{"id":113884,"date":"2024-08-24T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/james-doohan-craziest-pilot-royal-canadian-air-force\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T09:00:12","slug":"star-treks-scotty-in-ww2-why-james-doohan-was-called-the-craziest-pilot-in-the-royal-canadian-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=113884","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek’s “Scotty” In WW2: Why James Doohan Was Called “The Craziest Pilot” In The Royal Canadian Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old-school science fiction buffs will almost certainly recognize at least some of the above quotes as belonging to dear ol’ Lieutenant Commander Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, Chief Engineer of the starship USS Enterprise<\/em> in the enduringly popular Star Trek <\/em>television and movie franchise. The late great James Doohan played Scotty<\/a> in the original TV and film series, and Simon Pegg in the reboot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long before he was “Scotty in the mega-popular Star Trek sci-fi franchise, James Doohan was a real-life military aviator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,713,2035,408,412,6808],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-canada","category-celebrity","category-history","category-military","category-second-world-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t