Quote Originally Posted by Colin View Post
That's funny.

I am typing about 25 minutes away from where James Doohan (who played Scotty of course) was born in Vancouver, BC. No statues here that I am aware of
Well it was Gene Rodenberry who I believe said that Scotty was going to be born in Linlithgow, Scotland. Linlithgow is not a big place so they do not get many great engineers and space explorers that often. There may be other famous people from Linlithgow, I'm sure there must be an inventor or two about, Scotland was full of inventors at one time.
Any way we are fair chuffed Scotty is going to be born in Linlithgow so we decided to honour him with a statue.
There is a place down the road from Linlithgow called Bonnybridge and its described as the UFO capital of Scotland so perhaps Mr. Spock may have visited it at one time along with Captain Kirk.

I,m sure Vancouver has its fair share of famous people and it may get round to honouring actors some day with statues but I suppose actors are common place in Vancouver as opposed to Scottish engineers.
Here's boldly going......
Julian