There’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.”
There was that one scene in TNG where Riker is actually making up a bunch of technobabble to distract a ferengi who had taken over the ship… and to this day I’m not sure how they got a take where he managed to go through it with a straight face.
Yes. Like high octane laughter fuel. It’s ridiculous and everyone is just trying not to crack.
There’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.”
I don’t like sand…
There was that one scene in TNG where Riker is actually making up a bunch of technobabble to distract a ferengi who had taken over the ship… and to this day I’m not sure how they got a take where he managed to go through it with a straight face.
I can see Frakes making it through, I have a hard time seeing the rest of the cast making it.