technobabble

[YouTubePublisherorPlatform]

Pfft....then how did he compensate for the variation in field fluctuation in the phase capacitors without creating a ship-wide parophoretic reaction? Technobabble indeed.

[pitzmansmustarddelivery]

As someone who's heard enough TNG technobabble for several lifetimes, it's interesting to me that THIS specific technobabble sounds like a new level of technobabble they've never approached before... In true synchronization with this episode's plot line of Barclay's increased intelligence. In other words, it sounded like "technobabble" even to RIKER, who does not hear technobabble when LaForge warns him that 'the phase inducers have to be calibrated to compensate for the increased gravimetric shear... "

[larrytruelove]

The original series used technobabble every time they said “dilithium crystals.”

[loranddeka]

Just what they teach kids in grade school. This is the 24th century after all.

[LanLe-rzlm]

Sounds so much like his ancestor, Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock.

[lordwinton]

Riker after asking. Note to self from now on walk in opposite direction of broccoli

[JimmyCerra]

Basically, the shields are made up of overlapping fields that interfere with each other to shape the shield bubble (see Fourier series). He used the main deflector to output additional fields to reinforce the shield bubble. A warp field moved the deflector's additional fields to the shields at FTL, so the power was delivered without dissipating (see waveguide).

[Zoomer_]

"Well, Riker, I used this thing I just invented. It's called an iPad"

[jasonwright]

Riker is like....ummmm ok, sure, if you say so...

[alexxbaudwhyn]

In other words...
He reversed polarity

[PromusKaa]

He’s literally just saying that he combined the output of the shields and the main deflector into one (they function in a similar way). He also says that once he had them combined, he used the parts of the ship that normally create a warp bubble to create a shield bubble instead (made up of both the shield and deflector outputs) which gave it even MORE power.

That’s the great thing with classic Trek “technobabble” - it actually DOES have a meaning, albeit a scifi one!

[okamiexe]

In English:
He made Deflector and shield grid play the same song using the power generator for the warp field to block out noise which made the shield stronger

[adammclaughlin]

In all honesty, did 99% of technobabble speeches even need the technobabble?
"Chief, see if you can get the deflector shields back up."
"I'll need to polarise the magnetic flux adjusters and re-route the EPS grid."
"I don't need you to stand there reciting the manual at me O'Brien, just get it done!"

[dalethelander]

Barkley turned it off and then back on.

[mosherbyact]

That actually made sense for someone not in the know or knows nothing about engineering

[kxmode]

Me when other non-technical departments ask me how such a thing is possible.

[artygunnar]

Mr broccoli, how did you do it? Steamed

[beepbeep]

And Starfleet would never use this technique to their advantage again

[itsamechrispratt]

Hey, it's the art critic dude from the Mr Bean movie

[sdprazak]

C’mon Riker... You couldn’t figure that out???