From: lesnyd@monsanto.com (Larry E. Snyder)
Subject: Re: Relics (mistakes) ***SPOILERS***
Organization: DSC
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:57:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.013805.20629@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow) writes:
> 
> If you haven't seen the "Scotty" episode, beam out now...
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> Overall, I thought it was a great episode.  I had no problem buying the
> way Scotty put himself into suspended animation with the transporter,
> but I did have some other problems with the episode:
> 
> 1.  How did they beam Scotty and Geordie out of the ship when its shields
> were still up?  Can they transport through the shields now?  Through 75
> year old sheild technology?  Did they beam them out after the photon torpedoes
> overloaded the shields but before the ship blew up (now that's cutting it
> down to the last nanosecond!)?

Actually, they beamed Scotty and LaForge aboard several seconds BEFORE firing
the photon torpedo. Guess they could do it through old shields. Or maybe the
shields were concentrated on the ENDS of the ship, to hold the doors open...

> 
> 2.  I don't buy their getting the ship started again--if they could do that
> now, Scotty could have done it 75 years ago.  But if warp power couldn't be
> restored, it wouldn't have been that helpful.  Still, they should have
> explained it better.

They got the ship going again because of the fancy new power converter Geordi
had brought on board. Without it they couldn't have restarted the engines, so
Scotty COULDN'T have done it 75 years ago...

> 
> 3.  How did Scotty and Geordie know that the Enterprise would be in any
> condition to leave when they blocked the door open?  They could have
> opened it once and sent in a message, then proceeded when the Enterprise
> was ready--if they needed help getting out.

They didn't know - but what else could they do?

> 
> 4.  I think they left out a scene where they restored power so that the
> Enterprise could leave orbit--I thought that was what they had to do
> within 3 hours, but I guess that they meant that they had to leave the
> sphere, though that doesn't really make sense.  And I suspect that once
> they had impulse power, they could have activated the door from the other
> side just as easily, though they would have suffered the same power
> interference that caused problems the first time.

I was a little confused about the condition of the Enterprise's power all
through that sequence inside the Dyson's Sphere. I agree that they should have
made it clearer what the condition of the ship was.

> 
> Still, I loved the episode--especially the scene in the holodeck.  I didn't
> think the old set still existed, but it looked like it was the same one.

I liked this episode a lot - the first half was very TNG-like, with a look
at how Scotty was dealing at his own apparent uselessness. By the halfway
point, I felt it was getting TOO slow. But it really picked up in the second
half, and became more and more TOS-like, with excitement, danger, and stuff
falling from the ceilings....

I felt that it was a fun episode, and I enjoyed it. The special effects were
awesome, too!

Larry

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