In a novel I read years ago, it was mentioned that in the past that Commander Scott had been offered his own command, but turned it down. He preferred being an engineer on a deep space exploration vessel. I assume the command he was offered was a support ship.
Scotty was at one with the Enterprise. He got into a melee with Klingons when one called the Enterprise garbage. When the Enterprise was tossed halfway across the galaxy, he sensed something wrong with the feel of the ship. He referred to the warp drive as his engine. He would rather create a warp detonation, killing the Enterprise and all aboard her, than to have Romulans put their grubby hands on her. As a side note, this episode gave us The Vulcan Death Grip. A term that has been used for decades in referring to holding on to something very tightly, even though there was no clenched hand involved. More like a variation of the mind meld touch.
@@JW...-oj5iw This episode denies the existence of a Vulcan Death Grip. Yet in Journey to Babel, we are told about Tal Shaya, a merciful form of execution, where pressure is applied to snap the neck instantly. If Tal Shaya isn't a Vulcan Death Grip, then what is it?
In the novel's, he was briefly at command school to be a captain but he was more at home with the engines. Technically, Scotty cheated on the Kobayashi Maru by destroying a wave of kingons using a technique that would only work in the simulator but not IRL. He still lost though.
Yes , James Montgomery Doohan served honorably against evil on earth (1941-1945) and in space. We thank him for his bravery on land and in space . RIP Jim
@@conscience-commenter look up some of his stories from his service in the Canadian Army - he was wounded on D-Day, but later was an artillery observation pilot. Rumour has it he once flew his plane along a line of telegraph poles by slaloming through them. What a crazy Canuck!
Waltham 1892, coming in a close 2nd place, or perhaps tied for 1st place, is Lieutenant Galloway, played by David Ross. That guy is in 9 episodes, and dies in THE OMEGA GLORY. Gets resurrected and returns to duty in DAY OF THE DOVE and TURNABOUT INTRUDER. Tough guy.
Scotty was the best. When he's telling off the Romulan commander you see Kirk has that smile, Kirk is proud of his crew and knows Scotty will do what he needs to do and get shit done.
Yeah, the Romulan Commander didn't take Scotty seriously but she should've and her arrogance proved to be her undoing just like it was her people's undoing a century earlier when they underestimated Humanity in the Earth-Romulan war and the build up to it and lost because of it.
Scotty drank excellent spirits and much of it. He drank hard, loved the Enterprise hard, worked hard, likely loved women hard, and valued his friendships hard. In all, the character Scotty was a hard, sincere and genuinely loving man. He would be a fine example for a young man to live up to this character.
Oh yeah! He wouldn't shirk when that mealy-mouthed wuss tried to trick him, nor cower to the diplomat windbag who should never have been allowed on the bridge! And don't forget the cheap shot right cross he gave to one of Khan's henchman! GO SCOTTYT!
True, but if anybody deserves to play him, it's his son Chris in "Star Trek Continues". Chris knew his father far better than Simon Peggy did. Too bad it was cancelled because it supposedly didn't follow canon. Well, neither does "'Discovery" and the new movie series. The writers there make up stories about known characters (Spock had a sister or has Dyslexia?) that Gene Roddenberry didn't included in his guidelines book I still have.
@@virginiaconnor8350 Fan's make their own star trek which Trekkies really like. CBS/Paramount don't take the time to make a good product, so they feel they have to eliminate "The Intruders" which by the way is US fans.
@@danielmarinucci7708 Not all (Star Trek) fan films are likeable - many are really quite awful - but _Star Trek Continues_ is definitely top notch and "canon" enough for my tastes. CBS has been territorial, hostile, arrogant, and insulting to Trek fans for years - they burned the fans, they burned their bridges, they burned Trek itself into ruin - so as a fan I don't particularly regard their canon (ie: their own series of expensive-but-awful "official" fan films) as being "real Star Trek" worth caring about.
@@virginiaconnor8350 I agree with you 100% about Chris Doohan's portrayal of Scotty in Star Trek Continues. And to see the daughter of the Romulan Commander give a spot-on portrayal as her mother's character in the two-part series finale was incredible.
... for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself. Scotty would have known the Declaration of Arbroath I'm sure.
@@jaybee2402 Well half a million of the sods are up here, I wonder why. If they weren't allowed to vote we'd be back independent. Its coming though, everyone is tired of Tories and the shitshow of Brexit. It'll happen in our lifetimes.
@@shugaroony I too hope so. But speaking as a Sassenach who hates the Tories and Brexit even more I just hope you will still have room in your hotels for us who love you Picts from across the wall, who want to come say hello, and maybe even buy you a wee dram 😁❤️❤️
@@jaybee2402 I have a great fondness for Geordies, West Country folk and Scousers, and any one who hates the Tories, is a friend of mine and I'd happily buy them a drink! :D
If he DID have a middle finger, he certainly would've flipped off the Romulan commander, (at least in the storyline; they probably would've blurred it out).
