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Top 5 James Doohan Performances as Scotty on Star Trek

By mike poteet | mar 3, 2021.

Introducing a short story in the 1976 anthology Star Trek: The New Voyages , James Doohan recalled that in the show’s early days, people thought “there would be little use made of the Chief Engineer, because, after all, he was down in the ‘engine room.’”

Fortunately, Scotty ended up appearing in 64 of the original 79 episodes , in all six original cast films, and in Star Trek: Generations . Star Trek fans ended up with an abundance of performances from James Doohan to enjoy!

In honor of what would have been Doohan’s 101st birthday, here are five favorites.

Scotty defends throwing the first punch (“The Trouble with Tribbles”)

Although he delivered many broadly comic moments as Scotty, James Doohan had a knack for subtler comedy, too.

Notice the pained but silent sigh just before Kirk dismisses his men. The helpless “eyebrow shrug” as Scotty admits the truth. The contrast between his reluctant repetition of the Klingons’ insults about Kirk and his unabashed outrage when repeating their defamation of the Enterprise.

Doohan seized the chance to show more emotional range in these three minutes than he was often given during three seasons’ worth of scripts!

Scotty spearheads the  Enterprise  theft ( Star Trek III: The Search for Spock )

Sure, the Enterprise heist is a fantastic moment for the whole ensemble. But Doohan gets the best bits of the bunch.

The whole plan would have come to naught but for Scotty’s opening of the Spacedock doors and his sabotage of the Excelsior .

Doohan hits each of his beats in this sequence perfectly, helping make it one of the highest of Star Trek movie highspots.

Scotty recreates the classic Enterprise bridge (“Relics”)

When James Doohan guest starred on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1992 , he delivered a delightful performance from his first scene to his last. But no moment proved more emotional for long-time fans than Scotty’s holographic reunion with his  U.S.S. Enterprise —“no bloody A, B, C, or D!”

Ronald D. Moore’s script calls for Scotty to talk about his Enterprise as a lost and fondly remembered love. Doohan makes viewers believe it.

Scotty grieves his nephew’s death ( Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan )

Even in the 1982 theatrical cut of Star Trek II , Scotty’s grief over Midshipman Peter Preston’s death was moving. The 2002 “Director’s Cut” restores footage revealing Peter was Scotty’s nephew, and includes an alternate version of the scene in sickbay in which Doohan has more time to shine.

Scotty’s more shaken than we’ve ever seen him, but James Doohan skillfully blends anger, agony, and resolve to make the moment one of his strongest in the role.

Scotty reveals the transparent aluminum formula ( Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home )

Scotty’s attempt to use a mouse to talk to Dr. Nichols’ brand-new Macintosh Plus is justly iconic and just plain hilarious. But there’s much more than a “fish out of water” joke going on.

Doohan is convincing in his command of technical concepts and terminology. He also imbues Scotty with a benignly mischievous spark we don’t often glimpse.

Most of all, in this moment—as he did in all his moments as Montgomery Scott—James Doohan gives us a character fully committed to a mission’s success. In this case, he’s taking a calculated risk with the timeline instead of coaxing every bit of power he can from the Enterprise’s engines, but he’s not giving less than his all so the journey can boldly continue.

And James Doohan never gave us less than his all as Scotty!

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Few Star Trek characters are more beloved than Montgomery Scott. With his immense engineering skills and propensity for jury-rigged solutions, he spent much of The Original Series at the heart of the action, and even took command of the Enterprise when Kirk and Spock were busy on some planet's surface. And while it was never used in precisely those terms, the phrase "beam me up Scotty" became one of Star Trek's first tag lines: referring to his uncanny operation of the ship's transporters.

Along the line, he experienced multiple reboots and updates, and like his fellow OG characters, he's always a welcome presence regardless of the project. He served as inspiration for subsequent Star Trek engineers -- notably Miles O'Brien from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -- and yet his in-universe origins remain surprisingly murky. His arrival on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds may change that, in addition to generating renewed interest in the character and his rich Star Trek history.

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Scotty's Origins

The character's origins lie with actor James Doohan, who played him for over 30 years and who remains more closely associated with Scotty than any other. According to David Gerrod's 1973 reference guide The World of Star Trek , Doohan played a huge role in the character's creation. He delivered a variety of accents while auditioning for the show's second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before." When asked which accent he himself would use, the actor suggested Scottish because Scots were "renowned for having great engineering skills." That established the core of the character more or less on the spot.

Doohan always played Scotty as utterly devoted to the ship, to the point of considering it his property. That was often played for laughs: notably in Season 2, Episode 14, "The Trouble with Tribbles," when he started a bar fight with a group of Klingons after they disparaged the Enterprise's honor. He could solve any problem with the warp drive -- or any other part of the ship's systems -- which gave the show a natural ticking clock whenever it needed one. Scotty would invariably fix the malfunction with seconds to spare, allowing the Enterprise to escape by the skin of its teeth.

Scotty in The Original Star Trek

Scotty appeared in 65 of The Original Series' 79 episodes, as well as the first seven Star Trek movies and all but one entry in Star Trek: The Animated Series . That established his modus operandi: diligent, plain-spoken, and given to simple but accurate assessment of the problem du jour. It also cemented his unwavering loyalty to Captain Kirk, and his steadfast ability to hold the line in the face of trouble. That arose most often during his stints in the captain's chair, which helped define the character alongside his last-minute repairs and timely use of the transporter.

The Star Trek movies largely relegated him to support duties, though they found quiet ways to develop his character. A cut subplot from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan introduced his nephew among the Enterprise's new cadets, who's killed in Khan's first sneak attack. The brief sequences further connected Scotty to the ship's redshirts, as well as shedding light on his family and background. He played a more lightweight role in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock when he sabotaged the Excelsior in anticipation of the crew's theft of the Enterprise. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home similarly let him flash his comedic chops, notably while dealing with a 1980s-era personal computer.

