Montgomery Scott Captain Montgomery Scott ( often referred to as Scotty by his shipmates ) was a male Human Starfleet officer in the 23rd century . His serial number was SE 19754 T . For a period of nearly thirty years , he was the chief engineer of both the and the , both under the command of Captain James T . Kirk . Having the reputation as a " miracle worker " , he was a man of superior technical and engineering skill , experience and ingenuity . Despite his superior talents as an engineer , he was often the source of comic relief among the " Enterprise " crew due to his use of Scots language . ( ; ; ; ; ) Early life and career . Montgomery Scott was born in Scotland on Earth in 2222 . ( ) He spent part of his life in Aberdeen , once referring to himself as an " old Aberdeen pub - crawler . " ( ) Upon being asked how he adjusted to space travel , Scott once admitted , " " I was practically born to it . " " ( ) He joined Starfleet and began his engineering career in 2241 . During his 51 - year career in Starfleet , he served on a total of eleven ships , including various freighter s , cruiser s and starship s . ( ) He also briefly served as an engineering advisor on the freight line between the Deneva colony and the outlying asteroid belts . ( ; ) He was the writer of several technical manual s , which included " Operating Protocol - Flow Sensors " . A copy of this manual was stored in the Engineering Systems Database aboard the in 2366 . ( ) He was also responsible for writing Starfleet Regulation 42 / 15 , entitled " Pressure Variances in IRC Tank Storage " , which was part of the basic operational specifications for impulse engine s . These specifications were admittedly written " a wee bit " conservatively . ( ) The five - year mission . In 2265 , Scott was assigned to the where he served as second officer and chief engineer under Captain James Kirk . ( ) The " Enterprise " was the first ship on which he was the chief engineer . ( ) His duties also included maintenance and operation of the " Enterprise " s transporter systems . Three of his top engineer s included Lieutenant s Kyle , Leslie , and Gabler . He was understandably upset when , an assistant engineer who was one of only twenty crewmembers selected to remain aboard the " Enterprise " during the M - 5 multitronic unit test mission , was killed by an energy transfer beam used by the insane supercomputer to draw power directly from the ship ' s warp engines . ( ; ) As the ship ' s second officer , Scott assumed command when both Kirk and Spock left the ship , or they both were incapacitated . Thus , he often faced critical diplomatic and military situations . ( ) In 2268 Kirk noted him to commendation for his outstanding command performance without disobeying the Prime Directive and saving the landing party on planet 892 - IV . ( ) However in 2267 , Kirk jokingly " fired " Scott when he couldn ' t repair the ship ' s engines and break out of orbit around Gamma Trianguli VI . After the destruction of Vaal Kirk immediately " re - hired " him . ( ) Despite being a capable command officer he never pursued his own command post because he " . . . never wanted to be anythin ' else but an engineer . " ( ) By the late 2260s , Scott knew more about the warp engine s aboard a starship than the men who designed them . ( ) This knowledge and ability to save the ship in a jam eventually led to his reputation aboard the " Enterprise " as a " miracle worker . " This was brought about by his reputation for being able to effect starship repairs faster than usually required . Scott later admitted that he often padded his estimates of time needed for repairs by a factor of four in order to appear that much faster . ( ; ) In 2268 , Scott stated that he knew the " Enterprise " better than Larry Marvick , the man who designed the starship . When Marvick visited the ship , escorting the Medusan Ambassador Kollos , Scott made a bet , that he won ' t find his way around the engine room . When Scott allowed him to the warp engine controls , Marvick , under the madness brought on by the sight of the Medusan , attempted to take over the vessel , and hurled it into the void surrounding our galaxy . ( ) In 2267 , Scott was attacked and killed by " Nomad " , a probe originally launched from Earth in the early 21st century . Kirk was distraught by the death of his valued chief engineer , but " Nomad " informed Kirk that Scott could be " repaired " and the probe revived Scott in sickbay . Later , Scott assisted Kirk and Spock in beaming " Nomad " out into open space before it exploded from Kirk talking it to death . ( ) Later in 2267 , Scott was thrown against a bulkhead of the " Enterprise " during an explosion . This resulted in a severe concussion and possible amnesia . He was ordered to take time off for therapeutic shore leave on the planet Argelius II . While on Argelius he got into " a wee bit of trouble , " as he later described it , when he was accused of murder ing an Argelian woman named . Scott ' s situation worsened when he was accused of two more murders , those of another Argelian , Sybo , and fellow officer Karen Tracy . Scott was later acquitted of the murder charges , following the discovery of a non - humanoid lifeform called Redjac in the form of Mr . Hengist , who was found to be responsible for the murders , and who admitted to being Jack the Ripper and other serial killers in previous incarnations . ( ; ) Scott was extremely proud of the " Enterprise " . In fact , he was so proud that he once started a bar fight aboard Deep Space Station K - 7 when the Klingon named Korax suggested that the ship should be hauled away as garbage . As a result , he was confined to his quarters by Kirk . Scott smiled and told Kirk the punishment would give him a chance to catch up on technical journals he had not had time to read . Shortly after the incident at K - 7 , Scott managed to rid the " Enterprise " of the tribble s which had infested the ship . Much to the pleasure of Captain Kirk , Scott , in collaboration with Spock and McCoy , beamed the tribbles aboard the where they would be " " no tribble at all " " . ( ) In 2268 , Scott helped Kirk , Spock and McCoy regain control of the " Enterprise " after the ship was invaded by agents of the Kelvan Empire and set on a course to the Andromeda Galaxy . Before leaving the Milky Way Galaxy , Scott and Spock devised a plan to destroy the " Enterprise " at the galactic barrier , but Kirk decided against it . Later Scott tried to incapacitate the Kelvan agent Tomar by drinking various alcoholic beverages with him . He got Tomar so drunk that the alien passed out , but his plan was foiled when Scott passed out before he could leave his quarters . ( ) In the same year the " Enterprise " was hurled hundreds of light year s away from a Kalandan outpost , and sabotage accelerated the ship to dangerously high warp speeds . Scott risked his life by entering the access crawlspace to the matter - antimatter reaction chamber to repair the fused matter - antimatter integrator , a procedure so dangerous that it was not to be undertaken while the integrator was in operation . When a faulty magnetic probe nearly ruined the procedure , Scott demanded that Spock eject him from the chamber into space , but Spock risked critical seconds to allow the engineer to successfully complete his task . ( ) In 2268 , Scott ' s position as second officer and chief engineer required him to participate in executing the auto - destruct sequence to prevent Bele from hijacking the " Enterprise " to return Lokai to the planet Cheron . ( ) Scott also threatened the female Romulan Commander that he would use the auto - destruct to destroy the " Enterprise " and " as many of you as we can take with us " when it was surrounded by Romulan vessels during its espionage mission to appropriate the Romulan s ' cloaking device . ( ) Also , in 2268 , Scott prevented Garth of Izar from escaping the Elba II asylum to board the " Enterprise " when he challenged Garth , who , in the guise of Kirk , had attempted to order Scott to transport him to the ship , by requiring Garth to provide the countersign to the prearranged chess problem . ( ) Scotty was romantically involved with Starfleet sciences division specialist Lieutenant Mira Romaine at least when she was aboard the " Enterprise " during its mission to Memory Alpha . Scott figured prominently in the successful attempt to prevent Romaine ' s body from being appropriated by the Zetarian s . In carrying her occupied person to McCoy ' s decompression chamber , Scott insisted to Kirk , " " Mira will not hurt me . " " Nevertheless , he was thrown across the room by their influence . ( ) Scotty complained to Kirk that " one of those barefoot whaddyacallems " had entered Engineering and " tried to incite my crew to disaffect " . ( ) In 2268 , Scotty was present in the transporter room along with Kirk , Spock and Lieutenant Dickerson when Presidential honors were rendered to the Excalbian who had taken the form of U . S . President Abraham Lincoln . He scoffed in suggesting sarcastically that " Lincoln " would be followed by " " . . . [ King ] Louis of France and [ fourteenth - century King of Scots ] Robert the