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.
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.
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!,)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The entire UK is chock full of ridiculous shibboleths. Edinburgh is a mild one at worst. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mOd3lwluQIw.html
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!
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.
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 =)
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
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.
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_ ."
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.
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 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.
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 ^^
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.
*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*
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.
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.
Most engineers would say, "It can't be done." Scotty would say, "Now that's a hard one. Might take us a few days, maybe even a few weeks, but we'll get it done." If Scotty says, "Sorry, Captain, that just can't be done," then it is just not physically possible. You'd have to change the laws of physics to make it work, and changing the laws of physics is simply beyond our scope. You'd have to be the Creator of the universe (read God, here) to do that.
Was gonna say that bugged me that he spelt ‘Edinburgh’ wrong 😂. Also correct Scotty was from Linlithgow, I remember they had a shrine to the Scotty character at the Linlithgow museum, no idea if it’s still there now.
Extra bonus facts: Monty Scott also spent time in Aberdeen. Fans jokingly point out the Scottish town *Kirkcaldy* motivated him (after serving on cruisers and freighters) to be engineer on the _Enterprise_ .
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'
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.
In the book Star Trek Cats by Jenny Parks, Scotty is illustrated as a Scottish Fold cat who loves Scotch milk. 😼 Highly recommended for anyone who likes those two subjects.
Just got done binging TOS and was amazed at just how great Scotty was. He was the only one who never called the captain and expected advice. He just did what needed to be done and called to keep Kirk informed. Everything Kirk suggested... Scotty was already two steps ahead of him. LOT of conversations went like this. Scotty: Captain, we've lost power to XXXX Kirk: Reroute auxillary power... Scotty: I did that sir, no effect. Kirk: Okay, then get the ship out of orbit Scotty: Tried that already too. It's not responding; Kirk: Okay... well, Keep trying and keep me informed. Scotty: Aye Sir.. You just don't see Spock or Sulu just taking complete charge and willing to leave orbit and get a safe distance away without talking to Kirk first. Even though Spock SHOULD have. It was logical after all ;) But yeah... Kirk never had an ANY suggestions that Scotty didn't already think. He could easily step in as full acting captain if Kirk died and not even miss a step.
I'm not too fond of the 'extra timeline' stuff. But since it's Scotty, one of the most beloved Star Trek characters, I'm OK with it. Besides, you want your 'beloved' characters to have their 'happy ending' stuff. Though I will say, SOME of it seemed a bit absurd. Being put 'in charge' of Starfleet engineering & major projects when a century behind the times? I know he took some 'refresher courses', but still. That said, I would like to imagine that maybe he was called in to help (consult?) on the team working on the "Warp Field Effect" problem. (the one that causes damage to space & could open rifts?) He would have a unique perspective on the technology that has developed over the last 1+ centuries & may notice something that others might overlook.
Transwarp wasn't a failure. Warp 9 on the pre transwarp scale was 729 times the speed of light. Warp 9 on the post transwarp scale was 1,518 times the speed of light. More than twice as fast. Warp 2 went from 8 times the speed of light to 10 times the speed of light. Warp 5, from 125 to 213. The experiment worked, they did create a better and faster warp drive that transcended their current scale. Had the Borg had something not called transwarp, nobody would say the great experiment failed.
Not to nit pick too much time stamp 3:17 shows 2260 promoted to Lt. 2364 promoted to Lt Cmdr. Took him 104 years? Then travelled backward in time to 2264 to be posted on NCC-1701?
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.
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 wonder if, with deep fakes and all such technologies, in the future we will see content with characters such as Scotty, played by someone sporting their "original" appearance. Not sure if we should look forward to such opportunity, or dread it.
according to Scotty himself from Star Trek next generation he tells captain Picard the enterprise NCC 1701 was the very first ship he served on. the first ships you mentioned was not in that conversation so is your information wrong of how many ships he served on
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!"
your information of the timeline is a bit off before Scotty went back in time with the crew of the enterprise to save humpback whales in Star Trek 3 Search for Spock the enterprise was destroyed in that time Scotty helped Captain Kirk to find his friend Mr Spock to take him back to planet Vulcan
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.
A Taste of Armageddon McCoy: "Well, Scotty, now you've done it." Scotty to the ambassador Fox: "Aye. The haggis is in the fire for sure, but I'll not lower my defences on the word of that mealy-mouthed gentleman (Anon Eminiar Seven) down below. Not until I know what happened to the Captain.
