Technobabble actually becomes less of a problem in Trek once Michael Pillar left.

[Voth commando1]

Remember the show is about trained elite professional semi space navy people who are also scientists, engineers, sentient AIs, and former Borg. The main characters are not joe schmoes even in-universe so I was more lenient on the technobabble.

 

[JRTStarlight]

I don't mind the jargon - aka technobabble - but I do mind gobbledygook - aka - nonsense, or stuff tossed in when the writer doesn't know the Trek lore or jargon and thinks they are the same thing.

Occasionally I will roll my eyes when they do something, or it amounts to little more than Deus ex machina, but mostly I don't notice it unless it goes way too far.

But it's hard to be more exact in a discussion like this without concrete examples from specific episodes, and an explanation why that example is acceptable, or just too stupid for words.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Technobabble actually becomes less of a problem in Trek once Michael Pillar left.

Pillar

Piller.

Cox groks

The funny thing about technobabble is that Roddenberry was so against he even made a rule in the TOS Writer's Guide forbidding it. And then the other shows use it so much it's become a staple of the franchise.

Indeed.

This is my feeling as well, and what ended up irritating me so much about the later Berman era. All too often the problem that the characters faced was fixed by teching the tech with the tech and reversing the polarity of the tech. Watching people tap on fake consoles and reading out technobabble isn't compelling drama. Neither ER or House based stories on reversing the polarity of anything, or the modern day medical equivalent. They were stories about people solving mysteries, or missing things, or facing pressures doing their jobs. Not coming up with magical solutions to made up tech problems using made up particles. That's the difference.

Yes, I agree with that.