Conduit
Alcove
Subroutine
Futile
Assimilate
Promenade
Insurrection
These are just some of the words I never used or even heard before Star Trek. What words have television or movies taught you. Any?
Exterminate from Doctor Who. Few other real words that I can trace back to a particular program. But I did learn fresco, lackey, topiary, and gazebo from eight bit adventure games.
‘Importunate’, from The John Laroquette Show. An entire episode centered around which characters did and did not know the meaning of that word.
“Tracheotomy.” From MASH*.
I can never hear the word without thinking of poor Father Mulcahey. At least I can now look at a ball-point pen without imagining breathing through it via a hole in my neck.
With a little hindsight, I wonder if MASH* was strictly appropriate viewing for a seven-year-old.
I remember first hearing “bazooka” on The Incredible Hulk, and “calisthenics” on The Brady Bunch.
What about menhir? 
Trek.
Deflector Array
Jefferies Tube
Does anybody else routinely say or think, “Accelerating to light speed,” as they work up to cruising speed on the non-informative superhighway?
Or does anybody say, “Wo-o-o-o-ormhole!” when they hit bumpy parement?
I always say “Warp speed, Mr. Sulu!” when getting on a freeway onramp.
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Well, I started to read the Star Trek:TNG novels when I was in second grade (started with Dark Mirror, IIRC), so I picked up a lot of my vocabulary from there. And of course there’s the always useful “bIjeghbe’chugh vaj bIHeg” and “bortaS bIr jablu’DI’reH QaQqu’ nay’”. Admittedly, I just looked up the spelling, but they are phrases I have memorized…and used from time to time as appropriate 
As well as things like conduit, replicator, quantum mechanics, etc…
I can never hear the word “reconfigure” without hearing it in Geordi’s or Data’s voice.
Berke Breathed had a good one he used in his Star Trek parodies: “renoberate.” I try to slip that one by every now and again.
I can honestly say that I never used the term “Shmeg-head” before Red Dwarf.
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Tangential, to be sure, but 80’s recording artist Rick Springfield introduced me to the words “acquiese,” “concilliatory,” “consummate,” as well as the phrase “sexual tension.”
I learned the word “virgin” from Night Court to very comic consequences.
Also “stat”, “four-oh silk”, “vascular clamp”, “subdural hematoma”, and strangely enough, I learned the word “genuflect” from MAS*H.
Bingo! I remember wondering what the hell ‘Trek’ meant… I was, what, eleven? when it first aired.
EPS Conduit (usually combined with “have exploded on decks 7, 12, and 18”)
Singularity
Quantum (not just for torpedos anymore!)
Time Paradox (most of Voyager)
Continuity (what Enterprise destroyed).
Nope I learnt that from Asterix and Obelix :), heck I learnt a lot of words from Asterix and Obelix.