Someone wrote in [community profile] tf_talk 2015-04-19 09:58 pm (UTC)

Andy claims he met James Doohan at his "last convention" in 1990/fakes text messages from his dad

In an interview with Agentsex, Andy claims he met James Doohan at his "last convention" in 1990. Kumquatwriter explains that James Doohan's last convention was in 2004 -- and she should know, because Andy and she attended together.

http://kumquatwriter.tumblr.com/post/92103871738/beam-me-up-scotty

James Doohan made his final convention appearance August 27 - 30th at the Renaissance hotel in Hollywood. I know this, because Andy and I went to that convention. We went on the last day, toward the end - somebody tipped us their wristbands. We missed seeing James Doohan (and Leonard Nimoy, dammit) but we did meet Majel Barrett Roddenberry and Grace Lee Whitney. I actually had a very nice, if brief, chat with Majel, who was a hell of a class act and a damn nice lady. Andy was standing right next to me.

In 2004. The year before James Doohan died.

So there’s that.


Andy immediately begins damage control:

http://andythanfiction.tumblr.com/post/92167337702/scotty-doesnt-know

Scotty Doesn’t Know

In a recent interview, as well as at many other times, I have talked about my dad taking me to my first Star Trek convention when I was 6 or 7 (1990) to see James Doohan. He told me at the time that we were doing this because Scotty was special to him and this was going to be his last convention, and I never questioned it. Although I knew Doohan didn’t die until later, I honestly didn’t remember when and regardless of the gap, just assumed that had still been his last convention.

Recently, it was brought to my attention that Mr. Doohan died in 2005 and his last convention was in 2004. I asked my dad, and he said that he had been told by a friend that Doohan was sick and it was his last convention. Considering how he looked in promos for STVI, it seemed plausible, and as he pointed out, this was before the internet and it was a lot harder to verify rumors. So he took me and assumed there were no more cons and was sad when the death news came and didn’t much consider it for the next 24 years.

The con was real, the reason Dad took me was real, he just made a mistake based on a fandom friend’s “tip,” and I repeated it without thinking for almost 25 years. I apologize for any confusion I caused.


Andy sends Agentsex some screenshots from his phone, claiming they show a text-message conversation with his father that explains the slip-up. Agentsex proceeds to hand-wave the matter.

http://agentsex.tumblr.com/post/93330732348/can-i-just-also-say-that-the-internet-did-exist-in

While I’m pretty sure that I could find definitive proof of whether Andy really met James Doohan in 1990, I really do not care at all about the answer. Neither do I care about when Andy’s dad first had Internet access. I don’t understand why so many people are fixated on the most inconsequential details instead of the big picture.

An anon creates a graphic that suggests Andy faked the conversation with iphonetextgenerator.com:

http://notreallyhappeningtoday.tumblr.com/post/93430262970/courtesy-of-fail-fandomanon-nonny-you-know-who

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