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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Irishman: [qb] Rules of drama? And you think Berman and Braga are formulaic? It's called trying to surprise you. I suppose you hated the end of "The Usual Suspects" too, as who knew Kevin Spacey was Kaiser Sozce?[/qb][/QUOTE]Well, if anyone hasn't seen that you've really pissed them off. But no, that doesn't count, because it was forshadowed from the (warning, oncoming capitals) VERY FIRST SCENE. The Voyager's horrendous use of technobabble would have to have Keyser Soze be a random person off the street. Okay, look, let's take the Big Deflector Dish weapon in BOBW. That wasn't a Deus Ex Machina, or pointless technobabble, for a few reasons: 1/ It was quite clearly explained near the beginning of the show. 2/ It was mentioned that it would have "bad side effects", so it wasn't something they could use more than once. 3/ It didn't work. And going to the end of the show, the whole "interconnectivity being their weekness" thing also wasn't technobabble, because it made sense within the character of the Borg as it had been presented to us. Using Picard as a mole on the inside also made sense. A bad ending would have been to have Geordi say "Hang on, I can get the big deflector weapon working again, and I've increased it's power by adding a supspace teacup pattern over it's internal matrix doowack". And have that blow up the Borg. If you really want to use Voyager as an example, the ending of The Year of Hell wasn't "stupid technobabble" at all. A reset button, yes, but also one that made perfect sense. All the ship's problems had been causes by this time-ship changing things. The time-ship lives out of time. Blow it up, and it never existed. Problems go away. See, Voyager got it right occasionally. On the other hand, something like the ending to "Parallels" really was technobabble. "Oh no, Worf is jumping between universes, but if we do this, this and this, it will be fixed". However, that wasn't really a problem, since the point of that episode wasn't "Worf is trapped, and is trying to get home", but "let's have some fun showing how the show COULD have ended up after 7 years if things had happened differently". And also, there was development in the Troi/Worf thing (however silly that was to begin with), so it holds together. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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