24th Century Technobabble in the 23rd Century

[DimesDan]

You're talking about if a story is enjoyable or not, we're talking about the aspects of a story that make a story enjoyable or not for a given person. Different levels of analysis, it's the difference between saying "I like this story" and "I like this story because..."

No one just likes a story full stop, independent of any of the underlying aspects of the story; there are things about a story that make someone like it, even if it's not something explicitly considered by the reader.Even if someone isn't interested in analyzing their opinion on a work, that doesn't mean it emerged based on nothing whatsoever. Maybe it might as well have emerged based on nothing to you, but that's something entirely different.

Is there a reason you continuously address people on here as a child?

I am fully aware of all your points you made, but I was addressing this little nugget from @HIjol:

It is ok that not everyone experience it that way, but that is what is important to me.

 

[SPCTRE]

Why are you smiling? TrekBBS is a board.

Nevermind BBSs in the historical sense, traditionally structured web-based forums (hierarchical tree / thread based) are very much a relic of the past.

 

[Idran]

Is there a reason you continuously address people on here as a child?

I didn't realize I was doing that, and if it came off that way, I apologize. I'll have to do some self-analysis of my posting style if that's how I was coming off.

 

[DimesDan]

I didn't realize I was doing that, and if it came off that way, I apologize. I'll have to do some self-analysis of my posting style if that's how I was coming off.

No worries. It's just a little irksome. As I said, I understood your points you choose to reiterate and explain what this "thread was about", but I was addressing a small point in the post above mine.

 

[Kirks_Flying_Wig]

Yes. Drives me nuts. I hate it when an author or a fan makes a reference to Kirk leading an "away team" instead of a "landing party." And the use of a counselor on Star Trek Continues keeps me from fully investing in that series.

The TNG-style technobabble at the beginning of Generations bugs me, too. It just sounds wrong coming out of Scotty's mouth.

I've never been massively distracted by TNG-era terminology in TOS-era Treklit, but the technobabble in Generations was what I immediately thought of when I saw this thread. Doohan doesn't appear at all comfortable saying the lines.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I've never been massively distracted by TNG-era terminology in TOS-era Treklit, but the technobabble in Generations was what I immediately thought of when I saw this thread. Doohan doesn't appear at all comfortable saying the lines.

Probably not, because he didn't have much experience with that style of dialogue.

 

[Blamo]

I'm really not a fan of technobabble at the best of times. Seeing the TOS cast spout it in Generations really underlined what made me hate it so much. It also had the effect of taking me out of the movie and reminded me why I'm not a fan of the TNG era.

 

[Iamnotspock]

I've never been massively distracted by TNG-era terminology in TOS-era Treklit, but the technobabble in Generations was what I immediately thought of when I saw this thread. Doohan doesn't appear at all comfortable saying the lines.

I watched it last night and was reminded how much I agree with this. He looks like he's reading it off the helm console.

 

[vegaslover62]

And just because someone else has a peeve that you don't doesn't mean there's any reason to try and get them to stop having that peeve. Folks have different priorities.

Ultimately, each one of us believes we have the power to change someone else's mind. That's why we have things as big as flame wars and as little as an inability to ignore someone else's post they disagree with.