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Kirk never said Beam me up, Scotty

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Despite being the single most universally recognizable pop-culture quote aggressively associated with Star Trek, Captain Kirk never actually said 'Beam me up, Scotty' in a single television episode or canonical film. He uttered wildly similar variations, such as 'Scotty, beam us up,' but the exact, widely misremembered phrasing was entirely birthed from the collective public imagination.

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