I met Mr. Doohan when he was at a sci-fi convention a few years back in Wichita. A friend of a friend put the convention together as a fund raiser for medical research, so my nephew & I actually met & chatted with him & some Irish friends of mine got a jam together for him. He loved the music, and sang an old ballad for us.
    By then, he was pushed around in a wheel chair, and stood to go on stage. My trekkie nephew was impressed by him, as a "regular guy." Mr. Doohan spoke quite a bit about WWII, and influenced my nephew to do considerable research to find out about our family members who were "over there."
   If you haven't read his autobiography, it's good. He discusses quite a bit of history in it. He was a gentleman who is missed.
The good news is, that he is frozen in time in a shuttlecraft, tumbling in space, & in a few hundred years, will be found & patched up almost good as new, to beam all over the gallaxy. Till then, now that he's 'on the other side,' he'll have to settle for 'assisting' researchers trying to beam matter. After all, he wasn't called "the miracle worker" for nothing.