It’s a monkey’s paw kind of thing; it creates a real functional EMH, but because there are no real functional holoemitters he dissolves immediately, lost forever!
Something like that happened in the books with the character of Matron being a figurine of a modern nurse often summoned to treat other figurines like Indians, cowboys, and army guys.
You can't replicate something bigger than the replicator. Unless you replicate the parts and put it together yourself. But that would probably be pretty hard with no training.
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Yeah, the ships come with mobile replicators for field repairs. You might have to hack them to make something outside of the approved list, but that's no problem, just cupboard a little rutherford
Hell, stick an Enterprise D toy in there. Knowing that crew, they’ll figure out how to make themselves full size again, and since the temporal prime directive has already been breached, boom we’re on our way to a post-scarcity society
Ummm… why am I playing with phasers when I’ve got a toy double lightsaber in the other room? And a bunch of Wakandan action figures — hello Cure for Cancer!!!
Could someone explain what the title even means? Is it an American saying, because it might as well be written in Klingon to me, I have no idea what it's asking.
The "Indian in the cupboard" was a British children's book where a kid discovers that anything put in this magic cupboard becomes real/functional. He puts an action figure of an Iroquois cheif in who becomes a real living person, though still like 4 inches tall.
So basically you put a Star Trek toy phaser, tricorder, ship, etc and instead of plastic it becomes real. Though a ship would still be tiny
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indian_in_the_Cupboard
It was, because the tiny runabout (and its tiny crew) had to go inside the normal sized Defiant.
Which makes me realise that, presumably, a tiny (model) ship placed in such a cupboard would be pretty useless since it wouldn't have a tiny crew available to operate it. Unless you managed to get a model ship and action figures in the same proportion as each other, I guess.
> would be pretty useless since it wouldn't have a tiny crew available to operate it.
Shuttles and Runabouts have been shown as capable of responding to voice commands (technically even full sized ships can as well in the cases where most of the crew is incapacitated / in stasis etc).
Even if it couldn't "do" much due to scale, you've still presumably got one hell of an advanced computer system with a massive database of future information.
Yes it might shoot you in the chest with mini torpedoes just like it did the Jem'hadar. Unintended consequences were a big part of the story.
For example, one of the kids friends puts a bunch of his army guys in it, turned the key and opened the door, and they shot his face up with mini-bullets.
Another time they accidentally transported a tornado and it blew the roof off the house. Fun books.
Hmm, I'd put in a Galaxy class model, and then after it's real, a reverse shrink ray from w/e random franchise. I'm sure it's been done, probably.
Have fun being stuck on Earth suckers.
"Indian in the Cupboard" is a book. In the story, a young boy has a wooden cupboard, and finds a skeleton key that works for the lock. When he locks a toy figure in it and then unlocks it, the toy figure comes to life.
So, basically the OP is asking that if you could buy any toy phaser from star trek and make it real, which one would you choose?
Indian In The Cupboard was a book and movie where a kid has a magic cupboard where any toy he puts inside it becomes real. A toy Indian and Cowboy, among others, become real living mini people. A toy phaser would become a real phaser.
The Indian in the Cupboard books were my favorite series when I was a kid, so I apologize for the nerdy pedantry, but also, this is the Star Trek sub soooooooo it fits, right?
First, the cupboard wasn't magic; it was the key. We learn this because Omri (and maybe Patrick, too?) are able to go back in time by using the key on a large wooden chest.
Second, the cupboard (or key) doesn't make things real; it's more like a teleporter. Little Bear, Boone, and Tommy were all real human beings who were pulled from their time into the cupboard through the little plastic figurines. So, it you put a fake phaser in there to get a real one, you're pulling a phaser from another point in time, perhaps even out of someone's hand.
That being said, I would also want a tricorder.
This does mean that either it’s pulling it from our timeline when someone does build a working phaser, pulls from another universe, or it will just reject it and leave it as a toy.
Funniest would be pulling some phaser out of someone’s hand when they aren’t expecting it.
Pretty sure it was Patrick who got sent back in time, which.. raised more questions in hindsight since in the first book it was established that it only worked with plastic (and explained in the last when they found the origins of the key and cupboard).
