I've been trying to write a series of short fics that take place in Star Trek. My issue is with the technobabble. Some pieces of it are used consistently enough that it'd be canon defilement to get it wrong. And I'm not just talking about things like the Warp Core. Stuff like that is obvious.

And now, on to the problem, which is to say, I can't remember the stuff like: Tetryon particles! These things are used all the time, but not regularly enough that I can remember them very well. And I don't want to re-watch the whole franchise just to get one piece of technobabble right.

My knowledge of engineering is also getting in the way, as I'm finding myself using real and theoretical tech in these fics, because I just cannot come up with technobabble! It doesn't just sound like gibberish to me, because I know the Terminology, so it sounds wrong instead. Nucleogenic particles do not cause rain. The closest thing I've heard of to Theta Radiation is Cherenkov Radiation, which is not a byproduct of antimatter/matter reactions. Explosions are, though. Star Trek was correct there, at least some of the time.

I don't dislike technobabble, I dislike using it, for the above reasons. I would just skip the technobabble, and design the starship as I went, but the most advanced spacecraft I could come up with is just a Space Shuttle, which Starfleet doesn't use.

Does anyone else have these issues, or a way to fix them? Even something like a technobabble generator would work, as long as the fans don't rip me limb from limb for using "Quantum" when I should have used "Ionic" or something else. If the fans aren't as rabid as I remember, I might be fine, I just want to avoid accidentally making badfic due to misused terminology.