Do you prefer Phaser beams or bolts?

[gweeps]

I will say though

Spoiler

that Tallinn's rifle was awesome in the recent Picard, season 2 episode, 'Hide and Seek'.

 

[Jedi Marso]

I will say though

Spoiler

that Tallinn's rifle was awesome in the recent Picard, season 2 episode, 'Hide and Seek'.

Long gun energy weapons with fully auto settings are the bomb. We've seen more of those in SW in recent years as well. Every time I see one I feel like screaming like Hudson in Aliens: "Oh, you want some of this?! EFFFF YOOOOO!"

 

[XCV330]

Beams. Bolts look like they are flying at 50 mph

 

[cooleddie74]

Tallinn's rifle was the only weapon in the episode that looked badass when firing. She had this rapid rate of fire going that made it look like the disruptor version of a chain gun.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

There were bodies [http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/54.htm]:

SPOCK: Captain Tracey's reserve belt packs. Empty. Found among the remains of several hundred Yang bodies.​

Presumably the regular kill setting doesn't drain energy as quickly as dematerialize does.

Maybe as the packs ran out of charge they only killed but never vaporised?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Maybe as the packs ran out of charge they only killed but never vaporised?

I think he just used the regular kill setting, as in "The Conscience of the King," like @cooleddie74 suggested.

Yeah, TOS phasers clearly had more than just two settings and the episodes clearly showed as much. Lenore Karidian killed her father with a phaser blast and he wasn't vaporized.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Beams. Bolts look like they are flying at 50 mph

Then VFX department screwed up, they should be MUCH faster than 50 mph.

That's paintball speeds.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Well, you want to have the snazzy visual fx, so you can't have the bolts move too fast. If they went at even an appreciable fraction of the speed of light, the ranges we see during ground battle would mean that there really wouldn't be anything more than a muzzle flash visible from the weapon, and the target would be just about falling even as you saw it.

 

[GNDN18]

 

[GNDN18]

My jocosity led to two observations:

1. This is one of the hero phasers with a lighted nozzle.
   
2. The beam effect emits from the bezel, not the nozzle, giving the animator a little more room to work with.

 

[cooleddie74]

You're the hero we needed but don't deserve. Nor even asked for. But...there you go.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Stromberg was just a knock-off Blofeld because the rights to the character were in legal dispute with Kevin McClory.

To return to the topic, I prefer my phasers shaken, not stirred.

Kirk, James Kirk. Agent 1701, license to stun.

 

[fireproof78]

Kirk, James Kirk. Agent 1701, license to stun.

You joke but I'd watch it.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Well, you want to have the snazzy visual fx, so you can't have the bolts move too fast. If they went at even an appreciable fraction of the speed of light, the ranges we see during ground battle would mean that there really wouldn't be anything more than a muzzle flash visible from the weapon, and the target would be just about falling even as you saw it.

Have the projectile travel at about "Mach 3-4" from the muzzle of the Phaser would be appropriate for a Hand Phaser. From the users perspective, it would look like a glorified tracer round.

 

[fireproof78]

Have the projectile travel at about "Mach 3-4" from the muzzle of the Phaser would be appropriate for a Hand Phaser. From the users perspective, it would look like a glorified tracer round.

You mean Star Trek isn't realistic?

 

[The Wormhole]

You mean Star Trek isn't realistic?

Shocking

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

You mean Star Trek isn't realistic?

You already know the answer to this, I don't even know why you're asking this rhetorical question.

 

[fireproof78]

You already know the answer to this, I don't even know why you're asking this rhetorical question.

It's fun. Sarcastic but fun.

 

[publiusr]

I want a wave motion cannon effect from the main deflector. BOBW didn’t have enough punch

 

[Deks]

You mean Star Trek isn't realistic?

Increasing the speed of hand weapons would be prudent.
These are weapons that work at FTL for crying out loud. If you fire a beam, here's a simple rule: in a small/confined space, or even a planet, the beam travels at the speed of light... aka, it would reach its destination instantly from the point... just have the beam 'apeear' that fast and be done with it.
It would still work... and fights would need to be adjusted so that people need to be creative in evading those kinds of weapons (which would be nearly impossible).