Star trek scotty

Before James Doohan became famous playing Scotty in the original Star Trek, he was a Canadian lieutenant in World War II who heroically took out German snipers during the D-Day invasion.

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J. Montgomery Doohan / scotty

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Whenever Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and other members of the "Star Trek" crew got themselves into a jam, engineer James Montgomery Scott, a.k.a. Scotty, was always at the ready to beam the back aboard the Enterprise. The actor who played Scotty in the original series and on the big screen, Vancouver-born James Doohan, passed away…

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