Re:Detecting edges of images at the speed of light
by DarmokJalad1701 on Thursday January 30, 2025 @03:52AM
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"Tamm Plasmon Polaritons" sounds like something from Star Trek technobabble.
Re:Detecting edges of images at the speed of light
by nelblu on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:14AM
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Darmok and Jalad on the ocean!
Re:Detecting edges of images at the speed of light
by Galatians4_16 on Thursday January 30, 2025 @11:30AM
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Shaka, when the walls fell.
Re:Detecting edges of images at the speed of light
by TeMPOraL on Thursday January 30, 2025 @07:51AM
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Technobabble in TNG-era shows was actually quite consistent and even made sense if you squinted at it.
Re:Detecting edges of images at the speed of light
by mrandish on Thursday January 30, 2025 @03:51PM
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Yes, there were people on the production staff who, in addition to other duties, were responsible for maintaining as much consistency as possible in both technical descriptions and capabilities with prior episodes and Star Trek canon. Mike Okuda was one such person.
Obviously, the show was fiction and made for a broad general audience, so their technical inputs were sometimes 'streamlined' by the producers to minimize too much technical explication dialogue. But they generally did try to get enough on-screen to be both series-consistent and technically plausible within the fictional universe.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01667