From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: necessity is the mother of invention   
      
   "SaPeIsMa"  wrote in   
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   > "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.    
   >    
      
   Star Trek has had more Kirks than Archers.   
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