From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: fozzibear01@gmail.com   
   Subject: Re: necessity is the mother of invention   
      
      
      
   "Bruce Sinclair"  wrote in message news:j4s02s$sh2$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   In article    
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   Marcovaldo  wrote:   
   >On Sep 14, 4:19=A0pm, Yousuf Khan  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> I would suspect that the first weapon that Kirk would've had to fashion   
   >> was a spear rather than a grenade launcher, in a more realistic version   
   >> of that episode. Need to crawl before you can run.   
   >   
   >From the transcript:   
   >   
   >"The Metrons, the creatures that sent us both here,   
   >said that the surface of the planet...   
   >provides the raw material...   
   >to construct... weapons.   
   >There's very little here-- scrub brush, rocks,   
   >an abundance of mineral deposits--   
   >but no weapons in the conventional sense".   
      
      
   .. then a rock - pretty conventional ... and can be thrown and wielded.   
   Multipurpose. :)   
      
   Fairly reasonable postulation but, we should bear in mind, that    
   'conventional' is a contemporaneous term.   
   To Kirk phasers and photon torpedoes are 'conventional' even though they are    
   exotic to us. Where as the gun is conventional to us but archaic and    
   non-conventional to him.   
      
   cheers   
   Fozzi   
      
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