Four Scottish towns and cities are arguing over where Scotty from Star Trek was born. Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Elgin and Linlithgow are all claiming the famous fictional engineer as their own, citing various documentation as proof.
He may have boldly gone where no man had gone before but where Star Trek's most famous engineer came from in the first place is causing a row. It all started a few weeks ago when the West Lothian town of Linlithgow announced it was looking into claims that scripts from the original star trek series revealed that Scotty was born there in 2222 and his parents still lived there.
But now three more contenders have come forward. Aberdeen believes it is Scotty's rightful birthplace, claiming he once told Captain Kirk he was an Aberdonian pub crawler. Elgin has also thrown its name into the fray, saying that James Doohan himself the man who played the enterprise engineer, told a reporter in an interview that his character was in fact from the Moray town. Now Edinburgh has laid its claim too.