07-20-2005, 04:32 PM
Once again, I get to be the person with the official "Geek Obituary"
Saw this on Yahoo news this morning and was saddened. Never the biggest Star Trek fan, but he was always my favorite.
LOS ANGELES - James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and movies who responded to the command "Beam me up, Scotty," died 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.
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Saw this on Yahoo news this morning and was saddened. Never the biggest Star Trek fan, but he was always my favorite.
LOS ANGELES - James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and movies who responded to the command "Beam me up, Scotty," died 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.
More details can be found at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.yahoo.com">http://www.yahoo.com</a><!-- m -->
When life hands you lemons, you gotta squirt lemon juice and life's eye and make it your B!TCH
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