s2e20 “A Piece of the Action”
Someone on here said something like trigger discipline wasn’t really a thing until the late 80’s. Which sounds right somehow. All the cop shows and westerns before that, they ran around holding the trigger.
This is in the 20’s right? So my man is just being period-accurate, which is highly logical.
Secondly, even in real life, gun ownership isn’t a thing in modern societies, only in backward third world countries
If the majority of modern humans don’t know what trigger discipline is, why would Spock?
Because they still have guns in Star Trek, and Spock and his crewmates carry them all the time? Those TOS phaser pistols don’t even have trigger guards, so it’d be logical to think trigger discipline would still be a thing.
Maybe he’s too used to whatever science-magic they have in place as a safety
You never heard of a school phasing right enough
Weapon safety rule number 3 Mr Spock: keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you’re ready to fire.
You may be a Vulcan but I will still kick you off my firing range if you don’t unfuck yourself.
I think the Vulcan version of that saying is, “keep your booger hook off the bang switch!”
WERE YOU ABOUT TO CALL ME AN ASSHOLE?!
Weapon safety rule 1 is to have fun
Weapon safety rule #2 is DO NOT talk about weapon safety
Weapon safety rule #4: Ignore rule #3.
How about that muzzle pointing at his face? Damn Spock, come on dude.
He’s Spock. That is trigger discipline. Spock is so disciplined, that trigger is more disciplined than of his finger weren’t on it.
Also, with discipline no one gets a piece of the action.
Oh, lordy. The marshmelon sequence. I keep trying to forget it.
Not this marshmelon, obviously.
A surprisingly good movie actually:-).
McCoy’s paying someone to alter the archival files (but forgetting to also alter the crosslinks) to mispronunce words aside.
It’s just such an odd way to transition during their slingshot time travel. On the plus side, it gave me an idea for tomorrow. So, thanks!
He was about to kill the mofo talking to Kirk, he knew exactly what he was doing.
Don’t worry, he only has it set on “stun”.
I mean, are mechanic triggers even a thing in the federation?
On the phaser rifles, totally.
Aaand here’s Ezri being another bad example:
Dax is trained in Klingon trigger discipline.
I’m guessing that’s something like, “Anything you might potentially point the gun at, even by accident, is something you want dead anyway, so always keep your finger on the trigger to save time.”
That tracks. It does seem like there could have been a list of “213 things Curzon Dax is no longer allowed to do in Federation space”, a la Skippy’s List.
I haven’t seen that in YEARS!
I would be honored to be called Dr. Feelgood.
Kurzon shot from the hip. You just know it.
I can totally believe that, by the 24th century, phasers are smart enough to fire by intention, not by some crude electromagnetical switch. Triggers are contact points, not switches.
They have technology that can literately disassemble things at the atomic level, from a distance and - even more impressive - correctly re-assemble them. I’d not be shocked if their firing systems had advanced beyond what we have today.
They at least employ such technology with the LCARS displays.
On the TNG episode Hero Worship, Data remarks how simply slamming your hands down onto a control panel won’t actually trigger any of the keys because the surface understands the difference between deliberate finger presses and simple force.
A fair argument. I just notice shit like that.
It’s hard to see but it doesn’t look to me like a trigger of today. I could see trigger in the future being a touch sensitive button that has some other safety features built in.
Top 2 are triggers, VOY rifle appears to be a button.
I stand corrected! Then yes, bad Spock!
Eh, it’s fine, guns never go off accidentally.
Precisely why no one should have them; the average person is incredibly stupid. Similar to the cop in the story you linked, a fucking dumb ass piece of shit idiot.
Oh god I just shot Marvin in the face
