From: thogek@cco.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Kiefer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Relics, Spoilers HO!
Date: 13 Oct 1992 20:51:14 GMT
Organization: I'm working on it...
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In article <Bw0u7p.KGL@acsu.buffalo.edu> rjking@acsu.buffalo.edu (Randall J. King) writes:
>Spoilers...

>
>I like it!  
>
>It definitly had the feeling of TOS to it.  It starts off with Riker and Geordi
>finding Scotty in statis in the transporter.  Scotty did this to save himself
>and a shipmate from starving.  I loved how the writers made Scotty feel 
>like a 'relic', and Doohan played it to the tee.  I loved the constant 
>references to TOS by Scotty. The old set looked perfect, but I don't know if
>it was the original.  I did find a few things wrong with the episode:
>
>1) Scotty could taste the difference between Synthohol and alcohol, so Data
>	gave him some brandy (I forgot what kind it was but it was 'Green').
>	Problem: The replicators are able to sythesize real alcohol as well
>		  as synthohol, so Data didn't have to break into the stock.

COULD be the replicators are programmed NOT to dispense intoxicating drinks.
(Anybody KNOW anything about this?)  Can't have crew wandering around drunk,
can we?

The part that bugged me here...  Isn't synthahol supposed to smell, taste,
etc., just like alcohol?  (Didn't Data say this to Scotty?)  Then how did
Scotty taste the difference?  (Or, what did I miss?)  Otherwise a neat
segment, tho.  And I liked the tired "No bloody 'A', 'B', 'C', or 'D'" bit
shortly thereafter.

>2) Scotty & Geordi were beemed through the shields at the very end.  I would 
>	think that even an old shield design at full power would be able to 
>	give the shields problems.

Were they at full power?  That was a recently and rag-taggedly restored old
ship.  Plus its shields were being vice-pressed by a rather large hatch, and
must have been weakening...

>3) Scotty just leaves!?!?!?!?!?!? I don't get it.  But really cool.

Yeah.  I'd think Starfleet might want to know about him, see him, ask a few
questions.  ("You did WHAT with the transporter?!  For HOW long?!?!")

>4) this dome thingy.  By the size of it, the gravity distortions from it, etc. 
>	I would think that Starfleet would have found it by now.  Come on.  
>	How would something like that have been built?  It was just waaaaay too
>	out there.

Who knows how the Sphere was built; we didn't do it.  And the gravity
distortions (as Data (?) suggested) may have made it difficult to find until
you're fairly close.

>Things I liked about the episode:
>
>1) Scotty's attitude towards Worf.  Perfect.

Yeah.  I think more should have been done there, and maybe some parting comment
as Scotty goes to enter his new shuttle, but,... oh, well.

>2) Scotty's lamenting over the past on the old bridge.

Cool.  Does anyone know if that was the original set, or did they rebuild it?

>3) Scotty using the 'new fangled gadgetry' to get the old ship running.  Didn't
>	quite undestand how, but who cares...

Shows he can still learn...

>4) Scotty trying to tell stories constantly, and us understanding them. "I tol'
>	'im, I canna change the laws of physics, man..."  :)

I thought including that line was perfect.  I was just waiting for some tense
situation to hit the Enterprise with Scotty on board, and Picard gets to hear
those immortal words: "I'm holdin' 'er tagether with Band-Aids, Capt'n!"

>5) Scotty telling Geordi how captains were like children.  It explained alot!:)
>
>Things that should be related/noted about this episode.
>
>Scotty doesn't know about Kirk's death, so if Scotty is in the next movie, Kirk
>will not die.  Scotty was lost before the Kittamer Massacre (hence the attitude
>towards Worf). When the next movie comes out (and you know there will be 
>another) alot of attention better be given to this episode.  Any other notes 
>from anyone else...

Good point.  I was actually hoping they'd somehow use Kirk's line from ST5
("I've always known I'd die alone.") to create a scene to help tie off the
movies.  Now they can't do that without making Scotty disappear first.
(Not and keep continuity, anyway.)  (Yeah, I know: "Continuity?  In TREK?")
Oh, well.

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