Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!daemon From: daemon@decwrl.UUCP (The devil himself) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: re: phasers Message-ID: <1156@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 12:18:09 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1156 Posted: Wed Oct 30 12:18:09 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:34:35 EST Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 64 >My understanding is that there are several types of phasers. (The > ... >Type 1: Small, concealabe hand model This is the only actual Federation hand-held phaser (as such) >Type 2: Pistal type used in most shows. The type 2 phaser (pistol) is actually a type 1 phaser with an external powerpack (to extend the power and range) in a pistol grip. >Type 3: The "paser-rifle" used in WNMHGB4 > (85% cofident on PHASER not LASER!) There *are* phaser rifles (again, type-1 phasers, with much larger external power packs in a rifle stock). However, you can't really include the weapons in "Where No Man Has Gone Before", since that was a pilot, and the Star Trek universe hadn't quite been worked out yet... the rifles weren't the same. >Type 4: The "paser-cannon" used in "The Managerie" (Where Spock > mutainously hijacks E to take Pike to _____ (name that planet)) The weapons used in The Cage were lasers, not phasers. Again, discrepancies are explained by the fact that The Cage (later adapted to the 2-part episode The Menagerie) was a pilot, and not subject to all the conventions and technology of the later Star Trek series. >Type 5: Main ship phasers. Again, type 1 phasers with an even larger external power pack in the shape of a starship ;-) (``I say, that's a *joke*, son!'') >Type 6: Alien versions. (Name all the shows and aliens that use > phasers) I'll pass on this one, but I don't remember many aliens using phasers. Klingons, yes... I'm not even sure about the Romulans, but I don't think so. > John W /dave Dave Butenhof ZKO2-3/K06 Digital Equipment Corp. 110 Spitbrook Road Nashua NH 03062 clt::butenhof butenhof%clt.DEC@decwrl.ARPA {allegra,shasta,decvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-clt!butenhof Any resemblance between the opinions expressed in this article and any actual opinions, living or dead, is strictly coincidental and in no way binding upon either myself or upon Digital Equipment Corporation, much less upon reality itself. ``Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.''