TOS Auxillary Control Phasers

[wildstar]

One for each set of phasers.Not saying it needs to be like that. Why any phaser room when Sulu can fire from the bridge? But yeah, could easily just have 1 phaser room.

 

[Mytran]

Perhaps the Phaser Control Rooms are there to better monitor and control this obviously volatile and dangerous technology! (We saw in BOT how easily the control circuits on the Bridge blew out)

So yes; Sulu can engage the phasers from his panel, but without the gun crew working overtime to control the phased energy capacitors, these (presumably) cutting edge weapons can pose as great a danger to the ship as her enemies.

Under those circumstances, maybe triple redundancy in the saucer isn't such a bad thing!

 

[wildstar]

Trouble is too, is the ramdom position of those little round windows.

 

[Mytran]

Assuming that they ARE windows, of course. Their odd location would make for poor viewing, but much better as additional sensor ports to supplement the big planetary array at the base of the saucer.

 

[PCz911]

One for each set of phasers.Not saying it needs to be like that. Why any phaser room when Sulu can fire from the bridge? But yeah, could easily just have 1 phaser room.

The change to being able to manipulate the firing from the bridge of the phasers via mr sulu probably came about since they didn't want to hire the extras or rebuild the aux control room.

How that fits within ,canon is beyond me.

Was it the second season when mr sulu got that cool extending sighting system installed?

 

[Timo]

There is no change in evidence: "phaser crews" were part and parcel of the show from the very beginning, drilled to exhaustion in "The Corbomite Maneuver", yet Sulu always was the man pressing the buttons.

How much of a delay was there between Sulu's keypress and the beams emerging in general? We never saw the action in a single shot (say, from behind Sulu's shoulder so that when he presses the button, beams are seen on the viewscreen). We only saw the keypress shot, and then a cut to a separate VFX shot of the, well, shot. There could always have been quite a bit of delay there, due to the men-in-the-loop belowdecks.

Timo Saloniemi