From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: SaPeIsMa@HotMail.com   
   Subject: Re: necessity is the mother of invention   
      
      
   "Bruce Sinclair"  wrote    
   in message news:j4s02s$sh2$1@dont-email.me...   
   > In article    
   > ,    
   > 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. :)   
   >   
   >   
      
   Slingshot   
       Very effective at close, middle and long range   
       Some armies had more slingshooters than archers.    
      
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