So Looks like I misspelled "Edinburgh" in MS Word and corrected it to "Edenborough" and proceeded not to catch it as they're both place names. Sorry all!
My only complaint is your pronunciation of Campbell, it's actually pronounced Camble. Aside from that ridiculously minor niggle, I thouroughly enjoyed this video.
In an interview, James Dohan spoke about a letter he got from a fan. It turned out to be a suicide note. Being a good Canadian, Jimmy looked her up and phoned her. During their talk he convinced her to meet him at the next event he was going to and she went! He chatted her up and at the end of the event, he invited her to the next stop on his calendar. They ended up doing this for a couple years and she grew past her problems. If I remember right, she even got a degree in electrical engineering some years later. As good as any Star Trek episode.
@@swj719 Yes I am totally aware of him having lost a finger during his service in World War 2. I am also aware that he was quite the hero in World War 2 also. The man was awesome on screen and in real life for sure.
My favorite unintentional running gag in TOS, Kirk and Spock beam down to a planet, Scotty has to take command of the ship, Kirk calls the ship about help in his increasingly unlikely shenanigans, Scotty has to try to fix what his superiors screwed up and help save the day.
On the.episode " the changeling ," the NOMAD probe. killed Mr.Scott, and stunned Lt. Uhura's mind. ( it's those red uniforms!!! NO ONE is safe in them.) Soon Dr, McCoy gets Uhura back.to normal how ever ,, NOMAD gives Mr. Scott a second chance to. live.( Scotty killed and brought back to life by a space.probe, and years later took a chance to search.for Spock!,)
When I was attending the Milwaukee School of Engineering, my college decided to award him a Doctorate in Engineering in the early 90's. I do believe that his portrayal of engineers inspired many of us to take up the profession. Most of us students were thrilled with the idea, and he took his place among many of the other honorary doctorates we've awarded, including people who actually worked on the early space program. We felt it was well-deserved.
@@vincentpellegrino789 Even after the war, the way he carried himself and things he did for other people show just how much of an incredible person he was. There was a story I recently heard about how a Trek an had written him and talked about how their life had no meaning. He invited them to a meeting he was attending, turned out to be some of his War time buddies. Basically, inspired that person to carry one and live a full meaningful life.
Kirk: How much refit time before we can take her out again? Scotty: Eight weeks, sir. But ye don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for ye in two. Kirk: Mr. Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four? Scotty: Certainly, sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker? Kirk: Your reputation is secure, Scotty.
He later passed on that bit of advice to Geordi. Though that episode alone. Geordi was a bit of an asshole. Meanwhile, O'Brien clearly from the same stock as Scotty. As O'Brien was a Miracle Worker. As I doubt no other Starfleet Engineer could make DS9 work without O'Brien.
Fun Fact: In engineering courses they do include lessons on how much padding you need to/can add. However Scotty’s ways are practically godlike since he can almost always get the exact amount of time he needs to do the job right (which isn’t that long because he’s that damn good) even with the commanding officers demanding that he cut his time in half or less. I mean seriously, it’s implied that he can get away with padding his estimates by a factor of four and no one will notice. Most engineers can only afford a 25% pad at most. You can only do that with an insane amount of skill, charisma, and fortitude that could tank a photon torpedo.
In engineering, there is not "perfect", there is only "good enough". Even when you consider padding, the time Scotty says is just the time he needs to do the job so he does not have to go back to it later. The work he does under pressure is a rush job intended to hold just long enough to get the ship out of danger.
In Scotty's defense that wasn't really his ship. The Enterprise-A was newer than the original, and she was built differently. Apparently put together by monkeys. This was at most a few months after Star Trek IV so it really was a completely different ship that he was still getting used to. He was just a bit cocky when he knocked himself out.
@@3Rayfire It's still 'boast,' followed by 'humiliating demonstration of boast's exaggeration.' An explanation for why the boast was false isn't what I would call a defense.
Cool fact: james dohan the actor only had 9 fingers, it one of his thumbs got shot off during storming the beaches on d-day. TOS and gene had to make sure he was angled so that would never be seen on camera.
He was not injured during the landing at Juno Beach but was shot later that night by a fellow Canadian soldier in a case of mistaken identity. He was shot four times in the leg, once in the chest and once in the right hand. The bullet that hit him in the chest was stopped by a cigarette case. The bullet that hit him in the right hand led to the loss of his middle finger (not his thumb).
Did you actually see the hand with the missing finger in Star Trek five in the scene where Uhura brings him dinner when when she hands him one of the foil packets with the food in you actually see Scotty use the hand that is missing a finger to receive the foil packet.
@@RandallFrequentFlyerFlagg I believe he lost his middle finger because he kept flipping it to the nazis in battle. I also refuse to accept any other explanation as too mundane.
Growing up, I always wanted to be Scotty. Now I work at MIT with NASA doing engineering. I got my wish. Thanks for all the info, especially the beta stuff.
One thing that alway struck me was that connonicaly speaking Scott, McCoy and Spock were not only all alive during TNG but that they have interactions with the Enterprise D and somehow no one really seems to notice or remark on it...I mean seriously I have trouble believing that at the very least Data wouldn't have noted the odds against it which must be...considerable.
Except it's not that remarkable. While Scott was displaced in time in an unusual way the other two reached the 24th century in the conventional manner.
I remember the last line of Scotty in the episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". He had beamed the entire, growing population of Tribbles onto the Klingon ship. When Kirk asked him what he did with them, Scotty told Kirk and ended his diatribe with ".... where they'll be no tribble at all. A play on words for no trouble at all. Scotty's sense of humor was sometimes very subtle ... until he 'primed' himself with real Scotch and not the synthahol.
