So I'm arguing with this guy on Youtube (might even be another SDNetter for all I know), and the question of whether it's a case that phasers are meant for shields, torpedoes for hull. I get that in
games it works that way but in visual media there's plenty of examples of beams being used against targets without shields and torpedoes against those that do (First Contact and Nemesis being the case in point). My point is the difference between how they're supposed to work versus what we actually see on screen.
I can't decide if this guy has a point or whether he's throwing around a bunch of red herrings. Here's the video in question:
link.
He also claimed that torpedoes were unique in being usable at FTL. While I know that
should be true, there was the small matter of the Prometheus firing phasers at warp in (
Message in a Bottle).
Though using episodes of Voyager to reinforce my position is dubious, the only counter example is from Enterprise, which is arguably
worse:
link.
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