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Beam Me Up Scotty, one last time!
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MageSteff
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Beam Me Up Scotty, one last time!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/20/obit.doohan.ap/index.html

CNN wrote:

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- 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.

Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. (1330 GMT) at his Redmond, Washington, 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....


** edited to fix quote tags -- jamesi
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Man, I just read about this... I'm not the biggest Star Trek fan or anything, but I really liked watching him play Scotty... And to know that he passed from pneumonia AND alzheimers... poor guy.
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I guess, in the end, you really canna change the laws of physics. He was always my personal favorite of the whole bunch. Not a big surprise I guess coming from a computer engineer, but still.
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Biopunk
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Aye, hes one of my favourites to. Soon, he'll be up there amongst the stars alongside Gene Roddenberry, finally embarking on the voyage his character so prophesised he would.

R.I.P James Doohan, here's to ya lad.
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