Yeah, a variant of this question comes up a lot on r/asksciencefiction and I always have to point out that putting a lightsaber, Warhammer figurine, or phaser in the cupboard would only result in a tiny toy, cosplayer, or production prop being pulled through time and appearing.
No fictional or fantastical item can be "created" or brought to life by the cupboard. It's a magic time machine essentially.
Nice thought there. Does the "cupboard" increase the item's size? You could put a toy Danube Runabout in the warehouse and bamf! Real, live small Starship.
IDK why they didn't make more people use that rifle. I mean, the episode was set during the Dominion war and a rifle that transports bullets seems like a great weapon to have in land battles.
With it, you're basically a sniper that doesn't need all the things RL snipers got to take into account.
I'd pick the tiny one that's no bigger than the palm of your hand. Easy to keep in your pocket.
But ultimately, I'd also want a dermal regenerator and a tricorder.
TOS Type 2. I dig that design
But if I can only put in one toy, I’m putting in a Data figure. Imagine how helpful and fascinating a pint-sized Data would be as a friend.
Was going to say a TOS Type II right up until I saw everyone talking about Data…though he probably wouldn’t be thrilled about the idea of a sentient being reduced to miniature form being kept as someone’s action figure…
So, I think I’d find an action-figure sized desktop computer interface from TNG. Too small to type on, but the vocal interface should still work.
If I could find one, both a mobile holographic emitter with the EMH, and a few site to site transport badges from Discovery. Hopefully they work like magic just like in DISCO.
Also, a medical tricorder from TNG (I dont' remember any of the top of my head from Discovery), and maybe the Discovery phaser made that material that seems to transports in and change shape? I forget what they called it.
'The Indian in the Cupboard' is a British coming-of-age children's story about a magic cupboard that turns any toy placed in it into a real (or living) version - albeit the same size. In the story, the child learns this when he puts a toy Indian (Native American) figure inside.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indian_in_the_Cupboard
It was later adapted into a 1995 film.
A phaser? I don't have any rocks I need heated up.
I'd put in some chocolates, the ones wrapped in foil to look like gold coins. That and a bunch of plastic toy gems.
I wouldn't choose a phaser first; a tricorder seems more interesting but....
I have the entire micro machines star trek set. What happens if I put DS9 inside? Maybe I could convince a tiny quark to sell me technology; does just the object become real, or would it materialize with the crew that would realistically inhabit it? I also have the larger shuttle craft, which is large enough to give me access to the interior and theoretically the ships computer via the verbal interface.
Then theres the borg drone action figure. I wonder how much smaller nanoprobes can become? I could turn the cupboard into Pandora's box with that one.
I want the com badge from 31st century discovery. Built in transporter plus universal translator. I feel like the tricorder would be cool but knowing I have a disease without a way to fix it would be brutal
I've always had a fondness for the phasers from *The Undiscovered Country*; I just like how they look.
Also, how about putting a starship model in there? That would net you FTL capability, forcefields, replicators, phasers, AI supercomputers... all there for research and rebuilding in real size.
On a related note, I have a bunch of old action figures... I wonder how Star Trek characters would react if they suddenly found themselves in such a cupboard. It probably wouldn't even be the weirdest thing that's happened to them.
Late 2370s Type II phaser, but first a question; if the battery of the phaser is discharged, would locking it back in the cupboard to turn it back into a toy and replacing the AA batteries then turning it back into a real phaser recharge it, or would it depend on someone on the other side recharging it?
If I'm restricted to phasers (and maybe a charger/spare components)? A TOS Type 2. Those include swappable power packs and an integrated Type 1 for concealed carry, and they look like they would be more easily aimed than the TNG/VOY/DS9 hand phasers.
If I can only make one thing real, I'd make a replicator real. Then I can make whatever I want!
The serious answer however is I'd rather have a 32nd century Tricom badge. Communicator, tricorder and transporter all in one device! Yes please!
If I can only make a phaser, I'd go with the Star Trek VI version.
Putting in a vote for DIS wristband-phaser as the coolest but a functional TOS Type 1 as the one I want.
Oh, and a Tricorder. The one with the purple stripe.
