Quote Originally Posted by Johanna
TranslationsMRU - I haven't seen the original StarTrek. But it has lots of famous catch phrases that are used a lot by Americans in particular.
That's exactly the reason I decided to watch it in the first place .
"Beam me up, Scotty" means "Scotty, teleport me back to the ship". Scotty was an engineer in charge of the equipment that was used for teleporting ("beaming") people from and to the ship.