I really like Eureka, although the technobabble is getting very old. From Wordnik.com. [SF Fanatic: Current Science Fiction On Television] Reference
If I could take all of the meaningless 'technobabble' scenes out of films I would. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil is in the Details...] Reference
There’s a lot of this kind of technobabble sprinkled around MS products once you get past the really obvious errors. From Wordnik.com. [Why Microsoft Should Fix Its Error Messages In Windows 7 | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
Then it went off the rails with tachyon technobabble. From Wordnik.com. [Eureka: First Impressions] Reference
This unexpected appearance of technobabble worries me. From Wordnik.com. [Open Thread: #421 Daybreak Part 1] Reference
They are, to be kind, very easily hoodwinked with technobabble. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
DOCTOR WHO has well and truly fallen into the technobabble trap. From Wordnik.com. [why I didn't like "The Pandorica Opens" (spoilers)] Reference
We kept getting rehashes of previous stories and more technobabble. From Wordnik.com. [Why Did Enterprise End?] Reference
One of the things I like about it is there's virtually no technobabble. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Who, Torchwood and BSG] Reference
Like John, I'm really liking this season, even with all the technobabble. From Wordnik.com. [Tube Bits for 08/27/2008] Reference
Any plot that doesn't involve a lot of fighting or technobabble would be good. From Wordnik.com. [What Would You Like to See From The New Star Trek?] Reference
The setting has more rules and structure, and less fantasy - but more technobabble. From Wordnik.com. [July 11th, 2008] Reference
And most of the explanation for its nullification seemed to border on technobabble. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Killswitch by Joel Shephard] Reference
Not so much with the technobabble of the virus, but how to make it visual on screen. From Wordnik.com. [Writing: The Freelane #3] Reference
So has “pathetic level of detail” evolved into “pathetic absurd technobabble”?. From Wordnik.com. [Behe vs Sea Squirts - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Baryon acoustic oscillation BAO sounds like it could be technobabble from a Star Trek episode. From Wordnik.com. [New Search for Dark Energy Goes Back in Time | Universe Today] Reference
Alas, you have to wait through 8 minutes of NASA technobabble to see Allard actually take a sip. From Wordnik.com. [NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: December 2008 Archives] Reference
Hey, don't quibble with the technobabble unless you've been able to transform a human into a fly!. From Wordnik.com. [BUZZKILL] Reference
There's also a lot of technobabble surrounding the biological aspects of Cassandra's predicament. From Wordnik.com. [Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Singularity'] Reference
Seven o'clock I "moderated" a panel on using technobabble as a tool for writing plausible hard SF. From Wordnik.com. [Balticon so far] Reference
The technobabble words in it are everyday words to your characters so you should treat them as such. From Wordnik.com. [Testing] Reference
And even though the technobabble around this deal will probably turn out to be overstated, you never know. From Wordnik.com. [The Call Of The Wired] Reference
In this case, that vibe is spiked with weird drugged-out technobabble and shifty conspiratorial doublespeak. From Wordnik.com. [Hank Shteamer: Dick-ed Over] Reference
When a story gets bogged down by heavy detail and technobabble, the writer has effectively created a log jam. From Wordnik.com. [TMI] Reference
The man who can do anything: space shuttle mechanic, coroner, electrician, impressive technobabble spouter, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Eureka Season 2 (so far)] Reference
But Alpert pulls it off, giving the book a nice meaty finish instead of collapsing into anticlimactic technobabble. From Wordnik.com. [Final Theory: Einstein’s Last Stand] Reference
You get all this bad stuff, plus inconsistent character portrayals, fake-looking starship models, and technobabble too. From Wordnik.com. [Alas, Babylon] Reference
She does for marketing what her PiC Chris Messina does for translating technobabble into something that is easily grokable. From Wordnik.com. [The Essentials of Web 2.0 Your Event Doesn't Cover - Anil Dash] Reference
It's involved everything from revived 1920s jargon to technobabble neologisms to pidgin French to riffs on Cockney rhyming slang. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Hughes and the Wretched Crack of Noon] Reference
It's all because of the appearance of a mysterious ribbon in the sky-or in Star Trek technobabble, "a conflux of temporal energy.". From Wordnik.com. [When Time Stands Still] Reference
I've loved science fiction ever since I was a kid, but, let's face it, we ladies all love a good romance along with our technobabble!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
It was painfully awful; the "science" was like Trek on its worst day and the technobabble problem and technobabble solution were horrible. From Wordnik.com. [The Episode That Broke Me and Other "Crossroads II" Thoughts] Reference
The only beef I have is the tendency to use technobabble, but that's not a deal breaker as I wasn't expecting the show to be science heavy. From Wordnik.com. [Musings On The Current Science Fiction TV Scene] Reference
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