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Boffin 1: "these hand phasers are terrible, i'd rather be using a tommy gun"
Boffin 2: "Who cares? It's not like anyone's going to get in to a gun fight on a star ship. With advanced targeting sensors and the ridiculous accuracy of a ship's weapons conventional ground combat would makes absolutely no sense"
hmm, given that the title of that episode was also a play on a song lyric, I wonder how many more were in there that I missed. I may need to rewatch it.
There was an episode of TOS where a saboteur stashed a phaser set to overload behind a random wall panel, and they were legitimately afraid it was going to blow up the entire ship.
They'd have saved thousands of klingon lives doing so, too.
There was also that episode in TNG, where a phaser was used to cause a few small sparks and shut down the security systems so the guy could escape from the Worf.
I had to respect Worf in that one. When Kirk discovered an overloaded Phaser, he tried to dispose of it. When Worf discovered one, he actually disarmed it. Say what you will about his combat prowess, he still has guts.
We just watched that episode last night.
Yes. In the "real world" that would be the number one strategy. If you find a hole, send a bomb. I remember the Stargate movie did something similar to that.
Yeah, on Atlantis too, when they discovered that the Wraith ships didn't (initially) have anti-beaming jammers, they immediately took them out by beaming nukes aboard.
Not true. In TNG we see a Type II phaser set to its highest setting and vaporizing someone. We also see the beam at the low setting, melting rocks so Geordi can get out of the space cave.
In DS9 we see them set to kill to fight the Jem'Hadar
In Voyager we see Tuvok adjust the beam settings and stun an entire room of people.
Edit: Archonex; a standard photon torpedo carries a small amount of matter and anti-matter to create an explosion comparable to a nuclear weapon were it to be released in an atmosphere.
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Voyager also does that against borg. The borg don't care about putting up shields, so they just teleport antimatter bombs aboard.
Since none of the borg are able to get word out (because they're destroyed instantly every time), they don't know to adapt to it. They just learn to stay the fuck away from the USS Voyager.
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That's likely because the panel was a power distribution area and phaser energy cells probably have the same capacity for explosion as the hydrogen fuel cell seen in Terminator: Rise of the Machines.
It is essentially like placing a bomb right next to a major fuel line on board a destroyer.
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Ah. I'm mixing it up since I remember the TNG crew just walking around on board a cube during one episode and the borg not caring.
That is one point of Star Trek that really annoyed me: None of the races seem to be very military minded, except maybe the Breen.
Pre-Enterprise, I had always wondered where the Federation Army was, especially some form of marines for boarding actions. During DS9, some sort of ground forces would have seemingly been incredibly useful. This is all ignoring the apparent uselessness of handheld phaser technology in a fight - people could dodge the beams! How the hell did that make sense?
Actually, on the topic of handheld weapons, I would be equipping everyone with the weapon Dr. Soran used in Generations. That thing kicked ass. It seemed to be useful for general destruction of material and people.
Be that as it may, it was still kick ass. Also 1000s of times better than the ones in 2009's Star Trek.
i'm afraid
I liked the new design. Physically showing when a phaser is lethal or on stun was a good improvement.
The only real difference (besides that) I saw was more chrome on what was essentially the old-school zap-gun, it just looked a little less plastic.
*checks google images*
And that memory is wrong anyway.
GIS for original series phasers.
It looked like a plastic toy. The dinky little pew-pew noises it made were even worse.
It is glorious.
In fact, pretty much all Trek technology, including phasers, can be jammed with the right type of magic radiation. So the real question is why they didn't use more primitive weapons like guns and chemical explosives during the Dominion War since the effectiveness of their energy weapons are reduced by jamming fields?