From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!ucf-cs!whm
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: ST in general--Phasering
Article-I.D.: ucf-cs.650
Posted: Thu Jul 1 19:08:16 1982
Received: Wed Jul  7 00:57:20 1982


One thing that has always mystified me is how a phaser shot makes a person
disappear.  It seems strange that the phaser beam knows whats part of a
person and what isn't.  I would think that a shot from a phaser would leave
a large gory smoking hole in a person rather than having them cleanly
change colors and vanish.  Perhaps a motivation for having the clean
destruction was to avoid horrendously (sp?) gory scenes during the TV
series.

Does anyone have any details on how a phaser is supposed to work?