Montgomery Scott, nicknamed Scotty, occurs as fictional character in the Star Trek universe. He served when a primary engineer of the Starship Enterprise, and was referred to as the "miracle worker" for existence a cappella to are higher by using improper solutions to solve practically any engineering condition he faced (though he typically padded his estimates of how else hanker it would choose, then that he can universally seem to make their way a job done super quickly). Scotty was innate around Aberdeen, Scotland and spoke with the heavy Scottish accent.

A character was played per late actor James Doohan in the television series Star Trek: The Original Series and the 1st seven Star Trek pic, likewise when in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics". Scotty held a rank of lieutenant commander during the original series, got been promoted to commander by the time of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and standard the promotion to captain in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

Scotty's operating of the Enterprise transporter formulas inspired a catch phrase "Beam me up, Scotty", which gained currency around pop culture even beyond Star Trek fans, though that exact sentence was never spoken in any episode of the indicate.

Scotty likewise became the kinda general cliché for any chief engineer in the moving-picture show genre of science fiction parodies. It has likewise be something of the cliché for starship engineers to be Scottish — potentially Star Trek: The Next Generation briefly had a Scottish engineer aboard the Enterprise-D.

Continuity issues
Scotty's appearance at a christening of the Enterprise-B (Star Trek: Generations) raises some continuity questions. He got survive appeared in the Next Generation episode "Relics", shot before anyone began exploring the subject of the final fate of the original crew. After rescued by William T. Riker and Geordi La Forge and upon hearing the name Enterprise, he immediately assumed that Captain Kirk came to the rescue yet again, saying "...I'll bet it was Jim Kirk himself who hauled the old girl out of mothballs to come looking for me!" Since Scotty's disappearance would patently stand to require place when he found a loss of Kirk within Generations, these are typically assumed that inside his age, he either forgot astir Kirk's loss or even even just doesn't wish to acknowledge or suppose it (Kirk with defied demise the total of days).

It should too become noted that Scotty got good spent 75 years when au fond computer information in the pattern buffer of the transporter. There was originally a single more member of his ship's crew sustaining him, however his transporter pattern experienced decayed as well far to exist as retrieved. These are extremely within all probability a bit of decompose occurred in Scotty's pattern too, & this may effect in the loss of a few memory, at least temporarily. In the episode, "Relics", Scott's remark is followed by Riker & La Forge casting a dubious view every more, which supports the theory that Scott must use at times momentarily forgotten just about Kirk's fate.

Although non canon, the total of authors keep close at hand explored Scotty's life when allowing a Enterprise-D. Among a items Scotty got done fallowing a cases of Relics based on data from a novels was to help project a Enterprise-E. A character is presently however alive & active inside a TNG-era Trek universe; it remains to exist when seen whenever a dying of James Doohan inside 2005 may effect in Scotty too meeting his ultimate prevent, as the dying of Dr. Leonard McCoy was chronicled in the comic book story soon when a demise of actor Deforest Kelley.

Birthplace debate
Below a demise of actor James Doohan witharound July 2005, many towns in Scotland began candidature to become known as a official birthplace of Scotty.

A virtually all vocal of the claimants is Linlithgow, which claims Scotty as a native son due thereto existence mentioned in the novel ''Vulcan's Glory that he was innate there. Nevertheless, a novels are non considered canon, and Star Trek'' historiographer & others claim that Scotty's birthplace is in point of fact Aberdeen, Scotland due to a line in the Original Series episode "Wolf in the Fold" in which Scotty describes himself as "an old Aberdeen pub crawler".[http://www.trektoday.com/news/080805_01.shtml]

Popular lines
Scotty got many memorable lines of a lightly comedy character throughout the series & films:

"Beam me up!" – From The Original Series (though nin actually utilized by Scotty himself, & actually never spoken on a TV indicate, it became popularly associated by owning him when he was ofttimes a 1 that manned the transporters on Kirk's Enterprise) "My bairns ..." Lowland Scots for "children", utilized for the warp drive of the Enterprise "She canna take much more!" ofttimes said to Capt. Kirk when a engines were overtaxed "Laddie. Don't you think you should... rephrase that?" – From either A Pain using Tribbles whilst a Klingon insults the Enterprise. "Just before they went into warp, I beamed the whole kit and kaboodle into their engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all." – From either A Condition by having Tribbles "Diplomats! The best diplomat I know is a fully-loaded phaser bank." – From either The Taste of Armageddon "I canna' change the laws of physics!" – From either "The Naked Time", too when prominent total of parodies of a series & actor including the popular song Star Trekkin' "Up Your Shaft!" – From either Star Trek Ternary: A Look for for Spock "Admiral! There be whales here!" – From either Star Trek IV: A Voyage Home Speaking into a mouse: "Hello computer!" – From either Star Trek IV: A Voyage Home "The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." – From either "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", on a Starship Excelsior. "What are you standing around for? Don't you know a jailbreak when you see one?" – From either Star Trek V: A Final Frontier "I know this ship like the back of my hand,..." [Scotty then bumps head on a bulkhead and is knocked out] – From either Star Trek V: A Final Frontier "NCC-1701 no bloody A, B, C, or D!" From either TNG episode Relics, asking a holodeck to show him a bridge of his Enterprise. "No matter how much you try, you never quite love anyone like you loved your first." From either TNG episode Relics, when speaking sustaining Captain Jean-Luc Picard on how great deal his Enterprise, a original Enterprise, intended to him. "If you're gonna have tribbles, it's best they be little ones." From either a alive series episode Additional Tribbles, Additional Troubles.