TNG Episode - Relics

Series :

The Next Generation

Rating :

Disc No :

6.1

Episode :

129

First Aired :

12 Oct 1992

Stardate :

46125.3

Director :

Alexander Singer

Year :

2369

Writers :

Ronald D. Moore

Season :

Guest Cast :

Erick Weiss as Ensign Kane	Ernie Mirich as Waiter
Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace	James Doohan as Montgomery Scott
Lanei Chapman as Ensign Sariel Rager	Majel Barrett as Computer Voice
Stacie Foster as Engineer Bartel	Tracee Lee Cocco as Ensign Jae

Plotline :

The Enterprise-D discovers Captain Scott suspended in a transporter beam for 75 years on the surface of a Dyson sphere. Scotty is feeling his age, but a crisis calls him into action one more time.

Moral :

Old age :

Just because you are old, doesn't mean you can't still teach people a thing or two.

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Rating :

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YATI :

Just where is the Dyson sphere? Scotty was on his way from Earth, or at least somewhere near to Earth, to the Norpin colony. Presumably the sphere lies somewhere on a more or less straight line between the two. Presumably there is at least semi-regular traffic between the Federation and its colony world. So Federation exploratory ships have been this way, and transports have been passing through the area for at least seventy five years, yet in all that time nobody has noticed the sphere?

Also, in a classic nit the Enterprise-D beams Geordi and Scotty off the Jenolen whilst its shields are still raised. Presumably they were able to use the kind of transporter window that O'Brien used to board the Sutherland in "The Wounded".

Great Moment :

Scotty in the holodeck Enterprise, toasting his long dead comrades.

Body Count :

One, Scotty's friend, died at some point before the episode.

Factoid :

The idea of a Dyson sphere is a real one, although Dyson's original concept was of a swarm of individual sattelites in a spherical shell rather than a solid object. Trek writers had sought to use one in an episode for some time.

Quote :

"N-C-C-1-7-0-1. No bloody A, B, C or D." - Scotty to the Holodeck.

Datapoints :

Holoprogs :	Enterprise Bridge
Internals :	Sydney class bridge, Sydney class engineering space, Galaxy Class Hangar #2
Food :	Aldebaran Whiskey
Planets :	Dyson Sphere
Regulations :	Regulation 42/15
Scitech :	Containment field, Deuterium, Duotronic, Dyson Sphere, Force Fields, Isolinear
Ship Classes :	Sydney Class
Ship Names :	Sydney Class : NCC 2010 USS Jenolin Type 6 Shuttle : NCC 1701-D/15 Goddard
Stations :	Dyson Sphere
Timeline :	2169, 2222, 2243, 2294, 2369