Will they use Lasers or Phasers?

[Sharr Khan]

M'rk, son of Mogh said:
Is Spock going to show emotion and smile and be a "Vulcanian"?

I mean... if it was in the Cage and early episodes of TOS... we should really include ALL mistakes, right?

Well ah... I have a feeling this might a plot and or character point I am to make inferences my things Zachary Quinto has said about "Spock at an earlier time in his life" so don't be to shocked to see this.

Sharr

 

[Timo]

Sorry, double post due to trying to cram in my message just before the maintenance break.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Timo]

Really, what's wrong with Starfleet using high-powered lasers and then switching to phasers once the technology to make them portable came to be?

Or even with using both phasers and lasers, since they do different jobs in "The Cage" anyway?

The "wrong" would be in the fact that ENT showed us how Starfleet had phasers long before "The Cage" already. But then again, Earth's armies had gunpowder handguns long before they became standard weapons of war. In between, the crossbow was perfected, and briefly played a much greater role on the battlefield than the clumsy early handguns.

Similarly, the revolver briefly took the limelight from the rifle in the Wild West, when it proved to be a decisive cavalry weapon. The torpedo outshone the naval gun for a brief while, too. But fashions come and go in weapons technology, and lasers may have been a relatively brief fad.

...we should really include ALL mistakes, right?

I'd say so. After all, the "mistakes" in the early episodes as opposed to the later ones have already been discussed for decades, and we have derived much amusement from creatively reinterpreting them so as not to be mistakes any more.

The next movie will probably bring nothing new to that discussion: we have already had to deal with the fact that Spock was more emotional in early TOS than in late TOS, or that the Engineering set kept growing and became more complex, or that people suddenly began speaking about Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets after half a dozen episodes where no such things were mentioned.

If there was anything left to be discussed about early TOS vs. late TOS at the conclusion of that show, or at the conclusion of the "future spinoffs", we slugged it out when ENT showed us how things "really" were before early TOS. STXI should be a breeze in comparison.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Good points. If they were going to worry about the minutae of continuity to that degree, "Enterprise" would trump anything in "The Cage" that didn't make it into "The Menagerie."

But I doubt anyone involved is as obsessive as we are.

 

[starburst]

Phasers, the Cage and WNMHGB were pilots where things were being thought out and worked on.

Plus if you are willing to pick and choose which elements to ignor and which to accept why not choose to ignor they said they used "lasers" in the Cage

 

[xortex]

All that matters it seems is that they look different.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

xortex said:
All that matters it seems is that they look different.

That's all that ever mattered.

 

[starburst]

Im hoping they come up with a new effect for it whatever the name, one which looks like a phaser but not the one we have been used to since TNG....to start TOS blue or pink?