Editing James Doohan (section)

==After ''Star Trek''==
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[[File:Doohan James NASA 19670413.jpg|right|thumb|Doohan (left) visiting NASA's [[Dryden Flight Research Center]] with pilot [[Bruce Peterson]] on April 13, 1967, in front of the [[Northrop M2-F2]]]]
Doohan hoped that ''Star Trek'' would benefit his acting career.<ref name="upi19690421">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3a8iAAAAIBAJ&pg=4120,5103972|title='Star Trek' Ace Is Former Pilot|agency=[[United Press International]]|newspaper=Beaver County Times|date=April 21, 1969|access-date=May 6, 2011|location=Beaver, Pennsylvania|pages=B12}}</ref> After the series ended, however, he found himself [[Typecasting (acting)|typecast]] and had a hard time gaining other roles. After his dentist reminded him he would "always be Scotty", he supported his family with income from personal appearances.<ref name=Dentist>{{cite news|title=Actor James Doohan, 85; Played Scotty on 'Star Trek'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002406.html|access-date=May 15, 2013|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=July 21, 2005|agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref>

Most of the roles Doohan subsequently played made at least oblique references to his ''Star Trek'' connection and engineering reputation. He was Commander Canarvin in the short-lived Saturday morning [[live-action]] kids' show ''[[Jason of Star Command]]'', and had a [[cameo appearance|cameo]] in the made-for-TV movie ''[[Knight Rider 2000]]'' as "Jimmy Doohan, the guy who played Scotty on ''Star Trek''". On the television series ''[[Homeboys in Outer Space]]'', he was Pippen, a pun on Scotty and basketball star [[Scottie Pippen]]. He played himself in an episode of ''[[The Ben Stiller Show]]''. He played Damon Warwick, father of James Warwick, on the daytime [[soap opera]] ''[[The Bold and the Beautiful]]''.<ref name=Bold&B>{{cite web|title=Ian on 'The Bold and the Beautiful'|url=http://ianonline.stormpages.com/bbian.htm|access-date=May 15, 2013|quote=James Doohan... guest-starred for several appearances as James' dad Damon|work=Ian Buchanan ONLINE|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105031450/http://ianonline.stormpages.com/bbian.htm|archive-date=November 5, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref> After learning about cold fusion from technical journals in 1989, he narrated the video "Cold Fusion: Fire from Water", about the physics behind cold fusion.<ref name= FusionNY/>

When the ''Star Trek'' franchise was revived, Doohan reprised his role of Scotty in seven [[Star Trek (film series)|''Star Trek'' films]]. Many of Doohan's film appearances centred on the role of Scotty, such as a [[Cameo appearance|cameo]] in ''[[Loaded Weapon 1|National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1]]'', where he plays a policeman doing repair work who tells his superior officer "I am giving it all she has got, Captain!" in the same accent he used in ''Star Trek''.

Although he continued to work with William Shatner in the ''Star Trek'' films, Doohan did not get along well with him and was once quoted in 1998 as saying, "I like Captain Kirk, but I sure don't like Bill."<ref name= Dentist/> He was the only former ''Star Trek'' co-star to decline to be interviewed by Shatner for Shatner's first ''Star Trek: Memories'' book about the show, nor did he consent to do so for Shatner's follow-up book, ''Star Trek: Movie Memories'', though Shatner claimed in the latter that the icy relationship between the two started to thaw when both men were working on ''Star Trek Generations'' in 1993–94.<ref>Shatner, William, Star Trek: Movie Memories. Harper Collins: New York, 1994</ref> By Doohan's final August 2004 convention appearance, Doohan and Shatner reportedly had mended their relationship.<ref name=MendShatner>{{cite web|title=George Takei: William Shatner Refused To Appear On-Stage With James Doohan At Farewell Con|url=http://trekmovie.com/2010/12/09/george-takei-william-shatner-refused-to-appear-on-stage-with-james-doohan-at-farewell-con/|access-date=May 15, 2013|publisher=TrekMovie.com|date=December 9, 2010|last=Pascale|first=Anthony}}</ref>