when I watch these shows, there are lasers, torpedoes, etc. Some fire in white, some in red, some in blue. Is it consistent? Do they always fire the same color? And why that color? Is there a certain something burning
heh you must really want to start a megathread, then again you average sciforum member could probably knock this one out in 3 sentences. All I know it they use phasers not lasers.
The Earth Starfleet ships are phasers. They are nadion based weapons that fire orange beams. The pulse phasers (usu used on Defiant class and Starbases) are yellow/white bolts. I do not recall any Federation beam being blue except tractor and transporter beams. Refresh my memory if I'm wrong? Directed energy weapons get their colour from the reaction. Eg, ruby lasers fire red since the particles are fired thru a ruby. Similarly, whatever the 'firing element' is behind the phaser emmiters causes the beam to be orange.
I can't believe you made a Star Trek Thread......lmao You could have asked the geeks over there in that thread that just never dies.
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Thats what you get when someone makes a troll thread. They are intended to cause the cyber equivalent of bar fights. And it seemed to of worked pretty well on Enterprise-D and Enterprise-B. And naming your online persona after your favorite Sci-Fi ship is kind of nerdy. I named mine after the year Halo 3 comes out. Orleander is, I think, from New Orleans. And a few others here just type random gibberish.
Nope, it's a spelling mistake....Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! There's a "What does your name mean thread" where she explains. Par for the course for Sciforums.
Federation uses Phasers- Orange Klingons use Disruptors- Green Dominion uses phasers- blue Romulans use Green, I think. Not sure.
I agree. I'm a star trek fan myself, but why is that damned thread always on top? Is there nothing else sci-fi people around here want to talk about?
That would be a troll bait thread. It was intended to attract trolls to it so that the creator would have some twisted entertainment by watching trolls have at it.
seems like they just can't get enough of talking about it.....then there are the knock off threads star trek vs star wars.......star trek vs halo because there is nothing left to say so they have to start comparing it to the other sci fi nonsense lol
I normally hate stickies, but maybe we should just sticky the star trek v/s star wars thread since it's always on top anyway.
what color are they? Seems like all tractor beams would be the same color. Or is the technology all different?