I enjoy this thoroughly! Wonderful video! Scotty is one of those weird bosses that finds and tasks the underling who LOVES paperwork to do the job of paperwork while all the others who work under him know for a fact that there is nothing he would ever ask them to do that he, himself, has not done a hundred times before. In other words, Scotty is the perfect boss! A perfectionist, sure, but proud of his team and stands with them without hesitation.
I love Scottys extra-canonical appearances. In addition to the SCE books, he's popped up in the Return of Captain Kirk books, one or two of the New Frontier books, the Shield of Tomorrow webseries...it's nice to think Scotty's still keeping busy.
I think my favourite extra-canonical appearance of Scotty has to be in the novel _Crossover_ - "We hope you enjoyed your adventure on the starship _Yorktown_ ."
Words cannot describe how happy I am to have not only seen this video in my feed but also that it exists at all. Scotty, by far and away, is not only my favourite character in Star Trek but, as I learn more about him, a massive influence on my career as an IT Tech/Engineer. And to learn so much extra lore about him; thanks to your inclusion of the additional material? All I can say is thank-you (and even then I feel that isn't enough)! A part of me is also thrilled to not only know that he continued on in Starfleet after Relics but also had a hand in the construction of the NCC-1701-E, a fact that genuinely blew me away! Something tells me, I will be revisiting this video a few more times over my life - and for that I cannot be happier ^^
My scaryist moment watching TOS(1st Airing), "Captain, I canna change the laws of physics!" I seriously thought the ship was going to burn up and they would end the series. Scotty is my favorite character.
In all fairness, and despite being no great fan of Voyager, I do suspect that B'Elanna Torres might have managed to give him some competition in the "drink alien under the table" department if the opportunity had arisen.
A fun trope in the Star Trek Universe is that the reliability of a piece of equipment is inversely proportional to the competence of the people available to effect repairs. Geordie was a wizard at warp cores and Scotty worked miracles with the transporter. Because of this, in the episode "Relics", both men have to transfer to the non-functional Genolan to prevent an imminent warp core breach while evacuation via transporters was impossible. [tangentially related rant] On the engineering side of things, the worst writing in ST:TNG dealt with their overuse of failed safety systems. The emergency warp core ejection system only got mentioned when it failed. The system was so unreliable, it is a wonder that they bothered to install one. The first rule of proper engineering is that a system whose failure will result in the complete loss of the ship should remain functional after any damage that does not actually destroy the vessel, or there is no point to it. Ejection seats for helicopters were not abandoned for being impossible, but that any way of jettisoning the rotor blades that was 100% guaranteed to shed them, in an emergency, could not be prevented from shedding them in normal flight. A proper piece of equipment was the back-up wing position computer of the F-14 Tomcat. It was a fluidic computer that ran off of the main hydraulic systems that processed information based on the flow of oil, instead of electrons (why it was called a fluidic computer). It was made up of steel laminations, so it was the most damage resistant part of the aircraft and if there was no pressure in the main hydraulic system, the swing wings could not be moved-- if the back up computer could not function, either the wings could not be moved or they had already been blown off!
Having recently re-watched TOS, I noticed during Scotty's command situations, James Dohan, seemed to be adlibbing lines fairly often. He would be speaking lines to either Kirk or Spock while they're away, stop and give commands to engineering, continue his lines, suddenly bark orders to someone on the bridge, then finish speaking to the away team. All the other actors on the bridge would just seem confused mostly.
*9:28** in terms of hobbies Montgomery Scott was well versed in the consumption and appreciation of various recreational ethanol vintages throughout the Quadrants and fringe sectors...he had personally upgraded his liver and kidney's to accomplish this skill set thanks to having contact with so many other alien species with truly remarkable medical advancements in the regeneration of internal organs as the overall human physiology was considered pretty simple compared to many others encountered...his drinking duels were truly legendary*
Soooo, about that time jump where he was promoted to Lieutenant in 2260 but then promoted to Lieutenant Commander in 2364. Those 104 years were a real bitch =)
If you're going to include Beta canon, he actually succeeded at the Kobayashi Maru test, by engineering his way through it, totally legitimately (i.e. didn't reprogram the simulator).
I think I remember reading that one... Something like Klingon shields were theorized to link together to better cover the flotila, and that being the case he was able to target the weak points to overload them and took out the whole enemy force?
@@Secondary_Identifier Yes, but in a real battle that would not work. Scotty himself was the one who proved it would not work, but he also knew that the simulators would calculate that it would work and allow him to take out the Klingons.
My name is in homage to my mother's love of Scotland which she visited in the early 60s and her favorite Star Trek character. And yes, the name means that you have to become a bit of a miracle worker. No pressure.
Simply the best character ever for enhancing jeopardy... The engines won't take it (when escape is the only option), it'll take at least an hour (when death is imminent), we've no time to run tests (on mission critical tech). If it wasn't for Scotty, TOS would have been less dramatic by several factors of ten.
One little noted aspect of Scotty's character and personal outlook is that, based on dialogue from Who Mourns For Adonis and The Lights of Zetar, he appears to consider himself either an agnostic or even an athiest. McCoy even specifically said in the former or the two episodes that, "Scotty doesn't believe in gods!"
Scotty was a big favorite of mine. One scene I always remember was from 'The Trouble With Tribbles' when he was confronted by a mouthy Klingon in the bar of a space station. The Klingon called the Enterprise a garbage scow. Scotty's reaction was great throughout that scene. And when Kirk was dressing him down after the fight was even funnier.
