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Red Ranger · November 26 2009, 06:59 AM

TOS tried to avoid lengthy, pseudo-scientific technobabble, by using generic terms like "sensors," rather than have to come up with an array of specific terms for specific ship functions. A much better approach, IMO, than the technobabble. -- RR

November 26 2009, 06:59 AM	#9
Red Ranger Admiral Location: New York City, the greatest city in the world!	Re: is all that engineering & physics stuff true? TOS tried to avoid lengthy, pseudo-scientific technobabble, by using generic terms like "sensors," rather than have to come up with an array of specific terms for specific ship functions. A much better approach, IMO, than the technobabble. -- RR __________________ "I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!" "I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy." -- William Tecumseh Sherman