Did the recurring items ever annoy anyone else?

[jealousblues]

I think this was the worst on DS9.

i think there was one episode where they had to get rid of self sealing stem bolts...and ever since then they were mentioned every so often.

things like that.

Not that it was a big deal, but was it an inside joke or something?.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

What really pissed me off was that episode where O'Brien was replaced by a clone and everyone acted weird around him, all he kept doing was going to the replicator and asking for that god awful 'Coffee, Jamaican blend, double-strong, double-sweet'

Argh!!!!

I got sick of hearing it!!!!!!

 

[Forbin]

I noticed the technobabble went in cycles. You'd hear, for instance, "Pattern buffer" every episode for maybe three to five weeks. Then they'd get on a "power coupling" kick for a few weeks. Then they wouldn't stop mentioning "chroniton particles" for a few episodes.

A little bit of a rut there, writing staff?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

^ What about all the episodes where everything seemed to leave behind tachyon signatures? those eps always got on my willy.

 

[TeutonicNights]

2309 Blood wine.

 

[erastus25]

It never bothered me. I always thought the little bits of continuity were a nice touch.

And I never noticed the technobabble getting into a "rut."

 

[All Seeing Eye]

2309 Blood wine.

There is no finer vintage!

We will celebrate over a barrel of bloodwine.

Whoever steps foot on *such and such* first must supply a barrel bloodwine.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I liked the recurring items. Cute. Reverse-ratcheting whatevers, jumja sticks, yamok sauce, references to waste processing, and Morn being such a chatterbox.

Then they wouldn't stop mentioning "chroniton particles" for a few episodes.

The chrono- technobabble struck me as especially pervasive.

 

[TrekNut87]

It never really bothered me much, mainly because I was usually too into an episode to notice the references. However, I did think it was a nice touch when I did take notice of it.

 

[Damask]

Bah, O'Brien's shoulder got more development than Harry Kim!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKT73PulM1k

 

[CaptainStoner]

Something called a "hydrospanner" pops into my mind. That, and the mighty 47. They say it's 42 adjusted for inflation, but that's just a conveinent cover story. 47 is 23 ~

 

[M'Sharak]

Something called a "hydrospanner" pops into my mind.

Hyperspanner, I think it was.

Recurring references to items or systems never bothered me. Some of it was pretty amusing, I thought.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

things like self-sealing stembolts were usually either joke references or continuity references, I didn't mind them. Technobabble stuff bugs me a bit more, but, if they could keep its function consistent, I honestly would rather they repeat it than make up something new (although if they keep the name but change its use, that's bad. Also, deflectors don't count because they are used for everything, so that's bad).

 

[CaptainStoner]

Something called a "hydrospanner" pops into my mind.

Hyperspanner, I think it was.

Recurring references to items or systems never bothered me. Some of it was pretty amusing, I thought.

I think the hydrospanner was Star Wars ~

 

[M'Sharak]

So it was, but I had to look it up.

 

[RoJoHen]

2309 Blood wine.

Heaven forbid the Klingons drink anything else.
And the only thing they eat is gagh.

Oh, especially on DS9 they drank a lot of raktojino (sp). Klingon coffee? What? Did you ever see a Klingon drinking it? No.

 

[drasche]

Something called a "hydrospanner" pops into my mind. That, and the mighty 47. They say it's 42 adjusted for inflation, but that's just a conveinent cover story. 47 is 23 ~

That's from Rick Berman.

Oh. Yes. That's it. Rick Berman.


First I thought about this great classic: the warp drive is offline. Happened way too many times in all series.

 

[RapidNadion]

Voyager was a big offender with one recurring piece of technobabble in particular. Whenever someone (read: Seven) stole a shuttlecraft for some well-meaning yet unauthorized endeavor (or, you know, to go back to the Collective), she'd always manage to avoid Voyager's pursuit with the same old trick:

KIM: "She's masked her warp trail. She's gone."
(Ominous french horn, then fade out)

Season after season this happened, with Seven and with all variety of alien escapees "masking their warp trail." Heaven forbid you guys should, I don't know, devise a countermeasure for that maneuver. Ugh.

Voyager also had a love affair with the term "gel-packs" for the entire first season, and Janeway saying "thisss crew" in that weighty, gravely, almost-gonna-cry voice three times an episode got really tired after a while.

DS9 was big on mentioning neutrinos whenever the wormhole was about to open, but I liked that nod to continuity.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Season after season this happened, with Seven and with all variety of alien escapees "masking their warp trail." Heaven forbid you guys should, I don't know, devise a countermeasure for that maneuver. Ugh.

Is there a countermeasure? Seems the same as walking through a field of snow and 'masking' your footprints by shoveling over them. Simple, really.

 

[Bill Morris]

I cringe every time the word cheese is mentioned in ENT.