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Posted: 2/25/2006 4:13:23 PM EDT

IBTP!

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:14:00 PM EDT

[#1]

A lightsaber.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:15:26 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
A lightsaber.

Hell yeah!

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:15:36 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
A lightsaber.

+eleventybillion

A more civilized weapon for a more civilized age. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:17:11 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
A lightsaber.

+1

Although I also like the gun from the movie "Aliens'

M41A Pulse Rifle - fires 10mm explosive tip, caseless (and grenades)

NEW POLL

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:17:23 PM EDT

[#5]

Jayne's favorite gun from Firefly. I don't remember what he named her.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:18:46 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Jayne's favorite gun from Firefly. I don't remember what he named her.

That was the rifle, right?

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:18:53 PM EDT

[#7]

I would like mortal combat SUb Zero power.

Star Trek Phaser for me

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:19:46 PM EDT

[#8]

The stun feature on the phaser would be very useful.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:20:15 PM EDT

[#9]

I will use my Han Solo blaster thank you very much.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:26:00 PM EDT

[#10]

I'd rather have a M41-A 10mm caseless pulse rifle...

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:26:08 PM EDT

[#11]

Sandmans Gun from Logans Run.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:28:38 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Quoted:
A lightsaber.

+eleventybillion

A more civilized weapon for a more civilized age. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster.

multiplied by infinity

The lightsaber is the ultimate "sidearm"

I would still take a real Pulse Rifle over it though I think.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:29:48 PM EDT

[#13]

Phaser

when they put that thing on kill, doesn't it completely dissolve the body too?

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:30:15 PM EDT

[#14]

All you people wanting the lightsaber would kill yourselves. Your not a Jedi, therefor you will be teh suck with it.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:31:06 PM EDT

[#15]

Phase plasma rifle in the 40watt range

Duh.

ok, a lightsaber would be cool too

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:32:50 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Phaser

when they put that thing on kill, doesn't it completely dissolve the body too?

Yeah, but I bet those wanks on CSI would find some trace...

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:33:53 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I will use my Han Solo blaster thank you very much.

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I'm with you Ace

Han Solo was the man

I think I'll go watch star wars now....episode IV...from a long time ago in a galaxy where movies were good

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:34:59 PM EDT

[#18]

You don't have John Crichton's sidearm "Winona" on the list.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:35:27 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Phaser

when they put that thing on kill, doesn't it completely dissolve the body too?

Yeah, but I bet those wanks on CSI would find some trace...

The only trace they leave behind are things you need. Like say the guy had keys, when you melt him only the keys would remain for you to use hahaha.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:36:08 PM EDT

[#20]

Star Trek Phaser is far superior to all Sci-Fi small arms because of the non lethal stun feature for the ones you love, but most of all when you kill someone the body disappears. No mess to clean up and best of all no evidence!

But the Aliens M41-A has all the cool points, looks and killer sound effects.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:40:39 PM EDT

[#21]

well duh!!!

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:41:11 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Jayne's favorite gun from Firefly. I don't remember what he named her.

That was the rifle, right?

Yup. "Vera," a "Callahan full-bore auto lock with customized trigger double cartridge thorough gauge"

Whatever the hell that meant.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:44:22 PM EDT

[#23]

Phaser would be my choice. The selection that destroys the body is called Disintegrate.

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:44:36 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
A lightsaber.

Hell yeah, or most of the rifles Mal's team had

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:46:28 PM EDT

[#25]

+1

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:49:15 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
All you people wanting the lightsaber would kill yourselves. Your not a Jedi, therefor you will be teh suck with it.

sez you

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:52:53 PM EDT

[#27]

Set Phasers on Kill

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:58:48 PM EDT

[#28]

SG-1 Zat Gun.........The same effect as the Phaser......and I like the sound and looks better.

It just takes a few extra shots get there. One hit stuns, two hits kills, three hits vaporizes their ass.

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:01:08 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
You don't have John Crichton's sidearm "Winona" on the list.

