"That's a lot of Lieutenants." "There will be a quiz." That's the kind of humor this sort of serious entertainment needs. Nothing to on the nose, not forced, just some throwaway lines that make you smile.
How about focus on some great smart enlisted crew like petty, chief petty and master chiefs on the ship. They always feature ensign and Lts. I'm glad they featured chief obrien on tng and d's 9.
I kinda wish he hadn’t tried to hide it. I think it would be totally in character for Scotty to have lost a finger, perhaps being careless as a young cadet, and he never regrew it to remind himself not to be careless again, and plus, as a Scotsman, a missing finger would be a grand story to tell strangers at the pub.
One of those moments that really endeared me to this series. It really encapsulates the essence of exactly the kind of engineer Scotty was both in canon and out: capable of pulling extremely clever solutions out of his arse at a moment's notice and completely unafraid to kitbash something together when the situation calls for it. There's a reason he's THE engineer of the Enterprise, the standard by which the likes of Geordi, Trip, Torres, and O'Brien are judged. The captains of the Enterprise may be a pantheon, but amongst their engineers, there is but one god: Montgomery Scott.
I haven't watched the episode yet, but damn they just nailed Scotty. Considering how larger than life the original Enterprise crew is, the casting department is really doing insanely great job getting these younger versions. No complaints here.
@@purefoldnz3070 Depends on where you are in the world,,,,, in the UK this comment is correct,, in this content "nailed it" means they have the younger Scotty character correct in comparison to the origional
Its an exaggerated Scottish accent. As an actual Scot myself it sounds like someone impersonating James Doohan's version of the character. Odd as this actor is ACTUALLY Scottish.
@@markdillon5494 Thas explains why he sounds as Scottish (with exaggerated accent) but still SCOTTY IS BACK PEOPLE. To me Only James Doohan would always be Scotty but still, its nice to see character in new age:) One of my good friends is Scootish, darn each time we have conversation i need a bloody english dictionary:):) But try speaking with Vietnamese or Thailandese oh boy.
@@markdillon5494 Exactly. I think he's been ordered to ham it up a bit for American audiences. But they nonetheless get props for actually hiring a Scottish actor. There are few more excruciating things than hearing a faked Scottish accent.
Martin Quinn who plays Scotty is Scottish,,, and as much as I love James Doohan I think the character works a lot better with the correct accent, as does any character,,,
@@JamesT6043 yeah James Doohan's scottish was basically what he learnt from his squad mate when he was serving in WW2. It's not the best but it worked but after seeing 'Still game', I am loving what t hey did with Scotty here
I love that this Scotty is using the British pronunciation of "Lieutenant". Which is funny since neither Doohan (a Canadian) nor Pegg (an Englishman) ever did.
@@Ostermond yes, and Simon Pegg is English, meaning both are British. And the Canadian Army (in which James Doohan served in WW2) officially uses the British pronunciation. Funny enough, Doohan even held the rank of Lieutenant during the war.
I would cautiously guess that would be because both previous versions of Scotty were scripted and directed to pronounce it that way. The impression I get is that Simon Pegg was so enamoured with Star Trek and Trek lore that he would have mispronounced the word "Lieutenant" if it meant he got to play Lt Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in anything other than a fan-film.
@@Pintheshadows Which is ironic, because in Lower Decks, Chief O'Brien is regarded as the most important person in Starfleet history. But the thing that everyone needs to remember is that the general rule of thumb with Star Trek is that only the movies and television shows are considered canon. Thus, non-televised media, ranging from books, comics, games (especially video games), etc., are not canon, unless stated otherwise. And even then, that can be overwritten by the movies or TV shows (like how the Star Trek Countdown comic that served as a prequel/tie-in to the 2009 film was retconned with Season 1 of Picard, changing the Hobus star going supernova and destroying Romulus to the Romulan's own sun going supernova).
