What makes TOS' dialog trump visuals? People can make mistakes. Visuals can't.me,myself and I wrote:Says the one who supports what Enterprise did to Trek.ChakatBlackstar wrote: Just because we can change the rules doesn't mean we should change the rules.
TOS Dialogue trumps whatever rating-garnering bull TPTB decide to pull later. If they say "shortly after the 3rd world war" or "during the Eugenics War", then there was somewhere in the history a WWIII or an Eugenics War, we can argue about the exact years till the cows come home, or a later series can establish the time frame, but regardless, they are still separate wars.
If Mr. Spock says "with primitive atomic weapons and in primitive space vessels"--than it was in primitive space vessels with primitive atomic weapons, not upside down Akira-Class Vessels with everything retro-named.
Or maybe another possiblity is that photonic torpdoes are atomic warheads complimented by a pack of anti-matter. It sounds stupid but it wouldn't be the first time someone did something stupid in advancing technology. I remember a friend telling me about a WWII era plane that was practically a jet, except for a fan or something that made the engine less efficient. So maybe Photonic torpedoes are both atomic warheads and anti-matter warhead.
I came up with an explination for it. There is no reason to arm an NX-class ship with weaker weapons then those seen on screen.Regardless of whether you are a he, she or somewhere in between you did insert a non-canon species into the other RPG. So it was convienant to change things then when it suited you, now it doesn't and you oppose it.