James Doohan credited as playing...
Scotty
- [faced with a 20th century computer]
- Scotty: Computer! Computer?
- [He's handed a mouse, and he speaks into it]
- Scotty: Hello, computer.
- Dr. Nichols: Just use the keyboard.
- Scotty: Keyboard. How quaint.
- [the crew is on a shuttlecraft pondering what their new starship will be]
- Sulu: ...I'm counting on the *Excelsior*.
- Scotty: The *Excelsior*? Why in God's name would you want that bucket of bolts?
- Kirk: A ship is a ship.
- Scotty: Whatever you say so.
- [pause]
- Scotty: Thy will be done.
- [the new starship USS *Enterprise* 1701-A emerges into view]
- Kirk: My friends.
- [pause]
- Kirk: We've come home.
- [Kirk is pacing back and forth, considering a below-decks room in the Klingon ship for possible whale transport]
- Kirk: Scotty, how long is this bay?
- Scotty: About sixty feet, Admiral.
- Kirk: Can you enclose it to hold water?
- Scotty: [laughs] I suppose I could. You planning to take a swim?
- McCoy: [sourly] Off the deep end, Mr. Scott!
- Kirk: We got to find some humpbacks.
- Scotty: Humpbacked... people?
- Kirk: Whales, Mr. Scott, whales! Forty to fifty feet long and about 40 tons each.
- Scotty: I noticed you're still working with polymers.
- Dr. Nichols: Still? What else would I be working with?
- Scotty: Aye, what else, indeed? I'll put it another way. How thick would a piece of your Plexiglass need to be, at 60 feet by 10 feet, to withstand the pressure of 18,000 cubic feet of water?
- Dr. Nichols: Oh, that's easy. Six inches. We carry stuff that big in stock.
- Scotty: I, uh, noticed. Now suppose, just suppose, I were to show you a way to manufacture a wall that would do the same job, but be only one inch thick. Would that be worth something to you, eh?
- Dr. Nichols: You're joking.
- McCoy: Perhaps the professor could use your computer.
- Dr. Nichols: Please.
- Scotty: Well, this is a fine place you have here, Dr. Nichols.
- Dr. Nichols: Thank you. I must say, Professor, your knowledge of engineering is most impressive.
- Scotty: Yes.
- McCoy: Back home, we call him the miracle worker.
- Kirk: You know, it's ironic, when man was killing these creatures, he was destroying his own future.
- Scotty: The beasties seem happy to see you, Doctor. I hope you like our little aquarium.
- Dr. Gillian Taylor: A miracle, Mr. Scott.
- Scotty: A miracle? That's yet to come.
- Dr. Gillian Taylor: What does that mean?
- Kirk: It means that our chances of getting home are not too good. You might have lived longer if you'd stayed where you belong.
- Dr. Gillian Taylor: I belong here. I am a whale biologist. Suppose, by some miracle, you do get them through. Who in the 23rd century knows anything about humpback whales?
- Kirk: You have a point.