Bad news for Star Trek fans, James Doohan, probably best known as Scotty from Star Trek has died at the age of 85.
He had been suffering from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.
http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4701167.stm
Dammit, he's dead Jim!
/can't wait to see the Fark thread
Ah shame - Scottie was a good character, even if he did have one of the worst Scottish accents ever seen on screen.
The only worse Scottish accent is Sean Connery trying to be anything other than Scottish - "The Hunt For Red October", for example.
You should have heard Darryl Hammond on SNL doing his Sean Connery accent........... eeeeewwww shock
Tis a shame.
ye canna change the laws of Physics capin
Sean connery doesn't do accents though.If he's a Russian sub captain or a Spaniard as in Highlander its still the same voice
His engines just could 'nay take anymore.
Ah shame - Scottie was a good character, even if he did have one of the worst Scottish accents ever seen on screen.
The only worse Scottish accent is Sean Connery trying to be anything other than Scottish - "The Hunt For Red October", for example.
What do you expect, he was a Canadian.
Thats life jim but not as we know it.
Ah shame - Scottie was a good character, even if he did have one of the worst Scottish accents ever seen on screen.
What do you expect, he was a Canadian.
I know but he was supposed to be playing someone from Aberdeen. They could have got someone from Aberdeen, Washington and had the same quality.
That said, I did like James Doohan and the accent didn't matter after the first few episodes anyway.
Looks like James Doohan's ashes is going to be sent into space........
His remains are boldly going where Gene Roddenberry and Timothy Leary have gone before wink