Most of the Star Trek writers really didn’t care about technology. The space environment was just a backdrop for human and human vs. alien drama. Evidence of t

Most of the Star Trek writers really didn’t care about technology. The space environment was just a backdrop for human and human vs. alien drama. Evidence of that is how they used to add something along the lines of “insert technobabble here” in the scripts, for someone to fill in later. But that didn’t allow for any technical input on the nature of the scripts. The exceptions might be some of the scripts written by sci-fi writers, like the one written by Harlan Ellison - but he hated that episode. When he won the Hugo Award for it, he dedicated the award to “the memory of the script they butchered, and in respect to those parts of it that had the vitality to shine through the evisceration.”