“I called her and I said, ‘Hey, this is Jimmy Doohan. Scotty of Star Trek. I’m doing a convention in Indianapolis, and I want to see you there.'” he explained. “I saw her. Boy, I’m telling you — I couldn’t believe what I saw. It was definitely suicide. Somebody had to help her, somehow. And, obviously, she wasn’t going to the right people.”
Doohan told the woman about each surrounding area convention (and some in nearby states) that he would be at and said he wanted to see her at each.
“That went on for two or three years, maybe 18 times,” he said. “And all I did was talk positive things to her. And then all of a sudden — nothing. I didn’t hear anything, and I had no idea what was really happening to her because I never really saved her address. Eight years later, I get a letter saying, ‘I do want to thank you so much for what you did for me, I just got my master’s degree in electronic engineering.'”
Watch James recount it here [2:02] | Article Source here
Check in on the people you love. You never know what someone is going through and just being there can help way more than you might know. Trust me as someone who doesn’t have anyone there.
Live long and prosper, friends 🖖
People like James having existed feels like salt in the wound to the fact that the vast, vast majority of humans I’ve observed in my 3 and a half decades act like Feral Ferengi, exclusively interested in “what’s in it for me and who can I exploit to get it?”
As I age, the humanity of Star Trek comes to feel as fantastical as the sci-fantasy in Star Wars.
Just said in another comment but I was homeless for half my 20s. Also had an extremely unpleasant childhood and equally unpleasant teenage years. Honestly it’s only been the past 5-6 years that things are sort of okay. Either way I’ve seen a disgusting amount of what humanity is actually like and honestly… yeah. If most people don’t act like Ferengi then they just act indifferent. Not sure which hurts most, if I’m honest.
Ferengis judged “Hoomons” for being worse than them. Ferengis never had slavery, and while they exploted eachother their hypercapitalist society was still more fair than ours (if you ignore the sexism)
Did they ever follow up with how much of an impact Quark’s mom had? I remember all the drama in ds9 but I don’t know if it ever changed much.
Yes if I remembet Quarks mom helped achieve
nearequality, where women were allowed to do as much as men could