (Pike outted himself and needs a new "friend")
D) To the freakin' BRIDGE?

Sorry, Scotty, your nephew died because you picked "D" and didn't get him to sickbay in time.

He seemed like a nice man. I saw him at a convention once. He was about 20 feet away. Jovial, talking to everyone. Always a Big smile.

So long, Scotty. You do have the power.

Doohan appears in the documentary "Trekkies", and comes across as a sane and a genuinely nice man. He tells how he used the Scotty persona to help a person who was depressed and contemplating suicide. I had no idea he was a D-Day vet; but it doesn't shock me. The Maker has beamed "Scotty" up: Requiscat in pacem.

A typical Canadian that was. We'll get back there. RIP.

pacE.

Pacem is motion towards.