Anybody Actually Like Technobabble?

[AmbassadorKosh]

Real life technobabble is just as irritating to people. I'm the IT Administrator at work and my operations manager absolutely hates it when he asks for a status report and I get to detailed. He always says he doesn't want to know what's wrong, just how long before it's fixed. End users, sheesh.

 

[MacLeod]

Then perhaps he should ask "How long until it's fixed?" rather than a "Status report" they are two different things.

 

[BrownShatner]

Technobabble was fine when used sparingly. It made it seem like the character was doing something other than just pushing buttons really fast. The issue was when the technobabbly thing became a plot device in itself, and by Voyager it seemed like they were using as a lazy crutch in at least half the episodes.

 

[Anji]

I loved the babble. It got my imagination going.

Besides when you're writing a script and you've got to pad it an additional two or three minutes (which means you can't run another subplot in that short of time) you gotta do something and do it quick.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

I loved the babble. It got my imagination going.

Besides when you're writing a script and you've got to pad it an additional two or three minutes (which means you can't run another subplot in that short of time) you gotta do something and do it quick.

Normally, that's what character development is for.

 

[MacLeod]

Charatcer development, what is this strange new concept of which you speak?

 

[Albertese]

Character development is what happened to the cast of Voyager in the series finale.

--Alex

 

[Tiberius]

I love technobabble. That's what taught me that I can re-energise the trans-spectral sensors by routing deflector power through the graviton relay to resequence the chroniton regulators and create a subspace particle wave that amplifies the fractal encryption codes!

or something like that!

 

[Avon]

interfere-o-metric

 

[Irishman]

Only when I'm using multimodal reflection sorting.