Why does Scotty take Peter Preston to the bridge?

[Robert Comsol]

I don't know if this was the author's interpretation, or if this part was in the shooting script, but changed. Does anyone know?

I'd like to know the answer myself. Recently I had been rereading the scene where Kirk asks Scotty to fix the main energizer but Scotty disobeys because of the lethal radiation levels in the energizer room.

It has the feel of a deleted scene and I believe that Vonda McIntyre based her novelization on an early script but some scenes were altered last minute prior to shooting. Admittedly, Scotty blocking the turbo lift and holding the dying body of his nephew added drama and a surprise effect to the final scene.

"In-universe" I think Workbee provided a sound and very good rationalization.
Of course I wonder if Scotty had been done with all the critical and instantly required emergency repairs but that's a different story.

Bob

 

[Hober Mallow]

McCoy: "I'm sorry, Scotty. If only you'd gotten to sickbay just a few minutes earlier we might have been able to save him."

 

[sbk1234]

A lame but practical rationalization: The turbolifts were at that point malfunctioning, and would later be taken offline. Scotty got sent to the bridge accidentally, or it was the closest he could get to sickbay.

A less lame, more dramatic rationalization: It was Peter's dying request to be taken to the bridge and/or to see the admiral. Scotty knew the kid didn't have a chance, so he fulfilled it.

If I remember correctly, this was explained this way in the novelization by Vonda McIntyre. (sp?) I don't think those books are considered canon, but that explanation works for me.

 

[dub]

I don't see any explanation other than dramatic effect. And it was certainly a dramatic moment.

 

[The Old Mixer]

"Don't worry, laddie, I'll get ye ta sickbay on time...I know this ship like the back of me hand..."

[Turbolift door opens onto the bridge.]

"Ah, sh!t...."

 

[Marc]

A lame but practical rationalization: The turbolifts were at that point malfunctioning, and would later be taken offline. Scotty got sent to the bridge accidentally, or it was the closest he could get to sickbay.

A less lame, more dramatic rationalization: It was Peter's dying request to be taken to the bridge and/or to see the admiral. Scotty knew the kid didn't have a chance, so he fulfilled it.

If I remember correctly, this was explained this way in the novelization by Vonda McIntyre. (sp?) I don't think those books are considered canon, but that explanation works for me.

Iirc the novelization also explains that Peter was exposed to escaping coolant gasses which pretty much frakked up his lungs and that there wasn't much else McCoy could do.

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

He probably thought McCoy would be on the bridge. Face it, Bones was there more often than he was in sickbay.

That's the best explanation I've heard yet.