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From: ins_akew@jhunix.UUCP (Montgomery Scott)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Phasers like photon torpedoes???
Message-ID: <2025@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 13:11:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 27 13:11:47 1986
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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.

They did say that they were phasers.  One thing:  this was one of the
 earlier episodes.

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