Well, he and his work will live forever onscreen. As another of my childhood icons - the great Tom "Fourth Doctor" Baker - once put it, the living are being entertained by the dead.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'