Lt. Cdr. Montgomery Scott
Scotty is his nickname.
I know. I was making a small joke. This is the first time I’ve heard anyone refer to him as something other than Scotty.
Spock always calls him Mr. Scott. He would never be so informal as to use nicknames.
In the series, I don’t recall anyone other than Kirk & McCoy calling the chief engineer Scotty. Of course part of that may be just protocol; in the first 5 year mission, he outranked Sulu, Chekov, & Uhura enough that they wouldn’t have done so, any more than those three ever called the captain Jim.
Yes, but I can’t imagine that being an all-day thing. On the other hand, it must have taken a good chunk out of Kirk’s day, as otherwise he wouldn’t have bitched about it. Of course, Starfleet captains bitch about odd things; Kirk, Picard, & Janeway all had to be tricked into taking shore leave, and Crusher threatened to simply order Picard to take one. Workaholic is probably in the job description.
Actually, he only outranked Lt. Uhuru and Lt. Sulu by one grade, whereas Capt. Kirk outranked the Lt. Cmdr’s by two steps, and McCoy, at least (and Spock, in a couple memorable occasions) called him “Jim.”
Yes, I know. McCoy routinely called the captain Jim, unless he wanted to make it absofuckingly clear that this was an official communication from Chief Medical Officer to Commanding Officer (“Captain, you will leave the bridge at this time and get some rest, and that is an order. If you do not comply I will direct Security to remove you physically and take you to the transporter room, where you will be held until we are within transporter range of an amusement park or brothel.”) Spock tended to do it under emotional stress only but was clearly free to do so whenever he liked; I remember him doing so casually at once, in “Bread & Circuses.” Scott called him Jim once that I recall, in “Mirror, Mirror,” when Kirk was about to sacrifice himself to enable Scott, Uhura, & McCoy to get home.
Despite the above, I do not actually watch Star Trek all the time; I haven’t seen an episode in years. My brain, however, does not appear to have a Delete button.
The redshirt death rate was high enough that the Enterprise probably had one doctor engaged full-time in performing autopsies and writing up the required Starfleet paperwork.
Good memory. I can assure you that this is the only time in which a regular cast member apart from Spock or McCoy referred to the Captain by his nickname.
There are some exceptions. In the animated series episode The Lorelei Signal, Spock distinctly says, “Beam us up, Scotty.”
Also, there was one exceptional incident in The Tholian Web wherein he addressed McCoy as “Bones.”
What’s more, it was EXPECTED to be high. In the idols-are-bad episode, “The Apple,” Kirk is excoriating himself for not immediately aborting the mission on Vaal’s planet at the first sign of danger; in talking sense to him, Spock basically says “We’re in freaking Starfleet, man. It IS NOT SAFE. We die all the time.”
And clearly it wasn’t much better during Picard’s time, given that filing holographic farewell messages in the event of unexpected violent was the rule, not the exception.
One wonders how high Starfleet pay must be to get people to sign up.
Which was how hard exactly? Name the planet and then tick box either a) swept up neatly or b) body twisted in agony and had to be shoved into torpedo casing real hard for burial.
At it’s made even easier by miniskirted yeomen wandering around with futuristicky clipboards, so you don’t even have to pull the file.
By TNG there is no pay; everyone works to “better themselves”. :rolleyes:
Sure, it SOUNDS easy. Until you get to the “Cause of death” box. Salt sucked out of body, red blood cells sucked out of body, killed by previously unknown poisonous plant, drank milk poisoned by crazy daughter of Kodos the Executioner, tripped over a “highly unstable” rock, turned into a dododecahedron then crushed by the Kelvins…
It wasn’t writing reports that was so time consuming, it was responding to Starfleet’s “What the hell are you talking about?” inquiries.
“Beamed down to planet we weren’t orbiting anymore” (“And the Children Shall Lead”) must’ve been particularly hard for Kirk to explain away. I mean, geez…!
Tell me about it. Probably the only Starfleet report in history to be headed by a smilie: :smack:
Lt Kevin Riley survived that one, though. Nasty case of tetralubisol poisoning, but he was up and about in time to try to summarily execute Kodos in the dramatic climax.
On the other hand, it does guarantee that those crewmen would be remembered FOREVER.
A) All female crew were the mini-skirts. Fortunately obesity has been cured by the 23rd century.
B) Hot female crew get killed too.