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Ronald D. Moore Talks Lack of Technobabble on GALACTICA

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By GustavoLeao / 04:43, 16 October 2005 / General Genre/SciFi

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore's latest update to his Battlestar Galatica blog at SciFi.Com includes comments on show's lack of technobabble, the final three episodes of the season and more. Here is a few excerpt.



"I did want to stay away from the technobabble that I felt sometimes swamped the characters in TREK, and so I have intentionally avoided discussion of the technical workings of GALACTICA." Moore wrote "Bit by bit, however, small windows into the inner workings do come to light and I'm sure will continue to do so in the future. Also, in all honesty, the writing staff often felt that the technological detail of the Enterprise was as limiting on TREK as it was helpful. We'd established so much about the way the engines worked and didn't work that we sometimes found ourselves discarding perfectly good story ideas or scenes because it contradicted some bit of jargon we'd tossed out two seasons before. There was always the option to write around those kind of details, of course, but inevitably, the thought of yet more tech-talk to justify doing what we wanted to do became a real irritant and we'd usually just try a different approach."

Read the full blog update here.



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RE: Is there a Starfleet Technobabble Manual? | Report this post to moderator
By: jimbtnp (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:46:38 on Oct 16, 2005

no technobabble was a result of B&B's lack of creatvityand the deathof ST

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