"Ah," Geordi says. "They only recalibrated the theta-band technobabble, but there's still a technobabble frequency pulse."
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Over half of all plots of star trek, rely on this law of contagion. Magical thinking, disguised in random words from a 101 science text.
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Homeopathy is entirely based on the law of contagion, dressed badly in the language of science.
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The science of star trek is basically homeopathy, but with more blinking lights and syllables.
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The most frequent "scientific" action shown, is that of identifying and/or nullifying metaphysical connections between two things.
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"Captain, this rock shows a subspace signature which matches the DNA of the dead dude." "Can you identify his species?"
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"no, but his cells show a quantum resonance consistent with the Romulans"
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Another vital aspect of magical thinking is analogization, the natural urge to reify metaphors.
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Toddlers will display this, it's a part of how humans make sense of the world.
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In the star trek universe, all engineering is a display of sympathetic magic, analogizing the behaviour of different things.
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and then there was the episode where activity actually branded as ritual sympathetic magic workedpic.twitter.com/8gM5E4N2ff
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