2 Star Fleet redshirts are beamed by Q onto a deserted planet, armed only with hand phasers. Suddenly, from a distance of 30 metres, 4 nasty and hungry critters come charging towards them:
1 Tyrannosaurus Rex
1 Rancor
1 Acklay
1 Reek
What would be the result?
A: Each redhirt kills 2 creatures before they can come too close. As you know, hand phasers cause a chain reaction in organic matter.
B: The redshirts lose their nerve and gibber helplessly before each one becomes a Christmas bon-bon.
While we're at it, what is the effect of hand phasers on energy shields? They seemed to have little effect on that 50 MW (?) shield in Star Trek: Generations. Ship-mounted phaser cannons react violently with shields, the effect seemingly magnifying their "power" by the thousands (but not billions as the case may be with light elements). Is this a property unique to the larger phaser cannons, or do the hand phasers have a similar "shield-busting ingredient" on a vastly smaller scale?
SF Redshirts vs Nasty Critters
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