Scotty's Dead, Jim!

First, it was Dr. McCoy, and now Scotty. Farewell, Vancouverite.

Besides Star Trek, I didn't really know that much about James Doohan until I read his mini-bio in the Yahoo! News article. Turns out he was born in Vancouver, joined the Canadian army, and gotten his right middle finger blown off in D-Day before going into acting. What an interesting life. (Source)

It would've been cool if his last words were "Beam me up, God!"