Favorite Star Trek episode - Page 6

narf poit chez BOOM · #51 January 8th, 2004, 07:08 AM

well, musket's didn't have much of one. a good spear-chucker could probably out-range them. well, maybe not the bullet's total range, but it's effective range as far as hitting what your aiming at is concerned.

that might be his point.

[ January 08, 2004, 05:08: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

gregebowman · #52 January 8th, 2004, 03:15 PM

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Most people don't know this, but there was going to be a second Star Trek series featuring the original crew. They went so far as to have models made and some scripts were written. But for whatever reason, they made ST:TMP instead. One wonders what that series may have been like.

Out of all the scripts they commissioned for Series II, only one made it to STNG. Any one remember the episode where the women changes into the Klingon devil and trys to claim ownership over an entire planet?

Actually, IIRC, two scripts were combined to make ST:TMP. But I still think it was a two hour remake of the Changeling episode.

Atrocities · #53 January 8th, 2004, 03:37 PM

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Fyron...I like the range.

The range of smooth bore muskets was utterly pitiful, not to mention the cloud that obscured visibility.

But what can you say, the certainly did kill those poor savages in great numbers and for what, gold.

Back in those days they were savages to killing them was "ok" by order of the church. Go figure, if you were to add up all of the deaths that have been "ok" in the name of God under some religion, you would discover you couldn't count that high in your life time.

I think religion was invented to thin the herd.

Fyron · #54 January 8th, 2004, 07:10 PM

God is the number one cause of death throughout history, afterall.

narf poit chez BOOM · #55 January 8th, 2004, 10:18 PM

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God is the number one cause of death throughout history, afterall.

again, it's ambitious leader's who were probably athiests and intollerance.

TerranC · #56 January 9th, 2004, 04:04 AM

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God is the number one cause of death throughout history, afterall.

again, it's ambitious leader's who were probably athiests and intollerance.

Many ambitious and great leaders, thinkers, doers, and etc had belonged to a certain religion, and some were even devout.

Cipher7071 · #57 January 9th, 2004, 04:23 AM

Well, ya learn something new every day, I guess. I knew those old muskets were nowhere near as good as what we have today, but I never realized they were quite that bad. So the natives lost to fear and surprise more than they did to superior weaponry.

narf poit chez BOOM · #58 January 9th, 2004, 04:23 AM

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Many ambitious and great leaders, thinkers, doers, and etc had belonged to a certain religion, and some were even devout.

indeed. and not all of them were evil. i might also point out that evil people tend to worship themselves.

Fyron · #59 January 9th, 2004, 04:24 AM

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Well, ya learn something new every day, I guess. I knew those old muskets were nowhere near as good as what we have today, but I never realized they were quite that bad. So the natives lost to fear and surprise more than they did to superior weaponry.

And to the steel currais that the conquistadors wore, which deflected arrows and spears rather well. And then the belief (initially) that they were ancient gods returned.

Fyron · #60 January 9th, 2004, 04:25 AM

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indeed. and not all of them were evil. i might also point out that evil people tend to worship themselves.

Most ambitious leaders throughout history have been rather religious.