What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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He was doing his impression of the cop from "Plan 9 From Outer Space".Y'all may be cool, but you're not "Kirk, scratching his face with his fully-charged phaser and finger on the trigger" cool!
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Um, no, the "safety" is never meant to be more than a supplement to appropriate weapons handling, regardless of the technology underlying the weapon. And they are in a situation where if they shoot something, they want it dead, right now: it is not on stun. "The safety's on" was indeed a very stupid thing to say and should have been covered in basic training and again in security officer's training.
Even if the weapon doesn't fire accidentally, pointing it at somebody is a deadly threat and there's a significant chance of the person it's pointed at attacking the weapon's wielder possibly injuring or killing either or both of them.
However there may be even stupider things. In "The Jem Hadar" Captain Keogh of the USS Odyssey forgetting about evacuating nonessential personnel from the Odyssey until Dax reminded him, for one.
In "The Naked Time" Lt. JG Tormolen taking off his isolation suit glove in order to scratch his nose also comes to mind.
60's through 80's tv and movies had a lot of bad weapons handling. Star Trek wasn't just like any other show in that regard. There wasn't a big push to realism, and until LaserDisk and VCR became a common thing, there weren't a lot of people devoting time in theaters or looking at a 19 inch TV to see who was practicing trigger safety (a few.. not many) with guns, let alone ray guns. Audiences matured and movie makers started getting better advisors on set.
The best thing to do is to remove the batteries at exactly the wrong moment...
in TOS Rand brought Kirk some coffee she had warmed with a phaser. what setting it was on, she didn't specify....
Yep.
You'd sometimes see a character with a pump shotgun, who would pump it every time he needed to emphasize how cool he was. Since nobody on the staff seemed to understand that each pump is to eject a spent shell and load a new shell, pumping it multiple times without seeing a shell fly out just meant the goddamn thing wasn't even loaded in the first place.
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