Do you even like Scotty? He never did that. Well, except that one time, and that was for the safety of the ship.
How will Scotty be introduced?
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NoImpulseEngine
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Gonna have to agree with this.
I seem to remember a line about "an old Aberdeen pub-crawler" somewhere. You can bet Scotty's probably had a few legless nights along the way.
...and Guinan is the barmaid.
Was there ever anything going on between him and Uhura?? I got that vibe from TFF. Maybe they get drunk at that party and wake up together in his quarters. Not sure exactly how it happened, she leaves and they never speak of that night ever again. Or maybe it was Pavel...
He doesn't have to.
We saw Scotty both with AND without all ten fingers. They usaully used a "ten-fingered hand double" for close-ups (such as working the transporters), but I know of at least one occassion that you could clearly see the lack of a finger on Scotty.
So it's canon for Scotty to have ten fingers, but also canon that he only has nine. Abrams can choose which continuity to follow, but I guess we'll see Peg with all ten.
I knew it! ...damn, that just gave me the nastiest visuals
Nowhere Man
Commodore
Found on trapped inside the NX-01 transporter by Spock and is beamed onto the 1701 making him the longest serving engineer in starfleet
He will be in Starfleet's mess hall eating a plate of Haggis.
I reckon hell be either lecturing in a universirty or at the academy or something, enter Pike to draft him onto the Enterprise where he says until Kirk takes over maybe.
Or, like above, i prefer the bar brawl with flying stalls and glasses, where upon he meets Kirk.
Or, hes always been down there and we just never noticed.
LOL.
In actual fact, he probably will, being the talented actor he is, hell pick up on all of Jimmys quirks and acting habbits and incorporate them into his own Scotty.
Or, like above, i prefer the bar brawl with flying stalls and glasses, where upon he meets Kirk.
Or, hes always been down there and we just never noticed.
LOL.
In actual fact, he probably will, being the talented actor he is, hell pick up on all of Jimmys quirks and acting habbits and incorporate them into his own Scotty.
I know what I'm hoping to see...
Lieutenant Kirk, after getting caught "cheating" on the Kobayashi Maru test, doesn't get expelled, but does get a "bad" posting for his Command School Cruise (aka, what Saavik got to do on the Enterprise in TWOK).
So he gets assigned to a dilapidated old "police cruiser" or something along those lines... by no means a "glory assignment." He's assigned a cadet trainee crew which has at least three cadets we'll recognize (Sulu, Chekov, Uhura). And Spock, also "unpopular" with the Academy "powers that be" for some reason, also gets sent along for his "advanced Science Division cruise" on the same old ship.
Turns out that the ship, though old and beaten-up, is actually in much better condition than anybody expected... but that hardly any of her systems are "spec" anymore. This is in large part due to her chief engineer, Lieutenant Montgomery Scott. He's a drinker and a brawler and as a result, he got on the wrong side of some of the more "refined" folks running Starfleet at the time... but he's too good to simply cashier out, so instead he's there, keeping this old "rustbucket" running in a state better than many newer "ships of the line" might be.
When something goes wrong during the cruise (some disaster or attack or whatever), and the senior leadership is disabled, Scott is taken up with keeping this ship together long enough for them all to survive and fulfill their responsibilities.
A civilian ship is involved somehow... and on that ship is a civilian doctor who's left Earth to "find something worth living for" after going through a BRUTAL divorce... one Leonard McCoy. Maybe Kirk's forced to try to rescue civilians (a real-life Kobayashi Maru test!) on a ship far less capable than, say, one of the newer Constitution-class vessels.
Meanwhile, Spock managed to get a pulsed distress signal out... but since all "real" communication channels are blocked, he uses his knowledge of an idiosyncrasy of the hardware on the USS Enterprise to get a message to them. Pike, who trusts Spock explicitly, leaves his current "milk run" mission and heads to the rescue.
Scotty, then, is involved in keeping things running (with nothing but baling wire and chewing gum!), while Spock and Kirk are forced to work together to avoid whoever or whatever is endangering them... with the cadets and the civilian doctor playing key roles as well.
Just as the situation looks gravest, and Kirk has played his last card, Enterprise zooms in, engaging the enemy. The survivors of the civilian and starfleet "junker" both transport to Enterprise and are there for the finale.
At the end of the movie, we know that Spock will be back on the Enterprise after his Advanced Course graduation, specifically requested. We also know that Pike will request Scott be transferred to his command. McCoy decides that this could be the life for him, so he's going to apply to Starfleet (going in with a higher rank, as is often done in the REAL military... without having to go through the Academy at all... think Capt. Hawkeye Pierce for your model). Sulu, Uhura, and Chekov are back to the Academy and looking forward to their first postings, but we know that Kirk is impressed with their abilities.
And Kirk? Well, he's off as well, to his first posting as First Officer (the USS Alexander?). But we know he's decided... he wants a Constitution-class ship, and he really wants the Enterprise. And Pike, who's coming up for promotion within a couple of years, hasn't missed that.
As before Cary, great post. Well-thought out, and it even expounds a bit on your previous post in another thread where you outlined what you'd like to see in the film.
I really like how your theory takes into account the continuity of Kirk's other assignments and Spock transferring to Pike's command.
It all sounds good to me.
I really like how your theory takes into account the continuity of Kirk's other assignments and Spock transferring to Pike's command.
It all sounds good to me.
Awesome.
The question is not how will Scotty be introduced, but how will McCoy be introduced, he's not supposed to be there.
How do you figure? Just because McCoy wasn't seen in either pilot doesn't mean that he wasn't involved with Starfleet. You could easily say the same about Chekov, who wasn't seen until Season Two.
You know that futuristic car in the stills we've seen? It's Kirks! It breaks down on Kirk on the way to his commissioning ceremony. It just so happens that a guy of Scottish descent is nearby and happens to have some 23rd century bailing wire and duct tape handy.
Kirk jumps back into the now repaired car and zooms off, yelling "Thanks, Scotty!"
Montgomery Scott contines on his way to to the pub, shaking his head. "Nae appreciation for machinery, that young hot rodder. I'd nae wanna be his mechanic!"
Kirk jumps back into the now repaired car and zooms off, yelling "Thanks, Scotty!"
Montgomery Scott contines on his way to to the pub, shaking his head. "Nae appreciation for machinery, that young hot rodder. I'd nae wanna be his mechanic!"
Which would coinside with what Scotty said in "Relics" that he had previously served on several freighters and cruisers and that the Enterprise was the first starship he was ever assigned too. "Operation: Annhiliate!" also states that he was an engineering advisor for Deneva's mining operation.
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