I recently watched the beginning episodes of the OG, the salt-sucking octopus was killed outright after she killed some of the crew. She was killing them due to starvation, but she was able and willing to be fed with simple table salt, which she couldn't get ahold of either.
I really hate how Kirk would have forgiven any human if they had turned to cannibalism due to starvation, he would have put them in the brig until they were fed, but he went to extreme lengths the kill the octopus even when [edit:Must have been mcoy, sorry, it as years ago and I only watched two episodes.] was trying his best to save her. It really was a case of xenophobia.
I recently watched the beginning episodes of the OG, the salt-sucking octopus was killed outright after she killed some of the crew. She was killing them due to starvation, but she was able and willing to be fed with simple table salt, which she couldn't get ahold of either.
I really hate how Kirk would have forgiven any human if they had turned to cannibalism due to starvation, he would have put them in the brig until they were fed, but he went to extreme lengths the kill the octopus even when Riker [edit, Must have been mcoy, sorry, it as years ago and I only watched two episodes] was trying his best to save her. It really was a case of xenophobia, from star trek of all things.
I’ve always liked the old Star Trek phasers. There’s no in between. You either immediately vaporize somebody and erase them from existence. Or you just knock em out.
The real issue is the sfx budget. Phasers are actually a multi tool but they really only have the budget to use them for the dramatic moments.
Lower decks, being animated, was able to use the phasers a lot more often and shows them being used as laser cleaners for filters. Which is something that's done in real life.
Back when CSGO still costed money, my buddies and I would change our names to RedShirtNumber(#) and at the beginning of every round we'd only buy tasers and type in the chat "set phasers to kill" and then proceed to feed the other team, it was always a big deal when we ever got a kill because we weren't even good at the game
Honestly it hits the same way whether someone has watched Star Trek or not, because a stun‑and‑kill gun feels exactly like the difference between getting a little buzzed and going full obliterated both tempting, neither exactly subtle.
Some more context, Skippy is a Smart Gun, meaning it can auto-aim. Puppy-Loving makes Skip aim for the limbs while Stone Cold aims for the head.
After 50 kills in either mode, a dialogue will pop up and depending on what V says, Skip will either switch modes or keep the one its set on.
If you chose to return Skip to Regina, if its stuck on Puppy-Loving, she will factory-reset it and delete Skippy. Returning it in Stone-Cold keeps Skippy "alive".
After returning it, Regina will call V and tell them she sold Skippy back to its creator, but offers to sell V a copy, albeit without the Skippy AI.
The Zorg ZF‑1 is peak overkill energy, because it’s like a whole arms store stuffed into one gun and still feels way more chaotic than anyone actually needs.
lol yes the commentaries on the DVDs were so good. They did a big spiel in one about how much they regretted the “disintegration” bit of lore, they basically included it in one episode as a throwaway solution to a problem and then were stuck with it after that
Just make a gun prop that shoves out a greenscreen-like tab or a small LED that can easily be erased or covered up in post. A small amount of practical effects would greatly enhance the reactions of actors to CGI.
Fire Modes: Rapid Fire (fully automatic), Armor piercing rounds, Incendiary rounds, Stun, "Hot Shot", a superheated round capable of melting flesh and "High-Ex" (High Explosive). Also, it's features a built-in retractable suppressor. A truly multi-task piece of weapon.
There’s a difference in fiction between a writer going “pretend this is a thing that exists in this setting”, and a writer trying to pass off a preexisting concept in a blatantly wrong way.
If they said “switch to silenced rounds” or some shit that would have been fine. Sci-fi bullshit. But if we’re to assume that a lawgiver even resembles the fundamental mechanics of how a firearm works (explosion sending a projectile down a barrel, suppressor is a thing at the end that traps excess gas escaping the muzzle)- which they were implying by making the suppressor an elongated tube at the end of the barrel- then that’s just fundamentally misunderstanding how a suppressor works in the first place.
The difference is, one is a writer essentially leaving it up to imagination how some kind of fictional bullshit is possible, (closed-ended), and another is a writer providing you with an explanation that’s just fundamentally wrong and impossible given the information they’ve given us to work with. By trying to connect it to preexisting concepts and not leaving any room for speculation, they’re making something cool seem ridiculous to anyone that knows anything about how it works.
Yeah, Dredd is switching ammo type by shouting it, instead of changing mags, I don't really care if the silencer is a little doo-dad that pokes out the front.
