{"id":5460,"date":"2011-05-16T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5460"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:16:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:16:42","slug":"why-the-name-montgomery-scott-was-chosen-for-james-doohans-character-on-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/why-the-name-montgomery-scott-was-chosen-for-james-doohans-character-on-star-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Name &#8220;Montgomery Scott&#8221; was Chosen for James Doohan&#8217;s Character on Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/montgomery-scott-name.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5461\" title=\"montgomery-scott-name\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/montgomery-scott-name.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/montgomery-scott-name.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/montgomery-scott-name-340x249.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>The name Montgomery Scott, for &#8220;Scotty&#8221; on Star Trek, was chosen because Montgomery was James Doohan\u2019s middle name and the character was portrayed as Scottish.\u00a0 Interestingly though, Doohan himself was Canadian.\u00a0 Doohan, who was a famed voice actor at the time,\u00a0 presented several different accents for the character to Gene Roddenberry, but ultimately convinced Roddenberry\u00a0 that the character should be Scottish because &#8220;&#8230; in my  experience, all the world&#8217;s best engineers have been Scottish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"James Doohan Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/the-actor-who-played-scotty-on-star-trek-was-shot-six-times-on-d-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Facts About James Doohan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## The name Montgomery Scott, for &#8220;Scotty&#8221; on Star Trek, was chosen because Montgomery was James Doohan\u2019s middle name and the character was portrayed as Scottish.\u00a0 Interestingly though, Doohan himself was Canadian.\u00a0 Doohan, who was a famed voice actor at the time,\u00a0 presented several different accents for the character to Gene Roddenberry, but ultimately convinced Roddenberry\u00a0 that the character should [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1366],"class_list":["post-5460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-montgomery-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7174,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions\/7174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}