Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uf-csg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!uf-csv!uf-csg!hardie From: hardie@uf-csg.UUCP (Peter T Hardie [stdnt]) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: phasers and warp speed Message-ID: <284@uf-csg.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 09:38:14 EST Article-I.D.: uf-csg.284 Posted: Mon Dec 3 09:38:14 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:07:53 EST Organization: Univ of Fla, Computer and Information Science Lines: 15 I have a question. In the episode with the Romulan cloaking device (Balance of Terror?), after Spock is found and beamed aboard, the Enterprise warps out at warp factor 9. Now, whatever speed this is, it is faster than light. How can a phaser, developed from the laser, hit *anything* moving trans c???? Also a sign of the still-present double standard. The female commander, if she was really a warrior, more probably would have stabbed Spock for betrayal, rather than allow herself to be captured. Any replies? -- Pete Hardie, Univ. of Florida, CIS Gould acct:..!akgua!uf-csv!uf-csg!hardie