Treknobabble
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Treknobabble is a portmanteau of "Star Trek" and "technobabble". It is used humorously by fans of the various Star Trek television series, and disparagingly by its critics, to describe the infamous amount of pseudoscientific gibberish packed into many episodes. Writers on The Next Generation and later series inserted the tag "<tech>" to portions of the script where they needed some jargon inserted, which others then assembled. Piller filler is a synonym, a derivative of producer Michael Piller's name.[1][2]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Michael Piller, Co-creator and Creative Consultant on DS9 and Voyager and Executive Producer on The Next Generation". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/piller/printpage.html. Retrieved May 08, 2011.
- ^ "Jonathan Frakes - The Next Generation's Number One, Will Riker, and Trek director". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/frakes/printpage.html. Retrieved May 07, 2011.
[edit] External links
- The Deeper Side of Trek: Technobabble — illustrates both uses of the term.
- The Star Trek Failure Generator — A Treknobabble generator.
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