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- From: rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Robert J. Granvin)
- Subject: Re: Amusing Season 6 errors (None posted previously)
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:35:10 GMT
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- |> >My sharp-eyed wife (hey, she's an editor) found a *real* blooper. When
- |> >Worf practices his quick-draw at the end... the gun switches hands!
- |> >It starts out in his left hand, the camera angle changes, and shazam,
- |> >it's in his right hand!
- |>
- |> This is quite normal when the person is looking at himself in the
- |> mirror. It starts out in his left hand because we are looking at it in
- |> the mirror (he is checking how he looks). It switches to his right when
- |> the camera changes to look directly at him. What _is_ unusual is that
- |> Dorn, a right-hander, _normally_ shoots (a phaser, anyway) left-handed.
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- Maybe that explains why Worf can shoot the gun out of the hands of
- a gunslinger with an ancient, inaccurate lead projectile weapon, yet
- he can't hit a stationary blob of protoplasm (i.e., Ferengi), on the
- bridge... Switch hands!
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