Is Scotty to be the Gimli of this film

[Jefferies]

I always felt that for the first half of the episode he wasn't being treated with sufficient respect by the Enterprise crew. He was a Starfleet Captain and a legendary engineer, after all. They should have payed him the same kind of deference as they did towards Picard, if not more so. Worst of all was how the writers made him look stupid in engineering and Geordi's intolerence toward him. So, yes he might not have been a comic guy here, but they didn't take him very seriously either, at leat not in the beginning.

That was the whole point of the episode. Captain Montgomery Scott was being treated as a RELIC of the past with no relevance to 'modern' time. Later the crew realizes that Scotty still has something to offer. It is my favorite episode of TNG.

That is why I feel the concept of the episode is flawed. Scotty gets marginalised for no good reason and the TNG crew are protrayed as total dicks.

Scotty had been in transporter suspension for 80 years. It goes without saying that, as a result, he would not be on top of newest warp theory any more. There was no need to parade this for the whole episode. Also, even though he might have been a "relic", he still managed to save the day. So, just because he was from a different era, doesn't automatically mean he is an idiot who should be looked down upon. Thus the episode annoys me, because it misrepresents the TNG crew as ignorant biggots and portrays Scotty in an undignified manner during the first half.

 

[FPAlpha]

and to some degree in his episode on TNG.

Huh? Relics was pretty serious for Scotty, aside from the two scenes where he's rambling like an old man about his past adevntures to Geordi and that officer showing him to his quarters (and I didn't like those scenes). Maybe the scene with him and Data in Ten-Forward is kind of light hearted, but otherwise it's not really a comedic episode.

Or at least I don't remember busting a gut during the scene when he's on the holodeck recreation of the original bridge toasting his dead friends. Maybe you did, but I didn't, nor did anyone else I know.

I always felt that for the first half of the episode he wasn't being treated with sufficient respect by the Enterprise crew. He was a Starfleet Captain and a legendary engineer, after all. They should have payed him the same kind of deference as they did towards Picard, if not more so. Worst of all was how the writers made him look stupid in engineering and Geordi's intolerence toward him. So, yes he might not have been a comic guy here, but they didn't take him very seriously either, at leat not in the beginning.

Respect and capabilities are sometimes two different things.

The Enterprise crew knew who Scotty was and how legendary an engineer he was but to be honest Scotty was a bit of an ass towards Geordi because he believed himself to be a superior engineer and had to show the young pup the ropes.

That technology improved in the last 100 years and he was out of the loop didn't even enter his mind much less that Geordi was the chief engineer of the Federation flagship (a sign in itself). So he was put in his place by Geordi who at first adored him and then later had to struggle to remain patient.

After that Scotty withdrew to his old "ship" to sulk where he was found by Picard who immediately recognized the problem.