Right there with you-PK pulse pistol, though the bullpup pulse riflle is cool too.

Nick

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:05:04 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
A lightsaber.

....and the mad Jedi skillz to use it. A purple one, like that bad MFkr Mace Windu had would rule!!

If a lightsaber doesn't count then I'd choose a M41 Pulse rifle from "Aliens" or Vera from "Firefly".

If we include guns from SciFi books or games I'd choose a Gauss rifle (shoulder fired 4mm full auto electromagnet gun) or a FGMP (Fusion Gun, Man Portable) from the pen & paper role playing game Traveller.

The Ripper & the Redeemer from Unreal Tournament would be fun.

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:05:33 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Jayne's favorite gun from Firefly. I don't remember what he named her.

Veyra.... pretty badass!

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:08:27 PM EDT

[#32]

Phazers (atleast the majority of TNG and series thereafter versions) didn't have sights and were completely unergonomic. Dunno how the fak long those guys had to train with those to be able to hit a green headed targ at twenty feet. The tell is that Rodenbury didn't want them to look like guns.

Stormtrooper blaster for me. Incidentally, they also had a stun setting as witnessed when Carrie Fisher gets knocked down and gang raped in A New Hope at the beginning. Aparently it was wide angle too...sounds like a good riot weapon.

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:09:28 PM EDT

[#33]

Found this great page poking around...

www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3l.html

Like the PK pulse pistol and always thought a PPG was pretty cool (kill the bad guy but not punch a hole in the hull in the process).

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:15:57 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Like the PK pulse pistol and always thought a PPG was pretty cool (kill the bad guy but not punch a hole in the hull in the process).

PPG, those were the pistol and rifles carried by Babylon 5 security and officers, correct? Visually seemed to work like those wierd concussion guns the FBI guys used in Minority Report.

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:19:03 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Phaser would be my choice. The selection that destroys the body is called Disintegrate.

I th ink on one episode that was an 'illegal' phaser

The zat gun is supposedly three different options - one, stun, two shots, kill, three shots, get rid of the body.

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:24:40 PM EDT

[#36]

sidearm, schmidearm.

I want one of those turret anti-(air?)(space?)craft emplacements from the death star for my roof.

Heck, why not just the death star Main Battery Weapon? Ha Ha, I'll zap your whole planet, and your little dog, too.

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:27:05 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Phaser would be my choice. The selection that destroys the body is called Disintegrate.

I th ink on one episode that was an 'illegal' phaser

Letting my nerdom show. Several episodes of both the original series and TNG showed Starfleet personel vaporizing people and aliens without doing anything more than dialing it up.

The 'disruptor' was either a Klingon or Cardassian weapon that was illegal in the Federation. Seem to recall a DS9 episode were they pointed this out. Quark might have been moving them through the station.

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:28:25 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Jayne's favorite gun from Firefly. I don't remember what he named her.

Veyra.... pretty badass!

+1

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:29:40 PM EDT

[#39]

I'll take one BlasTech DL-44 "Heavy', if you please:

Sheep

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:31:22 PM EDT

[#40]

BFG from Doom

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:32:46 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
You don't have John Crichton's sidearm "Winona" on the list.

That was the one that made me think of the poll,but since farscape isn't as well known I kept it to the three most popular.

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:36:58 PM EDT

[#42]

Rifles aren't SIDEARMS!

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:37:11 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
I'll take one BlasTech DL-44 "Heavy', if you please:

shop.starwars.com/kernel/imageload?table=cat_images;ttl2=15;key1=1638_f;key2=-100_f

Sheep

So Solos isnt a red 9? Well since its heavy I bet it shoot .45 lasers.

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:38:22 PM EDT

[#44]

I'll take one cerebral bore from Turok please.

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:39:57 PM EDT

[#45]

Just kidding

Would prefer a lightsaber, a "gentleman's weapon," but definitely would want the training to be able to use it without losing an arm or a head.

Sidearm would have to be a phaser, or for more traditional firearms, Decker's pistol from "Blade Runner."