Scotty beamed up..Nearly

[Mr. MacDougall]

James Doohan was a fine man. Though he had to have gotten tired on occasion of being identified as Montgomery Scott (Nemoy, after all, titled the first volume of his autobiography I am not Spock; Shatner had a well-publicized melt-down at fans) I have never heard that he had anything other than a kind word and a smile for a fan.

Did you know he'd fought in WWII, and lost one of his fingers to a machine gun round?

A fine man, a fine actor, and he looked great in a kilt!

ETA: According to the BBC article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6601221.stm), it was a sub-orbital flight, and his ashes returned to Earth, and were returned to his widow. Alas. It's more romantic to think of his remains circling the world eternally.

[kallen]

If you go to www.startrek.com and look in their comic strip called "The Trek Life" there is a very very very cool tribute to Doohan.