Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rayssd.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!linus!rayssd!m1b From: m1b@rayssd.UUCP (M. Joseph Barone) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Re: Phasers Message-ID: <1415@rayssd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 12:08:54 EST Article-I.D.: rayssd.1415 Posted: Tue Nov 5 12:08:54 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Nov-85 00:24:27 EST References: <847@nmtvax.UUCP> Sender: m1b@rayssd.UUCP (M. Joseph Barone @ Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI) Distribution: na Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI Lines: 43 Keywords: good for a chuckle In <847@nmtvax.UUCP>, overlord@nmtvax.UUCP (Alan Kerr) writes: > This phased amplification is why the phaser had so many settings. > You could selectivly cause a desired effect.... > heat: amplify in the IR region. > Stun: amplify on the frequency/voltage/whatever for a nerve cell to fire. > Disrupt: amplify on known resonance frequencies until it explodes. > Etc. Actually, the selectivity was much more refined as explained by Mike McNally in <18200019@smu.UUCP> over a year ago: > Please pardon me if this topic has popped up before. > > Let's face it: the phaser is the ultimate intelligent weapon. It only > affects axactly that chunk of matter which the wielder desires > affected. Here's my list of phaser functions: > > 1. Stun. Not used nearly as often as you would think. Seems to me > that this would give everybody a weapon like Spock's shoulder pinch. > > 2. Make-object-turn-blue-and-go-away. Frequently used. > > 3. Make-object-explode. I saw this in "Private Little War". In this > episode, we also learn that communicators, when applied correctly, can > make huge rocks come tumbling down a hillside. > > 4. Make-object-get-real-hot. Can't remember the episode,; Zulu and > some guys heat up a rock in an attempt to get warm. > > 5. Supply-power-for-shuttlecraft. Happens in "Galileo 7". > > 6. Kill-people-but-don't-remove-bodies. Seems to me that the beam is > red when this happens. > > 7. Overload-and-cause-vast-destruction. The ultimate effect. > > I'm sure there are many, many more. How can the federation loose when > every serviceman carries this kind of destructive force? > > Mike McNally > ...convex!smu!mike