James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures who responded to the apocryphal command "Beam me up, Scotty," died early Wednesday. He was 85.
[from CNN]
Oh man, I had a real thing for Scotty for a spell during my adolescence. Couldn’t stand Kirk, never got the appeal of Spock, Bones was such a crank... but Scotty. He was a like a girl geek’s dream: he was handsome, he had a fabulous accent and chocolatey brown eyes, and he was a geek, a nerd, an engineering dork. He was the real hero of Trek, kept the ship running -- hell, kept it intact when Kirk seemed damned near intent on rattling it to pieces pushing it beyond its operating parameters. But Scotty was a miracle worker -- and even though he constantly insisted that he’d need more time to work those miracles, he delivered. Always.
The classic Scottish toast, from poet Robert Burns, is appropriate here. "Here’s tae us. Who’s like us? Damn few, and they’re all dead."
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