From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   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. :)   
      
   Kirk tried that.  It didn't work, because the Gorn evidently has a tough    
   hide.  It can withstand the heaviest rock that Kirk could wield.   
      
      
      
      
   -- Steven L.   
      
      
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