Why does ST ships only fire one beam?

Setesh · Post by **Setesh** » 2002-08-11 03:44pm

Even the doors require a carried device to open in advent of a power failure.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2002-08-12 11:49pm

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Hmmmmm, I think it's obvious it was a mistake. We've only seen this in on episode, firing from a place were it has no pupose being.

Actually, it was shown again in another episode as well. I can't recall the name, but it was basically about some dude giving the crew a case of amnesia and having them attack a race who could be defeated easily. Their strongest station could be taken out by a single photon torpedo. Anyways, we see the phaser shot from the torpedo launcher when the E-D engages their fighters. We also see them fire more than one phaser beam at once from the same array.

btw, the Enterprise was shown to fire all its forward firing phasers and torpedo launchers at once in "Q-Who". I think it did it again in BOBW, but I'm not sure.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2002-08-12 11:56pm

The episode you are thinking of is called "Conundrum". I prefer to think of it as the episode where they all get amnesia and sleep with each other, myself.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2002-08-13 01:00am

Raxmei wrote:The episode you are thinking of is called "Conundrum". I prefer to think of it as the episode where they all get amnesia and sleep with each other, myself.

You know what's funny? That station model was the same model used to represent some "god" in "Justice".

Setesh · Post by **Setesh** » 2002-08-13 01:11am

Ahh yes 'Justice' one of my favorite episodes for pointing out feddy moral cowerdice.

Its okay to violate the prime directive to get shore leave (and laid) but not to save entire species in later episodes? Damn what nads Picard must have. He condones 3 blatent PD violations and a couple that may or may not be PD violations then has the stones to be angry at Data over sarjenka, yell at Worf's (adopted) brother about saving a people that he thought he had just seen extinguished. Man he doesn't get enough credit.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2002-08-13 01:13am

Honestly, I don't remember a whole lot from season 1. It was all a big blur of bad episodes. :p

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-08-13 01:55am

Darth Garden Gnome wrote: Fine, no "Carrie!" but it sounded a helluva lot like it to me...in any event Vympels example fits better too.

He never said "Carrie." That was just a stupid and shameless attempt to claim there were more Easter Eggs in ANH (and, really, to discredit the film), when they were coming out with a book that talked about the movie. It was never true. What he actually said was not, "Hey," but "There she [is]." (referring to Princess Leia). You can clearly hear the line in ANH. I can even understand what he actually said on an old VHS copy of the ORIGINAL film, not even SE or the digitally re-mastered version, but it is obvious there, too. He did also actually say the word, "is," but the scene cuts. Although you can hear him say the word, "is" if you listen closely to what is going on. Keep your ears sharp and you will hear it.

Incidentally, this is a lot like that movie-critic who shamelessly berated Lord of the Rings because of a number of what he called breaks in reality. I have looked through his list. EVERY SINGLE ONE is a lie. There is no car in the scene in which Sam is travelling further than ever from home. The hobbits are CLEARLY not wearing shoes in the snow (although that would even be reasonable for hobbits), and all of the other claims he made were similarly false.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-08-14 10:23am

Master of Ossus wrote:
Darth Garden Gnome wrote: Fine, no "Carrie!" but it sounded a helluva lot like it to me...in any event Vympels example fits better too.
He never said "Carrie." That was just a stupid and shameless attempt to claim there were more Easter Eggs in ANH (and, really, to discredit the film), when they were coming out with a book that talked about the movie. It was never true. What he actually said was not, "Hey," but "There she [is]." (referring to Princess Leia). You can clearly hear the line in ANH. I can even understand what he actually said on an old VHS copy of the ORIGINAL film, not even SE or the digitally re-mastered version, but it is obvious there, too. He did also actually say the word, "is," but the scene cuts. Although you can hear him say the word, "is" if you listen closely to what is going on. Keep your ears sharp and you will hear it.

Incidentally, this is a lot like that movie-critic who shamelessly berated Lord of the Rings because of a number of what he called breaks in reality. I have looked through his list. EVERY SINGLE ONE is a lie. There is no car in the scene in which Sam is travelling further than ever from home. The hobbits are CLEARLY not wearing shoes in the snow (although that would even be reasonable for hobbits), and all of the other claims he made were similarly false.

What critic was that