Sci-fi fans know that scriptwriters for Star Trek: The Next Generation would often simply insert “tech” into the script in certain contexts and leave it to specialists to fill the space with technobabble. So, for instance, the scriptwriter would write
Picard: Engineering, what seems to be the problem?
Engineering: There’s a problem with the [TECH]
and then pass it to someone else, who would turn it into
Picard: Engineering, what seems to be the problem?
Engineering: There’s a problem with the quantum flux capacitor, which is depolarizing the dilithium crystals and causing the feedback circuits into temporal overload
Sometimes the technobabble is merely meaningless, scientific-sounding gobbledy-gook. And so I was pleased to come across an article which expressed appreciation for the use of the language of Isomorphic Algorithms in TRON Legacy. Fans will want to give it a read. It also discusses the moral outlook of the film and its avoidance of simplistic good-vs.-evil dichotomies.
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