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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Hand-weapons
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Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 15:33:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 15:33:17 1984
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> Article <>, from slf@teddy.UUCP (Scott Fisher)
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| >A question folks:
| >	What was Starfleet's regulation handgun before the Phaser ???
| 
| >			Dave Bloom
| 
| Answer: A Phaser. There were two versions of the Phaser. One was 
| 	shaped like a pistol and the other looked more like a 
| 	comunicator.
|
|                                                         Scott
|                                                 decvax!genrad!teddy!slf

Who really knows?  They were using phasers in Menagerie (The Cage), if
you'll remember (they tried to blow a hole in the mountain after the
Talosians took Capt. Pike with a phaser cannon, etc.).

The two kinds of phasers were really ONE kind of phaser, according to
the Starfleet Technical Manual -- the small "communicator"-like one was
the actual phaser (`Type I') and the Type II mount [sic] was a handle
for the Type I phaser, along with a dilithium-based intensifier of the
phaser's output.

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