I was in Monterey for a week, and happened upon them filming in the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It was a complete surprise. Needless to say, I had tickets to the very first showing on Thanksgiving day, that year
As an Austrian I can only thank this heroes for bringing back freedom to Europe. My grandfather was also in France, but unfortunately in the German army. Let's hope that this will never happen again.
I thought so, but I'm prejudiced!
Here he is, right after he returned home to Alberta 🇨🇦, after the war.
He joined the army in 1939 and was gone for almost 8 years.
When i look at what's going on in the world right now i think on the men that were in that beach... they give their life's to fight fascism and suddenly we are doing the same mistakes.... god bles your Daddy
I didn't know any of that about him. I loved watching the original Star Trek that you both starred in with my hubby after we got married. That's how I became a trekky.
His name is Irish. Sean Connery's name was also Irish but he was Scottish. Many Scots have Irish descendants. anyway...Scotty in Star Trek was Scottish. James Doohan was of Irish descent, so you're right 😊
"Doohan was once labeled the “craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force” when in the late spring of 1945, on Salisbury Plain north of Andover, he flew an Auster Mark IV between two telegraph poles just “to prove it could be done”."
To add to the story, my father, who was actually there that night when Doohan was shot... There were a pair of words used for security. The guard yelled out one, Doohan didn't immediately answer. Dad said Doohan was very philosophical about the wounds saying the guard had done his part.
I served 37 years in the Marine Corps. I’m wondering know why the fuck I did. Fuck this country Trump sells out to the fucking Isis leader, or the Taliban leader.
TV and Film creators of the 50s to 80s were very used to hide the results of the war. Robert Clary who played LeBeau in Hogan's heroes always wore long-sleeved clothes on TV to hide his Auschwitz number-tattoo. Maybe too many things were hidden from view, to learn from history.
I think in Star treks case they hid it because he wanted to and the advanced medicine would have replaced it as soon as it happened. It was similar to Picard, where Gene thought bald people wouldn't exist because hair replacement would be started as soon as anyone began losing hair
"A reporter asked Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry about casting Patrick Stewart, commenting that 'Surely by the 24th century, they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness.' Gene Roddenberry had the perfect response.
Patrick Stewart Was Initially Set To Wear A Wig In Star Trek. Creator Gene Roddenberry was against hiring Patrick Stewart to play Picard because he didn’t “want a bald man.”
Yes, that's why he changed his mind on Picard... i think the loss of a finger would be different though, almost like a default here's a new finger instead of a plaster
it’s not hidden, there are still shots of scenes where it’s apparent it’s missing but Scotty was often working on some control panel, grasping something or his hand is at his side or behind his back which hid it, he also used his left hand in some scenes
My “who knew” is not to say Scotty—James Doohan—was gay (though he may be for all I know) but to show his lack of middle finger. He lost it after landing on the beach on D-Day in WWII.
Landed on Juno beach on D-Day. Shot and killed 2 snipers before leading his men to higher ground through a minefield. That night he was shot 6 times by a nervous Canadian sentry- 4 in the leg, one through his finger and 1 in the chest that was stopped by a silver cigarette case. Such a hero!
For what its worth, in Star Trek lore, there was a lot of awfulness between the modern day and the formation of the Federation, including all out nuclear war. The whole idea is that we make it.
I was told Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty", but it became a saying nevertheless, and so his role name got mentioned more often than Kirk or Spock I assume so everybody knows him and I think this is well deserved. 💚
The greatest career advice I ever learned came from Montgomery Scott-"In an emergency, always tell them it's going to take twice as long as you really think it's going to fix it. Then when you finish in half the time, you look like a genius!"
This is great life advice*
I say that “ I’m a microbiologist, technically modern humans are by biological taxa, parasites.
So now you can read the news and be pleasantly surprised that people haven’t killed themselves already…
Star Trek is one of humanity’s greatest gifts to the Milky Way Galaxy. Thank you Gene Roddenberry and whoever did the casting and greenlighted (greenlit?) the series.
Lucille Ball deserves a thank you. She advocated for the show and paid for the second pilot episode.
Her production company Desilu was instrumental in Star Trek in the early days of the series.
Hell of a man. Trained gunner and pilot. And from all accounts, a hell of a decent guy - very caring and kind.
You’re pretty solid in that respect yourself, sir. Cut from similar cloth, I reckon.
