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Subject: Re: Stardates, Phasers, and Photon Torp
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Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 13:25:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 13:25:00 1986
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>	In *The Making of Star Trek* photon torps are described as ball of  
>matter and antimatter held in and separated by a force field until impact
>with the target.  In the movies the force field was replaced by a metallic 
>shell like the one used for Spocks body.  As to why the phasers looked like
^^^^^ That sounds a little fishy..... Metallic insulation of a matter/antimatter
interface? seems like that might go boom, or is there a metal that is netural
to antimatter?

>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)  The writers and producers probably had not decided what the
>visual effect of phasers would be.  Then when photon torps were added to
>the armament the phasers took on a different look.
>
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