Ridiculous dialog

Episode: The Chase
Participants: Capt. Picard to Dr. Crusher

"Doctor, program the computer to analyze the distribution pattern of the pieces we have, correcting for changes in star configurations over four billion years, then extrapolate for the missing piece."

 

That's why Patrick Stewart was paid the big bucks.

 

I don't know if it's too ridiculous. I mean, there's a simpler way to put it, but we can extrapolate changes in star patterns over billions of years, and even project that notion several billion years into the future. So we can do that even today. The delivery of that line is a bit clunky, though.

 

Its technobabble. Its supposed to be confusing. Its just the writers way of having Picard tell Crusher to figure out the missing piece of the puzzle.

 

Also from Picard:
"Klingon Imperial Empire."

 

However, I think the task would be given to an astrophysicist, not a medical doctor.

 

In all of Star Trek, you think the most ridiculous line of dialog is Picard telling the computer to connect the dots on a map?

Have you watched The Outrageous Okona?

 

Good point.

 

Hard to believe that the guy who played Okona was actually up for the role of Riker.

 

I've been tempted to start watching " Star Trek Voyager", but it's this kind of dialog I remember, whenever I caught "Voyager" during its run...

I seem to remember "technobabble" being even more at the forefront on that particular show. Is that the case?

 

pretty much everything from when Chakotay said "Damage Report!" all the way to Captain Janeway's final "Set a course... for home" is ridiculous dialogue.

 

As Janeway and B'Nanna were trying to figure out what was wrong with the engines (or something like that - who cares?), they suddenly leapt up in the air in delight and shouted "War particles! WARP particles!" like two little girls discovering they both liked Bobby Sherman.

Not only a ridiculous line, but embarassing, and yet another addition to the "particle of the week" trend.

 

He was Disney's The Rocketeer too.

 

Or like when make up new elements as they go like: "Hey, it's not trilithium it's paralihtium, but that can me modified to make trilithium...

Or when they make up new ways of moving through space for the sake of one episode and never talk about this ever again!!

 

He didn't tell the computer to connect the dots, he told Dr. Crusher to do it.

 

Ridiculous dialogue in Star Trek? You must be new here.

 

Technobabble is Star Trek deus ex machina. Whenever the writers get stuck in a situation and can't find an easy way out of it they simply technobabble their troubles away...

 

Sort of like how she became a cyberneticist, whenever the patient was Data?

 

it's actually quite impressive....

My doctor can't even program a clock radio.