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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x04 - "Memento Mori"

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The issue with technobabble, for me, is less than it's linguistically difficult, and more than it's a cheap way to get out of a bad script situation. You can dream up any technosorcery you want to get the heroes their victory, but it isn't quite as satisfying as a human solution or -- if you want it to be within the realm of sci-fi -- a tech solution that snugly fits with the established lore. Making up new physics each episode doesn't really feel organic.
Not all Technobabble is true Technobabble.

Many fields have specific lingo that outsiders wouldn't understand and treat as Technobabble.

I wish people would stop posting that grifter's videos.
I find his videos entertaining.
 
They're dishonest, and made just for the hate clicks.
Grin loves to cut out context out of scenes and make facts seem different than what they are.
Didn't include the scene where La'an said the Gorn kill most witnesses.
Killing most witnesses doesn't mean they killed ALL witnesses.

If La'an is alive and knows about the Gorn, I'm sure that she must've informed StarFleet upper brass about the Gorn threat.

It's not like StarFleet upper management wouldn't understand that the Gorn are out there and potentially responsible for several massacres of Federation Colonies.

While StarFleet might not have Face to Face encounters with the Gorn during La'an's time on the Enterprise, the larger StarFleet security division should know about them already.

Whether or not Kirk would know about the Gorn threat is up to StarFleet Security and if it's important enough to let Kirk know about them by the time he made Captain.
 
Prior to DSC, does anyone actually ‘converse’ with the ships’ computer?

They just ask it stuff or tell it to do stuff. It’s as much an early AI as Siri or Alexa.
IDK - in TOS S1"Tomorrow Is Yesterday", it was stated that the female repair crew of Signet XIV felt the ship's computer lacked of personality so they gave it one; and Kirk seemed to be conversing with it out of annoyance; and the computer seemed pretty depressed after Kirk added the maintenance note: "There is a problem with my cabin computer. Recommended it be corrected or scrapped..."

Kirk also mentioned that he wouldn't mind so much if it didn't get so affectionate.:rofl:
 
IDK - in TOS S1"Tomorrow Is Yesterday", it was stated that the female repair crew of Signet XIV felt the ship's computer lacked of personality so they gave it one; and Kirk seemed to be conversing with it out of annoyance; and the computer seemed pretty depressed after Kirk added the maintenance note: "There is a problem with my cabin computer. Recommended it be corrected or scrapped..."

Kirk also mentioned that he wouldn't mind so much if it didn't get so affectionate.:rofl:
Let's give Pubert a possible out, here: maybe by TOS' time they quite have the ability to have computers speak naturally, but choose not to for one reason or another.
 
I'm a notorious critic of maintaining in-universe continuity and there's nothing in this episode that violates "Arena(TOS)." Any more than Jonathan Archer, T'Pol and Trip seeing some Ferengi who don't identify themselves 204 years before the Battle of Maxia means TNG's history is retconned or violated.
 
So, when Starfleet passed Una over for Kirk she got passed and quit, and reformatted all Enterprise's hard drives on her way out the door. So the AI knew nothing about the Gorn. :p
 
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