Montgomery Scott

**Montgomery Christopher Jorgensen Scott** was a Human man, a Starfleet officer in the 23rd and 24th centuries, who served as chief engineer of the USS *Enterprise* and USS *Enterprise*-A under Captain James T. Kirk. He was presumed dead for 75 years until he was rescued from a pattern buffer by the USS *Enterprise*-D. He later became the head of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers.

## Personal Info

### Other Relative(s):

Montgomery Scott(Grandson),Katarina Scott (great granddaughter)

## Early life and career

Montgomery Christopher Jorgensen Scott, son of Arlyne Jorgensen Scott, and Vaughn Scott was born in Scotland, Earth on March 3, 2222. Scott also had a younger brother named Robert, a younger sister named Clara, and a niece and nephew, Dannan Stuart and Peter Preston.

Montgomery Scott was the eldest son of an eldest son, and inherited a targe (round shield) and broadsword that had been handed down in his family for centuries. Scott's mother lived in Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, and therefore Scott may have been born there.

Clifford Scott, Montgomery's grandfather, once said to him that "men make their own luck". He never saw himself as more than an engineer, no matter his rank. Montgomery learned to play the bagpipes from his grandfather, from whom he inherited his heirloom instrument. Both his grandfather and grandmother hoped he would become a piper, but he was not sufficiently talented. For many years Scott played the bagpipes twice a year, on his grandparents' birthdays.

Scott's grandmother read him stories about the fairy folk from a book of folklore.

Scotty's sister Clara eventually became a sculptor. When they were teenagers, Scotty told her that he could build a machine that could make figurines just like hers. They both made figures of their father, but Scotty's didn't *feel* right the way Clara's did. That was when he understood the difference between art and science and knew that he was destined for science.

Montgomery first met his future wife Glynnis Campbell  when he was 15 and she was 12. Montgomery reluctantly agreed to take Glynnis to the county fair, where they won a dancing trophy.

From a young age, Montgomery proved to be adept at engineering principles and practicality. In 2238 he disproved the Perera Theory regarding the detonation of photon torpedoes after he linked seven field generators together to simulate the multiship field system used by the Klingons. His experiment became known as the Aberdeen Solution and was printed in *The Encyclopedia of Engineering Development and Design*. As a young man, Montgomery enjoyed hang gliding, a pastime to which he was introduced by an uncle on his mother's side.

After graduating from high school, Montgomery began to work aboard freighters to learn many new engineering skills and work in space. He began working aboard freighters at age 16, and served for over a year aboard the freighter S.S. *Deirdre*.

## Starfleet Academy(2240-2244)

Scott was living on Earth with his girlfriend Glynnis, still working aboard civilian freighters, when he received confirmation of his acceptance to Starfleet Academy. The couple parted ways amicably when Glynnis realized that Scott was determined to work with starships, while Glynn wanted to stay on Earth. After his success at his Starfleet Academy classes, Cadet Scott graduated and attended Starfleet Command School in obedience to his parents' wishes and out of a feeling of obligation to become a command division officer. Although his work was sufficient, several of his tutors realized that what Scott wanted the most was to be a starship engineer. Scott completed command officer certifications but was eventually transferred to Starfleet Engineering School after he nearly stalemated the *Kobayashi Maru* test by using an engineer's trick to fool the computers running the simulation.

Among Scott's Academy friends were Joshua Helmes and Bill Nygulla. Scott studied physiology at some point, probably at the Academy.

Scott later re-united with his classmate, Garth Flanagan, in 2293 and they discussed their 2244 graduation from the Academy.

## Early Starfleet career

Upon his graduation in 2244, he returned home to show off his uniform. He was ridiculed by Gregor Campbell and Sean Toricelli, two of his friends.

Having proved to be an excellent engineer during his time at the Academy, Scott was assigned to the San Francisco Fleet Yards where he served on the construction teams working on four *Constitution*-class starships, including the USS *Enterprise*.

Early in his career, Scott also served on ships such as the USS *Gagarin*, where he served alongside Alec MacPherson, and the USS *Kumari*. As a young ensign, he served on a ship that ferried miners and mining equipment to the newly established mining colony on Rigel XII. Scott learned much information about mining and mining equipment, such as a Mole.

## Aboard the *Enterprise(2253-2269)*

### Junior engineer

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.

By 2264, Scott had earned the respect of the crew of the *Enterprise* and was awaiting his assignment as chief engineer following the *Enterprise*'s year-long refit at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards. However, he was summoned to Starbase 10 and was ordered to accompany the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team aboard the USS *Lovell* to repair the PXK reactor of several outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone. Following his return from the assignment, he was appointed as chief engineer aboard the *Enterprise*. By this point Scott had served on nine Starfleet vessels other than the *Enterprise*.

