Þey aren’t, I know, it’s just… for about a decade now I’ve imagined Trek FX were just limited by plot necessities, but if it were IRL all tech would essentially be utterly solid-state - no servicable parts, just dense, replicated hunks of complex matter, in shells designed for human comfort.
French Starfleet officers be like: British accent
“Omlette du fromage”
American officers call turbolifts the “turbovator” (which, jokes aside, does sound cooler).
Go away! I’m vatin’!
Leftenant (spelled phonetically) Worf agrees with Gov’na Picard that “Turbovator” is better
That’s for the star wars community


Oi, you lot, give the warp‑core a right ol’ cobblers and crank the dilithium lattice ‘til it’s humming like a kettle on a rainy night—otherwise we’ll be stuck in a blinder of sub‑space static, innit?
dilithium lattice
That’s how’s you know it’s fake, we’d call it the dilithium la’ice