Bruce ! " " ( ) Later career . In 2270 , Commander Scott played an instrumental role in the massive refit of the USS " Enterprise " while serving under Captain Will Decker . ( ) In 2285 , Scott was a participant in Saavik ' s " Kobayashi Maru " scenario at Starfleet Training Command . Though not present on the bridge simulator , his voice was heard on the speaker s . After the scenario , he served aboard the " Enterprise " under the command of Captain Spock . He was the ship ' s chief engineer for a three week training cruise . Upon receiving a call for help from Regula I , Starfleet Command ordered an investigation by the " Enterprise " . With Rear Admiral Kirk assuming command , the cruise was cut short . The " Enterprise " became involved with Project Genesis and Khan Noonien Singh ' s attempt to steal the Genesis Device . Eventually , Kirk was able to stop Khan , but not before the latter had wrought extensive damage upon the " Enterprise " , requiring Captain Spock to sacrifice his life to save the ship . One of the casualties was Scott ' s nephew Peter Preston . Scott played the bagpipes at Spock ' s funeral . ( ) With the " Enterprise " safely at , Scott was promoted to captain and reassigned to the as Captain of Engineering during the ship ' s early test runs . Scott detested his assignment aboard the " Excelsior , " citing the ship as little more than a " bucket of bolts " , and didn ' t particularly care for Captain Styles either . He later sabotaged the " Excelsior " , removing components from her transwarp computer drive . This prevented the ship from jumping to transwarp drive when the " Enterprise " was stolen for an unauthorized mission to the planet . When arriving at the Genesis planet , a Klingon Bird - of - Prey ambushed the " Enterprise " and opened fire , disabling Scott ' s automation system and leaving the ship as " a sitting duck " . Scott , along with Kirk and Chekov , initiated the " Enterprise " ' s auto - destruct sequence to prevent it from falling into Klingon hands . The crew beamed down to the planet , where they watched their beloved ship burn up in the atmosphere . This would later in life affect Scott emotionally , when he comments that the " Enterprise " was " his home and where he had a purpose " . ( ; ) In 2286 , Scott traveled back in time to 1986 along with the rest of the " Enterprise " crew to find a pair of humpback whale s . In order to construct a water tank for them , he visited the Plexicorp facility as " Professor Scott " from Edinburgh . Making a deal with plant manager Nichols he gave him the formula of transparent aluminum in exchange for a sheet of plexiglass . When Dr . McCoy objected against " changing the future , " Scott pointed out " " How do we know he didn ' t invent the thing ? " " . After returning home , he was reassigned as chief engineer of the newly commissioned USS " Enterprise " - A . ( ) For three weeks , after a shakedown cruise , the flaws in the starship ' s systems were being identified and repaired under the supervision of Scott . ( ) Scott played a role in exposing the Khitomer conspiracy in 2293 . Upon beaming down to the surface of Khitomer , he shot Colonel West , who was about to assassinate the Federation president and kill Lieutenant Valeris , out of a window and several stories to his death . ( ) Retirement . In 2293 , Scott obtained a boat in anticipation of his retirement from the " Enterprise " - A . ( ) Scott appeared as a " guest of honor " along with his former commanding officer , James T . Kirk , and his old crewmate , Commander Pavel Chekov , for the maiden voyage of the new , commanded by John Harriman . When the " Enterprise " - B responded to the distress call from two El - Aurian transport s , Scott assisted in beam ing a small group of survivors on board – 47 out of a total of 150 . When the " Enterprise " became trapped in the energy ribbon the transports were in , Scott formulated a theory to use an antimatter discharge to disrupt the ribbon long enough for the vessel to break away . After Captain Kirk modified the deflector relay s to emit a resonance burst , Scott and Hikaru Sulu ' s daughter Demora were able to get the " Enterprise " clear . However , a hull breach was created on the secondary hull by the ribbon on the ship ' s way out and Kirk was presumed to be blown out into space . Upon being asked by Commander Chekov if anyone was in the deflector control room on deck 15 when it was hit , Scott stared out the breach into space and solemnly stated " " Aye " " . ( ) In 2294 , following his retirement from Starfleet , Scott traveled aboard the to the