If any other random character made these wild claims, everyone in the audience would be convinced they were secretly working with the Gorn. But because this was said in a thick Scottish accent, everyone instantly trusts him
Well I think the fact that he had an anti-gorn trap and survived a journey of several light years over, at fastest, a few months without giving birth to several horrifying lizard babies should tip people off to him being trustworthy
I want him to get into an accident where he loses a finger and has to have it grown back, as a nod to Doohan's missing finger that he went to great effort to hide throughout all of TOS.
@@JF-tt6wy After the landing. He and a partner were on a patrol and a particularly jumpy sentry lit them up with a Bren gun. If I remember right, Doohan took one in the hip, one took off his finger, and a third that got caught by the cigarette case in his breast pocket.
@@tanall5959 According to Doohan's autobiography (which I read parts of in a library once) they could have put the finger back on, but he wouldn't be able to move it. He said it was tempting to give a permanent middle finger salute to Hitler, but removing it was more practical.
When I watch TOS, one of the things I notice is that, for all of Scotty's eccentricities, when it comes to getting the job done nobody is more professional than him, not even Mr Spock. Young Scotty seems a bit ... distractible, but he's still young. I look forward to this Scotty working with Pelia. They'll bump heads for sure, because Scotty is still a bit of a wild card (albeit a brilliant one), while Pelia sees the big picture in ways that nobody else does. This Scotty has the makings of being the finest engineer the Enterprise has ever seen, but he's not there yet; he doesn't quite have the discipline. But he can learn that under Pelia.
Supposedly when it came to the Kobayashi Maru test, Scotty was an absolute beast, destroying numerous ships deployed against him. However, he was using battle tactics that worked in theory - and therefore the computer acted accordingly when it did the math - but not in practice. For this, Scotty was bounced out of the command track and into the engineering track, which is where he wanted to be in the first place.
I'am not. I'am quit tired of this. Ever Shown does that Today,everyone has to meet everyone or have some connection. Why must the whole crew of the Orginal Crew appear in SNW? It is a show about the Crew before the original Series.
What's especially cool about this is that they finally got a real Scotsman to play Scotty. James Doohan, as iconic in the role as he was, was Canadian. Simon Pegg is English. But Martin Quinn is actually Scottish, having been born in Paisley. Now they just need to make a new Star Trek series that takes place after Season 3 of Picard, and have David Tennant play a descendant of Scotty. But instead of being an engineer, he's a doctor (as a nod to his role as the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors in Doctor Who), but still honoring his ancestor's legacy by seeing the human body as a form of organic machinery.
@@maj2813 As I said, he would be a doctor, not an engineer. He would not need as much muscle as his ancestor, especially since he would be using advanced tech to do most of the work for him. And James Doohan wasn't the only one who gained weight since TOS. William Shatner also gained weight, to the point where he allegedly had to use a girdle (although there's no concrete evidence to support this) This was actually referenced in an episode of The Simpsons, where Comic Book Guy dressed as Captain Kirk and wore a corset, which rapidly loosened on him before breaking completely. He cycled through several of the movies (Star Trek I, II, V, and Generations) before ending at Boston Legal.
@@JnEricsonx Well, I do know he was in Harry Potter, where he played Barty Crouch, Jr. in The Goblet of Fire, so there is that, too. But I would absolutely love to see him in Star Trek, that much I know.
I'm almost unreasonably happy that they finally got someone playing a British person to use the correct pronunciation of Lieutenant. I know Stewart wanted to but the producers of TNG thought audiences would be too confused by it.
Except it's not a pronunciation thing at all. It's literally spelled Leftenant. They do that so they don't use the French word for the rank. You find a lot of that with the UK. They do stuff just to spite the French, and in Starfleet, it was based on the US Navy structure and customs, so Scotty saying Leftenant here is actually completely incorrect.
@@ImpendingJokerI'm a veteran and, it's spelled the same way, just pronounced the way Sub Lieutenant (as it would be if he were using Royal Navy ranks) Scott did.
@@eskanda3434well, thr latter part is because most of the main cast are of the same rank, so there is no need to speak down upon them or up to them, and even when they speak to pike, who is a laid back captain, they still do so respectfully... For the tone, well, then you definitely have not seen any of the tos trek, or first few seasons of Tng...
