[from the November 2002 issue of Star Trek: The Magazine, pp. 64-67]
Due to a proofreading error, the power measurements quoted in the article are way off. Sternbach caught it after the issue was published, so they printed a correction in the January issue: http://www.cdeath.net/monkeyofmim/Kling5.jpg
[from the January 2003 issue of Star Trek: The Magazine, pg. 110]
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P.S.
This means you guys have had an opportunity now to see all four of the articles published in this series:
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Ooh! Nice one, Monkey! Thanks very much. 8)
You know, I'm running out of excuses as to why I haven't done the alien weapons section I've been planning for about three years. . . Maybe now is the time to start phasing sections in, one at a time, starting (obviously) with the Klingons. . .
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But no mention of the weapon that was taken apart and it's components hidden inside a klingon's armor. I know that weapon isn't likely standard issue but seems like just the thing KDF special forces would carry.
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quote:Originally posted by TheF0rce: But no mention of the weapon that was taken apart and it's components hidden inside a klingon's armor. I know that weapon isn't likely standard issue but seems like just the thing KDF special forces would carry.
The what what now?
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Presumably the weapon the two Klingon renegades smuggled aboard the Enterprise in "Heart of Glory." But I would classify that as "random gun owned by pair of crazy people" instead of "elite special forces weapon."
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Well, the gun was really spread across the three of them (they swiped a shoe horn or something offa the dead guy), so "special forces" doesn't make the most sense. However, it was certainly a Klingon-ish design, in style and general shape. It could easily be a civilian weapon, carried by smugglers or something in case they were ever searched.
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That weapons article just plain rocks. (Although for some reason, people of the 24th century are obsessed with numerical values and decimals to an unhealthy degree.)
Apparently, the "D2" is the thin-barreled thing seen in ST5 and early TNG - the one that actually fit within the old holsters. The timeline seems to claim it predates the "modern" version, yet we basically saw this "modern" gun or its close lookalike in ST3 already. *After* the 2279 introduction date of the D2. Something amiss there. Is the D2 the ST3 version after all?
I'd also have loved to see pictures of the other bladed weapons, of which Rick lists a horde. Quite a few were seen on the various walls in both "Reunion" and "Redemption", suggesting they are widespread if not standard issue. There are good fan pages on these, I know, but an official gallery would also be nice.
How come the locations of the three baakonite mines are a mystery? Even I know for sure the location of one of them - right down on Qo'noS! How else could this be a "traditional" material? (Or has the original mine run out of the material?)
Fancy seeing that concealed weapon on the three Klingon rebels who actually claimed to be promoting a Kahlessian honor movement in a dishonorable Empire... Also, what about the assassin's rifle in ST6? Originally, it was to be a Starfleet weapon, but the final prop had Klingon font on the sight display, and looked "alien" overall.
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That material may have been on the original QonoS but not on the new one...
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Ah yes, the "Man with the Golden Gun" weapon. I'm actually planning to feature that one, I have nice vidcaps. My take on it was going to be (since I haven't written a single word yet) that it's at best a weapon developed for a spy, at worst a home-made weapon. I don't buy it as special-forces equipment.
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