[TimSkalaBim]

Memorable lines from a great character in a great movie, but to see this day have no idea what they mean!

For Orion’s shoulder to have any spatial significance you’d have to be light years away, in which case you wouldn’t see anything on fire which wouldn’t be on fire anyway cause it’s in space! And what’s a c-beam?!?

[alexander_busek]

For Orion’s shoulder to have any spatial significance you’d have to be light years away, in which case you wouldn’t see anything on fire which wouldn’t be on fire anyway cause it’s in space! And what’s a c-beam?!?

"Orion's Shoulder" is not the shoulder of the familiar constellation, but rather - something else, off of which one could, indeed, see ships on fire.

"C-beams" must be really fascinating-looking things.

Etc.

That's all you need to know to enjoy the scene.

Regards,

[BradyLS]

The ships could have been in orbit over earth or another planet in our system where they were clustered around the “shoulder of Orion.”

A “c-beam” I always imagined to be some sort of beam-of-light weapon, like a laser or particle beam or something. “c” is used to denote the speed of light in Einstein’s famous equation: E=mc^2.