So who are the best babblers? LeVar Burton and Brent Spiner seem to quite like it.

I always like the way that LeVar Burton did his technical lines because there was always an enthusiasm there. He played an engineer who loved being an engineer. When he was tackling a technical problem, you got the sense that he lived to do that.

Brent Spiner just seemed to find a system. I think he treated it like learning poetry in a foreign language because he was a character who was a scientist and an android and one would expect that he would be speaking in much more technical language more of the time.

There was an episode where Spock, our first science officer from the original series, appeared in an episode of the Next Generation. Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock, had several scenes with Brent Spiner who played Commander Data. And one of those scenes involved a fair amount of technical language. In between shooting, Leonard asked Brent; 'How do you possibly remember all of this technical language?' And Brent said; Well, I basically just sort of look at it syllable by syllable and commit it to memory the way that I might commit a poem to memory or even something that might be written in another language.' I was a little surprised that Nimoy found that surprising because he played a scientist and he had some pretty technical dialogue in the original series.