Best fictional Ultra-Tech device (read the qualifications!)

[Orrex]

Poll question: Best fictional Ultra-Tech device (read the qualifications!)

Let's keep this fun: if the device has a bland name or has become part of the vernacular (e.g., "hyperdrive" and "warp drive"), it's disqualified.



Incidentally, This Island Earth is a much better novella than film. It's surprisingly well-written, even though it suffers from the standard patriarchal vibe rampant in s/f of the time ("the time," of course, refers to almost anything pre-Ripley).

[pokerfan]

1. I guess a tasp (Niven) is too bland a name

so I guess I would go with boosterspice, also from Niven.

[Orrex]

4. Tasp is okay with me

If it had been called, say, "the stimulator," that would have been too bland IMO.

[flvegan]

2. The Illudium PU-36 Space Modulator.

Top that. Except that I don't think it's fictional.

[Orrex]

5. How the hell did I forget that?

That makes me very very angry.

[Deep13]

3. Kirk to Enterprise.

Beam me up Scotty.

[leeroysphitz]

6. I could use a czitlang brone.

[krispos42]

8. You've got some scrith you need to get through?

:D

[krispos42]

7. Interocetor

Mike: Boy, the landlady's going to be mad!
Crow <as landlady>: <imitates knocking noise> Are you boys cooking up there?!
Mike: No!
Crow <as landlady>: Are you building an Interocetor?!
Mike: <casually> No!


:-)