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Scotty in Later Star Trek

Doohan made a memorable cameo as Scotty in The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 4, "Relics," which also revealed details about his final years. After becoming a captain in The Search for Spock he remained the Enterprise's Chief Engineer until the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered County . One year later, he embarked on the U.S.S. Jenolan en route to retirement in the Federation colony of Norpin. The ship crashed on a colossal alien structure called a Dyson Sphere, and he survived in the transporter's pattern buffer until the Enterprise-D revived him a century later. Picard gave him one of the ship's shuttlecraft, and he departed for points unknown. That presumably marks the end of the character's life, at least as far as canon is concerned.

A holographic version of the character also appeared in Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1, Episode 6, "Kobayashi." He was one of multiple classic figures recreated by Dal aboard to holodeck to assist him with his Kobayashi Maru test . The production used dialogue previously recorded by Doohan to bring him back for the episode. (Doohan himself passed away in 2005 at the age of 85.)

Scotty in The Kelvinverse

2009's Star Trek movie entailed a massive reboot, resulting in a new alternate timeline dubbed "The Kelvinverse" by fans. Scotty was memorably played by comic actor Simon Pegg, who revised the role in the next two Kelvinverse films. The changes in continuity resulted in a slightly different version of the character: relegated to a remote outpost before joining the Enterprise crew mid-emergency. In practical terms, it allowed Pegg to pursue his own take on Scotty without altering Doohan's. (Pegg has always expressed the highest respect for his predecessor.)

Besides playing up the character's funnier side, Pegg infused him with slightly wilder qualities: making him more willing to take risks than Doohan's version. The actor also developed a non-canon backstory for his Scotty, which shifted his birthplace to Glasgow among other things. (Dialogue in The Original Series Season 2, Episode 7, "A Wolf in the Fold" implied that he was from Aberdeen.) The Kelvinverse also gave Scotty a sidekick: the diminutive alien Keenser, played by Deep Roy. It gave him someone to play off of, further enhancing his status as the series' comic relief.

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Scotty in Strange New Worlds

Pegg's background for the character is unofficial, and relegated to the Kelvinverse timeline regardless. The history of Doohan's "prime" version is very much a mystery prior to his position onboard the Enterprise. Strange New Worlds looks to change that by introducing a younger version of Scotty played by Martin Quinn in Season 2, Episode 10, "Hegemony." (Quinn has the distinction of being the first Scottish actor to play the part.) Christopher Pike's Enterprise crew finds him among the survivors of a Gorn attack. Before that, he served aboard a solar research vessel called the Stardiver. The Gorn wiped the vessel out, leaving Scotty the only survivor. The episode ends on a cliffhanger, to be resolved in the Season 3 premiere (unreleased as of this writing).

Quinn's version of the character is very likely to join the Strange New Worlds crew full-time. The series' first engineer, Hemmer, was killed at the end of Season 1. His replacement, Commander Pelia, isn't expected to remain onboard, and with Scotty destined for the position regardless, the move makes a lot of narrative sense. Strange New Worlds has an opportunity to fill in his early years much the same way it has for Uhura, Jim Kirk, and Mr. Spock . Regardless of its plans for him, it ensures that he will remain firmly a part of Star Trek 's future as well as its past.

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Forever Scotty

Where in the world was Jimmy Doohan? You name it! That's where you could find the beloved James Doohan, who portrayed Montgomery Scott, heroic engineer of Star Trek (now celebrating 50 years of adventure).

Maybe you met him, too. Jimmy did a ton of SF conventions in the USA (as well as Canada, Australia, England and Germany) throughout the late 1970s, ’80s, ’90s. He graced video stores and other promotional appearances, autograph shows, parades. There were hundreds of chances to meet Jimmy. He was, in part, doing it all for the money. An older man with a much younger new family, he knew he might not be able (or around) to pay for college and his kids’ other expenses unless the bucks were made today and put aside for tomorrow.

But it was more than money. Jimmy Doohan (who died in 2005) truly loved people and seemed to like nothing more than to stand around, drink in hand, surrounded by fans and talk with anyone about life, World War II (where he served heroically), and, of course, being "Scotty." A hale fellow well met! He also discussed his career in an entertaining autobiography, Beam Me Up, Scotty (co-authored with Peter David), and numerous Starlog interviews.

We learned so much about Jimmy in those chats. "You're part of my forum," he quipped to Starlog 's Kathryn M. Drennan in 1989 (issue #146) before detailing life-changing backstories. "I was wounded on D-Day," he noted, as part of the First Wave assault on Juno Beach in 1944. After recovering, he became an Air Observation Pilot, reputedly "the craziest pilot in the Royal Canadian Artillery (not Air Force)," as sometimes erroneously reported. "There wasn't anything that I didn't try [as a flyer]. If it was in the air, there was no way that I didn't absolutely adore it. And I can remember vividly everything that happened."

In the late 1940s and '50s, he became "Canada's busiest actor," racking up 4,000 radio show appearances and 400+ TV gigs. "If an actor has any pride in himself, he always wants to do more," Jimmy told Robert Greenberger (#62, 1983).

So, he moved to Hollywood. And accents were key to his success. "I've been doing dialects ever since I can remember -- since I was allowed to go to movies, from age six or seven," Jimmy explained to Jim George & J. Cat McDowell (#94, 1985). "I can remember my mother telling me that I used to change accents when I would walk from one room to another."

That's a versatility he frequently demonstrated at conventions. He had a standard routine on stage at Trek cons where before taking audience questions he would detail in differing accents how Scotty might sound if he was another nationality (his upper-class British take was hilarious). He would also explain all the things that would occur if Scotty was in command ("Number one, I would get the girl!"  Spock would stay out of his Engine Room so there would be no more star-upstaging-the-expert-engineer, last-minute, save-the-ship antics. "That really bugged me!" And "I would limit Ensign Kirk to only one woman every four months!"). And, so often, Jimmy would field the same F.A.Q.s (Frequently Asked Questions) from the audience.

