What do you think are some of the worst examples of Treknobabble in the franchise?

And what series do you think does it poorly the most often?

  • @BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I think Discovery had the worst. It isn’t the technobabbke it self that was the problem, it was how it was delivered.

    Everyone seemed to be needed to be the most intelligent person in the room. So one person would start with some sudden realisation and solution, and then another would interrupt them and pick up the idea and then either back to the first person, or yet another person would interrupt. Between then all they’d build a tower of technobabble and deus ex machina, and self congratulatory nonsense. It was just so silly.

    Person 1 “wait if we reveresed the polarity of the neutron projector…”

    Person 2 “yes! It’d cause a build of tachyons and we’d be able to resonate the electron confabulaotr! Oh but there wouldn’t be enough plasma.”

    Person 3: “no wait, that might work! We’d have to recomboulate the manifolds and…”

    Person 1: "…that would allow us to recrystallise the warp matrix! Of course!’

    Whose a genius? Everyone in the room is a genius! Let’s all give ourselves a round of applause.

    That and all the space kung fu.

    • Corgana
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      53 months ago

      Is this example actually real or is it made up?

        • Corgana
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          2 months ago

          OP asked for examples and the comment in question (along with your reply) gives the appearance that you’re both just making up nonexistent situations in order to complain about a TV show.

            • Corgana
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              22 months ago

              Apologies I see how you got that impression, I edited my comment for clarity.