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Subject: Re: Phasers like photon torpedoes???
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 16:19:49 EST
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In article <50000009@hpfclo.UUCP> rodean@hpfcla.UUCP writes:
>...
>My question is this: In the episode, the Enterprise fires its phasers,
>but they appear more like photon torpedoes. They go blip, blip, blip
>upon leaving the ship and explode in a flash of light. They are not like
>the phasers of "The Doomsday Machine", for example, which are relatively
>continuous beams of light. At what point in the series did they change
>the behavior of phasers and when did photon torpedoes show up?
>

Are you sure they said they were photons?  Phasers always (?) come out in
"streams" and photons always (?) in "blips".   By the by, photons are
supposed to do more damage, but they take longer to 'prepare' to be fired.

					Paul Meyerhofer

P.S. I am not an expert and, therefore, I may be completely wrong on
	all that I wrote here - except my name.