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Star Trek: The Original Series Character
Montgomery " Scotty" Scott
Status	Alive
Gender	Male
Species	Human
Origin	Earth - Scotland
Portrayed by	James Doohan
First Appearance	" Where No Man Has Gone Before "
Profession	Starfleet Officer - Chief Engineer, Enterprise
Relatives	N/A
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Montgomery "Scotty" Scott is a fictional character on the TV show Star Trek: The Original Series

Scott, known as "Scotty" as well as "the miracle worker" to his comrades James T. Kirk & crew, was the chief engineer aboard the original U.S.S. Enterprise and its successor ships. Bullish on his Scottish ancestry, he wears ceremonial kilts with his dress uniform, plays the bagpipes and is renowned for his love of Scotch and his beverage collection from all parts of the galaxy.

Kirk's original U.S.S. Enterprise was his first posting as chief engineer and his engineering feats more than once saved that starship. He returned to oversee the major refits of the ship in 2269-71, its successor the NCC-1701-A in 2286, and the short-lived transwarp engines tested on the prototype U.S.S. Excelsior a year earlier. Scotty had bought a boat in anticipation of his retirement three months after the Khitomer peace conference in 2293, but Kirk persuaded him instead to come back to active duty once again. On hand for the ceremonial christening of the U.S.S. Enterprise-B, he helped save the newly launched starship from destruction by the temporal ribbon and save El-Aurian refugees, witnessing Kirk's apparent death in the process.

He finally did retire the next year at the age of 72, after 52 years in Starfleet, but was presumed lost with his courier ship U.S.S. Jenolen en route to the Norpin Colony, retirement home. Not until 2369 was it discovered he was the only survivor of the ship's crash on the exterior of a Dyson Sphere, kept alive only as a transporter beaming loop until, ironically, he was rescued by an away team from the U.S.S. Enterprise-D. Scott so disoriented that he thought Kirk had come to rescue him. After trading barbs and quips with Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge & helping to save that Enterprise, he received a permanently "loaned" shuttlecraft, the Goddard, from Captain Jean-Luc Picard & set off to roam the galaxy.

Memorable Quotes

In The Search for Spock The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.

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Elevator voice: Level, please. Scotty: Transporter room. Elevator voice: Thank you. Scotty: (under breath) Up your shaft.

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In The Voyage Home faced with a 20th century computer Keyboard? How quaint.

Popular Culture

• "Beam me up, Scotty" was a popular bumper sticker (along with variations, like "Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here." That line was not used in the original series, although it does appear in Star Trek: The Animated Series. When Captain James T. Kirk would need to return to the ship, he would actually say something like, "Scotty? That's one to beam up."