Title: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Buddy on 20 July, 2005, 11:40:06 PM
Post by: Buddy on 20 July, 2005, 11:40:06 PM
....I guess the engins really couldne take anymore.
A father at 80 dead at 85.
His health was going downhill for some time, his son told how he could remember vividly events that took place decades ago but couldn't remember the previous day.
Beamed up.
A father at 80 dead at 85.
His health was going downhill for some time, his son told how he could remember vividly events that took place decades ago but couldn't remember the previous day.
Beamed up.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Buddy on 20 July, 2005, 11:48:08 PM
Post by: Buddy on 20 July, 2005, 11:48:08 PM
Link
Link: link
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Art on 20 July, 2005, 11:51:00 PM
Post by: Art on 20 July, 2005, 11:51:00 PM
Oops.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Carlsborg Expert on 21 July, 2005, 12:30:14 AM
Post by: Carlsborg Expert on 21 July, 2005, 12:30:14 AM
Yep.I just read this.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Tweak72 on 21 July, 2005, 01:06:51 AM
Post by: Tweak72 on 21 July, 2005, 01:06:51 AM
Damn very sad
But if his son is only five how can he remember a decade ago? See THAT?S what happens when you start messing about with M/aM annihilation engines with a dylithium chamber matrix and breaking the time barrier
or something
But if his son is only five how can he remember a decade ago? See THAT?S what happens when you start messing about with M/aM annihilation engines with a dylithium chamber matrix and breaking the time barrier
or something
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Bico on 21 July, 2005, 01:08:27 AM
Post by: Bico on 21 July, 2005, 01:08:27 AM
Aww.
I loved the old Star Trek. It was great fun, not this deadly earnest bullshit they have now, preaching to us that we should all love the fuzzy-wuzzies of planet Galgar.
Screw the fuzzies - I want that chap in the wig to slap some green-skinned douchebag and then get laid. Afterwards, if he feels like it, he can tell us all to get along or he'll come back with his mates and blow the crap out of our backwater planet and put a space McDonalds on the ruins.
Er - yeah, Jimmy Doohan - great as Scotty. Don't remember him in much else, unfortunately.
I loved the old Star Trek. It was great fun, not this deadly earnest bullshit they have now, preaching to us that we should all love the fuzzy-wuzzies of planet Galgar.
Screw the fuzzies - I want that chap in the wig to slap some green-skinned douchebag and then get laid. Afterwards, if he feels like it, he can tell us all to get along or he'll come back with his mates and blow the crap out of our backwater planet and put a space McDonalds on the ruins.
Er - yeah, Jimmy Doohan - great as Scotty. Don't remember him in much else, unfortunately.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Lord Running Clam on 21 July, 2005, 01:23:47 AM
Post by: Lord Running Clam on 21 July, 2005, 01:23:47 AM
Its a real shame.He will be sadly missed.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Scottiepunk on 21 July, 2005, 01:38:51 AM
Post by: Scottiepunk on 21 July, 2005, 01:38:51 AM
Bloody shame.
Got to admit though, the title of this thread did give me a bit of a fright! I had to stand up and take my pulse, just to make sure!!
Got to admit though, the title of this thread did give me a bit of a fright! I had to stand up and take my pulse, just to make sure!!
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Art on 21 July, 2005, 01:44:45 AM
Post by: Art on 21 July, 2005, 01:44:45 AM
Gone to the great Comics/SF Expo in the sky...
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 21 July, 2005, 07:54:45 AM
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 21 July, 2005, 07:54:45 AM
Let's just get the headlines out the way shall we?:
Scottie beamed up.
His life support machine couldn'tne take it.
He couldn'tne change the laws of mortality.
Scottie boldly goes.
Etc etc...
ADE
Scottie beamed up.
His life support machine couldn'tne take it.
He couldn'tne change the laws of mortality.
Scottie boldly goes.
Etc etc...
ADE
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 21 July, 2005, 04:15:11 PM
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 21 July, 2005, 04:15:11 PM
He's having his ashes shot out into space like Roddenberry, cool
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: McNulty on 22 July, 2005, 01:06:43 AM
Post by: McNulty on 22 July, 2005, 01:06:43 AM
From another site:
You may have never noticed, watching the Original Series and the movies, that Mr. Scott has a physical handicap ? he's missing the middle finger of his right hand. That's because the actor kept it very well hidden. (Watch the shows again carefully ? Scotty is almost always clenching his right hand, or hiding it behind a console ? but if you know to look, the missing digit is occasionally apparent.) That injury occurred on D-Day. Lt. Doohan successfully led his Canadian troop onto the beach and pushed inland to establish the best possible gun position (along the way Doohan shot two German snipers, never knowing whether he killed them). A field was secured and command posts were established, but not all Germans between the beach and their position had been captured. That night about 11:30, Doohan and another officer were walking between command posts when machine gun fire broke out. Doohan was hit; he fell into a shell hole, looked at his hand and saw blood. Three bullets struck the one finger. Never losing consciousness, he actually walked to the regimental aid post, unaware he also took four bullets in the leg.
There was an eighth bullet, and it was nothing less than a miracle that he's still with us today. It hit his chest, four inches from his heart. But it ricocheted off the sterling silver cigarette case in his pocket, the one his brother had given him for being best man at his wedding. It's like a trite plot twist, he acknowledges ? his brother saved his life from thousands of miles away. Jimmy pushed the dent out of the cigarette case and continued using it until he quit smoking years later. He stayed in the military, learned to fly and came to be known as the ''craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Forces.''
