Continuity of Treknology

[Plum]

^^^
I believe that's so. Even in the late 60s it was apparent lazers were not the rayguns sci-fi often featured.

 

[StarMan]

Holytomato said:
You do not know THE CANON tm!!!! Ignore the ANTI CANONITES tm!!!! Do not believe THEM tm!!!! Do not trust THEM tm!!!!

Try alt + 0153. You'll be far more convincing.

 

[Timo]

By the second pilot (Where No Man Has Gone Before), the one that actually made it to the air, those same props that were called lasers in the first pilot (The Cage), were called phasers.

For the pathologically detail-minded, the props were modified with additional "cocking levers" and side buttons for their post-"The Cage" appearances - and were never called anything, laser or phaser, in those later episodes.

For the imaginative, the props in all their incarnations had three tiny translucent barrels jutting from the forward cylinder. It could well be that one of those was a laser, and was the red beam used in the "The Cage" attempts to drill through the door, while another was a kill phaser, the blue-green beam used to scare Kirk and Spock in "The Man Trap" and to disintegrate Andrea and Korby in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?". The third could have been a stun phaser.

For the aesthetically sensitive, the less we see of these rather clumsy and banal props, the better...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[gastrof]

Basil said:
Hmm. I dunno. If they're going to redesign the interiors and uniforms, I don't see a problem with renaming the technology. After all, this is a reimagining and anything now is fair game. Maybe in 2008, the term "phaser" sounds geeky, so they should come up with some more techy-sounding term, like T-97 pistol or something that has a military stamp on it.

I'm so glad someone said this.

In this vein, might I suggest calling the movie something other than STAR TREK, having the ship be named something other than ENTERPRISE, and giving all the characters different personal names?

Yes. It'd be best if we broke all ties with the past, and have something truly new.

No pointed ears on ANY characters, either.

This isn't the 1960s, after all.

 

[Holytomato]

"In this vein, might I suggest calling the movie something other than STAR TREK, having the ship be named something other than ENTERPRISE, and giving all the characters different personal names?"

So, Enterprise isn't canon?

Excellent! :strumming guitar:

 

[MadBaggins]

Will there be a holodeck in this movie?

 

[gastrof]

Holytomato said:
"In this vein, might I suggest calling the movie something other than STAR TREK, having the ship be named something other than ENTERPRISE, and giving all the characters different personal names?"

So, Enterprise isn't canon?

Excellent! :strumming guitar:

Your question doesn't connect to anything said in my post, nor to the post I was replying to.

Please stop being discontinuitous, or you shall be fed to a Mugatu/Gorn hybrid.

Thank you for your attention.

 

[gastrof]

MadBaggins said:
Will there be a holodeck in this movie?

Personally, I'm bringing a portable one in case I don't like the movie.

I'll have it recreate the theater, and I'll have the film turn out the way I want it to.

This will include someone explaining why Angela had at least three different last names thru the run of the series.