This may earn me a fusillade of hatred on this here website, but now that I have access to five generations of #StarTrek on a nightly basis, I am just gobsmacked at how much New Generation and Voyager rely tech speak to give their narrative action pseudo-scientific cover.
I mean, I was aware of it at the time, but in rewatching it's just ludicrous how much of the show is just "I can configure the ship's frontal array to emit a pulse of tachyon particles that will match the frequency of the subspace phenomenon." Turns out they were aware of it at the time, and laughed/cried about it behind the scenes. And then there's this tidbit—a technobabble Madlibs that was meant as a joke was being used to write dialogue for later episodes?
And then there's this, which is pretty close to what the dialogue sounds like.
“There's a series of nanowave pulse signatures in the overheating electro-plasma collector brackets.”
@ColesStreetPothole , and every time I think "just reset the damn dampeners, jerks!"
@JonKramer "I said socket, not sprocket!"