6. Montgomery Scott
Scotty is responsible for the accident that creates the puppets, so it is only fitting that his own puppet ranks near the top of the middle tier. Martin Quinn’s Scotty honors James Doohan’s legacy while bringing a younger, more anxious energy to the character.
In “Level-Five Transporter Accident,” his experiment begins as an attempt to transport his creepy puppet, Little Ricky, over a record-breaking distance, partly because he wants to send it into the quarters of a former Academy rival. That idea goes predictably wrong, transforming the crew instead.
The puppet design suits Scotty beautifully because it magnifies his combination of intelligence, nervousness, and engineer gremlin energy. He is recognizable immediately, and there is something inherently right about the man who triggered the crisis having a puppet counterpart that looks ready to panic, fix a warp core, or make the situation worse in rapid succession.
Scotty also gets points for the meta quality: his childhood puppet causes the transporter accident, tying him directly to the episode’s transition from Starfleet science to puppet mayhem. He falls short of the top five because other designs have stronger visual exaggerations or more potent individual comic identities. But Scotty is one of the episode’s essential puppets, both narratively and aesthetically.
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