Scotty is being beamed up to the Final Frontier!

Och Aye! Great to see you today. Fill your mug with some java juice and beam a virtual treat onto your plate while I bring back some memories. Are you a Trekkie? I sure enjoyed the original Star Trek series...and the Second Generation...and Star Trek Voyager...and the 12 or more Star Trek Movies. Now there's a new movie out! One part of the legacy continues while another is appropriately laid to rest.

The remains of the creator of Star Trek and the ashes of the actor who played Scotty are to blast off into space.  James Doohan's character sparked the line "Beam me up, Scotty".

The ashes of Gene Roddenberry, who conceived the original 1960s TV series, will head for the final frontier alongside those of James Doohan, who played the starship Enterprise's Scottish engineer. Roddenberry's ashes will also be accompanied by those of his wife on the November 2014 launch by memorial spaceflight company Celestis.

They will be part of a cargo that includes other cremated remains, written messages and samples of DNA in capsules sent by the general public.

"What's very cool about this is that it's science fiction meeting reality," said Celestis spokeswoman Pazia Schonfeld.

The remains will travel on a spacecraft called a solar sail, which is powered by sunlight and made to withstand high temperatures, and will head for orbit around the Sun, according to the company.

Here's to a couple of amazing people. May their final exploration journey last forever.

See ya, eh!

Bob 

PS: Wouldn't it be something if their solar sail vessel is discovered by aliens who use it to navigate to Earth? Far out, eh!