“And then they switched from the Dustbuster phaser to the compact phaser, and I kept my Dustbuster because it easier to hold, and I kept the power cells for the Dustbuster…”
lets be honest here, the dustbuster was probably pretty heavy. I mean, the amount of energy they held is ridiculous and nobody actually needed that much power in a hand-held weapon.
(for example, in that episode where they’re trying to evacuate an illegal colony before some assholes pyroform it for their own use; data blows up a dam. From miles away. that kind of firepower is just not needed.)
Better to have it and not need it…
Eh.
that’s just it though. For an EDC type weapon, comfort and easy of carry is actually an important aspect. it being big awkward and heavy is how you get people to be like, ‘I don’t really need to carry this’. The keyfob phaser made a lot more sense. Though I’d probably have turned it into something more like the form factor of the goa’uld hara’kesh. maybe give it a holographic interface for aiming and power settings and such.
if you need something more powerful, it can get beamed down or grabbed out of a shuttle’s armory, for example.
a photo of the hara'kesh from SG:1 for reference
At least the handling is much better than a Ferengi energy whip.
Unsubscribe … please stop sending this.
This is why you have them send it to themselves and BCC everyone else.
Or … you send an Excel spreadsheet attachment with your wholesale pricing to every … single … IT company in a city with over 2 million people and double down with an updated version when someone points out that using the To: field is probably not the best way to start your new business … that immediately folded the next day when those same IT companies, now armed with everyone’s email address in a single convenient discussion thread, started discussing matters at hand … and related issues.
Source: I received that email and the rebuke and the subsequent discussion.
And this is precisely why you set up Approved Senders on Exchange distribution lists.
