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07-20-2005, 01:09 PM
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‘Scotty’ from Star Trek dies at age 85
"LOS ANGELES - James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original “Star 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. "
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07-20-2005, 01:34 PM
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RIP "Scotty"
wasn't that big into Star Trek, but i still know the legacy that show has created/left. He was a huge part of that and i am sure he will be missed by fans all over the world.
:waits for pictures of Trekkies flooding to memorials:
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07-20-2005, 01:51 PM
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NOOOOOOOO!!!
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Manic-Depressive and my head hurts.
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07-20-2005, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Minacious
NOOOOOOOO!!!
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Wrong sci-fi franchise. 
It's more like...
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!
You could call me a trekkie seeming I've watched 99% of all star trek episodes out there...
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07-20-2005, 02:07 PM
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[jim kirk]
This is... most saddening... news... indeed.
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07-20-2005, 02:21 PM
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Star Trek is fucking ghey.
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07-20-2005, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by evoWALO
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Originally Posted by Minacious
NOOOOOOOO!!!
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Wrong sci-fi franchise.
It's more like...
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!! |
That was a good one. I wasn't even thinking about Vader when I typed that.
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Originally Posted by SFDMALEX
Star Trek is fucking ghey.
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That's cool, just don't let me catch you saying those that watch it are gay. 
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07-20-2005, 03:43 PM
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Beam me up...... GOD!
RIP
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07-20-2005, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Minacious
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Originally Posted by evoWALO
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Originally Posted by Minacious
NOOOOOOOO!!!
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Wrong sci-fi franchise.
It's more like...
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!! |
That was a good one. I wasn't even thinking about Vader when I typed that.
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Originally Posted by SFDMALEX
Star Trek is fucking ghey.
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That's cool, just don't let me catch you saying those that watch it are gay. |
Vader?! Did you even watch Star Trek 2?? :prr:
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07-20-2005, 06:44 PM
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It’s funny because the quote "beam me up Scotty" has become a cliché but it was actually never said in any Star Trek. Kind of like "play it again Sam" was never actually said in the movie Casablanca.
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07-20-2005, 07:55 PM
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He'll be missed
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07-20-2005, 09:19 PM
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Scottie finally got beamed up too. cant believe he lived so close to me and i didnt know
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07-20-2005, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by SilviaEvo
Scottie finally got beamed up too. cant believe he lived so close to me and i didnt know
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My parents didn't even know he lived up there.
John Ratzenberger (Cliff [Cheers]; the Piggy Bank [Toy Story]) and Richard Karn (Al from Home Improvement) Live up there too. John is up on Mercer Island but i'm not sure where Karn is.
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07-20-2005, 09:38 PM
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In a 1998 interview, Doohan was asked if he ever got tired of hearing the line "Beam me up, Scotty."
"I'm not tired of it at all," he replied. "Good gracious, it's been said to me for just about 31 years. It's been said to me at 70 miles an hour across four lanes on the freeway. I hear it from just about everybody. It's been fun."
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07-20-2005, 11:00 PM
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blinkmeat... WTF is that avitar??? put a girl doing that pose, and its fine... but... [cringe] eeeeehhya[/cringe]
rip scotty
remember the good' ol' days of treck??
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