Sci-Fi Technobabble Generator
This is a gross alteration of the Star Trek Technobabble Generator from The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkies Trekkers, Volume II. I came up with it fairly soon after reading the book in 1995, and recently rediscovered it while looking up the episode "The Chase", because of a discussion about it on a blog.
So here it is. If I had the right programming skills, I could make it actually generate phrases for you, but alas, I do not. So get some dice or use Excel to generate random numbers or something.
0. [blank] 0. [blank] 0. [blank] 0. [blank]1. antimatter 1. cloak 1. anomaly 1. capacitor2. cosmic 2. confinement 2. beam 2. conduit3.electric 3. containment 3. bubble 3. converter4. electromagnetic 4. energy 4. burst 4. discriminator5. gravitic 5. flux 5. core 5. generator6. magnetic 6. impulse 6. field 6. neutralizer7. natural 7. lepton 7. ring 7. receptor8. phasing 8. neutrino 8. shell 8. scanner9. static 9. nucleon 9. shield 9. sensor10. subspace 10. particle 10. stream 10. weapon 11. plasma 11. string 12. radiation 12. wave 13. warp
Results seem to come in three types: really cool (e.g. natural warp field neutralizer), nonsense (e.g. cosmic lepton bubble conduit), or really mundane (e.g. electromagnetic radiation beam generator, a.k.a. flashlight).
Please comment with any results you find interesting.
So here it is. If I had the right programming skills, I could make it actually generate phrases for you, but alas, I do not. So get some dice or use Excel to generate random numbers or something.
0. [blank] 0. [blank] 0. [blank] 0. [blank]1. antimatter 1. cloak 1. anomaly 1. capacitor2. cosmic 2. confinement 2. beam 2. conduit3.electric 3. containment 3. bubble 3. converter4. electromagnetic 4. energy 4. burst 4. discriminator5. gravitic 5. flux 5. core 5. generator6. magnetic 6. impulse 6. field 6. neutralizer7. natural 7. lepton 7. ring 7. receptor8. phasing 8. neutrino 8. shell 8. scanner9. static 9. nucleon 9. shield 9. sensor10. subspace 10. particle 10. stream 10. weapon 11. plasma 11. string 12. radiation 12. wave 13. warp
Results seem to come in three types: really cool (e.g. natural warp field neutralizer), nonsense (e.g. cosmic lepton bubble conduit), or really mundane (e.g. electromagnetic radiation beam generator, a.k.a. flashlight).
Please comment with any results you find interesting.