### Chief engineer

Shortly after Scotty assumed the responsibilities of being chief engineer and was promoted to lieutenant commander, the *Enterprise* found itself under the command of Captain James T. Kirk. Scott was fiercely loyal to Captain Christopher Pike and initially he didn't 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. Scotty once said of Kirk, "You know how the Captain is when his mind's made up. After that, it's the Universe that'd best bend, for it won't be himsel' that's doing it."

During a mission to Gamma Alpha V, Scotty beamed Spock out of a collapsing underground cavern where he was feared dead. Along with Kirk, Spock and McCoy, Scotty was abducted by the sorcerer Chang and faced off against stone giants and a huge robot before Chang was vanquished.

Like his crewmates, Scotty was affected by the unbottled emotions of the Vulcan founders, laughing uncontrollably as Kirk and McCoy fought on Pollux II. Scotty joined Kirk, Spock and McCoy on an undercover mission as pirates to discover the location of a stolen dilithium supply. During the mission Kirk was forced to betray Spock and Scotty, allowing the pirate captain Black Jack Nova to send them floating into space to their apparent doom, but in fact they were picked up by the *Enterprise* transporter. At some point prior to this adventure Scotty fought armed savages on Centuri II. Scotty objected to the traveler called Nomad taking control of the *Enterprise*, causing Nomad to stun him with a ray from his golden staff. Scotty was stunned again, this time with a phaser, by a Klingon duplicate of Captain Kirk when he objected to the duplicate's ordering the *Enterprise* to maximum warp. In command of the *Enterprise* while Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Pavel Chekov were stranded on a medieval planet, Scotty risked court-martial by delaying an urgent mission to the Sigma Quadrant to search for his friends. During a mission to the primitive planet Neesan, Scotty's romantic feelings for the tribal leader Lok-the-Wise enabled her to steal his phaser, nearly resulting in a Prime Directive violation. Fortunately, Kirk and Scotty were able to recover the phaser.

When Kirk and Spock were unable to leave mining negotiations on Pentam V, Scotty commanded the *Enterprise* as it responded to a distress call from Thraz Outpost, an Andorian scientific base. When the *Enterprise* responded to a distress call from Donico II, Scotty tried to warn the Donicans of the impending failure of their planetary energy grid and was sentenced to death for sedition. Nyota Uhura saved Scotty's life by convincing the Donicans to acknowledge the problem.

On a visit to the agricultural colony Beta Nirobi II Scotty encountered Glynnis again and learned she was now married to his former best friend, Angus McFarlane. At some point Scotty had a romantic relationship with Andrea Manning which ended badly, with Scotty telling her "there was no room in his life for a woman".

Following Starfleet's decision to decommission the *Gagarin* in 2269, the *Gagarin*'s crew were reassigned. Alec MacPherson, who had risen to the chief engineer's position on the *Gagarin*, contacted Scott and requested a job. He was assigned to the *Enterprise* as assistant chief engineer. Due to his strong working relationship with Scott and the fact that the two engineers would independently devise the same solution to almost any problem, they were nicknamed "the twins" by the *Enterprise* crew. During the Centaurus crisis they worked together to keep the ship's systems functioning after a major computer breakdown.

Scotty was left alone on the *Enterprise* when the entire crew beamed down to a location inside the Dyson sphere-like spacecraft *Chatalia*. Commander Kulain of the Klingon ship IKS *Korezima* beamed onto the *Enterprise* and was captured by Scotty, with whom he then began drinking. When the Romulan Second History project radically altered reality, Scott was still a chief engineer in the changed timeline, serving on the VSS *ShiKahr* under Captain Spock. During the Rittenhouse Crisis, Scotty sabotaged the weapons system of the USS *Pompeii*.

Scotty joined Kirk, McCoy and Lieutenant Commander Piper aboard the schooner *Edith Keeler*, from which he and Kirk were escorted to Starfleet Headquarters for questioning regarding the theft of technology by Lieutenant Sarda. When Scotty's old enemy Dr. Samuel Boma gassed the *Enterprise* crew with a hypnogenetic compound, Scotty returned to the bridge when he was barely recovered. Later, Scotty visited Piper's quarters, presumably to remonstrate with her about damaging one of the *Enterprise*'s warp nacelles.

After Scotty and McCoy attended a biotechnology conference on Starbase Ten, the USS *Lexington* dropped them off on Denebia for the *Enterprise* to pick up. They got drunk on Denebian slime devils and engaged in a barroom brawl with some locals and a Klingon named Krong, but afterwards convinced Kirk to ferry Krong to another neutral planet aboard the *Enterprise*. Scotty kept some Denebian coins for his box of mementos, which he showed to his nephew Peter on his visits to Earth. By this point Scotty had saved civilization four times and died twice. During a mission to Archernar IV, Kirk nominated Scotty for the Pentares Ribbon of Commendation after he saved the *Enterprise* from being pulled into a micro-black hole by jettisoning the ship's warp coils.

