Montgomery Scott

Montgomery Scott, nicknamed Scotty, is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. He served as the chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise, and was known as a "miracle worker" for being able to come up with unconventional solutions to solve practically any engineering problem he faced (though he often padded his estimates of how long it would take, so that he could always seem to have gotten the job done very quickly). Scotty was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and spoke with a thick Scottish accent, making his last name somewhat anomalous as Scott is an Irish name referring to people of Scottish ancestory).

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Fictional character - Star Trek - Universe - Engineer - Starship Enterprise - Aberdeen - Scotland - Irish

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The character was played by the late actor James Doohan in the television series ' and the first seven Star Trek movies, as well as in the ' episode "Relics". Scotty held the rank of lieutenant commander during the original series, had been promoted to commander by the time of ', and received a promotion to captain in '.

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James Doohan - Television series - Relics - Lieutenant commander - Commander - Captain

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Scotty's operating of the Enterprise transporter system inspired the catch phrase "Beam me up, Scotty", which gained currency in pop culture even beyond Star Trek fans, though that exact phrase was never spoken in any episode of the show.

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Catch phrase - Pop culture

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Scotty also became a kind of general cliché for any chief engineer in the movie genre of science fiction parodies. It has also become something of a cliché for starship engineers to be Scottish — even ' briefly had a Scottish engineer aboard the Enterprise-D.

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Cliché - Science fiction - Starship - ''Enterprise''-D

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