RIP : "Beam Me Up" Scotty

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Actor James Doohan, best known as the feisty, Scottish-accented chief engineer on television's original "Star Trek" series - a role immortalized by the catchphrase "Beam me up, Scotty" - died on Wednesday at age 85, his manager said. Doohan died at his home in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, Washington, of complications from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, about a year after he was diagnosed with the degenerative neurological illness, manager Steve Stevens said in an interview.

He is best remembered for playing Lt. Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, the can-do chief engineer aboard the starship USS Enterprise on the original "Star Trek" series, which ran from 1966 to 1969 on NBC. He reprised the role for several big-screen "Star Trek" features. One of Scotty's chief functions on the show was to operate the transporter device used to "beam" crew members aboard the Enterprise from distant planets - often in response to the order: "Beam me up, Scotty."

- RIP, Scotty. You will be missed.

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