Star Trek: Generations at 30

[Set Harth]

The technobabble they gave Scotty, for example, didn't fit him nor would it have fit Spock.

Why didn't it fit him? Are Scotty and Spock interchangeable characters?

 

[CovePhanTom]

Why didn't it fit him? Are Scotty and Spock interchangeable characters?

It was TNG style technobabble. Neither Scotty nor Spock talked like that in TOS.

 

[DonIago]

Kirk's Ghost: "So, Picard, did you follow my advice and not let them promote or transfer you?"
Picard: "Funny story...."
Kirk's Ghost: [*Pinches bridge of nose and sighs loudly*]

Kirk's Ghost (looking upward): Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here.

 

[USS Belmont]

It was TNG style technobabble. Neither Scotty nor Spock talked like that in TOS.

Come to think of it, I think you are right. That whole bit about the resonance burst from the deflector dish does sound TNG and not really TOS.

 

[JamesRye]

Aside from the Phantom Menace, this remains the most disappointed I've ever been coming out of a cinema. But they same time heals all wounds and on the rare occasions when I watch this, I can't hate it anymore. It's charming, like a threadbare old teddy.

 

[TallGhost Host]

Come to think of it, I think you are right. That whole bit about the resonance burst from the deflector dish does sound TNG and not really TOS.

Yes, the deflector-dish-as-Swiss-army-knife didn't become a trope until TNG.

 

[fireproof78]

Yes, the deflector-dish-as-Swiss-army-knife didn't become a trope until TNG.

And reverse the polarity.

 

[suarezguy]

I do appreciate Kirk dressing down Picard over the whole duty and obligation thing. Only James T. Kirk could put Picard in his place and render the latter speechless.

I thought I am/was older than you, came long before you (OK) felt pretty flat, weird but standard reply though I guess it was delivered about as well as it could be.

 

[Ghouleddie74]

GEN is a heavily flawed script but what it gets right it gets pretty effectively right.

 

[CovePhanTom]

And reverse the polarity.

TOS did the whole reversing polarity thing at least once or twice. The one that sticks out to me is Scotty in the tube in "That Which Survives."

 

[fireproof78]

TOS did the whole reversing polarity thing at least once or twice. The one that sticks out to me is Scotty in the tube in "That Which Survives."

Right but did it involve the sensor dish?

 

[Ghouleddie74]

And he did it with a small handheld, wrench-like tool! In modern Trek that's a "push this button" kind of thing.

 

[CovePhanTom]

Right but did it involve the sensor dish?

And he did it with a small handheld, wrench-like tool! In modern Trek that's a "push this button" kind of thing.

Fair points. Scotty did seem to do far more actual hands-on repairing. LaForge mostly worked computer consoles. O'Brien got pretty hands-on at times though.