Subj : Re: Remains of Star Trek's 'Scotty' headed for space To : rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv,alt.tv.star-trek.tos From : ANIM8Rfsk Date : Fri Oct 14 2005 18:15:40 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos in article 2bW3f.2610$tV6.1452@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net, whodunit at pillut_48@sbcworldly.net wrote on 10/14/05 3:20 PM: > ANIM8Rfsk wrote: >> Remains of Star Trek's 'Scotty' headed for space >> >> >> LOS ANGELES, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Evidently "Star Trek" actor James "Scotty" >> Doohan took the catchphrase "beam me up" very seriously -- his cremated >> remains will be launched into space in accord with his last wishes. >> >> Commercial space flight operator Space Services Inc. will launch the late >> actor's remains into space aboard its Explorers Flight on Dec. 6, a company >> spokeswoman said on Friday. >> >> She said the remains of more than 120 others will be aboard the flight, >> including those of an unidentified astronaut and Mareta West, the >> astrogeologist who determined the site for the first spacecraft landing on >> the moon. >> >> Space Services spokeswoman Susan Schonfeld declined to identify the >> astronaut whose cremated remains will be launched into space. She said the >> name would be announced the day of the launch. >> >> Doohan, who portrayed feisty chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the >> "Star Trek" television series, died in July at age 85. On the program, when >> Capt. James Kirk ventured off the spaceship Enterprise and faced peril, he >> would demand Scotty "beam" his body up to the safety of the ship. >> >> The actual phrase "Beam me up, Scotty," was not used on the show, but it >> entered pop culture. >> >> To mark the flight into his final frontier, Doohan's family will hold a >> service for fans on a 60-acre (24-hectare) site near Vandenberg Air Force >> Base north of Los Angeles the day of the launch to pay tribute to him. Some >> fans are expected to attend in the formal white suit of a Star Fleet >> commander. >> >> "I can't think of a more fitting send-off than having some of his fans >> attend this, his final journey," his widow, Wende Doohan, said in an open >> invitation to the service. >> >> "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry also had his remains shot into space >> after his death in 1991. They returned to Earth in 2002, Schonfeld said. >> >> Doohan's cremated remains will be packed into a special tube that is ejected >> from the rocket and expected to orbit Earth for about 50 to 200 years before >> plunging into the planet's atmosphere and burning up. >> >> Fans can post tributes to Doohan at the Space Services Web site >> (http://www.spaceservicesinc.com). Those messages will be digitized, packed >> with "Scotty" and blasted into space. >> >> (Additional reporting by Arthur Spiegelman) >> > This sounds like his *whole* body is going up. IIRC, it's only *1* GRAM. > That's like, a paperclip's worth. > > Carolyne in TX True. Although it's not a paperclip worth of the ORIGINAL mass. I have no idea what actual percentage it is, but I'm sure it's not 100%. Roddenberry wasn't. -- You Can't Stop the Signal .