The real joke being that Scotty didn't lose his temper when the Klingons were insulting Kirk, but lost it when they insulted the ship. (I love James Doohan's indignant delivery of the line, "They called The Enterprise a garbage scow!" like he couldn't believe it.)
I would like to imagine Scotty did return to Starfleet. Besides, if his transport hadn’t crashed I think he’d have been extremely bored on his retirement planet and ended up going back anyway.
Scotty invented Engineering Flex Tape. Able to fix anything. Shields down? Hull buckling? PULL OUT THE FLEX TAPE! Back to full! Keep firing! Every Engineer Captain worships this man. Without him. Well, what would be the point of flying a bucket of self-sealing stem bolts and clear aluminum? It will all just fall apart.
There is an on-line series called Star Trek Continues, it’s a relatively faithful to the original series show that tells of the crews adventures after the original series finale, in it the part of Montgomery Scott is played by Christopher Doohan, the real life son of James Doohan.
Loved this video! I've always loved Scotty's career and incredible ingenuity. I also have casually imagined that it was Scotty's help and supervision that made Starfleets Corp of Engineers overcome the Breens energy weapon so quickly :)
Montgomery Scott is not only famous for his contributions to Starfleet technology and being a miracle worker, but for his bestselling book: "How to survive in a red uniform."
Other engineers might _think_ to store his patterns inside a transporter and thus preserve his life, but only Scotty could actually pull it off. Because he'd have thought of a way to preserve the unit's power.
Did Transwarp really fail or did it work and lead to the warp speed restructuring seen in TNG? The TOS Enterprise had a recommended max speed of warp 8 by the old warp scale, this would have been warp 6.2 on the TNG scale. And they say in Star Trek 3 that its already breaking Enterprise speed records in testing. If say the Excelsior experiment worked then it would explain the 'fly her apart' comment in Star Trek 6 as well.
I'm in the camp that thinks that this is the case, at least to some point. I think it didn't work entirely, but did work enough to provide for a leap in warp tech that led to the new scale. my thinking is the refit constitutions with the vertical warp cores were still using warp drives that couldn't make use of the power the new core offered, but the changes made in the excelsor to harness that power for the trans warp experiment showed what the new style of core could really do. of course it's all head canon, but I like to think things have a reason in universe. Probably why ships with no neck annoy me so much... where's the damn warp core going to fit.
Considering that the bench for Transwarp is vastly faster seventy years later, I think it succeeded in providing new insight, understanding, and speed, but didn't deliver what the project initially was going for. Rather they shot for the stars and landed on a new planet, only to understand that the stars were further than they thought. Borg and Voth Transwarp are still a couple of orders of magnitude past Starfleet warp drive.
@@3Rayfire There really are. Although I can offer a little forgiveness since the weak link of ST has always been the writing, and a lot of these series spanned decades. But still, some consistency would have been nice.
Scotty is a wonderful character, not exactly comic relief, but a bright spot of humor in many places. Have a good day, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
He also got mixed up with the Enterprise D crew, McCoy and Spock in the Crossover novel, palled around with Kirk, Kirks son, Spock and McCoy some when Kirk returned, ran into some Excalibur crewmembers on Risa and volunteered at Narendra Station in the Shield of Tomorrow RPG fan series. I love piecing together Scottys 24th century life.
I'd add 'The Paradise Syndrome' for some good Scotty; here he became, for me, 'He Who Never Makes a Mistake'. Also earning his 'pay for the week' during 'The Doomsday Machine'
In the earliest years, when old Gene was still tirelessly pitching Star Trek over and over to get a pilot on the air ... Scotty was not initially Scottish. They experimented with a variety of different ideas for the ("minor") character's ethnicity and they leaned heavily towards making him a German engineer. It turns out that Doohan could do several accents passably well but was especially passionate as a Scotsman.
They could make a great series about his early life.Rescuing an old ship from the scrap yard and having all sorts of adventures like battling space pirates,prospecting on asteroids or smuggling aid through Klingon space. I am sure he would visit many space bars and have some romantic encounters along the way perhaps a few run ins with the Orion syndicate.
Growing up those around me were Kirk, Spock or McCoy fans. I was a Scotty fan. So much so that I got my Asst. in Electronic Technology because I wanted to be able to fix things like he did lol.
So glad still able to keep these going i think ive almost caught up on the back catalogue haha hope you are keeping well thank you for keeping us trekkies sane with some brilliant content got to ask as havent had a chance yet do you think that discovery is going to cover what has happened in picard as the next season is meant to be the furthest in the timelime?
My favorite Scotty moment comes from the book Kobyashi Maru when Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, and Checkov were in a shuttle together and started telling stories about their experiences with the infamous test. Kirk cheated. Sulu obeyed protocol. Chekov was destructive. Scotty's comment? "When it comes to cheat'n or blowin' things up, ye got nothing on me, lads." As it turned out, Scotty took the Kobyashi Maru and cheated by using theories that were probable in calculations but not real world possible, and garnered the highest kill count of his class. He insisted that the only reason why he was defeated was because there wasn't a real engine room for him to go to, and would've beaten the computer had there been an actual engine room. His punishment for cheating is to be removed from command school and entered into engineering school. LOL! Another favorite Scotty moment comes from a book (I forgot the name of the book) where Spock has been captured by romulans, and Picard takes McCoy with him on the Enterprise to rescue Spock. Scotty gets word of Spock's capture, steals the USS Yorktown, which is a pre-refit Constitution class that was now a museum, and jury rigs the same set up with his shuttle that he tried to do with the Enterprise in Search for Spock. He hooks in the Romulan cloaking device Kirk and Spock stole during a TOS episode, and succeeds in rescuing Spock as well as a team led by Riker which was sent to bring Scotty back. Scotty's punishment is to repair the Yorktown back to museum quality. LOL.