### The *Enterprise(2269-2271)*

After the *Enterprise*'s five-year mission ended, Scotty remained the ship's Chief Engineer during her complete refit and was given a promotion to the rank of full Commander. This was the happiest period of Scotty's life. He came to respect Will Decker, the ship's young new captain. When James T. Kirk again took command of the refitted *Enterprise* in response to the threat of V'Ger, Scotty ferried him to the ship by shuttlecraft because the transporters were malfunctioning. Later, on Kirk's orders Scotty prepared the ship for self-destruct in order to destroy V'Ger from within, but this fortunately proved unnecessary.

When the *Enterprise* attempted to evacuate the inhabitants of Andrea IV, Scotty burned his hands while heroically battling a transporter malfunction that threatened to kill Kirk, Spock, McCoy and two ensigns. Scotty was nearly lost, along with Kirk, McCoy, Chekov and Hikaru Sulu, when a shuttlecraft accident left them drifting and helpless in space. Scotty performed a spacewalk in an attempt to repair the problem, during which he suffered a suit breach but made his way back inside. The five men were ultimately rescued by the *Enterprise*. When a child was killed by a plasma grenade during a fight between Klingons and an *Enterprise* landing party on Cragon V, Weyland, the omnipotent ruler of the planet, punished Kirk by sending Scotty, Sulu and Chekov back in time. Scotty found himself in Scotland in 1746 during the Jacobite rebelllion, and blocked out his memories of the 23rd century because of his desire to aid the Scottish cause. He rescued a young man named Seamus MacIntyre from execution as a spy. Together they attempted to capture the English cannon at Fort Augustus, but succeeded only in blowing up the magazine. Scotty was badly wounded at the Battle of Culloden. On the point of death, he was returned to the 23rd century by Weyland.

Scotty was reunited with Andrea Manning, to the pleasure of neither, when she beamed aboard the *Enterprise* as Dr. Carl Wentworth's assistant. Desiring vengeance on Scotty, Andrea unleashed psychically materialized monsters on the *Enterprise* which left Scotty helplessly terrified, being taken from his own subconscious memories of Scottish folklore. With Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Sulu aboard the runaway starship USS *Icarus*, Scotty gave the order for the *Enterprise* to ram the *Icarus* to prevent it from colliding with the planet Phaeton and killing billions. He gathered the entire crew on the Rec Deck to inform them of the decision, but disaster was averted when Spock and Janice Rand gained control of the *Icarus*. Scotty was trapped on the *Enterprise* bridge when an energy beam from Zeta Reticuli II began to shrink the ship but not its occupants. On a mission to save the population of Goran IV from toxic gas, Scotty ordered the antidote released into the planet's atmosphere as soon as Spock radioed it was safe to do so, saying, "In matters o' science, when Mr. Spock says "*Jump*" all I ask is: how high?" Scotty and McCoy exchanged harsh words while the *Enterprise* was trapped in the tractor beam from the Sustainer's world-ship, but when the Sustainer claimed it was about to destroy the *Enterprise*, Scotty accepted McCoy's apology and addressed him as "Bones".

During tests of the intergalactic inversion drive, a method of propulsion that could move a starship vast distances in zero time, Scotty formed a close friendship with K't'lk, the Hamalki scientist who had developed the experimental drive. K't'lk was one of the few beings to call Scott by his first name (which she pronounced "Mt'gm'ry") rather than "Scotty". K't'lk's esteem for Scott was so high that, when she died and was reborn in her own daughter, she adopted the name "K's't'lk", the added "s" standing for "Scott". K's't'lk once referred to Scott as "a human engineer with a genius for physical things".

On the mission to Levaeri V, when Subcommander Tafv attempted to take over the *Enterprise* Scotty oversaw defense measures against him from the auxiliary bridge.

In 2274 Scotty learned on a visit home that Glynnis Campbell was back on Earth, Angus McFarlane having left her for a younger woman. Scotty proposed to Glynnis, she accepted his proposal

## Genesis crisis(2285-2293)

The relationship between Scotty and his niece, Dannan Stuart, was strained at best. Dannan was also a Starfleet officer, and apparently a maverick. Scotty warned his nephew Peter Preston not to follow the example of "that sister of thine that has been thrown in the brig more times than I can count," even though he admired her greatly.

Peter Preston was killed in battle with Khan Noonien Singh, to Scotty's intense grief. For the funeral of his fallen friend, Spock, Mr. Scott played "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes.