@@galahad6300 Kirk has found over the years that one of the easiest holds you can give up in a bare knuckle brawl is the shirt. Easy to grip, and not hard to control the upper body using a hold on the short. So he had his uniforms made of a material that tears very easily, so that he doesn't let the monster of the day pick him up by the shirt and throw him around.
Yeah, Scotty is awesome, but let's not forget that Kirk and Spock are playing the Romulans like violins in this episode, and since they know what Scotty's reaction will be, in a sense they're also playing Scotty.
Well, Kirk didn't know but he was certainly banking on it. I doubt they would have been given that mission if Kirk didn't have the confidence that when the cards were played his crew would stick to it. It was likely torture for him to play the mad captain up until Spock "killed" him. But he did get a moment of taking off the mask when Scotty told the Romulans what they could do with their orders. That was a genuine smile with relief that his faith was well-placed.
@@RonJohn63 except when the captain and first officer are away from the chef a third officer who would have been Scotty seniority wise would have been left in command then Sulu, then Chekhov, then Uhura, van McCoy.
By the time The Motion Picture came out, Scotty was looking old and fat. This Scotty with the stern face and square jaw is excellent in the captain's chair, but as others have said, once the movies came he belonged in engineering.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 I stand by my point: the chief engineer is not part of the command structure. That's why you only see him in command when Kirk has been captured by the Bad Guys.
Kirk and Spock must had a lot of confidence in Scott, to keep him in the dark about this secret operation and yet expect him to not otherwise give orders that would have inadvertently ruined the whole affair.
Scotty was my hero of Star Trek series. My brother and I met him at the Star Trek convention in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1979. He told us about his experience in the incoming movie "Star Trek: Motion Picture." Afterward, we watched his favorite episode "The Doomsday Machine," at the convention. It was a good old time amid the crisis of US hostages in Iran.
@@DennisMoore664 in TNG episode "Relics" Scotty says to Picard, "Ah, it's like the first time you fall in love. You don't ever love a woman quite like that again. Well, to the Enterprise, and the Stargazer - old girlfriends we'll never meet again."
The Enterprise was Scotty’s ship. He literally felt he owned it and loved it like it was family. Sure Kirk ran it, but it was always Scotty’s property 😊
It is typical of the Scot in the engine room of a ship on the water or in space. It's his ship, he lets you run it. It is a valid stererotype, I have run into Scots operating boilers in heating plants for office buildings, it's not much different to a Scot.
Romulan: "We have you surrounded and outnumbered 3 to 1, surrender! " Scotty to ensign: "Hold my beer.", to Romulan: "You better get at least 5 more ships if you ever want to see home again."
When Scotty was in the Engineering Room, he was always whining about something or other, but put him in command, and it's EAT PHASERS FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER.
That's because Scotty has a high IQ and a high EQ. The problems of command are different from engineering. In engineering he needs to fix things and be the miracle worker. He can't do that if he makes it look too easy hence the whinging. In command YOU have to make decisions and ruddy quick. No time for whinging, complaining etc, you get what info you can and snap. You make a decision and STICK to it. Great performance rounding out the character. A canny Scotsman indeed.
I think he mentioned in one episode that he intentionally downplayed his abilities and how much limits things had just so that Kirk had options in a crisis.
@@Jadty At his age he should be enjoying life retired on a tropical island not wasting time on the internet arguing with dweebs. That shit isn't remotely manly. The wrong cast member died.
Yeah, I Always Thought He Was Good At Other Stuff Too. He Did A Hawaii Five-O, The Fugitive & A Movie Titled, 'Pray For The Wildcats' & Another Movie With Hal Holbrook Where He Played A Secret Service Agent. I Think He Likes Dogs Too.
I believe the episode was called Candidate in Crime. An excellent ending, Columbo had the bullet out of the wall hours before the shot was supposed to have been fired.
That smile Kirk gave when Scotty basically told the Romulans to stick it up their shaft was the first time since the mission began he had a true face. Probably felt good to him after playing the mad captain for so long.
In the absence of a father figure while growing up in the early 70's the men of Enterprise provided an example of how a real man conducted himself. Thank you. I did pretty well for myself because of the lessons taught.
I'll give her this, she doesn't hold the crew responsible and understands they had no choice but to follow orders. But if she thinks a starship acting captain is going to obey the orders of a Romulan commander, she doesn't understand humans *at all.*
Scotty wasn’t having any of what the Romulan commander was dishing out. This was the guy who wasn’t afraid of telling Jojo Krako to mind his place or else he’d be wearing concrete galoshes.
I remember when Kirk asked Scotty if he always increased his repair times by a factor of 4, Scotty replied of course, how else could I keep my reputation intact. Pure class.
