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Somethings not quite right.
posted by Moonglum9STAFFMOD on August 24, 2017 at 12:32 PM
I just rewatched Relics last night and right after Scotty was rescued, he said "Jim Kirk probably got the old girl out of mothballs and came to find me himself." But Scotty was there when Kirk was thought to be killed when the Nexus damaged the new Enterprise. Did the 75 years in the beam addle his brain and he forgot, or his pattern had degraded slightly where everything was restored except just a few neurons? Or maybe after the Kirk accident he drank so heavily, he convinced himself it didn't happen. Good ole Scotty. Too bad about Frrrranklin though. He deserved better.
Reply by Nexus71
on November 23, 2017 at 7:19 PM
The whole problem stems from the fact that during the writing of GEN the producers had taken on more than they could handle (writing the final episode for TNG ,writing episodes for DS9,preparations for VOY and the work on GEN) that things were rushed into production add to that the pressure of a studio that wanted to cash in on Trek being at the peak of it's popularity and the result was the movie we got with all the continuity errors .Even Ron D Moore has admitted in the commentary on ST III TSFS that he was not proud of the writing in GEN.
Reply by CharlesTheBold
on January 25, 2018 at 9:44 AM
It may be that Scott knew perfectly well that Kirk was (supposedly) dead. He's just reminising about earlier adventures like when the whole gang got together to rescue Spock's spirit in Star Trek III, and imagine Kirk doing the same for him.