Scotty's punishment is to repair the Yorktown back to museum quality??? that is like punishing me by making me teach a bunch of stripers how to fish and kayak and snowboard you get the idea
Of COURSE Scotty studied Psychology. Remember the advice he gave to Geordi? Never tell them how long it'll ACTUALLY take. That's how you make yourself look like a miracle worker.
James Doohan was also a war hero. He was at Dday and was seriously wounded in action, being hit be six rounds from a heavy machine gun. . After convalescing he learned to fly air raft and flew an an artillery spotter over enemy lines in an unarmed and unarmoured aircraft. The guy was a blimming hero and an all round top bloke.
The intro to this video reminded me of the early days of the pandemic. Man, those were some funny times. All these people going nuts over isolation and there I was, just going about my days like I always did being like "What's the big deal? Only thing that's changed is places being closed."
My favorite thing and it was noted throughout his great creator he always made sure where's a half hour or 20 minutes ahead of schedule this way well do I have to say the rest on the lighter side I happen to like the actor for himself interviews and all throughout the year that he has done you always got a warm feeling and never a well you know how it was he's gone now but he will never be forgotten the reruns and the fans will make him live forever
So Looks like I misspelled "Edinburgh" in MS Word and corrected it to "Edenborough" and proceeded not to catch it as they're both place names. Sorry all!
Also.... 2264 or 2364?
"San Francisco" is the proper spelling (re: Year 2244 assignment). Good and enjoyable video! =)
My only complaint is your pronunciation of Campbell, it's actually pronounced Camble. Aside from that ridiculously minor niggle, I thouroughly enjoyed this video.
@@thefurrybastard1964 Being British, he really should have known that. It's quite embarrassing really.
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In an interview, James Dohan spoke about a letter he got from a fan. It turned out to be a suicide note. Being a good Canadian, Jimmy looked her up and phoned her. During their talk he convinced her to meet him at the next event he was going to and she went! He chatted her up and at the end of the event, he invited her to the next stop on his calendar. They ended up doing this for a couple years and she grew past her problems. If I remember right, she even got a degree in electrical engineering some years later. As good as any Star Trek episode.
When I saw that story it truly transformed what Star Trek meant to me and the people who helped to bring it to life
Scotty was a stand up guy in real life. He was a true war hero in World War 2. Scotty was the real deal.
@@AUTISTICLYCAN Real deal, indeed! His example is worthy of emulation.
@@AUTISTICLYCAN they took great pains to not show one of his hands, because he'd lost a finger during WWII.
The man was a class act on all levels.
@@swj719 Yes I am totally aware of him having lost a finger during his service in World War 2. I am also aware that he was quite the hero in World War 2 also. The man was awesome on screen and in real life for sure.
"Deliberately learning the bagpipes." As opposed to all those accidental bagpipers.
I was just about to make the exact same comment LOL
The point being that, while acquitted of murder, he was in fact guilty of learning the bagpipes.
@@digitalnomad9985 LOL!
Hahahaha
Hey, it happens to the worst of us.
My favorite unintentional running gag in TOS, Kirk and Spock beam down to a planet, Scotty has to take command of the ship, Kirk calls the ship about help in his increasingly unlikely shenanigans, Scotty has to try to fix what his superiors screwed up and help save the day.
"I think you might want to rephrase that" has always been my dad's favorite line. I like TNG more but it is a good line
“Scotty died once”
I’m sorry what?
“But he got better!”
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Nomad, the same dick robot probe that wiped Uhura's memories.
On the.episode " the changeling ," the NOMAD probe. killed Mr.Scott, and stunned Lt. Uhura's mind. ( it's those red uniforms!!! NO ONE is safe in them.) Soon Dr, McCoy gets Uhura back.to normal how ever ,, NOMAD gives Mr. Scott a second chance to. live.( Scotty killed and brought back to life by a space.probe, and years later took a chance to search.for Spock!,)
@@3Rayfire And vaped two security guards. I take exception to that being a security guard myself.
@@davidcoleman8275 As you should.
Now you need to do a personnel file on James Dohan himself, it's just as interesting as the fictional Scotty.
When I was attending the Milwaukee School of Engineering, my college decided to award him a Doctorate in Engineering in the early 90's. I do believe that his portrayal of engineers inspired many of us to take up the profession. Most of us students were thrilled with the idea, and he took his place among many of the other honorary doctorates we've awarded, including people who actually worked on the early space program. We felt it was well-deserved.
His actions on D-Day would make fine reading.
@@vincentpellegrino789 A real war hero, he also fathered a child at 80 a real badass
@@vincentpellegrino789 Even after the war, the way he carried himself and things he did for other people show just how much of an incredible person he was. There was a story I recently heard about how a Trek an had written him and talked about how their life had no meaning. He invited them to a meeting he was attending, turned out to be some of his War time buddies. Basically, inspired that person to carry one and live a full meaningful life.
If you're doing actor bios, let's have Nichelle Nichols while we're at it.
Kirk: How much refit time before we can take her out again?
Scotty: Eight weeks, sir. But ye don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for ye in two.
Kirk: Mr. Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?
Scotty: Certainly, sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?
Kirk: Your reputation is secure, Scotty.
He later passed on that bit of advice to Geordi. Though that episode alone. Geordi was a bit of an asshole. Meanwhile, O'Brien clearly from the same stock as Scotty. As O'Brien was a Miracle Worker. As I doubt no other Starfleet Engineer could make DS9 work without O'Brien.
