The "I hate that Star Trek created ____" Thread

[Robert Comsol]

Technobabble. And cutting back on the weird shit.

You mean like this (from "Tin Man")?

COMPUTER: Rerouting structural integrity power supply.
LAFORGE: Russell, watch the lateral grid balance. No. no, no, that's too much. We're going to have to do it manually. La Forge to Bridge.
PICARD [OC]: Go ahead.
LAFORGE: Captain, I'm trying to feed the inner grid by stealing some power from the structural integrity field. You should have partial shielding in thirty minutes.

LAFORGE: Not good. I think all the control processors are shot. But maybe if I swap the chips from the secondary array, I can give you a minimum EM scan.
RIKER [OC]: Do it.
LAFORGE: Okay Russell, we're going to try starting retro sensor element thirty two only. You in? Go. The good news is that we have partial long range sensors.

Bob

 

[BillJ]

Technobabble. And cutting back on the weird shit.

You mean like this (from "Tin Man")?

COMPUTER: Rerouting structural integrity power supply.
LAFORGE: Russell, watch the lateral grid balance. No. no, no, that's too much. We're going to have to do it manually. La Forge to Bridge.
PICARD [OC]: Go ahead.
LAFORGE: Captain, I'm trying to feed the inner grid by stealing some power from the structural integrity field. You should have partial shielding in thirty minutes.

LAFORGE: Not good. I think all the control processors are shot. But maybe if I swap the chips from the secondary array, I can give you a minimum EM scan.
RIKER [OC]: Do it.
LAFORGE: Okay Russell, we're going to try starting retro sensor element thirty two only. You in? Go. The good news is that we have partial long range sensors.

Bob

From everything I've read about TNG, the scriptwriters had very little control over the technobabble.

 

[Melakon]

It also creates scripting problems when you can have a guy working with LaForge on a procedure, but due to production costs, that guy isn't even allowed to say "Yes, sir."

 

[Armored Saint]

I hate how TNG dumbed down Trek. Worst were the redesigned Romulans, insulting viewer intelligence by assuming we are too stupid to differentiate them from Vulcans without a new bumpy forehead.

I hate that TNG moved away from colourful alien designs (see: TOS, TMP, STIV) and kept to formulaic bumpy forehead human aliens.

I was rethinking about that...my other problem with the Romulans, after their redesing, is the fact they become so grey. Despite their coldness, Vulcans themselves were shown as very colouful people. Look at Spock's cabin. So why the passionate Vulcans are so drab in an episode Unification? They totally screwed up what has been set up in The Enterprise Incident.

 

[jimbotron]

It also creates scripting problems when you can have a guy working with LaForge on a procedure, but due to production costs, that guy isn't even allowed to say "Yes, sir."

That's unions for ya! No SAG card, no dialogue.

 

[FormerLurker]

Technobabble has its place. That place is during the expository briefing scene, however, not in the middle of the action. A lesson that VGR forgot early on.