How much contact you would have with the science advisor on Star Trek?

Typically where there�s an action sequence and the enemy aliens have hit the Enterprise with a wave, I would just write in the script the word TECH. "A TECHwave has hit us, Captain." And then, "Commander LaForge, increase the TECH by 15%."
"Captain, the shields are failing by TECH percentage, we need to activate the auxiliary TECH and increase the TECH by TECH percent." Then I send that to Andre (Boramis, science advisor on The Next Generation).

I knew what the scene needed to accomplish. I want the particle something wave to hit the Enterprise, I want it to knock the engines offline and I want the primary hull to explode in ten minutes unless Captain Picard can make it all the way down to some special room on the Enterprise where he has to do something cool.

Then I call Andre and say, "Okay, now where�s that room on the Enterprise? What deck is that on? What kind of particle wave could hit the Enterprise?"
"Well, particles don�t fly in space Ron, you need a sub-space this and that."
"Oh, okay, that�s cool."
I would know the dramatic idea of what I needed to accomplish and then I needed someone like Andre to get me something that sounded neat. He�ll fill in the words and then I would then bastardise the words even more to make them fit in peoples� mouths.