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From: pritch@osu-eddie.UUCP (Norman Pritchett)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Phasers like photon torpedoes???
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 05:33:22 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  1 05:33:22 1986
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Reply-To: pritch@osu-eddie.UUCP (Norman Pritchett)
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In article <9393@ritcv.UUCP> pmm1920@ritcv.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>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

Yes, he's sure they said they were photons.  I also noticed a long time ago
that there was some inconsistency early on in the series about what photons
and phasers should look like but really never paid much attention to when
they got it settled down. So, I too am interested in when the special
affects for photons and phasers stabilized.




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