> Quality, maintainability, simplicity, doesn’t come into it and all management hear from you is technobabble, like Scotty explaining why the dilithium crystals

> Quality, maintainability, simplicity, doesn’t come into it and all management hear from you is technobabble, like Scotty explaining why the dilithium crystals need time to cycle. In his TNG appearance, Scotty explained to LaForge he padded every single estimate he gave to Kirk, because Kirk would inevitably ask for more or faster. The episode aired in 1992.