Evidently "Star Trek" actor James "Scotty" Doohan took the catchphrase "beam me up" very seriously -- his cremated remains will be launched into space in accord with his last wishes. Commercial space flight operator Space Services Inc. will launch the late actor's remains into space aboard its Explorers Flight on December 6, a company spokeswoman said on Friday.She said the remains of more than 120 others will be aboard the flight, including those of an unidentified astronaut and Mareta West, the astrogeologist who determined the site for the first spacecraft landing on the moon.Space Services spokeswoman Susan Schonfeld declined to identify the astronaut whose cremated remains will be launched into space. She said the name would be announced the day of the launch.Doohan, who portrayed feisty chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the "Star Trek" television series, died in July at age 85. On the program, when Capt. James Kirk ventured off the spaceship Enterprise and faced peril, he would demand Scotty "beam" his body up to the safety of the ship.

The actual phrase "Beam me up, Scotty," was not used on the show, but it entered pop culture.To mark the flight into his final frontier, Doohan's family will hold a service for fans on a 60-acre (24-hectare) site near Vandenberg Air Force Base north of Los Angeles the day of the launch to pay tribute to him. Some fans are expected to attend in the formal white suit of a Star Fleet commander."I can't think of a more fitting send-off than having some of his fans attend this, his final journey," his widow, Wende Doohan, said in an open invitation to the service."Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry also had his remains shot into space after his death in 1991. They returned to Earth in 2002, Schonfeld said.

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I think that his whole working life revolved around the idea of space and man’s ultimate flight. I think it’s fitting that his ashes would finally make there way there.

All of the cast of the original Star Trek should be honored for allowing people to dream of some thing better. Their dreams has caused our world to change in way's thought impossible in our generation.

I hope the Dream continues till a better , more peaceful world becomes a reality!

Fair thee Well "Mr. Scott"!

Yes, I saw this. I was always a big fan of James Doohan. I grew up with original Star Trek & there's just something about a man with an accent that gets me everytime!!!

I think it is very fitting that he rest in peace in space, the place he helped so many of us kids dreamed of going.

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I think it is very fitting that his ashes be committed to space.

Star Trek has inspired many to take an interest in the Universe around us, and to dream of a society that has gotten past the hate and chaos we have now.

They promoted the idea of sexual and ethnic equality, and that conflict can be resolved peacefully.

May the Universe accept thee into its bussom, Mr Doohan... for you were accepted into our hearts.

What a fitting place for James Doohan to rest in peace!

Hail and farewell, Mr Scott

Och, laddie! I'll drink a wee dram to your memory. It'll be something...green.

I didn't even know he'd died!

How fitting a burial in space is, though. In America Star Trek has been very much a part of our space program. The show inspired the dreams of millions of children, and offered a hopeful view of the future at a time when most people didn't believe there would be a future. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, was active in recruiting for NASA. The first space shuttle was named the Enterprise and when it launched the entire cast of the original Trek was on hand and the band (one of the military bands, I believe) played the theme to Star Trek.

Rest in peace, lad!

RIP Scotty!

*salutes* We'll miss yah Scotty. You'll...*sniff* finally travel were no man has gone before...