SCOTTY FINALLY BEAMS UP

[Kor37 9]

Remains of Star Trek's 'Scotty' Headed for Space

 

 

 

  Getty ImagesJames "Scotty" Doohan's remains are being launched into space, according to his wishes.

 

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LOS ANGELES (Oct. 14) - Evidently "Star Trek" actor James "Scotty" Doohan took the catch phrase "beam me up" very seriously -- his cremated remains will be launched into space in accordance with his last wishes.

 

Commercial space flight operator Space Services Inc. will launch the late actor's remains into space aboard its Explorers Flight on Dec. 6, a company spokeswoman said Friday.

 

She said the remains of more than 120 others will be aboard the flight, including those of an unidentified astronaut and Mareta West, the astrogeologist who determined the site for the first spacecraft landing on the moon.

 

Space Services spokeswoman Susan Schonfeld declined to identify the astronaut whose cremated remains will be launched into space. She said the name would be announced the day of the launch.

 

Doohan, who portrayed feisty chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the "Star Trek" television series, died in July at age 85.

 

One of Scotty's chief functions on the show was to operate the devise used to transport fellow crew members onto the starship Enterprise from other space vessels or planets, often in response to a request to "beam" them aboard. The phrase entered the pop cultre as "beam me up, Scotty," though it was never uttered exactly that way on the show.

 

To mark the flight into his final frontier, Doohan's family will hold a service for fans on a 60-acre site near Vandenberg Air Force Base north of Los Angeles the day of the launch to pay tribute to him. Some fans are expected to attend in the formal white suit of a Star Fleet commander.

 

"I can't think of a more fitting send-off than having some of his fans attend this, his final journey," his widow, Wende Doohan, said in an open invitation to the service.

 

"Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry also had his remains shot into space after his death in 1991. They returned to Earth in 2002, Schonfeld said.

 

Doohan's cremated remains will be packed into a special tube that is ejected from the rocket and expected to orbit Earth for about 50 to 200 years before plunging into the planet's atmosphere and burning up.

 

Fans can post tributes to Doohan at the Space Services Web site (http://www.spaceservicesinc.com). Those messages will be digitized, packed with "Scotty" and blasted into space.

 

GODSPEED SCOTTY.. B)

[Capt_Picard 0]

Well... All I can say is that he has earned it.

Edited October 15, 2005 by Capt_Picard

[Kor37 9]

I'll I can say

 

That should be "All I can say"....er...uh...oops...wrong thread.....

[Capt_Picard 0]

Kor please... I am not in the mood, or awake to the point to deal with you today.

[KIMIMELA 1]

Kor please... I am not in the mood, or awake to the point to deal with you today.

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:P You two really don't seem to get on, do you? :P *Sneezes*

 

Anyway, rest in peace, Scotty!

[Kor37 9]

You two really don't seem to get on, do you?

 

Its only because he won't admit that I'm his long lost father............. :P

[Capt_Picard 0]

Please... let's not start that again.

[KIMIMELA 1]

Please... let's not start that again.

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You really need to take a chill pill Capt_Picard. :P

[Bethlehem 7]

:P Will miss him very much :P