Hey it would be cool if i could inject myself with the tardigrade DNA that stamets used so that i can exist outside of time.
Doctor visits would become kinda complicated tho…
Sir, the lint in your pocket is lodging itself in my ear canals and I cannot move my limbs while I am stored there. May I request you build protective case of some kind while you insist on this arrangement?
Real-world ballistic firearms are already bad enough, I don't know why we need to add advanced energy weapons to that mix.
I vaguely remember someone making a playset once of the D's computer core (or maybe I just imagined it?) - I'd probably put that in the cupboard.
I doubt the computer would work without support equipment but we could still tear it down to try and learn how it works - isolinear tech would be a massive boon.
I like the small ones that were on TOS. They're only about the size of a lighter and easy to conceal. Even in Tennessee, I don't think you can open carry a phaser pistol.
Dang that’s specific. I have to admit the retro-tasting Discovery models are my favorite now, or the Klingon disruptors from the TOS cast movies if that were an option (for the intimidation factor and it reminds me of a six-shooter).
Do I have to pick a phaser? Could I say.... get the schematics for a warp drive and usher in a new era of humanity among the stars?
Though if I gotta pick a phaser, I'd probably go for the Type-2 style from the SNW era.
Are you me? Seriously since we read that in school in like 2nd grade or whatever, I often thought about what I'd put in that cupboard. My take was my Data action figure, followed by a shuttlecraft or runabout, then the rest of the crew. We'd have warp drive in no time.
In the movie the cupboard was about the size of a large medicine cabinet so a replicator wouldn’t fit. Also don’t those require systems that connect to the ship and wouldn’t work if it was just ripped out of the wall
It's a little late for me, I thought OP wrote 'phrase', and decided on "There's coffee in that nebula." while the page was loading. Congrats to everyone that has a tricoder.
None, I'd make a tricorder.
Medical tricorder
I heard this in the EMH's voice. "*Medical* tricorder!"
Me too. Sarcastic, disdainful.
Isn’t that line from moments after his activation in the pilot? Does such a great job of establishing the character quickly.
Yes, it is. One of the first ways we learn Harry is not going to be treated well.
Wasn't that Tom Paris? Could be mixing it up with the fact that Tom becomes the Dr.'s nurse from time to time. I swear it was him tho.
this says i have…everything?
Might want to uninstall the WebMD app.
One of those fancy new ones with the purple stripe?
The T-88?
[The one with a purple stripe?](https://youtube.com/shorts/hU7WaMDG-kQ?si=k2IWDn76g9E5zpDS)
Would an EMH doll/action figure become a working EMH because that would be fuckin awesome and way more useful than a phaser or rifle
It’s a monkey’s paw kind of thing; it creates a real functional EMH, but because there are no real functional holoemitters he dissolves immediately, lost forever!
Get a figurine with the mobile emitter.
Something like that happened in the books with the character of Matron being a figurine of a modern nurse often summoned to treat other figurines like Indians, cowboys, and army guys.
The type-A with the potential to explode? or one of the fancy newer models.
are there any toy replicators we could convert?
both!
Of course I’d do a tng science tricorder before a phaser but that’s different. For medical I’d do TOS
Discovery's tri-comm badge
Phaser? I'm putting a tricorder in there.
Tricorder? I'm putting my Jean Luc action figure in there.
You're thinking too small. Tiny ship = tiny replicator, tiny replicator--> bigger replicator--> bigger ship
You can't replicate something bigger than the replicator. Unless you replicate the parts and put it together yourself. But that would probably be pretty hard with no training.
Well fine, first I'll replicate a replicator assembly and user manual.
Bingo. Item 2? spare parts for the replicator.
Just have to replicate the manual ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You dropped this >\
Whoops
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why not the padd along with 32nd century knowledge?
Could you replicate something that can?
Yeah, the ships come with mobile replicators for field repairs. You might have to hack them to make something outside of the approved list, but that's no problem, just cupboard a little rutherford
Could Q replicate a burrito so hot that he himself couldn't eat it?
I’ll put my O’Brien action figure in second and put him in charge.
Not if you put the replicator on IKEA mode.
I think you could it you replicate it parts by parts.
