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Old 01-06-11, 02:09 PM   #42
Weiss Pinguin
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve View Post
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?"
Heh, reminds me of this, and this story

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