Star Trek's Scotty played by a Scot for first time

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c72kn4gzq8no

Star Trek's Scotty played by a Scot for first time

6 hours ago
Jamie Russell, BBC Scotland News

For the first time in almost 60 years Star Trek character Scotty is being played by a Scottish actor.

Previously the role has been filled by Canadian actor James Doohan and Englishman Simon Pegg.

Now Scottish actor Martin Quinn is portraying a younger version of the character in the prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

"We are rebranding him," Martin told BBC Scotland news. "He's from Paisley now."

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[Lovie777]

1. Can't wait..........................

[werdna]

2. So sorry -

Season 3 is in production for a 2025 release. A pretty long wait.

[Wonder Why]

3. Oh no! Now I will have to put closed captioning on so I can understand him.

Scotland is a country filled with people who can read and write perfect English but can't speak a word of it but they think they are speaking it. Anyone ever watch that old BBC police series Taggert? I defy anyone to prove to me that he says any understandable English words.

My wife is half Scottish descent so she learned to speak English as a child. I tell her that I had to jump over Hadrian's Wall to find her among the Barbarians (I am Italian descent).

[3catwoman3]

7. In 1974, I spent about 15 minutes listening to a dapper elderly...

...Scotsman in the Edinburgh train station. The only words I could clearly make out were "me and my wife." I must have smiled and nodded in the right places, because he chatted away without pause, quite unaware that I was understanding nothing of the story he was telling.

[moniss]

4. May they also include some

drinking of Irn Brun!!

[3catwoman3]

5. I had my picture taken with Jimmy Doohan at a Star Trek convention...

..,.in either 1976 or 77. I was stationed in San Antonio then, with the Air Force nurse corps. One convention was in New Orleans, and one in Houston.

I still have the picture somewhere.

Off topic but related. There are some interviews with Ethan Peck (Gregory's grandson) who portrays Spock in Strange New Worlds. He speaks quite movingly about how seriously he takes this role, and how he thinks it has changed him for the better.

[3catwoman3]

6. I just watched the clip in the link, and I think Quinn will do the part well.

I loved Jimmy Doohan in the role. Simon Pegg not so much. He didn't look right.

[Staph]

8. Martin Quinn already played the role

in the last episode of season two, which aired on August 10, 2023, in the US. Maybe it's just playing in the UK.