STARFLEET HISTORICAL DATABASE FILE: Scott, Montgomery "Scotty"

Mid-level Biography Brief Mode

Played By: James Doohan

Final Rank: Captain

Serial Number: SE-197-54T

Year of birth: 2222

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 longtimecomrades 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.

Once calling himself "an old Aberdeen pub-crawler," 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.

James Doohan was born in Vancouver and spent his early years in Vancouver, British Columbia and Sarnia, Ontario. Surviving the anguish of living with an alcoholic father, he left home at age nineteen to join the Canadian Forces, fighting with the Allies in World War II. After outscoring his fellow soldiers on an officer's exam, he became Captain in the Royal Canadian Artillery. While leading his men into battle on D-Day, Doohan was wounded in the leg and hand, and eventually lost a finger. For the remainder of the war, he became a pilot observer, and received the dubious distinction of being called the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Forces."

After returning home to Canada, Doohan performed a few scenes for the local radio station, and was awarded a two-year scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. Beginning in 1946, he trained at the Playhouse with Sanford Meisner, and studied alongside such future stars as Leslie Nielsen, Tony Randall, and Jackie Gleason.

In the ensuing eight years, Doohan shuttled between New York and Canada where he worked on 4000 radio programs, 400 live and taped variety and dramatic television shows, several films and plays, and Shakespearean productions. Though he became known as Canada's busiest actor, he eventually found himself following other fellow actors in the pilgrimage to Hollywood. There, his versatility and talent as a dialectician helped him earn parts in more than 100 motion pictures and television series, including "The Twilight Zone," "Outer Limits," "Fantasy Island," and of course, "Star Trek(r)." He has also appeared in all seven "Star Trek(r)" motion pictures, as well as many other films, including "Loaded Weapon" and "Double Trouble."

In the years since the final episode of Star Trek(r), the original series, Doohan has pursued a speaking career which has taken him to more than 250 colleges throughout the U.S. and Canada. In addition, he makes appearances at numerous Star Trek conventions.

Doohan recently moved to Washington State, where he lives with his wife Wende, and his sons Eric and Thomas.