Actor James Doohan's family is celebrating after keeping a major secret for the past 12 years. The late Doohan, who famously portrayed chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original TV ...

James Doohan's ashes shot into space The ashes of late Canadian actor James Doohan have been successfully sent into Earth orbit via SpaceX's unmanned Falcon 9 rocket, E! News reported.

Going boldly where someone has gone before! The "Star Trek" prequel series is overflowing with characters who debuted in the ...

The rocket that took Star Trek star James Doohan's ashes to space is missing. May 12, 2007 — -- It turns out that beaming Scotty up may have been the easy part. Two weeks after the ashes of ...

For much of its existence, Star Trek has been all about rebirth, whether it was the letter-writing campaigns that saved the original series twice, the fan movement that led to 1979's Star Trek: The ...

James Doohan, the veteran actor best known for his role on "Star Trek" as the Starship Enterprise's chief engineer who responded to the famous command, "Beam me up, Scotty," died Wednesday.

The late James Doohan, who played Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on Star Trek: The Original Series, had his ashes secretly smuggled to the International Space Station in 2008 and is officially resting ...

James Doohan, the late actor forever ingrained in pop culture and our collective memory as engineer James Montgomery Scott, a.k.a. Scotty from Star Trek, is resting with the stars.

James Montgomery Doohan was born in Vancouver, B.C. As he wrote in his autobiography, “Beam Me Up, Scotty,” his father was a drunk who made life miserable for his wife and children.

Doohan, 85, died Wednesday of pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease. Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home. With him was his wife of 31 years, Wende, 48. His ashes are to be sent into ...

And on Monday, the backstory of how they came to be there was revealed in full. Actor James Doohan recieves his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame August 31, 2004 in Los Angeles, California.