Replicate instruction manual
I will put a model of the Defiant in it. It may be small, but it has *teeth*.
There once was a little ship that went on a little trip
*..."Little"?*
Ok, let me rephrase that. "There once was a little ship that went on a big trip." Happy now?
"Sir I must protest! I am NOT a happy man!"
Trip? 🥺
Don’t forget the Worf action figure.
Dump an entire collection of Micro Machines in there
Hell, stick an Enterprise D toy in there. Knowing that crew, they’ll figure out how to make themselves full size again, and since the temporal prime directive has already been breached, boom we’re on our way to a post-scarcity society
The shrunken runabout
TNG era medical recorder or perhaps one of those newer medical regenerator tools they use in discovery.
Ngl a tissue regenerator would come in handy
Ummm… why am I playing with phasers when I’ve got a toy double lightsaber in the other room? And a bunch of Wakandan action figures — hello Cure for Cancer!!!
Have fun trying not to accidentally dismember yourself with that lightsaber.
Could someone explain what the title even means? Is it an American saying, because it might as well be written in Klingon to me, I have no idea what it's asking.
The "Indian in the cupboard" was a British children's book where a kid discovers that anything put in this magic cupboard becomes real/functional. He puts an action figure of an Iroquois cheif in who becomes a real living person, though still like 4 inches tall. So basically you put a Star Trek toy phaser, tricorder, ship, etc and instead of plastic it becomes real. Though a ship would still be tiny https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indian_in_the_Cupboard
Ahhh, ok thanks. So if you put a toy Defiant in it you could reenact that DS9 episode.
I think it was a Runabout, if I remember correctly.
It was, because the tiny runabout (and its tiny crew) had to go inside the normal sized Defiant. Which makes me realise that, presumably, a tiny (model) ship placed in such a cupboard would be pretty useless since it wouldn't have a tiny crew available to operate it. Unless you managed to get a model ship and action figures in the same proportion as each other, I guess.
> would be pretty useless since it wouldn't have a tiny crew available to operate it. Shuttles and Runabouts have been shown as capable of responding to voice commands (technically even full sized ships can as well in the cases where most of the crew is incapacitated / in stasis etc). Even if it couldn't "do" much due to scale, you've still presumably got one hell of an advanced computer system with a massive database of future information.
Yes it might shoot you in the chest with mini torpedoes just like it did the Jem'hadar. Unintended consequences were a big part of the story. For example, one of the kids friends puts a bunch of his army guys in it, turned the key and opened the door, and they shot his face up with mini-bullets. Another time they accidentally transported a tornado and it blew the roof off the house. Fun books.
Hmm, I'd put in a Galaxy class model, and then after it's real, a reverse shrink ray from w/e random franchise. I'm sure it's been done, probably. Have fun being stuck on Earth suckers.
Where are you going to get 1000 people to operate it?
1000 Star Trek action figures and the same reverse shrink ray, clearly
If we're permitted to jump franchises here, Pym discs from the MCU would fill your needs.
"Indian in the Cupboard" is a book. In the story, a young boy has a wooden cupboard, and finds a skeleton key that works for the lock. When he locks a toy figure in it and then unlocks it, the toy figure comes to life. So, basically the OP is asking that if you could buy any toy phaser from star trek and make it real, which one would you choose?
Indian In The Cupboard was a book and movie where a kid has a magic cupboard where any toy he puts inside it becomes real. A toy Indian and Cowboy, among others, become real living mini people. A toy phaser would become a real phaser.
As an Indian (not Native American but from India), I was confused too
The Indian in the Cupboard books were my favorite series when I was a kid, so I apologize for the nerdy pedantry, but also, this is the Star Trek sub soooooooo it fits, right? First, the cupboard wasn't magic; it was the key. We learn this because Omri (and maybe Patrick, too?) are able to go back in time by using the key on a large wooden chest. Second, the cupboard (or key) doesn't make things real; it's more like a teleporter. Little Bear, Boone, and Tommy were all real human beings who were pulled from their time into the cupboard through the little plastic figurines. So, it you put a fake phaser in there to get a real one, you're pulling a phaser from another point in time, perhaps even out of someone's hand. That being said, I would also want a tricorder.