@@Qardo Except perhaps Scotty himself.
Bashir did say Scottys work looked like O'Briens in Trials and Tribbelations...
Trens Gemini When was this? I think it’s in a movie but not sure which one. And I vaguely remember the scene
@@jerryorder9084 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Fun Fact: In engineering courses they do include lessons on how much padding you need to/can add. However Scotty’s ways are practically godlike since he can almost always get the exact amount of time he needs to do the job right (which isn’t that long because he’s that damn good) even with the commanding officers demanding that he cut his time in half or less.
I mean seriously, it’s implied that he can get away with padding his estimates by a factor of four and no one will notice. Most engineers can only afford a 25% pad at most. You can only do that with an insane amount of skill, charisma, and fortitude that could tank a photon torpedo.
"Can you do it, Scotty?"
"Yeah, but it'll take about two days..."
"We only have two hours!"
"For you, captain, I'll do it in one!"
He rolled a perfect 20 in everything.
In engineering, there is not "perfect", there is only "good enough".
Even when you consider padding, the time Scotty says is just the time he needs to do the job so he does not have to go back to it later. The work he does under pressure is a rush job intended to hold just long enough to get the ship out of danger.
CI: Scotty knew his ship like the back of his hand
Also CI: *Proceeds to show a image of scotty knocking himself out on a slanted support beam*
Well I mean, how often do you look at the back of your hand?
I know _Star Trek V_ isn't the most beloved of movies, but the line/punchline is directly lifted from the film.
In Scotty's defense that wasn't really his ship. The Enterprise-A was newer than the original, and she was built differently. Apparently put together by monkeys. This was at most a few months after Star Trek IV so it really was a completely different ship that he was still getting used to. He was just a bit cocky when he knocked himself out.
@@3Rayfire It's still 'boast,' followed by 'humiliating demonstration of boast's exaggeration.' An explanation for why the boast was false isn't what I would call a defense.
@@boobah5643 Well he was clearly wrong. He missed a hair on the back of his hand.
Cool fact: james dohan the actor only had 9 fingers, it one of his thumbs got shot off during storming the beaches on d-day. TOS and gene had to make sure he was angled so that would never be seen on camera.
It wasn't his thumb, but he definitely lost a finger on his right hand. The middle finger, I believe.
He was not injured during the landing at Juno Beach but was shot later that night by a fellow Canadian soldier in a case of mistaken identity. He was shot four times in the leg, once in the chest and once in the right hand. The bullet that hit him in the chest was stopped by a cigarette case. The bullet that hit him in the right hand led to the loss of his middle finger (not his thumb).
It was his right middle finger, not his thumb, and he was actually shot by a nervous Canadian sentry. It's all on his Wikipedia page.
Did you actually see the hand with the missing finger in Star Trek five in the scene where Uhura brings him dinner when when she hands him one of the foil packets with the food in you actually see Scotty use the hand that is missing a finger to receive the foil packet.
@@RandallFrequentFlyerFlagg I believe he lost his middle finger because he kept flipping it to the nazis in battle.
I also refuse to accept any other explanation as too mundane.
Growing up, I always wanted to be Scotty. Now I work at MIT with NASA doing engineering. I got my wish. Thanks for all the info, especially the beta stuff.
He also started a bar fight because of a Klingon insulted her beloved Enterprise, it's impossible not to love such a man.
That Klingon was asking for it.
Deamon93IT That was on ”Trouble with Tribbles,” right?
No the Klingons said it should be towed away as garbage.
I think they called it a garbage scow.
@@augiegirl1 And also 'Trials and Tribble-ations.'
One thing that alway struck me was that connonicaly speaking Scott, McCoy and Spock were not only all alive during TNG but that they have interactions with the Enterprise D and somehow no one really seems to notice or remark on it...I mean seriously I have trouble believing that at the very least Data wouldn't have noted the odds against it which must be...considerable.
Except it's not that remarkable. While Scott was displaced in time in an unusual way the other two reached the 24th century in the conventional manner.
I remember the last line of Scotty in the episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". He had beamed the entire, growing population of Tribbles onto the Klingon ship. When Kirk asked him what he did with them, Scotty told Kirk and ended his diatribe with ".... where they'll be no tribble at all. A play on words for no trouble at all. Scotty's sense of humor was sometimes very subtle ... until he 'primed' himself with real Scotch and not the synthahol.
One of the greatest engineers in the history of Starfleet.
I enjoy this thoroughly! Wonderful video!
Scotty is one of those weird bosses that finds and tasks the underling who LOVES paperwork to do the job of paperwork while all the others who work under him know for a fact that there is nothing he would ever ask them to do that he, himself, has not done a hundred times before. In other words, Scotty is the perfect boss! A perfectionist, sure, but proud of his team and stands with them without hesitation.
I love Scottys extra-canonical appearances. In addition to the SCE books, he's popped up in the Return of Captain Kirk books, one or two of the New Frontier books, the Shield of Tomorrow webseries...it's nice to think Scotty's still keeping busy.
I think my favourite extra-canonical appearance of Scotty has to be in the novel _Crossover_ - "We hope you enjoyed your adventure on the starship _Yorktown_ ."
My son was on security to an Atlantic City Star Trek convention. He saw Scotty well wasted at the show and was a lot of fun.
Words cannot describe how happy I am to have not only seen this video in my feed but also that it exists at all. Scotty, by far and away, is not only my favourite character in Star Trek but, as I learn more about him, a massive influence on my career as an IT Tech/Engineer. And to learn so much extra lore about him; thanks to your inclusion of the additional material? All I can say is thank-you (and even then I feel that isn't enough)!
