yosh@hou2e.UUCP (M.CHING) (10/17/84)
A question folks: What was Starfleet's regulation handgun before the Phaser ??? Dave Bloom Somewhere in Holmdel...
slf@teddy.UUCP (Scott Fisher) (10/19/84)
>A question folks: > What was Starfleet's regulation handgun before the Phaser ??? > Dave Bloom > Somewhere in Holmdel... Answer: A Phaser. There were two versions of the Phaser. One was shaped like a pistol and the other looked more like a comunicator. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Scott decvax!genrad!teddy!slf
raiche@dartvax.UUCP (George A. Raiche) (10/22/84)
> A question folks: > > What was Starfleet's regulation handgun before the Phaser ??? > > > Dave Bloom > Somewhere in Holmdel... Wasn't it the hand laser that Pike threatened the Talosian with in "Menagerie", and that Crater wielded in "Man Trap"? George Raiche Dept. of Chemistry Dartmouth
jimc@haddock.UUCP (10/23/84)
There was more than that -- very bulky looking pistols which I THINK were lasers were used in "The Cage", and they might also have been used in "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
frdish@aecom.UUCP (Larry Freund) (10/24/84)
> A question folks: > > What was Starfleet's regulation handgun before the Phaser ??? > > > Dave Bloom > Somewhere in Holmdel... the laser as used in "The Cage" -- "It's either believe that, or else believe we're only characters in a series of stories being written by a couple of hacks who need the money." Larry Freund UUCP: {cucard,philabs,pegasus,esquire,rocky2,ihnp4}!aecom!frdish
bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (10/24/84)
> Article <>, from slf@teddy.UUCP (Scott Fisher) +---------------- | >A question folks: | > What was Starfleet's regulation handgun before the Phaser ??? | | > Dave Bloom | | Answer: A Phaser. There were two versions of the Phaser. One was | shaped like a pistol and the other looked more like a | comunicator. | | Scott | decvax!genrad!teddy!slf Who really knows? They were using phasers in Menagerie (The Cage), if you'll remember (they tried to blow a hole in the mountain after the Talosians took Capt. Pike with a phaser cannon, etc.). The two kinds of phasers were really ONE kind of phaser, according to the Starfleet Technical Manual -- the small "communicator"-like one was the actual phaser (`Type I') and the Type II mount [sic] was a handle for the Type I phaser, along with a dilithium-based intensifier of the phaser's output. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ North Coast Xenix | the.world!ucbvax!decvax!cwruecmp! 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio | {atvax!}ncoast!{tdi1!}bsa (216) 524-1416 \ 44131 | E1439@CSUOHIO.BITNET (friend's acct.) ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- `Confusion is my natural state.'
yosh@hou2e.UUCP (M.CHING) (10/30/84)
The answer to the question I posted asking what the official hand-weapon of Starfleet was before the phaser is: The Laser. For you folks who mailed me insisting that it was a phaser used in "The cage", I say look again....... Dave Bloom Holmdel, NJ
avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio) (11/05/84)
> > > The answer to the question I posted asking what the official hand-weapon of > Starfleet was before the phaser is: > > The Laser. > > For you folks who mailed me insisting that it was a phaser used in > "The cage", I say look again....... > Not only "look" but *liston*. The cannon used to blast through the protective stuff (well???) on the "elevator shaft" was a laser-cannon. They describe it as such and describe the hand weapons as such throughout that episode. -- Fred Avolio, DEC -- U{LTR,N}IX Support 301/731-4100 x4227 UUCP: {seismo,decvax}!grendel!avolio ARPA: grendel!avolio@seismo