On the other hand, there are already lots of "exotic" particles.. even warp particles, blegh! I'd hate to see what the equivalent to the Standard Model in the 24th century would look like...
Also, the word reroute. Because everyone knows you can solve many problems if you just reroute power from life support.
The thing is, technobabble is the Trek equivalent of magic incantation, so I don't mind the exotic particles. Just make sure they're exotic and not repeated ad nauseum!
But I agree so very much about reroute. "If you can't reprogram, then reroute!" just sounds ultra cheesey to me, and worse, the word gets used in every other episode.
I think what always bothered me about that is how many things in the Trek universe that when they go wrong go wrong on the sub-atomic level. People never have a headache it's that their sub parietal lobe is being bombarded with anti-bosons. It's never that a circuit is blown it's a negative neutrino field is shifting phase variance in the tachyon matrix. No wonder so many things go wrong around us we can't even see what the problem is.
Oh, indeed. Just once, I'd like something to be what it really is! Can't stop sneezing? Maybe it's allergies and the EMH has just the right medicine for that. It does not need to be linked to that abhorrent mini wormhole that activated when the deflector absorbed the tetreon plasma field!
That's one thing I liked about Pulaski's Chicken Soup. It was just... chicken soup! (I'm hungry)