I had never noticed this.
You may have never noticed, watching the Original Series and the movies, that Mr. Scott has a physical handicap ? he's missing the middle finger of his right hand. That's because the actor kept it very well hidden. (Watch the shows again carefully ? Scotty is almost always clenching his right hand, or hiding it behind a console ? but if you know to look, the missing digit is occasionally apparent.) That injury occurred on D-Day. Lt. Doohan successfully led his Canadian troop onto the beach and pushed inland to establish the best possible gun position (along the way Doohan shot two German snipers, never knowing whether he killed them). A field was secured and command posts were established, but not all Germans between the beach and their position had been captured. That night about 11:30, Doohan and another officer were walking between command posts when machine gun fire broke out. Doohan was hit; he fell into a shell hole, looked at his hand and saw blood. Three bullets struck the one finger. Never losing consciousness, he actually walked to the regimental aid post, unaware he also took four bullets in the leg.
There was an eighth bullet, and it was nothing less than a miracle that he's still with us today. It hit his chest, four inches from his heart. But it ricocheted off the sterling silver cigarette case in his pocket, the one his brother had given him for being best man at his wedding. It's like a trite plot twist, he acknowledges ? his brother saved his life from thousands of miles away. Jimmy pushed the dent out of the cigarette case and continued using it until he quit smoking years later. He stayed in the military, learned to fly and came to be known as the ''craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Forces.''
I had never noticed this.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Art on 22 July, 2005, 01:14:57 AM
Post by: Art on 22 July, 2005, 01:14:57 AM
From PopBitch:
>> William Shatner's no oil painting...
>> William Shatner's no oil painting...
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Art on 22 July, 2005, 01:16:44 AM
Post by: Art on 22 July, 2005, 01:16:44 AM
From popbitch without the &rt; sign...
William Shatner's no oil painting...
... Oh yes he is!
Henry Rollins, on his recent Australian spoken
word tour, claims that William Shatner's
garage is full of portraits of the former
Starship captain. There are paintings of
Shatner now, as TJ Hooker, as Captain Kirk
- at all ages. Apparently he is constantly
being given paintings by Trekkies at convention
but doesn't have the heart to throw them out.
Also apparently Doohan hated Shatner, though I've not seen anythign to back this up.
William Shatner's no oil painting...
... Oh yes he is!
Henry Rollins, on his recent Australian spoken
word tour, claims that William Shatner's
garage is full of portraits of the former
Starship captain. There are paintings of
Shatner now, as TJ Hooker, as Captain Kirk
- at all ages. Apparently he is constantly
being given paintings by Trekkies at convention
but doesn't have the heart to throw them out.
Also apparently Doohan hated Shatner, though I've not seen anythign to back this up.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Lord Running Clam on 22 July, 2005, 01:22:24 AM
Post by: Lord Running Clam on 22 July, 2005, 01:22:24 AM
Wasn't everybody supposed to have hated Shater apart form Nemoy.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 22 July, 2005, 04:37:17 AM
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 22 July, 2005, 04:37:17 AM
Re the missing finger... whenever he operated the transporter they used 'stunt' hands for the close up.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: paulvonscott on 22 July, 2005, 07:35:20 PM
Post by: paulvonscott on 22 July, 2005, 07:35:20 PM
A rubber prosethetic finger would have been funnier...
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Art on 22 July, 2005, 10:29:14 PM
Post by: Art on 22 July, 2005, 10:29:14 PM
Spooky... like Thunderbirds!
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: paulvonscott on 22 July, 2005, 10:32:42 PM
Post by: paulvonscott on 22 July, 2005, 10:32:42 PM
Another Trek fact I found out recently, Michael Myers in the Halloween movie is wearing a William Shatner mask. I kid ye not.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Bico on 22 July, 2005, 10:34:55 PM
Post by: Bico on 22 July, 2005, 10:34:55 PM
I wouldn't bother trying to see it in the show - it's only apparant he's missing a finger in two of the shows from the entire run of the series.
I had a horrible thought, though - if you could see it in the Next Generation episode he appeared in, but it was supposed to be that Scotty wasn't missing a digit in the old series (hence the stunt hands), does that mean we're due a 400-page novel written by Peter David explaining how Scotty lost his finger in the space between?
We can but hope.
I had a horrible thought, though - if you could see it in the Next Generation episode he appeared in, but it was supposed to be that Scotty wasn't missing a digit in the old series (hence the stunt hands), does that mean we're due a 400-page novel written by Peter David explaining how Scotty lost his finger in the space between?
We can but hope.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Art on 22 July, 2005, 10:36:35 PM
Post by: Art on 22 July, 2005, 10:36:35 PM
It got caught in the lid of the space-photocopier they used to get him into Next Gen.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Buddy on 23 July, 2005, 07:09:04 AM
Post by: Buddy on 23 July, 2005, 07:09:04 AM
Speaking as a mad, crazy Halloween fan, I knew that.
Title: Re: Scottie dead.....
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 23 July, 2005, 07:46:35 AM
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 23 July, 2005, 07:46:35 AM
How they used to rib him on set.
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