Everything Data spat out about 'quantum realities' in the TNG episode "Parallels". It just about made sense. I loved it.
Your favourite technobabble phrase?
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^ It probably was based in reality and worked out by the show's Science Adviser. They were very particular about the science on TNG.
I am loathe to admit this but... I can't remember exactly what year it came out, maybe 1990, but I bought the TNG Tech Manual. I read it from cover to cover several times over. So by the sixth season of TNG I actually understood what they were saying most of the time. It may have sounded smart and technical to the casual viewer but surprisingly the technobabble had its own in-universe logic and was rather well thought out. In some cases it even followed the laws of physics and was able to explain itself when it didn't.
I am loathe to admit this but... I can't remember exactly what year it came out, maybe 1990, but I bought the TNG Tech Manual. I read it from cover to cover several times over. So by the sixth season of TNG I actually understood what they were saying most of the time. It may have sounded smart and technical to the casual viewer but surprisingly the technobabble had its own in-universe logic and was rather well thought out. In some cases it even followed the laws of physics and was able to explain itself when it didn't.
The ship battle in Generations seemed to have a generous heaping of the phrase "Plasma Coil." It still makes me grin to this day 
Also...
Fry: Usually on the show, they came up with a complicated plan, then explained it with a simple analogy.
Leela: Hmmm... If we can re-route engine power through the primary weapons and configure them to Melllvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure.
Bender: Like putting too much air in a balloon!
Fry: Of course! It's all so simple!
Also...
Fry: Usually on the show, they came up with a complicated plan, then explained it with a simple analogy.
Leela: Hmmm... If we can re-route engine power through the primary weapons and configure them to Melllvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure.
Bender: Like putting too much air in a balloon!
Fry: Of course! It's all so simple!
"Oh no, a plot-convenient dampening field!"
Hilarious, this thread reminds me of the legendary uncyclopedia article, How To: Make Cheesy Sci-Fi.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Mines change periodically. Right now I'm in love with "triaxilate".
The ship battle in Generations seemed to have a generous heaping of the phrase "Plasma Coil." It still makes me grin to this day
Sorry, I'm not so narcissistic that I normally repeat myself, but in thinking back to the Generations battle, I couldn't help but conjure up Data's contribution as well. He seemed to pick not only the most syllables, but also the slowest way to say it AND while still waiting for approval that he should have assumed he already had:
Data: I have accessed their core frequency! Eeeee-nish-eee-ate-ing iooonic pulse!
Riker: makeitquick
Bridge Rear Console: sparksparkBLAST. BOOOM. BASSSH. SPARKSPARKSPARK.
Crewman: *flying*
Data, enough with the play-by-play and just do it!
DATA: The structure of the bulkhead is being altered on a subatomic level. The metal itself is in a state of quasi-molecular flux.
PICARD: What's causing it?
GEORDI: This is where it gets pretty wild, Captain. Behind this panel, there's a junction we were using to transfer warp power to the sensor array. We're picking up a subspace particle stream emanating from that junction.
DATA: It appears to be composed of spatially-inverted tetryon particles. We believe they are emanating from a tertiary subspace manifold.
PICARD: I thought tetryons were unstable in normal space.
PICARD: What's causing it?
GEORDI: This is where it gets pretty wild, Captain. Behind this panel, there's a junction we were using to transfer warp power to the sensor array. We're picking up a subspace particle stream emanating from that junction.
DATA: It appears to be composed of spatially-inverted tetryon particles. We believe they are emanating from a tertiary subspace manifold.
PICARD: I thought tetryons were unstable in normal space.
I wouldn't say it's my favorite, but I like this one line from Ménage à Troi...
PICARD: Mister La Forge, can you extend our sensor range?
LAFORGE: If I narrow the band and tie in long range sensors to the subspace scanners, I can boost the gain.
It's not so much what he says but how he says it: "You doubt me? Fool, of COURSE I can boost the gain!"
PICARD: Mister La Forge, can you extend our sensor range?
LAFORGE: If I narrow the band and tie in long range sensors to the subspace scanners, I can boost the gain.
It's not so much what he says but how he says it: "You doubt me? Fool, of COURSE I can boost the gain!"
Would have been too hard to have just written?
PICARD: Mister La Forge, can you extend our sensor range?
LAFORGE: Yes
I swear, Star Trek has forever ruined the way I answer to superiors at work:
Boss: Hey, do you think you can whip up a PowerPoint presentation for us by tomorrow?
Me: If I access our Raisers Edge database and transfer the funders' statistics over to an Excel spreadsheet and combine that information with a few graphics made of the photos from the event we held this morning, I can make you a PowerPoint presentation.
Boss: *looks at me funny* Okay... good.
During TOS it would have been:
KIRK: Mister Scott, can you extend our sensor range?
SCOTTY: Aye, sir, but it'll be tricky.
"oh, it's quite simple really, i just reversed the polarity of the neutron flow"
cannae...it's I CANNAE DOO IT, CAP'N I DOON' HA' THA POWAH!
I love hearing them say 'isolinear' and 'EPS conduit.'
The two most important words in all of techno babble.
Fluctuation.
Frequency.
Every time they are able to get out of an impossible situation it is because there is some slight fluctuation in some frequency.
Fluctuation.
Frequency.
Every time they are able to get out of an impossible situation it is because there is some slight fluctuation in some frequency.
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