Love Our Arts & Culture Coverage?
You can help fund it!
Tour Guide: “On your left here you can see St. Paul’s Hospital. It’s the oldest hospital in Vancouver, and a leading research facility in HIV and AIDS. Or, if you don’t want to get involved with the whole HIV and AIDS thing, Scotty from Star Trek? The original Star Trek, the show? He was born here!”
People on Bus: “Ooooooooh!”
Lindy West was born an unremarkable female baby in Seattle, Washington. The former Stranger writer covered movies, movie stars, exclamation points, lady stuff, large frightening fish, and much, much more.... More by Lindy West
Comments are closed.
Sign up for our newsletter for news recaps, updates, and more!
AIDS is so 1988.
I would have paid good money to be on a bus tour of Vancouver with Lindy West. Talk about surreal.
Reading into it too much perhaps? Unless you aren’t…. But my guess is that the tour guide was saying, basically, “maybe you don’t want to think about a really horrible disease and instead would like to know about some really neat trivia!”
I seem to recall Scotty getting in trouble on shore leave a few times and Doc McCoy having to help him out with that. I suppose Space VD is more interesting than the Terran forms.
So, what happened? Did you get involved with the whole HIV and AIDS thing?
James “Scotty” Doohan lived in Redmond for years and years and raised some kids there. He was the most likely minor celebrity to run into at random on the Eastside, whether buying Scotty action figures at Toys R Us in Bellevue or just shopping at the QFC in Redmond.
Who does want to, really?
6 I once ran into Scotty as I was sprinting out of the QFC with my “purchase” of red wine.
Given that it’s world-renowned, they probably could have played up the research angle a bit more positively. But, hey, I didn’t know that about Doohan – I’ll have to go take a photo. =)
what the heck is star treak? is that a new reality show?
That whole HIV and AIDS thing is so played out now that all the Seattle hipsters on Capitol Hill have it.
Bus tour of Vancouver? What are you, 80?
Shit, Vancouver sucks. That’s why I’m moving to Chicago.
..Canada is crap.
Vancouver has a bunch of gay heroin addicts..
St. Pauls may eventually also become famous for collapsing on and killing all the patients inside- the plan is to discard it in favour of a new facility because a needed siesmic upgrade isn’t practical, but who knows how many years it will be before that happens? Maybe in 30 years, after we pay down the Olympic debt.