I wonder what kept Doohan from making more appearances post-TNG. Never made sense to me he didn't pop up at least once in DS9 or especially in Voyager (who's circumstances might pique his interest).
Hard to justify him in Voyager until they made contact with the Alpha Quadrant again. And at that point he was probably too dug in in his projects to even learn about them. On the other hand I would have loved to see him, or at least have him mentioned in DS9's Dominion War arms race. No doubts Starfleet would have bothered such a mechanical prodigy to help improve their arsenal.
@@Moonbeam143 And warp nacelles bolted on the station a week after that. Dominion War would have gone rather differently if they'd had to witness the power of a fully armed and operational battle station. :)
@@richmcgee434 now I’m imagining O’Brien feeling threatened by Scotty or vice-versa! And I bet there’d be all sorts of “why don’t you just x?” “yes, I already thought of that” dialogue between them.
How could you miss out the TNG novel Crossover? Set after Scottys return to Starfleet after his rescue from the Dyson Sphere. Scotty decides to save Spock from Romulan assassins but Starfleet says no way. So Scotty in secret restores parts of the old Constitution refit Yorktown drydocked at Starbase 178 as a walk in museum and gets her running again. He even steals the old 23rd century Romulan cloaking device that Kirk stole in TOS from a museum and fits it into the Yorktown. He goes on a major nostalgia trip with the ship and flies her into Rom space to save Spock. The Enterprise D is sent to stop the stolen ship but Scotty outsmarts them gets Spock and then has to come to the Enterprise's rescue against a couple of warbirds. Scotty and Spock in control of the Yorktown go into battle and help save the Enterprise. Scotty then boasts this is the second time hes stolen a Constitution class from a starbase. Everyone though is staggered by how quickly Scotty was able to get a 80 year old gutted ship back up and running and how he jury rigged 24th century tech into her.
BTW.. the sir name you said.. of his wife in the story is spoken.. Campbell.. Not Camp-Bell.. I should know It's as you see it's my sir name! One word not two separate words.
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?
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.
Like always, I am enjoying your Personnel Files, this one on Scotty is a great one, he is defiantly fourth main character to round out the key to the USS Enterprise NCC 1701. I am watching Enterprise and enjoying the one with the Romulan holographic ships, I like the look at the two different Andorian civilizations, I also noticed that the albinos have a spit on their antenna and that they are blind with telepathic ability. And we see more about the tellarites GREAT episodes. This is where the series should have went with dealing with the things like Kirk dealt with.
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.
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.)
A hundred and forty seven what? I thought humans could only live to be about 125 or 130 at most in Star Trek? Anyway nice job on this video. I learned a lot about this character Scotty is really cool to have gone though all of that like he did.
The thing that's a trip about GREAT BRITIAN is that the accents are completely different even though the IRISH, THE SCOTTISH, mainland BRITS and Australians ALL SPEAK BASIC ENGLISH. I think it may be the IRISH, and the SCOTTS whose accent is SO THICK,, that it can be VERY UNINTELLIGIBLE for some of us Americans.
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."
That question at the end about his real age... You can't be serious. Time travellers do not accumulate age for the time they skipped, even in sci-fi terms that's ridiculous! Having skipped forward, while being 'suspended', he would seem to have lived a long time in calendar years, but in reality Montgomery Scott was not 147, he was 72 because that's how many years he was actually alive. But Dr. Helen Magnus*, on the other hand, travelled backward in time, and had no way back to the future, so she actually had to live every single one of those years to catch up with her team. It helps that she doesn't appear to age, but that's another long story, anyway she really was 274 years old! ...and still looked damn hot! (Wait, did I just say that last bit out loud?!) * Dr. Helen Magnus from "Sanctuary" (2008-2011) IMDb : 7.3/10
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.
If you're talking Scotty episodes, then you'd be remiss to skip TOS' "A Taste of Armageddon" which saw Scotty in command with a pushy Ambassador while Kirk was on the planet below trying to solve a diplomatic nightmare. With a heavy dose of real life subtext for James Doohan's real life Royal Canadian Army service.
Wait... in 2260(ish) he was promoted to Lieutenant and then ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR years later he was promoted to Lt. Cmdr????? He's got WAY more patience that I do! LOL
