Episode help - Firing phasers at rocks

[SonicRanger]

Hi all,

I'm giving a talk in a few weeks on using a handheld device (it looks sort of like a cordless drill) to chemically analyze rocks using X-rays. Obviously, people in my department have nicknamed this device my "ray gun."

I'd like play with that nickname and start the talk with a screencap from some Trek episode where our heroes are firing a phaser at rocks. I've thought of a few obvious examples:

- Chekov shoots a rock to keep warm in "Spock's Brain"
- Kirk shoots the ground to try and make a grave in "That Which Survives"
- I think Kirk does some shootin' in the mines in "The Cloudminders"

Can anyone else think of other examples (from any series)? Thanks!

 

[Turbo]

Sulu and a stranded away team shoot rocks in "The Enemy Within" to keep warm. TrekCore has some good screencaps.

Sounds like a neat little device.

 

[Timo]

And McCoy heats up multiple rocks around Kirk's bed in the cave in "A Private Little War". The native chick also gets hot at the sight.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Starlock]

IIRC: Janice Rand once used a phaser to heat up some coffee, but that's slightly off topic...

 

[SonicRanger]

I thought of another -- Kirk fires his phaser rifle at a cliff to kill/trap Gary Mitchell in the grave in "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

 

[Vanyel]

Didn't Picard, Worf and Crusher use their phasers to drill a hole in Chain of Command.

 

[Event-Horizon]

SonicRanger said:
Hi all,

I'm giving a talk in a few weeks on using a handheld device (it looks sort of like a cordless drill) to chemically analyze rocks using X-rays. Obviously, people in my department have nicknamed this device my "ray gun."

On the real-world aspects: Don't tell me its a NITON system... 30kV x-ray tube? heheh Do you need a license for that over there?

 

[SonicRanger]

^^^

Indeed it is -- there are other brands out there, but NITON has about 80% of the market share. You don't need a license for the X-ray source (which I think is actually 40 or 50 kV) -- you do for the models that use a radioactive source. The university's environmental health department didn't seem to care that I was borrowing one of the X-ray sources.

 

[Event-Horizon]

SonicRanger said:
^^^

Indeed it is -- there are other brands out there, but NITON has about 80% of the market share. You don't need a license for the X-ray source (which I think is actually 40 or 50 kV) -- you do for the models that use a radioactive source.

Actually you do need one around here, heheh. They're just on the threshold (40 or 50 kV), but they fail the other limitation on dose-rate at 10 cm, according to the data the manufacturer sent us.

 

[SonicRanger]

^^^

Well, then, our Radiation Protection Division wasn't doing a very good job when they didn't care when I borrowed one for week or two. Oh, well... I'm smart enough not to try and analyze, say, my own skull.