![]() ![]() Takei said the joy and resilient quality that Doohan brought to his “Star Trek” character - “his robust determination to get things done. ![]() “What I really enjoyed the most was Jimmy’s personality. His claim was he imbibed enough of Scotland libations to be Scottish. “He’s really Irish-Canadian, but he’s world-renowned as a Scotsman. ![]() “Jimmy was Scotty,” George Takei, who played chief navigator Sulu on “Star Trek,” told The Times on Wednesday. In fact, he said, “It’s been said to me at 70 miles an hour across four lanes on the freeway. He later said he never tired of having people approach him and say the line, “Beam me up, Scotty.” He also made countless appearances at “Star Trek” conventions, where thousands of the show’s fans, known as “Trekkies,” gave him and his fellow original cast members heroes’ welcomes.ĭoohan’s portrayal of the Enterprise’s affable engineer with a Scottish brogue even led to his being awarded an honorary degree in engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, where half the students polled reportedly said they were inspired by Doohan’s character to enter the field. ![]()
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