Re: From Medieval America: US Christian Cults Worship Guns And PreachArmageddon



Paul Ciszek wrote:
>
> In article <vn_Oe.6746$Hi.1957@trnddc04>,
> DanielSan <daniel-san@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >John of Aix wrote:
> >> Joseph Hertzlinger wrote:
> >>
> >>>Worship guns? On rec.arts.sf.science, we worship phasers!
> >>>
> >>>Phasers don't disintegrate people; people disintegrate people.
> >>
> >>
> >> No phasers disintegrate people (if they exist) people just pull the
> >> triggers.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Actually, to be technically accurate (insofar as talking about phasers
> >can be), phasers and people do not disintegrate people; it is the high
> >concentration of phased energy nadions that does that. 8-)
> >
> >Yes, I'm a Trekker. Does it show?
>
> So, how did the Federation *lose* the technology for making sidearms
> with a "make it go away" setting between Classic Trek and Next Gen?

The same way they lost the ability to fire phasers at warp speed, and
"improved" photon torpedo yield from large multi-megaton thermonuclear
equivalent to a moderate conventional explosive.

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