Well, if it's canon that Preston is Scotty's nephew, which it only is if we go by the Director's Edition, then his sister is canon too.
Scotty on DS9
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Well, if it's canon that Preston is Scotty's nephew, which it only is if we go by the Director's Edition, then his sister is canon too.
could be from a brother to!
A brother's son would probably have the last name "Scott"
”probably”: I expect that taking the mother’s name is not unusual in the 24th century, as it’s already an option in many countries today.
Well, he could have been delivered by stork but the Director's Edition seems canonical enough to me.
For a stork to bring babies in the Trek age, they would need to
1. Be able to fly in a vacuum.
2. Have warp speed flying capability.
3. Have enough storks to provide transport for however many babies are added daily to the 23rd century human population (which is probably pretty darn big, given the number of extrasolar human colonies).
I could see DS9 making him the problematic old white guy who wants things to be like they were 80 years ago. He comes into town, is greeted with some esteem and interest, and then he starts to wear out his welcome. He doesn't like Klingons or Ferengi, thinks the Bajorans should see the wormhole aliens for what they are, and the Federation types are too cosmopolitan for their own good – the New Humans from his day run amok.
It's only when he starts to notice the caliber of the types who still agree with him that he really starts to rethink his views.
Maybe in another episode when his shuttle stops again by the station he finds he's missing the past too much and starts to drink too heavily. After having one too many he wrecks his shuttle in an accident that nearly kills a Cardassian orphan girl, and, after many nights in the Infirmary when at last she pulls through, he pledges to take care of her and finds new purpose in being more than a tourist in this century.
It's only when he starts to notice the caliber of the types who still agree with him that he really starts to rethink his views.
Maybe in another episode when his shuttle stops again by the station he finds he's missing the past too much and starts to drink too heavily. After having one too many he wrecks his shuttle in an accident that nearly kills a Cardassian orphan girl, and, after many nights in the Infirmary when at last she pulls through, he pledges to take care of her and finds new purpose in being more than a tourist in this century.
I would hate doing that to his character more than I disliked what they already did to him on TNG.
Why go that way with it by default? Why not have his forgotten wisdom from the past save the day? If the Discovery crew can exist a thousand years later Scotty should have no problem existing 100 years later.
Why go that way with it by default? Why not have his forgotten wisdom from the past save the day? If the Discovery crew can exist a thousand years later Scotty should have no problem existing 100 years later.
agreed: his issues in fitting in the 24th century have been addressed in Relics, no need to make him a bigot and then “redeem” him.
Because he’s not from mythical Atlantis and because Atlantis was mythical.
This is DS9 where it’s all about drama and shades of gray.
Only if he gets to spend an evening drowning his sorrows with Kor — an old enemy with exactly the same problem.
Star Trek isn't going to make a show like that, and I don't think they should. Scotty is a careful engineer. He drinks, but when he does he doesn't drive or do anything else that requires his best judgement.
Maybe they should do a show with Kirk in therapy for his inability to form lasting romantic relationships?
It’s an extreme situation being lost out of time, forever. Most everyone you knew and loved are dead, as is your career and everything you were personally and professionally invested in. That would be an ongoing thing to move beyond, and occasionally to stumble is not to fall.
I don’t think Kirk as the womanizer stereotype some do, but if he were stuck out of time and leaned too heavily onto that crutch, why not?
Especially if he tried commanding again, maybe a smaller ship, and found that his brand of cowboy diplomacy had unexpected results for him in this new era. TNG’s “Too Short a Season” comes to mind.
I have always heard an urban legend suggesting that the episode was written with shatner in mind and the repercussions of a private little war.
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