On A Pale Horse

I love how these Star Trek guys just embrace the quirkiness of the show and it's fans. A few weeks ago Encore was showing (again & again) the documentary "Trekkies". One of the scenes I loved the most was 'Scotty' telling of a woman that was really depressed and they started a correspondence and finally met at a few of the Trek conventions. He said that she just looked so miserable and he just gave her some words of encouragement. He went on to say that the letters stopped coming and he didn't keep her home address to find out what happened but kept hoping that she was alright. Then a few years later she came to another convention and he hardly recognized her, she was smiling and happy and told him that she went back to school got things together in her life and it had a lot to do with the encouragement that he gave her. He said this with tears welling up in his eyes. It was pretty touching. But I guess that's pretty telling of what sort of guy he was.
In recent years he was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease this with bout of pneumonia caused his passing.
I'm not going to be cliche like the headlines on CNN.com and MSNBC.com all I'll say is that you will be missed.

March 3, 1920 - July 20, 2005
R.I.P.

Labels: 1920 births, 2005 July deaths, actor, pneumonia

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