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Retro Interview: James Doohan
James Doohan, were he still alive, would turn 99 years old today.
By Ian Spelling
James Doohan, were he still alive, would turn 99 years old today. Crazy, right? 99. Sadly, Star Trek's Montgomery "Scotty" Scott passed away on July 20, 2005. To commemorate his birthday, StarTrek.com tracked down a conversation with Doohan, written by Ian Spelling for the New York Times Syndicate back in the summer of 1994. The interview captures the warm, candid, playful Doohan on the set of Star Trek Generations, on the last day that he, Walter Koenig and William Shatner shot the orbital skydiving sequence that ultimately didn't make the film's final cut.
Here's the full piece:
James Doohan's eyes shimmer, and he grins like a Cheshire cat as he surveys the scene.
All around him dozens of men and women are toiling on Generations, the big-screen adventure combining The Next Generation characters with Trek classic's Scotty (Doohan), Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Kirk (William Shatner).
Yes, Montgomery Scott, the beloved "miracle worker," is Trekking again.
On this day of filming, under a searing sun in a gorgeous expanse of mountains about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, only Doohan
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By Tom Hawthorn
The Globe obscure Mail
July 23, 2005
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The Vancouver-Born War Hero Who Became a Scotsman in Space
“Beam me up, Scotty” is perhaps the most famous line in Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry’s television blend of science fiction, adventure, optimism, and inclusivity. What’s less well known is that Montgomery Scott, the cantankerous engineer of the U.S.S. Enterprise at whom the command was directed, was in fact played by a Vancouver-born Second World War veteran and method-trained actor whose real-life adventures were as strange and bold as the show’s.
The third of four children, James Montgomery Doohan was born March 3, 1920. His family had emigrated from Ireland, following Doohan’s aunt to Vancouver. His father, a laboratory worker and temperamental alcoholic, moved the family to Sarnia when Doohan was six. Writing about his tumultuous childhood in his autobiography Beam Me Up, Scotty (co-authored with Peter David), Doohan says, “More than anything, I just wanted to get away.”
His means of escape was enlistment. Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery and was stationed in England, where he completed officers training. On D-Day, Lieutenant Doohan was a gun position officer with the 13th Field Regiment, landing at Juno Beach and helping to secure the town of Graye-sur-Mer.
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