How actors deal with techno-babble

The actors have a lot of fun with the techno-babble. Different actors, over the years, have had to use it more than others. LeVar Burton, as an engineer, had to give speeches with a huge amount of technical stuff, most of it made up futuristic science that is based in fact but isn't actually real.

On Voyager, and even more so on Enterprise, we're trying to get away from techno-babble. I think we've always had a little bit more of it than we should - a little goes a long way.

The actors have a lot of difficulty with the techno-babble. The worst, though, is the actors that come on as guest stars on a specific episode, who are not Star Trek regulars. They get a job working on a specific episode of Star Trek, and suddenly they receive their script and there's just one techno-babbly scientific sequence after another. You end up throwing some rubber on their faces to turn them into aliens, and some of them have a great deal of trouble.