Haha I love when they have complicated sounding words for technology in star trek (apparently matrix is pretty ubiquitous), but the actual meaning is completely vacuous (i.e., there was a placeholder [TECH] in the scripts) and usually simple.

Whil Wheaton says it like it is (io9.com).

#4647, posted at 2012-09-27 22:57:34 in Cognitive Surplus