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beam me up, scotty
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This English phrase has its Spanish version, but it is rarely used, even by Trekkies, because "Scotty, put me on the ship" or "teleport me, Scotty" does not have the same effectiveness. In principle it is used when someone is in an upsetting or uncomfortable situation and expresses their desire to leave the place, although in US slang it is also related to the use of psychotropic drugs. Its origin is in the Star Trek Original television series, and then in films, novels, and other works based on it, where Captain James T. Kirk of the spaceship Enterprise NCC-1701 gave the order to his engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott to activate the transporters and raise him from some planet to the ship by the method of decomposing his matter into energy and recomposing it aboard in the Transport Room. Actually, this phrase is a popular myth, because it has never been uttered that way in any chapter; it could only be heard as it is in the audiobook of Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden, read by its author William Shatner, the same actor who played Kirk in STO. The literal translation sounds a bit strange, beam refers to "a lightning bolt, a fast-moving flash" here used as a verb, me is the first-person singular pronoun and up is for "up, up". -

  



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