Via a comment by Anton Sherwood: Have you ever seen an episode of Star Trek with a particularly bad bit of technobabble, and said to yourself “You know, I’d be willing to fact-check their scripts for a few hundred bucks…”
Well, Dave Krieger did just that, and it wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I’m going to be charitable, and assume he wasn’t there for the episode where a planet’s temperature is reported as “-290 Celsius” (or seventeen degrees below absolute zero…).
It beats what I used to do for extra money in grad school, though. I used to proctor the MCAT’s, among other standardized tests. It paid $175 for about eight hours of a Saturday, and you got to spend that time in a room full of pre-meds on the verge of a nervous breakdown…
Ha! Spike just aired the Krieger Wave episode last week. TiVo grabbed it and I deleted it unwatched because I remembered how dismal the acting in it was.
I hated the obviously bad science as much as the next geek, of course, but it was the internal inconsistencies on ST:TNG always bothered me the most. Probably the one that bothers me more than any other is the idiotic line in the Series Finale where Future Riker declares “Take us out of here, Warp 14.” Or some other similar idiocy. This is the series finale, and you can’t get the Maximum Warp limit right? Ugh.