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From: ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless @ Imperial Propoganda)
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Subject: Re: Stardates, Phasers, and Photon Torpedoes
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Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 20:43:48 EST
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>                                           As to why the phasers looked like
> photon torps in Balance of Terror, this was the first appearance of any of 
> the Enterprise's weapons.(The Menagerie doesn't count because that was in
> flashback)

Yet The Cage was shot years before Balance of Terror.  Also, note that
they used *LASERS* in The Cage.  Also, how did they describe that doohickey
they brought down to the planet, as a weapon or part of the ship's power
plant?  The power seemed to be coming from the ship in orbit... (Number 1
said "Can you give us any more" int oher communicator.)