The Apache Revolver was essentially a weaponized version of the concept behind the Swiss army knife. It crammed a whole bunch of ways to hurt people into one easy to carry and conceal package with a fold-out design, specifically a gun, a knife, and a set of brass knuckles. It couldn't do the job as well as any of these individually but, if efficient use of space was your thing and you lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s, this might have been the weapon for you.

The design was typically to…

E2 Star Trek episode guide : Original Series : Season Two

Amok Time

Episode number: 30
Airdate: September 15, 1967
Stardate: 3372.7

Writer: Theodore Sturgeon
Director: Joseph Pevney

Background

Amok Time is one of the most famous episodes of the original Star Trek series. In a nutshell, Spock begins to endure the…

Simon, what do you remember about
that time with the sled? That it was night
and very cold, that we'd both just turned twelve?
We climbed in train: you, the sled and I,
past empty lodges, chairlifts in the sky.                

Mountain stories are a sort of genre –
the Magic one, of course, and Kilmanjaro,
a dozen trades on Hillary, a few score poems – …

"I haven't even gotten into muffins! Or cupcakes. Or are those a subset of muffins? We'll need a committee to investigate that."

-- From a late installment of 8-Bit Theater (wherein our intrepid adventurers argue over what kind of evil cake the demonic force Chaos might turn the world into)