Comments on: Ron Moore Decries Star Trek Technobabble

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:01:40 +0000

RDM obviously took this to the other extreme. “We’ll just let some angels drive a series closure and forget about the plethora of unclosed foreshadowing we gave the audience over the previous 5 years”. No one will ever invest in his series’ again after the audience betrayal he pulled of on BSG

By: Bren

Bren — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:51:45 +0000

I’m guessing you joined at season 3 then? I think that’s when he put up the sign in the writing room saying “It’s the characters, stupid”, and subsequently allowed the show to unravel to a laughable degree in the name of character development.

By: Greg2600

Greg2600 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:58:17 +0000

There were a couple lines of technobabble on a TNG episode, at the most. Why Ron Moore continues to bring this subject up year after year I don’t know? I will credit him for the Klingon stories in TNG and DS9 and the success of BSG, although I cannot watch it. It’s a soap opera in space, and bores the hell out of me.

By: thebiggfrogg

thebiggfrogg — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:27:27 +0000

BSG is fantastic. It will definitely be relevant. I think it was the best damn drama on TV and if it hadn’t been sci fi it would have been “Mad Men” come award time.

Technobabble was okay in small doses, but in heaping helpings it was too often lame deus ex machina that sucked all the dramatic heft from the story.

By: YARN

YARN — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:45:13 +0000

Those who live in glass houses….

In 5-10 years I am sure we will hear the laments about writing on BSG. That is, if the show is still relevant enough that anyone will care to reflect about it.

By: Forrest

Forrest — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:42:36 +0000

“go back and read the LENSMAN series by Edward E. “Doc” Smith”

I’ll add that the Arcot, Morey & Wade novels by John W Campbell Jr are now available on gutenberg.net.

(Two feet of cosmium does not give way.)

By: Rick Sternbach

Rick Sternbach — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:44:07 +0000

#181 – TNG is much like any other episodic SF series. There are a handful of really primo episodes, maybe 10%; another 30% or so that are very good, another 40% that are acceptable to eh, and the final 20% that really don’t measure up. And this is regardless of the proportion of (tech) in them. In going back to some of the tech memos I contributed, I’m a bit surprised at the number of times I said “…or you could simply say…” and gave a much shorter bit of dialogue than what the script originally called for. Maybe the producers wanted that stuff to be a mouthful, maybe the writers just got into a pattern. I know we gave TPTB some three-word combinations that I wish I could erase from the continuum, but that’s history.

By: captain_neill

captain_neill — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:17:13 +0000

181

I dis agree. To this day TNG is still one of the best TV sci fi shows, It is still in top 5 charts. Sure in one chart it was nearly at the top, only beaten by BSG.

TNG is still a better show but BSG is an awesome showas well.

In fact I am tired of the TNG bashing, can we stop the TNG Bashing

God I read this site and wonder if the trekkies like any Trek.

By: TheMightyBruce

TheMightyBruce — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:33:06 +0000

TNG is practically unwatchable these days by anyone who isn’t a Trekkie…

By: Bren

Bren — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:36:25 +0000

Moore does a decent impression of the TNG crew :D.