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Montgomery Scott (known to his friends as Scotty) was a United Federation of Planets Starfleet engineer on active duty in the 23rd and 24th centuries.

Scott was born in Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom (TOS novel: Vulcan's Glory) in 2222. He was the oldest child and had at least one sister, a niece, and a nephew, Peter Preston. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock novelizations)

He met his future wife, Glynnis Campbell, when they were both children and he saved her from some bullies. (DC Star Trek Annual #3)

Montgomery Scott's first meeting with future shipmates and friends Spock and Leonard McCoy was in a spaceport waiting lounge in 2232, though Spock was then a toddler with his parents, Sarek and Amanda Grayson, and Scott and McCoy didn't tell each other their names. (Arc of the Wolf: Distant Horizons: "Wait")

While still in his teens, Scott disproved Alejandro Perera's theory regarding the vulnerability of linked Klingon deflector shields, which earned him the attention of Starfleet Academy recruiters. (TOS novel: The Kobayashi Maru, Arc of the Wolf: Distant Horizons: "Junkyard Dogs")

AdulthoodEdit

Montgomery Scott's best friend and roommate at Starfleet Academy's Engineering school in Belfast, Ireland, was Andrew "Corry" Corrigan. (Arc of the Wolf: On the Nature of Wind)

Scott evidently spent some time in the Scottish town of Aberdeen, as he identified himself as an "old Aberdeen pub-crawler" in later years. (TOS: "Wolf in the Fold")

Early in his career, Scott was an engineering adviser on the run between Deneva and its asteroid belt. (TOS: "Operation -- Annihilate!", Orion Press: "By the Back Door") The vessel he was assigned to was the Horizon Sun. (Arc of the Wolf: Below Forty South: "Forty-Eight")

Arc of the Wolf continuity has the Denevan run c. 2248, while Orion Press has it in 2259.

In 2249, Scott concluded a tour of duty on the USS Schirra and became technical assistant to a professor at the Academy. ("By the Back Door")

Lieutenant J.G. Scott began his tenure aboard the Constitution-class USS Enterprise in his early 30's, c. 2253, reporting to Chief Engineer Caitlin Barry. Christopher Pike commanded Enterprise at this time. (Vulcan's Glory)

Pocket Books continuity has Scott assigned to Enterprise through much of the 2250s, while Orion Press has him as an Academy instructor and later professor during this period.

Scott became chief engineer in 2259. ("By the Back Door")

Pocket Books continuity has his promotion to lieutenant commander and repositioning as chief engineer in 2264. (SCE novel: Foundations)

When James T. Kirk assumed command of Enterprise from Fleet Captain Pike in 2264, Scott had doubts about his new captain, mostly centering around his youth. "Inexperienced young tyro" was one phrase he used. (TOS novel: Enterprise: The First Adventure) Over the course of this five-year mission, Kirk's and Scott's regard for each other would evolve to the point where Scott called Kirk "Jim" in a moment of crisis. (TOS: "Mirror, Mirror")

Scott was a lieutenant commander at the beginning of this mission (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before"), but had been promoted to commander by the fourth or fifth year of it. (Star Trek: The Animated Series)

Scott also grew a mustache at this time. (Star Trek: New Voyages/Star Trek: Phase II)

During Enterprise's refit in the early 2270s, Scott was the supervising engineer. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, "Maneater") He would work closely with the new CO, Will Decker. (Star Trek novel: Enterprise Logs: "Night Whispers")

In 2280, Scott and Glynnis Campbell married on a five-year contract. (DC Star Trek Annual #3)

Scott's nephew Peter Preston, by then an Academy midshipman first class, was assigned to Enterprise for a cadet cruise in 2285. During an attack by Khan Noonien Singh, who had commandeered USS Reliant, Preston was in Enterprise's engineering section when it was struck by phaser fire. The young midshipman suffered horrific injuries to which he eventually succumbed. Scott took his nephew's death very personally, but would soon suffer another great loss: that of his friend and superior officer, Spock. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

Despite his protestations, Scott was promoted to captain of engineering aboard the transwarp testbed USS Excelsior, reporting to Captain Styles. However, Scott sabotaged Excelsior's systems so it could not pursue Enterprise and prevent a private mission to the Mutara sector. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)

During the so-called Whalesong Crisis, Scott traveled back in time with James Kirk, Spock and several other Enterprise officers to the year 1986 to help bring two humpback whales forward to the 23rd century and communicate with an alien probe. While in the past, Scott may have been part of a predestination paradox by giving a 20th-century scientist the formula for transparent aluminum. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

Scott learned in 2286 that his now ex-wife Glynnis had died in a shuttlecraft accident while he and his shipmates had been in exile on Vulcan. (DC Star Trek Annual #3: "Retrospect"; "Roads Not Taken")

Following a Starfleet trial, Captain Scott became chief engineer of the Enterprise-A until the ship's decommissioning in the early 2290s. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)

