Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!rocksvax!sunybcs!acsgjjp From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) Newsgroups: net.startrek,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The passing of James Doohan Message-ID: <1915@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 13:29:23 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1915 Posted: Fri Jul 12 13:29:23 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 13:13:46 EDT References: <324@dolqci.UUCP> Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 35 Xref: watmath net.startrek:3556 net.sf-lovers:8622 Summary: He's dead, Jim? Up your shaft! > I heard on the way in to work this morning that Jimmy Doohan, > known and loved by us as Commander Montgomery Scott, Chief Engineering > Officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise, passed away yesterday due to a sudden, > massive heart attack. Rest In Peace Jimmy, we'll miss ye. > > Mike Stalnaker Well, after scouring the last few day's worth of newspapers, and watching the 11 o'clock news last night, I haven't heard *anything* regarding James Doohan. There wasn't even anything on Entertainment Tonight (which is probably taped well in advance). But if it wasn't true, why would it be posted? Now is a perfect time to say that the characters in Star Trek are not immortal. As the saying goes, "All good things have to come to an end". Spock was only brought back because "the people demanded it". The Enterprise can't last forever. And someday, Captain Kirk will have to face death himself -- for the final time. If he truly is dead, he will certainly be missed. And what is going to happen to the rest of Star Trek IV? (No, I haven't been living under a rock the past week. And the Buffalo media is not as bad as it might seem to be.) -- "As you listen...to the following...for your imagination's sake...turn off the lights, if it's dark out. Or close your eyes, if it's light...(unless you're driving, of course). And you'll see as only you can see...With that special inner eye you have...with that special insight that makes you differently the same." From the House on the Knoll, not far from the Holt... Jim Poltrone (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters) uucp: [decvax,watmath,rocksvax]!sunybcs!acsgjjp ARPAnet, CSnet: acsgjjp%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY BITNET: ACSGJJP@SUNYABVA