Hence the completely jacked-up episode "Rogue Planet" in ENTERPRISE. Arguably the worst science in a STAR TREK story in years.
What Changes Would You Have For "A Taste of Armageddon"?
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I wish they would have re-looped Leonard Nimoy's dialogue, so Spock could say "Vulcans" instead of "Vulcanians". 
And something for the disruptors, for crying out loud. I'll give on the lawgiver sticks last week, but I'm sick of weapons which seemingly do nothing but still have great consequence. At least make the "barrel" (fins?) glow or shimmer or whatever to indicate that something rather than nothing is going on. I would have liked to see something akin to Babylon 5's PPG effects for this episode.
And something for the disruptors, for crying out loud. I'll give on the lawgiver sticks last week, but I'm sick of weapons which seemingly do nothing but still have great consequence. At least make the "barrel" (fins?) glow or shimmer or whatever to indicate that something rather than nothing is going on. I would have liked to see something akin to Babylon 5's PPG effects for this episode.
Let's look back at the first beam weapon of "modern" science fiction, the Martian "heat ray" from "War of the Worlds". Just about every "filmed" adaptation has depicted it as highly visible, but in Wells' original novel, it was pratically invisible. Which, in some ways, made it all the more frightening. The unnamed protagonist couldn't tell where the weapon was aimed except by its effect upon various targets. He had no way of telling if he'd be its next victim.
If another company ever takes a crack at depicting the invasion happening in "turn of the century" England, I'd love to see something akin to a "lensing" distortion along the path of the heat ray, no glowing "light saber" effect, but a subtle wavering distortion of the air like one would see when staring just above a vehicle or a road on a blistering summer day.
Sincerely,
Bill
If another company ever takes a crack at depicting the invasion happening in "turn of the century" England, I'd love to see something akin to a "lensing" distortion along the path of the heat ray, no glowing "light saber" effect, but a subtle wavering distortion of the air like one would see when staring just above a vehicle or a road on a blistering summer day.
Sincerely,
Bill
That's what I was thinking of for the disruptors in "A Taste of Armageddon". If they are indeed sonic, waves strong enough to explode and burn equipment at a distance should create some kind of visual disturbance of the transmission medium (the air in the Eminian building, or *ha ha, as if* the vacuum near Enterprise).
Agreed. Some sort of wavy distortion like the sonic cannons used by the Geonosians against the Jedi in EPISODE II:ATTACK OF THE CLONES. Something that's not really a bolt or beam, but still leaves some visual trace of its movement through air and space.
I vote for that!
DrunkenSanta said:
This is going well. Let's make TOS more like Star Wars. That's the ticket.
NOT.
Can we just let Star Trek be Star Trek, please?
No, that's not my intention. But other shows and movies DO have good ideas for weapon effects and opticals. Even if those shows and movies may or may not be as good as TOS.
It wouldn't be impossible for Fox to override Scotty somehow. Perhaps he has an executive keycard or something? But the big plot point is that if he did drop the shields, the Eminians would have opened fire again at the very second. Did they change their minds and decide they'd benefit more from yet another hostage?
That's worse than a "changed treknology premise" like the concept that weapons won't work well if shields are up full. That's a plot oversight that the writers should have caught.
Actually, that's more like one more Trek scientific prediction proven correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microquasar
Timo Saloniemi
Yeah, Anan 7 was dealing with one pretty lame hand there. I might imagine Archer or another 22nd century/early captain getting spooked and taken in by that kind of chest-thumping, but not Kirk. Then again, if Kirk and his people saw through it all that easily we wouldn't have had much of an episode.
Yes that made a minimal amount of sense, but Anan was desparate.