Rewatching ST:TNG recently, I spent quite a bit of time harumphing over the science word salad they served up. A phrase that stuck with me ... inverse tachyon

Rewatching ST:TNG recently, I spent quite a bit of time harumphing over the science word salad they served up. A phrase that stuck with me ... inverse tachyon pulse ... is a great example of this. This was fine for late undergrad/early grad school me when it aired. Not so great now (old-fartitude setting in, getting that feeling to tell kids to get off my lawn). FWIW, I generally like Charles Stross's work, though the recent gratuitous injection of some (current) cultural bits did turn me off on one of his novels. I'm hoping this trend is temporary. Nothing ruins a good story like injecting useless diversions that aren't relevant to the story, back stories, etc. and exist only to signal virtue.