Yet with “Spectre of the Gun” there remains a very Coon-ian conceit at the heart of the show: man’s ability to refuse to kill even when provoked to vengeance and retribution. Ironically, “Spock’s Brain,” had always been intended as a comedy a la “I, Mudd” and “Tribbles” only to be transformed by hackneyed writing into, well, an unintentional comedy.
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Like “Spock’s Brain,” the episode is stamped with Gene Coon’s pseudonym, Lee Cronin, a moniker he slapped on all his show’s after leaving the series in the second year, when they were re-written. “The Alternative Factor,” “Turnabout Intruder,” regrettably, the list goes on), but I actually quite enjoy “Spectre of the Gun.” In fact, in the third season, which is filled with innumerable examples of Trek’s good, the bad and the extremely ugly, “Spectre of the Gun” is a standout. Not only are their far worse episodes of the original series (e.g. And to my perpetual amazement, the episode that always seemed to top their “Worst Of Trek” lists were “Spectere of the Gun” (along with the equally goofy, if not even more enjoyable, “Savage Curtain.”) I continued to be baffled by that to this day. They allegedly culled articles from a short-lived magazine called “Trek,” but the seemingly endless volumes of this book series long outlived the actual magazine. He is soon forced to hand it over to Pussy Galore after being found underneath the model of Fort Knox, listening to the details of Operation Grand Slam.Back in the 1970s when I was enjoying Star Trek for the first time, there were a series of books called “The Best of Trek” from New American Library (being unlicensed from Paramount, they always were marked by covers with a series of spaceships that looked like nothing ever depicted in the Trek universe, actually presaging Battlestar Galactica with their boxy, metallic shapes). Goldfinger’s men all appear to be armed with the Walther P38, one of which Bond takes from the guard when he escapes his prison cell. In Casino Royale (2006) Bond’s use of the Walther PPK is limited to the bathroom fight in the pre-title sequence. Bond is instead equipped with a dart gun on his wrist.Īfter that Bond uses the PPK (or PPK/S) in all films except Octopussy, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day. While a publicity still of Moonraker features Bond in a spacesuit with a PPK, he doesn’t in fact use the gun in the film. The smaller capacity magazine suggests he is armed with the 9mm version. “Six bullets to your one?” Bond quizzes Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun. While Bond’s gun was usually chambered for 7.65mm rounds, that isn’t always the case.
Introduced in the 1960s to comply with new US regulations, it combines the frame of the PP with the barrel and slide of the PPK. The latter is slightly heavier and holds eight rounds of 7.65mm ammunition compared with seven for the PPK. In 1962 filmmakers weren’t thinking ahead to the frame-by-frame analysis that we all have access to these days.īond has largely stuck with the PPK or the PPK/S throughout the film series. In reality the gun was probably supposed to be his PPK. So it’s rather curious to find that when he arrives at Miss Taro’s apartment, Bond is actually carrying a Browning 1910 fitted with a silencer. 380 ACP Walther PP, making From Russia With Love the first Bond film to actually feature a PPK on screen.Īfter being armed with a Walther PPK at the start of Dr No you’d think the matter was settled for the remainder of the film. In its place Boothroyd provides what he tells Bond is a 7.65 mm Walther PPK.
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