The technobabble on TNG was light years ahead of that on TOS.
The phrases and words that Scotty used on TOS sounded quaint and primitive compared to the dialogue of the TNG crew.
For example, in TOS "The Return of the Archons", these are some of the lines spoken by the chief engineer:
"Captain, we're under attack. There are heat beams of some kind coming up from the planet surface."
"Those heat beams are still on us. You've got to cut them off Mr. Spock, or we'll cook."
"The heat rays are gone, Captain, and Mr. Sulu's back to normal."
And from "The Apple":
"Something from the surface. It's like a pail of water on a fire. A beam, maybe or a transmission. And it's still on. I'm having it analyzed, but it's like nothing I've seen before."
"We might be able to pull out with warp drive, but without it ... we're like a fly on fly paper."
"We're putting everything but the kitchen sink into impulse, sir."
Heat beams, heat rays, fly paper, kitchen sink, etc. That was the language Scotty used. It is actually kind of funny.
Scotty/Doohan sounded out of his league when he was talking with Geordi. But I would still take Scotty any day over Geordi.