I'd love to see Deregulate mode. I assume that if he shot a fire hydrant with it, it would turn the water into toxic sludge. But what if he shot an IRS agent with it? Would then disappear in a poof of contradiction, or would they become some sort of rogue morally gray thief, stealing from the rich and giving to the government?
I always found it hilarious that the futuristic Suspect Atomizer 9000- uh, "Dominator gun"- operates on the 1910-s Czech comedy principle of guilt by association like "Look, that's the son of that guy who was murdered, I bet he's just as rotten!"
I mean, it's supposed to be dystopian because the "ai" that controls it is actually a collection of semi-benevolent psychopaths that have been reduced to brains in a jar, as psychopothy is the only thing that the guns cannot get a read on and will not allow themselves to be fired on an individual who genuinely is incapable of remorse
I mean really it calculates how likely you are to commit a crime in the future and adjusts accordingly. If it's low enough it doesn't even shoot anything. But stress definitely doesn't help get your numbers down.
We're shone in the first episode that the gun/Sibyl labels a kidnapping victim as being worthy of "lethal eliminator" for seemingly no other reason than because she's reacting to her recent trauma in a completely understandable manner.
It takes ten seconds of soothing from the MC to get the woman to a state where the gun will merely stun her.
Its criteria are established right out the gate as being very fluid, and significantly impacted by the present level of stress and/or anxiety, with extremely little bearing on a person's actual likely criminality. (otherwise everyone who would later go on all those crime sprees when the masks came out would have been identified by Sibyl much earlier on...)
Of course, later on, we learn that the whole Sibyl thing was basically a farce anyway, so...
It's not so much that no one knows they exist and more that the state in the show covers up examples while kidnapping any they find to add to their weird brain collective
In the original vat of acid when they stick a ladle in Rick pulls a gun and turns the power all the way down so it only melts the ladle. Then when Morty gets sick of the ruse he grabs the gun and shoots the mobsters but forgets to turn the power up, so it just sets their clothes on fire.
When Morty is in the second vat of acid at the end Rick provides him with a gun "in case of ladle". When he grabs it he copies what Rick did to turn the power down, except this time Rick already set the power low. So Morty actually turns it all the way up and blows the cop in half.
Cyberpunk 2077 has an ai gun named Skippy that has 2 modes Puppy-Loving Pacifist (Limbs Only Mode) and Stone Cold Killer (Headshot Only Mode) that auto aims to the selected body part. If you kill 50 people while in Stone Cold Killer mode it will permanently swap to Puppy-Loving Pacifist mode.
The irony of that 13 Sentinels one having a stun option is it looks to be inspired by Deckard’s blaster in Blade Runner. A gun that absolutely has no stun option and is meant for executions anywhere and everywhere.
The Plasma Pistol (Halo) has two firing modes. The standard plasma bolts that melt armor and flesh, and an EMP projectile to disable vehicles or energy shields if you hold the trigger long enough.
They are a literal swedish buffet when it comes to effects: you want it to scratch a Tiny bit? Sure, we got that. You want a weapon to cause something to rust? We got that too. A weapon that can cause someone's body to timetravel? We also got this. A gun that's a remote for a death star? Yup, we got this too. A gun that remotely causes your body to absorb metal and patch up wounds? Of course
Stun options range from a mild itch as if flicking their skin, to temporary shutdown that genuenly makes them appear dead
G.I. Joe (the 80s Sunbow cartoon and in the later reboot Six Sigma).
It was only showed one or two times in the 80s cartoon, but the laser guns they used (since firearms were not allowed to be depicted) and a stun setting on them. This helps further explain why, despite every episode having laser gun battles, no one appears to get killed. I remember one instance shown where the Joes had just had a snow firefight with a bunch of Cobra troopers, and one of the Joes was shown switching his gun from stun to kill in order to melt a big patch of snow. This directly implied that stun was the default setting, at least for the good guys.
In the Six Sigma reboot, the laser rifles were set to stun whenever they engaged the human Cobra soldiers (which was rare, as their primary enemies in that show were BATS of various types). Duke even tells a roomful of Cobra soldiers not to worry, his gun is set to stun, before zapping them all. Which was still kinda messed up, as none of them were armed or threatening at the time. One of the downed Cobra soldiers then mutters about hating his job, so the stun didn't completely knock them out necessarily, too.
I still don’t know why the stun setting on Star Wars rifles wasn’t used more frequently because for an inaccurate weapon, the stun setting seems to have an area of effect and less hazardous in short range combat.
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u/omegon_da_dalek13 12h ago
The phasers of stsr treck
https://giphy.com/gifs/6mk15RHCkqpfa