#Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott

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CHIEF ENGINEER MONTGOMERY “SCOTTY” SCOTT

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My Star Trek versions of Barbie movie meme :3

[idol--hands]

Captain Data: “I am experiencing overwhelming stress.”

Idol ⭐️ Hands: note, I believe Data is modeling himself after Captain Sisko’s style of leadership here — as earlier, Sisko, laughed at Commander Data’s suggestion to consult Starfleet’s admirals before heading into a potentially fabric-of-reality-altering situation. As text is smaller below (a two-page spread), I’ve transcribed the dialog.

Acting Captain Data: Ensign Sato, broadcast Starfleet evacuation codes to all affected planets with my over-ride authorization.

Ensign Sato (the Andorian): Yes, sir.

Acting Captain Data: Additionally, broadcast the sub space frequencies of all nearby Starfleet vessels so they can be coordinated with directly.

Ensign Sato: Help is on the way!

Acting Captain Data: Lieutenant Descheeni, reassign all personnel from sciences and research to communications and telemetry. Transfer display protocols rather than physically relocating staff.

Lt. Descheeni: Clever, Captain.

Acting Captain Data: Simply necessary, Lieutenant. They will assist in efforts by Ensign Sato to coordinate evacuating in local language and custom as well as aid Ensign T’lr’s upcoming calculations.

Ensign T’lr (the Vulcan): Speaking of which, sir. I have a trajectory that might allow us to alter the course of the creature slightly by affecting their warp field stability, like a gentle nudge.

It will not change where they are going, but it should affect less inhabited systems.

Acting Captain Data: That is acceptable. Execute. And, Mr. Paris?

Lt. Paris: Don’t gotta tell me what to do, Captain. I’m the first human to ever achieve trans warp flight. I can handle the turbulence. The problem is going to be keeping up.

I can feel the engines, Commander. They’re not up to this.

Acting Captain Data: Mr. Scott, to address this, please activate the the Theseus’ classified propulsion system.

Chief Engineer Scott: I dinnae know what you’re talking ab—

Acting Captain Data: I looked over your design as soon as I was assigned, sir. It is incumbent on a first officer to know everything about his ship.

And while such a classified marker would no doubt deter most, my best friend is a decorated warp drive engineer. And so I was able to infer the use of the redacted capsules near each of the Theseus’ warp nacelles.

I was also able to infer that they were classified because they were, in fact, not yet working.

Chief Engineer Scott: Aye. Torres tried to get it working for months, but the containment frequencies never held.

Lt. Paris: Wait, B’elanna Torres? Like, my wife, B’elanna Torres? This was her little ‘side project’?

Chief Engineer Scott (on speaker): Aye, laddie. She said if you behaved, she’d let ye design the Bridge canopy.

Acting Captain Data: I have just relayed to you containment frequencies that I believe will solve the problem.

Chief Engineer Scott: It...it works. My God...

Acting Captain Data: No, Mr. Scott. Simply an android. Now, if you would be so kind, please take the vessel to transwarp.

Chief Engineer Scott: Way ahead of ye, Captain. But one little correction...like I always said, transwarp’s nothing but a dead end.

We call this little beauty...proto-warp!

Acting Captain Data: “I am experiencing pride.”

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Official TOS Character Bracket!

And here’s the final bracket! Round One will go live tomorrow, 4/5 at 10 am EST!

I’m introducing the senior officers in Round Two, partially because there’s an odd amount of final characters, and partially because this is a chance to give minor characters a chance, imo.

Full List:

Round One:

Left Side:

TOS! Captain Pike vs. TOS! Doctor M’Benga: Poll here (winner vs. Spock)

Lt. Charlene Masters vs. Dr. Miranda Jones: Poll here (winner vs. Ensign Chekov)

Sarek v. Edith Keeler: Poll here (winner vs. Lt. Uhura)

TOS! Number One vs. The Horta: Poll here (winner vs. Nurse Chapel)

Right Side:

Lt. Kevin Riley vs. The Gorn: Poll here (winner vs. Captain Kirk)

Lt. Marlena Moreau vs. Harry Mudd: Poll here (winner vs. Lt. Commander Scott)

Lady Amanda Grayson vs. Khan: Poll here (winner vs. Lt. Sulu)

Yeoman Rand vs. T’Pring: Poll here (winner vs. Dr. McCoy)

Round Two:

Left Side:

TOS! Dr. M’Benga vs. Mr Spock: poll here

Lt. Charlene Masters vs. Ensign Pavel Chekov: poll here

Sarek vs. Lt. Nyota Uhura: poll here

The Horta vs. Nurse Christine Chapel: poll here

Right Side:

