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Is Star Trek's "Gorn Cannon" Mere Myth? Find Out On Mythbusters

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December 19th, 2009

Can a cannon really be made out of bamboo, sulfur, charcoal and diamonds like the one Captain Kirk made on the Star Trek episode "Arena"?

Find out on Mythbusters Monday Dec. 28, at 9 p.m. on the Discovery Channel

Star Trek fans will definitely want to check out this video preview.

Already added to my DVR...

via SciFi Wire

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  1. Bill Gorman
    Posted December 19, 2009 at 1:27 PM

    Mythbusters should never be *off* your DVR! ;)

  2. romo
    Posted December 19, 2009 at 1:27 PM

    MacGyver says “yes it can”.

  3. Nightstar
    Posted December 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM

    Captain Kirk channels MacGyver… apparently there was some time travel via a psychic connection involved with this particular adventure of Mythbusters! ;-)

  4. StephenMartin
    Posted December 19, 2009 at 8:51 PM

    Who cares? It was a TV show for crying out loud.

  5. JoCor
    Posted December 19, 2009 at 9:48 PM

    HA HA. They didn’t have the rights to Star Trek so they had to re-film the scene themselves.

  6. Bill Gorman
    Posted December 19, 2009 at 9:56 PM

    JoCor, Mythbusters never springs for the rebroadcasts, and it’s rare they even do their own version (which I thought was hilarious). Usually it’s storyboards.

  7. Cimmer
    Posted December 19, 2009 at 10:21 PM

    Well their canon out of a tree trunk was great fun so this is a must see.

  8. Nightstar
    Posted December 19, 2009 at 10:34 PM

    Didn’t know about the tree trunk… although I did see the cannon made from duct tape. That was priceless :-)

  9. Mike
    Posted December 20, 2009 at 3:09 AM

    All I know is that when I grow up I want to be a Mythbuster! Best job in the world!

  10. Saruma
    Posted December 20, 2009 at 1:09 PM

    Bill,

    They do occasionally show clips from movies and TV shows, especially on the movie myth specials. Off the top of my head I know I’ve seen clips from Jaws and Mission Impossible on Mythbusters. They don’t show extended scenes (maybe too much money), but 10-15 second clips aren’t uncommon.

  11. Nightstar
    Posted December 20, 2009 at 6:53 PM

    Saruma: Add MacGyver to that list, just FYI. :-)

  12. Ruthie
    Posted December 21, 2009 at 6:00 AM

    The tree trunk cannon was AWESOME. I haven’t watched this show in a while, but I might tune in for this episode.

    And I’m with you, Mike. Being a Mythbuster would be the most fun job ever.

  13. Outlander
    Posted December 21, 2009 at 7:12 AM

    The geekiness of the show is only enhanced by them doing a “re-enactment” rather than a rebroadcast.

  14. Scott Jensen
    Posted December 21, 2009 at 8:32 AM

    Due to what I saw on their tree cannon episode, I think the Gorn cannon will be nothing other than a bomb. I would then expect them to simply reply a clip from their tree cannon episode to show how an all-”natural” cannon would have to be done.

  15. Paul Carlson
    Posted December 21, 2009 at 7:14 PM

    Looks interesting!
    Unless I grew up in a parallel dimension, it would be MacGyver channeling KIrk, not the other way around.

  16. Holly
    Posted December 21, 2009 at 8:53 PM

    ^Well, since Star Trek is set in the 23rd century and MacGyver was set in the 1980s, it would be Kirk channeling MacGyver.

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