Trek Clichés

[Garm Bel Iblis]

What are come of the Trek Clichés that pop up? There’s dialogue like:

"Shields at something percent."

"We can't take another hit like that." Then they take thirty more.

There’s stories as the "love story of the week." or the "crewman is dead of an episode and fine at the end."

What some more?

 

[Geckothan]

Tachyon pulses, neutrinos and deflector dishes.

 

[Pauln6]

The entire plot of Galaxy Quest.

"Whoever wrote this episode should DIE!"

 

[RegFan]

Tvtropes.org has a whole list of these clichés. That site calls those clichés tropes (however, sometimes the word "cliché" is used).

 

[scotpens]

Two words: Shirtless Shatner!

Then there was always some familiar term made “futuristic” by the simple device of adding a numeric prefix. Examples:

Dilithium crystals
Tri-ox compound
Duotronic (and multitronic) computers
Trimagnesite flares
Tri-laser connector
And, of course, Quadrotriticale!

 

[sbk1234]

Dead redshirts.

"Is this what you humans call....."love?"

 

[SFRabid]

Invert the ....
Modulate the ....
Rotate frequency modulations.
I fail to see the logic in that.

And of course the number one cliche

"Beam me up Scotty."

 

[DevilEyes]

Alien races almost always have a single government, uniform culture, all the members of the race dress the same and even wear the same damn haircut.

They can have different dialects. But not different languages.

 

[TheKeeper]

The Enterprise is "the only ship in the quadrant", exactly when the quadrant could use a few more ships.

 

[scotpens]

Every time Kirk runs into someone he knew back at Starfleet Academy, the guy's always got a few screws loose and/or has violated the Prime Directive big time.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

"How long till you can get the warp injectors operational?"
"Five days, Captain."
"I want it done in two hours!"

 

[Finn]

"Shields at something percent."

No...not really. It is reasonable for someone to say it while the sheilds is in use during a battle.

 

[Mysterion]

"Captain, you need to come down here to sickbay/engineering."
"What's going on?"
(pause)
"You need to see it for yourself."

Hate that kind of dialogue.

 

[Lor'Vela]

The number 47.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPoiH0JlQ9A

 

[JoeFromEarth]

To solve X problem, we just need to reverse the polarity...

Also, a lot of times they solve problems by extending an analogy. i.e. It's like we're looking into a mirror!! We just have to break the mirror!

 

[Plomeek Broth]

They might as well just say "our shields are indestructable." If not for that whole dramatic tension thingy.

I also crack up when I see a Redshirt beaming down with main cast members thinking that dude is toast.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

To solve X problem, we just need to reverse the polarity...

...of the neutron flow! Damn it, where's my sonic screwdriver...oh, wait, wrong forum.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

To solve X problem, we just need to reverse the polarity...

Also, a lot of times they solve problems by extending an analogy. i.e. It's like we're looking into a mirror!! We just have to break the mirror!

Don't they realise that's seven years' bad luck?

 

[scotpens]

. . . We just have to break the mirror!

And Tommy will be able to hear, see and speak again!

Oops, wrong forum.