Favorite TOS episode? " The Doomsday Machine ."

America's space program? "That's the future of the country. We have to have a good space program to advance our technology. We have to keep dreaming about what to do in space."

More Trek films with the classic cast? "We showed our age in each of those movies, and the audiences didn't stop coming."

Fans? "I love them! I have so much fun with them."

I once asked him, as we sat side-by-side at an autograph table, if he ever tired of answering the same bloody things over and over and over again. "You know, Dave," he said, "it’s the first time they have asked me the question." So, that latest inquirer also deserved his best answer. What a great attitude! And one I’ve taken to heart to this day.

"Actors never retire!" Jimmy announced to Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier (#112-113, 1986). "I'm quite content to be an actor, that's all I want. I just want to be the best actor I can possibly be. That's what I promised God I was going to do, and He certainly hasn't put any barriers in my way, other than typecasting me in Star Trek ."

Furthermore, "I read for many roles," he admitted in 1985. "Some of the 'experts' say they can't get rid of the picture of me as a Scotsman. So, as far as Hollywood is concerned, I will probably forever and ever play a Scotsman, and I don't want to do that, cause I was trained for other things."

Years later, Jimmy clarified matters for Lynne Stephens (#176, 1992). "To get me to work, people just have to ask me. Because my experiences are so varied. I'm of the opinion that there isn't anything I don't know how to do... I did so much."

And again, "I know I'm Scotty and that's it. It's just one of those things."

Jimmy Doohan was ubiquitous. I met him at the very first Starlog Festival, a convention held in Chicago in spring 1984. Ultimately, I did more than 200 cons as a guest — and Jimmy was at about 25 of them. Atlanta. Atlantic City. Baltimore. Buffalo. Cleveland. Denver. Philadelphia. Scranton-Wilkes Barre. Silver Spring. Etc. At least two of three Star Trek cruises on which I sailed (he helped lead the singing of "Happy Birthday" to me in an Everglades area restaurant when the date coincided with a park outing). And more.

Where in the world was Jimmy Doohan? Everywhere!

I attended a press event at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida — and a surprise guest trotted on stage to tout the first of a short-lived series of Disney-sponsored, theme park-based SF conventions. Jimmy Doohan!

My then-girlfriend and I were in NYC, at the off-Broadway version of Return to Forbidden Planet (a musical mixing Shakespeare, rock & roll songs and science fiction), and the gigantic video screen came on with pretaped footage of this production’s surprise local narrator. Jimmy Doohan!

I did another con in Chicago, more than a decade after my first there, and a fellow guest posed with most attendees (for individual photo ops) while appropriately dressed in surprising traditional Scottish garb, a kilt. Jimmy Doohan!

But my best memory of Jimmy Doohan comes from a con in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. I had been there as a kid and visited the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, a fabulous showcase of art and artifacts from the real West as well as Western movies and television. It includes the Hall of Great Westerners, the Hall of Great Western Performers (i.e. actors) and the Rodeo Hall of Fame. I suggested to con organizer Jonathan Harris that we fly to Oklahoma a day early to allow for a museum visit. So, he arranged it.

Jon, his parents and his wife Susan were in one small rental car. Jimmy had his own rental and extra space, so I ended up riding shotgun with him. Let me tell you: If you don’t know someone very well, after spending most of a day alone together in a car, you will. You have no choice but to talk to each other. He chatted about his exploits in WWII and how a "Dear Jim" letter made him want "to show her" and prompted him to become an actor. It was pretty serious stuff. And I thought, for a time, I was talking to the real Jimmy Doohan.

We got the V.I.P. tour of (what was then known as) the Cowboy Hall of Fame, complete with a personal guide — and it was great fun to have Jimmy along to ooohh and ahhh over the legends of the West. But, nonetheless, my finest time was spent alone with him in a rental car, zooming in, about and around Oklahoma City.

That and having him give me an autographed, official Jimmy Doohan caricature refrigerator magnet. It holds court forever, still Scotty, on my Frigidaire.

David McDonnell, "the maitre’d of the science fiction universe," has dished up coverage of pop culture for more than three decades. Beginning his professional career in 1975 with the weekly "Media Report" news column in The Comic Buyers’ Guide , he joined Jim Steranko’s Mediascene Prevue in 1980. After 31 months as Starlog ’s Managing Editor (beginning in October 1982), he became that pioneering SF magazine’s longtime Editor (1985-2009). He also served as Editor of its sister publications Comics Scene, Fangoria and Fantasy Worlds . At the same time, he edited numerous licensed movie one-shots ( Star Trek and James Bond films, Aliens, Willow, etc.) and three ongoing official magazine series devoted to Trek TV sagas ( The Next Generation , Deep Space Nine , Voyager ). He apparently still holds this galaxy’s record for editing more magazine pieces about Star Trek in total than any other individual, human or alien.

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James Doohan saw action during World War II and in outer space. His exploits inspired many to become an engineer, and one individual even followed him to the moon. He spoke with a Scottish accent, even though he wasn’t from Scotland. All in all, he was among the most famous military veterans to transition to the small screen.

James Doohan’s entry into the Canadian Army

James Montgomery “Jimmy” Doohan was born to Irish immigrants on March 3, 1920 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His father, William, was a pharmacist who may have invented a form of high-octane gas in 1923. Whether or not that’s true, Doohan grew up familiar with science and creative invention.

When his family moved to Ontario, Doohan enrolled at the Collegiate Institute and Technical School in Sarnia, where he showed an aptitude for mathematics and science. In 1938, he enlisted with the 102nd Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps, after which he joined the Royal Canadian Artillery, 14th (Midland) Field Battery, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division.