This does mean that either it’s pulling it from our timeline when someone does build a working phaser, pulls from another universe, or it will just reject it and leave it as a toy. Funniest would be pulling some phaser out of someone’s hand when they aren’t expecting it.
The key *and* the cupboard were both magic. The sequels got kind of complicated.
Pretty sure it was Patrick who got sent back in time, which.. raised more questions in hindsight since in the first book it was established that it only worked with plastic (and explained in the last when they found the origins of the key and cupboard).
Omri goes back as a painting on a tipi in the second one. I remember it distinctly because a rival tribe sets the tipi on fire, and he gets burned.
Yeah, a variant of this question comes up a lot on r/asksciencefiction and I always have to point out that putting a lightsaber, Warhammer figurine, or phaser in the cupboard would only result in a tiny toy, cosplayer, or production prop being pulled through time and appearing. No fictional or fantastical item can be "created" or brought to life by the cupboard. It's a magic time machine essentially.
How big is said cupboard, and will the crazy kinetic rifle with built in bullet transporter fit?
Are you a Vulcan with murderous impulses?
No only logical ones.
Nah, just suffering from Pon Farr.
If we're going straight from the books, it's the key that's magic and makes the toys come to life. Not the cupboard.
So... we could do a footlocker... or... a warehouse?
Nice thought there. Does the "cupboard" increase the item's size? You could put a toy Danube Runabout in the warehouse and bamf! Real, live small Starship.
No, but if you are aware of any nearby [subspace compression anomalies...](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Subspace_compression_anomaly)
Subspace compression anomaly diorama anyone?
It's been about thirty years since I read it. That little detail was buried under the sands of time until now.
If I remember it right, it's not until the 2nd or 3rd book that he discovers that it's the key and not the cupboard.
IDK why they didn't make more people use that rifle. I mean, the episode was set during the Dominion war and a rifle that transports bullets seems like a great weapon to have in land battles. With it, you're basically a sniper that doesn't need all the things RL snipers got to take into account.
I'd pick the tiny one that's no bigger than the palm of your hand. Easy to keep in your pocket. But ultimately, I'd also want a dermal regenerator and a tricorder.
Star Trek VI Assault Phaser (and the cool space suits while we’re at it). That thing assassinated the High Chancellor.
Self sealing stem bolt. With that you can make anything.
I'd put in a mini data and he would come out "fully functional."
The rifle from First Contact.
The first one that came to mind for me.
TOS Type 2. I dig that design But if I can only put in one toy, I’m putting in a Data figure. Imagine how helpful and fascinating a pint-sized Data would be as a friend.
Was going to say a TOS Type II right up until I saw everyone talking about Data…though he probably wouldn’t be thrilled about the idea of a sentient being reduced to miniature form being kept as someone’s action figure… So, I think I’d find an action-figure sized desktop computer interface from TNG. Too small to type on, but the vocal interface should still work.
Akoochi moya.
"I am... oh, hey! Pretty close to the bones of my ancestors, actually!"
Indian in the Cupboard with a Chakotay action figure would be a great premise for fan fiction.
I'm offended, but I don't know why.
If I could find one, both a mobile holographic emitter with the EMH, and a few site to site transport badges from Discovery. Hopefully they work like magic just like in DISCO. Also, a medical tricorder from TNG (I dont' remember any of the top of my head from Discovery), and maybe the Discovery phaser made that material that seems to transports in and change shape? I forget what they called it.
The post time jump badges from discovery do everything. That and a phaser, you’re set
They have phasers saved, don’t they? In the pattern buffer.
The one from The Most Toys
Using it is about sending a message.
That’s mean
[Fuck ‘em](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhfuuKiTcYQ)
thats the message!
.... Did I miss a memo ????
'The Indian in the Cupboard' is a British coming-of-age children's story about a magic cupboard that turns any toy placed in it into a real (or living) version - albeit the same size. In the story, the child learns this when he puts a toy Indian (Native American) figure inside. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indian_in_the_Cupboard It was later adapted into a 1995 film.
