Revisiting Star Trek Continues...

[Warped9]

^^ They just did a holodeck story without the holodeck by having Kirk and McCoy having the same dream because of a nanite virus.

 

[Maurice]

^^ They just did a holideck story without the holodeck by having Kirk and McCoy having the same dream because of a nanite virus.

Is a holideck where you go for a holographic simulation of Purim?

 

[Bixby]

^^ They just did a holideck story without the holodeck by having Kirk and McCoy having the same dream because of a nanite virus.

You're right...The parallel evolution one was cringe, but the holodeck one beats it easily. But the worst one is technobabble (they easily avoided those in OG Trek, thank Surak)

 

[Warped9]

TOS’ technobabble was lowkey and tended to use more real world terms. They didn’t go into lengthy explanations of how something worked or how it needed to be done. Later Trek from TNG onward wallowed in that gibberish.

 

[Richard Baker]

Roddenberry wanted them to just pick up a Phaser and use it- a Police Officer would just use his gun, not stop and explain how it works. Same goes for other technology- Scotty or Spock would look at readouts, push buttons and the problem would be resolved. IMO Voyager was the worst in Technobabble- half the dialog in a show seemed gibberish

 

[David cgc]

Roddenberry wanted them to just pick up a Phaser and use it- a Police Officer would just use his gun, not stop and explain how it works.

Every time I read about that, I remember the endless explication on the merits of Phaser Number One versus Phaser Number Two in "Devil in the Dark." Right up there with the brace-for-impact scene in "Balance of Terror" being used as a "what not to do" example in the season two writers' bible.

 

[Warped9]

In “Pilgrim Of Eternity” Sulu starts describing changing the resonant frequencis or whatever on the phasers to get that crap off the hull all I could think was, “You gotta be fucking kidding me. No one in TOS ever talked like that.”

 

[Bixby]

It might just be that the STC actors and directors are much younger than (clears throat) me, and thus haven't seen the OG episodes as often as they have the TNG and post-TNG ones. Although that surprises me about Mignogna as I saw an interview where it showed he would cosplay as Kirk all the way back when he was a youngun'.

Maybe the TNG witchcraft is just too strong?

 

[Warped9]

I remember when TNG debuted and as it progressed I first started hearing their technobabble, which didn’t seem so noticeable in the early seasons, and I remember thinking WTF are they going on about?