Okay, so I’ve been planning this story for a while, it is in fact the entire reason I created the character of Lieutenant Anton Chekhov, ship’s historian. In his first significant appearance that gun appears on his wall, for this very purpose.
|
|
|
|
|
    March 30th, 2012
Okay, so I’ve been planning this story for a while, it is in fact the entire reason I created the character of Lieutenant Anton Chekhov, ship’s historian. In his first significant appearance that gun appears on his wall, for this very purpose.
Discussion (3)¬Comments are currently disabled due to spam. |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsGun
While I certainly appreciate the joke, surely there’s some middle ground between energy weapons and flintlocks? Like maybe that shotgun she gave Johnny when he was going to a dead tech world? There are no electronic components to be “interfered with” in contemporary firearms, so why go for the archaic ones? I know which I’d prefer…
“There are no electronic components to be “interfered with” in contemporary firearms”
Actually, that depends on the gun. A firearm equipped with a fingerprint reader or other electronic safety wouldn’t be able to function in an area that has adverse effects on electronics.