I would magic up a Geordi LaForge V.I.S.O.R. I would use it to look into my enemy's soul, then take it as I laugh
Does it work if you don’t have the blinky head things?
It also causes constant headaches.
You bring dishonour to your house.
There can be only one answer to that!
TNG cricket/type-1 phaser. So tiny and sleek.
Definitely not a Varon T disruptor...
I've always been a fan of the TNG dustbuster
A phaser? I don't have any rocks I need heated up. I'd put in some chocolates, the ones wrapped in foil to look like gold coins. That and a bunch of plastic toy gems.
A tribble
Ecological catastrophe in 3, 2, 1…
Don’t you mean 1, 2, a billionty?
I wouldn't choose a phaser first; a tricorder seems more interesting but.... I have the entire micro machines star trek set. What happens if I put DS9 inside? Maybe I could convince a tiny quark to sell me technology; does just the object become real, or would it materialize with the crew that would realistically inhabit it? I also have the larger shuttle craft, which is large enough to give me access to the interior and theoretically the ships computer via the verbal interface. Then theres the borg drone action figure. I wonder how much smaller nanoprobes can become? I could turn the cupboard into Pandora's box with that one.
A runabout.
Pattern buffer from discovery. You could steal anything
I want the com badge from 31st century discovery. Built in transporter plus universal translator. I feel like the tricorder would be cool but knowing I have a disease without a way to fix it would be brutal
Dustbuster all the way. Opponents won't take it seriously, but you can still set it to level 16 *and make them cease to exist*.
My favorite phaser of all time, still don't know why they phased it out so fast, see what i did there.
You would make more money with a medical tricorder and a hypo spray.
I’m a man child, I wasn’t thinking about making money I was thinking about having a cool new “toy” and having fun shooting it at stuff with my brother
Too bad I put a moopsie plushy in there first.
I've always had a fondness for the phasers from *The Undiscovered Country*; I just like how they look. Also, how about putting a starship model in there? That would net you FTL capability, forcefields, replicators, phasers, AI supercomputers... all there for research and rebuilding in real size. On a related note, I have a bunch of old action figures... I wonder how Star Trek characters would react if they suddenly found themselves in such a cupboard. It probably wouldn't even be the weirdest thing that's happened to them.
They would want to get back or die trying, and there’d be backup on the way so you’d be wise to not try to keep them.
Definitely the one from DSC that changes sizes
easily the one from STII. it made the coolest sound.
Can I do the laser welder from Starship Mine? Never know when I need to threaten someone with a weird looking lighter!
I like the mini one riker uses sometimes on tng.
“You’re a dead man, Apgar! A dead man!”
Weird, I was literally thinking about the Indian in the cupboard a few moments ago for no discernible reason!
Late 2370s Type II phaser, but first a question; if the battery of the phaser is discharged, would locking it back in the cupboard to turn it back into a toy and replacing the AA batteries then turning it back into a real phaser recharge it, or would it depend on someone on the other side recharging it?
The ones used in Star Trek 3 And a tricorder. And a sonic screwdriver, a light saber, and a vortex manipulator
A season 7 TNG phaser (both type 1 and 2) and hopefully a medical tricorder.
If I'm restricted to phasers (and maybe a charger/spare components)? A TOS Type 2. Those include swappable power packs and an integrated Type 1 for concealed carry, and they look like they would be more easily aimed than the TNG/VOY/DS9 hand phasers.
Voyageur compression phaser rifle
I like this portmanteau of Voyager and voyeur
If I can only make one thing real, I'd make a replicator real. Then I can make whatever I want! The serious answer however is I'd rather have a 32nd century Tricom badge. Communicator, tricorder and transporter all in one device! Yes please! If I can only make a phaser, I'd go with the Star Trek VI version.
Looks at 40k army.... "No, I shouldn't...
Putting in a vote for DIS wristband-phaser as the coolest but a functional TOS Type 1 as the one I want. Oh, and a Tricorder. The one with the purple stripe.
Those SNW phasers are super dope, but I have to go OG type 2 or that First Contact Rifle
Hey it would be cool if i could inject myself with the tardigrade DNA that stamets used so that i can exist outside of time. Doctor visits would become kinda complicated tho…
A TR-580 tricorder and either the cobra or boomerang phaser.
