Godspeed, Jimmy Doohan

[chochiyo_sama]

 

 

My Letter to Mr. Doohan

 

Dear Mr. Doohan,

Thank you. 

I regret that I never had the opportunity to thank you in person (always intended to go to one of those Star Trek conventions but never did make it....YET.)

You made my life better.  Star Trek gave me hope when I lived in a very dark and grim world.  The characters on Star Trek were role models, parental figures who were rational and honorable.

It may seem lame and silly to those who grew up in Beaver Cleaver worlds that a person could feel this strongly about a TV show.  However, I know what influenced me, and made me a more tolerant, inclusive, and optimistic person.

It also made me a strong proponent of the space program.  Between the duo influences of Star Trek and Robert Heinlein's books, I firmly believed that I would be living on the moon at some point in my life.  Sadly, it looks like that isn't going to happen.  I hope it will happen in the lifetime of my neices and nephews and students.

Godspeed, my friend.  May you find peace and joy in the Ultimate Final Frontier.

Give DeForest Kelley a hug for me when you see him.

Yours truly,

"Cho"

Comments

[bloodshoes.livejournal.com]

GREAT SCOTT!

he was 85, and had alzheimer's. under those circumstances, it's hard to be sad to see a person go. but come on. who doesn't love scotty?

i will be wearing black fr a week when shatner kicks th bucket. he is sooooooooooooooo cool.

[bloodshoes.livejournal.com]

p.s.: if you cld maybe explain to me how you post pictures in yr livejournal, that would be th best.

Posting pictures.

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

There is a option to use "rich text" at the bottom of your posting box. Hit that.

A tool bar is then available where you can write in color or bold, or whatever you want....

there is a little square on the right side (towards the middle--hit that, and you will be given a little box in the upper left hand corner in which you past the jpeg address. I get my pictures off google, mostly.

My own, I upload them on the flickr site and then blog them onto livejournal.

My brother and I were just discussing yesterday the fact that we would both bawl when James T Kirk went onto the final frontier. It gives me a chill just to think of it. And Leonard Nimoy too. *SNIFF*

William Shatner IS the big, giant head of the universe.

LONG MAY HE REIGN!!!

Nope ....

[(Anonymous)]

Scotty was THE MAN

If it weren't for him, the Enterprise would've crashed and burned.

All my friends laughed at me - they all liked the little Russian twerp (Chekhov?) - but I adored Scotty from day one. Especially when he wore his kilt ...

Laurie