On a ship? They have plenty of weird looking tools. I am sure they have some sort of tool that strips wires or whatever.Jim wrote:No, it's not funny or odd for you to have done it because in today's reality a knife might come in handy from time to time in the military. In the Trek time it is about as useful as a rock. How many boxes did you see in Trek? Things were always in plastic crates that opened via a hinge and the items were non-wrapped inside. Knife not necessary. In the motorpool knives can be used to cut hoses, strip wires and cut zip-ties. More things that you never see in Trek. If anything you would think that they would always carry one of those things that looks like a screwdriver with a light at the tip instead of the flathead/phillips head.McAvoy wrote:Oh you mean the wide variety of camo the military uses. You mean the military who may not even be in the field that still carries a knife because he works on tanks, planes, helicopters, and jets? You mean the military who are supply who needs a knife to cut through boxes?
You mean knives are useless because Starfleet doesn't wear camo and office military wears camo.
Yeah. Makes perfect sense.
Oh and BTW, I carried a knife or two on me when I was in the military. Funny isn't it?
On the field? Definitely. A phaser does only so much and clearing brush and branches is wasteful with a phaser.