First, if TV Tropes has already explained that there are different kinds of "technobabble," then there is no excuse for refusing to distinguish them.
Second, the TV Tropes link defines filler as an episode in a serial that doesn't propel the narrative forward. Since Voyager was not serialized, this is completely irrelevant.
Third, the claim that The Visitor didn't use technobabble in resolving the plot is just not true. There is no sane way to think that Jake dying will bring his father back. The dramatic resolution is Jake's choice to die but the "explanation" of the plot device that sets up this choice is pure technobabble. The only reason so few people will admit this is because The Visitor didn't use many big words, which is their true working definition technobabble!
Fourth, the above except supposedly contrasting Parallax with The Visitor, doesn't even attempt to correctly describe what happens in Parallax. Which is, Janeway chooses between Torres and Carey (for Chief Engineer,) based on Torres' performance in a crisis. There's technobabble setting up the time hijinks premise, as well as the absurd escape route. But the climactic stretch of dialogue isn't even technobabble, for the very simple reason that it actually makes sense in context. It was a little harder to understand, which again goes to show how the practical, working definition (TV Tropes omitting it for amour-propre I'm sure,) is "big words."
People will generally find adult Jake Sisko's decision to die to save his father more dramatic than Janeway filling a personnel slot. This has nothing to do with technobabble.
I didn't choose "The Visitor" as the example, so don't look at me on that one.
First, you repeated it, so why not? Second, and more importantly, you're the one who chose to misrepresent Parallax as [tech],[tech]. Not my fault if your position is so absurd you can't defend it without falsifying the episode.
All in all, I think I'll just go on talking to other posters now. To be honest, when I find that a poster is unwilling to budge on even minor, almost petty issues, then there is no point in wasting what time I do have to discuss the series itself, a series I don't hate, though you seem to think otherwise.
You haven't talked to me. You've abused my intelligence trying to pass off BS as a serious argument, simply denounced my rebuttals without making a single honest or valid argument. You even linked to TV Tropes without noticing that the source agreed with me instead of yourself. You're the one who reason to budge, not me. The vague notion that posters are supposed to agree to nonsense to show they "respect" someone else's silly opinion is folly.Why are you wasting your time ineffectively or even, as in the phony summary of Parallax, dishonestly, defending what you call a "minor, almost petty" issue?
I don't think trotting out some damn fool buzzword is discussion, I think it's an imposition on rational people, treating them like fools. And you've done it without bothering to even read, near as I can tell,
my criticisms of Voyager. You're not even interested in discussing Voyager, you only want to repeat old meaningless slogans attacking Voyager. Is this just to annoy people who really do like the series? What can you possible expect to accomplish?
As for "big words", yeah, assume whatever you want. You've decided that contrary opinions hold no weight in your own universe, so yeah, do whatever, think whatever, say whatever. It's tedious discussing anything with your point of view. So keep your "the only reasons" and "big words", put a trophy in your avatar, and talk to yourself.
I'm not assuming anything. Your implication that I am is untrue. Just explain how I'm wrong, a real explanation, not an arrogant fiat. I'm sure it's tedious trying to discuss The Visitor and its supposed freedom from technobabble, when the plot is completely insane. I'm sure it's tedious trying to pretend the dramatic resolution to Parallax is technobabble when it actually makes sense, given the premises. I'm sure it tedious trying to find some other distinction between The Visitor's nonsense and Parallax's nonsense other than big words. I'm sure it's tedious to try explain how it's reasonable to expect a personnel placement to be as dramatically intense as a death scene. But it's your hole you dug, and just because you can't dig your way out, doesn't mean you have the right to abuse someone else for your folly.
