Scotty & Worf Squaring Off

[Gary7]

I hated this episode and everything they did to Scotty, anyways. Not a happy ending at all..... alone in a shuttle in a future where you know nobody and all your loved ones are dead, and everything you know, even your most amazing skills and abilities, have been overshadowed and surpassed. This was a miserable end for a beloved character.

I liked this episode a lot, because it was one of those few times original TOS characters had a prominent role. However, I did have some problems with it. Scotty came across to me as too needy and the whole "padding of estimates for the captain" thing was overdone.

Frankly, the fact that Scotty was rescued and brought back to life some 80 years later makes him a human time capsule. I would think the Federation would extend a hearty invitation to him, for a full debriefing and perhaps the opportunity to give some speeches about his time aboard the early USS Enterprise. Instead, he gets a shuttle and is left to depart with no indication of where he's going (he decided not to go to the Norpin Colony). Previously, he WAS heading to retirement... why wouldn't he continue to do so? It's not like the transporter buffer rejuvenated him. Or perhaps, his experience with Geordi in engineering ignited his explorer spirit. Whatever the case, I wish they'd set it up as more celebratory, rather than a "cast off." You can bet ANYTHING that if it were Captain Kirk, this would be the case!

 

[JirinPanthosa]

TOS was chock full of examples of Sf officers being prejudiced and bigoted, Scotty amongst them. Trek has never really suggested prejudice will go away, merely that our current prejudices will likely be replaced by new ones. Scotty had several run ins with Klingons throughout TOS and it is totally in fitting with his character.

I disagree with that assessment. While especially DS9 but also sometimes in TNG we see that not all prejudice has gone away, we also see that people have learned to critically observe their prejudice and try to move past it rather than entrenching themselves in it. Sisko, for example, critically observes his prejudice against Ferengi and moves past it to support Nog.

 

[Mojochi]

Sisko, for example, critically observes his prejudice against Ferengi and moves past it to support Nog.

Exactly. This is Star Trek. If there is prejudice, especially among principal characters, it's almost universally addressed & progress is made. Scotty not being able to move on from Klingon biases at the end, after having met Worf, of all Klingons, just seems at the very least a missed opportunity, & at most un-Trek-like

 

[Blooded]

Scotty came from a time when Starfleet's relationship with the Klingon's was much more aggressive (and that was before Discovery retrospectively added in much more conflict between the two, also), and he himself was quite close to things such as his Kirk's son being murdered by them, ship having to be destroyed due to them, etc. I don't think a short stay on the D would give him anywhere near the amount of time required to learn to trust Worf.

 

[Vger23]

Scotty would kick Worf's ass up and down

 

[Mojochi]

After having just rewatched Family, I'm pretty sure Worf's Human dad IS Scotty, just substitute Russian for Scottish

 

[Ragnarok]

Because it reduced her medical ministrations to the esthetic value of her gender. He also reduced Data to the mere synthohol version of a real commander.
Yeah, I agree, but none of them are Worf. Worf's a good guy for the most part. I have a hard time believing that if Scotty spent time onboard the D, & befriended all the others, he'd still be wary of Worf, who is about as human compatible as Klingons get. That he still squares off with him is kind of sad to me, even though it was meant to be funny, & denotes a deeper kind of bigotry he can't get past

Its important to remember that Scotty was a "man out of time". You wouldn't expect an American army officer from WW2 to act the exact same way as an American army officer from 2017. People change over generations.