In the Season 3 premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the USS Enterprise is partially saved from a Gorn attack thanks to an on-the-fly cloaking device created by a young engineer named Montgomery Scott. Played by Martin Quinn in Strange New Worlds — following his appearance in the Season 2 finale — the newest version of Scotty is also the youngest we’ve met so far. He’s not yet the Chief Engineer of the Enterprise, but his knack for giving it all he’s got and coming up with quick solutions with no prep time, is already apparent.
But, one of the most interesting things about this episode is that it basically both reboots and lays the foundation for a similar tech feat that Scotty will pull off about a decade later in the classic Original Series episode “The Enterprise Incident.” Here’s how Scotty’s faux-cloaking device echoes and predicts his improvised connection of a different cloaking device later in his life.
