Do you prefer Phaser beams or bolts?
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Because it makes no sense. Like, I know what happens but couldn't tell you with any certainty as to the why. It's just more made up technobabble to look cool.
As far as technical minutia goes this ranks pretty far down as to my caring about it. I prefer bolts because it's easier and looks less silly for small arms. For ships either one works. The end result is the same.
That’s the way to do it. Even learning how is futile, because they don’t really work anyway due to being made up.
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Even with hand phasers, TWOK had those sort of hybrid bolt/beam/pulse blasts going on.
I think this depiction really gave the sense that these are powerful, and dangerous, weapons. Especially with the lingering scream as the living target disintegrated.
Edit: the second video was redundant.
Kor
I think this depiction really gave the sense that these are powerful, and dangerous, weapons. Especially with the lingering scream as the living target disintegrated.
Edit: the second video was redundant.
Kor
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Ceti Eel Scream.
The band name none of us have the guts to use on stage. Shame, really.
The band name none of us have the guts to use on stage. Shame, really.
For more of that type of scream, try out the game Voyager: Elite Force. The disintegration is the alternate firing mode on the Starfleet phaser rifle.
Kor
It's weird that the federation are making weapons that allow you to be disintergted so slowly that you have the time understand what is happening to you as you scream in pain and terror as you disintegrate, or maybe that weapon was a prototype that came about as a directly result of the transporter malfunction in TMP...........and what is it with the Federation making stuff that allows you to know and feel your being ripped to bits slowly . LolEven with hand phasers, TWOK had those sort of hybrid bolt/beam/pulse blasts going on.
I think this depiction really gave the sense that these are powerful, and dangerous, weapons. Especially with the lingering scream as the living target disintegrated.
Edit: the second video was redundant.
Kor
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It was 1982. Weapons in movies back then caused real damage to bodies, even sci-fi weapons. 
Then the 90s happen.It was 1982. Weapons in movies back then caused real damage to bodies, even sci-fi weapons.
To quote SF Debris "Oh for crying out loud. Even in the future of the future the guns don't work. You just shot a guy twice in the chest and he reacts like he has a bad case of gas." (From his "Relativity" review.)
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The '80s were just brutal when it came to movie weapons. You got vaporized while screaming, blown up, etc.
TOS had the best beams of all. TNG on, they all looked like they were squirting Tang out of their phasers.
And it was never bolts I imagined Captain Tracey unleashing on the Yangs. We never saw it, but it must have been a devastating attack if they drained four phasers and they still came! Damn that must have been one lethal lightshow!
And it was never bolts I imagined Captain Tracey unleashing on the Yangs. We never saw it, but it must have been a devastating attack if they drained four phasers and they still came! Damn that must have been one lethal lightshow!
^^^Tracey probably thought that because there would be no bodies left lying around that he could get away with it, but at least going with a TOS phaser looked quick and painless, as you did not even get time to react as you stood as still as possible when hit by one before you bloomed out of existence. Lol
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.
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.
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