Aye just can't do it, Cap'n
With great regret, from my nerdy side, I must sadly report the passing of everyone's favourite Scottish engineer, James 'Scotty' Doohan, who passed away this week at the age of 85 after a long battle with alzheimer's.
He's the second of the original Star Trek cast to go, the first being DeForest Kelley (Dr MocCoy) about five or six years ago.
Beam him up, God
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"For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks."
- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)
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