Alelou wrote:Escriba wrote:Elessar wrote:
And yes, I agree with T'Pol being impressed with his knowledge. That's what I missed more in the show: they don't tend to argue about work (at least, not much.) They argue more about food than about work.
Well, think who's writing this show: writers! They're usually about as far from math geeks or engineers as you can get. Those writers hated having to come up with technobabble almost as much as the actors hated having to say it. They'd have a technical manual for the show before they started writing, and I think they'd have techno geeks (who may or may not look geeky) come in from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory once in awhile and pick their brains and show them around the set, and maybe they had some designated techno continuity person who didn't really have time to do the job, but that was about it.
So almost anything you come up with will sound plausible to me, Escriba. Maybe you want to bounce it off the techno guys here first, though.
A guy named Andre Bormanis was the technical advisor/treknobabble writer for a long time. I'm pretty sure he was on TNG, VOY, and DS9 but I don't know about Enterprise.
I think having had one person all those years was good for it, even if he wasn't fantastic at it, at least it would be consistent.
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