The Gorn vs. Captain Jim Kirk: poll here

Harry Mudd vs. Lt. Commander Scott: poll here

Amanda Grayson vs. Lt. Hikaru Sulu: poll here

T’Pring vs. Dr. McCoy: poll here

Quarter Finals:

Left Side:

Mr. Spock vs. Ensign Pavel Chekov: poll here

Lt. Nyota Uhura vs. Nurse Christine Chapel: poll here

Right Side:

Captain Jim Kirk vs. Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott: poll here

Lt. Hikaru Sulu vs. Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy: poll here

Semi-Finals:

Mr. Spock vs. Lt. Nyota Uhura: poll here

Captain Jim Kirk vs. Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy: poll here

Finals:

Mr. Spock vs. Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy: poll here

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My friend sent me a post today about RPG classes for the TOS bridge crew, and while they were funny they were also so wrong that I was compelled to make my own list:

Captain James T. Kirk: Bard. But not in the "slutty rock star" way, in the "genuine renaissance man who can do at least a bit of everything" way. Kirk is the guy who read the entire player's guide cover to cover and built a character who would be the most useful in the widest array of situations.

Commander Spock: Monk. Everyone assumes he'd be a wizard, and I can see why because he's a scientist and he's terrifyingly intelligent, but this fails to account for the way that his strict "logic over emotion" ethic is so central to his character, or the fact that his wisdom score is at least as high as his int. He's also got pretty insane physical strength, and a lot of his abilities come from his meditative practices. Plus there's the psychic abilities he has, which I would put down as a kind of monk-magic.

Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy: World's angriest paladin. Refused to let everyone else run off without a healer. Is a healer in the way that makes you very aware that healers are all doms.

Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott: Artificer. Nuff said.

Lt. Hikaru Sulu: Bard, but the kind who's an acrobat. His job on the ship is pilot, and he's the best damn pilot in all of Starfleet. We don't see this as much in TOS, because they didn't have the ability to do cool scenes of the ships flying around, but Sulu could fly the Enterprise through a needle with room to spare.

Lt. Nyota Uhura: Another bard. She's the friggin comm's officer! That means she's a linguist and a radio operator (something people forget was an actually necessary and technically demanding job). She also canonically is a beautiful singer and dancer.

Ensign Pavel Chekov: Here's our wizard. Hear me out. Chekov is the ship's navigator (another job that seems to be somewhat forgotten in contemporary sci-fi). Everything he does is based on intelligence, he's a little bit of a nerpus (low wisdom), and he works off of careful study and calculation. My guy was doing calculations for interstellar space plans using something slightly more advanced than an old DOS computer.

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Star Trek: The Animated Series 50th Anniversary Episode Review

Episode: The Time Trap

Season: 1

Episode: 12

Stardate: November 24, 1973

Original airdate: 5267.2 – 5267.6

Written by: Joyce Perry

Directed by: Hal Sutherland

Music by: Yvette Blais and Jeff Michaels

Executive producers: Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott

Studio: Filmation Associates

Network: NBC

Series created by: Gene Roddenberry

Cast:

Captain James T. Kirk (voice by William Shatner)

Mr. Spock (voice by Leonard Nimoy)

Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy (voice by DeForest Kelly)

Lt. Uhura, Devna, Magen, Kali (voice by Nichelle Nichols)

Lt. Hikaru Sulu, Kuri, Klingon #1 (voice by George Takei)

Eng. Montgomery Scott, Kaz, Kor, Xerius, Gabler (voices by James Doohan)

Nurse Christine Chapel (voice by Majel Barrett)

Synopsis:

The crew of the USS Enterprise was assigned to survey a sector of the galaxy known as the Delta Triangle. More precisely, to research about the mysterious disappearance of a high number of starships on the region from ancient times.

Once there, the ship had a massive failiure of its sensors and to make the situtation worse, they were received by a squadron of three Klingon battlecruisers, Captain Kirk orders Lieutenant Sulu to fire phasers to the IKS Klothos. The shoots made point blank on the Klingonian vessel but it disappeared, not destroyed.

One commander of the remaining two Klingon ships blamed Kirk, but the captain decides to move forward to the same place the Klothos was at maximum warp speed. As closer it gets to the place, the ship's crew felt very dizzy by the effect of an ion storm. Suddenly, they were in a place the captain describes as “an interstellar Sargasso Sea” filled with a lot of centuries-old alien starships. One of them, the USS Bonaventure.

