"To boldly go where no one has gone before"

One of the power teaching guidelines to self-realization, in the ancient knowledge, is a great metaphysical poem linked with akasha and zone reality, an expression of an
element in the center of the twin spirals. The first four commands are found in all religions:
To Know, To Will, To Dare and To Keep Silent.

The fifth command is: "To Go"

 

 

IN THE BEGINNING
Season: 1 Episode: 1
The Man Trap, the sixth episode that was filmed, not counting the pilots, was the first broadcast. Penned by George Clayton Johnson and directed by Marc Daniels, the show received mixed reviews. Some critics suggested the cerebral freshness would connect with a limited audience while professional performers enjoyed the appeal to the adult viewer. Gene Roddenberry biographer, David Alexander, remarks that,

Daniels was a Desilu institution, having directed the first year of I love Lucy. He directed Lawrence Olivier on stage and was highly regarded.

April 18, 1968 Gene Roddenberry sent a memo to "all concerned" when Star Trek was renewed. Even though he had stepped back from the daily, hands-on life of a producer, he wanted everyone to know he was still there. The memo regarded Kirk, Spock, and other continuing Star Trek characters...

"Let’s keep Jimmy Doohan, the dour Scot who regards even the Captain’s visit to the engine room as an unwanted intrusion. Jimmy Doohan is capable of handling anything we throw at him and the more protective of his engines and his prerogatives as Chief Engineer, the better the character seems to work."...                              

The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, STAR TREK CREATOR    Roddenberry.com   

 

Adventure series best launch dates: 1, 3, or 5

Remastering Star Trek: A Compendium

 

THE CREW OF ORIGINAL STAR TREK

William Shatner (Capt. James T[iberius] Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Science Officer, Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy), James Doohan (Cmdr. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Chief Engineer), Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Nyota Uhura, Communications), George Takei (Hikaru Sulu, Helmsman), Walter Koenig (Ensign Pavel Chekov, Navigator), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), and Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Janice Rand).
The Star Trek Star Chart Files @ Shore Leave Space Station

Episode: 3 Stardate: 1312.4
Where No Man Has Gone Before, aired on September 22, 1966 and introduced the science fiction world to Engineer Montgomery Scott [James Doohan], as well as the antimatter converter assembly, lithium crystals, and three-dimensional chess. Production: 002

 

Beam me up, Scotty!

Beam me up, Scotty! A phrase that is now part of American culture.

Where are the Jefferies Tubes?
Click Scotty

James "Scotty" Doohan, Chief Engineer aboard USS Enterprise said in a 1998 interview that [Beam me up, Scotty!] had "been said to me at 70 miles an hour across four lanes on the freeway. I hear it from just about everybody." It is the perfect bumper sticker for Los Angeles, and everywhere else for that matter!

"His plaintive, if somewhat unauthentic, Scottish cry - "I dannae if she can take any more, Captain!" - rang through the outer edges of the cosmos as Captain James T. Kirk urged even more power out of the craft.

... Working alongside fellow Canadian William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley, he benefited from the strong characterisation which offset the show's small budget... His ability to conjure solutions to the Enterprise's regular engineering crises often made him the saviour of his beloved ship."

~     The Jeffries Tube emergency access in times of power outage.
~     VIP Nella Daren [played by Wendy Hughes] Season: 6 Episode: 19 Stardate: 46693.1
       So refined was her ear for music, she was able to located the most acoustically
       perfect spot on the ship — the fourth intersect of Jefferies Tube 25 ~ Air Date: 04.05.1993
~     Season: 3 Episode: 17 Stardate: Unknown
       That Which Survives Losira [played by Lee Meriwether], the final living Kalandan on an
       outpost far from home, creates serious technical problems onboard Enterprise.
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... [Matt Jefferies] would also become a major (and perhaps the most significant) contributor to the look and feel of Star Trek, the Enterprise and the planets below, as well as to the ships, accommodations and homelands of our alien life forms. And while Matt has never officially been given the credit he so richly deserves for his creative contributions to the show, he is nevertheless immortalized within the (barely) fictional bowels of the Enterprise.

Specifically (and you're probably two steps ahead of me here), the long cylindrical passageway that houses most of the ships most important and delicate circuitry, and also many of those scenes where in Scotty yells, "I canna deeeeew it, Captain," was proudly named "the Jefferies tube." It seems that when this particular area of the Enterprise needed a specific name in one of our scripts, Roddenberry’s idea was to christen the tube after its creator.

-William Shatner, Star Trek Memories    

 

 

 

HONOURS AND AWARDS

AWARDS: 1987 -Saturn Award (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA) Best Supporting Actor for: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Honorary doctorate in Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering

2004 - Star on the Walk of Fame for Scotty
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Scotsman.com reports the West Lothian Council has elected to create a memorial dedicated to James "Scotty" Doohan in the fictional birthplace of Montgomery Scott. Scripts of the cult science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation Season: 6 Episode: 4 "Relics" reveal that Mr. Doohan's character, Montgomery Scott, was born in Linlithgow in 2222 and that his parents still lived there. Born James Montgomery Doohan – the Montgomery becoming his character’s name in "Star Trek" – in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Doohan was actually raised in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
The Star Trek Star Chart Files @ Shore Leave Space Station

James Doohan suffered a massive heart attack in 1989, and retired from acting in 2004 because of his illnesses. His last role was in the 2005 film "Skinwalker: Curse of the Shaman." Go to full BBC obituary
Chief Engineer Capt. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, on Original Star Trek

William Shatner tribute and details about plans to send Doohan's ashes into space @ Hollywood.com
The portion of Doohan's ashes not sent into space will be scattered over the ocean, said Steven Stevens, Doohan's agent and long-time family friend. Specific plans for that ceremony have not yet been set. Meanwhile, his wife Wende and Stevens are in discussions to send the actor's ashes into the galaxy on a rocket... Doohan's wish will follow in the footsteps of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, whose ashes orbited the earth for six years from 1997.

It is expected the remains of Doohan and Star Trek writer John Meredyth Lucas will be shot into space in September on board a Falcon 1 rocket, which will be launched from the Vanderberg Air Force base in California.