Like DeForest Kelly, Jimmy Doohan was a gentleman of the old school. I met him at a number of Star Trek conventions and I recall being at a couple of committee dinners and gopher parties where he was a guest.
From casual conversation, it was clear he was a man of deep opinions founded in collections of far-ranging information. He thought deeply and had plenty to think with. And he was always genuinely concerned about people, all sorts of people.
But I believe the magic in the casting of him as Scotty, the miracle-producing engineer of the Starship Enterprise, was the same kind of magic that put Tom Baker into the role of The Doctor in Doctor Who.
He was an actor foremost and always -- but he had the soul of an engineer, a technician, even perhaps an Einstien -- a scientist who could see the deepest spiritual realities behind the technology even when he didn't admit it. I believe that's what gave him his rich sense of humor.
Now he knows the answers to those most profound questions of time and space that even Scotty was puzzled by.
Live Long and Prosper,
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
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To which he immediately replied, "That's Jimmy, if you don't mind. No formalities here."
Thus, began a long term friendship with him, for at every con I attended and Jimmy was at, he would always greet me with, "Hi, Joel." The man had a memory that was nothing short of phenomenal.
I'm sure that I must have had my picture taken with Jimmy several times, but I wish now that I had only one of them. Thank God this page exists for us to remember this astonishing man.
When I heard of Jimmy's passing, though it was hardly unexpected, all I could think of was that Shirley and her beloved Philip, husband of who knows how many years, are in heaven together, along with Jimmy, Gene Roddenberry and DeForest Kelley, and having a mini-convention, and sitting together, smiling forever, looking down at us, their friends. I'd like to cherish that thought, because to think otherwise, is just too painful.
It's too bad he had to leave us the way he did, with pneumonia and Alzheimer's Disease. But perhaps God had something more in mind for our Chief Engineer when he said to him:
"Beam yourself up, Scotty."
Joel Davis --- Member WGAw
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