Beam Me Up, Scotty by James Doohan5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery and was stationed in England, where he completed officers training. Writing about his tumultuous childhood in his autobiography Beam Me Up, Scotty (co-authored with Peter David), Doohan says, “More than anything, I just wanted to get away.” His father, a laboratory worker and temperamental alcoholic, moved the family to Sarnia when Doohan was six. His family had emigrated from Ireland, following Doohan’s aunt to Vancouver. The third of four children, James Montgomery Doohan was born March 3, 1920. Enterprise at whom the command was directed, was in fact played by a Vancouver-born Second World War veteran and method-trained actor whose real-life adventures were as strange and bold as the show’s. ![]() What’s less well known is that Montgomery Scott, the cantankerous engineer of the U.S.S. “Beam me up, Scotty” is perhaps the most famous line in Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry’s television blend of science fiction, adventure, optimism, and inclusivity. ![]()
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