Scotty - AKA actor James Doohan - was chief engineer Montgomery Scott in the Star Trek TV series and motion pictures. He died from complications from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, not trouble with Tribbles.
The Alzheimer's had really started to take its toll. One night before his hospitalization, Scotty was seen cavorting with a Klingon. He had mistakenly thought it was his old bridge buddy Chekov.
Many Trekkies brushed that off, thinking Scotty simply might have gotten into some Romulan Ale. But then the mix-ups - like not knowing what dilythium crystals were for - escalated.
"We were out for a drive and saw Picard and Geordi next to us at a stoplight," Captain Kirk reminisced. "They were being cocky, revving their engine trying to egg us on to race."
"When the light went green, Geordi started burning rubber and took off," Kirk added. "I told Scotty 'Warp speed now!' Usually, he would totally gun it. But Scotty just let those Next Generation punks leave us in a cloud of star dust."
It got worse. Scotty swore he saw Sulu on a new TV show called The Iron Chef. He met Dr. Spock and asked him what happened to his pointy ears. Then, he claimed he saw Uhura's picture on a bottle of pancake syrup.
"I heard he walked into Enterprise and demanded to see the engine room," Kirk said, choking back tears. "But it was just the rent-a-car place and they gave him the keys to a Ford Taurus instead. At this point, we knew something was wrong with Scotty."
The last straw was when he didn't even recognize Captain Kirk.
"Bones, do something," Kirk was overheard pleading with a physician who looked nothing like Dr. McCoy (or actor DeForest Kelley), in the final days before July 20.
When the doctor didn't respond, Kirk shook him and said "Where's the comeback? You're supposed to say something like 'Dammit, Jim, I'm an actor not a doctor.'"
After questioning the medical care at the hospital, Kirk asked if they had one of those metal box wheelchairs with two lightbulbs on the front - like the one used on Captain Pike - to keep Scotty going. Kirk (pictured below in his Star Fleet graduation picture) also kept harassing the female staff, asking if there were any green alien chicks he could bang.
The hospital staff tried to have security remove Captain Kirk from the room, but he would not acknowledge them since they weren't wearing red long-sleeved sweaters or Federation badges.
At this posting, Scotty's funeral arrangements were pending, most likely to be held in about 5 or 6 days.
"I don't have 5 or 6 days, it has to be in 2," Kirk demanded.
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I grew up wacthing the show and then the movies. i to will miss him. His show.
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