Is there an episode of Star Trek where they talk about what the phaser bank could be called if it were improved?
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You mean like how DS9 and the TNG movies introduced quantum torpedoes?
No. Simply put it's not the same thing. As an energy weapon making a Phaser more powerful is simple. You find away to either make it more energy efficient or directly put more energy into it. Evidently over the eras of star trek we've seen this occur many times. DSC shows phasers as brief blue pulses. TOS shows sustained blue beams. The TMP era shows orange pulses. TNG and later a sustained beam except for the defiant and federation fighters which use pulse phaser cannons which seemingly pack a big punch.
So it's all about the energy fed in and the resulting output. But if you change the name PHASed Energy Retification then you change what the weapon is.Please do me a huge favour and help me be with the love of my life.
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Originally posted by P-90_177 View PostYou mean like how DS9 and the TNG movies introduced quantum torpedoes?
No. Simply put it's not the same thing. As an energy weapon making a Phaser more powerful is simple. You find away to either make it more energy efficient or directly put more energy into it. Evidently over the eras of star trek we've seen this occur many times. DSC shows phasers as brief blue pulses. TOS shows sustained blue beams. The TMP era shows orange pulses. TNG and later a sustained beam except for the defiant and federation fighters which use pulse phaser cannons which seemingly pack a big punch.
So it's all about the energy fed in and the resulting output. But if you change the name PHASed Energy Retification then you change what the weapon is."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by DigiFluid View PostSpot-on, across the board.Please do me a huge favour and help me be with the love of my life.
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Originally posted by Jack_O'Neill View PostInteresting to know in Star Trek universe have ZPM?
If yes, this is very good because it will infinity energy for weapons."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by Jack_O'Neill View PostThis is bad because without ZPM, impossible to have infinity energy for weapon, if power battery will empty, weapon also will shutdown, in battle situation = death."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by DigiFluid View PostIn 53 years of Trek, a starship has never run out of gas due to firing phasers.
Later on, after Decker had taken command of Enterprise, Constellation was able to fire again after Scotty had recharged the weapons to some degree.
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostBut their energy storage has been depleted. As I recall, in "The Doomsday Machine", when Kirk & the scouting party beam over to the destroyed Constellation, Scotty reports that Constellation's phaser banks were drained, saying something about not giving up without a fight.
Later on, after Decker had taken command of Enterprise, Constellation was able to fire again after Scotty had recharged the weapons to some degree.
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Originally posted by mad_gater View Postweaponry that didn't have a prayer of penetrating the neutronium hull on that thing
Ever read : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendetta_(Star_Trek) ?
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We do know the Defiant uses power cells for her phasers. But I always kind of assumed they were power boosters rather than an actual method of running the phasers themselves.Please do me a huge favour and help me be with the love of my life.
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Originally posted by P-90_177 View PostWe do know the Defiant uses power cells for her phasers. But I always kind of assumed they were power boosters rather than an actual method of running the phasers themselves."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostTrue enough. That was a fight they could not win conventionally.
Ever read : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendetta_(Star_Trek) ?
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