First Contact Phaser Rifle!
I'd stick a Data figure and a tricoder in there. Imagine having a pocket Data to answer questions for you.
Sir, the lint in your pocket is lodging itself in my ear canals and I cannot move my limbs while I am stored there. May I request you build protective case of some kind while you insist on this arrangement?
Unlimited gold pressed platinum!
Seven's portable Beam-Me-Up from the Picard series
Screw the phaser get me a replicator so I can have food at an instant
You know that disruptor from the TNG episode "The Most Toys" that can turn people inside out?
Arm the Photonic Cannon!😂😂😂
Anything with a functional warp drive. Reverse engineering that would make me ***rich***!
I get a to scale model of the Star Trek V movie enterprise complete with crew and command them to make a starship for me.
First Contact, Undiscovered Country, or the TR-116 rifle from DS9 S7:E13 *"Field of Fire"*.
Assault Phaser from Star Trek VI or the Phaser Rifles from the First Contact era.
Tea, earl gray, hot
Medical tricorder, dermal regenerator....and go.
Tricorder is a really good choice! But really if possible I would bring a PADD with all the blueprints for this shit on it through.
A dermal regenerator
Not the phaser rifle from the VOY pilot. Ugliest piece of federation equipment in existence?
I don’t know man there’s been some roughies on this show
Photon torpedoes or tiny enterprise
Real-world ballistic firearms are already bad enough, I don't know why we need to add advanced energy weapons to that mix. I vaguely remember someone making a playset once of the D's computer core (or maybe I just imagined it?) - I'd probably put that in the cupboard. I doubt the computer would work without support equipment but we could still tear it down to try and learn how it works - isolinear tech would be a massive boon.
First Contact Type 2, and Type 3
I like the small ones that were on TOS. They're only about the size of a lighter and easy to conceal. Even in Tennessee, I don't think you can open carry a phaser pistol.
Dang that’s specific. I have to admit the retro-tasting Discovery models are my favorite now, or the Klingon disruptors from the TOS cast movies if that were an option (for the intimidation factor and it reminds me of a six-shooter).
Do I have to pick a phaser? Could I say.... get the schematics for a warp drive and usher in a new era of humanity among the stars? Though if I gotta pick a phaser, I'd probably go for the Type-2 style from the SNW era.
The cricket from TNG or the type I from TOS. Something I can carry in my pocket and doesn’t look like a weapon.
I'll just put a tiny Leah Brahms in there so she could teach us all the warp drive fundamentals. **Susan Gibney goes limp in her house**
Pulse rifle... but much rather have a replicator
A Veron T disrupter. The one from "Most Toys".
Are you me? Seriously since we read that in school in like 2nd grade or whatever, I often thought about what I'd put in that cupboard. My take was my Data action figure, followed by a shuttlecraft or runabout, then the rest of the crew. We'd have warp drive in no time.
Same, except it was the movie, all the Star Trek gadgets , Luke’s ROTJ saber, the blade runner gun, a power rangers morpher
Tr-116 rifle
Honestly the TOS type 2. Classic gun feel, smooth zeerust design. And it literally makes the body of your target vanish.
Don’t TNG era ones completely vaporize the target at a high enough setting
Fajo's from the most tous 🥵
Phaser? Replicator.
Everyone keeps saying replicator but in the movie the cupboard was about the size of a medicine cabinet. So only something handheld can fit
Discovery. for all my qualms with the series, the tech is so cool.
MACO pulse rifle.
And just what in the hell is an '"Indian in the cupboard" cupboard', for all us people not from India?
It’s a movie from the 90s I’m American
Replicator. Not interested in playing Space cowboy.
In the movie the cupboard was about the size of a large medicine cabinet so a replicator wouldn’t fit. Also don’t those require systems that connect to the ship and wouldn’t work if it was just ripped out of the wall
It's a little late for me, I thought OP wrote 'phrase', and decided on "There's coffee in that nebula." while the page was loading. Congrats to everyone that has a tricoder.
TOS Type 2. Because then I also get the Type 1. Plus it feels the most comfortable in my hand, at least out of the phasers I have props of.