Scotty is Lost In Space!
05 Aug 2008 15 Comments
in 60's, Allegory, Canada, Celebrity, Generation X, Irony, James Doohan, Science Fiction, Star Trek, Vancouver, Weird, William Shatner, death, geek, news
Actually, no. It’s worse:
Scotty is slowly sinking to the bottom of the South Pacific in a fine grey cloud of ash.
My God, It's Full of Stars!
Dignified and strange, in its own way, and somehow an almost-adequate substitute for the original plan, which was for the cremains of James Doohan, proud Vancouverite, former Canadian war hero, and the actor who played Montgomery Scott, Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, to be shot into space in a private SpaceX spacecraft. Goddam dilithium crystals!
The Falcon 1 owned by Musk’s private space exploration company, SpaceX, left the ground and stayed off it for 2 minutes and 20 seconds before second- and third-stage rockets failed to ignite. The whole thing, including Scotty’s ashes, plunged back to earth.
Well, back to the Pacific Ocean anyway. But nothing, particularly not the fate of a legend, is simple, and it seems there had already been a couple of false starts and a frantic search leading up to the ultimate un-ternment. For a man who claimed (falsely, but amusingly) that he was kicked out of the Canadian Air Force for slaloming his plane between hydro poles on a bet, the rolling swells of the unfettered tropical ocean are indeed the Final Frontier.
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Aug 05, 2008 @ 10:57:52
Well, I’m glad he at least had a sub-orbital flight under his belt. But the depths of the ocean are the Final Frontier here on Earth, so perhaps it is fitting.
Do you think William Shatner is more embarrassed by that video, or by playing the mad-cow infected Denny Crane?
Aug 05, 2008 @ 11:25:34
I think William Shatner is embarrassed by nothing whatsoever.
Aug 05, 2008 @ 12:44:10
I thought David Bowie already beat Doohan in that regard . . .
Aug 05, 2008 @ 12:45:53
and are you sure that wasn’t Cliff Robertson?
Aug 05, 2008 @ 13:20:26
She’s breaking up captain, I can’t hold her together much longer.
Art imitates life…..
Aug 05, 2008 @ 13:45:34
Beam yourself up, Scotty!
Shut up, Danny Crane – - -
Aug 05, 2008 @ 15:28:19
and you’ve got that whole biological lights of Zetar thing going there too . . .
Aug 05, 2008 @ 23:15:12
“Dammit Jim! I’m a funeral director–not a flight engineer!”
Aug 06, 2008 @ 04:58:32
Apparently, he’s just a very serious figure; too much gravitas. I mean gravity.
Aug 06, 2008 @ 06:22:10
OK, that video is just weird. Now you’ve just gone and ruined “Rocket Man” for me 4EVR!!! Like, thank you SO much, raincoaster!
Aug 06, 2008 @ 07:42:58
You mean you liked it before? If The Shat is good enough for Bernie Taupin, he’s good enough for you, dammit!
Aug 06, 2008 @ 22:04:56
He had a fair bit of gravity, indeed–I think he had himself cremated to spare his friends the hernias.
Aug 06, 2008 @ 23:06:59
Naw, it’s that casket manufacturers charge by the foot. He could fit in a couple of tricorders by the time they were done with him.