Much like “Beam me up, Scotty,” this famous catchphrase often associated with USS Enterprise Chief Engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott in Star Trek: The Original Series was never said in this exact form by actor James Doohan in the series or subsequent films. The closest approximation is a line in the second-season episode “The Changeling,” when Kirk asks Scotty to divert more power to the ship’s shields. Scotty responds with, “Giving them all we got.” However, Doohan did utter every word of the famous line as part of a cameo in 1993’s Loaded Weapon, in which he turns up as a panicky police officer trying to fix a coffee machine. Similarly, Simon Pegg used the same line “I’m givin’ her all she’s got, Captain!” in 2009’s Star Trek reboot, in which he plays a young Montgomery Scott.
I’m givin’ her all she’s got, Captain!
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