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From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Phasers
Message-ID: <176@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 11:45:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 11:45:57 1985
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> 	However, we *did* see the entire dialogue scene between Pike and the
> 	ship's doctor, as well as No. 1's attempt to blast the cave entrance
> 	with a huge laser (which brings up the question: if in Pike's time
> 	they were using lasers, when did phasers come to being? what does
> 	"phaser" stand for?)
> 
> 
> 	Kriton	(princeton!tilt!kyrimis)

A laser can only go the speed of light.  I would assume a phaser can
go much faster since they can be used in combat at warp speeds.  A 
laser would be a slow projectile weapon.

Of course everyone is going to bring up "Wink of An Eye" where the
phaser beam moves slowly and what's-her-face steps out of the way.

Well, all I can say is we have yet another Star Trek inconsistancy.  (YASTI)
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                         --Kevin Chu
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