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Once, at a convention of astronomers, James Doohan was asked what it felt like "to be beamed." The actor who'd heard the order, "Beam me up, Scotty," countless times on the Star Trek set reported that it was "very pleasurable."

"You end up beaming all over the place," Doohan said, per StarTrek.com.

Doohan, who sweated it out in the engine room of the U.S.S. Enterprise as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original Trek TV series and, indeed, found himself beamed "all over the place," via reruns, videos and DVDs, died Wednesday at his home in Washington state. He was 85, and had been most recently battling pneumonia.

In addition to the trailblazing 1966-69 series, the Canadian-born Doohan affected his Scotty brogue for the first seven Trek feature films, and the 1973 animated series. And when he wasn't burring, he was grunting what would become the basis for the Klingon language that was developed for the big-screen adventures.

It was a year ago last July that Doohan's family disclosed the Trek star had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. That, combined with Parkinson's and diabetes, led Doohan to sign off from the lucrative convention and college circuit, which he had worked like few other Enterprise alums. But first there was to be one more con. Last August, Doohan's longtime costars and fans converged in Hollywood for three days of roasting, toasting and starring the actor on the Walk of Fame.

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How truly and genuinely sad this is. James Doohan, as character Montgomery Scott, will forever be remembered for one of the most classic and endearing of Star Trek scenes, when he trying to operate the 20th Century computer in Star Trek - the Voyage Home and the scene starts with his approaching the computer and giving the voice command "COMPUTER!" and ends with his typing on the computer's keyboard and the ending comment "How quaint".

Secondly, if anyone has seen TrekkiesII, James recounts his encounters with a convention goer. He says this starts with a letter he receives from a young lady who is suicidal and has to decided to write to him. James manages to find the lady's phone number, and he talks to her telling her this weekend he's going to a covention and that he expected to see her there and for them to talk together and meet. Well, at that convention he meets the lady and he leaves her by telling her in two weeks he's going to another convention and he expects to see her there, again. James then continues the story by saying this continued on for over a year, with the lady going to the conventions James attended and him talking to her. After that she he stopped seeing her and did not see her for several years. Until about four years later when he saw the lady again at a convention, he learned she had returned to university and had gotten a degree in engineering, and much happier about her life.

However, Mr. Doohan has been very sick in the last few years so this news is not unexpected. taraswizard
Allan Rosewarne N9SQT/WDX6HQV
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Danlo, thanks for starting this threat about an actor obviously loved and respected by his colleagues and who created a character beloved by millions of fans. taraswizard
Allan Rosewarne N9SQT/WDX6HQV
Chicago area
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How can you be a SciFi fan and not love Mr. Scott??? That's why The Trouble With Tribbles is one of my all time fav ST episodes. Finally someone had the balls to kick some Klingon ass! (I got your Prime Directive right here! ) Call my ship a bucket of bolts, will ya?? !!!!!!!!!! *****
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Mr. Scott was always my favorite character on Classic Trek. Sad news...sad news...

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