Mythbusters To Test Star Trek’s Gorn Cannon

[ahkyahnan]

Around where I live, 'hosed' isn't that serious a term...just means something got fouled up and there's nothing you can do about it. If you get up planning to spend a day at the beach and it's raining, you're plans are hosed. If you accidentally hit YES at the prompt "Are you sure you want to permanently delete all your files?" you're hosed.

I remember a church bulletin awhile back announcing a dinner, and was supposed to say it would hosted by a particular family. Instead it said the dinner would be "hosed" by them. Got some laughs that Sunday morning.

Of course words can mean something quite different from place to place. Around here for instance "ornery" means naughty or mischievous, as in "that 3 year old is an ornery boy". I had a girlfriend from Texas once who got offended when I used that word to describe one of her young relatives, as apparently she understood "onery" or 'aunery" or 'ahnery' or however you'd spell it with a slight drawl, to be a no-good mean 'ole cowboy likely to shoot a man just for snoring.

So if I understand the term 'hosed' differently from others, well then I guess I'm just...you know.

Mark

 

[langdonboom]

Now, lets stop flipping each other to ignore over nothing and enjoy some conversation related to Trek.
...
Peace, friends?

Sorry for the thread-jack, folks. I got irked by what I perceived to be the otherwise-talented Mr. Bennett's seeming penchant for disingenuous nit-picky argumentativeness in this and other threads (he did seem to understand correctly the use of the term 'hoser', and to be arguing against it but I forget, this is the internet and argumentativeness is one of its more popular attributes) and my own self-righteousness got the best of me (again). I am sure I deserve to be ignored. I try to ignore myself in such cases, too. Christopher's right about two things though - it isn't always easy to interpret intent on webboards (though it seems I made myself fairly clear to him!) and I should get my own house in order before I call bs on his. Mea culpa, hosers.

And I definitely look forward to seeing the Gorn canon work, as this was the first episode of Trek I remember watching with my dad, and his own glee at seeing me put together just what Kirk was doing (as he'd seen the episode many times before).

 

[Ziz]

My biggest fear is the Mythbusters will do what they do with several myths, go way off course and just do whatever they want or can to get the desired effect. It is my hope they stay as authentic as possible.

Well, that is Mythbusters self-proclaimed modus operandi - first replicate the conditions of the myth to see if it will work as stated. If that doesn't work, ramp it up to replicate the results. Then depending how far off those are from each other is when they call it Busted, Plausible or Confirmed.

 

[Captain Robert April]

Now, what I'm interested in is whether or not they'll be able to actually use footage from "Arena" in the description, or they'll have to resort to the Terry Gilliam-style animation.

Not that I mind the animated bits, but, like their "Jaws" special, it just adds something extra when you can see the actual scene that's being replicated and not having to rely on memory (yours and that of the Mythbusters in question).

 

[T J]

My biggest fear is the Mythbusters will do what they do with several myths, go way off course and just do whatever they want or can to get the desired effect. It is my hope they stay as authentic as possible.

Well, that is Mythbusters self-proclaimed modus operandi - first replicate the conditions of the myth to see if it will work as stated. If that doesn't work, ramp it up to replicate the results. Then depending how far off those are from each other is when they call it Busted, Plausible or Confirmed.

Indeed, but sometimes they forget to try the authentic way first. They start tweaking it here and there and by the time they get to testing the myth it's not the same thing they were originally testing. This is usually more the B team, Tory, Grant and Kari. I'm hoping Adam and Jamie will tackle this myth.

 

[Redfern]

Now, what I'm interested in is whether or not they'll be able to actually use footage from "Arena" in the description, or they'll have to resort to the Terry Gilliam-style animation.

Not that I mind the animated bits, but, like their "Jaws" special, it just adds something extra when you can see the actual scene that's being replicated and not having to rely on memory (yours and that of the Mythbusters in question).

I've made the assumption (yes, assuming is a dangerous activity) that MythBusters resorts to "cut out" inspired animations when they can't get the rights to to show actual footage from a particular television or movie they are "busting". In some cases, the entertainment company may simply decline MB's request, other times, the fee they want is more than MB is either willing to pay or able to afford.

Sound reasonable, or am I standing in left field?

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Ziz]

That's exactly what it is, Red. People have a tendency to think that anything that doesn't go their way is due to malicious intent when realistically it's just a matter of money, time or convenience on the part of one or both parties involved.

 

[Captain Robert April]

And, if memory serves, NBC Universal owns the Discovery Channel, so getting to use footage from "Jaws", a Universal picture, is a lot easier to swing than footage from Bond films (MGM/UA), or Star Trek (CBS/Paramount).

Still, it'd be nice if they could cut a deal.

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

One of my favourite myths tested was the tree cannon, a Gorn cannon should be nothing short of awesome.

The Trekmovie report seems to suggest Buster will be dressing in a red shirt for the day. Appropriate, but I hope they'll make a Gorn out of ballistics gel to blast with the finished product

 

[lyonheart1]

You know Jamie will dress up like a Gorn for this one!

 

[Ziz]

Or Grant will build a Gorn robot.

 

[Captain Robert April]

And Adam will do a horrible Shatner impression throughout the episode, which will only be slightly less annoying than his pirate voice.

 

[M'Sharak]

That is so funny. Please somebody alert us when the episode is scheduled. I don't generally watch Mythbusters.

Monday, December 28, says Grant Imahara.

 

[Corran Horn]

from Grant's twitter...

Confirmed! The #GornCannon episode is going to air Monday, 12/28/09. And I will be live tweeting thru the @Mythbusters acct...

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oops, just saw the above.

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[Ronald Held]

How long afterwards will it be posted on their site?

 

[Forbin]

Monday? The show is on Wednesdays here.

Edit: NM, I see they're switching to Mon for a couple of shows.

 

[Captain Robert April]

That is so funny. Please somebody alert us when the episode is scheduled. I don't generally watch Mythbusters.

Monday, December 28, says Grant Imahara.

WOO HOO!!

Need to find a Homer Simpson pic to go with this...

 

[Alrik]

Sweet! Looks like I caught this thread just in time.

 

[Redfern]

Last night's MythBusters seems to have presented a "hint" of the upcoming Gorn cannon segment. During the opening credits as the "B" team is introduced, specifically Cary's temporary "stand in", they presented a shot of Grant and the new girl on a mock up of the bridge. Grant is wearing "science division" blue and I think a pair of pointed ears, the blond in the traditional "red skirt". I have no idea how to transfer data from the DVR onto my computer and I already purged last night's ep', so I have nothing to show you guys.

But it looks like they're gonna' have fun with this one!

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[GhostFaceSaint]

Yeah, yesterday I saw a few Mythbusters in the opening intro wearing Star Trek TOS uniforms, though, it was just for a second.