Doohan did so well he was commissioned a lieutenant with the 22nd Field Battery, 13th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and sent to England for training.

Preparing to land at Juno Beach

Fast forward to D-Day on June 6, 1944. The British, American and Canadian forces were each assigned a portion of Normandy’s beaches for their amphibious assaults. The Canadians were allocated Juno Beach, the codename for the area from the village of Courseulles-sur-Mer, all the way to Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer.

The mission for James Doohan’s division was to travel west of Caen. It wouldn’t be easy. Facing them were two battalions of the German 716. Infanterie-Division . There were also troops from the 21st Panzer Division holed up near Caen. As if that wasn’t daunting enough, the Germans had strewn the beaches with anti-tank mines.

The night before, Allied aircraft blasted German positions. As the landings were to happen before dawn, the Canadians wouldn’t be visible, as they landed in the dark – or so the thinking went. That did not happen. The preemptive aerial bombardment hadn’t been as effective as the Allies had hoped, due to lousy weather and poor visibility. As such, the coastal defenses along Juno Beach were almost unscathed.

James Doohan took out two German snipers on D-Day

It got worse. Rough weather and high waves delayed the landings until well after the sun had risen on June 6, 1944. Out at sea, James Doohan felt queasy, but it wasn’t because of what lay ahead. He later told the Associated Press , “We were more afraid of drowning than [we were of] the Germans.”

Once the risk of drowning was behind them, what lay ahead for the Canadians proved to be much worse. The first group reached Juno Beach at 7:35 AM and were quickly cut down.

Fortunately for them, the light cruiser HMS Ajax (22) had bombarded Juno Beach earlier, doing more damage to the coastal defenses than the aircraft had. After two hours, the Canadians had swept aside most of the Germans along their stretch of the beach. Doohan led his men across the sands and got lucky, as none of the anti-tank mines went off, as the men weren’t heavy enough to activate them.

As they made their way to higher ground, Doohan shot two German snipers – his first kills of the war. By noon, they’d secured their positions. However, they now had a new problem. The beach was so thick with Canadians that the later arrivals couldn’t advance. As darkness fell, there was a risk they’d mistake comrades for the enemy and end up shooting at each other.

This was exactly what happened, not only at Juno Beach, but at the other landing beaches.

James Doohan suffered six bullet wounds

At around 11:20 PM, James Doohan finished a cigarette and patted the case he kept in his shirt pocket. It had been given to him by his brother as a good luck charm – and a good thing, too. Some 10 minutes later, he was walking back to his command post when he was shot six times with a Bren light machine gun . The first four bullets slammed into his leg, the fifth struck him in the chest and the sixth took off his right middle finger.

The shooter was not a German sniper. In fact, Doohan had been shot by a nervous, trigger-happy Canadian sentry. Fortunately, the cigarette case had stopped the bullet that hit his chest. Doohan later joked it was the only time being a smoker saved his life.

‘Craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force’

After recovering from his injuries, James Doohan learned to fly a Taylorcraft Auster Mark IV for the No. 666 Squadron RAF. By this point, he was an officer in the Royal Canadian Artillery, supporting the 1st Army Group Royal Artillery at RAF Andover, Hampshire.

In early 1945, Doohan flew his aircraft between two telegraph poles, just to prove it could be done. He got in trouble for that, and everyone called him the “ craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force .”

James Doohan goes from the Canadian Army to outer space

After the Second World War , James Doohan returned to Canada. Upon hearing a radio drama, he believed he could do a better job than the voice actors featured and switched his focus of study from technical schooling to drama. His first job was with CBC radio. He ultimately went on to do 4,000 shows on radio and 450 on television, earning a reputation as the most versatile voice actor in the business.

In 1965, Doohan was assured of a place in film history when he landed – and helped develop – the role of Montgomery “Scotty” Scott in Star Trek . In addition to playing the role of chief engineer for the starship Enterprise , Doohan also helped create the Klingon and Vulcan languages for the show.

Doohan became so iconic that fans credited him with their interest in engineering, astronomy and other technical fields. Among these was the engineer-turned-astronaut Neil Armstrong , who personally thanked Doohan in 2004.

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Doohan died in 2005. To honor him, a Falcon 9 launch vehicle took some of his ashes into space. Two years later, the Scottish town of Linlithgow claimed him as one of their own with a predictive commemorative plaque. “Predictive” because it claims he will be born there on 2222.

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• Originally, there was a cut line of dialogue where Troi would ask Scotty if he wanted to know what happened to his friends and family, but Scotty was not ready to hear it.
• The decision not to directly reference the fate of the other Original Series characters was made to avoid cluttering the episode and locking the show into specific storylines.

Scotty (James Doohan) guest starred in a classic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, and the show's writer, Ronald D. Moore, explains why Mr. Scott didn't ask about his friends from Star Trek: The Original Series . The TNG season 6 episode "Relics" saw Scotty emerge in the 24th century after spending decades in a transporter pattern buffer. But the Chief Engineer known as the "miracle worker" didn't feel at home aboard the Galaxy Class USS Enterprise-D, and Scotty missed his own Constitution Class Enterprise, "no bloody A, B, C, or D." Yet Scotty curiously didn't ask what became of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the rest of his crew .

In the Star Trek oral history "The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years" by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, Ronald D. Moore says that a cut line of dialogue addressed whether Scotty wanted to know what happened to the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series . Read Moore's explanation in his quote below:

I set out to do a show that was nostalgic and sentimental and that would resonate with what people cared about. Originally, Troi was going to ask Scotty if he wanted to know what happened to his colleagues aboard the Enterprise. There was a line in a scene that got cut out between Troi and Scotty where she said, “Would you like to know what happened to all your friends and family,” and he said, “No, I’m not ready to hear that.” That was the closest allusion we were going to make. My thought is it would clutter it up a little bit to make direct references, since once you bring up Bones and say that Mr. Spock is James Bond now and underground on Romulus, you have to talk about everybody else, and we didn’t want to say what happened to everybody else because we didn’t want to lock ourselves into it.

