Are u sure,this is serious :o

Still short range. 1 Light Second would be a more likely an effective weapons range (approx 300,000 km) since the Phasers on the Enterprise can fire in a barrage pattern and (somehow) detonate in proximity.

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.php

I knew you were making this up as you went along!

1. The targetting computers weren't that accurate back in the old days.

2. Phasers don't detonate - that takes a photon torpedo.

3. I saw it in the show, so there!

4. My BS mojo juju magic tech is both prettier and shinier than yours, so there again!

well how do you think I appear to know so much about everything!

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/8...leunderatt.jpg
They seem to be able to hit a specific building on a planet from orbit... seems accurate to me...

-Balance of Terror (TOS)


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Say what? :06:

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This^^ :yeah: They used photon torpedoes for barrages. Phaser for precise targets.

One of my favorits Scifi chicks. is Natasha henstridge..
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ST is very "soft" SF.

The base rule for "hard" SF is to break as few laws of physics as possible, and follow the chain of "what-if" for those you do (based on how you explain them in the first place). FTL is gonna be a given for most SF, but the goal should be to break as little as possible. ST (particularly TNG) breaks new laws almost every episode. They use made-up technobabble as a plot device constantly (a sign of terrible writers), then more new "______-genic fields" constantly to fix the problem they set up weakly in the first place. ST got so bad that no given writer even had a clue that their plot was already solved by another weak writer's physics breaking invention.

ST is no more "hard" than Star Wars, IMHO, and no more consistent.

This is true. The notion of a spacecraft hiding is nonsense. Even just the temperature of the crew compartment (by definition some sort of comfy "room temperature" for humans) makes it visible in IR very far away using IR telescopes. Throw in any sort of drive capable of pushing it at high speed and ships don't hide.

Except in Balance of Terror the writers hadn't "invented" photon torpedoes yet. So phasers have a depth charge like proximity fuse as a result.

Considering they are a particle weapon you can do funny things with them.

I think "from orbit" can be classified as "point blank".
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Some mouth-breathing dweeb once tried to rope me into an argument about which movie Batman would win a fight. My answer? "Whichever one the screenwriters said would win!"