I'm sure the same thing was said forty years ago.
The new hand phasers suck, in fact...
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I'm sure the same thing was said forty years ago.
Word.
Kirk, Spock & McCoy are, like it or not, as ingrained in the American subconscious as the Boston Tea Party.
Ask anyone you know what "Beam me up, Scotty" means. Peeps in ASIA can tell you. Heck, they're making our Trek toys for us! It's planetary, for Apollo's sake!
I've watched TOS as much as I've watched other Star Trek series -- but no, I don't recognize it. It could be the tricorder just as much as it could be the communicator; I can't tell for sure. So, an iconic design? Only if you actually grew up with it.
* Sometime in the mid 21st Century so-called "cell phones" began being referred to as communicators (the term we know today) because of the enormous popularity of Star Trek, the longest running series of varied media entertainment in history... *
You explaining that for off-worlders?
Hehehe
'He's" a "she".Who me? Dis TOS???
Hey, not I. I was there for the first airing back in September 1966. Every frame is sacred canon, right.
Tell ya something though...the women's hair in TOS is something I coulda done without in XI. Hope they lose the 60's hair tributes in XII.
But the phasers were just too cool. I love them. LOVE them. Can't wait for the Blu-Ray.
Sure, but knowing the catchphrase doesn't imply any kind of liking of or respect for Trek.
Non sequitur, your facts are uncoordinated.
I disagree. The TOS phaser was classic, of course, and the STIII phaser was a natural progression from that and looked great, but the BEST is obviously the "assault phaser" from STV and STVI. Never before or since has a phaser looked so cool:
As for the new phasers - I like the overall shape and design okay, but the flip barrel has got to go.
This is pretty much my favorite phaser as by it seems to me to be the most realistic, other then those seen in the original pilot.
The classic phaser was great looking, but it seemed that it would have been dangerous to use. If you decided to place your other hand to it for support, you might shoot off your hand.
With the above design, the grip was mid body and seemed to have what appears to be a more comfortable grip. I also like that it had an additional power source with the "clip" in the grip. An easy to remove power source would make things a bit more safe I think. It of course, is also derived from the classic design.
I think the only phaser I really never cared much for, was the original phaser rifle from the second pilot.
This new phaser seemed a bit like a gimmick toy, with the swinging projectors on it.
I didn't really like the hand phasers in "Star Trek" either. I thought they looked and functioned like toys. The way they spun around and clicked into place. For a few seconds, I thought they were going to shoot water or silly string out of them during the fire fight.
As if they couldn't just, like, BUY the OS replica at Blockbuster or something to use.
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