Starfleet has a department devoted to explaining techno-babble.

[Romulan_spy]

In Lower Decks comic #3, it is revealed that Starfleet has a department devoted to explaining techno-babble. The Starfleet Corps of Rhetoric Engineers. lol.

Starfleet Is Finally Ready to Fix One of Star Trek's High-Tech Problems

Say what?

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[Cyfa]

Trust Lower Decks to introduce such a department. Brilliant!

 

[Romulan_spy]

Trust Lower Decks to introduce such a department. Brilliant!

I love it!!

And by the way, T'lyn's techno-babble is pretty great. It would make Geordi proud.

 

[Cyfa]

Absolutely! I bet Geordi did a tour in the Starfleet Corps of Rhetoric Engineers. I imagine many of Voyager's crew also have more than a passing acquaintance with it, too.

 

[Alexander Corrino]

Why am I not surprised that such a department exists

 

[mithril]

her description sounds perfectly fine to me, and really shouldn't be hard to understand by people who are supposed to be the result of starfleet's basic scientific training

 

[at Quark's]

If anything is dangerous, it's relying on understanding of 'easy' but not quite-apt-metaphors.

Using such metaphors to explain things to a general audience is fine - up to a point. But professionals need to know exactly where the usefulness of such metaphors end.

As such, this 'corps of rhetoric engineers' might do more harm than good.

 

[David cgc]

That's probably why they'd have a department of professionals and not just rely on crewmembers winging it and ending up with, "Like a balloon and.... something bad happens!"

 

[The Wormhole]

If anything is dangerous, it's relying on understanding of 'easy' but not quite-apt-metaphors.

Using such metaphors to explain things to a general audience is fine - up to a point. But professionals need to know exactly where the usefulness of such metaphors end.

As such, this 'corps of rhetoric engineers' might do more harm than good.

Incidentally, the Lower Decks comics have also made a joke about that, specifically the characters keep explaining things by making an allegory to something from Earth, to which T'Ana freaks out with "could you possibly explain this without comparing it to something from #@!% Earth?!"

 

[Firebird]

That's probably why they'd have a department of professionals and not just rely on crewmembers winging it and ending up with, "Like a balloon and.... something bad happens!"

Don't forget coming across "some sort of..."

 

[tomalak301]

The Starfleet Corps of Rhetoric

I love that title so much.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

O . . . . . . . . . . . k.

 

[publiusr]

Solitons and anyons are quite real—just not as useful as in the series

Let’s see…excitons…gravitons are making a comeback….

I think Pauli said something similar to this:

Enrico Fermi Quotes - 20 Science Quotes - Dictionary of Science Quotations and Scientist Quotes

 

[fireproof78]

Incidentally, the Lower Decks comics have also made a joke about that, specifically the characters keep explaining things by making an allegory to something from Earth, to which T'Ana freaks out with "could you possibly explain this without comparing it to something from #@!% Earth?!"

I know that phrase; it comes from Russia.

 

[David cgc]

I made a PIC-era version of the Corps of Rhetoric Engineers seal. Feel free to use it for any kind of fan-projects that you wish:

As I considered in another thread, I did end up drawing up a more formal version of the seal of the "Starfleet Corps of Rhetoric Engineers" Ryan North established in the current run of Lower Decks comics. I originally intended to do variations based on all the Starfleet Command seals with examples on this EAS page, but I got annoyed tracking down fonts, so I ended up only doing one for the early-25th century PIC-era version. I've done most of the work already, I can make more versions later if the need arises or the spirit moves me.
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I also took the liberty of making one for the board, based on the Fan Art Challenge Winner badge. I only did the little one, because I didn't remember there was a big one until just now when I was looking for the image to link to.
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I just did this for fun, but if the admins want to add this to the "Writer" flair, it's fine either way. In fact, I fully disclaim any credit or rights or anything like that, feel free to use these for avatars, the Memory Beta article on the CoRE, and edit them however you like.