VOY s1e12 “Cathexis”
I think the next time we see the wide beam setting is LD.
Oh, right. While not as big a field, Mariner does use that function.
I was thinking of the time she was scraping carbon off slightly harder carbon.
Then there’s that too.
Things that hand phasers can do:
- Stun
- Kill
- Disintegrate
- Explode
- Sick lightshow that impresses everybody
Don’t forget heat rocks!
being able to self-destruct with the precision to either act as a flashbang OR destroy an entire ship somehow.
even melting gravel and pebbles together to make climbing spikes.
And tan!
But only a couple of times.
No, you need a torch for that. Phaser just burns the crystal
my favorite example of “we can do this extraordinary thing and we will never talk about it again”:
- starfleet can create copy of dead or lost people using transporter
- seven is literally necromancer and can resurrect dead…
or the detachable Enterprise saucer section
i think that one was about money, shooting the separation scene turned out to be more complicated and expensive than they thought…
- That alien transporter with a range of 40,000 light years (the spatial trajector) that just can’t work on Voyager because it has an incompatible power supply
- Infinitely fast travel at warp 10 that comes with serious, but entirely curable side-effects
Infinitely fast travel at warp 10 that comes with serious, but entirely curable side-effects
Janeway and Paris preferred to stay in the delta quadrant rather than explain their giant Yeerk babies.
It annoyed me so much that Discovery basically wrote off all the propulsion technologies that didn’t quite work in the 24th century, just so the spore drive could be special in the 32nd century.
I have much the same gripes about Voyager making the Warp 10 speed limit a universal hard limit, rather than something that the warp drive was simply not able to achieve.
At least Discovery’s could still pulled them back out of the rug with them not having to wring every single piece of dilithium for all it’s worth.
“If you go just a bit faster than the Voyager, the universe itself breaks, and all propulsion technologies are obsoleted past the threshold” is much harder to get around without something like Q shenanigans.
My favorite is the repair tool from S1 PIC, the one powered by imagination. Lets just create and forget a magic wand that commoditizes the entire engineering department 🙃
Ultimate vibe engineering.
I’m going to be honest - the first season of PIC was so bad I tried to forget about pretty much everything but Laris. I am pleased to report that I successfully forgot everything about the imagination repair tool and still no longer recall it.
I’m glad I’ve almost completely forgotten the first two seasons of PIC.
I’m glad they at least tried to make a good 3rd season… but I’d still rather forget it too.
Heck, maybe I should just start considering Picard dead since Wolf 359. … No, no. That’s taking it too far. Just need to ignore the non-canon anti-fan non-trek noise.
I just can’t respect someone’s opinions on writing when they don’t know it’s not “cannon”.
I hope you didn’t start watching the second season.
Isn’t there a plant in TOS that can heal wounds that’s never brought up again?
i only remember this plant, not sure it was healing anything…? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Side_of_Paradise_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)
If we’re counting Kelvinverse stuff, the plot twist in Star Trek Into Darkness in which magic villain blood turns out to be the universal cure for Actual Death also qualifies.
Oh how I aspire in writing my own Star Trek stories to both not do that, and explain away why it’s like that (basically: “forgot we could do that”).
The survivors of AR-558 coming home and being asked why they didn’t use the wide beam setting.
Iirc, this is basically mag-dumping the phaser, so probably not useful for… Well, anything but exactly this scenario and checking for changelings
Also works on the type 3 phaser rifle, but you’re probably right about the power cell drain.
Might I add, this is also only displayed on Voyager.
They do phaser sweeps on DS9 for Founders, but only for a few episodes.
To be fair, those are also implied to be a much lower power setting, enough to cause discomfort without scorching everything else.
Right, I meant in an offensive capacity.
That makes sense, but there should have been one person in the back who came forward every now and then and just reset the field then withdrew to recharge.
Ouch.
Tuvok knows that nothing beats the Spread Gun
Oh that’s what the “S” stands for.
Contra and Metal Slug. So much good times.
God dammit, you guys unlocked a lot of memories.
Like going to CiCi’s Pizza and playing Metal Slug, Power Stone, Striker 1945, Crusin’ World, Rampage…
I need to reinstall my emulators.
I don’t remember seeing arcade machines at CiCi’s…
but the laser is so cool
I miss Anderson’s rational voice of reason in an unrealistic sci-fi style of acting.
“Better use two of those”
“Sir?”
“It’s a ‘blast’ door”
Gotta be my next series to re-binge.
(Or skip to atlantis. … Or reschedule Bab5 again first…)
Someone should’ve written down what happens when you shoot something with a zat three times.
just a piece of paper on the wall of the mess
Know your Zat!
1 tap = stun
2 taps = kill
3 taps = vaporizeDid you use the correct amount of taps?
Did you use the correct amount of taps?
I hear one of them is still tapping
I always quad-tap with my zat. Just in case.
Like Kira said, “… It’s a little more complicated, so it’s not as good a field weapon. Too many things can go wrong with it. I think you should stick with the Cardassian rifle. Smaller, easier to use, and if we get boarded I don’t want you to have to think too much about the weapon you’re using.”
Maybe people in starfleet forget the features available in the pinch of the moment. (&/or writers “forget” for convenient writing devices).
… Or maybe starfleet academy['s training] is not as great as the much lauded (but lacking merit (?)) “competence porn” selection bias that we see gives the impression of.
Phasers are super versatile but they need to be programmed. That’s not something you want to be doing on the battlefield - which is why the default function is “point and click to shoot”.
And most of the time we see phasers used - aside from the occasional stone heating or vaporising - it’s in a battle situation where reaction time matters. Tuvok had a moment to set things up, but in most other situations, that moment might be deciding if you live or die.
Wish they’d explored Kira mentoring Ziyal more. Coulda been her lil badass protégé.
Wasn’t she, though?
Ziyal was doing terrorism on occupied DS9 right alongside Kira.
She baked a hasperat soufflé to help break out Rom.
That bitch!
Freedom fighting.
I know even they call it terrorism, but, it’s not really using terror for political gain. So it doesn’t fit the definition.
I always found that weird about TNG/DS9/VOY… the casual use of “terrorist”, right to self-identification. Casually.
Like,
what,
they’re taking the term back? LOL.
Well, alas, the future liberator hero icon of Cardasia needed to kill her because… I forget why… He was in an uppity mood, wanted Dukat’s affection, didn’t like rebels plotting, didn’t like she was half bajoran, too much kannaar(sp?)… I don’t know why.
Woulda been cool. Many adventures could have been had. Loads of planetside scouting & survival stuff…
Agreed.
As for the spelling, there’s an easy way to remember:
I am.a HUGE fan of “competence porn,” in all its forms!
Currently watching Scorpion here.
So I surely must be too.
(And conceitedly enjoying how competent I am to have replied to that within a minute.)
[Edit: Aaaaand then realising when I double check that… I was 3 seconds too slow, because I hesitated and added “surely”. Surely may be a fan, but not a performer.]
I eat scorpions. They are an aphormoadesiac, if you didn’t know. Don’t let them sting you there, though. That’s not how it works, but I’m not a biochemist. I’m an English teacher.
Iy vil noht eeht zee bugz.
Boof em then, pussy
What is this, Abrams Star Trek?!!
Misreading that as Turok really threw me off for a second
