Sci-Fi Weaponry
 

What is your favorite weapon used in a sci-fi series?
What's your least favorite?
Which ones seem incredibly impractical?

Stargate SG1 started using P90s somewhere along the line. I always thought they looked super cool, and I loved that they could clip them to their vests.
http://nexus404.com/Blog/wp-content/...te-sg1-p90.jpg

I've never really liked the Rangers' Denn'Bok in Babylon 5. They used its compact --> huge capabilities on a number of occasions to confuse their dimwitted captors, but I still don't see the excitement behind a staff.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, it goes from this:
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to this:
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Then there's the bad-guy weapons. And as far as I'm concerned, the Chigs from Space Above and Beyond have everyone beat.
http://www.brianbero.com/chigmd.jpg

The lightsaber is the baddest of the bad weapons in sci-fi. Ask anyone.
If I could have one sci-FI weapon that would be it.

If I could have another it would be Decker's pistol in Blade Runner.

Personally, I've always preferred literary sci-fi weapons to the ones on TV or film. My favorite is the . Might as well get rid of the whole thing, right?

I like the personal shields that David Lynch came up with in Dune. Those stayed close to my personal interpretation of the novel. Obviously not a weapon but something I thought "gee, I'd like one of those".

As weapons go, I'll take Leeloo from The Fifth Element, thanks. Indestructable, hot, fully versed in hand-to-hand combat and the antithesis of pure evil? Sign me up.

Definitely the light-saber. It's a samurai sword for geeks.

Cuts through reinforced titanium-unobtanium doors? Check.
Deflects lasers like a baseball bat? Check
Decapitates republic commandos with one swoop? Check.

http://www.fanboy.com/archive-images/lightsaber.jpg

Probably one of my favorites too though is the M41-A pulse rifle from the 'Aliens' series.

http://www.tk560.com/studioprops/stu...-Images/29.jpg

"THEY'RE COMING OUTTA THE WALLS"

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Goddamnit, Kirstang. Stealing my favorite. Smart Gun was my backup.

More in a minute.

With one of these, you ain't gonna be afraid of no ghost:
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The orb from "Phantasm"
http://www.badmovies.org/othermovies.../phantasm4.jpg

Omega 13

http://www.alicia-logic.com/capsimag...034Omega13.jpg

Phasers and blasters (since they're so similar) both strike me as incredibly impractical. They've got serious implications for using them up close, fire projectiles slow enough that you can just move out of the way (or fling it back), and leave an enormous bright "LOOK AT ME" colored trail right back to you.

My least favorite are the alien weapons that Stargate comes up with hands down. They're all universally shaped ridiculously, tend to have annoying effects, and despite being obviously inferior in most ways to the P90's that the humans carry around are always shown to one-up everything else.

Favorite... I'd take either a Denn'Bok or a lightsaber, although I'm a lot less likely to hurt myself with the former.

Get yourself a Death Star, bro. Except for a very minor hole in their defenses, they are practically fool proof and totally awesome.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__...n_torpedos.jpg

Say Uncle. :D

Walt, LMAO that was the exact scene I was thinking of. The Empire's going to build a multi-trillion dollar planet destroyer but not put a GRATE over the most vulnerable point.

Are you kidding?

The power to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of The Force!

http://i872.photobucket.com/albums/a...ruiseOprah.gif

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

:lol: you guys crack me up.

Oh yeah?




Didn't work out so well that time, did it?

Babylon 5 AND Space: Above and Beyond? genuinegirly, you're a genuinecatch. Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

My choice:
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Heart of Ice made me want to be a better supervillain.

Dude, you can do better than a gun that is defeated by an electric blanket and/or global warming. Mr. Freeze is on the same level as that douche kid with the "heart" ring on Captain Planet. Still not as bad as the Care Bear Stare, though.

How about Bolt?
http://www.frothyruminations.com/wp-...9/08/bolt4.jpg

Awesome. Your comment just assisted me in pushing raisin bran through my nose. I think I might be bleeding. I want to party with you.

While the basic lightsaber is a classic, I'll take Darth Maul's double lightsaber:

Wait a second. Plan9 is eating a cereal that is NOT Cheerios?

My world is collapsing around me. I don't know what's real anymore.

Dude, his wife is sick. That's not cool. :no:

Ya, I hate to say it but the frickin light saber.