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Captain kirk's enterprise crew hadn't seen each other for decades..

At the time Star Trek: The Next Generation aired "Relics" in 1992, the series had only addressed the whereabouts of two members of Captain Kirk's USS Enterprise crew . Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForrest Kelley) cameoed in TNG 's series premiere, "Encounter at Farmoint," as the elderly Admiral McCoy. A year before "Relics," Ambassador Spock (Leonard Nimoy) guest starred in the TNG season 5 two-parter, "Unification," which revealed the Vulcan was now living on Romulus and covertly trying to reunite the Vulcan and Romulan people. It was after TNG ended that Star Trek Generations brought in Captain Kirk, who was in the temporal distortion called the Nexus for 78 years.

Captain Kirk died helping Captain Picard stop the madman Dr. Tolian Soran from destroying the planet Veridian III at the end of Star Trek Generations .

Star Trek canon is spotty on what happened to Hikaru Sulu (George Takei), Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), and Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), or whether they were still alive in Star Trek: The Next Generation 's 24th century. Sulu was Captain of the USS Excelsior, and he appeared in a flashback episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Chekov's last appearance was in Star Trek Generations ' 23rd-century prologue alongside Kirk and Scotty, and the movie's retcon means Mr. Scott believes Kirk died in 2293 when he appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation .

Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: The Original Series are available to stream on Paramount+.

Source: "The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams: The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek" by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross

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‘scotty’ from star trek took part in d-day and was shot 6 times.

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In his lifetime, James Doohan fought with Klingons, Romulans, Greek gods, and a deep space probe named Nomad.

He struggled with interstellar engines, transporters, tribbles and William Shatner, but all of these fights paled in comparison to what he endured during WWII.

James “Jimmy” Doohan played the resourceful, hard-drinking and loyal “Scotty” on the original Star Trek series, a number of movies and reprised his role on Star Trek: The Next Generation. What many people outside the world of Star Trek fandom don’t know is that Doohan landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944 — “D-Day”.

Doohan was Canadian, not Scottish, and his family came from Ireland. He was born in Vancouver in 1920 to Irish immigrants.

Doohan’s father was a sort of medical jack of all trades – a dentist, veterinarian, and a pharmacist. He was also an alcoholic who made life very difficult for his family. When Jimmy was 19, he enlisted in the Canadian Army – just before the outbreak of WWII.

In 1940, Doohan had worked his way up to the rank of lieutenant and was in England with the 14th Field Artillery of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division.

Initially tasked with helping in the defense of England should the Germans invade, his first taste of combat came some four years later when they 3rd Canadian landed at Juno Beach – the beach designated for the mass of Canadian troops.

Juno Beach was the Canadians’ “Omaha.” Though less bloody than the American landing beach, Juno was no cakewalk, and Doohan’s unit faced the strength of two German battalions in their landing area.

Making life more difficult was the mass of equipment that accompanied them, making movement in the water and sand exceedingly difficult going.

During the monumental day, James Doohan single-handedly took out two German snipers who were holding up the men of his company.

Doohan’s unit, along with the majority of the Canadian forces that landed on Juno Beach that day, pushed inland and secured their first day’s objective.

It seemed like D-Day had gone as well as could be expected for the future Chief Engineer of the Enterprise, but at around 11pm, as Doohan was making the rounds of his men, a nervous sentry opened fire, mistaking the lieutenant for a German.

Jimmy was hit six times: once in his right hand (which took off his middle finger – look hard and you can spot the wound, but Doohan tried hard to hide it during his acting career), four times in the left knee and once in the chest.

Luckily, Doohan was a smoker – the metal cigarette case he kept in his breast pocket deflected the bullet, avoiding his heart. Later in life, Jimmy would joke that “Smoking had saved his life.” When he recovered from his wounds, he returned to the artillery, but this time he trained as an observation pilot, spotting German positions and directing/correcting Canadian artillery fire.

Take a closer look with this video:

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The plane he flew was a Taylorcraft Auster – a slow moving, wooden and canvas plane that afforded its pilots little protection.

Though Doohan was not in the Canadian Air Force, some dubbed him the “Craziest Pilot in the Canadian Air Force” because he often flew in a daredevil, haphazard way – most notably when he flew between two closely placed telephone poles, “just to prove that he could.”

When WWII ended, Doohan returned to Canada and was listening to the radio during the holiday season of 1945-46 when he listened to “the worst drama he ever heard” on the local radio station. On a whim, he went down to the station and did a recording of his own.

Doohan had a knack for voices and accents. The station manager recommended that he enroll at a drama school in Toronto, and eventually he won a scholarship to attend the well-known Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.

From there, it was “onward and upward”…he got roles on Bonanza, Bewitched, and a number of roles for the stage and radio. In 1966, he auditioned for the role of the ship’s engineer.

There is a long history of Scotsmen being engineers in the Royal Navy and in the cruise lines of the early 20th century, and Doohan told Gene Roddenberry (the series’ originator) that if his character was going to be an engineer, he should be Scottish. The rest is television history.

Read another story from us: Golden Girl Bea Arthur was one of the First Female Marines to Serve in WWII

James Doohan passed away in 2005. Fittingly, his ashes were taken into orbit and scattered in space.

Scotty was a nickname both for Montgomery Scott and his counterpart in the alternate reality .

