Editing James Doohan (section)

==''Star Trek''==
[[File:Doohan.JPG|right|thumb|The handprints of James Doohan in front of [[Hollywood Hills Amphitheater]] at [[Walt Disney World]]'s [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]] theme park]]
Doohan developed a talent for accents as a child.{{r|upi19690421}} Auditioning for the role of chief engineer of the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|USS ''Enterprise'']], Doohan did several different accents. Producer [[Gene Roddenberry]] asked which he preferred, and Doohan replied, "If you want an engineer, in my experience the best engineers are Scotsmen."<ref name=AccentsName>{{cite news |title='SCOTTY' HAS ACCENTED VERSATILE ACTOR'S CAREER |author=Scott D. Pierce |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/285993/SCOTTY-HAS-ACCENTED-VERSATILE-ACTORS-CAREER.html?pg=all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105184312/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/285993/SCOTTY-HAS-ACCENTED-VERSATILE-ACTORS-CAREER.html?pg=all |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 5, 2013 |newspaper=[[Deseret News]] |date=April 16, 1993 |access-date=May 15, 2013}}</ref> He chose the name "Montgomery Scott" after his grandfather.<ref name=AccentsName/> In later years, Doohan reenacted the casting process at Star Trek conventions, demonstrating a variety of possible voices and characters.<ref name="AccentsName" />

Doohan was quoted as saying, "Scotty is ninety-nine percent James Doohan and one percent accent."<ref name="AccentAberdeen">{{cite web|title=James Doohan – Interview|url=http://www.sci-fi-online.com/Interview/03-05-20_JamesDoohan.htm|access-date=May 15, 2013|work=Sci-fi Online}}</ref><ref name="Percent">{{cite book|last=Dillard|first=J.M.|title=Star Trek: Where no-one has gone before|date=April 1996|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-0671002060|page=17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eh2p_Dm7cH8C&q=percent|edition=Second Revised|author2=Susan Sackett|author2-link=Susan Sackett|access-date=May 15, 2013|quote="The character is ninety-nine percent James Doohan and one percent accent"}}</ref> The character was originally conceived as semi-regular; but was elevated to be a regular supporting character. Doohan also provided voices for inanimate characters, including Sargon in "[[Return to Tomorrow]]", the M-5 in "[[The Ultimate Computer]]", the Mission Control Voice in "[[Assignment: Earth]]", and the Oracle in "[[For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky]]".

Doohan returned to the role of Scotty in the early 1970s for ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]''. [[Walter Koenig]] (navigator [[Pavel Chekov]]) was not hired for this series due to budget limitations, so Doohan voiced a replacement character: alien navigator [[Arex (Star Trek)|Arex]]. He also voiced most guest male roles, including that of [[Robert April]], the first captain of the ''Enterprise'' and around 50 other roles, voicing as many as seven different characters in a single episode.<ref>{{Citation|title="Star Trek: The Animated Series" Yesteryear (TV Episode 1973)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0827628/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_361|access-date=2017-06-03}}</ref><ref name="Arex">{{cite web|title=Behind The Voice Actors – James Doohan|url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/James-Doohan/|access-date=May 15, 2013|work=Behind The Voice Actors}}</ref>

He rejoined the entire regular cast of ''Star Trek'' for the feature film ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'' (1979). He continued in the role of Scotty for sequels ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|The Wrath of Khan]]'', ''[[Star Trek III: The Search for Spock|The Search for Spock]]'', ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|The Voyage Home]]'', ''[[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier|The Final Frontier]]'' and ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country|The Undiscovered Country]]''. In 1992, he guest-starred in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "[[Relics (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Relics]]", playing an elderly Scotty reminiscing about his time on the ''Enterprise''. He and Walter Koenig appeared briefly with William Shatner in ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'', in a scene which transitioned the film series to the newer cast of the first of the later television series in the franchise.

The Klingon language's basic sound, along with a few words, was created by Doohan and producer [[Jon Povill]]. Doohan also devised the [[Vulcan language|Vulcan]] dialogue for the feature film ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]].'' [[Kwantlen First Nation|Kwantlen]] journalist Robert Jago has pointed out similarities between Klingon and [[Halkomelem]], a language spoken by the Indigenous people of the area where James Doohan grew up.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jago |first=Robert |date=February 14, 2025 |title=Scotty was the person who created the first version of the Klingon language - who set the sound pattern for it. Scotty is also from South Vancouver, right next to the Musqueam reserve where they speak Halkomelem. [Post] |url=https://bsky.app/profile/rjjago.bsky.social/post/3li6kk32a4k2z |website=Bluesky}}</ref>