I Love Weapons

[T'Girl]

Sorry but I do. Found an interesting website that identifies which modern weapons were used in various science fiction TV and movie production, including Star Trek. The site covers all five Star Trek series and two of the movies (TVH and FC). Here is the page for DS9.

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine

A more general listing.

http://www.imfdb.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Science-Fiction&from=Science+Fiction

In addition to describing which gun were use, there are occaional descriptions on how the guns were modified to appear more "futuristic." Stories about which actors carried which weapons in which episodes (Jack Hardness kept switching "his" gun). Also there are notes on why certain weapons were chosen.

For example, Stargate SG-1 switched to the FN P90 partially because the spent casings eject downward, and the production crew didn't have to worry about the flying brass striking the surrounding actors or the filming equipment.

Thought I'd share.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I didn't know that this site existed. As a writer, I will find many uses for it!
Thanks!

 

[sojourner]

Cool site!

 

[Kytee]

thank you for sharing, I just took up shooting as a hobby in the last year and this site is a really neat read.
-Kytee

 

[Caliburn24]

Very interesting site. I particularly like the Star Wars entry. I did not realize so many historical weapons were used as templates.

 

[The Wormhole]

Cool site. I got distracted by their rather informative Stargate pages.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

^ and ^^...

I was just about to say the same about the BSG (reboot) pages. *laugh*

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[captcalhoun]

there's an internet movie car database too.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

^ So THAT's where Car 54 ended up...

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[jayrath]

(Jack Hardness kept switching "his" gun).

Freud would have a field day with this thread.

 

[Kemaiku]

I'm pretty fond of most every kind of weapon too so thanks for the link.

I have an airsoft version of the P90, very nice gun.

 

[Yevetha]

I am a fan of the gun nut wiki too.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Stories about which actors carried which weapons in which episodes (Jack Hardness kept switching "his" gun).

Interesting typo.

 

[Forbin]

I'm pretty fond of most every kind of weapon too so thanks for the link.

I have an airsoft version of the P90, very nice gun.

I love my P90!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EARbVklziQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKmWHgtfyQc

 

[Kemaiku]

Nice but the other commenters don't seem to think so.

That Otter is even more stubborn than the squirrel(s) that keep coming into our garden.

 

[Forbin]

^Turned out the commenter was a wise guy I know from Wordforge.net busting my chops. I wish we could delete comments.

 

[Kemaiku]

Nothing good ever came out of that place, so I'm not surprised. Invite him here, to TNZ...

 

[Forbin]

Nothing good ever came out of that place, so I'm not surprised. Invite him here, to TNZ...

WF was created as place to flee TO, FROM the oppression of TNZ.

Oh, and...

That's my real AR-15, which I sold back when NJ was stupidly banning such things.

 

[Kemaiku]

Meh, I never liked the look of the M16/M4/M733 range.

 

[captcalhoun]

nice trigger discipline. NOT.