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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
It's a plot point in the Scotty TNG episode that Scotty outright doubles and triples time estimates as well as lowballs system specifications in documentation. And teaches Geordi to do the same.
"Do you mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want."
"Yeah, well, I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour."
"How long will it really take?"
"An hour!"
"Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would really take, did ya?"
"Well, of course I did."
"Oh, laddie. You've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker."
It's a plot point on Lower Decks that lower deckers employ buffer time
From memory alpha:
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Now go back to bridge 4, you airsick lowlander.
I think it might have B'elanna that tells Janeway that "no, it will take at least this amount of time".
Isn't that the scotty principle.
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