Norpin colony , where he planned to spend his retirement . The " Jenolan " , however , encountered a Dyson sphere " en route " , and while attempting to investigate it , the transport crashed on its surface . Scott and fellow engineer Matt Franklin were the only survivors . Together they rigged the " Jenolan " s transporter systems , and existed for nearly 75 years in the ship ' s transporter buffer . ( ) In 2369 , Montgomery Scott was rescued by the , but Franklin ' s pattern was too degraded to be recovered . After Scott helped rescue the " Enterprise " - D from the Dyson sphere , Captain Picard rewarded him with the " Enterprise " s shuttlecraft " Goddard " . ( ) Sometime before 2387 , Montgomery Scott discovered the necessary formulas enabling transwarp beaming , which Spock later gave to in 2258 of the alternate reality . ( ) Family and personal life . Scott had at least one sister , whose youngest child , Peter Preston , served aboard the " Enterprise " in 2285 as a midshipman during a Starfleet Academy training cruise . Preston was killed when the " Enterprise " was attacked and severely damaged by the in a surprise attack by Khan Noonien Singh . Scott was grief - stricken after the tragedy . ( ) Scott had a love for good Scotch whisky , often making references to drinking or frequenting drinking establishments on more than one planet , even referring to himself once as an " old Aberdeen pub - crawler . " ( ; ) He considered Scotch a drink for real men as opposed to , for instance , vodka which he referred to as " sodapop " and " milk diet " . ( ) . He did not like synthehol Scotch . ( ) He took shore leave reluctantly , and ran into trouble during shore leave on at least three occasions : a fistfight on Deep Space Station K - 7 , ( ) an arrest for murder on Argelius , ( ) and a " wee bout " requiring Dr . McCoy ' s attention . ( ) He also played bagpipes , most notably playing " Amazing Grace " at the funeral for Captain Spock in 2285 . ( ) He was also fascinated to be handling an old fashioned Scottish claymore . ( ) Romantic relationships . Although a gentleman at heart , life as an engineer for Scott was often lonely , as he often attempted to pursue hopeless relationships with much younger female officers that were often perceived as being out of his league . Scott was first attracted to Carolyn Palamas and reacted bitterly to the Greek god Apollo ' s infatuation with her . ( ) While under the influence of Harry Mudd ' s love potion crystal s , Scott briefly became interested in M ' Ress . After the effects wore off , he snapped at her during his hangover . ( ) Scott later became infatuated with the newly transferred Mira Romaine in 2269 . ( ) Years later , Commander Uhura began to show some romantic interest in Scott while she was under Sybok ' s influence . Scott politely declined her advance mindful of her condition . Their relationship was never pursued . ( ) Memorable quotes . " " I cannae change the laws of physics ! I ' ve " got " to have " thirty minutes ! " ( ) " " Of course I could treat them to a few dozen photon torpedoes . " " ( ) " " Diplomacy ! " ( Derisive snort . ) " The best diplomat " I " know is a fully charged phaser bank ! " " ( ) " " Aye , the haggis is in the fire for sure . " " ( ) " " It ' s armed now . Press this one - - thirty seconds later , poof . Once it ' s activated , there ' s no way to stop it . " " ( telling Kirk about the delay detonation device hooked into the " Constellation " s impulse engines ) ( ) " " Before they went into warp I transported the whole kit ' n ' kaboodle into " their " engine room . . . where they ' ll be no tribble at all . " " ( ) " " You mind your place , mister , or you ' ll be wearing concrete galoshes . " " ( ) " " It ' s - - uh . . . ( sniffs contents of bottle ) Well , it ' s green . " " ( ; later paraphrased by Data in ) " " All right , you lovelies . Hold together . " " ( ) " " That Vulcan won ' t be satisfied until these panels are a puddle of lead ! " " ( ) " " Oh , my bairns ! My poor , poor bairns . . . " " ( ) " " The " Enterprise " takes no orders , except those of Captain Kirk . And if you make any attempt to board or commandeer the " Enterprise , " it will be blown to bits along with as many of you as we can take with us ! " " ( ) " " I ' ll not take that , Mr . Spock ! That transporter was functioning perfectly ! Transport me down right now and I ' ll explain to those . . . gentlemen . . . " " ( ) " " President Lincoln indeed ! No doubt to be followed by Louis of France and Robert the Bruce . " " ( ) " " Mad ! Loony as an Arcturian dogbird ! " " ( ) " " Admiral , we have just finished eighteen months redesigning and refitting the " Enterprise " . How in the name of hell do they expect me to have her ready in twelve hours ? ! " " ( ) " " It ' s borderline on the simulator , Captain . I cannae guarantee that she ' ll hold up ! " " ( ) " " Give the word Admiral ! " " ' " Mr . Scott , the word is given . " " " " " Aye , Sir ! " " " " The more they overthink the plumbing , the easier it is to stop up the drain . " " ( ) " " Up your shaft . . . " " ( Scotty to Excelsior ' s computer in the turbolift ) ( ) " " Hello , computer ! " " ( ) " " A keyboard . ( in disgust ) How quaint . " " ( ) " " Why ? How do we know he didn ' t invent the thing ? " " ( speaking with Dr . McCoy on the temporal consequences of giving 23rd century technology to Doctor Nichols ) ( ) " " Give me one more day , Sir . Damage control ' s easy - reading Klingon , " that ' s " hard ! " " ( to Kirk regarding the " HMS Bounty " ) ( ) " " Admiral ! There be whales here ! " " ( commenting in glee after the two humpback whales named George and Gracie beam into their cargo hold ) ( ) " " Don ' t you worry , captain . We ' ll beat those Klingon devils , even if I have to get out and push ! " " ( ) " " I know this ship like the back o ' me hand ! " " ( at which point Scott knocks himself out cold on a low hanging pipe ) ( ) " WHATTAYA STANDING AROUND FOR ? ? ? Ye not know a jailbreak when ye SEE one ? ? ? " ( after rescuing Kirk , McCoy , and Spock from the brig ) ( ) " " Borgus Frat ! " Let ' s see what she ' s got , " said the captain ! And then we found out , didn ' t we ? " " ( lamenting the fact that the new " Enterprise " is far from fully functional yet ) ( ) " " USS " Enterprise " shakedown cruise report . I think this " new " ship was put together by monkeys . Oh , she ' s got a fine engine , but half the doors won ' t open , and guess whose job it is to make it right ? " " ( log entry on the status of USS " Enterprise " - A ) ( ) " " That suits me , I just bought a boat . " " ( ) " " I ' ll bet that Klingon bitch killed her father ! " " ( ) " " N - C - C 1 - 7 - 0 - 1 . No bloody A , B , C , " or " D . " " " " I have spent my whole life trying to figure out crazy ways of doing things . " " ( ) " " Starship captains are like children . They want everything right now and they want it their way . The secret is to give them what they need , not what they want . " " - Scotty , offering La Forge advice on handling Starfleet captains ( ) " The tank can ' t handle that much pressure . " " Where ' d you get that idea ? " " It ' s in the impulse specifications . " " Regulation 42 / 15 : ' Pressure Variances in IRC Tank Storage ' ? " " Right . " " Oh , " that . " Forget it . " I " WROTE it ! " - La Forge and Scotty ( ) " " A good Engineer is always a wee bit conservative , at least on paper . " " - Scotty , to La Forge , regarding IRC Tank Pressure Variances Regulation 42 / 15 ( ) " " I may be captain by rank . . . but I never wanted to be anything else but an engineer . " " ( ) " " Synthetic scotch , synthetic commanders . . . " " ( aloud to himself on synthehol and Data ) ( ) Appendices . Background information . Montgomery Scott was played by actor James Doohan in all of the character ' s television and cinematic appearances set in the " prime " universe . The character of Scotty mostly originated from James Doohan himself . Doohan was asked by Director James Goldstone , to whom he had auditioned for another role only ten days prior , to come in and read a few lines from the script of for him , Gene Roddenberry , Robert Justman , Joseph D ' Agosta , and Morris Chapnick . The role he was proposed for was an unnamed Chief Engineer . When Goldstone asked him to do some accents , Doohan did several ones , including Irish , Scottish , English , Russian , etc . Roddenberry asked him which one he would choose , and he said Scottish , due to Scotsmen being renowned for having great engineering skills . Thus , the character became Scottish , and it was apparently Doohan who named him " Scotty " . ( " The World of Star Trek " ) , Gene Roddenberry nearly dropped Scott from the series after the second pilot . He informed Doohan ' s agent , Paul Wilkins , that " we don ' t think we need an engineer in the series . " Wilkins became irate and met with Roddenberry that day , and insisted on returning Doohan to the " Enterprise " , which turned out to be a favorable decision . ( " " , pp . 