In the 60s, they thought they could make atoms turn into specific things, like a shaving cream atom. In the 70s ESP was still being studied. God like powers were definitely within the realm of scientific theory at that time. This was during the time when people were very much misinterpreting that whole we only use 10% of our brains quote. They didn’t even know Jupiter had rings yet.
More importantly, though, I definitely have to disagree with the idea that technobabble was invented for Star Trek. I enjoy really old sci-fi. Which yes can be cheesy, but is often still the best they could do then too. Technobabble was very much a thing back in the Flash Gordon days and even in old radio show dramas. None of this is to say that I don’t feel like Star Wars has its place. I just like my science fiction and science fantasy to be separate.
Admittedly, it’s been a bit since I’ve watched through Enterprise. So I may just have forgotten if they touched on that.
In the 60s, they thought they could make atoms turn into specific things, like a shaving cream atom. In the 70s ESP was still being studied. God like powers were definitely within the realm of scientific theory at that time. This was during the time when people were very much misinterpreting that whole we only use 10% of our brains quote. They didn’t even know Jupiter had rings yet.
More importantly, though, I definitely have to disagree with the idea that technobabble was invented for Star Trek. I enjoy really old sci-fi. Which yes can be cheesy, but is often still the best they could do then too. Technobabble was very much a thing back in the Flash Gordon days and even in old radio show dramas. None of this is to say that I don’t feel like Star Wars has its place. I just like my science fiction and science fantasy to be separate.
Admittedly, it’s been a bit since I’ve watched through Enterprise. So I may just have forgotten if they touched on that.