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Most ST fans are quite familiar with the background on all their ST heroes. Learning trivia becomes almost an obsession. But for the regular fan, it's fun making these discoveries. Some didn't know the following about our favorite engineer, Montgomery Scott.
1.) He is of very Irish stock, parents from Bangor, part of the Belfast area in Northern Ireland. They emigrated to Vancouver Canada where Doohan was born.
2.) His middle name is "Montgomery", taken from his Mother's maiden name.
3.) Most know that he was involved in D-Day, and WWII, but some particulars may not be known. For instance...
a.) He was helping lead a regiment across an anti-tank mine field.
b.) He took out two snipers leading his men.
c.) He was shot/wounded six times: four in the leg, one taking out his right middle finger, (which was amputated,) and another to the chest.
d.) It was a silver cigarette case given by his older brother (he was the baby of the family), that saved his life taking the impact from the bullet to the chest.
e.) He was part of the 2nd wave of the Canadian landing force at Juno Beach.
f.) He was never actually a member of the RCAF, but came to be known as "the craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force."
g.) He drew a reprimand for flying a plane between two telephone poles simply to prove that it could be done.
4.) He had an extremely versatile voice and would later voice as many as seven characters in an episode of ST, TAS.
5.) During production of ST:TMP, it was Doohan who made the vocals for both the Vulcan and Klingon languages. He created the first sounds and words. Later linguist Mark Orcrand would create an entire Klingon language, based on Doohan's gutteral sounds and words.
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