Your favourite technobabble phrase?

[Volkanismo]

What is your favourite technobabble phrase from any of the Trek media?

Mine is "initiate docking procedures". I don't know why, but it always makes me smile, perhaps because it is so stilted.

 

[C.E. Evans]

"Stardate [INSERT NUMBERS HERE]"

 

[Duane]

I loved it when Crusher asked the computer to "access the theoretical database and extrapolate" or something like that. It was in the TNG episode where she is trapped in the warp bubble.

 

[Rom's Sehlat]

"Polarize the hull plating." I read somewhere where the author was criticizing why Archer never shorted that to "hull plating" or something. I'm glad they finally invented shields, or else wars could be lost because it takes forever to spit out the "shields up!" line.

One of my instructors likes to make fun of ST with the phrase, "Reconfigure the array" and "Run a bypass." It does seem like ST likes to reconfigure arrays and run lots of bypasses around various things.

 

[backstept]

"reroute power to the main deflector"

"prepare to ______" . . . ummm I'm always prepared, Captain. All I have to do is push a button.

 

[AstroSmurf]

"Docking latches clear, separation complete." ~ Geordi LeForge, BOBW

It was at that moment, at the ripe age of fifteen, I realized that the Borg were about to get their cybernetic asses handed to them on a plate. That line, coupled with the musical build, gave me chills.

I also really enjoyed O'Brien fighting with the station's computer in "The Emissary". "Unable to comply. That procedure is not recommended."

 

[CommanderRaytas]

A scene is made of awesome when:

-the polarity (of whatever, it doesn't really matter) is reversed.

-a quantum flux regulator is involved.

 

[SchwEnt]

"multi-modal reflection sorting"

 

[T'Girl]

Engage at Ludicrous Speed

My god, he's gone to plaid

(okay, not Star Trek, but still ...)

 

[infinix]

Sir, they are jamming our radar....

 

[Maxillius]

Not my favorite, but has anyone ever noticed that nearly everything that happens to DS9 comes at it from blah blah blah mark 215?

 

[JiNX-01]

AbracaReversePolarity.

Works every time no matter what the problem is.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

self sealing stem bolts.

Used them on a shed I once built.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

RIKER
(quickly)
Okay, Morta. The Enterprise
computer system is controlled by
three primary main processing
cores cross linked with a
redundant melacortz ramistat and
fourteen kiloquad interface
modules. The core elements are
based on FTL nanoprocessor units
arranged into twenty-five
bilateral kelilactirals with
twenty of those units being slaved
to the central heisenfram
terminal.
(beat)
You do know what a bilateral
kelilactiral is, don't you?

Morta is lost, but unwilling to admit it.

MORTA
Of course I do, human. I am not
stupid.

RIKER
No, of course not.
(points to something
on console)
Now this is the isopalavial
interface which controls the main
firomactal drive unit.
(slaps Morta's hand
away)
Don't touch that, you'll blow up
the entire firomactal drive.

 

[6079SmithW]

Whenever Geordi said "Coolant leak!" because it would inevitably be followed by him doing the roll-under-blast-door maneuver.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

"They're firing! Incoming!"

"POLARIZE THE HULL PLATING!"

7 syllables instead of the 1 syllable in "SHIELDS!"

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

RIKER
(quickly)
Okay, Morta. The Enterprise
computer system is controlled by
three primary main processing
cores cross linked with a
redundant melacortz ramistat and
fourteen kiloquad interface
modules. The core elements are
based on FTL nanoprocessor units
arranged into twenty-five
bilateral kelilactirals with
twenty of those units being slaved
to the central heisenfram
terminal.
(beat)
You do know what a bilateral
kelilactiral is, don't you?

Morta is lost, but unwilling to admit it.

MORTA
Of course I do, human. I am not
stupid.

RIKER
No, of course not.
(points to something
on console)
Now this is the isopalavial
interface which controls the main
firomactal drive unit.
(slaps Morta's hand
away)
Don't touch that, you'll blow up
the entire firomactal drive.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

On a more serious note is that, while there is a lot of technobabble in the following scene, all of it is believable, so you don't doubt it.

DOCTOR
You're facing a choice. We can
try to help you remember what
happened using Reflection Therapy.
If it's successful, you would be
fit to stand trial.

RIKER
Reflection Therapy?

DOCTOR
It's a way for you to interact
with various facets of your
personality. We scan the regions
of your brain that control
emotions and memory... then
project them holographically.

Riker considers.

RIKER
What's the other option?

The Doctor finds the best way to put this.

DOCTOR
A complete synaptic reconstruction
of your cerebral cortex.

RIKER
Surgery?



The Doctor nods grimly.

DOCTOR
We would neutralize the synaptic
pathways responsible for your
mental instability.

RIKER
You don't seem to like that
option.

DOCTOR
I don't. The procedure is
irreversible. You'd be left with
a completely altered personality.
The person you are now would cease
to exist.

Riker doesn't like the sound of it.

RIKER
Option one is starting to sound
better...

DOCTOR
I agree.

A beat as Riker makes the choice.

RIKER
Reflection Therapy then... when do
we start?

DOCTOR
This afternoon, if you're ready.
I want you to understand this
isn't going to be easy. You'll be
interacting with aspects of your
psyche that you've never dealt
with before.
(beat)
And you may be disturbed by what
they have to say.

 

[ngc7293]

There's a comedy skit that I have on tape. It isn't specifically Trek, but it sounds like it:
"Sulu": Standard Orbit, Captain?
"Kirk": No, Mr. Sulu, lay in the wierdest, most bazaar orbit you can imagine. One that will take us dangerously close to the planet's surface and so far away we can't even scan it!
Spock! How many ways are their to be killed on this planet?
"Spock": (bleeps from computer) Approximately 5, Captain.
"Kirk": Good, you, me and 5 security guards will beam down. Washburn, you and your men go ahead. We'll be along in a few minutes.......


They have actually used GNDN Conduit in STNG and I found out that it stands for Goes Nowhere Does Nothing

 

[KirkPicard]

I always enjoyed this exchange from "All Good Things..."

DATA: Captain, I believe I have a partial explanation. I have completed my analysis of the anomaly. It appears to be a multi-phasic temporal convergence in the space-time continuum.

CRUSHER: In English, Data.

DATA: It is, in essence, an eruption of anti-time.

PICARD: Anti-time?

DATA: A relatively new concept in temporal mechanics. The relationship between anti-time and normal time is analogous to the relationship between antimatter and normal matter.

PICARD: So if time and anti-time were to collide...

DATA: They would annihilate one other, causing a rupture in space. I believe this is what happened in the Devron system. The rupture may be sending out waves of temporal energy which are disrupting the normal flow of time.