Original sin: technobabble

[LadyT'Anna]

You're welcome, M'lady.

Actually, I was trying a sort of paraphrase on what Bilbo Baggins says to his countrymen/women at the beginning of "Fellowship of the Ring" during his eleventy-first birthday celebration.

I knew that sounded familiar, Martok2112! Is this the relevant quotation?

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I want to say that Lewis Carroll and Gilbert & Sullivan were contemporaries, more or less, and that Tolkien came a bit later. But kindly take that statement with a grain of salt--or better yet, Halloween candy ( )--because like Carroll's Duchess, I never could abide figures. :/

(And in more of a Star Trek spirited reply: )
"No, I did not have a chance to meet all the new crewmembers when I came on board."

Not new. Reincarnated, perhaps. See also: Flint.

I'm inclined to think technobabble should be kept brief. Given that it's employed in emergency situations, who's going to have time to talk for block paragraphs?

 

[Curios_Gelatin]

I'm inclined to think technobabble should be kept brief. Given that it's employed in emergency situations, who's going to have time to talk for block paragraphs?

Agreed. Technobabble is much more about the sense of urgency than the actual content I think.
Nothing beats the age old scene of;

A: Oh no! The shields aren't hold and X is malfunctioning!
B: What if we do X to X and then divert power from X?
A: But if we do that the X may implode and we'll all die!
B: We'll die if we don't anyway!

Just once I'd like to see the dangerous procedure end up destroying the ship, and then watch the credits roll. That would be one big troll of a series finale.

 

[LadyT'Anna]

I'm inclined to think technobabble should be kept brief. Given that it's employed in emergency situations, who's going to have time to talk for block paragraphs?

Agreed. Technobabble is much more about the sense of urgency than the actual content I think.
Nothing beats the age old scene of;

A: Oh no! The shields aren't hold and X is malfunctioning!
B: What if we do X to X and then divert power from X?
A: But if we do that the X may implode and we'll all die!
B: We'll die if we don't anyway!

Just once I'd like to see the dangerous procedure end up destroying the ship, and then watch the credits roll. That would be one big troll of a series finale.

Ouch.

But . . .

Why not have it happen to an enemy ship? Starfleet Command could use the debris from the crash to solve some problem that'd been worrying them for a few months.

What say you, ladies and gentlemen?

 

[Amaraen]

Sometimes it does, like in "Contagion". "Booby Trap" was also a lot like that.

 

[LadyT'Anna]

Sometimes it does, like in "Contagion". "Booby Trap" was also a lot like that.

I'm sorry, Amaraen; that's what I get for coming to class unprepared. I've seen only TOS and DS9 in full, and I can't call the names of many non-TOS episodes to mind very easily.

My apologies. :/

 

[martok2112]

Yes, M'lady, that would indeed be the quote.

Also, wouldn't it be funny if everything in Trek could be solved by inverse phasing?


Scotty: Cap'n, m'bairns! They cannae take annah moor!
Spock: Try inverse phasing!


Data: The deflector shields will collapse with the next hit!
LaForge: I'm gonna try inverse phasing!

Barclay: I don't know, Counselor Troi.... I try to win your affections, but I just can't seem to find the right way to connect with you.
Troi: Try inverse phasing!

 

[martok2112]

Yes, M'lady, that would indeed be the quote.

Also, wouldn't it be funny if everything in Trek could be solved by inverse phasing?


Scotty: Cap'n, m'bairns! They cannae take annah moor!
Spock: Try inverse phasing!


Data: The deflector shields will collapse with the next hit!
LaForge: I'm gonna try inverse phasing!

Barclay: I don't know, Counselor Troi.... I try to win your affections, but I just can't seem to find the right way to connect with you.
Troi: Try inverse phasing!

 

[LadyT'Anna]

Yes, M'lady, that would indeed be the quote.

Also, wouldn't it be funny if everything in Trek could be solved by inverse phasing?


Scotty: Cap'n, m'bairns! They cannae take annah moor!
Spock: Try inverse phasing!


Data: The deflector shields will collapse with the next hit!
LaForge: I'm gonna try inverse phasing!

Barclay: I don't know, Counselor Troi.... I try to win your affections, but I just can't seem to find the right way to connect with you.
Troi: Try inverse phasing!

Hmm. What would happen in Odo's case, where inverse phasing involves his either assuming a shape or regenerating in his pail (or if need be, in Lwaxana Troi's skirt)?

The plot thickens. (Gelatinously?)

