Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!zentec!qumix!ittvax!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Hand-weapons Message-ID: <433@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 15:33:17 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.433 Posted: Wed Oct 24 15:33:17 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Oct-84 05:37:54 EST References: <317@hou2e.UUCP> <> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland Lines: 31 > Article <>, from slf@teddy.UUCP (Scott Fisher) +---------------- | >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. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ North Coast Xenix | the.world!ucbvax!decvax!cwruecmp! 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio | {atvax!}ncoast!{tdi1!}bsa (216) 524-1416 \ 44131 | E1439@CSUOHIO.BITNET (friend's acct.) ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- `Confusion is my natural state.'