Montgomery Scott was born in Scotland in 2222 and speaks with a thick Lowland Scottish accent. During the events of Star Trek: The Original Series Scotty holds the rank of Lieutenant Commander and serves as the Enterprise's Chief Engineer, Chief of Security, and Second Officer.As an engineer, Scott retains a reputation as a miracle worker , with no known equal in the Star Trek universe. Throughout both the television and movie series, he is renowned for his technical skill, knowledge, determination and resolve. Scotty often acts as the solver of plot-critical situations, utilizing his expansive knowledge and ingenuity. His solutions are almost always creative and unconventional, dramatically effective, and crucial to the resolution of plot developments. The term 'Scotty factor' describes the practice of over-estimating how much time a project will require to complete by multiplying the actual estimate by a particular number. In strict terms it is a factor of four: the number cited by Kirk in the film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.Though his job is Chief Engineer of the Enterprise, Scotty is also an experienced command officer. Being Second Officer on the Enterprise (i.e. third-in-command), he takes acting command of the ship when Captain Kirk and Commander Spock are both unavailable. On one such occasion, when Kirk and Spock are trapped on an alien world, Scott uses the ship's power to shut down the planet's electrical grid for a few seconds, enabling Enterprise crewmen to rescue Kirk and Spock without violating the Prime Directive. Kirk places a commendation in Scott's personnel record for this innovative tactic (episode Bread and Circuses ).Scott's personality is predominated by his dedication to his profession, which reaches the level of obsessiveness. His dedication is coupled with a deep sentimental attachment to the Enterprise. In the episode, The Trouble with Tribbles, Kirk finds Scott reading engineering technical journals for relaxation. Kirk orders Scott to take shore leave at the space station in order to prevent trouble between the crew and the Klingons. Scott manages to do so, when a drunken Klingon tries to provoke a fight with Enterprise crewmen by insulting Captain Kirk (comparing him to a Denebian Slime Devil). Scott retains composure, ordering the crewmen to ignore the insults. It is not until a Klingon disparages the Enterprise by comparing it to a garbage scow that Scott loses his composure and begins brawling. Kirk confines Scott to quarters for the incident, which then gives Scotty an excuse to continue his journal reading.Scotty appears in the TNG episode Relics , in which he is shown to take passage on the transport ship Jenolan to reach the Norpin colony, where he plans to retire. En route, the Jenolan crashes onto a Dyson Sphere, an impact that only Scotty and another crewman survive. Using his knowledge of transporter systems, Scotty rigs the ship's transporter to keep them suspended in transit for the next 75 years. Although the other crewman dies when his pattern deteriorates beyond recovery, Scotty is recovered by the crew of the Enterprise-D. He and the Enterprise-D chief engineer, Geordi La Forge, in turn rescue the Enterprise-D from the interior of the Dyson Sphere. In thanks, the ship's crew give him the shuttlecraft Goddard. Scotty's age in Relics is revealed to be 147 years: thus, he was 72 when he was going to retire.In the [Orci, Kurtzman, JJ Abrams] alternative universe created when Spock and Nero go back in time and change the original universe, Scotty [reprised by Simon Pegg] was banished to a cold, arctic like planet after he sent an Admiral's dog who knows where with one of his experiments. Kirk and the original Spock find him and together him and Kirk go aboard the Enterprise Captained by the alternative universe Commander Spock who exiled Kirk to the same cold planet that Scotty was exiled. Once on the Enterprise, Scotty takes an immediate liking to the new ship and takes command of engineering since the original head of engineering died on a mission with Kirk and Sulu prior to Kirk being exiled by Spock to the cold planet where Scotty was exiled. (This alternative universe will be of importance to the future of the Trekverse.) Show less «