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From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Stardates, Phasers, and Photon Torp
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 13:26:03 EST
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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?

On the other hand, they never actually showed a stationary photon torp
during the series.  Who knows what they looked like?
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