 

[martok2112]

Yes, M'lady, that would indeed be the quote.

Also, wouldn't it be funny if everything in Trek could be solved by inverse phasing?


Scotty: Cap'n, m'bairns! They cannae take annah moor!
Spock: Try inverse phasing!


Data: The deflector shields will collapse with the next hit!
LaForge: I'm gonna try inverse phasing!

Barclay: I don't know, Counselor Troi.... I try to win your affections, but I just can't seem to find the right way to connect with you.
Troi: Try inverse phasing!

Hmm. What would happen in Odo's case, where inverse phasing involves his either assuming a shape or regenerating in his pail (or if need be, in Lwaxana Troi's skirt)?

The plot thickens. (Gelatinously?)

Just don't involve a cuisinart, M'lady.

Hehehe.....it just occurs to me with the one bit of dialogue I wrote between Barclay and Troi:

What if what Troi said was actually a euphemistic way of saying to Barclay: "Go f*** yourself!"

I could see its use in an interrogation scene:

What if it had happened in ST 09?

Nero: Christopher, the codes....please.
Pike: Try inverse phasing!

 

[LadyT'Anna]

Yes, M'lady, that would indeed be the quote.

Also, wouldn't it be funny if everything in Trek could be solved by inverse phasing?


Scotty: Cap'n, m'bairns! They cannae take annah moor!
Spock: Try inverse phasing!


Data: The deflector shields will collapse with the next hit!
LaForge: I'm gonna try inverse phasing!

Barclay: I don't know, Counselor Troi.... I try to win your affections, but I just can't seem to find the right way to connect with you.
Troi: Try inverse phasing!

Hmm. What would happen in Odo's case, where inverse phasing involves his either assuming a shape or regenerating in his pail (or if need be, in Lwaxana Troi's skirt)?

The plot thickens. (Gelatinously?)

Just don't involve a cuisinart, M'lady.

Hehehe.....it just occurs to me with the one bit of dialogue I wrote between Barclay and Troi:

What if what Troi said was actually a euphemistic way of saying to Barclay: "Go f*** yourself!"

I could see its use in an interrogation scene:

What if it had happened in ST 09?

Nero: Christopher, the codes....please.
Pike: Try inverse phasing!

Hmm . . . what would happen if Odo decided to assume the form of a Cuisinart?

And re: inverse phasing, all of a sudden I'm visualizing palindromic numbers for the code sequences.

(Sorry, Martok2112; kindly do forgive my warped mind. )

 

[Jedman67]

Hmm . . . what would happen if Odo decided to assume the form of a Cuisinart?
(Sorry, Martok2112; kindly do forgive my warped mind. )

There are plenty of scenes in DS9 where he disguises himself as a drink. What happens if someone drinks him before he can shapeshift back to his normal shape?

 

[martok2112]

Odo could be the mastermind of some very cruel tricks upon the person who accidentally quaffed him so.

 

[LadyT'Anna]

Odo could be the mastermind of some very cruel tricks upon the person who accidentally quaffed him so.

"Hello, and welcome to Quark's. Drink at your own risk."

 

[martok2112]

Odo could be the mastermind of some very cruel tricks upon the person who accidentally quaffed him so.

"Hello, and welcome to Quark's. Drink at your own risk."

Indeed, M'lady. Well played.

 

[LadyT'Anna]

Odo could be the mastermind of some very cruel tricks upon the person who accidentally quaffed him so.

"Hello, and welcome to Quark's. Drink at your own risk."

Indeed, M'lady. Well played.

Thank you very kindly, Martok

So someone's developing a Starfleet training manual and writes a sentence whose main ideas happen to be transposed. The writer seeks out an editor for help. The editor says:

"Try inverse phrasing."

 

[martok2112]

"Hello, and welcome to Quark's. Drink at your own risk."

Indeed, M'lady. Well played.

Thank you very kindly, Martok

So someone's developing a Starfleet training manual and writes a sentence whose main ideas happen to be transposed. The writer seeks out an editor for help. The editor says:

"Try inverse phrasing."

Ba-dum-tisssss!

 

[LadyT'Anna]

Indeed, M'lady. Well played.

Thank you very kindly, Martok

So someone's developing a Starfleet training manual and writes a sentence whose main ideas happen to be transposed. The writer seeks out an editor for help. The editor says:

"Try inverse phrasing."

Ba-dum-tisssss!

(bows head acknowledgingly) My pleasure.

And by the way, have a very Klingon Halloween!