The Entrerprise had another encounter with the Klothos, but right at the moment both of the captains orders to attack their foes, they were suddenly transported to one of the ships. The one that gathers the Ruling Council of the area named Elysia. That council is composed of 123 races that learned to live peacefully over one thousand years. Every act of violence is punished severely. It is not a parallel universe, is a place with no stars nor planets, a place where time ceased to move, a pocket in the garment of time.

Captain Kirk and Captain Kor are facing charges of committing acts of violence and they are both facing a sentence of a hundred years of immobilization of their ships and crew. The council's leader, a Romulan named Xerius pardons both of the captains due to their ignorance of Elysia's law. They were turned back to their respective ships.

At the Ruling Council, an alien female with psionic powers named Magen perceived both of the crews from the Enterprise and the Klothos are planning to escape. Another of the Ruling Council members, an Orion slave girl named Devna was opposed to that idea because she deemed they will die and appealed to Xerius to stop them but the council's leader told her it does not infringe any of the Elysian's laws to try to escape from there.

At the Enterprise, Kirk tries to find the way to escape from there. He has to do something quickly before the disintegration of the dilithium crystals. The Klingons tried first, but they were unsuccessful. Spock devises a formula based on the failure of the Klingonian ship. He proposes Kirk a solution by linking both their ship and the one of their foes using both warp drives together as one.

During the gathering of both captains and first officers aboard the Klothos, Spock showed very friendly with the Klingons. It made Doctor McCoy very suspicious about the welfare of their first officer. He asks Kirk to talk with him about the subject and he agrees. Spock tells the captain that he felt the thoughts of the Klingonian officers and knows that although is not clear for him, they are planning something evil.

The Elysians celebrated a party for both Federation and Klingonian crews. After performing a dance, Devna told to the federation captain that she wanted to be on her home planet again but she thinks it is impossible to move out from this place and begs Kirk not to try. He told her that his home may not be perfect as Elysia, but it is his home no matter its imperfections. Also, during the feast, a Klingon officer started a fight with McCoy. Both ships' captains were on trial by the ruling council again as responsible for the conduct of their crews.

This time, Kirk begs pardon for Kor and his crew because they need them so much for their escape plan. Xerius understood Kirk's intentions and granted the way out of the punishment to the Klingons. During the trial, a female Klingonian officer named Kaz, put an explosive capsule in the warp drive control computer system of the Enterprise.

As the launch of both of the ships' begins, Magen perceived the sabotage to the federation's ship by their counterparts. And the council sends the message to Kirk. Spock throws out the capsule out of the ship before it explodes at warp 8. Both of the ships made their way out of Elysia. Kor takes all the credit for their success, but it is unimportant to Kirk.

Fascinating Facts:

This episode was written by actress and writer Joyce Perry. It was inspired by legend of the Bermuda Triangle. A region located between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico. According to the myth, there was a lot of mysterious disappearance of ships and airplanes in that area. An urban legend very popular in the second half of the 20th century. It was the source of inspiration for many science fiction and fantasy works of that time.

Also, it is a mention of the Sargasso sea. A region in the north of the Atlantic Ocean that has an abundant brown seaweed called sargassum. It also bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre.

This is the second time the Klingon character, Kor has appeared in a episode. The first time was in a season one episode, “Errand Of Mercy”. It was played by actor John Colicos. He was not available at the time this episode, the voice for Kor was played by James Doohan. Colicos returned to the Kor character years later for three episodes of Deep Space Nine.

This is the last time the Klingons made their appearance with smooth foreheads. Years later, their appearance changed for the 1979 film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

This is the episode were Nichelle Nichols played the most characters in a single episode. A total of four: Uhura, Devna, Magen and Kaz.

Most of the designs for the starships stuck in the area of Elysia were unapproved designs for the insectoid pod starship from the pilot episode, “To The Farthest Of The Stars”.

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welcome home but make it star trek

poppy partridge is nurse christine chapel

howdy pillar is montgomery "scotty" scott

barnaby b. beagle is dr. leonard "bones" mccoy

frank frankly is mr. spock

wally darling is ensign pavel chekov

eddie dear is captain james t. kirk

sally starlet is lt. nyota uhura (fun fact: nyota is swahili for star!)

julie joyful is number one/commander una chin-riley

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Hey so I want you to tell me every single thing I could possibly want to know about Star Trek

OK YEAH. under cut because. well. you know me.

So, in the 60s, Gene Roddenberry started a sci-fi series. This was Star Trek. It's about a starship named the USS Enterprise, which is part of Starfleet. Starfleet is the exploration branch of the Federation of Planets, which is basically the UN of the galaxy. The USS Enterprise is, at the time of the show, captained by James T Kirk, although it was previously captained by Christopher Pike. Kirk is an extremely traumatized nerd who is doing what he really wants to do. His First Officer (and Science Officer) is Mr. Spock, the only alien on the ship. Spock is (half) Vulcan, a species that values "logic" above all, yadda yadda. His Chief Medical Officer is his bestie, Leonard "Bones" McCoy.