When Scotty returned to Scotland to attend Peter's funeral, he got into an argument with Dannan. She accused her uncle of riding Peter to show his fairness, not realizing that he was actually singling him out. He countered that he was the natural choice to train him, given her disciplinary history.

Following the beating the *Enterprise* took from the captured USS *Reliant*, the *Enterprise* was scheduled for decommissioning by Admiral Harrison Morrow, and Scott was transferred to the new USS *Excelsior* as captain of engineering, in preparation for the ship's transwarp trials. His assignment was short-lived, however, as he took advantage of his position to help steal the *Enterprise* and disable the *Excelsior* to stop it from pursuing the *Enterprise*. Along with his crewmates, Scotty grieved for the destruction of the original *Enterprise* and was present for Spock's *fal-tor-pan* on Vulcan.

Glynnis died in 2286 in a shuttlecraft accident. Scotty, exiled on Vulcan at the time, did not learn of her death until some months later. In 2286, Scotty traveled back in time to 1986 with his former colleagues from the *Enterprise* senior staff. While in the past, he beamed George and Gracie, two adult humpback whales, into twin tanks along with sea water. The most massive payload he transported in his career to that date was +400 tons. Shortly after the crew's return to the twenty-third century with the whales, Scotty helped cure George and Gracie of a mysterious disease.

Later that year, the renegade Vulcan Sybok took over the *Enterprise* and used the ship to penetrate the Great Barrier to find the legendary planet Sha Ka Ree. Scotty finally came to terms of peace with his familial pains through the powers of Sybok, whom he called a "*sin eater*", of old Scottish legend. It was at this time that Uhura confessed her affections toward Scotty while the two were alone. Even though her emotions were uninhibited on this occasion, he kept composed and decided to maintain a Platonic relationship. Scott, however, had told her she was one of the most understanding women (besides the *Enterprise*) he had known.

## Kirk's Death and Retirement

Scott, Kirk and Chekov were aboard the USS *Enterprise*-B on its shakedown cruise and subsequent encounter with the Nexus energy ribbon. Kirk was presumed dead after the energy ribbon struck the deck of the ship where he was located. Scott led an intensive search of the sector where the Nexus had appeared, using experimental sensors capable of detecting individual molecules. While finding several El-Aurian bodies, he was unable to locate Kirk's.

Captain Scott retired soon after Captain Kirk's apparent death. He briefly lived with his sister and her husband in Cromarty before finding his own place in Glasgow. Besieged by nightmares of Kirk's death, he did very little consulting work. After about a year, he briefly met Guinan before befriending Ensign Matt Franklin. The newly-graduated ensign convinced him to travel with him on the USS *Jenolen* to Norpin V, where Scott was to retire.

The *Jenolen* crashed on a Dyson sphere, leaving Scott and Franklin as the only survivors. They rigged the transporter to keep them alive indefinitely.

## The 24th century

Scott was eventually rescued by the *Enterprise-D* in 2369, though Franklin's signal had degraded beyond recovery. He helped the *Enterprise* escape from the Dyson sphere and was "loaned" the shuttlecraft *Goddard*. Another, more successful transporter miracle Scotty performed was beaming himself and Geordi La Forge off the USS *Jenolen* while the shields were raised, a feat Scott accomplished with critical time to spare, as the ship held the sphere open long enough for the *Enterprise* to exit.

Not long afterwards, Scotty was reunited with fellow temporal-displaced Captain Morgan Bateson.

Feeling out of place in the twenty-fourth century and blaming himself for the deaths of Kirk and Franklin, Scott aimlessly wandered aboard the *Goddard.*

### Return to the Fleet

Later that year, Scotty was visiting Argelius II when he encountered Burgoyne 172, assistant chief engineer of the USS *Excalibur*. Burgoyne's comments caused Scott to re-enlist in Starfleet. After taking some refresher courses, Scott was promoted to Admiral and was stationed on Starbase 12, where he worked on the construction of the *Sovereign*-class starship, the USS *Honorius*.

Later that year, Scotty attended the sixtieth wedding anniversary of Admiral John Harriman and his wife Amina Sasine, when they learned of Tolian Soran's plot to destroy Amargosa. Scotty later learned of the real death of James T. Kirk and the destruction of the *Enterprise*-D. Shortly thereafter, the *Honorius* was re-designated the USS *Enterprise*-E.

## Corps of Engineers

In April 2375, Admiral William Ross offered Scotty the position of head of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. Scotty accepted, He disliked the administrative aspects of the job, and spent as much as time as possible out of the office doing hands-on tasks, delegating his responsibilities to Commander Leland T. Lynch.

## Personal Life

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 wore his Scottish Clan kilt on three occasions and 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.

## Personal Timeline

 2274
 2286
 2293
 2369