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Old 01-06-11, 12:39 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by Raptor1 View Post
Speaking of which, how much of how Star Trek's technology works was actually explained in the original series itself?
Gene Roddenberry actually addressed that in his book The Making Of Star Trek. When somebody asked him why he never explained how the phasers worked he said he replied "Does Dick Tracy (a popular newspaper comic strip at the time) explain how his snub-nosed .38 works before he shoots the bad guys? Then why should Kirk?"
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