What would a descendant of the Vickers salesman sell in Star Trek?
Short answerOversized phasers, either an ambitious shipboard adaptation of a planetary weapon or existing mega-phasers.
NotesA fictional descendant of the Vickers salesman would try to sell planetary phasers for use aboard ships. The initial example is the PH7, described as too large for normal shipboard mounting. A competing suggestion is the mega-phaser, which another participant says has already been fitted to ships. The joke depends on the familiar procurement tension between an attractive weapon and the platform needed to carry it.