Ca. 2293, Kirk, Pavel Chekov and Scott were VIPs on what was intended to be the maiden voyage of the Excelsior-class USS Enterprise-B. After that ship's unprepared response to a distress call, Kirk was thought to be missing and presumed dead. (Star Trek Generations) The following year, Scott was en route to a colony to retire when the vessel crashed on a Dyson sphere. Scott and an ensign, Matt Franklin, sought to save themselves using a transporter pattern buffer. (TNG: "Relics")

24th centuryEdit

While Scott was rescued by the officers and crew of the Enterprise-D decades later, in 2369, the transporter patterns of Ensign Franklin were too degraded to reintegrate. ("Relics")

A few years after his arrival in the 24th century, Scott re-enlisted in Starfleet and became head of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. (SCE novel: The Future Begins)

Many of Scott's family, including his sister, had blamed him and Captain Kirk for the death of Peter. In 2374, he and his niece reconciled. (Orion Press: "Dead to Me")

By 2383, Scott had become commanding officer of USS Challenger, a Galaxy-class explorer retasked to serve as a testbed for different technologies. (TNG novel: Indistinguishable From Magic)

Family namesEdit

In Scott's family, the tradition was for a man to inherit a patrilineal surname, and a woman to inherit a matrilineal one, which is why Dannan and Peter had different surnames. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock novelization)

Montgomery Scott's parents have different names in different continuities:

Arlyne Jorgensen Scott (d. 2273) (TOS short story: "Bum Radish: Five Spins on a Turquoise Reindeer")
Robert Stuart and Caitlyn Scott (d. 2248); Jay McMillan (biological) (Arc of the Wolf: Junkyard Dogs, Mothers and Sons)

In the early portions of Orion Press: "By the Back Door", set in 2249, Scott's unnamed father is said to be dead.

His sister has different names in different continuities:

Callie (nickname) (Arc of the Wolf)
Clara (TOS novel: Engines of Destiny, TNG novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace)
Fran (Star Trek Annual #3, "Roads Not Taken")
Glenna (Orion Press)

... as does his brother-in-law:

Heath (Star Trek Annual #3)
Teague (Orion Press: "Dead to Me")
Tommy (TOS novel: Enterprise: The First Adventure)

Scott's niece and Peter Preston's sister is called Dannan Stuart in the novelizations for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; and Jessa Preston in Orion Press: "Dead to Me".

Stephen Whitfield's bio for Scott in The Making of Star Trek (1968) asserts that Scott's ancestors included famous explorers, including one of the first men to walk on the moon. Interestingly enough, David Scott's Apollo 15 mission would not take place until three years after the book was published.

Alternate continuitiesEdit

"Positive Thinking"Edit

Scott and his best friend, Andrew Corrigan, were assigned to the USS Churchill, a science vessel, in 2249.

"Roads Not Taken"Edit

In 2242, Scott served on the freighter SS Mayweather before he applied to Starfleet Academy.

In the Primeverse, this is when Scott met Keenser from Star Trek (2009).

Officers of the starships Enterprise
	CO	XO	CMO	SCI	ENG	TAC	SEC	HELM	NAV	COMM
NCC-1701:	April \| Pike \| Kirk Decker \| Spock	Number One Spock \| Decker Sulu	April \| Boyce Piper \| McCoy Chapel	Spock \| Chekov Kyle \| Sonak Decker \| Saavik	Scott	Sulu \| Chekov	Giotto \| Freeman Chekov	Number One Mitchell \| H. Sulu Leslie \| Hadley Kyle \| DePaul Hansen \| Spinelli Walking Bear	Tyler \| Kelso \| Alden \| Bailey Farrell \| Hadley \| Riley \| Stiles Latimer \| DeSalle \| Osborne Painter \| Chekov \| Leslie Haines \| Arex \| Ilia \| DiFalco Saavik	Farrell \| Garison Hadley \| M'Ress Martine \| Palmer Uhura
NX-01 \| NX-01 \| NCC-1701 \| NCC-1701 (alt) \| NCC-1701 \| NCC-1701-A \| NCC-1701-B \| NCC-1701-C \| NCC-1701-D \| NCC-1701-E

External linksEdit

Montgomery Scott article at Memory Alpha, the canon Star Trek wiki.
Montgomery Scott article at Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek wiki.

Montgomery Scott
CHARACTER

Actor:	James Doohan
Species:	Human
Gender:	Male
Born:	2222
Hair:	black, eventually gray
Affiliation:	Federation Starfleet
Assignment(s):	commanding officer
Stationed:	Starfleet Corps of Engineers, USS Challenger (NCC-71099)
Occupation:	Starfleet officer
Rank:	captain
Insignia:
Insignia:
Spouse(s):	Glynnis Campbell
Mother:	Caitlyn Stuart or Arlyne Jorgensen Scott
Father:	Robert Scott (presumed); Jay McMillan (biological)
Siblings:	Clara (née Stuart or Scott) Preston, Robert Scott (II)
Relatives:	Robert Falcon Scott, David Scott (ancestors), Clifford Scott (paternal grandfather), Aileen Scott (paternal grandmother), Charles Stuart, Edward Stuart (maternal uncles), Dannan Stuart (aka Jessa Preston) (niece), Peter Preston (nephew), Katarina Scott (great-granddaughter)

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