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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9726124" data-attributes="member: 18">It's very much not "like" that lol.Scotty was not ever a real person. That's genuinely important to remember because clearly there's seemingly some confusion here, given your insistence he is the same as a real person.He was a character on a TV showThat's different from being a real person.If I'm not real to you, just another fictional character because I'm a poster on the internet, well, I can't help you there!But having an actual Scottish accent, rather than... whatever Doohan was doing... plus being a more capable actor (which, sorry, he clearly is imho), and just being more convincing as a "highly inventive, paradigm-shifting engineer" adds up. The first person to play a role is not always the best! (Even ignoring examples with pre-existing characters, i.e. all the Marvel, GoT, etc. examples, c.f. Becky from Roseanne, Ann from Arrested Development, Reggie from Riverdale, Carol (Ross' ex-wife) from friends, and so on.)It's fine to prefer Doohan, I mean, some people prefer Aunt Viv 1.0 in The Fresh Prince (I am one of them), but you actually can say a new actor in the role is better at it than the originator, because the role is a role not a person. Hell with Shakespeare I am very confident there are even parts written for specific actors at the time that have been played by other actors "better" truly countless times since.</blockquote>