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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6180197" data-attributes="member: 13107">Mostly, the explanations are useless.&nbsp; Now, some descriptions are useful, e.g., the force as a field which encompasses and overlaps all living things, is a nice description.&nbsp; The label &quot;vergence in the force&quot;, one presumes, describing Anakin Skywalker as a point of convergence of trends in the force, is OK.&nbsp; But presenting Mediclorians was total fail.Some explanations are OK, as long as they don't try really to be explanations.&nbsp; Bruce Banner is superstrong because of an exposure to Gamma rays.&nbsp; Sure.&nbsp; Realistically, dead, dead, dead.&nbsp; But for a superhero, works fine for me.Star Trek has always positioned its technobabble on the edge of current thinking.&nbsp; Not that it made sense, but was always colorful and entertaining.The detail of needing six coordinates, yeah, that is a bit off.&nbsp; Actually, what was more off for Scotty for Star Trek: Into Darkness was the huge lack of precision in the numbers.&nbsp; Finding a tiny spec of a base in the whole of near Saturn space, which is what the level of precision implied, would be next to impossible.Thx!TomB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 6180197, member: 13107"] Mostly, the explanations are useless. Now, some descriptions are useful, e.g., the force as a field which encompasses and overlaps all living things, is a nice description. The label "vergence in the force", one presumes, describing Anakin Skywalker as a point of convergence of trends in the force, is OK. But presenting Mediclorians was total fail. Some explanations are OK, as long as they don't try really to be explanations. Bruce Banner is superstrong because of an exposure to Gamma rays. Sure. Realistically, dead, dead, dead. But for a superhero, works fine for me. Star Trek has always positioned its technobabble on the edge of current thinking. Not that it made sense, but was always colorful and entertaining. The detail of needing six coordinates, yeah, that is a bit off. Actually, what was more off for Scotty for Star Trek: Into Darkness was the huge lack of precision in the numbers. Finding a tiny spec of a base in the whole of near Saturn space, which is what the level of precision implied, would be next to impossible. Thx! TomB [/QUOTE]

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