He also has: Lieutenant Nyota Uhura (Communications Officer), Lt. Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (Chief Engineer), Lt Hikaru Sulu (Navigator), Nurse Christine Chapel (Nurse), Ensign Pavel Chekov (pilot [?]), and Yeoman Janice Rand (Yeoman)

All these characters are MASSIVELY important for the time. Uhura was a black woman in a major position on the ship; Chapel, Uhura, and Rand were all strong women; Chekov was Russian during the Cold War; Spock was a metaphor for xenophobia and was also Jewish; Sulu was Asian in a time where anti-Asian racism was super high (and his actor, George Takei was Japanese and was raised in internment camps).

Importantly, Star Trek was so so amazing for a show from the sixties. It had one of the first interracial kisses on TV, and had multiple episodes with all sorts of metaphors. Yes, it had problems (misogyny and a fair bit of racism), but for the sixties? It was so incredible.

And the second season started with the episode "Amok Time", which was written by a queer man and focuses on the idea of Spock going into heat and going to die if he doesn't fuck. Somehow, writhing in the sand with Kirk cures this.

And that's the start of slash culture! Almost all slash culture is the fault of either Star Trek or X Files.

So Star Trek: The Original Series got 3 seasons and became a cult classic. And then in the 80s (?) it got the movies. The Motion Picture (bad, but tolerable), Wrath of Khan (pretty damn good), Search for Spock (bad and questionable), Voyage Home (aka The One With the Whales and fucking AWESOME), and then two others I didn't care about whatsoever.

And then, after the movies, The Next Generation came out. It takes place a bit later, with better cameras and effects. The spaceship is smoother, and it's also incredible. Its cast includes: Captain Jean Luc Picard, First Officer William Riker, Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher, Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge, Lt Cmr Data (what is his role I can't remember), Security Officer Tash Yar, Worf (also can't remember his role), Dr. Pulaski (I don't like her), Guinan (bartender), and Wesley Crusher.

Terrible confession, but I only finished TOS. I still know TNG pretty well tho.

After TNG we got: Deep Space Nine (my BELOVED), Voyager (wish I had watched more), Enterprise (good if you ignore the misogyny), and then all the nuTrek I haven't been paying attention to because I can't watch it.

Deep Space Nine is the other one I never finished but know, and it focuses on a space station near the planet Bajor. Bajor just threw off the rule of Cardassia, an empire. The Federation, with questionable motives, is helping them rebuild. They send a captain there, and then a wormhole opens, making the space station super super important. Then a war happens but I didn't reach that.

It focuses on Captain Sisko, his son Jake, his first officer Major Kira Nerys, his CMO Julian Bashir, his science officer Jadzia Dax (trangender worm), his engineer Miles O'Brien, a cop Odo, a bartender Quark, a "simple tailor" (actually an exiled Cardassian spy) Garak, and later, Worf.

It's really good, because while TNG pulls a full utopia, DS9 contradicts it and also has just amazing characters. Shame I didn't finish it before Netflix lost it. It also has the first CANONICALLY bisexual character in Star Trek.

There's a LOT of Trek, and I can probably give vague overviews about all of them and also answer any and all questions about it. Please. Please have questions.

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Scottish Actor Martin Quinn to Play Lt. Montgomery Scott on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott was one of Star Trek‘s most beloved characters. The role was created by Canadian actor James Doohan in the original series and movies, and continued by English actor Simon Pegg in the JJ Abrams’ reboots. Now, for the first time, the Scottish engineer will be played by a Scottish actor, Martin Quinn. Martin Quinn appeared in the TV show The Lovers as Jason and in…

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: VTG Star Trek Collectors Edition Figures Montgomery Scott Julian Bashir 94-97.

[star-trek-shallot]

Kirk: Good morning.

Spock: Good morning.

Scotty: Good morning.

Uhura: You all sound like robots. Why don't you spice it up a bit?

McCoy, dramatically entering through the turbolift: MORNIN' MOTHERTRUCKERS!

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HAPPY STAR TREK DAY!

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Data continues to search for Lore…

…with his emotion chip turned on. And he has begun to dream of his brother as well.

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Quarter Finals

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Let’s face it, the whole thing with Khan and the Vengeance crashing, and McCoy’s “miracle cure” must have been a confidentiality nightmare.