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I read a story about TOS. A company was building automatic doors. Someone wrote to the production asking how they got their doors to work so flawlessly.
Two Union workers was not the answer the company was hoping for.
83I hope they were sent the outtakes where the doors don't open.
13Wish granted.
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I'm a union man!
10Know your history!
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They worked smoothly but never silently, once you know to look for the breaks in dialogue for the door audio to be easily removed you never stop noticing it
10There are so many little details like that. From the 'swoosh' noise in the intro to the way every ship in the Galaxy flies in the same orientation.
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IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME
52I would also like to be manhandled by Terry Farrell
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This was when they realized she was the right person to marry Worf
38I don't get this reaction, is technobable really that difficult to recite for actors?
26Yes. Like high octane laughter fuel. It's ridiculous and everyone is just trying not to crack.
49There's also a reason that the "legitimate nerds" in show business become such cult favorites. The overlap of (1) "people who look like professional actors" and (2) "people who are believable while acting" and (3) "people who legitimately get into the fake logic of technobabble" is vanishingly small. If you are on a Trek show and not in that intersection, pretending to be a 3 is going to be one of the biggest challenges in pulling off 2 to your expected standards.
To cross franchises for a moment, "you can write this shit George, but you can't say it."
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A scene that lasts 30 seconds on screen might take an entire morning to shoot. The actors have to repeat their lines exactly the same, every time. Imagine having to say the technobabble fifty times or more, without messing it up.
22I can easily imagine it. You have words that the actor has never seen before, which have literally zero emotional resonance for them so they can't draw on any personal or cultural connections to use them, and they're tasked with spitting them out in a scene that calls for both intimate familiarity and stressful high stakes.
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Wrap party?
Not warp party? C'mon..
19filming ends
"Alright people, that's a warp!"
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I hate when people try to write technobabble like that. It has a logic and if you have watched enough star trek it starts to make sense.
Then JJ Abrams comes a long and has Butterbeer Crampleslice tell us life support system is behind the aft nacelles. Even the first few seasons of the new Trek shows did this crap until they brought on science and Canon consultants
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4There is nothing technochron blorbinator in the Trek lexicon - I'm saying that writing example technobabble like that shows a lack of understanding of the source.
I don't have any specific examples, but I remember the first 2 seasons of discovery and a little in the first season of Picard getting Trek particles wrong and not knowing systems. It got better once they hired Erin MacDonald and brought on David Mack and a few other novelists to consult on prodigy and I think Picard iirc
edit: Hey look I can play the edit game too - I provided a poorly researched example and explained that technology use not well used in early discovery - I acknowledged that being critical of technology use can be hand waived because its fictitious and apparently that's not good enough for our combative OP. I also provided sources on the franchise now using specialists to keep track of technology and technobabble, and advised that I am not a "nutrek hater" as our contentious colleague here had to go and attack me personally - check below for the receipts and tax returns!
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God, Jadzia was my first gay crush, I so wish that were me 😅
11And my first straight crush, so I second this.
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Lol fantastic
10What I wouldn't give to have Terry Farrell lift me up by the lapels and shake me.
8She got her revenge it seems. :D
4Haha! This is a fucking gem!
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1Terry Farrell is six feet tall
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