A part of me is also thrilled to not only know that he continued on in Starfleet after Relics but also had a hand in the construction of the NCC-1701-E, a fact that genuinely blew me away!
Something tells me, I will be revisiting this video a few more times over my life - and for that I cannot be happier ^^
My scaryist moment watching TOS(1st Airing), "Captain, I canna change the laws of physics!" I seriously thought the ship was going to burn up and they would end the series. Scotty is my favorite character.
Scotty the only Engineer that can out drink an Alien and the only person to fix things.
In all fairness, and despite being no great fan of Voyager, I do suspect that B'Elanna Torres might have managed to give him some competition in the "drink alien under the table" department if the opportunity had arisen.
A fun trope in the Star Trek Universe is that the reliability of a piece of equipment is inversely proportional to the competence of the people available to effect repairs. Geordie was a wizard at warp cores and Scotty worked miracles with the transporter. Because of this, in the episode "Relics", both men have to transfer to the non-functional Genolan to prevent an imminent warp core breach while evacuation via transporters was impossible.
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On the engineering side of things, the worst writing in ST:TNG dealt with their overuse of failed safety systems. The emergency warp core ejection system only got mentioned when it failed. The system was so unreliable, it is a wonder that they bothered to install one. The first rule of proper engineering is that a system whose failure will result in the complete loss of the ship should remain functional after any damage that does not actually destroy the vessel, or there is no point to it. Ejection seats for helicopters were not abandoned for being impossible, but that any way of jettisoning the rotor blades that was 100% guaranteed to shed them, in an emergency, could not be prevented from shedding them in normal flight.
A proper piece of equipment was the back-up wing position computer of the F-14 Tomcat. It was a fluidic computer that ran off of the main hydraulic systems that processed information based on the flow of oil, instead of electrons (why it was called a fluidic computer). It was made up of steel laminations, so it was the most damage resistant part of the aircraft and if there was no pressure in the main hydraulic system, the swing wings could not be moved-- if the back up computer could not function, either the wings could not be moved or they had already been blown off!
@@richardbell7678 haha yes. Especially annoying given how ejecting the warp core got much more reliable in all the subsequent ships.
"A Taste of Armageddon" has Scotty in command for most of the episode and having to deal with tough decisions. A personal favorite.
Scotty is a legend. James Doohan doubly so. I think that the extra canonical material makes perfect sense.
Having recently re-watched TOS, I noticed during Scotty's command situations, James Dohan, seemed to be adlibbing lines fairly often. He would be speaking lines to either Kirk or Spock while they're away, stop and give commands to engineering, continue his lines, suddenly bark orders to someone on the bridge, then finish speaking to the away team. All the other actors on the bridge would just seem confused mostly.
Mr.Scott was a timeless man!!
"I know this ship like the back of my hand"
*Majel Barret doing Narration* : He did not know the ship like the back of his hand after all.
*9:28** in terms of hobbies Montgomery Scott was well versed in the consumption and appreciation of various recreational ethanol vintages throughout the Quadrants and fringe sectors...he had personally upgraded his liver and kidney's to accomplish this skill set thanks to having contact with so many other alien species with truly remarkable medical advancements in the regeneration of internal organs as the overall human physiology was considered pretty simple compared to many others encountered...his drinking duels were truly legendary*
Soooo, about that time jump where he was promoted to Lieutenant in 2260 but then promoted to Lieutenant Commander in 2364. Those 104 years were a real bitch =)
I believe he was already a captain when the enterprise found him and also consider that he was in the transporter for nearly 75 years
I like that you say “deliberately learning the bagpipes” as opposed to “accidentally learning the bagpipes”
And our lives are all the richer for having the character of one Montgomery Scott to look up to.
He loved his work. He loved his ship. He loved his liquor. Got to respect him. Om a side note can you appreciate how smart he is?
If you're going to include Beta canon, he actually succeeded at the Kobayashi Maru test, by engineering his way through it, totally legitimately (i.e. didn't reprogram the simulator).
I think I remember reading that one...
Something like Klingon shields were theorized to link together to better cover the flotila, and that being the case he was able to target the weak points to overload them and took out the whole enemy force?
@@Secondary_Identifier Yes, but in a real battle that would not work. Scotty himself was the one who proved it would not work, but he also knew that the simulators would calculate that it would work and allow him to take out the Klingons.
Yes he also used transporter bombs to destroy several Klingon ships during the test.
@@riifraff4828 Those were just sweet innocent purring Tribbles.
@@riifraff4828 I thought it was canisters of anti-matter.
I like the extra canonical stuff, Scotty was always my favorite being a Celt myself
As he stated in TNG episode "Relics" he could tell how fast the ship was moving by the feel of the deckplates.
Mad bastard held himself in a transporter buffer for 75 years! He's the greatest engineer ever!
My name is in homage to my mother's love of Scotland which she visited in the early 60s and her favorite Star Trek character. And yes, the name means that you have to become a bit of a miracle worker. No pressure.
As a software developer, you have no idea how many lessons I learned from Scotty that I use in my career.
His children attended my mothers day care center in Van Nuys California, he was a nice person and a good family man.
Very well done. Scotty is my favorite character.
It doesn't happen often, but everytime Scotty was put in command, he did very well.
Beloved Scotty ! This caused me to watch "Relics" again ! RIP James Doohan !
