Ha Ha just watched TUC, at the end of the film when the sniper cut a hole in the glass to shoot through, the hole was so small the telescopic sights were too high and would not see through it... Anyone notice?
Well, we do have smart weapons that can see through walls in various ways including the old thermal vision method. I'm sure by the 23rd century the sight uses tech that can see threw the glass. What is confusing is why he had to make a hole. If phasers can cut into stone, they must be able to break through glass like butter. Hell, why was he even there? Why not set it up in an automated fashion and control it from elsewhere? I can't find the assassination attempt scene on youtube, but weren't there other windows and on both sides? Other automated attempts or assassins could have been used incase one failed. It seems lazy that the Romulans hinged their entire plan on one guy to pull it off at the Khitomer end scene.
Yeah, but Colonel West was a stuck-up conceited so-and-so. Theatrical, you got me. Maybe they couldn't convince the Klingons to commit to more than one assassin.
Could you see a boobie in the reflection of the telescopic site, image bouncing (!) off the glass? Was there a link? Where is the boobie? Or, is it a new name for a boobie, "TUC boobie", like, it is tucked into something? Are there, in fact, any boobies at all? Wow, got to type the word, "boobie" 5 times in one short Post!
Pretty sure that would not be a "wardrobe" malfunction, but, rather, a "ballglobe" malfunction... "I Hear Those Mod's a' Comin' "I hear those Mod's a' comin' Comin' down the track Gonna close this Thread, And gonna close it with a Whack! Cause we're Postin' lots of nonsense... Here in Trek Movies... But, we're also just a' kiddin' 'bout seein' some boo-bies... (with unreserved apologies to Johnny Cash)
Surely a better futuristic sight would be one seeing along the gunbarrel axis - rather than parallel to it but ten centimeters above, with all the associated errors in aiming. Especially when one's "bullets" fly in an absolutely straight line for the first thousand kilometers or so. Getting the victim killed was utterly beside the point. What the conspiracy needed was the attempt - plus lots of witnesses seeing that a Klingon had made that attempt. Automation wouldn't accomplish that. Timo Saloniemi
If they had wanted the attempt known, they'd have made it very public instead of hiding the Klingon away in a place obviously security never thought to find, that was only discovered after Kirk and crew busted the secret plot. Otherwise he could have gotten away rather easily and even blended in with the Klingon crowd during the panic. It's silly that hand-held phaser weapons even have sights. You'd think they would have targetting systems, or even some fanciful tech that can pick out and display a target without sighting it.
I think we can saddle Nicholas Meyer for some of the visually puzzling things in the film. He would have had final say on something's appearance, based on whether he thought it would immediately convey to an audience what any particular object was. Whether it's a galley with pots and pans, a weapons locker in that galley, or a futuristic gun with an old-fashioned sight.
West himself shattered the glass when he fell through it, so a phaser beam would probably also shatter it. If the beam is on a high enough power setting to kill the President from that far away, it would probably be too powerful to simply eat through the glass seamlessly.
The point is not putting a suspicious hole in it. And then there's the probability of getting caught making the hole. If you want breif boobies, then go for "The Rescuers" (removed for the DVD release) and "Howard the Duck" (AKA: "Ducktits!").
Can't say I've ever noticed that before but will be keep and eye out for it next time I watch the movie.