In the alternate reality, James T. Kirk regularly used the nickname and even used it to introduce Scott to Khan Noonien Singh in 2259 . ( Star Trek Into Darkness ) In 2263 of the alternate reality, after Scott had met Jaylah on Altamid , she called him "Montgomery Scotty." ( Star Trek Beyond )

Chief engineer Pelia called Scott "Scotty". ( SNW : " Hegemony ")

The nickname Scotty was used by various shipmates of Scott during his service aboard the USS Enterprise and the USS Enterprise -A from the 2260s to the 2290s , including James T. Kirk , Leonard McCoy , Nyota Uhura , Hikaru Sulu , Carolyn Palamas , Christine Chapel , Mira Romaine , Will Decker , and Pavel Chekov . It was even used in the official captain's log . ( TOS : " By Any Other Name "; Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home )

Unlike all other bridge officers, Spock never used the name Scotty onscreen.

Scott also occasionally used the nickname himself. ( TOS : " A Taste of Armageddon ", " The Devil in the Dark ", " Metamorphosis ", " Mirror, Mirror ", " Is There in Truth No Beauty? ", " Day of the Dove ", " That Which Survives "; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ; TNG : " Relics ")

It was similarly used by his junior engineers in Scott's absence. ( DS9 : " Trials and Tribble-ations ")

He was later called " Mister Scotty" by the Pandronian Honorary Commander Ari bn Bem in 2269 . ( TAS : " Bem ")

In 2369 , when Captain Jean-Luc Picard called Montgomery Scott "Captain Scott," Scott told Picard instead to call him Scotty. Scott later made the same remark to Geordi La Forge , reminding him that they were in Engineering at the time and formality was not needed. Only La Forge and William T. Riker ultimately called Scott by this nickname. ( TNG : " Relics ")

In 2380 on the USS Cerritos , Commander Jack Ransom was telling Captain Carol Freeman about people that lived during the TOS era , and one of them he mentioned was Scotty. ( LD : " No Small Parts ")

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The Actor Who Played “Scotty” on Star Trek Was Shot Six Times on D-Day

Doohan, a Canadian, after leading his men through a mine field on Juno beach and personally taking out two German snipers in the process, eventually took four rounds in one of his legs; one in his hand, which ultimately resulted in him losing his middle finger; and one in the chest.  The shot to the chest likely would have been fatal except that he had a silver cigarette case there, given to him by his brother, which deflected the bullet.  He would later give up smoking, but at least he could say that being a smoker actually saved his life.

Ironically, the shots he took were not fired by the enemy, but rather by an overzealous Canadian gunman.  After his unit was secured in their position for the night, Doohan was crossing between command posts, when a Canadian gunman spotted him and opened fire.

Doohan originally joined the Canadian Forces at the age of 19, eventually being commissioned a Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Artillery.  D-Day was the first and last action he saw in the war.  After recovering from his injuries, he became a pilot in the Canadian Air Force, but never saw action.  Despite not ever flying in combat, he was once called “the craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force” when he flew a plane through two telegraph poles after “slaloming” down a mountainside, just to prove it could be done.  This act was not looked upon highly by his superiors, but earned him a reputation among the pilots of the Canadian Air Force.

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Bonus Facts:

• As mentioned, contrary to what many people think, Doohan was not Scottish.  He was Canadian.  When he was auditioning for the role of the ship’s engineer, he went over various accents for Gene Roddenberry for the character.  After he finished, Roddenberry asked him which he liked best and he responded: “Well, if you want an engineer, he better be a Scotsman because, in my experience, all the world’s best engineers have been Scottish.”
• Although he wasn’t Scottish, Doohan described the character of Scotty as: “99% James Doohan and 1% accent.”  “It was a natural. When I opened my mouth, there was Scotty.  Scotty is the closest to Jimmy Doohan that I’ve ever done.”
• The name Montgomery Scott was chosen because Montgomery was Doohan’s middle name and the character was portrayed as Scottish.
• Both the Klingon language and the Vulcan language were initially very crudely developed by Doohan.  Later, these languages were expanded and refined by professional linguists, primarily by Marc Okrand.
• While great pains were taken in Star Trek to conceal the fact the Doohan was missing a middle finger, there are several episodes where this can be observed.  These include: Cat’s Paw ; Day of the Dove ; and The Lights of Zetar .  This can also be observed in a scene in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier .  In the former, it can be observed when he hands McCoy parts for the Transwarp Drive and in the latter when he’s holding a plastic bag dinner which was given to him by Lt. Uhura.
• Doohan not only played the character Scotty in Star Trek, but also did the voice for many different parts including: The M-5 from The Ultimate Computer and Sargon from Return to Tomorrow , among many others.
• Before landing the role as Scotty, Doohan did over 4000 radio shows and 400 TV shows in Canada and was particularly noted for his great versatility in voice acting.
• Shortly before his death, Doohan was suffering from Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, lung fibrosis, Alzheimer’s, and, eventually, pneumonia.  His official cause of death was listed as pneumonia and Alzheimer’s.
• Doohan was married three times in his life and fathered four children.  He met his final wife, Wende Braunberger, when she was just 17 and he was 54, marrying her very shortly after their first meeting.  The two had three children, the last in 2000, and remained married for 31 years until Doohan’s death in 2005 at the age of 85.
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I’m glad he lived, he seemed like a guy I would have liked to have met.

I met him twice. Once at a media store. He signed a poster and gave me a wet kiss on the lips which was not welcome nor expected. The second time 20 years later at a Startrek convention in Tampa FLORIDA. I watched him signing my daughter’s photo of him and I prewarned her of his amorous kisses. She kept a distance. He seemed to like kissing cute girls when they least expected it. He seemed inebriated but I think that was an act.

Ahhh, gross! I’m not shocked, though. This is coming from a middle-aged guy who concluded that he would be happy marrying a 17-year-old on the basis of a kiss.

Yeah…that didn’t happen.

“He seemed to like kissing cute girls” Somehow, I doubt you’re that cute.

