The Vancouver native and D-Day veteran will be known forever as Scotty on the original Star Trek and the first seven Trek movies. He also vied with Tony Randall in that Viagra-era phemonenon known as elderly celeb fatherhood, having sired his last kid at age 80 (five years ago).

As the Enterprise’s chief engineer and transporter jockey, Doohan was the voice and face of imagined 24th-century high tech. How appropriate/ironic/whatever that his final home was in Redmond, the suburb whose name means technology in today’s world.