Patrick Ogaard wrote: Based on one little TV interview, one of them (I can't recall which one) dismissed the TNG "phaser fired from torpedo launcher" FX screwup by saying, in paraphrase (because I don't have the statement on tape), "After all these years I still haven't figured out what the difference is supposed to be between phasers and photon torpedoes."
*twitches*
As if there wasn't already ample proof that Berman and Braga have no real grasp of Star Trek aside from potential as a cash cow.
"The best part of losing your mind is not missing it."
Superman wrote:Here's another question: Why do the Klingon transporters materialize people faster than the transporters in Picard's time? They sure weren't that when Kirk and Spock delt with them...
Actually, in the TOS episode "Day of the Dove", Klingon transporters completed their operation surprisingly quickly.
"This is supposed to be a happy occasion... Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who."
-- The King of Swamp Castle, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Nothing of consequence happened today. " -- Diary of King George III, July 4, 1776
"This is not bad; this is a conspiracy to remove happiness from existence. It seeks to wrap its hedgehog hand around the still beating heart of the personification of good and squeeze until it is stilled."
-- Chuck Sonnenburg on Voyager's "Elogium"
Well Ted, the transporter on the Enterprise beams people faster than the one in Picard's time too. "Enterprise" takes place before Kirk and Spock! What the heck?