You’re just jealous because you’re not a cute girl. :^)

I met him at the Lord Baltimore hotel at a ST convention. We were in the bar and he walk3ed through the front door and came in the bar after we yelled at him. He talked with me for 20 minutes as I had ben to Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy as a kid. A REALLY nice man. He declined the drink we offered he said it was “too early” and signed our stuff after the convention.

I’d rather not watch “Star Trek V – Never Let Shatner Direct” again just to see Doohan’s missing finger, especially with how badly Scotty was treated in the movie.

Scotty was an extremely important role model for engineering students since the 1970s and Doohan cherished that role, speaking at many colleges. He was given honorary engineering degrees because of all of the students he inspired.

Doohan’s last child was born when he was about 80, over 40 years after the birth of his first child.

I met Jimmy Doohan when he lectured at Embry-Riddle Aeronautic University, not that long after the failure of Star Trek V-the Search for More Money. He was very funny and talked about his experiences in WWII and lovingly talked of his time as a pilot. One of his stories included low altitude maneuvers (like less than 20′ off the deck) around Stonehenge.

He couldn’t stand his fellow Canadian Bill Shatner and went on and on about how bad ST5 was to shoot.

Sounds like we saw him at the same time. Aerospace Engineering Embry Riddle Daytona Beach 88-92.

I taught karate in New Orleans and also managed the Crescent City Health Club in 1966 when Star Trek first aired. It was unusual for so many of the members to stop the workout and watch a show with such interest. I followed William Shatner’s success over the years and enjoyed all the cast members of the show. The many shows that were spin offs of the series proves that the experts that took the show off the air after three years did not have their fingers on the pulse of the audience. They were wrong the audience was right. I have enjoyed Shatner’s writings and his other shows that he has appeared in. It will be a long time before we have another like him in the entertainment world. He is 86 and I am 80. I hope to be as active as he when I reach 86.

Was James Doohan Shot Six Times on D-Day?

A popular meme recounting the actor's involvement with the d-day invasion at normandy is largely accurate, but some of the details are a little hazy., published june 8, 2018.

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A meme purportedly relaying the heroic exploits of James Doohan, who is best known as the actor who played Scotty in the original  Star Trek  series, was shared by the "Meanwhile in Canada"  Facebook page in June 2018, in remembrance of D-Day:

The story presented in this meme is largely accurate. Doohan was one of some 14,000 Canadian soldiers who landed in Normandy, France, in June 1944 during World War II. He did suffer several gunshot wounds during the invasion, which ultimately resulted in the loss of his middle finger. It's also true that one of these bullets was stopped by a cigarette case in his pocket. 

However, this meme doesn't identify the likely source of these gunshots: A nervous Canadian sentry. 

Doohan was a commissioned lieutenant with the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, and was tasked with invading an area of Normandy code-named Juno Beach. As the meme states, Doohan successfully led his men across the beach littered with anti-tank mines , and also managed to take out two German snipers:

The first Canadians reached Juno Beach at 7:35 AM and were cut down. Fortunately for them, the HMS Ajax had bombed Juno earlier, doing more damage to the coastal defenses than the planes had. After two hours, they had swept aside most of the Germans on their stretch of the beach. Doohan led his men across the sands and got lucky. Despite the anti-tank mines beneath their feet, none went off, as the men were not heavy enough to activate them. As they made their way to higher ground, Doohan managed to take out two German snipers – his first kills of the war. By noon, they had secured their positions. They could rest, as well as deal with their dead and wounded. There was, however, a problem.

Although Doohan escaped the initial moments of the invasion relatively unscathed, his luck didn't last: 

At about 11:20 that evening, Doohan finished a cigarette and patted the silver cigarette case he kept in his breast pocket. It had been given to him by his brother as a good luck charm… and a good thing, too. Some ten minutes later, he was walking back to his command post when he was shot. Six times. By a Bren Gun. The first four bullets slammed into his leg, the fourth whacked him in the chest, while the sixth took off his right middle finger. It was not a German sniper. He had been shot by a nervous, trigger-happy Canadian sentry. Fortunately, the cigarette case stopped the bullet aimed at his chest. Doohan later joked it was the only time being a smoker saved his life.

Doohan attempted to hide his missing finger in episodes of  Star Trek  (a hand double was even used in some close-up scenes), but he wasn't always successful. For example, Doohan's injury can be briefly glimpsed in the famous episode "The Trouble with Tribbles":

There is at least some debate over the provenance of the bullets that wounded Doohan. Although books such as D-Day: The Essential Reference Guide and Fight to the Finish: Canadians in the Second World War state that Doohan was wounded by friendly fire, Doohan's mother was told, at least initially, that her son had been hit by German bullets. We have also encountered varying reports about the number of times Doohan was shot (ranging from six to eight.)

We attempted to locate accounts from Doohan himself about the incident, other than the one presented in his autobiography, but didn't turn up much additional information. The most revealing report appears to come from a  New York Times article that centered around a letter Doohan sent director Steven Spielberg shortly after the release of the film Saving Private Ryan in 1998 (which mentioned Doohan being hit by "German" bullets):

"When I wrote Spielberg I told him I'd landed on Juno on D-Day, which was nothing as horrid as the Omaha disaster." Not horrid, perhaps, but bad enough. He and his men landed unscathed on Juno then fought their way successfully into the Normandy peninsula as far as the town of Courseulles that first day. But Artillery Lt.  James Doohan of D Company, Winnipeg Rifles, 13th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Army, ended up just before midnight plugged by eight German bullets.  Four hit his left knee, three took out the middle finger of his right hand, and one was deflected from killing him by a sterling silver cigarette case in the breast pocket of his jacket. "I still have that cigarette case today," the husky 78-year-old Doohan said through his walrus mustache, shooting his eyebrows. 

