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Beam Me Up, Scotty!



The exact timing of when the phrase became popular is unclear. However, early signs of the quote's usage to describe something separate from Star Trek can be found roughly ten years after Star Trek's airing in 1966, in a publication of the Royal Aeronautical Journal. It describes a certain routine as "a sort of 'beam me up, Scotty routine'".[11] Over time, the phrase has been extended to, "Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!", popularized on bumper stickers and t-shirts, despite neither quote ever being said on the show.[12][13]


Subtrope of "Common Knowledge". See also Dead Unicorn Trope, Cowboy BeBop at His Computer, Mondegreen Gag, Viewer Name Confusion, God Never Said That, and Wrongfully Attributed. If the misassociated line is eventually co-opted into the source as a sort of Shout-Out to the confusion, it becomes an Ascended Meme. If the line is correct but lack of context changes the meaning, or if the line is chopped up to change its meaning, it is a Quote Mine. If the quote and the misquote both occur in the same medium, there is an Unreliable Narrator or possibly a Flip-Flop of God. If the quote becomes the only thing associated with a person it's a case of Never Live It Down (if an Audience Reaction) or Once Done, Never Forgotten (if In-Universe). This can be extended to Iconic Items the character never actually had, such as Holmes' deerstalker. For tropes actually about beaming characters up, see Teleportation Tropes.




Beam me up, Scotty!



They did come close several times, such as in the 1969 episode of the original series, The Savage Curtain, Kirk says, Scotty, beam us up, fast!. Likewise, in the 1968 episode, The Gamesters of Triskelion, Kirk simply says, Beam us up. Kirk came closer still in the 1967 episode, This Side of Paradise, in which he says beam me up. And finally, the closest Kirk ever came to saying that phrase was in Star Trek IV: The Journey Home, in which he says, Scotty, beam me up.


Origins: The appeal of this story is the visual image it presents, one of a bested yet still defiant drunk so out of touch with his surroundings that he thinks rescue is at hand. It's the ludicrosity that's attractive . . . well, that and the bit of everyman's wish that problems were that easy to escape from. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to request a beam-out when things got sticky?


Consider this: The Enterprise spaceship would need to be location-aware of the object it wants to beam up. All crew members have uniquely identified devices, so the ship also needs to be device-aware and communicate with each device as well as sense the body attached to the device.


The title of this book references the famous misquote "Beam me up, Scotty", attributed to Captain James T. Kirk. Though a widely known catchphrase, Kirk never actually says this exact phrase in any canon Star Trek work. Similar phrases include "Scotty, beam us up" (TOS: "The Gamesters of Triskelion", "The Savage Curtain"), "Beam us up, Scotty" (TAS: "The Lorelei Signal", "The Infinite Vulcan"), "Beam me up" (TOS: "This Side of Paradise"), and "Scotty, beam me up" (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).


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