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Montgomery Scott

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Scott : 
"I can't change the laws of physics!"
to Kirk; in a much parodied quote
TOS : The Naked Time
Scott : 
"Diplomats! The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank!"
to McCoy
TOS : A Taste of Armageddon
Fox : 
"Diplomacy, gentlemen, should be a job left to diplomats. You will, of course, immediately resume a peaceful status."
Scott : 
"No, sir, I will not."
Fox : 
"What did you say!?"
Scott : 
"I'll not lower the screens, not until the captain tells me to."
Fox : 
"You are taking orders from me. You will lower the screens as a sign of good faith, my authority!"
Scott : 
"I know about your authority, but the screens stay up."
McCoy : 
"Mr. Fox, they faked a message from the captain, they've launched an attack against our ship. You want us to trust them openly?"
Fox : 
"I want you to obey my lawful orders!"
Scott : 
"No, sir. I won't lower the screens."
Fox : 
"Your refusal to comply with my orders has endangered the entire success of this mission! I can have you sent to a penal colony!"
Scott : 
"You can, sir, but I won't lower the screens."
Fox : 
"Your name will figure prominently in my report to the Federation Central."
TOS : A Taste of Armageddon
McCoy : 
"Well, Scotty, now you've done it!"
Scott : 
"Aye. The haggis is in the fire for sure."
TOS : A Taste of Armageddon
Scotty : 
"This is the commander of the U.S.S. Enterprise. All cities and installations on Eminiar 7 have been located, identified, and fed into our fire control system. In 1 hour and 45 minutes, the entire inhabited surface of your planet will be destroyed. You have that long to surrender your hostages."
to the Eminians
TOS : A Taste of Armageddon
Scotty : 
"There's an old, old saying on Earth, Mr Sulu. 'Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.'"
to Sulu
TOS : Friday's Child
Scotty : 
"Before they went into warp I transferred the whole kit and kaboodle into their engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all."
to Kirk
TOS : The Trouble With Tribbles
Kirk : 
"Spock, ask Scotty how long it would take him to reproduce a hundred flintlocks."
Scotty : 
"I didn't get that exactly, Captain. A hundred what?"
Kirk : 
"A hundred... serpents. Serpents for the garden of Eden. We're very tired, Mr. Spock. Beam us up home."
TOS : A Private Little War
Scotty : 
"Captain, thank heaven!"
Spock : 
"Mr Scott, there was no deity involved. It was my cross-circuiting to B that recovered them."
McCoy : 
"Well then, thank pictchforks and pointed ears."
TOS : Obsession
Tomar : 
"Very interesting. But I feel rather strange."
 He falls off his chair, unconscious. Scotty picks up the bottle and smiles at it.
Scotty : 
"We did it, you and me. Put him right under the table!"
TOS : By Any Other Name
Scotty : 
"My bairns! My poor bairns!"
bemoaning the abuse of his engines
TOS : The Paradise Syndrome
Scotty : 
"This is Lieutenant Commander Scott. The Enterprise takes no orders except those of Captain Kirk and we will stay right here until he returns and if you make any attempt to board or commandeer the Enterprise, it will be blown to bits along with as many of you as we can take with us."
to Romulan commander
TOS : The Enterprise Incident
Kirk : 
"Are those Romulan officers still aboard the ship?"
Scotty : 
"They're in the brig, sir."
Kirk : 
"I'll need a Romulan uniform."
Scotty : 
Smiling broadly... "Aye. It'll be a pleasure!"
TOS : The Enterprise Incident
Scotty : 
"Doctor, I've seen the Captain feverish, sick, drunk, delirious, terrified, overjoyed, boiling mad. But up to now I have never seen him red faced with hysteria."
to McCoy
TOS : Turnabout Intruder
Scotty : 
"Headquarters has it's problems and we have ours. And right now the Captain of the Enterprise is our problem."
to McCoy
TOS : Turnabout Intruder
Scotty : 
"It may not be scientific, but if Mr. Spock thinks it happens then it must be logical."
to McCoy
TOS : Turnabout Intruder
Scotty : 
"N-C-C-1-7-0-1. No bloody A, B, C or D."
to the Holodeck
TNG : Relics
Scotty : 
"Finding retirement a little lonely, are we?"
Kirk : 
"You know, I'm glad you're an engineer. With tact like that, you'd make a lousy psychiatrist."
ST-G : Generations

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