TNG - Relics

This episode is great. The crew of the Enterprise–D rescues Scotty from a transporter buffer. Scotty then tries to adjust to life in the 24th century and is forced to deal with such problems as what he perceives to be his own uselessness. While the episode is quite good overall, it also produced some absolutely amazing “trek moments” such as Picard and Scotty sharing a drink on the bridge of the old constitution class Enterprise and Data’s use of rather familiar phrasing to describe a nameless beverage. While the episode itself was great, it produced two rather large continuity errors. First the Jenolins transporter beam resembles that used on the Enterprise (1701) before its refit, at least 25 or 30 years before Scotty departed for Norpin V on the Jenolin. It is possible that as a transport ship the Jenolin did not receive the same upgrades, but that more important vessels did. Even worse, when brought out of the transporter Scotty states that Captain Kirk must have come looking for him. However, Scotty knows that captain Kirk is dead! Scotty must have been very disoriented when first brought out of the transporter in order to say something that implies that Kirk was alive. Other than these two minor errors, this episode it thoroughly enjoyable to watch.