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 in 2005.
However, according to a new interview, it appears that death was not the end of Doohan’s journey. In a new interview with The Times, video game developer Richard Garriott revealed for the first time ever how he was able to smuggle Doohan’s ashes onto the International Space Station when he spent 12 days in orbit as the world’s sixth-ever “space tourist.” RELATED: The Future Is Uncertain In ‘Star Trek:
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