Star Trek: Strange New Worldscan set up a romance that deserved better inStar Trek: The Original Series' movies.Strange New Worldsseason 3 will pick up from season 2’s finale cliffhanger, resolving the crisis Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the USS Enterprise face with the Gorn. But as seen in a first-look clip ofStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3 that premiered atSan Diego Comic-Con, life goes back to ‘normal’ aboard the Starship Enterprise, which hasLt. Montgomery Scott (Martin Quinn), AKA Scotty, joining the crew.
Scotty made a surprise debut inStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 2’s finale. An engineer aboard the USS Stardiver, Scotty was the lone survivor after his starship was attacked by the Gorn. Scotty crash-landed on Parnassus Beta, the next target of a Gorn occupation, where he met Captain Pike and the USS Enterprise’s Away team. Scotty joined Pike and Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano) aboard the Enterprise, and the Scottish engineer might have a way to get the edge over the Gorn. But another interesting aspect ofScotty joining the Enterprise is that he can now meet Ensign Nyota Uhura(Celia Rose Gooding) inStar Trek’s Prime Universe canon.
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Scotty and Uhura started to have a thing in Star Trek V
Star Trek: Strange New Worldscould set up the relationship between Scotty and Uhura that led to a sweet flirtation between them inStar Trek V: The Final Frontier.Over 35 years after the events ofStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3, Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) and Scotty (James Doohan) remain part of the USS Enterprise’s bridge crew under Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner). InStar Trek V,Scotty and Uhura’s decades of friendship began to blossom into feelingsbetween them. Scotty and Uhura even planned to take shore leave together. There’s a palpable chemistry between the Communications Officer and theChief Engineer of the Enterprise.
Ensign Uhura and Lt. Scott could begin to spark their future relationship inStar Trek: Strange New Worlds. After all, both Scotty and Uhura are young and attractive, and they could begin working together closely on the Enterprise. Uhura has begun to move past her trauma and become more assertive, and Nyota could help Scotty start to fit in among the Enterprise’s crew.Uhura has yet to have a canonical romanceinStar Trek’s Prime timeline, and Scotty’s love life also has big question marks. Uhura and Scotty could start to be a ‘thing’ inStrange New Worlds.
Lt. Uhura (Zoe Saldana) had a romance with Commander Spock (Zachary Quinto) in the alternate Kelvin Timeline of J.J. Abrams’Star Trekmovies.
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Scotty and Uhura’s flirtation inStar Trek V: The Final Frontierdidn’t manifest into anything more inStar Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the final time Nichelle Nichols and James Doohan played their iconicStar Trekcharactersopposite each other. Sadly, the bits of repartee between Scotty and Uhura were all of what could have been a funStar Trekromance on Captain Kirk’s bridge.Star Trek: The Original Series’movies were primarily focused on Kirk, Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), leaving characters like Scotty, Uhura, Sulu (George Takei), and Chekov (Walter Koenig) firmly in the background.
Scotty and Uhura could start to establish the chemistry that will last them decades.
However,Star Trek: Strange New Worldsgives credence to every major character aboard Captain Pike’s Starship Enterprise, and their stories and relationships.Multiple love stories are occurring simultaneously inStrange New Worlds, and Pike’s starship has room for one more between Scotty and Uhura. And if not a full-blown romance onStar Trek: Strange New Worlds,at the very least, Scotty and Uhura could start to establish the chemistry that will last them decades intoStar Trek: The Original Series.
