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STARFLEET HISTORICAL FILE: Scott, Montgomery
Biography
Played By: Jimmy Doohan
Final Rank: Captain
Serial Number: SE-197-54T
Year of birth: 2221
Education: Starfleet Academy, 2240-44
Marital status: Single
Starfleet Career Summary
2242 -- As ensign still enrolled
at Academy, began first starship
posting
2264 -- As lieutenant commander,
became chief engineer under
Capt. James T. Kirk, U.S.S. Enterprise
2269-71 -- Promoted to commander,
oversaw refit of Enterprise at
Earth2285 -- Promoted to captain,
oversaw test of transwarp drive for
U.S.S. Excelsior under Capt. Styles
2286 -- Tried but cleared of wrongdoing
in theft of U.S.S. Enterprise
before UFP Council
2293 -- Scheduled retirement but
called into service for Khitomer
peace mission; witnessed christening
of Enterprise/NCC-1701-B and
death of Kirk
2294 -- Presumed lost in U.S.S.
Jenolen upon retirement en route to
Norpin Colony
2369 -- Rescued from 75-year transporter
loop aboard downed
Jenolen, left to roam on his own
with U.S.S. Enterprise-D shuttlecraft
Goddard
Scott, known as "Scotty" as well
as "the miracle worker" to his
longtime comrades James T. Kirk
and crew, was the chief engineer
aboard the original U.S.S. Enterprise
and its successor craft who
resurfaced 75 years after his presumed
loss en route to the Norpin
Colony in 2369 - perhaps his biggest
miracle of all. Bullish on his
Scottish ancestry, he wears ceremonial
kilts with his dress uniform,
plays the bagpipes and is renowned
for both his drinking and his
alcoholic beverage collection from
all parts of the galaxy.
Scott began
active service in Starfleet in
2242, midway through the Academy, and
served on a total of 11 ships -
including a stint as engineering advisor
on the asteroid freight run from
planet Deneva. Kirk's original U.S.S.
Enterprise was his first posting
as chief engineer beginning in 2364,
and his engineering feats more
than once saved that starship. He
returned to oversee the major refits
of the ship in 2269-71,
itssuccessor 1701-A in 2286, and
the short-lived transwarp engines
tested on the prototype U.S.S.
Excelsior a year earlier.
Scotty had bought a boat in anticipation
of his retirement three
months after the Khitomer peace
conference in 2293, but Kirk
persuaded him instead to come back
to active duty. On hand for the
ceremonial christening of the U.S.S.
Enterprise-B, he helped save
the newly launched starship from
destruction by the Nexus temporal
ribbon and save El-Aurian refugees,
witnessing Kirk's apparent death
in the process.
He finally did retire the next year
at the age of 72, after 52 years in
Starfleet, but for years was presumed
lost with his courier ship
U.S.S. Jenolen en route to the
Norpin Colony, his new home. Not
until 2369 was it discovered he
was the only survivor of the ship's
crash on the exterior of a Dyson
Sphere, kept alive only as a
transporter beamingloop until,
ironically, he was rescued by an away
team from the U.S.S. Enterprise-D
- so disoriented that he thought
Kirk had come to rescue him. After
trading barbs and quips with
Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge and
helping to save that Enterprise,
he received a permanently "loaned"
shuttlecraft, the Goddard, from
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and set
off to roam the galaxy.
Although Scotty was never married,
he became involved with fellow
crew member Mira Romaine in 2269
until she was transferred to
Memory Alpha soon afterward. In
later years Uhura expressed an
interest in romance, but they never
got together seriously.