DAMN & Hell, Yeah.....the boys that participated in D-Day had more courage in their little fingers than anyone in Washington or any member of the governments police (chicken shit Masked ICE officers)...Master Sergeant James J. Collins, Canadian Tank Troupe 1939 - 1946 in Europe, Father-in-Law
These men knew they were possibly going to die & they ran onto that beach anyway....PURE UNADULTERATED COURAGE....Hegseth is a disgrace to America, his tattoos prove whose side he was one when he served...
Oh yes! We have some friends there - oh, no, it's Cape Breton (don't want them to quit our friendship ;-) ) and the Schottish culture is very present, not only by family names but for their own Tartan, music, dance and the only scotch destilled outside scotland! https://glenbretonwhisky.com/Buy-Whisky-Canada
SCOTTY WAS ANOTHER D-DAY HERO ! DONALD TRUMP VISITED THE NORMANDY BEACH MEMORIAL GRAVEYARD OF THOUSANDS WHO DIED ON D-DAY AND TOLD HIS CHIEF OF STAFF A FOUR-STAR GENERAL THAT THESE MEN WERE SUCKERS AND LOSERS BECAUSE THEY DIED IN SERVICE TO THEIR COUNTRY !
This moron had hauled his ass for not to "waste" one single day for to serve for his nation.
Every soldier and veteran may spit on him.
But what most of them do?
Vote for him to become their leader!
Spit on them!
Doohan was shot six times by a nervous Canadian sentry who mistook him for the enemy. One bullet was stopped by his cigarette case. His right middle finger had to be amputated. During his Star Trek filming, he managed to keep this latter fact hidden.
Ah it was mosh pits in those days, the younger thinner version of myself and my friends but i regret none of them ever joined me on my sojourns into the mountain's i always wish they had been a joy to have shared it with them.
I operate an electron microscope at work and the service engineer advised not to exceed 100 micro Amps. However the higher the Amps, the better the images you get. I push it to 110 uA and tell my junior analysts, “I’m pushing 110% on the reactor sir!” None of them know what I’m talking about…sigh
I was in Normandy last month and James Doohan popped into my head a few times, along with Richard Todd, David Niven, Robert Montgomery and Charles Durning.
Yep, the most decorated US soldier of WW2, and he was only a youngster at the time.
Last year I happened to see the action film starring him about his own WW2 exploits.
You’d think must be exaggerated, but nope it was as per his medal commendations - which were jaw-dropping.
There's a scene in "A Taste of Armageddon" where the ambassador is telling Scotty to lower the shields. He refuses. The speech he gives is based on something similar he told a superior during the war. Bad ass thru and thru.
Sulu was my high school tv star crush. Especially the episode with his shirtless sword duel. Ooh la la smoking hot Sulu! When I found out in later years that I would never ever ‘get lucky’ w Sulu, I envied the lucky dude who would.
To Trump, it was a horrible day because he couldn't imagine himself being there, risking his life. What was in it for these soldiers...these losers and suckers?
Wow!big fan of the original series,I'm from Vancouver,absolutely never new that,loved the character Scottie,I'm 63,can't believe I've never heard anyone mention that fact,a true war hero,there should be a memorial to him here,thankyou George for that.Sulu was a great character to.
You always listen to the man who survived everything. The Enterprise, then A, he saved D from the Dyson Sphere. Set him and his friend into a pattern buffer in the transporter for 75 years. A man who can do that.. can do anything.
Thanks for the reminder George. The personalities and themes of the series will continue to cross generations and help us navigate larger questions of science philosophy and humanity. And thanks for the role you played as many of us grew up with questions about everything.
I got to spend a day with him as a kid. We were on a 3/4 day fishing boat together. He and my dad really hit it off (dad was a WWII Marine). Later we spent the afternoon in a RV. I was bored silly while they had cocktails and shared war stories. I wish I’d been older to appreciate them.
What a great experience for you! I have some childhood memories of listening to WWII vets chat and also wish I had known what a privilege it was at the time — and now, as an adult, I can appreciate how the company of children eases adults ❤️ and trust that they enjoyed our presence.
He served well but the 6 bullets came from a startled sentry. Glad Canada helped defeat the Germans and a Japanese in WW2. A whole section of New Westminster, BC cemetery is for soldiers killed on DDay.
It doesn't matter who fired the bullets. A surprising amount of casualties are from friendly fire. That he was there and served honorably is the point.
