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Funny , but this is the best part in any Star Trek movie or series and a tearjerker...If i had seen the movie back in 82? when it arrived and people had laughed at that moment, I would have taken my bazooka and blown the theatre to pieces...damn how respectless too laugh when the makers of that movie certainly didn´t had that intention (and neither did Horner, I hope)
A great sendoff for Spock ...
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I guess it was sort of like when this guy showed up at Darth Vader's funeral in RETURN OF THE JEDI:
I don't recall stormtroopers in previous films wearing kilts. Scotty, OTOH had worn one before. Twice.
I never heard the audience laugh. (Although there were some tearful giggles when Saavik changed her hair. Again.)
Amazing Grace would mean something to most of the audience. Beyond Antares (which is a terrible song) would not have.
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Well, if you consider how many weddings are held the world over with all the males in kilts and Charlie jackets and regalia, irrespective of nationality or relevance then it'll seem less improbable. The assumption is that Scotty is performing his own tribute.
As regards the 'Vulcan national anthem', well, it'd need to be a Vulcan global anthem since, unless we're working on some dystopic allegorical plane of metaphor, everybody knows that in sci-fi, nations and races on any given planet somehow don't vary! Earth may have many races, nations etc. but somehow these alien evolutions produce strangely homogenised people. You don't get any make-up awards for the other Vulcan tribe with the short ears and downward sloping eyebrows who live over the hill and have a different national anthem.
Come to think on it, the TOS Spock belonged to a race too logical for displays of emotion at funerals (unless it's Amok time) whereas he later, by the time of the movies, belongs to a race of mystics who probably chant some Tibetanesque thing. Such is script development.
I'd imagine the decision was taken at script stage long before JH was involved, and an opportunity to place an idea of the past and continuity in the future world. Many films forget to do this, presenting some gleaming futuristic world where nobody makes reference to even the 20th or 21st centuries, let alone previous ones, like we all do regularly without being aware of it.
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You realise of course that the late, great Peter O'Toole was an official world champion bagpiper at one stage in his career. Check it out.
Most of the disdain many people have for the bagpipes stems from the cliched use of such in media. In their proper historical context and military connection, they're interesting. I once disliked them, then suddenly one day realised their whole romantic connotations and that makes a difference ... context.
Many Scots AFFECT either a great love for, or a great hatred of, the bagpipes, largely based on their embracing or rejection of the STEREOTYPE of Scottish trappings. But that's through a haze of self-image and self-consciousness, not objective and both camps are generally trying to look cool. Maybe there's a concerto for bagpipe and orchestra somewhere.
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Considering Kirk says that Spock's Vulcan soul was the most "human" he'd known - the bagpipes just sealed the "who cares if you're Vulcan?" deal.
I know, I know, he's half-Vulcan, but he certainly self-identified on his father's side.
Snark aside, I actually think it's a sweet moment, and a sweet revelation of the human-centric crew's need to frame the intergalactic issues they face with a more familiar referent. And a nice way for the audience to relate to outre sci-fi ideas.
And I'm guessing Spock's eyebrow elevated from beyond the grave.
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