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From: drennan@nybcb.UUCP (drennan)
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Subject: Phasers and Deflectors
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Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 14:56:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 12 14:56:43 1984
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[ a sprinkling of boric acid ]

> 	One other inconsistency associated with phasers.  We saw several
> times (in "Arena" [with the Gorn] for example) that one cannot beam up or
> down with the deflectors up.  Deflectors also stop phasers.  So how does
> Enterprise fire phasers when the screens are up???
> 	Sorry for harping on this, but my area of research is laser-induced
> chemistry.
> 
> 				George Raiche
> 				Dept. of Chemistry
> 				Dartmouth
> 
> 				"Let's get the hell out of here."


	Perhaps the deflectors are timed in such a way that the very
portion that the phaser will be firing through at a given time is dropped
for the duration of the blast.  If small portions of the screens could be
selectively dropped, this sort of timing would be a simple thing to do.
I would be analogous to the way World War I fighters planes had their guns
timed so the bullets wouldn't hit the spinning propellor.
	But this just brought up another question in my mind.  A shot to
this area where the shields were dropped would hit the phaser beam.  What
would happen then?  What is the effect of colliding phasers?

						Jim Drennan
						New York Blood Center
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			"Damn it, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!"