Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!yale-com!leichter From: leichter@yale-com.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: startrek error Message-ID: <1649@yale-com.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 23:39:25 EDT Article-I.D.: yale-com.1649 Posted: Mon Jun 20 23:39:25 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jun-83 23:35:00 EDT Lines: 17 re: landing party caught and freezing on planet surface: There IS an attempt to beam a heater and supplies down to the party; it fails (the stuff arrives non-functional). As to heating the area with ship's phasers: Careful watching reveals that phasers have several modes of operation: stun; heavy stun; something like stun with no name that kills the person with no externally visible effects (Anton (?) Coridian dies this way in "The Conscience of the King"); disintegrate object (makes the "object" hit flash and disappear; the object is NOT burned up, since things near it are not affected); heat object shot - mainly rocks, metal doors, and suchlike stuff; and some other undescribed effect that causes a ship to shake when hit by phasor fire. It appears that ship's phasors do not have a heat-objects setting. In the TV shows, at least, their effect is always of the disintegrate or just generally damage ship class. (In TWOK, ship's phasors seem to heat things up; maybe the design was changed...) -- Jerry decvax!yale-comix!leichter leichter@yale