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From: schmidt@reed.UUCP (Alan Schmidt)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Phasers and Deflectors
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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 19:27:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 20 19:27:08 1984
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Summary: 

> > 	One other inconsistency associated with phasers.  We saw several
> > times (in "Arena" [with the Gorn] for example) that one cannot beam up or
> > down with the deflectors up.  Deflectors also stop phasers.  So how does
> > Enterprise fire phasers when the screens are up???
> > 	Sorry for harping on this, but my area of research is laser-induced
> > chemistry.
> > 
> > 				George Raiche
> > 				Dept. of Chemistry
> > 				Dartmouth
> > 
> > 				"Let's get the hell out of here."

	How about this:  The shield is selectively dropped before the
phasers to allow firing (the rest of the shields stay in place).
Furthermore, there is interference from the shields such that the phaser
beam is scattered somewhat.  This decreases its efficiency to a small
degree, but this is in favor of defending the ship.  Theoretically, the
transporter beam could be OPERATED, but the interference from the
shields would scramble the molecules of the people/things in the beam to
a great enough degree that they could not be rematerialized correctly.

				Humbly,
				-- Alan
				!tektronix!reed!schmidt