Sad day for Star Trek fans

[Leetahkin]

LOS ANGELES — James Doohan (search), the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star (search) Trek" TV series and motion pictures who responded to the command "Beam me up, Scotty," died early Wednesday. He was 85.

Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, he said.

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.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163092,00.html

[CrystalTears]

Aw, how sad. RIP Scotty.

[Back]

He got beamed up to heaven. Bye bye Mr. Scott.

[hectomaner]

Originally posted by Backlash
He got beamed up to heaven. Bye bye Mr. Scott.

damn you for beating me to it

[xtc]

These words will be heard no more. :sniffle:

"I'm giving it all I can Captain"

[Caiylania]

85, hope he had a good ride at life! Always sad when someone goes though.

[Gan]

RIP Scotty.

[Xcalibur]

That star trek was so HORRIBLE, no wonder why when it first get on TV it was a pure fiasco.

[HarmNone]

Sorry to see the old guy go. Ah, well. I guess one can look at it another way...someone finally beamed ol' Scotty up.

RIP, Scotty.

[AnticorRifling]

They were all "Scotty stay alive alittle longer."

And he was all "I' cannae do it doctor I don't have the powerrrrr."