[net.startrek] standard weapons

csdeptaa@unm-cvax.UUCP (10/27/84)

     Was that a laser used in (TC)?  It looked like a phaser to me, but I
suppose I should check on my books a little closer.  Anyway, It seems that the
laser was used as SF's standard weapon along with the partical beam cannon as
SF's standard heavy weapon.  It was suggested that the phaser, through intense
experimentation, became a culmination of both weapons.  Having the Penetration
of the laser and the impact of the partical beam cannon.  That's why I wonder
about the cannon in (TC) being a laser or phaser?


                            Chris Wayne @ UNM

slf@teddy.UUCP (Scott Fisher) (11/06/84)

Last night I just saw another SF weapon. It was a grenade launcher and the
grenades were far from conventional. When they exploded they made a sound
like metal striking one of those wires supporting a telephone pole. The
episode was the one when Kirk had to fight the Gorn with no weapons accept
what he could find on the planet.
                                                                Scott.