Post some of TV and cinema's greatest technobabble

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I will start with this one...

“Now Franchot, the time has come to test our new brain. We must feed this memory circuit through the emotional quotient rectifier to determine if there's any residual impurity.”


The Astro Zombies

How about this?

Han Solo: "Horizontal boosters. Alluvial dampers."

C-3PO: "Don't blame me. I'm an interpreter. I'm not supposed to know a power socket from a computer terminal."

Trek is great for this 'Reverse tachyon pulse routed through the main deflector dish.....reverse the polarity...re-rout it through the warp manifolds....

I know that Warcraft is not TV, but I wanted to include this:

Blood Elf Worker: "It's simple. Just take the hydraulic phase shift emulator, and attach it to the transdimensional photon particle emitter. Bam! New tower."

Any line of dialogue in Episode 1 that relates to midi-chlorians. 'nuff said...

"The hydrogen booster units are already at 6000 mega-degrees! "

from Escape From Galaxy 3

"It's obvious the frequency and voltage boost will not effect an override... Franchot, remove number nine from the thermal freeze casket and prepare him for brain transfer and total astro-mobilisation....

The Astro-Zombies

"I've introduced into the console the electrolitic limiters which should disallow interference with the programmed patterns function within the body mechanism. Actuate the heart circuit. Excellent! Before we can recall our first creation, we must attempt to override his emotional index by stepping up the voltage and transmission frequency..."

The Astro-Zombies

I could list so many from Doctor Who. But one that has become famous is "Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow", even though it was only actually spoken a couple of times by the Doctor who made it famous, Jon Pertwee. He usually substituted 'reverse the polarity' for most technobabble.

There's a line in This Island Earth where someone 'explains' how the cat got it's name:

'We call him Neutron because he's always so positive'

Wrong, on so many levels!

The brilliant dialogue between Roy and Tyrell in 'Blade Runner'

Tyrell: The facts of life: To make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
Roy: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship sinks.
Roy: What about EMS recombination?
Tyrell: We've already tried it. Ethyl methane sulfonate as an alkylating agent and a potent mutagen. It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table.
Roy: Then a repressor protein that blocks the operating cells.
Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication so that the newly formed DNA strand carries a mutation and you've got a virus again. But this - all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
Roy: But not to last.