“4-3-2-1 Scotty beam me up!” – When the rapper Marteria sits in a gazebo in his music video on YouTube with Alf and sings this line, everyone knows which series is meant. Hardly any other Star Trek quote is so popular in pop culture and is much cited as the iconic instruction to the chief engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott (James Doohan): “Beam me up, Scotty!”.
Most think about the quote Adventure outdoor missions On foreign planets, in which Captain Kirk (William Shatner) in spaceship Enterprise will eventually pull out the communicator to be beamed back on board. But what if we tell you that this scene just a pop -cultural brain clamp is?
“Beam me up, Scotty” was never officially pronounced in Star Trek
In fact, the sentence was “Beam me up, scotty” Never said in the series as well. Instead, there were numerous variants, such as “Mr. Scott, beam us up ” Or the instruction “Beam me up” to other nameless officers. Also in the film Star Trek IV – Back to the present slides Captain Kirk Just just past the quoteWhen he proves: “Scotty, beam me up”.
Only One time William Shatner actually took the iconic words into his mouth: in the Audiobook version His self -written novel Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden (1995). However, this book is not part of the main canon of the universe and thus falls from the equation. In addition, the sentence in 1995 was probably just as famous as it is today – the famous question arises, What was there firstthe chicken or the egg. So where does the misconception originally come from?
The mystery around the origin of the quote remains unresolved
To date we can just guesswhat has brought the iconic saying into circulation. Screen Rant names a report by the Royal Aeronautical Society as one of the first occupied sources for the saying. James Doohan himself used the quote in 1996 as Title for his autobiography: Beam Me Up, Scotty: Star Trek’s “Scotty” – in his own word.
Also the well -known sticker “Beam Me Up, Scotty, There’s no Intelligent Life on this Planet” will probably have contributed to the awareness, as CBR reports. At the same time there was too Times of linear television No real way to check the quote for its truth content, which could be another reason, which is why the misconception could be so persistent.
The quote is not the only example in which Star Trek influence the English language. In the meantime there is even its own Wikipedia entry for the phrase. “Beam me up, scotty” Has to be one winged word for unpleasant situations that you want to escape as quickly as possible.
Whether true or wrong: the quote once again proves how strong a series through yours Fan culture is defined – and in this regard Star Trek has always been an absolute leader.