Star Trek: The Animated Series, Disc 2

Yeah, that was kind of a weak episode. :frowning:

Ah well. Thanks for joining me, Cas! G’night! :slight_smile:

Gnight! I hope we have more company next week… :slight_smile:

Thank you Wikipedia:

[i]“Beam me up, Scotty!” is a catch phrase that made its way into pop culture from the science fiction television series Star Trek. It comes from the command Captain Kirk gives his transporter chief, Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, when he needs to transport back to the ship.

Though it has become irrevocably associated with the series and movies, the exact phrase was never actually spoken in any Star Trek television episode or film. Captain Kirk comes closest to saying the phrase when he said “Beam me up, Mr. Scott” in the Star Trek IV movie. In the Original Series episode “The Gamesters of Triskelion”, Kirk said, “Scotty, beam us up”; in the animated episodes “The Lorelei Signal” and “The Infinite Vulcan”, when he said, “Beam us up, Scotty”; in Star Trek IV, saying, “Scotty, beam me up”; and in Star Trek Generations, by saying, “Beam them out of there, Scotty”. The phrase was used on a bumper sticker with the tag line “Beam me up Scotty. There’s no intelligent life down here.”

“Beam me up, Scotty” is similar to the phrase, “Just the facts, ma’am”, attributed to Jack Webb’s character of Joe Friday on Dragnet, as well as “It’s elementary, my dear Watson”, attributed to Sherlock Holmes, “Luke, I am your father”, attributed to Darth Vader, and “Play it again, Sam”, attributed to Humphrey Bogart. All five lines are the best known quotes from these works for many viewers, but not one is an actual, direct quotation.

The complete phrase was eventually said by William Shatner in the audio adaptation of his novel Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden.

James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty, later chose this phrase as the title of his autobiography.[/i]

Yes! And I wasn’t even watching it at the time! :stuck_out_tongue: