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The technobabble in Trek just got completely out of control,” Moore told reporters Friday at the opening of the Battlestar Galactica exhibit at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle.
Moore said he used to put the word tech in his scripts as a placeholder, which led to stultifying dialogue like this:

Picard: “Mr. La Forge, I need you to tech the tech.”

La Forge: “But Captain, if we tech the tech then the tech will override! The tech main engines might tech too much!”