XPost: alt.startrek, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: captainslick@verizon.net   
      
   Glenn Holliday wrote:   
   > "David E. Powell" wrote:   
   >   
   >>Plus, why would TOS feature some people with older lasers (The   
   >>dude who hung out with the salt vampire, Pike in the Menagerie) when   
   >>"Enterprise" era crews had phaser pistols?   
   >   
   >   
   > There were some hints (Devil in the Dark) that phasers were   
   > not widespread outside Star Fleet.  I find it easy to believe   
   > that in both Enterprise and TOS eras, industrial security guards   
   > and gangsters were more likely to have cheaper, less-advanced   
   > weapons than elite military organizations.   
   >   
      
   And _The_Menagerie_ was a pilot made earlier.   
      
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