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The Miracle Worker (startrek.website)
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“I called her and I said, ‘Hey, this is Jimmy Doohan. Scotty of Star Trek. I’m doing a convention in Indianapolis, and I want to see you there.'” he explained. “I saw her. Boy, I’m telling you — I couldn’t believe what I saw. It was definitely suicide. Somebody had to help her, somehow. And, obviously, she wasn’t going to the right people.”

Doohan told the woman about each surrounding area convention (and some in nearby states) that he would be at and said he wanted to see her at each.

“That went on for two or three years, maybe 18 times,” he said. “And all I did was talk positive things to her. And then all of a sudden — nothing. I didn’t hear anything, and I had no idea what was really happening to her because I never really saved her address. Eight years later, I get a letter saying, ‘I do want to thank you so much for what you did for me, I just got my master’s degree in electronic engineering.'”

Watch James recount it here [2:02] | Article Source here

Check in on the people you love. You never know what someone is going through and just being there can help way more than you might know. Trust me as someone who doesn't have anyone there.

Live long and prosper, friends 🖖

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[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 70 points 1 year ago

He was also a badass pilot:

Although he was never actually a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Doohan was once labelled the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force". In the late spring of 1945, on Salisbury Plain north of RAF Andover, he slalomed a plane between telegraph poles "to prove it could be done", earning himself a serious reprimand. (Various accounts cite the plane as a Hurricane or a jet trainer; however, it was an Auster Mark IV.)

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago

"to prove it could be done"

100% Starfleet

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 23 points 1 year ago

He was giving her all she's got.

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

It's a bit like how the Asgard need help from humans in SG1 because no rational alien race would think to put an explosive behind some metal pellets and make that an infantry weapon.

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