Rest in Peace, Scotty

[Ranes]

Two things:

1. That wasn't him. It was Shatner.
2. This is a bit more nitpicky, but they've never mentioned a first name for Uhura. Not like Sulu.

1. I stand corrected. I remember a scene with Shatner kissing Nichols but, for some reason, I thought Doohan had beaten him to it. There was definitely some suggestion of romantic interest between the two in one episode. I guess I got confused.

2. I know. I came across that first name in some fan fiction.

 

[Mr. T]

When I first saw Star Trek as a kid (which wasn't all that long ago) I always liked Scotty. Maybe it was the accent or the fact he was Scottish. But, now I see things defferently. I guess the idea of Scotty being the man behind it all. Sure, Kirk commanded the ship, but who made the ship work? Scotty. I like those kind of people.

I'm sure heaven's warp drives and reactor cores need fixing.

 

[Rackhir]

Another Sci-Fi star dead. That´s bad...
*melodramatic* Will all our dreams die? I mean, it´s not just that actors die - we aren´t on Mars yet, there is still no world-wide peace (in fact, it seemed we made a few steps back), no existing commercial fusion reactors, hell, even the Space Shuttle seems to fail...

Well actually for the first time in a number of years there really is some hope for Space exploration. There have been the first baby steps towards actual comercial space flight with Burt Rutan's success with the X-Prize earlier this year. Already several hundred people have signed up to pay the $100,000/seat for a trip on the successor craft that should be flying in the next year or two. Given the willingness of some people to pay $20-40 mil for a longer trip, I don't see any problems with filling seats on it. Lots of people in just the US can afford to pay that kind of money. There are also at least a half-dozen to a dozen different projects with similar goals including one run by John Carmack of Doom/ID Fame and Jeff Bezos the founder of Amazon.com. Paul Allen Microsoft's co-founder is one of the backers of Burt Rutan's space flight attempts as well. So there are some deep pocket people behind this.

*Burt Rutan's Company's Web Site
http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/

*General RLV News
http://www.hobbyspace.com/Links/RLVNews.html

*Armadillo Aerospace - John Carmack's company
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home

For the first time since the Columbia disaster, I really feel like there is hope for space exploration.

 

[mojo1701]

As per his request, his ashes will be flown into space:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4702503.stm.