Talk:James Doohan

message: The Internet is full of essays and reports about and by Trekkers who were angry about James Doohan not getting a send-off in the annual Oscar tribute to celebs who have died.  But the strange thing is, he WAS featured; they showed a brief clip from "Star Trek:  The Motion Picture," with Kirk and Scott talking.  Considering most people during the tribute were just flashed on the screen for a second or so, while Doohan got to say his beloved line, "aye, sir," it confuses me to no end how people could have missed it.  Minaker 18:22, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The annual "In Memoriam" is for actors who were prominent in the medium motion pictures. The Motion Picture Academy does not have time in its "In Memoriam" to salute every actor who died within the previous year. Although Doohan was in the Star Trek movies, he was primarily a television actor, and thus a tribute would be more appropriate during the Emmy Awards. — Walloon 18:58, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inappropriately Angry Trekkers 

message: The dates don't seem to add up. It says married he was married for 28 years. From 1974-2005 should be at least 30 or 31 years right?
Just a formatting note:  The ISBN links should only include "ISBN", and not include the numbers, IMHO - I was expecting to see some information on the book when I clicked those, but was taken to the ISBN page.
Yes.. he would have celebrated his 31st wedding anniversary to Wende last week (oct. 05).
On the subject of dates: if he was born in early 1920 and the family left Bangor in "the 20's", was he not actually born in Northern Ireland? Something needs clarified there at least, I think. 213.78.235.176 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 11:08, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Other

message: The edit performed by Fdewaele at 16:50, 20 July 2005 seems to have at least a couple portions that are copied directly from the Associated Press article about Doohan's death.
Here's a link to that article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050720/ap_on_en_tv/obit_doohan
The relevant portions are the discussion of Doohan's experiences on D-Day, and the discussion of his family history. -- Colden46 19:18, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
* Yes, I noticed that too. Although people have subsequently tweaked the text, that doesn't fix the copyvio, since the current text is clearly based on the AP article. What is the right thing to do, delete it or add the copyvio marker? 128.2.203.136 20:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've rewritten all of these additions, which is the "right thing to do". --Dhartung | Talk 21:02, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright violations?

message: Can we check how many children he had? - most of the obituaries I've read say seven, but we seem to be listing nine! -- Arwel 23:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. He had no children by his second wife. --Dhartung | Talk 04:26, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Marriages, children

message: the story how he lost his finger, is it true? in de: someone deleted that recently. --141.53.194.251 13:42, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's in published obituaries. -- Arwel 17:25, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's also in his autobiography. HairyWombat (talk) 05:37, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

text: As a fan of your father and a German I am really moved by this information. Your father has contributed to make this world a better place. I lost my father last year. Best wishes. --91.34.175.168 (talk) 22:25, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  middlefinger 

message: If memory serves, before James Doohan became "Scotty", he played the role of an officer, if not captain, of a space ship travelling the galaxy.  This was a sci-fi series that ran for perhaps a year or two on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  I like to think that that series already set him up for the role of Scotty in Star Trek.  I'd appreciate it if anyone can confirm my recollection.
Ed Treister <edtreister@yahoo.com>
:It's in his IMDb entry: "Space Command". --Dhartung | Talk 19:00, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Career in Canada 

message: He claimed his grandfather, Thomas Doohan, was Chief Constable of Belfast.   There was no such rank in the RIC at the time. There was a rank of "Head Constable" see - http://www.4qd.org/biog/rgt.html - and http://www.psni.police.uk/index/pg_police_museum/pg_principal_ranks.htm - this was a non-commisioned rank above a sergeant far below what one might think of with the term chief constable. Jooler 03:25, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Grandfather

message: Anyone know if this went as planned?  The article still says that they're planned to be launched on 6 December 2005 Vash The Stampede 07:52, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  According to Space Services Inc, his remains will be launched on their "Legacy" flight [] in the first quater of 2007 Alastairward 16:44, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He's going up with a bunch of other people on Friday, April 28, 2007. -Mik —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.203.186.103 (talk) 15:33, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ashes in Space... 

message: I've just noticed the paragraph asserting hostility between JD and WD is identical to the paragraph asserting the same in George Takei's page.  Seems a bit suspect.  Toby Douglass 16:37, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Read their autobiographies. HairyWombat (talk) 05:38, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship with Shatner 

message: If anyone has trouble understanding the concept of irony, I recommend the linked Wiki article, which seems to me to be fairly comprehensive.  (Section 4.2 in particular.)
 
The date of his death is ironic.
 
Davidkevin 09:14, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That whole bit should be removed, imho. That source is not considered reliable by a number of editors here. Its also POV as pointed out above. --Tom 17:30, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  "Not considered reliable" -- so are you saying it's wrong and that he didn't die on July 20, 2005 or it's wrong and that Apollo 11 didn't land on July 20, 1969?  -- Davidkevin 20:32, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irony 

message: I originally uploaded this image over two years ago; it was just tagged for speedy deletion because it lacks a fair use rationale (the tagger inexplicably failed to give notice here).  If the regular editors of this article would like to keep the image (of whom I am not one), please look into this.  Personally, I would prefer a screenshot of him in character, particularly one from TOS.  Cheers, Postdlf 01:58, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Image:James Doohan 1980s.jpg]] 

message: Is it really necessary to have that up there?  I don't think many people will be losing sleep at not knowing whether his ashes were involved in a launch failure... Spartacusprime (talk) 21:34, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I put it back up earlier because it was removed anonymously with no reason. You might ask GW_Simulations what his rationale was for creating the template.Poobslag (talk) 16:12, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox re: launch failure 

message: The language in this article reading: "The rest of his ashes were scattered over Puget Sound in Washington.[19][20] On May 22, 2012, a small urn containing some of Doohan's remains in ash form was flown into space aboard the Dragon spacecraft as part of COTS Demo Flight 2." is contradictory. It indicates that one of the two earlier footnotes is either inaccurate or the information in that source is erroneous. I leave it to the author to verify and update the footnotes ... but clearly "the rest of his ashes" could not have been scattered if some of them were left to be on the recent flight. 75.171.33.161 (talk) 01:32, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction in text 

message: It seems unlikely that he could have "slalomed a plane between mountainside telegraph poles" north of Andover unless he'd strayed very far to the north. Mutt Lunker (talk) 23:33, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The claim is indeed dubious and also unnecessary, so I've removed it. --RFBailey (talk) 16:15, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andover mountains 

message: When and for what service to the British monarch was he made a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order? I've monitored this page virtually since it was created and this bit was only added very recently. 98.10.165.90 (talk) 00:35, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree - I can find no trace in the London or Canada Gazettes and the only cited source (http://en.ww2awards.com/person/34824) gives no source for its assertion. At the very least this is highly dubious, so I would propose deletion. CharlesSpencer (talk) 06:25, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  LVO 

message: The statement that James Doohan declined to consent to be interviewed "for Shatner's follow-up book, Star Trek: Movie Memories" contradicts with a statement on the  William Shatner article in the section "Relationships with other actors" which states "Doohan was the only former Star Trek co-star who declined to be interviewed by Shatner for his first, 1993 memoir, Star Trek Memories. But Doohan did contribute to Shatner's sequel". Not sure which is wrong as I have not read Movie Memories, but either there is an error here or in the other article. Dunarc (talk) 20:35, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Star Trek: Movie Memories - contradiction with William Shatner article