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   From: kweeg@nospam.shaw.ca   
      
   "Keeper of the Purple Twilight"  wrote in message   
   news:smUDe.30732$fV.9510@okepread06...   
   > In article ,   
   >  "Steven L."  wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > > I loved both the Scotty character and how James Doohan played him.   
   > >   
   > > In TV and the movies, except for Star Trek, there have been very few   
   > > engineers portrayed as positive role models.   
   >   
   > Agreed.   
   >   
   > Trek has always had great engineers - Trip. Scotty. Geordi. O'Brien.   
   > B'Elanna.   
      
   The only ones that seemed well adjusted though were Scotty and O'Brien. OK,   
   maybe Trip too. Geordie was a bit of a social outcast, hell his best friend   
   was a machine, and B'Elanna had some authority issues.   
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