what type of phaser did we see in ST6?

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closet sci-fi fan wrote:When those crewmen boarded the chancellors ship, wouldn't the phasers have cauterized the wounds?
Even if there was some cauterizing, and I don't think phasers of any type cauterize on kill, you still punched holes inside their guts. That'll kill anyone sooner or later. Factor in the things like shock to the organ damage and it'd be lethal quickly.
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closet sci-fi fan wrote:When those crewmen boarded the chancellors ship, wouldn't the phasers have cauterized the wounds?
I don't really see your point.
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closet sci-fi fan wrote:When those crewmen boarded the chancellors ship, wouldn't the phasers have cauterized the wounds?
Maybe they didn't want them to?
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Wait, since when do phasers cause enough cauterisation to prevent bleeding?

Now I really can't see your argument...
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On phasers.com (or whatever the link was) it described "cutting phasers" but now that I think about it, they look pretty much like the phasers everyone else on the Enterprise A use in that movie.

I figured it was just a certain setting (but not disintegrate).
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phasers.net wrote:Another unusual setting: a beam that cuts into the flesh it hits without cauterization, one of the few times we’ve seen what these weapons might actually do – the novelization of ST6 calls them ‘burning phasers’ and says they’re outlawed.
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I think they forgot to install the "first aid" feature in those phasers.
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phasers.net.. I knew I had that wrong, thanks for the correction! Interesting site! ; )
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