Star Trek’s 'Scotty' Doohan is dead

Televisionpoint.com Team
James Doohan, the Scottish-accented chief engineer on television’s original 'Star Trek' series, who transported the crew through space on the command 'Beam me up, Scotty', died on Wednesday at the age of 85.

Doohan died at his home in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, Washington, of complications from Pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease, about a year after he was diagnosed with the degenerative neurological illness, according to Media Reports.

"He loved being Scotty," Stevens his agent said, referring to Doohan's role as the curmudgeonly engineer in the Star Trek television series that debuted in 1966 and catapulted him to worldwide fame. Doohan immortalised the fantasy starship's engineer.

The television show inspired a series of movies starring the same crew, headed by William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as his first mate, Mr. Spock.