He of course served honorably. Joe Kennedy the forgotten Kennedy died in WW2 when the drone aircraft he was in blew up over the English Channel. Glad Mr Doohan and Canada were on the winning side of WW2. Hope there is a statue to him in Vancouver somewhere.
Picked up a rumor about tensions behind the scenes at the 1978 Atlanta Star Trek Convention, one of the first. When I learned the full story, I was 100% on James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig's side. When Nichelle thought of quitting MLK asked her to stay. I'm glad.
An original Trekkie, I carried petitions in 1967 to stop NBC from cancelling Star Trek. I got over 90 signatures and sent it to NBC. I was 9-years-old and took the show, its philosophy/Gene Roddenberry's vision very seriously. My favorite Star Trek crew member was Canadian Irish Actor James Doohan.
And lost a finger. You get a brief glimpse of it in the "Tribbles" episode, when he comes in after Kirk does not get his lunch, with an armload of the little creatures
It wasn’t economic socialism in the name, it was about Social Darwinism - survival of only the fittest. Of course the regime decided who was the fittest.
Thank you to all the heros who participated in freeing Europe that day and others! You are the reason me and many others got to grow up in a country not governed by hate and contempt for everyone who is different from their ideal. Thank you!
If any, should reach back into history for a time or a place to replicate for the "again" nostalgia, let it be (good contributions & contributors that improved lives)
. . . . and even later, a resident of my little town in Washington State, where the locals would visit Tully's Coffee to sit by the fire and see him come in with his wife and twin babies (they were really babies then!).
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Here he is, right after he returned home to Alberta 🇨🇦, after the war.
He joined the army in 1939 and was gone for almost 8 years.
After completing his Ph.D., he worked for the F.A.O., Rome.
We ❤️❤️❤️ Rome.
My daddy was already home - he did 25 missions on a B-17 🛩
Well done and thank you for sharing
Didn't know he was a war hero. Good man.
We Miss you James Doohan!
BEAM US UP SCOTTY!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doohan
https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/james-doohan/
Other people care even if fhe Asshole in Chief doesn't.
The man was a saint:
https://youtu.be/COJuF7n9gGA?si=B1ctG9ykAk9cYjNS
"A reporter asked Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry about casting Patrick Stewart, commenting that 'Surely by the 24th century, they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness.' Gene Roddenberry had the perfect response.
"No, by the 24th century, no one will care."
What an amazing man, thank you for sharing this gem.
A real life HERO.
Chekov: This is vodka.
Scotty: Where I come from, that's soda pop. This is a drink for a man.
I say that “ I’m a microbiologist, technically modern humans are by biological taxa, parasites.
So now you can read the news and be pleasantly surprised that people haven’t killed themselves already…
Her production company Desilu was instrumental in Star Trek in the early days of the series.
You’re pretty solid in that respect yourself, sir. Cut from similar cloth, I reckon.
Thank You!
If I remember correctly, during the war is when Mr. Doohan lost part of his finger, which he took great care to hide from the camera.
A great man honoured by a great man.
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But we need more power Scotty.
I loved Scotty on Star Trek
Every soldier and veteran may spit on him.
But what most of them do?
Vote for him to become their leader!
Spit on them!
or
"Ye canna break the laws of physics, Captain"!
....wait, didn't we just do this?
My admiration has now been increased tenfold
Thanks for sharing!
Last year I happened to see the action film starring him about his own WW2 exploits.
You’d think must be exaggerated, but nope it was as per his medal commendations - which were jaw-dropping.
https://youtu.be/8xRqXYsksFg?si=IKl-tpVjfyej-LIN
https://www.threads.com/@rugby1peter/post/DKkwlakCkJh?xmt=AQF0SEBhv27mxvBTkdxa8baLLZ3a67dES8IB7zRUjwfXug
❤️❤️❤️🙏
We're proud of him too but, well, he's Shatner.
I liked him from ST, then the more I learned about him, the more I admired him 💜
💙🇺🇸🙏🌎🕊️✌️
Decent & honest persons, honorable causes that improved lives & places thereafter.
I had Such a crush! 🥰
“Dammit Jim! I am actual war veteran! I don’t have to take shit from the likes of you!.. and by the way, he’s dead Jim”
Dude makes me proud to be Canadian. ❤️🇨🇦
Dang! Unfortunate choice of words!
Now, I really admire "Scotty" even more!
What a wonderful character played by a wonderful person.
So proud of him!
OK, own up! Who gave a Star Wars fan access to a time machine?