10 Times Scotty Saved The Day In Star Trek

7. Stowing Away And Sabotaging The Vengeance

Simon Pegg Star Trek Into Darkness
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Star Trek Into Darkness, the second film to take place in JJ Abrams' Kelvin Timeline, features a much more animated Scotty than his Prime Timeline counterpart. He is quicker to get worked up, though his short fuse is balanced by his strong sense of loyalty - something that both versions of the man have in common.

The short fuse initially gets him into trouble with his captain. After the attack on Starfleet headquarters by, sigh, John Harrison, the Enterprise is given a delivery of new torpedoes. These devices are completely unfamiliar to Scotty and he does not want them aboard the ship at all. He stubbornly refuses to take delivery but he has misjudged Kirk, who is grieving hard for the loss of Admiral Pike, who was killed in the attack.

Scotty says that either the torpedoes go - or he goes.

As Kirk warps away with the torpedoes, Scotty drinks in a bar. Kirk, though it took a while, finally begins to see that something is amiss. He gets a series of coordinates from Khan, sending them to Scotty, who goes to investigate. There, he finds the enormous (and illegal) USS Vengeance, a battleship designed for the imagined Klingon War that Admiral Marcus plans to start.

Scotty not only stows away, but manages to sabotage the ship at a critical moment - saving countless lives on board the Enterprise.

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