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...matter that Shatner, in the sketch, quickly recanted, telling the crestfallen Trekkies that his outburst was, of course, a re-creation of "the evil Captain Kirk" from Episode 37. The put-down was like a phaser to the heart. Trekkies (or Trekkers, as many prefer to be called these days) have always existed in something of a parallel universe of TV viewing. They're the ones who can debate for hours the merits of the episode in which Mr. Spock mind-melded with a bloblike alien called the Horta, or the one where Captain Kirk time-traveled back...
...Japanese-made home entertainment system in its basic form costs around $80, with an option to buy extra features, such as a turbo joystick, phaser gun for shooting games, and get this, a "power pad"--a device which players stand upon and simulate running for track and field games...
Other perplexing questions the writer for the new version of the television classic said he must wrestle with include deciding whether characters should fire phaser guns or photon torpedoes...
...Every time someone fires a phaser, it costs $3000," Fries said to the Lamont Forum audience. "Once as a joke, I put in the script: '1000 space monkeys attack the Enterprise with phasers.' I got a phone call very quickly about that...
...bred generation of the sixties, space travel was Star Trek. The space walks and moon landings were pretty tame stuff compared to the phaser-blasting antics of Captain Kirk and his cosmic crew. Apollo was a warm-up, a boring story for adults who couldn't handle the real drama of rampaging Romulans and galaxy-sized amoebas...