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Interesting Phaser effect
Posted: 2003-07-07 01:03pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
In the episode "Worst Case Senario" a holographic Janeway is killed when holo-Seska makes a phaser "malfunction" and Tuvok does the same to Holo-Seska later. This "malfunction" caused them to glow green and IIRC, vaporize.
A very interesting malfunction.
Posted: 2003-07-07 01:27pm
by Tribun
Well, the effect, that a malfuctioning phaser vaporises a person is nothing really new. It also happend also to the homeless man in the TOS episode "The city on the edge of forever". His maipulations on McCoys phaser caused a malfunction, which made him vanish. (He did not shot, but a hum is heared, before a vanished. So he must have caused a malfunction)
But of course, it is interesting, that the same can happen to holograms. That could be interesting for further discussions about that technology....
Posted: 2003-07-07 01:31pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
Tribun wrote:Well, the effect, that a malfuctioning phaser vaporises a person is nothing really new. It also happend also to the homeless man in the TOS episode "The city on the edge of forever". His maipulations on McCoys phaser caused a malfunction, which made him vanish. (He did not shot, but a hum is heared, before a vanished. So he must have caused a malfunction)
I always assumed he shot himself, but I haven't seen the episode in a while.
Posted: 2003-07-07 01:38pm
by Tribun
Nope. He did not shot himself. The humming started after he carelessly manipulated McCoys phaser. The humming became louder and louder and then he vanished. Hed he fired, he would have simply vanished without any of the other effects. ANd by the way, we also don't hear the sound of a fireing phaser.
Re: Interesting Phaser effect
Posted: 2003-07-09 02:17am
by TurboPhaser
Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:In the episode "Worst Case Senario" a holographic Janeway is killed when holo-Seska makes a phaser "malfunction" and Tuvok does the same to Holo-Seska later. This "malfunction" caused them to glow green and IIRC, vaporize.
A very interesting malfunction.
Green? Are you sure? I thought it was orange.
Posted: 2003-07-09 06:07am
by The Duchess of Zeon
Tribun wrote:Nope. He did not shot himself. The humming started after he carelessly manipulated McCoys phaser. The humming became louder and louder and then he vanished. Hed he fired, he would have simply vanished without any of the other effects. ANd by the way, we also don't hear the sound of a fireing phaser.
This was presumably the phaser going off on overload.