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Well, the farmer seems to slap the magazine-analogue forward of the trigger when he comes out of the house, and I'm sure there's a B5 PPG-style power-up noise; guess that qualifies as cocking it. Hmm, 90 years since First Contact, and even a "humble" farmer owns a basic energy weapon. Doesn't look that powerful, but it sure is enough to knock a big-ass Klingon flat on said ass.
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poet: We also see an Enterprise crewman with a pulse rifle, but not very clearly, as well as the farmer's pulse Winchester - well, how else could it be described?
Just for the sake of standardizing terminology, I'll note that in the script, the Starfleet weapon is called a "plasma rifle" and Farmer Moore's gun is called a "plasma shotgun." Later, Admiral Forrest refers to the shotgun, too, as a "plasma rifle," but that might be because he simply doesn't know. The "plamsa pistols" fire red "plasma bullets," I might add. In any case, it seems that superheated ionized gas is the blast of choice in the twenty-second century.
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Well, given the idiocy of the average Trek writer, it's safe to assume the farmer was written as having a shotgun, because that's what farmer have, shotguns. They then decided that a twenty-second century farmer would maybe have something a teeny bit more futuristic, and changed it to a "pulse shotgun." Some tech guy, on receiving the notes, decided that a pulse shotgun sounded (and would look) stupid, so he rustled up a pulse Winchester, on the theory that everyone would immediately recognise what it was.
And maybe whoever makes Winchester rifles (which I gather they still do today, nearly 150 years after it first appeared, so why not another 150 years in the future?) would make them look the same. . .
quote:the crew talking about groping a three-breasted alien hottie
Could it be...Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon VI?
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Just flicking past Canada's "Space" channel on the dial and hit upon a little newsbit on the Enterprise premiere, which included the first ten seconds of the "Sickbay Attack" scene, an interview with Braga we hadn't seen before, an interview with Bakula that's on zap2it, and a VFX shot of the NX-01 at warp from the front...
The lower saucer is fairly featureless, with a TOS-ey glowy white dome at the bottom and not all that many windows. There's definitely a blue glow behind the main gold sensor dish up front (perhaps the navigational deflector?). The hull looks quite a bit darker in tone than Voyager or the Ent-D, perhaps a bit closer to the Ent-E, although in this case there's a definite coppery hue. Anyway, like or hate the design, the CGI model is a truly beautiful thing, with the lighting on the texture on the hull making it quite the sight to behold.
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Those Suliban guys are really weird and icky. But somehow their faces seem familiar, as is their way of walking. Can't remember where I say it before (I hope it's not from the Power Rangers' "generic weak badguy army")
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