I would love to play Dr. Leonard McCoy, in all seriousness. Got experience. A man can dream, anyways. This is the show to do it in. It's raw and balanced.
Finally, a character from this "Sceptred Isle" uses the correct British pronunciation for Lieutenant. I could always forgive Patrick Stewart not doing it because the character he was playing was French but I always tutted at Lt Reed in Enterprise for doing it.
So that's Spock, Uhura, Kirk, and now Scotty. We may now commence bets on whether Bones or Sulu will show up next. (Probably not Chekov; he's still a kid by this point.)
My vote (more like hope) is that next seasons finale will involve some sorta medical pandemic on some planet and enterprise will be sent to help and bones will be there in all his greatness.
For some reason I want to see more interaction between Scotty and Ortegas, I think they would be comedy gold! the engineer and the pilot arguing and causing chaos for the poor captain.
Remember when Admiral April excused not fighting the Gorn because the colony was not technically a federation member. Well, the Sundiver, while a research ship, was definitely Star Fleet and its crew were definitely Federation citizens.
That leaves Mark Piper and Sulu, wanna bet they'll find an excuse to meet a certain gentleman physician from Georgia at some point? and when Pike says his name I expect him to say... Mr. Scott, you're hired, and have you seen any of the Cayuga survivors? ;)
"Imagination is a weapon. Those who lack it are the first to die." - Goblin Slayer Thinking on your feet, doing the best you can with what you got, and out of the box thinking will snatch defeat out of the mouth of victory.
Need to check this series out. But I do have a question: how does a Star Fleet officer NOT know what a CME is? That’s akin to a naval officer, or even an enlisted personal, not know what a rogue wave is. I’m going to go on a limb that if you’re sailing, even as a civi, you damn well know what a rogue wave is. I’d have to assume any space faring civilization is going to know what a CME is as general knowledge. Unless it was done as the producers assumed the audience were idiots.
So I don’t watch Star Trek and I’ve just been watching clips and I thought I recognised the voice of Scotty. Turns out he also voices a character in one of the Ninth Doctor Adventures from the Big Finish’s Doctor Who audio stories. He’s got a very distinct voice!
It was pretty short on the Enterprise-D too until they settled on Geordi in season 2. They had like two or three people in season 1 who were only there for an episode or two.
@@SpiralSine6 Were any of those developed? Yeah one episode appearances. This isn't an issue of they just haven't picked the right actor. They had establish actors for both characters.
@@cb-gz1vl I think it was a creative decision (to not have a Chief Engineer in TNG S1), which they rectified in S2 when they realized how important that role could be. But yeah, it was a strange creative choice given how prominent Engineering is.
My only gripe with this episode is that Admiral April tells Pike to not interfere cus the colony is not in Federation borders. Like WHAT? Why are you making a colony that isn't in your borders first off? Second off, if you're making a colony not in your borders that then means that planet now extended your borders to encompassed it, cus you know you put a COLONY there!!!??? I know they needed to have a reason to make it so the enterprise was alone but they picked the dumbest reason on why the rest of the fleet couldn't help. They could've just said "we've got help on the way but the nearest ship is 3 days away" or something like that and Pike could've been like "I'm not waiting 3 days to save my woman." Glad to know that the federation is perfectly okay with just abandoning their people and letting them die and be food for aliens. Truly the Federation's most brain dead Admiral.
Well, looks like they've done no too bad on "Strange New Worlds" with their new Scotty!. Looking forward to seeing this next season once the dvd version is released. Until then...no more spoilers!. Must behave myself!.
So are they really going to put all the original characters in this show? Funny how in TOS Spock was the only one who actually served with Pike, now it’s the whole damn crew.
It was never actually said in TOS that only Spock served with Pike it was just mentioned he had. The only explicit change so far is that Kirk has met him more than once. It actually makes more sense that more have served with him as most of the crew when Kirk took command would've been made up of people already assigned to the ship. If they appeared in "Where No Man..." they probably served with Pike even if it was at the end of his captaincy.
