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From: avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Hand-weapons
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 10:17:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 10:17:59 1984
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> 
> 
> 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
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