Technobabble

[Aldaron]

Originally posted by StyroFoam Man:
Make sure there isn't a hole in your event horzion!!! (arrrrrgggggghhhhhh!)

That has to be one of the STUPIDEST examples of technobabble I have ever herd.

Where was that? (Don't tell me: a VOY episode, right? )



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[Dan Gurden]

Originally posted by Aldaron:
Where was that? (Don't tell me: a VOY episode, right? )

No, its a horror film from a few years back called 'Event Horizon'. I quite liked it actually...

Originally posted by Captain Novaes:
Most of the time, especially in television, films, or gaming products, "science fiction" or "sci-fi" is just a label given to anything with props of the genre, such as robots, aliens, space travel or high technology. Unfortunately, most of the time, there is no science behind the fiction, such as the computer virus in "Independence Day" infecting an alien computer system, or the technobabble that explains nothing in "Star Trek,"

Having just watched the special edition on DVD recently, its odd that the restored 8 minutes seems to include a short technobabble explanation of just HOW the computer virus could infect the alien PC (Mr Goldblum had tapped into their computer language in Binary format when he broke the signal code). But was cut out due to the proximity to an entire subplot about a sick child...

- BUT; it was technobabble and a perfect axample of what we are talking about here.

Mind you the original Bi-Plane ending sequence is amusing especially the directors commentary that it was dropped and refilmed because nobody would have believed it...

But those are discussions for another board entirely...

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[Joe Dizzy]

Real science...
I'm more of a err... dramatist, story-teller, whatever... kind of narrator.

I don't find hard sci-fi all that interesting, and science not all that ripe with "dramatic" possibilities.

That may be why I don't mind TB at all, as long as the players understand, that it's simply 'flavor' and never the center of any of my episodes or puzzles.

But I can see where you're coming from. I do have to wonder though, what attracted you to ST as I never found it THAT concerned with sticking to RL science in most episodes.

[StyroFoam Man]

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[Captain Novaes]

Originally posted by Joe Dizzy:
Real science...
I'm more of a err... dramatist, story-teller, whatever... kind of narrator.

I don't find hard sci-fi all that interesting, and science not all that ripe with "dramatic" possibilities.

You'd be surprised...

That may be why I don't mind TB at all, as long as the players understand, that it's simply 'flavor' and never the center of any of my episodes or puzzles.

But I can see where you're coming from. I do have to wonder though, what attracted you to ST as I never found it THAT concerned with sticking to RL science in most episodes.[/B]

Well, that would be TOS. While it never centered on real science questions, it had enough tantalizing sci-fi background and more than enough drama ! How could I not be attracted ? I never missed the show, as a kid, and I remember very well abhorring Lost in Space when it substituted TOS in syndication...

BTW: That 'hole in event horizon' thing DID came from Voyager... it's in the 3 episode of the first season.

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