152 - 153 ) NBC ' s early - press brochure about " Star Trek " described Scott thus : In the final draft script of ( dated ) , Scott was described as " 40 . . . very military type . " This suggests he was born in 2226 . Although Scott does not appear in " The Menagerie , Part II " , he did feature in the script for that episode . At the end of the teaser , he accompanied McCoy into the " Enterprise " s hearing room , without having any lines of dialogue , eager to help Captain Kirk but unable to . Then , when the hearing - room screen abruptly came on in the first act of the script , Scott was ordered , by a Talosian projection of Commodore Mendez , to turn the screen off . Despite trying to do so with a remote control , he found that the screen wouldn ' t go off . Scott also appeared in a deleted scene from " The Menagerie , Part II " . In it , after again accompanying McCoy into the hearing room , he announced that , thanks to McCoy , they had managed to determine which computers Spock had jammed in order to lock the ship on a course to Talos IV . As Scott explained , this discovery would allow the " Enterprise " officers to " " safely cross - circuit that series out , return the vessel to manual control . " " The series writer ' s guide ( third revision , dated ) described Scott thus : Although Doohan had lost the middle finger on his right hand during the Allied invasion of Normandy on D - Day , Scott " had " a right middle finger within the " Star Trek " storyline ; any time a closeup was seen of Scott ' s right hand ( working the transporter controls , etc . ) , someone else ' s hands were used , and when Scott appeared in wide shots , he usually hid his right hand from the camera . His loss was most evident in , where the missing finger can be clearly seen in wide shots while talking to Captain Picard on the holodeck recreation of the original " Enterprise " bridge and in , when Scotty is holding a bag of food . There was much debate , especially in Scotland , as to which Scottish city Montgomery Scott was born in . The character once described himself as an " Aberdeen pub crawler " in . Confusing the matter was a 1970s interview with James Doohan in which he stated his belief that Scott came from Elgin , a town forty miles west of Aberdeen . Linlithgow , twenty miles west of Edinburgh has also been vocal in its claim , citing D . C . Fontana ' s novel " Vulcan ' s Glory " . If either of these claims were correct , it would imply Scott had a relatively genteel upbringing , as the regional accent of Aberdeenshire was far more coarse and Gaelicised than Scott ' s . On the death of James Doohan , the local West Lothian Council announced plans to open a memorial exhibition for James Doohan in Linlithgow to commemorate his contribution to the " Star Trek " universe and make the town ' s claim to be the future birthplace of Montgomery Scott concrete . The exhibition , held at Annet House , Scott ' s " official " future childhood home opened in the summer of 2007 . It was worth noting that in the non - canon story published in the UK comic magazine " TV21 & Joe 90 # 21 " in 1970 , Scott described his ancestors as " " . According to " Who ' s Who in Star Trek " # 2 ( DC Comics , April 1987 ) , Scott was born in Glasgow . His actual accent implied he was raised in or near Edinburgh . Simon Pegg , who portrayed Scotty ' s in ' s and its sequels ( and was a " Star Trek " fan long before being cast in the role ) , concocted his own backstory for the character to settle the debate over the character ' s accent . One inconsistency that involved Scott was that , when the USS " Enterprise " - D rescued him from the transporter buffer of the USS " Jenolan " in " Relics " , Commander William T . Riker said that he was from the " USS " Enterprise " " . Hearing this , Scott assumed " Jim Kirk himself " had arrived to find him ; however , the film established that , before Scott embarked on his trip on the " Jenolan " , he witnessed Kirk get blown off the " Enterprise " - B , and though not known to him , into the Nexus , so he should have known Kirk wasn ' t alive to be able to find him . This was caused by the fact that the movie was filmed after " Relics " , causing a . ( In what may have been an attempt to address the discrepancy , in , Guinan tells Chekov that Kirk " is " , in fact , alive within the Nexus , though this information may not have reached Scotty . ) According to Ronald D . Moore , who wrote both " Relics " and " Generations " , Scott was included in the latter , despite the inconsistency , out of affection for the character . ( ) Another minor inconsistency could be spotted in , where Scott wears uniforms with commander ' s insignia instead of captain ' s . In an ultimately omitted line of dialogue from the final