Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site grendel.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!grendel!avolio From: avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Hand-weapons Message-ID: <194@grendel.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 10:17:59 EST Article-I.D.: grendel.194 Posted: Mon Nov 5 10:17:59 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 19:38:31 EST References: <317@hou2e.UUCP> <>, <433@ncoast.UUCP> <340@hou2e.UUCP> Organization: DEC, DC Area Gov't Projects Group Lines: 20 > > > The answer to the question I posted asking what the official hand-weapon of > Starfleet was before the phaser is: > > The Laser. > > For you folks who mailed me insisting that it was a phaser used in > "The cage", I say look again....... > Not only "look" but *liston*. The cannon used to blast through the protective stuff (well???) on the "elevator shaft" was a laser-cannon. They describe it as such and describe the hand weapons as such throughout that episode. -- Fred Avolio, DEC -- U{LTR,N}IX Support 301/731-4100 x4227 UUCP: {seismo,decvax}!grendel!avolio ARPA: grendel!avolio@seismo