Doohan also downplayed his heroics, saying that the mines on the beach were anti-tank mines and that his men were not heavy enough to trigger them. Doohan also said that he wasn't sure if he had truly killed two German snipers and added that he didn't notice the gunshot wounds in his legs until he got to the medic:

"We landed safely, thank God, through those Y-shaped steel barriers you see in the film, tracer bullets, all that, none of our men hurt, and dashed 75 yards to the 7-foot tall dunes," Doohan said.  "Crossed a minefield, found out about it later: It was meant to blow up tanks, and we weren't heavy enough. Moved up through a down - hardly a town just a village - called Graye Sur Mer, saw a church tower that was a machine-gun post, firing off to our left.  Doohan took out the machine-gun post with a couple of shots. "I don't know if they were killed or wounded, but it shut them up," he said.  His mother was told that German bullets had hit him at 11:30 p.m. on D-Day as he was returning from a forward gun position. He waled a quarter-mile - "the adrenaline lets you do it" - to the regimental aid post, Doohan said. He know about his right hand and the wack on his chest against that cigarette case, but that was all. "The medic said: 'You also have four bullets in your left knee.' I said: 'Well, I walked here.'"

Russell, Shahan.   "Star Trek star Shot Two Snipers on D-Day and Was Shot Seven Times in WWII."     War History Online .   29 November 2016.

Tucker, Spencer.   D-Day: The Essential Reference Guide. .     ABC-CLIO, 2017.   (p. 76).

Talmer, Jerry.   "'Scotty' Praises Spielberg for 'Private Ryan.'"     Star Tribune .   19 August 1998.

By Dan Evon

Dan Evon is a former writer for Snopes.

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First Wave From New Star Trek Starships Die Cast Collection Revealed; Pre-Orders Open Today

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The baton for making die-cast Star Trek ships passed to Fanhome earlier this year and today we are getting our first look at the actual models from the first wave. The new Starship Collection launches in November and you can now pre-order ships to extend (or start) your collection.

Fanhome’s Starships Collection begins

Fanhomes’s new collection will cover all the modern Star Trek series including Picard , Strange New Worlds , Discovery , Lower Decks and Prodigy . Fanhome is working with Paramount Global to ensure the models are as accurate as possible and they will all be based on the original visual effects models that were used to make the effects for the show.

The new Official Star Trek Starship Collection is being sold as a monthly subscription service, much like the old Eaglemoss collection, and in fact the series is being supervised by Ben Robinson, who also headed up the Eagelmoss Star Trek products. Fanhome starts taking pre-orders today , September 6th, and the models are expected to ship to customers in early November. The list price for the first ship – the U.S.S. Titan-A (from Picard season 3) – is $44.95. Subsequent ships will be priced at $55.00, all with free shipping and you can cancel any time.

USS Titan-A model

The ships in the collection are constructed with a combination of die-cast metal and high-quality ABS resin. The typical model measures between 7 and 9-inches (180-225 mm) long. The designs are all based on the original visual effects models that were used to produce the shows. Each ship in the new collection comes with a 16-page magazine that profiles the ship in the Star Trek universe and explores the design process with exclusive art and brand-new interviews with the production team.

USS Titan magazine included with model

Following the Titan, here are the next five ships planned as part of “Stage 1” of the new collection…

U.S.S. Stargazer NCC-82893 (Sagan class) from Star Trek: Picard Season 2

USS Stargazer model

U.S.S. Farragut NCC-1647 from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1

USS Farragut model

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-F from Star Trek: Picard Season 3

Enterprise-F model

S.S. Eleos XII NAR-59019 from Star Trek: Picard Season 3

SS Eleos model

The Shrike from Star Trek: Picard Season 3

The Shrike model

Fanhome has more than 20 ships planned for the collection. There will also be several oversized replicas of the most significant ships, which will be approximately 11 inches (280 mm) long (available individually and to subscribers for a premium). Subscribers will also get other exclusive gifts. Pre-orders for the subscription service open today.

Ship models will also be available individually the month after they are made available for subscribers.  Individually purchased ships will be priced at $64.99 each plus $5 for shipping.

For more details or to pre-order, visit fanhome.com .

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Will the window alignment be better with these?

Probably, but you won’t be able to see them on the Titan since Captain Shaw liked it dark.

Ùgh, I can answer my own question.

There’s some high res photos on some Facebook groups. Window alignment is terrible.

At these inflated prices, it’s a hard pass for me.

What is the window alignment problem? I’ve heard the term a lot, but it’s nothing that my eyes are obviously drawn to when I look at these pics.

What are people seeing that’s a problem?

The Titan-A / Enterprise-G model looks amazing!

I’ve never heard of an NAR ship designation before. Nice to see they added that. It’s a nice touch to add some “realism” to the ships to me. The Navy has similar ship designations for civilian/support ships that support military operations. Combat ships get the USS (United States Ship) designation while USNS (United States Naval Vessel) is designated a support ship. Likewise the Royal Navy does this with the HMS (His Majesty’s Ship) combat ships and RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary).

It’s from the Berman era. The Raven had an NAR registry.

What does NAR stand for?

10.6″ XL Odyssey-class… sold!

Per the Fanhome site, other upcoming XL (up to12″) versions are: Enterprise-G-labeled connie 3, Voyager-A & Protostar

They straight up don’t deliver to Canada, at all. Looks like they lost out on a collective $1400 from this trekkie.

These all look nice but I just can’t get behind it fully at this price point. I will have to pick and choose instead of collecting all. I really wish that either Star Trek Micro-Machines or something similar would get a relaunch or maybe a line like the Star Wars Micro-Galaxy Squadron could happen but with Star Trek ships.

I would love a new wave of micro machines. They were awesome! A re-release and update are well over due

Not impressed with the lack of detail on the Farragut especially around the bridge, I’d expect more for $55