Incorrect. He said "you could have vapourized ME", not half the bulkhead.Adam McLarsen wrote:Name: Adam McLarsen
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Comments: I don't claim to be an expert on Star Trek or Star Wars, but with regard to your weapon comparison section, you said that the federation phaser was never seen blasting through armor plate. While I aggree that this has never been "seen", it has been described. in ST:FC, after Lilly is looking at picard with the HAND phaser, picard says something like "ge, you coulda vaporized half the bulkhead".
You forgot the part about how he was on drugs and how he may have been bluffing in order to threaten his way out of the prison complex. We have never actually SEEN a phaser cause that level of destruction.I'm not sure 100% about this one, but I do remember that in a TNG episode (the one where riker thinks hes going crazy in some prison, but really hes being held prisoner and his mind uses the images of a play he is rehearsing to stay sane) he says "this phaser is set to level 15, now if i fire, it should be enough to take out half of this building." Yet again, im not sure word for word, but I know im close enough to get the general idea accross. While im not sure (like so many other things) about the assumed composition of the prision, i am sure the the enterprise is made from primarily duranium, which is very, very strong.
Incorrect. It's a Klingon sniper rifle, Kirk shoved him away rather than Chekov, and the range was not far enough away to require an actual sniper rifle. Any soldier with a modern M-16 could have made that shot easily.Also, the federation does indeed have a dedicated sniper weapon. In Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country at the end, there is a sniper trying to kill the fed president. Checkov knocks him away just in time. This weapon clearly had a scope and a shoulder stock.
None of which give them as much armour penetration power as a LAW, particularly since body disintegration is OBVIOUSLY a chain reaction of some sort since it eats through the bodies even after the weapon has been turned off. Moreover, your speculation about how it "may" have been set low does not constitute evidence.Sorry to comment in another box, but i came across another thing that i thought was untrue. You say that the federation shoulder weapon is equal or less potent than the current LAW, but this is not true.
Firstly, the weapon may have been set to a low setting, Federation weapons have been observed to do everythin from warm a rock, to discentergrate an entire body.
True, however the LAW still has more observed power than Worf's bazooka, and it is by no means the only one. Hell, even the M203 40mm grenade launcher (which IS reasily reloaded) will be more effective.Secondly, the LAW is a single shot weapon, and cannot be reloaded (a new launch cylinder must be used, and the expended one is often thrown away)
Which is totally irrelevant to your claim that it is more powerful.Thirdly, the Federation weapon would proballly have no ballistic properties as the LAW has.
Not combat suits; their mobility in those suits is so poor that they might as well just paint bullseyes on their chests and wait for the enemy to shoot them.The federation has EVA suits, granted theyre not body armor, but its stil protection against heat, cold, and radiation.
Again, no evidence whatsoever for the powerful Fed weapons you are alluding to.Regarding the lethality of the new fed phaser rifle, as that fed weapons have varying lethality potential, just because a target isnt vaporized, does not mean that it cant be. It could be that attacking a borg takes more power, or that they were conserving power for more shots. Also, conside adding the new fed compression rifles, the one on VOY. They seem to be more modern, although i have no idea how powerful they are.
Of course it was. That doesn't change the fact that the weapons have horrible ergonomics.About the lack of ergonomics in hand phasers; I totally aggre with you that they have poor ergonomoics, but I once read that this was gene roddenberry's attempt to make federation weapons seem as distant from contemporary weapons as possible. (i believe he succeded)
At least he seemed reasonably concise, made no claims of superior expertise, and may have merely been operating from a few misconceptions rather than being a blithering idiot or a lunatic like some of the people who E-mail me.
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