My all-time favorite Star Trek character. No other engineer I'd rather have, or try to do as good as, then Scotty.
you will always be remembered mr scotty
I like that... "Deliberately learning the bagpipes"
Brilliant as always. can't improve on perfection
Simply the best character ever for enhancing jeopardy... The engines won't take it (when escape is the only option), it'll take at least an hour (when death is imminent), we've no time to run tests (on mission critical tech). If it wasn't for Scotty, TOS would have been less dramatic by several factors of ten.
Scotty is definitely one of my favorite star trek characters.
3:26 Glad Scotty could timetravel to 2264, 2364 and back again for a quick pint.
One little noted aspect of Scotty's character and personal outlook is that, based on dialogue from Who Mourns For Adonis and The Lights of Zetar, he appears to consider himself either an agnostic or even an athiest. McCoy even specifically said in the former or the two episodes that, "Scotty doesn't believe in gods!"
A great engineering master saved a ship many times
Scotty was a big favorite of mine. One scene I always remember was from 'The Trouble With Tribbles' when he was confronted by a mouthy Klingon in the bar of a space station. The Klingon called the Enterprise a garbage scow. Scotty's reaction was great throughout that scene. And when Kirk was dressing him down after the fight was even funnier.
The real joke being that Scotty didn't lose his temper when the Klingons were insulting Kirk, but lost it when they insulted the ship. (I love James Doohan's indignant delivery of the line, "They called The Enterprise a garbage scow!" like he couldn't believe it.)
@@pompe221 The best!
I would like to imagine Scotty did return to Starfleet.
Besides, if his transport hadn’t crashed I think he’d have been extremely bored on his retirement planet and ended up going back anyway.
Scotty invented Engineering Flex Tape. Able to fix anything. Shields down? Hull buckling? PULL OUT THE FLEX TAPE! Back to full! Keep firing! Every Engineer Captain worships this man. Without him. Well, what would be the point of flying a bucket of self-sealing stem bolts and clear aluminum? It will all just fall apart.
Duct tape is more like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it binds the universe together.
Your best Personnel File to date. Great job and thanks for the video.
He has always been my favorite character, with Spock, and then Piccard right behind.
An excellent character who was acted by an excellent person.
I met Mr. Doohan at a Trekkie thing in the '80s. We saw "Tribbles" and he talked about his career. This was something my Mom, a sci-fi head arranged.
The most profound thing uttered in Trek :: Spock: "Weren't those a gift from Dr. McCoy?
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Kirk: "And they will be again. That's the beauty of it."
I always wanted to be a fighter pilot growing up but since losing my eyesight I want to become like Scott among planes
I love Scotty and so does everyone else! No bad words about him ever!! ❤
There is an on-line series called Star Trek Continues, it’s a relatively faithful to the original series show that tells of the crews adventures after the original series finale, in it the part of Montgomery Scott is played by Christopher Doohan, the real life son of James Doohan.
Loved this video! I've always loved Scotty's career and incredible ingenuity. I also have casually imagined that it was Scotty's help and supervision that made Starfleets Corp of Engineers overcome the Breens energy weapon so quickly :)
Montgomery Scott is not only famous for his contributions to Starfleet technology and being a miracle worker, but for his bestselling book: "How to survive in a red uniform."
I'm surprised that Scotty didn't try to ask Starfleet command to commission a 24th century variant of the Constitution Refit Class.
Outstanding Montgomery Scott ....Great character
Other engineers might _think_ to store his patterns inside a transporter and thus preserve his life, but only Scotty could actually pull it off. Because he'd have thought of a way to preserve the unit's power.
I can definitely see Scotty doing all that
Glad you included the book information in this Case File.
he brought the the constellation back to life for her final battle. TRUE miracle worker👍👍
Love your videos surprised you hadn't done the Scotty one sooner but loving the video of what I've seeb
Brilliant, I belived every word that you said about Scotty, Brilliant I say.
Did Transwarp really fail or did it work and lead to the warp speed restructuring seen in TNG?
The TOS Enterprise had a recommended max speed of warp 8 by the old warp scale, this would have been warp 6.2 on the TNG scale. And they say in Star Trek 3 that its already breaking Enterprise speed records in testing.
If say the Excelsior experiment worked then it would explain the 'fly her apart' comment in Star Trek 6 as well.
I'm in the camp that thinks that this is the case, at least to some point. I think it didn't work entirely, but did work enough to provide for a leap in warp tech that led to the new scale. my thinking is the refit constitutions with the vertical warp cores were still using warp drives that couldn't make use of the power the new core offered, but the changes made in the excelsor to harness that power for the trans warp experiment showed what the new style of core could really do. of course it's all head canon, but I like to think things have a reason in universe. Probably why ships with no neck annoy me so much... where's the damn warp core going to fit.
Considering that the bench for Transwarp is vastly faster seventy years later, I think it succeeded in providing new insight, understanding, and speed, but didn't deliver what the project initially was going for. Rather they shot for the stars and landed on a new planet, only to understand that the stars were further than they thought. Borg and Voth Transwarp are still a couple of orders of magnitude past Starfleet warp drive.
Unfortunately. There's a lot of inconsistencies about warp speed limits throughout startrek.
@@jacksonheathen2092 That's for damn sure.
@@3Rayfire There really are. Although I can offer a little forgiveness since the weak link of ST has always been the writing, and a lot of these series spanned decades. But still, some consistency would have been nice.
In 2305, Scott received the " I Cunn Make The Engines Worrrk, Captain" Award for consistently being honest about his limitations.
Remember, it is Scotty's ship, Captain Kirk just drives it.
The engineers were always the best part of all the Star Trek shows, and Scotty is number one.
