If you can have just one sci-fi/fantasy gadget...

[Last Conformist]

The Holy Laptop.

(This being, as everyone how reads Herman Hedning knows, God's own laptop, some typing on which can create an eight-armed carnivorous cadillac, or cause the Earth to become cubical.)

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Locutus
Once you have replicators, producing energy sources such as batteries, solar cells, wind mills, nuclear power plants (since replicators work both ways, you don't even have to worry about nuclear waste), etc would be a piece of cake

101% efficiency

[el freako]

I'd have the electromagnetic effectors used in the 'Culture' novels by Iain M Banks.

They are a real general purpose tool;

Use them as a weapon to disable any system that uses electromagnetic effects for a precise non-lethal effect, or use them to destabilize the nuclear reactions within a star for system-wide nova effects.

Use them as a survellience device and they can even see into the thoughts of living creatures, or if you are feeling really evil you can even 'put thoughts' into their heads - great for controlling creatures/AI's

When you add in the fact that they have interstellar range......

[Hot Mustard]

Originally posted by el freako
I'd have the electromagnetic effectors used in the 'Culture' novels by Iain M Banks.

They are a real general purpose tool;

Use them as a weapon to disable any system that uses electromagnetic effects for a precise non-lethal effect, or use them to destabilize the nuclear reactions within a star for system-wide nova effects.

Use them as a survellience device and they can even see into the thoughts of living creatures, or if you are feeling really evil you can even 'put thoughts' into their heads - great for controlling creatures/AI's

When you add in the fact that they have interstellar range......

Shall we call you "Meatf*cker"?

Edit: Link for the curious: Mind names (The Culture) (see GCU Grey Area)

[St Leo]

On second though, I think I want a Dyson Sphere.

[Japher]

Would The Death Star be considered a "gadget"?

[St Leo]

For large values of gadget, yes. Next question.

[el freako]

Originally posted by dejon

Shall we call you "Meatf*cker"?

I love the culture names for ships, especially the 50-km long behemoth called the "Size isn't Everything"

[Aabraxan]

Originally posted by Cruddy
A version of Windows that doesn't go down on me.

Hmmm, given the amount of money that's been made off of Windows and internet porn, wouldn't it be better to invent a version of Windows that does?

[Japher]

I'll take the Probability Drive... just for a little excitement

[Aabraxan]

Incredibly tough call: Does "DeathStar fitted with a time machine, holodecks, replicators, a mind-reading device, and an invisibilty ray" count as one gadget?

[Japher]

Incredibly tough call: Does "DeathStar fitted with a time machine, holodecks, replicators, a mind-reading device, and an invisibilty ray" count as one gadget?

You may drop the "Game" from your name...

[Aabraxan]

Originally posted by Japher
You may drop the "Game" from your name...

So maybe I should be IndecisiveGeek?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


Recall "I, Mudd," the Star Trek episode where Harry Mudd was marooned on a planet populated with beautiful lady androids who were "fully functional as females." [Checkov: Why that dirty old man.]

I think we have a crew!

did checkov say that? I miss the old series. It had a certain charm to it. Is it still on tv on the sci fi channel? I wan't to watch an episode.

[Dis]

why would anyone want a death star or weapon?

Are you that homicidal? I have no desire to kill people.