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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship
Enterprise in the original <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Star Trek</span></i>
TV series and movies who responded to the command "Beam me up,
Scotty," died Wednesday. He was 85. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=inside-copy><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Doohan
died at 5:30 a.m. at his <st1:City w:st="on">Redmond</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Wash.</st1:State>, home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his
side, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:City></st1:place>
agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia
and Alzheimer's disease, he said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=inside-copy><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Doohan
had said farewell to public life in August 2004, a few months after being
diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=inside-copy><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The
Canadian-born Doohan was enjoying a busy career as a character actor when he
auditioned for a role as an engineer in a new space adventure on NBC in 1966. A
master of dialects from his early years in radio, he tried seven different
accents. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=inside-copy><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>"The
producers asked me which one I preferred," Doohan recalled 30 years later.
"I believed the Scot voice was the most commanding. So I told them, 'If
this character is going to be an engineer, you'd better make him a
Scotsman.'" <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=inside-copy><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The
series, which starred William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy
as the enigmatic Mr. Spock, attracted an enthusiastic following of science
fiction fans, especially among teenagers and children, but not enough ratings
power. NBC canceled it after three seasons. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=inside-copy><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>When
the series ended in 1969, Doohan found himself typecast as Montgomery Scott,
the canny engineer with a burr in his voice. In 1973, he complained to his
dentist, who advised him: "Jimmy, you're going to be Scotty long after you're
dead. If I were you, I'd go with the flow." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=inside-copy><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>"I
took his advice," said Doohan, "and since then everything's been just
lovely." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=FR style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Annie</span></font><span lang=FR><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=FR style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Je suis ce que je sais (I am what I know)</span></font><span
lang=FR><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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