Starfleet has a department devoted to explaining techno-babble.

[Romulan_spy]

In Lower Decks comic #3, it is revealed that Starfleet has a department devoted to explaining techno-babble. The Starfleet Corps of Rhetoric Engineers. lol.

Starfleet Is Finally Ready to Fix One of Star Trek's High-Tech Problems

Say what?

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[Cyfa]

Trust Lower Decks to introduce such a department. Brilliant!

 

[Romulan_spy]

Trust Lower Decks to introduce such a department. Brilliant!

I love it!!

And by the way, T'lyn's techno-babble is pretty great. It would make Geordi proud.

 

[Cyfa]

Absolutely! I bet Geordi did a tour in the Starfleet Corps of Rhetoric Engineers. I imagine many of Voyager's crew also have more than a passing acquaintance with it, too.

 

[Alexander Corrino]

Why am I not surprised that such a department exists

 

[mithril]

her description sounds perfectly fine to me, and really shouldn't be hard to understand by people who are supposed to be the result of starfleet's basic scientific training

 

[at Quark's]

If anything is dangerous, it's relying on understanding of 'easy' but not quite-apt-metaphors.

Using such metaphors to explain things to a general audience is fine - up to a point. But professionals need to know exactly where the usefulness of such metaphors end.

As such, this 'corps of rhetoric engineers' might do more harm than good.

 

[David cgc]

That's probably why they'd have a department of professionals and not just rely on crewmembers winging it and ending up with, "Like a balloon and.... something bad happens!"

 

[The Wormhole]

If anything is dangerous, it's relying on understanding of 'easy' but not quite-apt-metaphors.

Using such metaphors to explain things to a general audience is fine - up to a point. But professionals need to know exactly where the usefulness of such metaphors end.

As such, this 'corps of rhetoric engineers' might do more harm than good.

Incidentally, the Lower Decks comics have also made a joke about that, specifically the characters keep explaining things by making an allegory to something from Earth, to which T'Ana freaks out with "could you possibly explain this without comparing it to something from #@!% Earth?!"

 

[Firebird]

That's probably why they'd have a department of professionals and not just rely on crewmembers winging it and ending up with, "Like a balloon and.... something bad happens!"

Don't forget coming across "some sort of..."

 

[tomalak301]

The Starfleet Corps of Rhetoric

I love that title so much.