How do you think the actors respond to having to deliver lots of very technical lines?

Well, Brent Spiner used to call it 'Pillar filler,' when I would write long speeches, and Data obviously got stuck with a lot of those technical language.

Very frequently we will write scripts and put holes that say 'TECH' in big capital letters, 'HERE', and that's a sort of cry to help to Andre Bormans [the show's scientific adviser]. I always tried to make it make sense, somehow. Rick Berman was absolutely adamant about making sure the Tech had some logic to it. And, ultimately, that frequently led to long speeches in order to make some interior logic to these technical speeches.

Star Trek viewers in general are extraordinarily demanding. When we slip and say 'fire phasers,' and then you see a photon being fired, we'll get letters. So we're kept on our toes.