There any TOS episodes where you can actually see it? Only episode I’ve ever noticed it on was the TNG episode where he’s drinking with Picard on the holodeck.
From James Doohan's IMDB profile: Landed on Juno Beach on D-Day as a member of the Royal Canadian Artillery. Soon after, while walking across a mine field, he and his unit were attacked by enemy fire, as the Germans shot at them with machine guns. He was hit by four bullets to the leg, his middle finger of his right hand was shot off, and a bullet struck his chest. His life was saved when that hit a silver cigarette case which had been given to him by his brother
@@eagleeye0078 , yes, there are a few such episodes. I forget the title of the episode, but it is the one with Lee Meriwether as the guardian of a dead planet, and also a scene in The Trouble with Tribbles, maybe others as well. There are TONS of episodes where it is clear that Doohan is holding his hand awkwardly in order to hide the missing finger. In the encyclopedic books on TOS, "These Are The Voyages", mention is made of Doohan practicing his hand choreography before shooting each scene, in order to avoid having the missing finger be obvious to the camera. And also, the bit about Doohan losing finger(s) on D-Day....he lost ONE finger, not fingers, and he did not lose it on D-Day, and it was not 'shot off' as some people say. In his autobiography, "Beam Me Up Scotty", he describes how the finger was severely injured as part of the D-Day invasion (perhaps not on D-Day itself), and he also got shot in his leg. He was sent back the England for medical care and convalescence, and for quite a while they thought they could save the finger. Finally, X-Rays were taken (fewer military war hospitals in those days had X-Ray machines) which showed that the bone was completely shattered and would never heal correctly, and the best he could hope for was a stiff finger that would always stick straight out, look odd and be constantly getting in the way, becoming injured again and again, and generally causing other problems. So he and his doctors agreed to have it surgically removed.
A very Happy 90th Birthday William Shatner. Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec. March 22, 1931 Born in Canada, But a U.S. treasure. Your legacy is worldwide. Thanks Tiberius..
James Doohan served in the Canadian military with the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Was wounded in Normandy on D-day, where he had a couple fingers blown off...
As someone who served in the military and lived a few years up North, it made me grin seeing Doohan "cover up" his war wound with his wrist draped inwardly over the armrest.
I always found it amusing that they originally had the same actor playing an Italian as the chief engineer. I wonder what he would have sounded like in that role.
James Dohan was a military office during WW2 and the never show one of his hands because he had his thumb shot off. He was a pilot and ground officer. He was a true Hero.
If Scotty were the captain of the Enterprise, there wouldn't be much of a show because he would find a quick solution to every problem the ship encounters.
This scene is just one of many that exemplifies the greatness of TOS over all subsequent incarnations of Star Trek. The writing, acting, music and even the well executed camera movements all come together to form a superior product, still unmatched to this day, despite the millions of dollars spent trying.
@@wwiiinplastic4712 They’re concerned with hitting blue check marks. And why? Because you said it. The current writing is LOUSY so it’s covered up with useless “platform” writing.
Now I see why Lt. Uhura is in Communications. Her tone of voice said more than her words!! "Channel is open Mr. Scott & you are tied in!" She had Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Starfleet & the Federation's back!!!
Uhura had a bigger range than she often got to show. Over the course of the show she was seen working every position other than Engineer and Navigator.
@@terrathelunatic how is _ST:TOS knew how to get the most beautiful women, and almost all were in their 30s._ creepy? I *really* want to know why that's creepy. Thanks
"Never give up, never serenader"? Seems like good enough advice. She ain't worth serenading if you already feel like giving up. And it seems like something Tim Allen would say.
Star Trek Continues did a sequal to this episode, that also tied into the second pilot (Shatner pilot). Chris Doohan plays Scotty, and also stars Nicola Bryant (Peri from Dr. Who). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eCBuaTnDsQs.html
Yes, so is so much the spitting image of her mother, i was taken aback, wondering how she managed to keep her youthful appearance...but y'all ruined that, thanks
Scotty's best episode was in "A Piece of the Action" and his ST character was fashioned after another Scottish spaceship engineer named Macdougal created by the great sci-fi writer of the 40s and 50s Nelson Bond for his collection of Lancelot Biggs space-faring adventures
As much as many only stick with TOS, my favorite Scotty performance was from Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home. Where he's typing away on the computer terminal at blazing speed to give the specs for transparent aluminum, and makes the comment; 'How do we know that he didn't invent it '
@@TheMyrmo Quite frankly I think they enjoy matching minds with the Federation a little too much. I think if they had the chance to completely destroy the Federation they wouldn't take it. The rivalry is too important to keep the Romulan empire strong.
"This is Lieutenant-Commander Scott. The Enterprise takes no orders except those of Captain Kirk, and we will stay right here until he returns. And if you make any attempt to board or commandeer the Enterprise, it will be blown to bits along with as many of you as we can take with us."
