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It'd be funny if Kirk just sent the gibberish and it worked and they could have skipped the time travel
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"Gibberish ... gibberish is our business!" - said Kirk vehemently ...
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That wasn't until the late 24th century, after they adopted technobabble and then held on to it while letting go of the consultants keeping it coherent and plausible. In Kirk's time, they just put "Space" in front of everything. "Space madness", "Space baby", ...
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