Posted on 07/24/2006 6:01:50 PM PDT by KevinDavis
NEW YORK - The remains of actor James Doohan, who played the starship Enterprise’s chief engineer ”Scotty” on “Star Trek,” will be blasted into space in October, the company organizing the flight said Monday.
The actor who inspired the catchphrase “Beam me up, Scotty” — even though it was never actually uttered on the show — died a year ago at the age of 85.
On the program, when Capt. James Kirk ventured off the spaceship Enterprise and faced peril, he would demand Scotty “beam” him back up to the safety of the ship.
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They should use his ashes in some of those government-sponsored matter transmission experiments. That'd be a better way to memorialize him.
Is that true??
"Beam me up, Scotty!" is a catch phrase that made its way into pop culture from the television series Star Trek. It comes from the command Captain Kirk gives his transporter chief, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, when he needs to transport back to the ship.
Ironically, Kirk has never actually said "Beam me up, Scotty" in any Star Trek television episode or film. He comes closest in Star Trek IV, saying "Scotty, beam me up"; in Star Trek: Generations, saying "Beam them out of there, Scotty"; and in the animated episode "The Infinite Vulcan", saying "Beam us up, Scotty". The phrase was popularized by a bumper sticker with the tag line "Beam me up Scotty. There's no intelligent life here".
Jimmy, that's all we can give ya.
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It is also true that the phrase "play it again, Sam" was never uttered in the movie Casablanca.
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