Starfleet Slang

Over the course of many years (and with assistance of both my awesome players and various internet sources) I have compiled the following list of Starfleet Slang... Enjoy and please add your own.


Nicknames/Job/Ranks Descriptions:

* Annointed of God - the command staff.
* Civvie - civilian
* Clean Collar - a cadet.
* ChEng - Chief Engineer.
* Core Climber - an engineering crew member (may also be a computer specialist) who climbs the ranks in that department rather quickly.
* Duck of Doom - Romulan warship.
* Echelons Above God - the flag ranks.
* Echelons Above Reality - level in the chain of command totally disconnected with events in the field.
* Fridgeboys - a derogatory term for Breen.
* Green Machine - the Romulan Star Navy.
* HollowDick - the male lead in an erotic holonovel.
* Hug Junkie - a derogatory term for Betazoids also used to describe Ship's Counsellor.
* Jeffries Jockey- an engineer, particularly one who works in small access areas, such as Jeffries tubes.
* Jemmie - a term for Jem'Hadar
* Left-Handed Spanner - an engineer with an unorthodox approach.
* Snowhead, blueberry - derogatory term for Andorians.
* Sparkchasers - engineering technicians specializing in power distribution.
* Tinbenders - engineering technicians specializing in structural work.
* White Hunter - this is a term for any ship or soldier who has killed more than it's share of Jem`Hadar, the orginal use of the slang was for ground secruity who would make trophies of the ketracel-white vials of the Jem`Hadar soldiers they had killed. It later moved up to include ships that were very good at fighting the Jem`Hadar warships.
* Zoomie - pilot, normally referred to by ground forces. ("We're in! Get us moving, Zoomie!")

Locations:

* Adult Day Care Center (ADCC) - the bridge, flag bridge of a starship, or the operations center of a starbase where the Admiralty and other senior staff are kept during the day.
* High Chair- the ship’s CO’s station on the bridge (may be use for the one on the Battle Bridge, and Auxiliary Bridges as well). (“Patch the information to the high chair, let the Captain see this...”)
* Outer Ring - the corridor circling the widest part of a ship which is often used for senior officer quarters as it affords a great view of space.
* Red Light District - an older Earth term for "Venus district" reinvented for use in the 24th century to refer to those more "gentlemenly" establishments for higher, usally command level (hence "Red"), officers.
* Venus District - refers to that part of a space station or port of call where places of ill repute and persons of "open" morals are frequantly encountered.

Events/Accidents/Condition:

* Blue Flu - Andorian version of 'the common cold'.
* Holodiction - holodeck addiction.
* On reserve power - in a state of exhaustion.
* Ordering Replicator Chunks - projectile vomiting.
* Paint Your Face Plate - to throw up while wearing a helmet or sealed vacuum suit, refers to spacesickness or someone deemed green or raw. (understandably, not a desireable outcome). ("Don't feel so bad. kid. Everybpody paints his faceplate at least once.")
* Pulling a Picasso - blowing it on using the transporter.
* Scrambled Eggs - the victim of transporter malfunction.
* Suck Vacuum - to die in deep space.

Equipment:

* Leather Personnel Carrier (LPC) - footwear, normally combat boots. ("Sorry, lads. The shuttle's FUBAR'd, so we're travelling by LPC")
* Suicide Sled - pilot's term for an untested fighter, shuttlecraft, or bomber. ("I am never plunking my rear into another suicide sled again.")

Expressions:

* Beam & Scream - beaming into a BAAAAD situation. Rapid Response Team slang.
* Beam Trip - using a transporter to visit a planet being studied when off duty to get away from the ship for a while. Usually requires permission. ("Chief we just want to beam trip down to look at the swamps.")
* Blue Light Special - an EMH that acts "beyond" it’s programming (kinder, gentler, different knowledges on non-medical skills)
* Bucket of Instant Sunshine - a torpedo used inside an atmosphere.( "The Jemmies were so damned tough we had to call for a bucket of instant sunshine; it was the only way to neutralise them. Worked, too - all that was left was a hole in the ground".)
* Leaky Vac Suit - to be unprepared. ("He just ran off in a leaky vac suit, like always. Didn't bother to take any rations or even a tricorder.")
* Mating with an EPS Power Tap - any dangerous or risky behavior that results (generally) in you being severely hurt, also ill-advised promiscuous behavior.
* Sensor Probe - crude way saying one is looking at a desirable persons of the opposite sex.
* Sensors locked - to notice an attractive member of the opposite sex.
* Tree lighting - a ceremonial start up of a warp core, or a cold reignition after repair. ("I don't care how impossible it is, light the tree lieutenant.")
* Walk the 'Lock - to deliberately eject a person though the airlock. To space someone. ("I heard those raiders made some civvie walk the 'lock.")

* Yank 'n' bank - take evasive action
* Turn 'n' burn - tactical retreat
* Kick the tires and light the fires - launch shuttle, or leave orbit
* Pull a Red Baron - make a sneak attack from the direction of a nearby star
* Cloud cover - nebulae, especially when used to hide from hostiles
* Hangar queen - a shuttle that requires excessive maintenance
* Bilge monkeys/rats - low ranking Engineering personnel, especially those assigned to waste reclamation system maintenance
* Operator - communications officer
* Naviguesser - navigation officer lacking in skill or confidence
* Eyeball - sensor officer
* Hot stick - highly skilled or aggressive helmsman, especially one who prefers the manual steering column to the console touchscreen controls
* He/She who must be obeyed - commanding officer

I like the "Beam and Scream"... I've dropped several groups of players into those over the years.

There were a few in the old FASA TNG roleplay book. One that comes to mind relates to zero-G motion sickness... AKA "firing photons"...

Thread the Needle - Flying a ship between two or more (usually larger, and more powerful) ships, allowing for a close multi-weapons pass on both enemy ships.

http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/game/s...e/glossary.htm - scroll down for the slang.

Given Voyager's track record, shuttles didn't last long enough to be hangar queens...

I wonder what name an indecisive dolt like J.T. Esteban might have earned -- a name that's printable, that is! A "cry-baby", maybe...?
'Encoded channel to Starfleet, Ensign! I've forgotten how the log recorder works again! We might have to head back to Spacedock!'