draft script of " Relics " , Scott remarked , " " Even starships are retired . . . some are just lucky enough to die in action . " " Evidently , Scott was obliquely referred to in the final draft script of . A statement made by Charles Tucker III , regarding the warp reactor aboard " Enterprise " , was attributed to him in the scripted stage directions . The dialogue was , " " I ' ve given you all she ' s got , Captain ! There ' s no more power ! " " A scene description about this section remarked , " " His words foreshadow another fabled Starfleet engineer . " " In the unfilmed " " script , Scott was depicted as working with George Kirk on an experimental dilithium - fuelled warp jump before his disappearance . Apocrypha . With the introduction of Scott ' s origin story in the alternate reality , several novels set in the prime reality detail Scott ' s origins there : According to " " , Scott was born in 31 August 2121 in Aberdeen , Scotland to parents Robert Burns Scott and Mary Darnley . He has a brother named James McNeil Scott and a sister named Mary Darnley Scott . According to " Who ' s Who in Star Trek 2 " , Scott was born in Glasgow , Scotland and has a sister named Fran . He spent a year working aboard the SS " Deirdre " before applying to Starfleet Academy . He became the " Enterprise ' s " chief engineer after the previous chief engineer Hoyt retired . The short story " Bum Radish : Five Spins on a Turquoise Reindeer " names his mother Arlyne Jorgensen Scott and his sister Kristen Scott . The video game " " gives his parents ' names as Mary and Vaughn Scott . His sister is named Linda Preston . In the novel " The Kobayashi Maru " , Cadet Scott less - than - voluntarily entered the Command School at Starfleet Academy , but was reassigned to Engineering after a " Kobayashi Maru " attempt in which he defeated a Klingon squadron using a tactic which he knew the the computer would believe to be viable even though field testing that he had participated in had disproved the theory on which the tactic was based . His position as captain in the scenario was arranged by an instructor who knew that Scotty wanted to be in Engineering rather than Command to justify transferring Scotty to Engineering school . In the D . C . Fontana novel " Vulcan ' s Glory " , in 2253 , Lieutenant Scott signed aboard the " Enterprise " as a junior engineer under Lieutenant Commander Caitlin Barry . In his early days aboard the ship he set up a still in main engineering for producing " Engine Room Hooch " . Despite the popularity of the beverage , it was produced by an illegal still , and Scott along with the other engineers were warned never to produce the beverage again . In the novel " " , by 2264 , Scott assumed the responsibilities of being chief engineer and was promoted to lieutenant commander under the command of Captain James T . Kirk . Scott was fiercely loyal to Captain Christopher Pike and initially he did not warm up to Kirk as he felt that the young captain could place the ship in jeopardy . Over time , the two officers put their initial differences behind them and became close friends . In the comic issue " Retrospect " , Scotty had an on - again , off - again relationship with a woman he ' d known all his life named . The comic tells the story of how they met and fell in love , went their separate ways , and eventually got married years later . They married shortly before the events of , and she died in a shuttle accident during the " Enterprise " crew ' s period of exile on . The novel " Forgotten History " gives her credit for inspiring him to grow a mustache . By the novel " Ship of the Line " , Scotty has become a teacher at Starfleet Academy , but stands in as a temporary chief engineer aboard the for its inaugural voyage under Morgan Bateson . The " Star Trek " novelization has Spock revealing that the Prime Scott was also stationed at Delta Vega , which Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman stated on the film ' s audio commentary were meant to be for the same reasons . In the Starfleet Corps of Engineers novels , Scotty was given command of the unit sometime after his retrieval from the Jenolan . In " Star Trek Online " , players encountered Scotty on Drozana Station in the year 2265 , helping him protect the station from an infestation of Devidians . He plays a major role in the " Agents of Yesterday " expansion pack , in which he is voiced by James Doohan ' s son Christopher Doohan , who had previously played the role in the fan series " Star Trek Continues " . In " Star Trek Cats " , Scotty is depicted as a Scottish Fold cat .