# Enterprise Xindi spoilers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 9, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638 "2003-09-09T23:59:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/161 "2003-09-15T19:25:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tars Tarkas \* > \*\* high-tech doo-hickeys on the rifles \*\* In _A Piece of the Action_, Kirk says “You could take out the side of the building.” In the Yangs and Coms thing, the other starship captain says, “We drained our phasers and they kept coming…” I figure that shooting at people doesn’t require building reducing power released at once, but a smaller amount released many times to shoot a lot of guys. The infantry guy also has to haul around AAA batteries or something to recharge his phaser rifle. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/162 "2003-09-15T20:29:40Z")
Well, back then you had to stand still for several sconds while you fired to hit anything. Think about how much of the battery that drained! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/163 "2003-09-16T03:55:14Z")
Miscellany: **Aes** , did you get the tape yet? I’ll send another on Thursday. Hey, there’s some new prof in my dept. whose name is Tripp. Obviously he was influenced by **c’plant.** ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/164 "2003-09-16T12:11:45Z")
Whom, Madame, shall you trust to spell a name? The person who came by it honestly, or Berman and Bragga? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/165 "2003-09-16T13:04:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > **There was a psycho Vulcan shooting folks with a see through walls sight on a rifle that transported the bullet on a DS-9 episode.** … which, like most Treknology, was something never seen before or since. Heck, never mind the bullet transporter – how often would it have been useful to the crew in TNG or DS9 or Voyager to be able to see through walls, f’rinstance to locate intruders? Yet we never saw that see-through-walls technology again. Hmph. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/166 "2003-09-16T16:11:39Z")
I got the tape last night, **viva**. I was so tired that I didn’t watch it though. Thanks. 🙂 So far as the DS9 thing goes, I seem to remember a throwaway line in there about it being banned technology or somesuch. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/167 "2003-09-16T17:48:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > \*\* Yet we never saw that see-through-walls technology again. Hmph. \*\* That’s cuz the TV cameras have see-through-See-through-wall technology, so it’s invisible. Or they could just say “There’s an interferrence screen around, Captain!” ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/168 "2003-09-16T21:42:59Z")
> [@](#): > > That’s cuz the TV cameras have see-through-See-through-wall technology, so it’s invisible. Or they could just say “There’s an interferrence screen around, Captain!” However, Captain, I just reversed the polarity so it should be working again. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/169 "2003-09-16T22:16:07Z")
Initiate a tachyon pulse, invert the graviton emitter, polarise the deck plating, take off all your clothes, and sit in my lap. Yeah, in the Big Chair. Ooh baby. Wait a minute! Is this the T’Panda thread? rashen frashem mashen… ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/170 "2003-09-16T22:32:01Z")
Hey, make sure your shields are up if you’re gonna invert polarity with a Panda, you don’t want any Klingons! Ha! HA!! ```auto _________________________ | | ___| ``` and a hook shows up to yank young **Tars Tarkas** offstage… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/171 "2003-09-16T22:32:45Z")
Oh, great. Treknobabble’s not enough, now we’ve gotta have **Pandababble** too? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/172 "2003-09-16T23:46:55Z")
Sigh… ADL (Another Damn Lunatic) running for governor of CA–Trek Thunder Kelly: [www.trekkelly.com](http://www.trekkelly.com) I really wish he didn’t have the word “Trek” in his name. * * * **Aes** : I’m having trouble getting messages through to AOL users via Hotmail. I sent you a copy today via my AOL account. Let me know if you ever got it, please. thanks… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/173 "2003-09-16T23:51:56Z")
Why is the center-rod below that revolver barrel off-center? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/174 "2003-09-17T02:05:22Z")
So that it can push empty cases out of the cylinder that is not in front of the barrel. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/175 "2003-09-17T02:11:50Z")
I think it’s an ejector rod assembly. [http://www.e-gunparts.com/products.asp?chrMasterModel=0660zPEACEMAKER&MC=](http://www.e-gunparts.com/products.asp?chrMasterModel=0660zPEACEMAKER&MC=) Used to be pics here. Back to “Anomoly”. More anon. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/176 "2003-09-17T02:27:30Z")
Glad you mentioned that here, **viva**. I had to go back and check my inbox again. I’d accidentally deleted it the first time but hadn’t permanently deleted it so I was able to recover it. I’ve got a new address, by the way. If I can remember to actually use it anytime soon, I’ll send you an email with it. Don’t do what I did though. 😉 …aaand, finally, I watched this episode and Jake 2.0 earlier tonight. Both were cool but that tape you sent me kept skipping and jumping and it took all I could not to go Trip on it and smash it into a million itty-bitty pieces. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/177 "2003-09-17T03:35:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > \*\*Glad you mentioned that here, **viva**. I had to go back and check my inbox again. I’d accidentally deleted it the first time but hadn’t permanently deleted it so I was able to recover it. > > I’ve got a new address, by the way. If I can remember to actually use it anytime soon, I’ll send you an email with it. Don’t do what I did though. 😉 > > …aaand, finally, I watched this episode and Jake 2.0 earlier tonight. Both were cool but that tape you sent me kept skipping and jumping and it took all I could not to go Trip on it and smash it into a million itty-bitty pieces. \*\* CRAP!!! I mean, Crapp. Sorry. I’ll use the new tapes then. Did you want to watch “The Xindi” again on my back-up? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/178 "2003-09-17T03:38:42Z")
Are you certain it wasn’t your VCR? Sometimes I try to play tapes on my older one when I’ve taped stuff off of TV and they skip a lot, but they’re fine on the newer VCR. Oddly, the older VCR plays commercial videos just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/179 "2003-09-17T03:51:30Z")
Your back-up? I doubt it was my VCR. I’ve never had that problem with any other tape, including the last one you sent me. I think it was just a bad tape and it was really distracting. I didn’t even get to hear the snazzy new intro music. By the way, I really hate the new spandex outfit that T’pol’s wearing. It looks cheap. And does she have a new hairdo? It looked weird. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638/180 "2003-09-17T04:12:02Z")
Do you want me to send you my other back-up tape? That’s what I be axing you. Dump that crappy one, then. Please. You’ll have to get used to the spandex, 'cause she’s got 'em in red and blue now, and maybe a beige or white one as well. They look like a prelude to the TOS uniforms. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-xindi-spoilers/200638.md?page=10)