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Lifetime Achievement Award in Technobabble: Star Trek

Brett_Erlich
Approximately one third of the Star Trek series is dedicated to scientific gibberish. Need to bulk up your world building? Take a cue from Captain Kirk and friends whenever the Enterprise has troubles and toss in some made up stuff about photons and reactors.

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6 comments // Lifetime Achievement Award in Technobabble: Star Trek // Video

  • dalistuff
  • remanns
  • royulery
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      royulery  

    • true argon18 true but the difference between talking shop and babble can be summed up by scotty making the panicked announcement; " cap'n there's something the matter with the matter-antimatter pods".

    • 1 year ago
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  
    • royulery:

      Well that's what made his reputation as a 'miracle worker" wasn't it?

      By countering Kirk's impossible demands with reassurances like "I'm giving her all she's got Cap'n" and "Ye can't change the laws of physics mon!" then doing what was necessary anyway he showed that Kirk didn't pay any attention to descriptions, technobabble or otherwise so it didn't matter if they made any sense.

      Also as Scotty told LaForge that by doubling the time for repairs that it always made it seem like he had achieved the impossible when he did them in a lot less time.

    • 1 year ago
  • remanns
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  

    • They certainly deserve the award since they practically invented technobabble.

      Still that doesn't mean they weren't describing concepts that had to apply since every field has their own version of jargon.

      Electronics has transistors, capacitors, resistors and gigawatts, what is more technobabble than that?

      Aeronautics has fuselage, empenage and aelirons which sounds just as bad. So you can make just about anything sound like technobabble if you want to be as sarcastic.

    • 1 year ago
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