New Phaser and Rifle Revealed
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Let's hope it's designed by the same guy that did the phaser pistol, communicator and tricorder though.
It looks like the TOS prop painted black and with the antenna snapped off. It's like one of those fan updates for the TOS Enterprise where they just add a few more tiny details.
Why would they keep the Fed props so much the same as the 1960's show but change everything else?
Mostly due to the TOS era phasers looking like actual functional weapons, and not keyboard hoovers with LED's stuck inside.
It's got three barrels (er, lenses), so I'm guessing the little one is for 'tool' setting (which is 'using the phaser for things besides shooting people), the medium one is for 'stun', and the big one is for 'remove from premises'.
And it looks nice. Will probably look even nicer when the schematics go up online.
And it looks nice. Will probably look even nicer when the schematics go up online.
Nah, the three lenses are for different colors: red, white and blue.
Because everybody on board the ship will be French.
If it's the same function as the "lasers" from The Cage, then it's beam intensity. Whether that's automatically "fine cut", "stun" and "kill" or that has to be selected somewhere else we'll find out soon.
I remember seeing a low-budget sci-fi show years ago (I wish I remember what it was), and their laser weapons had three settings: "stun", "kill", and "blast". I also remember making fun of that last setting, because if you "blast" a person, you are most likely also going to kill it.
"Blast" just seemed to be superfluous overkill.
However, the more I think about it, the more sense it makes. The "kill" setting (obviously) is designed to kill biological organisms, while the "blast" setting is probably needed to blow up walls and vehicles and such. Barricaded door? Blast a new one.
Well, almost every model of phasers have a "stun" setting, from type 1 to type 3. So, it would be odd to not, honestly.
Based on existing evidence the pistol should be a "laser" and look like what is in The Cage. If "Phaser rifles" existed in that point in the timeline then they would probably look like what Kirk had in WNMHGB. Or at least something similar to those two items.
No.
Which could knock out a city (strangely not disrupting electrical and radio technology in the process?). I'll go with it being easier to stun people from orbit since you can deliberately let the atmosphere reduce and scatter the beam to aid the effect.
The very definition of a reimagining, not a reboot.
Looks a lot better to me, especially when side by side
Lasers were retconned by TOS
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