Scotty is one of my favorite Trek characters plus hes a badass
Scotty is a wonderful character, not exactly comic relief, but a bright spot of humor in many places. Have a good day, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
He also got mixed up with the Enterprise D crew, McCoy and Spock in the Crossover novel, palled around with Kirk, Kirks son, Spock and McCoy some when Kirk returned, ran into some Excalibur crewmembers on Risa and volunteered at Narendra Station in the Shield of Tomorrow RPG fan series. I love piecing together Scottys 24th century life.
I've seen some butchered spellings of *Edinburgh* in my life but not quite as bad as *Edenborough* lol
At least you pronounced it ok
Then he slaughtered the pronunciation of Campbell
Edenborough was the place where the first 2 people settled in scotland, they were called McAdam and McEve
@@derwynowen8609 My eyes have cancer now
@@Damo2690 Ah well probably because Edinburgh is a toffee nosed sh*te hole ruled by Jimmy Crankie.
The entire UK is chock full of ridiculous shibboleths. Edinburgh is a mild one at worst. th-cam.com/video/mOd3lwluQIw/w-d-xo.html
I'd add 'The Paradise Syndrome' for some good Scotty; here he became, for me, 'He Who Never Makes a Mistake'. Also earning his 'pay for the week' during 'The Doomsday Machine'
Thanks for recognizing that he served with Capt Pike....The book enterprise touched on this as well ..
In the earliest years, when old Gene was still tirelessly pitching Star Trek over and over to get a pilot on the air ... Scotty was not initially Scottish. They experimented with a variety of different ideas for the ("minor") character's ethnicity and they leaned heavily towards making him a German engineer. It turns out that Doohan could do several accents passably well but was especially passionate as a Scotsman.
I am very impressed with your content and the template. Great visual.
They could make a great series about his early life.Rescuing an old ship from the scrap yard and having all sorts of adventures like battling space pirates,prospecting on asteroids or smuggling aid through Klingon space. I am sure he would visit many space bars and have some romantic encounters along the way perhaps a few run ins with the Orion syndicate.
He was born in linlithgow and a muesum there has a part of it devoted to him and the actor who played him and has some original toys. Pretty funny
your Chanel is simply PERFECTION!
Growing up those around me were Kirk, Spock or McCoy fans. I was a Scotty fan. So much so that I got my Asst. in Electronic Technology because I wanted to be able to fix things like he did lol.
So glad still able to keep these going i think ive almost caught up on the back catalogue haha hope you are keeping well thank you for keeping us trekkies sane with some brilliant content got to ask as havent had a chance yet do you think that discovery is going to cover what has happened in picard as the next season is meant to be the furthest in the timelime?
My favorite Scotty moment comes from the book Kobyashi Maru when Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, and Checkov were in a shuttle together and started telling stories about their experiences with the infamous test. Kirk cheated. Sulu obeyed protocol. Chekov was destructive. Scotty's comment? "When it comes to cheat'n or blowin' things up, ye got nothing on me, lads."
As it turned out, Scotty took the Kobyashi Maru and cheated by using theories that were probable in calculations but not real world possible, and garnered the highest kill count of his class. He insisted that the only reason why he was defeated was because there wasn't a real engine room for him to go to, and would've beaten the computer had there been an actual engine room. His punishment for cheating is to be removed from command school and entered into engineering school. LOL!
Another favorite Scotty moment comes from a book (I forgot the name of the book) where Spock has been captured by romulans, and Picard takes McCoy with him on the Enterprise to rescue Spock. Scotty gets word of Spock's capture, steals the USS Yorktown, which is a pre-refit Constitution class that was now a museum, and jury rigs the same set up with his shuttle that he tried to do with the Enterprise in Search for Spock. He hooks in the Romulan cloaking device Kirk and Spock stole during a TOS episode, and succeeds in rescuing Spock as well as a team led by Riker which was sent to bring Scotty back. Scotty's punishment is to repair the Yorktown back to museum quality. LOL.
Scotty's punishment is to repair the Yorktown back to museum quality??? that is like punishing me by making me teach a bunch of stripers how to fish and kayak and snowboard you get the idea
Part of his ability to cut times down is explained in his TNG appearance. "A good engineer is always a bit conservative, at least on paper."
Boimler Effect is Scotty's time padding applied to non-Engineering tasks.
Such a great engineer but under stress didn't think to reverse the polarity on a simple(for warp repairs) wrench.
COME ON !
Definitely one of the best Trek characters!
Scotty is easily my favorite TOS character and Jame Doohan one of my favorite actors.
Of COURSE Scotty studied Psychology. Remember the advice he gave to Geordi? Never tell them how long it'll ACTUALLY take. That's how you make yourself look like a miracle worker.
James Doohan was also a war hero. He was at Dday and was seriously wounded in action, being hit be six rounds from a heavy machine gun. . After convalescing he learned to fly air raft and flew an an artillery spotter over enemy lines in an unarmed and unarmoured aircraft.
The guy was a blimming hero and an all round top bloke.
My dad loves cosplaying in Star Trek uniforms. He dons the red blazer from Wrath of Kahn with a Kilt to emulate Scotty
The intro to this video reminded me of the early days of the pandemic. Man, those were some funny times. All these people going nuts over isolation and there I was, just going about my days like I always did being like "What's the big deal? Only thing that's changed is places being closed."
..i thinks it's kool to give ole Scotty this shout out...:)...live long...
My favorite thing and it was noted throughout his great creator he always made sure where's a half hour or 20 minutes ahead of schedule this way well do I have to say the rest on the lighter side I happen to like the actor for himself interviews and all throughout the year that he has done you always got a warm feeling and never a well you know how it was he's gone now but he will never be forgotten the reruns and the fans will make him live forever