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[camwyn]

I am told that when the writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation got to bits in the script that required references to specific phenomena or workings of the Enterprise, the script would look like this:

PICARD: Engineering! Report!
LAFORGE: Captain, we're having trouble with the [TECH]. The main engines are [TECH TECH TECH], and we can't seem to [TECH]. It's going to be a while before I get them back online.
PICARD: Is there any way to [TECH]?
LAFORGE: Not under the circumstances, but we'll do our best.

I'm currently very nearly done with the latest Who Ya Gonna Owl? segment. Amelia Bones has just asked Egon and Ray why the proton packs still work despite being hip-deep in a major magical field.

My notes are full of [TECH] and [MAGIC] and [BLA BLA BLA].

The scary part is that when I translate that into actual words? It comes out sounding like it would actually work.

Comments

[empy.livejournal.com]

Icon loooove! I swear, I thought I was the only one who shipped Doc Ock/tentacles.

You know, that sounds so incredibly *wrong* when you type it out.

[camwyn]

The icon is courtesy of the lovely and talented happytemplar, and was created in response to this rather distressing thread about Dr. Octavius Mary Sues following the release of Spiderman 2.

Sadly, I can understand the Sueification impulse. I don't think we could've been more than about two-thirds of the way into the movie before I realised DR. OTTO OCTAVIUS IS T3H HOTTEST SCIENTIST EVAR.

[batyatoon]

Alex wants to know: "What about the other three tentacles? No fair!"

[camwyn]

It's like a wolf pack. Only the dominant pair gets any. The others just have to fight it out amongst themselves.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

If anyone could force magic and science to work together, it would be Ray and Egon. Especially when you consider episodes like "Ragnarok and Roll", where the guys manage to stop a flutist from destroying the world...

[camwyn]

One of my favourites, that episode. I think that was the first one I got my friend Deirdre to watch with me, thus sucking her into the fandom (in the days before I knew what the word 'fandom' meant, mind you). That, and, well, Egon got startled enough to say, "Holy Heisenberg, you're right!", which is just too cool for words.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

"Holy Heisenberg, you're right!"

*falls down laughing* (You realize, I saw this after reading quantum physics / electrodynamics all morning, so Heisenberg was rather fresh in my mind, which just made it even better. (worse?) Days like this make me thing Egon and I would get along splendidly.)

One of mine, too.

[aberrantangels]

It has two of the most powerful emotional moments of that season, if not indeed of the series entire — DiTillio's "At least I'm still human" speech (which I really need a printout of to get me through some tough moments) and the foursome's willingness to blow their proton packs to prevent Jeremy from bringing the house down. Anyone who thinks Amerimation wasn't telling serious stories until it had to compete with anime needs to see this one.

On the other hand, it has two of the loveliest laugh-despite-yourself exchanges of the series as well:
a) When Jeremy discards the parchment on which the invocation is written, saying "I do not need it. The words are inscribed on my heart and engraved on my soul" (or something grand like that), and DiTillio replies "Well, that must have been painful. I remember I got a tattoo once..."
b) The way Jeremy's goodbye note to his girlfriend (Cynthia, wasn't she?) overloaded the PKE meter, and the reactions to that:

RAY: Wow! Can you imagine what kind of raw psychic energy he must have been in contact with for a single piece of exposed parchment to do that?
WINSTON: Do I want to?
RAY: Only if you wanna have nightmares every night for the rest of your life!
WINSTON: ...I'll pass.

Re: One of mine, too.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Heh. If memory serves me correctly, that episode kicks so very much arse because it's one of ones written by J. Michael Straczynski, who has managed to resurrect that concept of intelligent television nearly single-handedly.

-- Lorrie

[ymfaery]

*snerk*

I'm working on something right now that takes place in a climate colder than the one I live in. As a result, I'm not sure what types of plants are prevalent, and I don't have any handy reference books/links on plants at the moment. So for now, whenever I have to mention a tree or a bush or whatnot, I've been sticking in [tree], [bush], [flower], etc. ;D

[drharper.livejournal.com]

*snickerfits*

Almost sounds like a censor.

Geordie: Son of a [TECH]! Bartley, when I get my [TECH] hands on you, I'm gonna kick your [TECH] ass from here to the Neutral Zone!

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

Heh. Fear the power of Technobabble

Be careful with that.

[alara-r.livejournal.com]

I just posted a Star Trek TNG crossover with X-Men Movieverse and was horrified to realize, after posting it *everywhere*, that it still has {look up telepathic thingy} in the scene where Beverly Crusher is scanning Charles Xavier's brain. :-)

BTW, just finished your Hellblazer: Hogwarts. I *love* this! Can't wait to see John meet Harry... :-)