RDM on Why Galactica Steered Clear of Technobabble

[Mr. Oragahn]

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/10/ ... hnobabble/

There's some Trek related stuff.

“The technobabble in Trek just got completely out of control,” Moore told reporters Friday at the opening of the Battlestar Galactica exhibit at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle.

Moore said he used to put the word tech in his scripts as a placeholder, which led to stultifying dialogue like this:

Picard: “Mr. La Forge, I need you to tech the tech.”

La Forge: “But Captain, if we tech the tech then the tech will override! The tech main engines might tech too much!”

“It was maddening,” Moore said. “The actors hated it. I really tried to sit on the technobabble in Galactica.”

[Mith]

While I agree it did really get out of hand, why didn't he just do some research and then go KISS? The technobabble got out of hand due to inconsitent writing, not because it was too complex to understand. For example, the warp drive; you had matter and antimatter injectors that went into the crystal that regulated the reactions. It's not really hard to understand.

It only gets that way when you use Deus Ex Machina to save the day or to create an artificial problem, which DS9 wasn't above using now and again. Series like Voyager however, pretty much ran the entire series on it.

[Praeothmin]

Actually Mith, the early Voyager ran the series on technobabble, then it ran it on 7's tits...

[Mr. Oragahn]

Actually Mith, the early Voyager ran the series on technobabble, then it ran it on 7's tits...

And those were near overload as well.