By the way, as i have forgotten it, did Geordie keep the natural eyesight he got in Insurrection or was it just a short time effect?
Geordie's visor (and how could he read with it?)
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No, in Nemesis his eyes were back to the way they were in First Contact and the start of Insurrection.
That battle shouldn't have gone the way it did.
The D should have been able to blow up that BoP to bits with full phaser assault and torpedo pattern sierra with its shields compromised... Heck, I think full on phaser assault from multiple banks fired at the same time for 4 seconds (similar to what the D did to a Borg cube in TNG) would have done the trick too.
The Klingons agreed with you.
And then Soran convinced them otherwise. We may surmise that mere providing of shield frequencies would not yet make the Sisters dive headlong into a suicide mission. And that the El-Aurian technomage would have had plenty of other tricks up his sleeve, including a way to boost the shields, or a way to knock out most of Riker's phaser power with the first shot, or whatever.
(However, "phasers from multiple banks" apparently doesn't work, because it's never done. Apparently, you can put all of your phaser juice through a single bank, and this is always better than splitting it up.)
Timo Saloniemi
And then Soran convinced them otherwise. We may surmise that mere providing of shield frequencies would not yet make the Sisters dive headlong into a suicide mission. And that the El-Aurian technomage would have had plenty of other tricks up his sleeve, including a way to boost the shields, or a way to knock out most of Riker's phaser power with the first shot, or whatever.
(However, "phasers from multiple banks" apparently doesn't work, because it's never done. Apparently, you can put all of your phaser juice through a single bank, and this is always better than splitting it up.)
Timo Saloniemi
There's got to be a Thermal Limit to how much energy you can shove through a single Phaser Bank, otherwise they would just have one bank fire endless-ly in a continuous stream.
As we've all noticed, there are pauses to when a Phaser Array Charges up & fires a Beam.
IMO, there's probably a needed/mandatory thresh-hold for cool down for the Liquid Nitrogen or other cooling system to cool the components down and draw heat away from the system and to prevent long term damage to the emitter components.
Obviously, IRL, those were VFX limitations at the time.
Imagine how much more you can do with modern Video Game Engine type simulations / Pre-Visualization of entire StarShip battles and Final Ray Traced shots of the final Battle / Camera Shots after the Scene has been locked in.
Imagine how much more you can do with modern Video Game Engine type simulations / Pre-Visualization of entire StarShip battles and Final Ray Traced shots of the final Battle / Camera Shots after the Scene has been locked in.
What were? Multiple beams were easy to draw, and were drawn when there were multiple targets ("Conundrum", say). But applying more than one beam on one and the same target never happened, except that once. And the ratio between "once" and "never" here is extreme enough to suggest that the "once" really shouldn't count.
Timo Saloniemi
Maybe there's some dumb rule of engagement limitation to "Though shall not hit the same target with more than one directed energy beam" for some odd reason.
Except that one time that we saw it in the giant fleet battle where the Galaxy Class hit that one poor ship with multiple Phaser shots from the same array.
There are certain elevations relative to your vessel where multiple Phaser Arrays can simultaneously hit the same target, even if you're limited to 1/2/3 beams emitted per array section.
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Speaking of the Tasha scene, what's Geordi's point of reference for finding Tasha beautiful?
Why a point of reference? He might find everything around him beautiful to look at, but naturally only Tasha would warrant the verbal mention...
It seems simple enough to just assume that any single emitter can deliver the entire firepower of the ship, and splitting would just diminish the effect. There would be other reasons for having multiple emitter strips, after all. In episodes like "Basics", a single beam essentially chases the maneuvering target by hopping from emitter to emitter, say.
Timo Saloniemi
It seems simple enough to just assume that any single emitter can deliver the entire firepower of the ship, and splitting would just diminish the effect. There would be other reasons for having multiple emitter strips, after all. In episodes like "Basics", a single beam essentially chases the maneuvering target by hopping from emitter to emitter, say.
Timo Saloniemi
That doesn't jive with reality and how each energy emitter, has limits based on what's supplying power.
Don't forget that behind a Phaser Emitter, there's a Power Cell to convert whatever source of power into a compatible source of power to generate the Nadion Particle stream out of the emitter.
Even on the Defiant, they had a ceremony for displaying depleted Power Cells.
So maybe there's a limit to how much energy each Power Cell can convert from the EPS to whatever is necessary to create the Nadions in each Phaser Emitter.
Kind of like a modular Ultra Capacitor or modern day Lithium Ion battery has limited usage cycles based on temperature, operating environment, and how many Charge/Drain cycles you run through depleting said Capacitors or Battery.
Or he's had a crush on Tasha for a while and this "suddenly got eyesight" moment is a great "can finally say it and she'll just take it as a compliment" opportunity.
