Scotty's answer? “I'll tell you when it reappears. So, I tested it out on Admiral Archer's prized beagle.” Kirk responds that he knows the dog and asks whatever happened to it.
I told him that I could not only beam a grapefruit from one planet to the adjacent planet in the same system - which is easy, by the way - I could do it with a life form. like a grapefruit was limited to about 100 miles. He seemed to think that the range of transporting something like a. When Spock Prime (the much missed Leonard Nimoy) questions the new Scotty as to whether he is the Montgomery Scott behind the idea of transwarp beaming, Scotty replies : “How do you think I wound up here? Had a little debate with my instructor on relativistic physics and how it pertains to subspace travel. Kirk finds Scotty on a remote ice planet named Delta Vega. One of these is a rather throwaway line spoken by Simon Pegg's Montgomery Scott. While JJ Abrams' 2009 Star Trek movie went its own way and set up its own alternate timeline, it had a ton of references to classic Trek lore.