I’ve always thought the urumi looks like it was designed by a 12 year old boy during maths class:
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I’m surprised no one seems to have brought up Stargate, and O’Neill’s lesson:
“This is a weapon of terror. It’s made to intimidate the enemy. This, is a weapon of war. It’s made to kill your enemy."
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Worked for Sulu.
The episode was “Shore Leave,” about a recreational planet where whatever you are thinking about pops into existence for your amusement. Kinda like Westworld mixed with holodecks. Kirk shot a knight.
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I think of the Bat’leth like ostentatious plumage, the thought being, male birds evolve conspicuous plumage (or elks/moose/caribou evolve impractically large antlers) that in some way demonstrates to female birds that if they can survive while carrying that mess of feathers about, they’re demonstrated they’re fit and fuckworthy. I know that’s counterintuitive, but that’s the thinking. Also, more “efficient” weapons (nuclear, chemical) are known to modern humans, but not frequently used by humans to this day, as they’re agreements that they’re inhuman. So, blades outside traditional Klingon weaponry could be similarly seen as unKlingon.
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That was precisely the one I was thinking of, though there are so many more!
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Worf’s bat’leth did get some use against the Borg, when their personal shields stopped phasers but not blades.
So why didn’t they regroup and replicate some pikes and halberds?
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I wonder if this is going to be delayed. We still don’t know how many episodes we are actually getting for Discovery season 4. The show is currently on hiatus while they let Prodigy pick up some steam. Currently slated for returning on Feb 10th with at least 3 more episodes (for a 10 episode season) that would push Picard back to March if they don’t want more than one Trek showing a week.
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As bad as other nominees listed here are, I have to say that “Shades of Gray” is the worst TNG episode ever: it’s an utterly lame-ass season-ending clip show crudely cobbled together because the budget had run out.
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Thanks for the Frakes asking things video. I really have to bookmark this and re-use it every time someone asks me weird questions…
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It’s a strategy to convince the female that any female chicks she produces will be more fit. Male chicks will inherit both the good fitness genes and the cumbersome plumage, but the females will only get the good fitness. I’m not sure how that applies to Klingons.
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Every time there’s a ship-to-ship combat in The Expanse, these things start firing fifty to the dozen. I’m assuming there’s some benefit to them, at least in-story.
Actually, I can’t remember any ranged weapon in the series that wasn’t a projectile weapon of some sort (including nukes and cloaked asteroids). But I haven’t seen the final season yet (nor read any book except the first).
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There was a plan to use a certain colony ship’s communication laser to destroy the ring gate but it was clear that directed energy weapons weren’t a common or practical thing in that universe.
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The bird isn’t thinking that far ahead (as far as we know), it’s more about genes and hardwiring. Evolutionary a tricky field, and anthropomorphizing can get you the wrong answer. If you’d like an analogy, smoking, driving fast cars, having tuberculosis, getting into bar fights, are all things not associated with overall longevity, fecundity or health, but for some people, at some times, they seem/seemed sexy. So not sure why Klingons would have less wacky behavior than Humans.
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He does not say it is impractical. Did you actually watch the video?
PDC are primarily for anti-missile defense, but can be used in close quarters. They are mostly useless for destroying or disabling a ship, though they can cause damage to the crew.
Missiles and other explosive ordinance aren’t exactly projectiles, in that they are pretty useless as projectiles alone. Disable a missile’s warhead and it just bounces off or lodges in a ship’s armor. This was shown first-hand in S6 when Fillip digs one out of the Pella’s hull.
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That’s very silly!
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OK, so you’re having a little disagreement with some stranger dude in the 7/11 parking lot and the argument is starting to heat up, and your girlfriend (or whoever) keeps saying “just forget it, let’s go” and you still feel like you have a point to make, and then this dude goes “hold on” and pulls an impractical Klingon Bat’leth out of his trunk. That when I would you say “OK, you win.”
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