Talk:Montgomery Scott

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Another continuity explanation, though it relies on Scotty somehow learning of the nexus, would be that, in fact, it was wholly possible for the events of Generations to have played out a bit differently, and Kirk in fact going to look for Scotty afterward.

[edit] Scottish cliché?

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

Isn't this just a specific example of a general case, that of the Scottish engineer as an overall stereotype, not just one restricted to science fiction? As it is, it reads as though the stereotype of the Scottish engineer springs from the character; it was certainly alive and well in the late Victorian period (Kipling's McAndrew, say), and probably earlier. Thoughts? Shimgray 02:08, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

You're correct; the stereotype doesn't originate with Star Trek. Certainly when one thinks of great engineers, James Watt comes to mind and he's quite a few centuries earlier than Scotty. :-)

Atlant 10:59, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

I'd argue Watt was a great engineer who happened to be Scottish, rather than an example of the stereotypical Scottish engineer, but I agree it's certainly an old cliché. Watt's one of the people who made it possible, arguably - it was heavily driven by Scots coal mining, and the need for steam engineers to work there, which gave the infrastructure to produce many more of them... Shimgray 12:09, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

==Since Relics== I wonder if Scotty got to meet Spock again? Perhaps not, since Spock is on a personal unification mission on Romulus. Spock may react to Scotty's still being alive as "Fascinating". Spock & Scotty surviver brothers in-arms. Mightberight/wrong 13:09, 31 October 2005