The technobabble on Voyager drove me crazy because there was no consistency and just constant deus ex machina solutions that popped into a character’s head that magically fixed everything.
All it took was realigning or remodulating or polarizing or rerouting the EPS relays or the dilithium matrix or the deflector dish. And one character would always first suggest one technobabble solution so the next character could explain why it won’t work and magically be inspired with a new technobabble solution that will work. Once I noticed that pattern, it honestly ruined Voyager for me because it happens constantly.
TNG had their share of technobabble, but it always felt like they tried to stay logically consistent. DS9 kept the technobabble pretty limited because the plot was way more important, and I think it really shines because of that.
And the writing is SO much better than Voyager.
The technobabble on Voyager drove me crazy because there was no consistency and just constant deus ex machina solutions that popped into a character’s head that magically fixed everything.
All it took was realigning or remodulating or polarizing or rerouting the EPS relays or the dilithium matrix or the deflector dish. And one character would always first suggest one technobabble solution so the next character could explain why it won’t work and magically be inspired with a new technobabble solution that will work. Once I noticed that pattern, it honestly ruined Voyager for me because it happens constantly.
TNG had their share of technobabble, but it always felt like they tried to stay logically consistent. DS9 kept the technobabble pretty limited because the plot was way more important, and I think it really shines because of that.
Some Kind Of
I’d never realized… after about a decade of writing for a particular show, they’d locked themselves into some kind of…
edit: also worth its own post, if only to carry across some kind of…