The best thing about Relics

[Vaughn Falstaff]

was the juxtoposition of the different styles of Scotty and Laforge. While Scott'es way worked for his time and place Laforges cool professionalism serves him well with Picard, and most scientists he works with.

 

[Oddish]

Scotty practically blew a gasket when he found out that Geordi told Picard how long it would actually take to make repairs. "You got a lot to learn if ye want people to think of you as a miracle worker!"

 

[TrekTee]

Agreed. The dynamics of both characters was great, and Scotty having the engineering swag!

 

[Finn]

Scotty wouldn’t understand Torres

 

[Oddish]

Torres might punch him in his Scottish snoot.

 

[amp]

Even though it's a bit of a sad scene, I'm partial to the conversation between Scotty and Picard on the bridge of the original Enterprise.

 

[at Quark's]

was the juxtoposition of the different styles of Scotty and Laforge. While Scott'es way worked for his time and place Laforges cool professionalism serves him well with Picard, and most scientists he works with.

Reminds me of how Janeway indicated that Kirk's entire crew's way of working wouldn't be appropriate in their own era anymore, but also that other eras might have required a different breed of men.

Space must have seemed a whole lot bigger back then. It's not surprising they had to bend the rules a little. They were a little slower to invoke the Prime Directive, and a little quicker to pull their phasers. Of course, the whole bunch of them would be booted out of Starfleet today. But I have to admit, I would have loved to ride shotgun at least once with a group of officers like that.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

When you think about the Trek engineers, it almost sounds like the set up for a joke:
A Scotsman, a blind man, an Irishman, a half-Klingon, and a Floridan walk into a bar...

 

[Oddish]

Yeah. KLONK!!
The Scotsman and the Irishman go off to the pub for some "painkillers".
The blind man breaks his visor and spends the next hour bumping into things.
The half Klingon breaks the bar in half with her cranial ridges, and knocks three bystanders unconscious for laughing at her.
The Floridan finds the guy who left the bar where people could run into it and gives him a lecture on safety procedures.

 

[JesterFace]

Best thing about 'Relics' is James Doohan as Montgomery Scott.

 

[DonIago]

I really wish they'd made it a two part episode. The novelization had a fair amount of stuff in it that I would have liked to see, and the fact that it came out first just made the actual episode more disappointing when I saw it.

 

[Oddish]

Best thing about 'Relics' is James Doohan as Montgomery Scott.

You have the right of it. He was welcome to return.

I really wish they'd made it a two part episode. The novelization had a fair amount of stuff in it that I would have liked to see, and the fact that it came out first just made the actual episode more disappointing when I saw it.

They certainly could have gotten two or three hours out of something as monstrous and impressive as a Dyson Sphere. We're taking more surface area than every class M planet in the Federation.

 

[Orphalesion]

They certainly could have gotten two or three hours out of something as monstrous and impressive as a Dyson Sphere. We're taking more surface area than every class M planet in the Federation.

I think he problem with that was the 90s television budget and the general tendency of 90s Trek not to go really into high science fiction concepts like that (possibly caused by the budget constrains)

 

[dupersuper]

Even though it's a bit of a sad scene, I'm partial to the conversation between Scotty and Picard on the bridge of the original Enterprise.

No bloody A, B, C or D.

 

[DonIago]

I think he problem with that was the 90s television budget and the general tendency of 90s Trek not to go really into high science fiction concepts like that (possibly caused by the budget constrains)

It just seems ridiculously and transparently wasteful to have the E-D get sucked into something as frankly awe-inspiring as a Dyson Sphere only for the inside to contain an overactive star and...that's it.

The novelization at least had them explore a city that was still on the surface. It was ultimately a bit fruitless, but better than nothing. Of course, it was constrained by the scope of the episode as well.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It just seems ridiculously and transparently wasteful to have the E-D get sucked into something as frankly awe-inspiring as a Dyson Sphere only for the inside to contain an overactive star and...that's it.

The novelization at least had them explore a city that was still on the surface. It was ultimately a bit fruitless, but better than nothing.

It's like "Miri" in TOS. Oh, wow! A duplicate of Earth! Promptly forgotten once they beam down.

 

[Oddish]

Better to build a Dyson Sphere around a red dwarf. They're more stable, require less mass, and with stellar lifespans up to six trillion years, your investment will last a LONG time.

 

[at Quark's]

Better to build a Dyson Sphere around a red dwarf. They're more stable, require less mass, and with stellar lifespans up to six trillion years, your investment will last a LONG time.

But it would need to be be smaller, housing less people. I would figure that a race with the technology to build a Dyson sphere around a yellow dwarf might also have the technology to "stir" the star before it leaves the main sequence, thereby significantly prolonging its life.

 

[RAMA]

I know I should say the character moments, but you hit on the head...the Dyson Sphere made the episode!!

RAMA

You have the right of it. He was welcome to return.



They certainly could have gotten two or three hours out of something as monstrous and impressive as a Dyson Sphere. We're taking more surface area than every class M planet in the Federation.

 

[publiusr]

I agree. A big guest star, and a huge concept.

I want to see the novel as a CGI movie