The Most Dispicible Use Of Technobabble?

[Mister_Atoz]

though not technically technobabble, I've never been fond of objects hiding in subspace from the Houdini mines of DS9 to the Caretaker's reactor in that Voyager Conspiracy episode, it was just a treknobabble way of saying "it was cloaked...really, really cloaked"

 

[D Man]

Not to mention that fact that those mines could somehow replicate themselves without any sort of power source, unless I forgot the line that explained that away.

 

[DeafPoet]

D Man said:
Not to mention that fact that those mines could somehow replicate themselves without any sort of power source, unless I forgot the line that explained that away.

I think you're thinking of the wormhole mines from the Dominion Occupation Arc. The ones referred to here are the ones from 'The Siege of AR-558'.

Doesn't matter though, they were both pretty preposterous.

 

[DonIago]

D Man said:
Not to mention that fact that those mines could somehow replicate themselves without any sort of power source, unless I forgot the line that explained that away.

Well, they were just floating out in space. Solar power?

 

[Maurice]

How about the most despicable spelling of the word despicable; for which this thread qualifies?

 

[D Man]

LittleDrummerPoet said:

D Man said:
Not to mention that fact that those mines could somehow replicate themselves without any sort of power source, unless I forgot the line that explained that away.

I think you're thinking of the wormhole mines from the Dominion Occupation Arc. The ones referred to here are the ones from 'The Siege of AR-558'.

Doesn't matter though, they were both pretty preposterous.

Oh good call, I'm thinking of the wrong mines. Either way, not QUITE buyable, but of course the characters trump the tech situations, as is the norm on DS9. They showed it's possible to use minimal technobabble in "modern" Trek but still tell a great story.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Wow, there are so many to choose from, here.

* The explanation for how Picard and company got de-aged in "Rascals."
* The explanation for how Tuvix was created in, er, "Tuvix."

Both were instances of Transporter Magic.

 

[Upper pylon 3]

I liked how in Dark Frontier, 7 yr old Naomi suggested finding 7 of 9 by incresing the sensors by rerouting power from the deflector array, and Janeway laughed it off. It's just as good a solution as anything else they could come up with. It's like the writers of that scene were doing a parody of themselves.

 

[D Man]

Robert Maxwell said:
Wow, there are so many to choose from, here.

* The explanation for how Picard and company got de-aged in "Rascals."
* The explanation for how Tuvix was created in, er, "Tuvix."

Both were instances of Transporter Magic.

Even worse was how they figured out how to reverse both "once in a lifetime bizarre transporter accidents" in under an hour each time.

 

[Garibaldi O'brien]

^ Oh lord, I hate the transporter aging/de-aging stuff. If transporters can do that, why on Earth wouldn't you store the pattern of yourself at your physical prime and then periodically overwrite your aging self with the younger version.

Not to mention curing illnesses, phaser wounds, etc.. etc..

/Voyager had the worst technobabble of the various series. TNG was a close second.

 

[JD]

^Agreed. It seemed like every other solution on both shows somehow involved using the transporters to make some kind of alteration to the person/people involved.

 

[M'Sharak]

"Favorite" technobabble of someone I know (it makes his head explode):

antimatter radiation

**runs**

 

[Robert Maxwell]

In Star Trek, everything is radioactive, even gravity!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Anything chrono- such as chronometric gravitons and chronotonic antimatter. Just don't mix them with gravimetric chronotons and antitonic chronomatter.

If you miss Treknobabble, click here.

 

[Amaris]

It's been said before, but making poor Jimmy say all of the technobabble that he had to say in Generations should be a crime. Scotty didn't talk about phase inducers, he just damn well made them work.


J.

 

[Cyclopean]

It's not quite on target, but I watched VOY's Alice the other day, and it featured a spatial anomaly called a 'particle fountain.'

I figured the CGI was going to be space statuary of a little boy peeing bosons and quarks.

 

[Stormrage]

using a triaxialating frequency on a covariant subspace band

Voyager Work Force.

They couldn't make contact with an amplified signal so they came up with a way by spreading it out thin.

 

[USS KG5]

J. Allen said:
It's been said before, but making poor Jimmy say all of the technobabble that he had to say in Generations should be a crime. Scotty didn't talk about phase inducers, he just damn well made them work.

There was a lot to be said for the fact that most shipboard modifications and repairs could be made by playing with the wiring under Spock's console too.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

StarMan said:
From your memory, what is the most obscene use of technobabble? I'm talking about disgusting, lazy technospeak that saves the crew or scenes involving an unbearable amount of gibberish.

Compared to the medibabble on ER, Chicago Hope, Grey's Anatomy, St. Elsewhere, House, Quincy ME, CSI and the legalbabble on Law & Order and every other cop/lawyer show, what Star Trek did is a minor sin. It was just part of their universe, much like the terms on the old BSG. Again, big deal!

 

[Jamee999]

"The engines cannae take it!"

Disgusting.