James Doohan

So i- I, I imagine it would, it was pretty mind-blowing to see Shatner and the, every, all the actors yucking it up, basically, and it was like, really? The Spock smiling, joking? So y- so yeah, I m- I can imagine what it was like seeing that for the first time.

So, and remember, at these first early conventions, really the only stars who showed up were Nichelle Nichols, um- James Doohan, George Takei, and, um, Walter Koenig, they showed up at the first couple.

In 1975, the committee split, and this fellow named Al Schuster went off and started- took the name of the International Star Trek Convention and paid real money for Shatner to come out, and that was where the ground shifted.

Suddenly, it went from being just this kind of fan operation, which everybody did out of love, to a transactional thing, and that was the groundwork for what would follow for the next four decades.

who played Scotty.

James Doohan.

He gave him a James Doohan.

The it's all on youtube but if you listen to it long enough there's a you can hear his impressions of the crew which are quite funny but it's specifically his data impression is as if he's never watched the show ever

as the ready room door slid aside he noted that will reicher his first officer was already hovering over data's position at the aft science station a moment later he joined them what is it data a subspace radio wave sir i have identified the signal The transmission appears to be a Starfleet code used between 50 and 80 years ago.

Wait, you are, sir.

Ah, no, through.

so right sorry I'm stuck on James Doohan now right we should spin the dabble wheel shouldn't we or are we not doing that anymore Jim the show is called Odo's Bucket

Nomad thinks Kirk is his mommy.

That actor for Scotty, he's really good... like uh james doohan what is that called where you visit where it's like physical acting like environmental like like when you trip over things and like really play it up kind of thing oh slapstick no but it's not slapstick it's

then just physical physical acting yeah

he's very good at that

Like, it's, again, the writing is so good.

Yeah, I mean, we're 10 years away from the Death Star in Star Wars, but it is...

So James Doohan, who plays Scotty, said this was his favorite episode during a Q&A he gave at the University of Nevada in the 80s.

He said he liked it, A, because William Wyndham was in it, the guy who's the Commodore, and because it had a good message about nuclear weapons.

Did you happen to see that there was something interesting about that scene, which I didn't realize until I read about it on IMDb, was that they were actually speaking in English when they were on set.

But then Jimmy Doohan went in later and they kind of invented, they matched the lip flap with this sort of like gibberish language they came up with.

Because no one really had Vulcan as a language before that.

So they invented this lip flap when they did ADR to match essentially what their English was, except they made it Vulcan.

Yeah, I'm with you.

And James Doohan did have a huge amount to do, but I think he was a steady, solid presence in this episode as well.

And it definitely bears rewatching.

So hopefully you've seen it before you see this, but if you haven't, despite the spoilers,