In anticipation of Scotty being in Strange New Worlds soon (maybe/hopefully not as CE but maybe as a promising Lieutenant who arrives with the new CE)
I wanna talk about my Scotty headcanons and wishes for it he joins the core cast in SNW!
Scotty Speculation/Headcanons
Personal favorite casting ideas I’ve seen for Scotty in speculative articles are Sean Biggerstaff (I’ve loved him ever since I was a kid when I first watched the lame wizard movies) and Chris Doohan (talk about Legacy squared!!).
In beta canon he is a bit of a boy wonder between creating the Aberdeen Solution when he was 15 and almost beating the Kobiyashi Maru purely by knowing the ship in the simulation so well! I hope those little details from Kobiyashi Maru by Julia Ecklar become canon!
He’s probably in the early Lieutenant ranks as he’s in his mid 30s. I could see them maybe de-aging him a little? Especially if he’s not CE (right away at least) and don’t want people bitching about the Uhotty (if they decide to lay more groundwork for the relationship they develop in the TOS movies) age gap even tho 11 years is really not that bad when they’re both full grown adults in a post-gender equity sci fi utopia but I digress. I hope they don’t :/
Spock outranks him and he’s wayyyyy more comfortable in a Jeffries tube than the Captain’s chair, notoriously unambitious even though he’s got command track training. We know that the command chain is Pike > Una/La’an > Ortegas > Spock(?). Perhaps we’ll see, like with Uhura and Spock, a more uncertain, reserved, less confident Scotty?
I offer the highest offer I can bestow to Montgomery Scott, autism head-canon 🥰! His special interest is The Enterprise, he’s in love with her! Just like the Scotty we know and love! Young Scotty infodump and has a hard time not talking about engineering and Enterprise related things, terrible coordination outside of specialized tasks (mood), and is canonically awkward around people he really likes.
Astrophobia, he can swallow it for the most part because he loves star ships more than he fears the vacuum of space, but it does make him super nervous. He’s very good at working engineering miracles because he very very much would not like to perish in the vacuum of space.
Scotty & Uhura being together in The Final Frontier was like, super cute, but also had like zero buildup and if Scotty really is coming to season two of SNW. It’d make sense for them to build a platform to bridge out from, even if it’s just that they were friends! I’d love cute Uhura & Scotty friendship content! Maybe she coaxes him out of his shell with the help of what she learned from Hemmer? I think that’d be adorable!
