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Is that relevant? I picked a show I'd seen recently. I was illustrating a point about technobabble being widespread in sci-fi shows - respect mah authoratah, dammit!Darth Servo wrote:And when did I ever claim to enjoy SG-1?
Then go right ahead and criticize it. The wide spread technobabble can in large part be traced right back to the Trek monster, so why shouldn't I give it a hard time.ClaysGhost wrote:Is that relevant? I picked a show I'd seen recently. I was illustrating a point about technobabble being widespread in sci-fi shows - respect mah authoratah, dammit!Darth Servo wrote:And when did I ever claim to enjoy SG-1?
Ah yes, I remember that. When I rewatched it a few months back, I laughed out loud at the concept of Hubble expansion affecting indivudual solar systems in a galaxy. The writers failed to realize that the expansion constant has units of kilometers per second per megaparsec.ClaysGhost wrote:Other shows do often turn to technobabble. For instance, (film) Stargate uses technobabble to convince people that an essentially stupid and useless coordinate system works, and I'm pretty sure that most (SG-1) episodes I've cared to watch recently have involved either time travel or parallel universes, helped along with a bit of hand-waving from Carter (annoying).
You horrible person you, you have some problem with full frontal nudity?Darth Servo wrote:And when did I ever claim to enjoy SG-1? I think I wateched ONE episode and was disgusted. My current TV viewing consists of MST3K (obviously), South Park and The Man Show.
Star Trek OTOH has made a big deal about being scientific and all, many people believe the hype that it's scientifically accurate and whatnot.ClaysGhost wrote:Er, yes, zero still equals zero. However, bashing Voyager for abusing scienific accuracy is daft when every other show does it too (sound in space, engines always on, slapping footage of firecracker explosions in atmosphere onto space fights, pasting Hubble images into background scenes that required integration times of days, not milliseconds (I'm talking to B5, here)). I think you cannot pick and choose which bits of science to apply and complain when some show doesn't do it, because evey show falls down somewhere. There are far better reasons to bash voyager, like it having the consistency of mud, the scripting finesse of a gerbil and a deus ex machina every week.
I'd suggest chewing it up for something uniquely Trek, then (like reversing the polarity every damn show!). Electromagnetism and inertia are pretty much abused whenever they're depicted or mentioned in sci-fi.His Divine Shadow wrote: Star Trek OTOH has made a big deal about being scientific and all, many people believe the hype that it's scientifically accurate and whatnot.
And when itself is one of the worst offenders, it ought to get chewed up.
What you mean I can't reverse the polarity on my fuel injectors to make my car go faster? Uh oh. *Runs out to his car.*ClaysGhost wrote:I'd suggest chewing it up for something uniquely Trek, then (like reversing the polarity every damn show!). Electromagnetism and inertia are pretty much abused whenever they're depicted or mentioned in sci-fi.His Divine Shadow wrote: Star Trek OTOH has made a big deal about being scientific and all, many people believe the hype that it's scientifically accurate and whatnot.
And when itself is one of the worst offenders, it ought to get chewed up.
His Divine Shadow wrote:You horrible person you, you have some problem with full frontal nudity?Darth Servo wrote:And when did I ever claim to enjoy SG-1? I think I wateched ONE episode and was disgusted. My current TV viewing consists of MST3K (obviously), South Park and The Man Show.
??? WTF? Could you please elaborate on what the hell you're talking about?No, you'll just have to go see Stargate SG1 pilot episode.Darth Servo wrote:His Divine Shadow wrote:You horrible person you, you have some problem with full frontal nudity?Darth Servo wrote:And when did I ever claim to enjoy SG-1? I think I wateched ONE episode and was disgusted. My current TV viewing consists of MST3K (obviously), South Park and The Man Show.
Hehe. C'mon full frontal nudity for a second, that's just sad. Though she was hot.His Divine Shadow wrote:No, you'll just have to go see Stargate SG1 pilot episode.Darth Servo wrote:His Divine Shadow wrote:You horrible person you, you have some problem with full frontal nudity?