What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[137th Gebirg]

"Razor" is just another setting.

That's right - it's CANON!

 

[FormerLurker]

Y'all may be cool, but you're not "Kirk, scratching his face with his fully-charged phaser and finger on the trigger" cool!
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He was doing his impression of the cop from "Plan 9 From Outer Space".

 

[kkt]

I couldn't stand more than half of that due to his insufferable voice, and his shit take of that scene.

Phasers aren't gunpowder firearms. 300 years in the future, they probably have a high-tech interlock of some kind to avoid accidental discharge. Also, it's probably set on Stun, so no big deal.

Um, no, the "safety" is never meant to be more than a supplement to appropriate weapons handling, regardless of the technology underlying the weapon. And they are in a situation where if they shoot something, they want it dead, right now: it is not on stun. "The safety's on" was indeed a very stupid thing to say and should have been covered in basic training and again in security officer's training.

Even if the weapon doesn't fire accidentally, pointing it at somebody is a deadly threat and there's a significant chance of the person it's pointed at attacking the weapon's wielder possibly injuring or killing either or both of them.

However there may be even stupider things. In "The Jem Hadar" Captain Keogh of the USS Odyssey forgetting about evacuating nonessential personnel from the Odyssey until Dax reminded him, for one.

In "The Naked Time" Lt. JG Tormolen taking off his isolation suit glove in order to scratch his nose also comes to mind.

 

[kkt]

"Razor" is just another setting.

KIRA: Now this. (Federation phaser rifle.) This is an entirely different animal. Federation standard issue. It's a little less powerful, but it's got a more options. Sixteen beam settings. Fully autonomous recharge, multiple target acquisition, gyro stabilised, the works.

- Return to Grace

Kira forgot to mention to "close shave" phaser setting

 

[CorporalCaptain]

In "The Naked Time" Lt. JG Tormolen taking off his isolation suit glove in order to scratch his nose also comes to mind.

Except he and Spock didn't beam down in isolation suits. Their mission was simply to retrieve the science team from the frozen planet. Those were just thermal suits, and there was no isolation seal to break.

 

[FredH]

- Return to Grace

Kira forgot to mention to "close shave" phaser setting

“Shaves as close as a bat’leth, or your latinum back!”

 

[XCV330]

60's through 80's tv and movies had a lot of bad weapons handling. Star Trek wasn't just like any other show in that regard. There wasn't a big push to realism, and until LaserDisk and VCR became a common thing, there weren't a lot of people devoting time in theaters or looking at a 19 inch TV to see who was practicing trigger safety (a few.. not many) with guns, let alone ray guns. Audiences matured and movie makers started getting better advisors on set.

 

[knightgrace]

The best thing to do is to remove the batteries at exactly the wrong moment...

 

[korblborp]

The statement in one version of the Star Trek the Next Generation Writer's Guide, that stun setting one is good for microwave popcorn...and that stun setting 2 is good for a frozen chicken pot pie is very telling.

in TOS Rand brought Kirk some coffee she had warmed with a phaser. what setting it was on, she didn't specify....