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.

( Activate emergency high-speed self-contained escape pack crisis response units )

I like science fiction. In principle. I like the escapism, because if I wanted to read about everyday life, well, I have one of those. (Okay, I actually have a really odd life, so sometimes I like stories with odd people doing the ordinary things I don't get to do.) And I like important stories; sci-fi tends to have stories involving consequences ( Read more... )