It's been a bit fascinating to see the large amount of tributes for James Doohan come across today, Doohan better known as Scotty from the Star Trek series, both TV and movie versions, passed away at age 85 Wednesday.
The Canadian born actor has been hailed as one of the touchstones for pop culture, his Scottish engineer character always the one to get the Enterprise out of a tough jam. Interestingly enough many of those tributes featured details of his time as a captain in the Canadian Army during the Second World War, Doohan was on the beach at Juno when Canadians landed at Normandy most likely a far more harrowing scene than any Romulan invasion ever offered up.
With his passing Star Trek fans have once again begun to focus on the characters that made the shows and movies a must see adventure and indeed a huge part of their lives. I never quite was captured by the all encompassing aspect of the Star Trek Culture, the TV shows were interesting for the time, providing a morality play in the guise of a science fiction program. Likewise the big budget movie epics offered another outlet for the science fiction genre and brought back the always favored characters for repeated curtain calls.
His legacy will be acting as a "miracle worker" in the engine room of the Enterprise and as we all remember, should you be in a jam on some uncharted planet, Scotty would make sure that transporter worked one more time to rescue you in the nick of time.
Beam him up, his work is done!
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