Scotty on DS9

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I'm 60 years old. I've been on exactly one date. It did not go particularly well: she wasn't geekette enough for me, and I wasn't "knight in shining armor" enough for her.

And it's been long-established (TrekLit and writers' guides in the Prime Universe, and canon in the Abramsverse) that McCoy joined Starfleet out of a marriage that went sour.

 

[kkt]

Especially in the future. They probably have No Horny pills.

Product of Dr. McCoy's laboratory, to prescribe for Kirk?

 

[fireproof78]

Product of Dr. McCoy's laboratory, to prescribe for Kirk?

Nah. Just to ensure more efficiency fleet wide.

 

[drt]

Well, stellar lifespan is a very distant second priority on the list of consideration factors, with resources required to build the thing being numero uno. A small red dwarf might have a habitable zone of, say, 25 million km from the star, requiring the sphere to be only 50 million km in diameter. Easier to build a 50 million km sphere than a 200 million.

For a small red dwarf you don't even have to go that big. For TRAPPIST-1, an M8 red dwarf, the same solar flux as Earth is reached at 3.56 million km from the star.

That results in a sphere 0.06% the size of a 1 AU sphere.

 

[DonIago]

I'm tempted to say something about how it's entirely possible to have inappropriate doctor-patient relations without actually dating, but I feel that's going a bit off-topic and being nitpicky, so...'nuff said.

 

[Timewalker]

Except that McCoy isn't the only doctor aboard, especially for routine things like physicals.

I did mention Dr. M'Benga in another post. The only other doctors we've seen have been guest characters.

And there is an early episode in which McCoy mentions conducting routine physicals, so it's very likely that he would have seen Yeoman Barrows in that capacity. He did say, "When I peek, it's in the line of duty."

Of course it's possible that Barrows transferred aboard recently and hasn't had her physical yet.

 

[Oddish]

And a tiny fraction of the surface area. You could make a thousand of those little guys with less resources than the one.

 

[at Quark's]

For a small red dwarf you don't even have to go that big. For TRAPPIST-1, an M8 red dwarf, the same solar flux as Earth is reached at 3.56 million km from the star.

That results in a sphere 0.06% the size of a 1 AU sphere.

It would of course still be a gargantuan sphere. On those scales of engineering and with the levels of technology required, there would be no telling exactly how much harder it would be to construct a 150 million km radius sphere than a 3.56 million km radius sphere.

 

[somebuddyX]

The strange thing to me is that I had never considered the idea of a TOS character appearing on DS9 until I had seen this thread. I guess I considered that a TNG or Voyager or a movie thing. I really would like to see fanart of Scotty on the promenade or in Quark's. In my mind he needs at least a co-pilot, or if not to ditch his shuttle completely and hangout with another ship crew. Or could he become Kasidy's engineer?
There's a new comic out where Scotty is apparently part of Sisko's Avengers-style Star Trek team up of crew from different eras. I'm sure Scotty made it to DS9 in one of William Shatner's books, probably "The Return."
But I really like that this thread made me think about the ideas of say Uhura coming to DS9 for a story, or they could have still done Naren Shankar's Chekov story but on DS9. You could bring all four of the B-team to DS9 and have them have their own adventure.

 

[jackoverfull]

Scotty is never seen on DS9 in Shatner’s books (Spock is): Kirk meets him again back on Earth and he is later the chief engineer of the Sovereign (and one of the designers of that class).

 

[somebuddyX]

Scotty is never seen on DS9 in Shatner’s books (Spock is): Kirk meets him again back on Earth and he is later the chief engineer of the Sovereign (and one of the designers of that class).

Oh yeah, he meets up at some time traveller reunion with Kirk and Captain Bateson and mirror Janeway turns up.

 

[Jellico]

I never thought of this. It would have been cool to see Scotty visit. If he recurred, we’d get to see him interact with the characters: Dax, Bashir, Garak, Martok et al. Whom would Scotty become drinking buddies with? Whom would Scotty not get along with? Who would Scotty not like? DS9 broke ground in Trek for character conflict among the recurring cast.

 

[kkt]

Scotty with O'Brien would be a natural fit, as engineers, as friends, and as drinking buddies. Probably Bashir too. I think Scotty would get along with the Klingons pretty well, they've got kind of the same live for the day because tomorrow will be a good day to die fatalism as Scots.

He'd probably despise Eddington once his disloyalty became clear. And be pretty unsure about Kira at least at first - non-Starfleet, history as a terrorist, religious...

 

[Jellico]

I think that Scotty would get along with OBrian and Bashir. Not so sure about the Klingons. Scotty’s history with them was not happy. It would be interesting to see how Martok would respond to Scotty. Not sure how long for Kira and Odo to warm up to him. I don’t see Garak and Scotty getting along at first. Scotty would like Dax and probably Quark. Quark’s would have a new show feature with Scotty drinking and telling stories.

 

[Tango]

I can see Scott and Morn in Quark's

 

[johnnybear]

I’ll take my thoughts on Scotty a little further. Have a two part episode set after Generations where Scotty arrives to restock, have shuttle maintenance or something else. McCoy arrives regarding Bashir being the last cadet he sponsored and checking on his status. Both not knowing the other is there until Sisko brings them together early on. Spock arrives due to a Vulcan artifact or race similar to Vulcans being found on the other side of the wormhole so Spock investigates. At the end of the second episode the three find out that Kirk had in fact died on Veridian III due to the Nexus. Spock, McCoy and Scotty gather together at the highest point of the station where you can the see into the stars and toast to their absent friend(s). Episode ends that way.

A good idea agreed, but I can't see William Shatner accepting this. He pushed for Kirk to be resurrected for Star Trek VIII and wrote his own set of novels instead when they ignored his plea! If they had of done such an episode then I'm sure that Shat would have got his way and made an appearance in the adventure as a revitalised Kirk, that or he never really died as his self was always part of the Nexus anyway!
JB

 

[Takeru]

A good idea agreed, but I can't see William Shatner accepting this.

What Shatner accepts or not is obviously completely irrelevant when it comes to a hypothetical episode that doesn't involve him in any capacity.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

If it took place after Trials and Tribble-ations, Scotty might look funny at one of the crew who visited K-7 and ask, "haven't I seen you someplace before?"

 

[DonIago]

If it took place after Trials and Tribble-ations, Scotty might look funny at one of the crew who visited K-7 and ask, "haven't I seen you someplace before?"

If the writers wanted to really blow our minds, that would happen before the episode.

 

[Poltargyst]

How about Scotty meeting Kang, Kor, and Koloth when they come to visit Dax? There's history there with all of them.

So you're the one who beamed tribbles onto my ship!!!