I thought the episode was a bit too silly for my taste so I gave it a six. Of course there is an obvious physical impossibility to this. People who would move that fast would displace the air around them at the same speed, the speed of a hurricane on Jupiter! Plus they didn't manage the time difference correctly, a lot happens in the "slow world" during a relatively short time in the "fast world".
Episode of the Week : Wink of an Eye
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In what universe was she not a beauty? A lot of women I know wouldn't mind looking that good.
Maybe it's just a matter of opinion?
JB
Interesting fact that you all probably do know is that Kathie Browne was the wife of Darren 'Kolchak' McGavin!
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JB
Light beam weapons are all depicted similarly on SF shows, and whether they're lasers or something else more advanced, we see a solid beam from gun to target. They had lasers in The Cage which we see the whole beam of, and of course we know lasers are coherent light. Phasers are just more advanced lasers. I'm sure we could find some memo where they say it...
If phasers aren't light, I'm wondering what else they could be. They'd have to be radiation (like light) or matter of some kind, wouldn't they?
Still, if they don 't say onscreen, anything could be true.
If phasers aren't light, I'm wondering what else they could be. They'd have to be radiation (like light) or matter of some kind, wouldn't they?
Still, if they don 't say onscreen, anything could be true.
That TNG episode was light years better than this.
Again we have an episode with the Enterprise hanging in the balance and Kirk's romantic life is the key! The science is awful..but could have been excused if not for that.
Go back to the typewriter season 3, you're drunk!
Rating: 3/10
RAMA
So I asked this in a thread years ago.... please, someone with the right connections, fingers on the button, insights, tarot cards, IMDB super secret vault data, call sheets, laundry receipts...... tell us who the actress is who played the second Scalosian woman???????
(panting and considering seeking medical help)
(panting and considering seeking medical help)
That's all right in a dusty atmosphere, though. Phasers in turn also glow in vacuum (generally that's shipboard weapons, but there's the occasional vacuum fight with sidearms in ENT and, say, ST:FC).
Not on screen, thankfully! (Unless they left the memo lying on some chair on the set.)
Not really, not in Star Trek! For all we know, they are weaponized transporters that don't bother to rematerialize that which they dematerialize...
Timo Saloniemi
I really hadn't thought of the fact that we shouldn't be able to see a laser from the side, before. Well , maybe once. But I remembered lasers where all you see is the end point unless there's smoke present. Coherent means coherent. I'll bet they didn't know that, though .
It's also a matter of intensity: can the beam "afford" to shine to the sides and despite these losses still be expected to melt alien metal like butter?
Of course, at high enough intensity, it's not just scattering that gets you. The laser will ionize the air and give the ions so much energy that they will make their neighbors glow in sympathy. Hey, who knows, perhaps future science will have discovered that by tweaking the laser beam in a certain way, they can clear the path of the annoying ionized air and avoid most of the losses - which in practice makes the needle-thin beam manifest as a wrist-thick rod of light, one that really is a hollow tube protecting the conduit inside...
Timo Saloniemi
Of course, at high enough intensity, it's not just scattering that gets you. The laser will ionize the air and give the ions so much energy that they will make their neighbors glow in sympathy. Hey, who knows, perhaps future science will have discovered that by tweaking the laser beam in a certain way, they can clear the path of the annoying ionized air and avoid most of the losses - which in practice makes the needle-thin beam manifest as a wrist-thick rod of light, one that really is a hollow tube protecting the conduit inside...
Timo Saloniemi
This is not helpful.
Ha! That's true. You'd occasionally see Berman era phaser fight patricipants swerving to avoid beams!
I just checked the paperwork -- she's a background performer, and thus not identified by name on any call sheets, cast sheets, or daily production reports for the episode. Sorry.
I'm pretty sure they always made it so you can catch the beam leaving the gun and see it travel to the target. It was faster in TOS, that's all. Those beams got really slow in Next Gen, didn't they? It always got me that they go to so much trouble to create a mistake (slow beams) when it would have been so much easier and simpler to do the accurate thing, show the light weapon beams taking no observable time to travel. It's like creating all this racket in the vacuum of outer space.
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