English actor and writer who played Montgomery Scott in the Kelvin Timeline films and co-wrote Star Trek Beyond.
Simon Pegg (born 1970) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He co-created the sitcom Spaced and co-wrote and starred in Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End, and he plays Benji Dunn in the Mission: Impossible films.
Pegg played Montgomery Scott in Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016). For Beyond he co-wrote the screenplay with Doug Jung, giving Scotty a central role alongside the scavenger Jaylah, and the film was released in the franchise's fiftieth-anniversary year.