Talk:Scotty (Star Trek)

message: *'Scotty' currently redirects to this page, and the term is surely more popular than "Montgomery Scott" when refering to the character.  As per Wikipedia policy, I believe the article should be renamed. --Xiaphias 07:25, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename article to ''Scotty''?

message: This guy is suppose to play Scotty in the next movie?
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0363771/Ss/0363771/C282.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=McAvoy,%20James
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0472160/Ss/0472160/P_1883.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=McAvoy,%20James
This can't be true. --24.123.188.12 18:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's what it says. Does anyone have any newer information? --JRTyner 07:38, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  We need a Scotty worthy of being called Scotty 

message: *There are two other notable people called Scotty; the Jamaican reggae toaster and one of Elvis Presley's original backing musicians. Could some admin create a disambiguation page please? Thanks in advance.  SmokeyTheCat  •TALK• 15:54, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for a disambiguation page 

message: What is the basis of classifying Scotty as an atheist? If it's the line "Scotty doesn't believe in gods" from "Who Mourns for Adonais?", that line could well be interpreted as "Scotty only believes in one God". In monotheistic circles, there is often a sharp distinction between "lower-case 'g' gods" and "Capital 'g' God". On one occasion in the original series (which episode escapes me), he says "thank heaven" when Kirk's life is saved to be admonished by Spock who tells him no deity was involved. If there are other canonical references to Scotty's belief or lack thereof, please post them. Rockhopper10r 14:25, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Two points to consider: 
*The original series was written in the 1960s, not the 23rd Century, so linguistic cconventions would surely not be so different from our own.
*A goodly number of modern Christians and Jews consider the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis--though not the entire book--to be myth.
I'm not convinced that Scotty would be considered an atheist, a Christian or anything in particular.Rockhopper10r (talk) 03:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been nearly a month and so far no one has given an indisputable, canonical example of Scotty's atheism. If no one else comes forward, I'll remove this article from the category.Rockhopper10r (talk) 14:37, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless you can provide a reference for a statement, it doesn't belong in the article.  Making assumptions about what a character might have meant, or trying to decide what the context will be in 200 years doesn't cut it. Akuvar (talk) 15:36, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Fictional atheists?

message: It's a small point, but according to the commentary on that his episode his response was "Hell no", rather than "he-he-he" as this article says.  They joke about how a simple "no" would have sufficed.92.22.16.152 (talk) 00:42, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Futurama Episode 

message: I am almost 100% sure that this is one of Scotty's catchphrases. I am not even a Trekkie and I know THIS one. I mean, the theatre I was watching the new movie in went crazy when he said it. Shouldn't this phrase be noted on his page? --Oxico (talk) 00:51, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I had thought it was a general sort of term that Scotty threw over the intercom from time to time. Alastairward (talk) 10:48, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it is more of a catchphrase. I mean, even in a Burger King Star Trek advertisement, someone says it. And in the original movies, he says it a lot. --Oxico (talk) 23:55, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Cite for that? In general he was there to say something along those lines, but I don't think that phrase was a catchphrase in itself. Happy to be corrected though. Alastairward (talk) 20:52, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a cite for the movie quote, from IMDB. Here it be. What makes it a catchphrase? And should it be noted on the page? --Oxico (talk) 01:27, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

text: I understand it's a direct quote from the film, but where else does it occur and what has been it's cultural impact. Check out Resistance is futile and McCoy's two phrases. If you can find sources saying something similar for Scotty, I'm all for including it. Alastairward (talk) 22:30, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's affected me atleast, I use it when working with heating equipment.--MahaPanta (talk) 14:28, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "I'm giving her all she's got, Captain!" 

message: I think the writers of the last movie intended the name to be a reference to Jonathan Archer, but not Archer himself; Enterprise takes place 100 years before that. While in the Star Trek universe it would not be impossible for Archer to still be alive, I don't think the lifespan of a dog would be so greatly increased. Adam Bishop (talk) 05:12, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see the cited source (). --EEMIV (talk) 10:14, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah! Completely missed that. Surely the dog was not Porthos, though. I guess he just liked beagles and had more than one. Adam Bishop (talk) 12:25, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Admiral Archer 

message: "Franchise"?  Really? Are we talking about a fast food chain or a TV show with movies modeled after it?  If the latter, I suggest removing the term "franchise". 71.115.5.119 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 04:46, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Star Trek is a media franchise, just like Star Wars for example. Alastairward (talk) 22:51, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Franchise

message: Doohan may have claimed to have based Scotty's accent on an Aberdeen accent, but anyone who has actually heard an Aberdeen accent (which is very different to what most English speakers would recognize as Scots) will know that it shares no virtually no similarities with it. 91.106.226.28 (talk) 08:56, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Aberdeen Accent

message: Star Trek the Next Generation Relics when Scotty comes back to life after 75 years
This epsiode contains allusions to earlier epsiodes of Star Trek:	
*When Scott remarks he had a wee bit of trouble with women-it is an allusion to Wolf in the Fold when he is a murder suspect in murders of three women.	
*When Captain Picard asks if Scott would like to catch up reading on Engineer Technicial manuals, Scott thanks him but declines the offer; it is an allusion to The Trouble with Tribbles when Scott remarks to Captain Kirk his favorite reading material is Engineer Technicial manuals.	
*When Scott gags on syntechic alcohol and Data gives him real alcohol to drink remarking that "It's green", it is an allusion to Scott outdrinking the alien Tolor in the episode By Any Other Name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.5.184.226 (talk) 21:51, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Allusion to STTOS

message: Alec Craig, born in Dunfermline (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185769/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t31) played the chief engineer of the U.S. Liberty ship "Seawitch" in "Action in the North Atlantic" (1943) though it was an uncredited role (along with nearly everyone else on board). He has the right job and the right accent, so I imagined Gene Roddenberry was giving a nod to him and to that movie when creating the role of "Scottie" but it seems I was mistaken. Anyway, it is not long until a U-Boat is on the tail of the Seawitch, and the captain of the Seawitch (played by Raymond Massey) tells "Mr. McGonigle" that if he has "another couple of knots up his sleeve" he wants them "right now." Unfortunately, the chief engineer merely replies "I'll try, sir" instead of "I'm givin' the ship all the power she's got -- I dunno how much more she can take" or some such more memorable line.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.68.119.44 (talk) 21:03, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Action in the North Atlantic