The pistol phaser looks amazing until you get to that stupid Cage garden hose nozzle.
New Phaser and Rifle Revealed
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I'll admit, the new rifle is starting to grow on me.
Anyone that says Starfleet isn't the military, needs to look at that bad boy.
Never understood that non-military claim. And definite improvement over the Flash Gordon ray gun TOS rifle.
I want to see a squad armed with the rifle combing a corridor in text book military fashion. Then one looks directly into the camera and says "remember, we're totally not military" and winks.
Gene said so, therefore so say we all.
Have you seen some civilian hunting rifles?Anyone that says Starfleet isn't the military, needs to look at that bad boy.
You've answered yourself there.
I like both of those. Need some replicas stat!Here you go:
Not taking to the rifle all that well....
The thing about these designs, along with the communicator, is that the show doesn't take place at the time of "The Cage" but a few years later.
Yes, Kirk used the old Cage-era equipment and outfits for one frickin' episode, because pilot budget, where his name was also given as "James R. Kirk..." and back when we watched the show on NBC, those designs popped up out of nowhere after several weeks of the newer stuff and then disappeared again the following week. So there's got to be some limit to nitpicking (doesn't there)?
I'm impressed and surprised at how exactly the designers have transferred every little detail of the TOS phaser pistols over to their new ones. If this was being presented as a rebooted Kirk-era Star Trek (and it is, more or less, TOS-era) the techie trekkies would be beside themselves with joy.
Yes, Kirk used the old Cage-era equipment and outfits for one frickin' episode, because pilot budget, where his name was also given as "James R. Kirk..." and back when we watched the show on NBC, those designs popped up out of nowhere after several weeks of the newer stuff and then disappeared again the following week. So there's got to be some limit to nitpicking (doesn't there)?
I'm impressed and surprised at how exactly the designers have transferred every little detail of the TOS phaser pistols over to their new ones. If this was being presented as a rebooted Kirk-era Star Trek (and it is, more or less, TOS-era) the techie trekkies would be beside themselves with joy.
It has three settings -- stun, kill, and mist.
Sometimes when I'm asked to water the plants outside, I'll turn the front of the hose nozzle and think I'm getting ready to blast a hole in the side of a Talosian rock instead of watering the flowers and vegetables!
There's that...
....and there's also the fact that they really don't do any of the military stuff the way the real-world military does military stuff.
Granted, they aren't purely a scientific/exploration expedition, either -- but they don't seem to be military. ENT's starfleet had the MACOs, and THAT made that ship more military, but TOS, TNG, etc ships' crews did not include such soldiers. They have weapons, but they are not used in the way real-world warships use their weapons.
If war happens to break out, then of course the protagonist ship in TOS, TNG, DS9, and VOY could become military, but that's not what they are under the normal circumstances in which those TV series took place.
How can you be sure you didn't?
How can you be sure you didn't?
OMG. I could have cut right through it and didn't know!
PIKE: I'm willing to bet I watered the tomatoes and peppers, but you're keeping us from seeing it! You want me to test my theory out on your head!
In the United States where I live, and probably in other countries as well, civilian police such as SWAT teams and sometimes even riot control are equipped with body armor, assault rifles, armored personnel carriers, and other military-style gear. These are members of police forces that, unlike France's Gendarmerie or Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police, are not and have never been military forces.
They had to keep the tubes because how else would the beams get out?
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