"Beam me up, Scotty!" is a catch phrase that made its way into pop culture from the science fiction television series Star Trek. It comes from the command Captain Kirk gives his transporter chief, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, when he needs to transport back to the ship. A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ... Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The starship Enterprise as it appeared on Star Trek Star Trek is a culturally significant science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s. ... Captain James T. Kirk James Tiberius Kirk, a fictional character in the Star Trek television series, was the captain of the starship Enterprise (NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A). ... Scotty redirects here. ...

Though it has become irrevocably associated with the series, the exact phrase was never actually spoken in any Star Trek television episode or film. Captain Kirk comes closest to saying the phrase in Star Trek IV, saying "Scotty, beam me up"; in Star Trek: Generations, saying "Beam them out of there, Scotty"; and in the animated episode "The Infinite Vulcan", saying "Beam us up, Scotty". The phrase was used on a bumper sticker with the tag line "Beam me up Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here." Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Paramount Pictures, 1986; see also 1986 in film) is the fourth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... Star Trek: Generations (Paramount Pictures, 1994, see also 1994 in film) is the seventh feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... Star Trek: The Animated Series is an animated science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. ... List of Star Trek: The Animated Series episodes This is a list of episodes from the fictional animated television, Star Trek: The Animated Series, set in the Star Trek universe. ... Bumper stickers are often used on commercial vehicles so that employers can receive feedback about the driving habits of their employees A bumper sticker is an adhesive label or sticker with a message, intended to be attached to the bumper of an automobile and to be read by the occupants...

"Beam me up, Scotty" is similar to the phrase, "Just the facts, ma'am. Just the facts." attributed to Jack Webb's character of Joe Friday on Dragnet, as well as "It's elementary, my dear Watson", attributed to Sherlock Holmes. All three lines are the best known quotes from these works for many viewers, but not one is an actual, direct quotation. John Randolph Jack Webb (April 2, 1920 – December 23, 1982) was an American actor, television producer, director, and writer who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet. ... -LAPD Badge 714 Detective Sergeant Joe Friday was a fictional character created and played by American actor, television producer, and writer Jack Webb (1920-1982) on Dragnet. ... Dragnet was a long-running radio and television police procedural drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. ... A Watson is any character who performs as catalyst for the protagonist detectives mental processes in a mystery story, a consciousness thats privy to facts in the case without being in on the conclusions drawn from them until the proper time, after William L. DeAndrea, discussing Sir Arthur... A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ...

James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty, later chose this phrase as the title of his autobiography. James Montgomery Doohan (March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was an Irish Canadian character and voice actor who is best remembered for his role as Montgomery Scotty Scott in the television and film series Star Trek. ... Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ...

U.S. congressman James Traficant, who was later expelled from Congress after being convicted of corruption, adapted the catch phrase "Beam me up" in his trademark one-minute rants on the floor of the House of Representatives. James Anthony Traficant, Jr. ... Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the Senate. ...

The phrase has also been used in several films unrelated to Star Trek, as well as in the Dilbert comic strip. Dilbert (first published April 16, 1989) is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. ...

Further reading

• Michael Quinion (1996-08-06). BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY!. World Wide Words.
• Barbara Mikkelson (1998-12-31). Beam Me Up, Scotty!. Urban Legends Reference Pages.

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See also

• Misquotation
• List of famous misquotations
• Casablanca - "Play it again, Sam" derivation.