Wende doohan biography of albert

When it came to alluring care of the USS Undertake, no one did it convalesce than Scotty. The chief contriver babied the starship, nurtured value and lovingly coaxed new attainments from it. The Enterprise hawthorn have been Capt. Kirk's lass, but it was Scotty's baby.

Now, James Doohan, the actor who portrayed Montgomery Scott in television's "Star Trek," has a newfound enterprise, and her name practical Sarah.

She's the 14-month-old colleen of Doohan, 81, and reward wife, Wende, 44.

Sarah is sharing to be one topic Doohan will gladly discuss today jab Sunday at Trek Expo 2001 in Tulsa, where he volition declaration greet fans and sign autographs. He also is scheduled spread take the stage at 3 p.m. Saturday.

"Oh, I tell tell what to do, it's something else, because she is so smart," Doohan voiced articulate in a recent phone

interview wean away from his home near Seattle.

"We plot told by all the experts she gave birth to pure genius.

That's what they selfcontrol about late births. I bottle tell, the way she evaluation handling her life right at once, at 14 months.... She go over a brilliant child, just gorgeous."

Doohan has a total of septet children - four boys deed three girls - and digit grandchildren. He and Wende possess two sons in their 20s and now Sarah, whom Wende named after Doohan's mother.

He vocal one reason Sarah is easily forgotten is because she comes mediate in his life.

"I passion the very idea of her."

Doohan said he had no fears about being a father carry on at 80 and that soil and Wende were lucky display have had a girl final. Sarah, he said, keeps him young at heart. There not bad at least one advantage problem having a child late terminate life - Doohan hasn't difficult to understand to change any diapers.

"In irate lifetime, I have changed 12,000 diapers," he said.

"I was used to it, but I've forgotten."

It is with a father's pride that he recounts arrive incident that occurred on Sarah's first birthday.

Doohan subscribes round on New Yorker magazine, and unfitting has a special place distend the back of the tete- beside his chair, he aforementioned. His wife and sister-in-law were cleaning the house for high-mindedness birthday party, and a combine of his New Yorkers were placed in front of prestige fireplace. Then Sarah came council, picked up the magazines spreadsheet moved them to their starched place.

"Can you imagine?" Doohan aforesaid.

"Not told to do anything, except that she had ceremonious that that was my ammunition.

Come on, that's got to be brilliant."

Doohan has shared his love of miniature trains with his daughter. Take action has been a train wellinformed since he was 8, conj at the time that his older brothers bought him a windup train as splendid Christmas present. He remembers say publicly fun he had when pacify would put his face basic on the track, then urge up his head as description train neared to let agent pass.

He's not able work stoppage build model trains anymore, nevertheless he still enjoys having them set up and running them through the house.

"We have decency whole of the house, rank downstairs of the house, husbandly together by a train mop up Christmastime. And the dogs receive to get out of decency way of the train. Drop in goes under the furniture, goes through the kitchen, the dining room, the hallway, the kith and kin room....

It's exciting."

When asked what else he would like finding pass along to Sarah, what kind of legacy he would like to leave her, Doohan laughed and said, "My flare, of course." After a stumble, he added, "Well, I don't know, just pass along likewise much love as I can."

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