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From: msj@gitpyr.UUCP (Mike St. Johns)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Phasers and Deflectors
Message-ID: <381@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 17:20:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 17:20:24 1984
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Summary: 

In article <> schmidt@reed.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>> > 	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

Phasers are fired the same way it was possible for the aviators of old to
fire through their propellers.  The phasers are synchronized with the
deflectors. The shields are never dropped, they are fired THROUGH.

And yes it WAS possible for the transporters to be used through the
deflectors at one time.  See "The Final Reflection" by John Ford for
details.  With proper handling, it was possible to synchronize the
transporter beam with the shields and actually beam through the screens.
Being as it was the Klingons who discovered this, the Federation promptly
figured out a way of preventing it.  Actually, it might still be possible to
beam down through the screens, but would you chance your life to the fact
that a sudden hit on the screens ANYWHERE might throw the synchronization
off and scramble you in the process?
-- 
Mike St. Johns
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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