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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] I don't spend a lot of time worrying about it, really. In the two pilots they were demonstrably making things up as they went along. You end up trying to tie together three facts that were created with no relevance to each other: the idea of "laser pistols" and a "phaser rifle" in 1965, the notion of "no phasers in the century preceding that the pilots are set in" in 1992, and the invention of a "phase pistol" in the aforementioned century in 2001. The laser pistols are "set" using a rotating barrel with three sub-barrels, which is a pretty bizarre way of doing anything, whether it's a laser-beam or a phaser-beam (let's table the name they have for now, the name by which they were called needn't have been an exact description of their operation). Perhaps the "laser pistol" is in fact generating a phase beam which is being further "tuned" by crystals (or something) in each sub-barrel, which made people think of light and hence they were called lasers. And another thing: Worf as expert historian? I know a lot about history (though obviously not as much as DT, odious unmissed little toerag that he is!) and I'd be hard-pressed to name the century firearms were first introduced. That whole scene reads as though Worf is trying to make a contribution to the discussion, and fluffs it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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