Deletion of M41A pulse rifle

Comment: instead of "keep") - pardon me for musing aloud, but I wonder if - had Wikipedia been around back in the 60's - if we would have considered ''Star Trek'' communicators and computers along these same lines. As they were the forerunners of modern devices (and indeed the computers we are using to post and read threads here and yes, I am aware of the |futurism concerns in my comments), I think that information specifically imparted by either the films or the literature (and therefore notable) deserves mentioning, not removal
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:CRYSTAL)