14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek Generations

Mssrs. Moore and Braga were clearly out of their element trying to write dialog for the TOS period and characters in the film. Sure, the dialog Scotty and Chekov played was originally written for Spock and McCoy (more on that later), and not rewritten to fit the characters who ultimately mouthed it. So what comes out of their mouths is woefully out of character. I mean, Chekov literally assigns journalists to be “nurses” and drags them down to sickbay fer chrissakes.

Worse still is the Enterprise-B scenes are awash in the grand tradition of "[tech] the [tech]" gibberish; Next Gen's worst impulse. It’s all “gravimetric distortions,” “quantum interference” and “venting plasma from the warp nacelles.” They even give Scotty the most un-Scotty like line imaginable. “It may be possible to simulate a torpedo blast using a resonance burst from the main deflector dish.” That line would have been out of character even for Spock!

In his 1996 memoir, Beam Me Up Scotty, Doohan commented on the subject:

Let’s say the engines are in trouble. Geordi will say, “If I can reroute the isometric ion pulse through the engine core, then maybe I can temporarily backload the matter-antimatter resonance.” Scotty would say, “Ah’m holdin’ ’em together with spit and bailing wire, Captain, but it won’t last for long.”

You tell ‘em, Doohan.