Star Trek ship weapons

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  1. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    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
     
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  3. nietzschefan Thread Killer Valued Senior Member

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    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.
     
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  5. Enterprise-D I'm back! Warp 8 Mr. Worf! Registered Senior Member

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    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.
     
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  7. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    Strictly speaking there should be no colour whatsoever to any beam weapons in space.
     
  8. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    and that's what I thought.

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  9. shorty_37 Go! Canada Go! Registered Senior Member

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    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.
     
  10. Enterprise-D I'm back! Warp 8 Mr. Worf! Registered Senior Member

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    True, but what fun would that be???

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  11. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    And no "ZZZZaaap!" sound effects either.
    Dull dull dull.

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  12. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    I did...I think it was on page 326. 326!!!!
     
  13. halo07guy Registered Senior Member

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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.
     
  14. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    Nope, it's a spelling mistake....

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    There's a "What does your name mean thread" where she explains.

    Par for the course for Sciforums.
     
  15. FoolFromHell Photons be Free. Registered Senior Member

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    Federation uses Phasers- Orange
    Klingons use Disruptors- Green
    Dominion uses phasers- blue
    Romulans use Green, I think. Not sure.
     
  16. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    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?
     
  17. halo07guy Registered Senior Member

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    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.
     
  18. FoolFromHell Photons be Free. Registered Senior Member

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    You and I participate in that thread...
    idiots like Scott are the trolls.
     
  19. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    why are they that color? What color are the Borg's or do they not have them?
     
  20. shorty_37 Go! Canada Go! Registered Senior Member

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    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
     
  21. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    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.
     
  22. killallewoks Registered Member

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    borg have the best weopons,cutting beams, torpeodoes and tractor beam there are best!!
     
  23. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    what color are they?
    Seems like all tractor beams would be the same color. Or is the technology all different?
     

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