{"id":9286,"date":"2025-07-20T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9286\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:30:15","slug":"57-years-later-star-trek-just-rebooted-a-classic-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9286\/","title":{"rendered":"57 Years Later, Star Trek Just Rebooted A Classic Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Season 3 premiere of <\/a>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/a>, the USS Enterprise is partially saved from a Gorn attack thanks to an on-the-fly cloaking device created by a young engineer named Montgomery Scott. Played by Martin Quinn in Strange New Worlds \u2014 following his appearance in the Season 2 finale \u2014 the newest version of Scotty i<\/a>s also the youngest we\u2019ve met so far. He\u2019s not yet the Chief Engineer of the Enterprise, but his knack for giving it all he\u2019s got and coming up with quick solutions with no prep time, is already apparent. <\/p>\n

But, one of the most interesting things about this episode is that it basically both reboots and lays the foundation for a similar tech feat that Scotty will pull off about a decade later in the classic Original Series episode \u201cThe Enterprise Incident.\u201d Here\u2019s how Scotty\u2019s faux-cloaking device echoes and predicts his improvised connection of a different cloaking device later in his life.<\/p>\n

Spoilers ahead.<\/p>\n

As the Enterprise heads into Gorn space to rescue captured colonists as well as members of the crew, Scotty is under pressure to replicate an ad-hoc cloaking device that he used on his shuttlecraft, after his previous ship, the Stardiver, was destroyed by the Gorn. Much of the tension in this episode comes from the fact that what Scotty did with his shuttle was on a smaller scale than the Enterprise, and that while under pressure in the moment, he made it work, but he\u2019s struggling a bit with more time on his hands. In a hilarious scene, his mentor, Pelia (Carol Kane), provides the solution by lying to Scotty, and telling him the Gorn are already attacking, and thus, the cloaking device needs to be ready right away. Scotty falls for this ruse, and gets the gizmo working, foreshadowing his ability to do the impossible \u2014 and become a \u201cmiracle worker\u201d \u2014 under pressure. <\/p>\n

Scotty and Pelia try to fix the ad-hoc cloaking device in \u201cHegemony Part II.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paramount+<\/p>\n

But, more specifically, when Pike (Anson Mount), Number One (Rebecca Romijn) and Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) are discussing Scotty\u2019s gizmo, it\u2019s revealed \u201cit\u2019s like a cloaking device\u201d insofar as it doesn\u2019t literally make the ship invisible, but rather, sends out a false transponder signal. Because the Gorn don\u2019t really look out the windows of their ships, this allows the Enterprise to pass undetected. <\/p>\n

This episode, \u201cHegemony Part II\u201d takes place in roughly 2259, but about a decade later in 2268, Scotty will have to install a full-on, real-deal cloaking device into the Enterprise\u2019s systems, after Captain Kirk steals said cloaking device from the Romulans. That episode is a massive spy story in which Kirk acts like a lunatic in order to fake his own demise and steal advanced cloaking tech from the Romulans. The retroactive canon here is that even though Klingons and Romulans have cloaking devices in the earlier Discovery and Strange New Worlds era, the cloaking tech gets better, which is why Starfleet wants an upgraded cloaking device in \u201cThe Enterprise Incident,\u201d even though it looks way less advanced because the episode is from 1968.<\/p>\n

Scotty, really sweating it with a cloaking device. Just line in Strange New Worlds.<\/p>\n

Paramount\/CBS<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Enterprise Incident,\u201d Scotty installs the Romulan cloaking device with moments to spare, and like his younger self in Strange New Worlds, isn\u2019t entirely certain it\u2019s going to work at all. But the secret weapon both then and now isn\u2019t the technobabble or the device itself, but rather, Scotty\u2019s ability to make it all happen.<\/p>\n

With Strange New Worlds Season 3, Martin Quinn\u2019s name is in the main credits of every episode. Because James Doohan was always credited at the end of various episodes, this is the first time in a Star Trek TV series, ever, that the actor playing Scotty is in the opening credits. So, Scotty has finally come home to Starfleet, in some ways, for the first time.<\/p>\n

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams on Paramount+.Learn Something New Every Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the Season 3 premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the USS Enterprise is partially saved from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9491,49,48,75,2668,9490,9489,9486,9487,9488,348,4055],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-adex-light-bid","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-homepage","tag-hp-latest","tag-paramount","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-strange-new-worlds","tag-tv","tag-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}