(urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe

[David Stockhoff]

You could have said death-ray guns. They were "invented" in the 
twenties, I think.

On 5/1/2011 3:01 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>
>> Oh, I got that you were doing a dismissive person rather than 
>> speaking for yourself, but when you include bogus trivia it can seem 
>> like you actually didn't bother to read or see the original source; 
>> there are no lasers in ST because they weren't quite invented yet 
>> when RAH wrote it, and Wes Craven was not involved with that 
>> particular slasher movie franchise.
>
> Ah. Sorry Wes Craven. Brain-fart.  As for the lasers...well, I just 
> liked the way it sounded. (Incidentally, the ST movie didn't use 
> lasers either as far as I remember).
>
> J.
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