warp drive and transporters aside, the tech we have NOW is beyond TOS
- Apart from warp drive and transporters, what has TOS ever done for us?
- Phasers.
- Oh yeah, yeah they gave us those. Yeah. That's true.
- Artificial gravity.
- Oh yes... artificial gravity, Reg, you remember what it used to be like.
- All right, I'll grant you that phasers and artificial gravity are two things that TOS has that we don't have...
- And tractor beams...
- Well yes obviously the tractor beams... the tractor beams go without saying. But apart from the phasers, the artificial gravity and the tractor beams...
- Tricorders ... Cloaking devices... A global utopia... Deflector shields...
- Yes... all right, fair enough...
- And the Klingon wine!
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