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   From: kweeg@nospam.shaw.ca   
      
    wrote in message   
   news:1125079457.409637.113840@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   > I was just wondering what everyone's pick is for the worst use of   
   > technobabble (as a cop-out, as a WTF? moment, as a confusing mix of   
   > nonsensical statements, etc.) in any Star Trek series or movie.   
   >   
   > Please quote it exactly. That means checking a tape or DVD.   
   >   
   > As for my pick, I don't know if it's the worst, but I find it rather   
   > funny for some reason, and I even inadvertantly memorized it.   
   >   
   > It's in the teaser of TNG's "Relics", when Riker and LaForge are   
   > looking around the ship:   
   >   
   > LaForge: "Commander,...the transporter is still online. It's being fed   
   > power from the auxilliary systems."   
   >   
   > Riker: "The rematerialization subroutine has been disabled."   
   >   
   > LaForge: "Yeah, and that's not all. The phase inducers are connected to   
   > the emitter array, the override is completely gone, and...pattern   
   > buffer's been locked into a continuous diagnostic cycle."   
   >   
   > Riker: "This doesn't make any sense. Locking the unit into a diagnostic   
   > mode just sends the matter array through the pattern buffer. [Note: For   
   > whatever reason, my friend, Mike, chuckled and exclaimed "Yes!" when I   
   > quoted this line to him; it must be his favorite thing that he didn't   
   > understand. :P] Why would anyone - "   
   >   
   > LaForge: "There's a pattern in the buffer still."   
   >   
   > Riker: "It's completely intact. There's less than .003% signal   
   > degradation. How is that possible?"   
   >   
   > Any others?   
      
      
   Voyager... any   
      
      
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