One to beam up …
torsdag 21. juli 2005
LOS ANGELES — James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series and motion pictures who responded to the command “Beam me up, Scotty,” died early Wednesday. He was 85.
Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., 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.
Verden har mistet en stor mann. Jim Doohan var ikke bare en dyktig skuespiller som spilte den elskelige figuren Scotty i «Star Trek»; han var en engasjert mann som brydde seg. Alle som har møtt ham har sagt han var en av de snilleste og hyggeligste menn de har hatt gleden av å møte.
Doohan ønsket at asken hans skal skytes opp i rommet:
He told his family he wanted his ashes blasted into space, Stevens said. Houston-based Space Services Inc., which specializes in space memorials, said it would send Doohan’s remains, along with 125 others, aboard a rocket later this year.
Doohan will join “Star Trek” series creator Gene Roddenberry, whose ashes were launched into space six years after he died in 1991.
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Doohan inspired the phrase “Beam me up, Scotty,” although Capt. Kirk never issued that order until the fourth movie.
Jeg skylder også å nevne at Capt. Kirk aldri har sagt linjen «Beam me up, Scotty» – hverken i TV-serien eller i filmene. I likhet med linjen «Play it again, Sam» som aldri blir sagt i «Casablanca» (Bergman sier: «Play it once, Sam. For old times’ sake.») har det blitt et av de mest feilsiterte linjene i TV/filmhistorien. Det nærmeste man kommer er i «Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home», hvor Kirk sier: «Scotty – beam me up!»
In a 1998 interview, Doohan was asked if he ever got tired of hearing the line “Beam me up, Scotty.”
“I’m not tired of it at all,” he replied. “Good gracious, it’s been said to me for just about 31 years. It’s been said to me at 70 miles an hour across four lanes on the freeway. I hear it from just about everybody. It’s been fun.”
Det har vært gøy å se deg utfolde deg på skjermen, Jim. Hvil i fred!