longest on screen phaser fight?

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Well Memory Alpha claims that 'Gambit" has the longest, with like 70 shots, or something. Imagine if each shot takes the producers 5 hours to produce, that's a lot.

I suspect that MA did not really update this statistic, aside from simple reciting the original fact as stated in the TNG Companion. So which episode has the longest phaser fight with the most shots fired on screen? There are a lot of good choices from ENT, such As Rajiin, Twilight, and other Xindi episodes. But for some reason I think the winner has to be the last act of "Seige of AR-558"

 

[Dane_Whitman]

I think you're right about "Siege". Various ENT season 3 episodes have extensive phaser fights, namely the ones you mentioned. The phaser fight on the Rigel planet in "Broken Bow" is pretty long too.

 

[Maurice]

Well Memory Alpha claims that 'Gambit" has the longest, with like 70 shots, or something. Imagine if each shot takes the producers 5 hours to produce, that's a lot.

A single phaser beam wouldn't take that long to add, especially with modern technology. Most of them last only a handful of frames, and I'm sure they had templates for them.

 

[M'Sharak]

I think you're right about "Siege". Various ENT season 3 episodes have extensive phaser fights, namely the ones you mentioned. The phaser fight on the Rigel planet in "Broken Bow" is pretty long too.

I also suspect "Siege" would be the winner, but the "Broken Bow" firefight on top of the Rigel X shuttleport was the first which came to my mind.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I like the sound of those phaser guns they wre using on Rigel compared to the more traditional phase pistols. It gave the Pilot Broken Bow, at least that first acion sequence, a bit of distinction compared to the rest of Trek. What I can't understand is why this was changed in the same episode. Malcom says we just got them in. WTF..they never went back home?

 

[Dane_Whitman]

Tuln, I very much agree. Those old EM-33 plasma pistol fire bolts instead of beams, I like it much better.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Yes, I remember watching the pilot for the first time. I was liking the show, but not yet loving it. When they started firing those guns on the landing platform, I was like 'This is a different kind of phaser fight for a different kind of Trek."

Then they copped out, and oddly it was later in the same episode

 

[I am not Spock]

Yeah, I much preferred the EM-33 to the 'phase pistol', the latter being too close to what we saw in TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY. They should have continued using them throughout ENT in my opinion.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I think the idea was to show they were developing new technologies, but they did add them too soon. The MACOs used a varient of the EM-33, iirc.