SilverWook said:
Obviously, Relics was made when Generations was but a nervous twitch in the screenwriter's eye, and nobody caught the error.
Ronald D. Moore said:
The only way to address the Scotty/Relics issue in Generations was not to have Scotty in the movie at all. I wasn't willing to make that trade for the sake of a single line that can easily be rationalized away by saying "Scotty was momentarily confused." I still wouldn't do it.