Comment on You're telling me we could have seen this meme before?

Infynis@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Stamets@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

  source

  • z500@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh boy…

    source
• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

  source
• danwardvs@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know it’s for the plot but yeah, when xyz doesn’t work because of “atmospheric interference” or whatnot they could fall back onto more primitive technologies. Tractor beam not working? Use a grappler. Phasers not working? Bring down a gunpowder firearm.

  source

  • aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Phasers don’t work?

    “PORT SIDE CANNONS, FIRE!!”

    source

    • Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Rebel Galaxy does that, with style

      source
    • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🎶There was sling shot, chain shot, grape shot too Swords and bayonets thrusting through🎶

      source
  • dejected_warp_core@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Forget gunpowder though. With tech like tractor beams, inertial dampeners, and gravity plating, you’d think The Federation would have more armaments in the way of mass drivers, rail guns, and other physics based attacks. Heck, even an chaotic orbiting swarm of meteorites would do a lot to disperse phaser fire.

    I was so happy to see this thinking in action during the last season of Picard though.

    source

    • JWBananas@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I, for one, look forward to seeing more asteroids flung at jackasses with tractor beams in the future.

      Riker and the tractor beam at the nebula. Riker, his aim true.

      source
    • JWBananas@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If nuclear weapons are considered at most a nuisance, what good would rail guns do?

      source

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, it’s mentioned fairly casually that the Enterprise D would be able to destroy an entire continent fairly trivially from orbit

        Weapons and shields in star trek are crazy powerful

        source
• JWBananas@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unless they’re Vulcan. Then they put the grappler to shame.

  source
• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I recall those working once on Enterprise, but I can’t remember the context… maybe I’m misremembering and it never worked?

  source

  • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They had grappling hooks on Enterprise. The Vulcans had a tractor beam though.

    source

    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, my comment was about the grappling hooks. They weren’t very reliable either.

      I’m sure the tractor bean on TNG worked way more often. And I don’t remember what they had on TOS.

      source

      • Crismus@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Once they grappled onto a ship’s nacelles and disabled them using brute force.

        Physical attacks can work pretty good sometimes.

        source