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What do you think are some of the worst examples of Treknobabble in the franchise?

And what series do you think does it poorly the most often?

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Almost anything involving the space-magic Enterprise D dish between the engine nacels:

Need more power? Modify the main deflector and divert power from shields.

Space anomoly? Bombard it with tachyon particles from the main deflector.

Need to modulate frequency of phaser array because a borg cube adapted to your weapons? Use the main deflector to send a resonance pulse and overwhelm their shields with a flood of positronic particles.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Don't forget to bounce a graviton particle beam off the main detector dish.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

It's charged with antiprotons, you'll blow up half the ship.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

That's the way we do things lads, we're making shit up as we wish!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm so glad at least one person got the reference.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

now you are star trekking across the universe

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

On the starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk!

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