I'm giving 'er all she's got, captain!
We've seen several younger takes on the original Enterprise crew reintroduced in the modern Star Trek shows over the years, and in this week's season 2 finale of Strange New Worlds, a certain future Chief Engineer joined the fray.
Mongomery "Scotty" Scott is introduced about halfway through the episode, "Hegemony," which saw the Enterprise crew helping a colony under attack by the Gorn. After being played by James Doohan in the original show and Simon Pegg in the Kelvin movies, this latest take on the character is played by Martin Quinn, who is of Scottish origin.
"We've been talking about him for a while as a general idea," revealed co-showrunner and executive producer Henry Alonso Myers during an interview with TV Line. "As we were going into the finale, it suddenly became a weird, rare opportunity to introduce him for a lot of different reasons. What we’d like to do with the characters [from the original Star Trek series]… We don’t meet our understanding of who they are in that series, we meet who they are before. They don’t know who they will be, and they aren’t that person yet. They have some stuff to go through."
"We also had a great opportunity to cast someone who’s from Scotland," he added, "who can do that Scotty, but also who can go through all of the things that we want to see him go through before he becomes the person that we know."
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