pittrek said:

SilverWook said:

Fans naturally wondered about a crossover with the original crew from the beginning. McCoy was in the pilot after all. But after encountering Sarek, Spock, and Scotty in later seasons, the big Kirk/Picard meetup felt a little forced.

And why does Scotty ask in the series if Jim Kirk came to save him, when according to this movie he was there when Kirk died?

Obviously, Relics was made when Generations was but a nervous twitch in the screenwriter's eye, and nobody caught the error. The "official" explanation was Scotty was in that transporter buffer a long time, and a bit out of it when rematerialized.