Spoilers marsh8472's Consolidated Continuity Thread
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Geez, man. Ya totally ninja'd me!
Trek had very nice "pew pew" phaser blasts in The Wrath of Khan.
IMO much cooler sound effect,
also, I may just be being a knucklehead about this but, I still think this looks way cooler than the scene's we get outta disco or jj trek.
We’ve also seen both the hand phasers in DSC. Both the pistol and the rifle.
...Heck, I'm taking a liking to the VFX of Enterprise nowadays. Cool combat choreographies, the hero ship is pretty, the background planets and nebulae augment rather than distract, and there's variety to the lighting that I never appreciated before.
I gather DSC has still plenty of time to improve its visuals. Or at least experiment on them more.
Timo Saloniemi
I gather DSC has still plenty of time to improve its visuals. Or at least experiment on them more.
Timo Saloniemi
It isn't the quality of the effects themselves, it's the execution of the animation, their use, the execution in general. It doesn't feel enjoyable to watch, they want to have way too much going on at any given time, it seems like it lacks and purpose other than to be on 11 every time.
The quality is great, I mean the look effing pretty. I like them slower, more dramatic over faster on 11, a mix of both would be preferable and with todays technology that should be doable.
They just don't know how to use space and vehicles to add or create drama.
And since phasers can fire while a starship is at warp technically they should be moving faster than light (which brings all sort of problems like hitting before firing etc, but no matter).
People expect beam weapons to look like tracer rounds ever since Star Wars. In my mind the beam itself can't be seen and what we see IS a tracer round. People just don't want to see instantaneous beams, I guess.
A "beam" could be a jet of water for all the Laws of Nature care - there's no set speed for it. Indeed, Trek weapons are often described as particle beams, which is pretty much a fancier way of saying lots of very small machine gun bullets.
Phaser physics are weird in any case. Perhaps it's a Law of Phaser Nature that it always takes three frames of film from gun to target, regardless of distance?
Timo Saloniemi
Phaser physics are weird in any case. Perhaps it's a Law of Phaser Nature that it always takes three frames of film from gun to target, regardless of distance?
Timo Saloniemi
As it's been explained to my simple brain by smart people,
lasers themselves do not move at light speed as lasers have some mass, but the light emitted does. :: edit :: Something about lasers, and laser beams being not exactly the same.
Now, I'm a knucklehead and could easily be misremembering this. I also know a phaser isn't a laser and am unsure of the physical differences
but it's possible, like with theorized plasma based weapons, that the damaging part of the weapon doesn't move quite at light speed, rather the light emitted does.
A laser is composed of coherant photons, massless, so does travel at c.
A particle beam launches subatomic particles which do have mass, at reletivistic but slightly lower than C. The particles have tremendous kinetic energy from the velocity they have been accelerated to. when they strike an object theoretically that kinetic energy is transferred to the object as heat, etc, with devastating results.
A particle beam launches subatomic particles which do have mass, at reletivistic but slightly lower than C. The particles have tremendous kinetic energy from the velocity they have been accelerated to. when they strike an object theoretically that kinetic energy is transferred to the object as heat, etc, with devastating results.
OK. True.
Though that phaser burst firing was probably inspired by Star Wars, too.
Wasn't that a torpedo?
I agree.
Because Star Wars did it.
Because it’s a reboot.
And because it looks "kewl".
Because it’s a reboot.
And because it looks "kewl".
I forgot about that scene. The laser cannon's battling the id-monster in that movie must have been amazing for its time, and it still holds up well. today
I'm guessing this is a comment on the difference in rate of fire. Are you aware that gif plays at about half speed?
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