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Well the novelization was very descriptive. I mean there was no extra content as in expanded/added scenes. She just felt the need to describe every little detail. I mean if you thought that was bad you should see the sentence before it:
"The ship took a compressive dive into the clear, burst out, and trumpeted her presence in the sky."
Boy that's some starship.
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We call it plasma, but whatever the Klingon (or Suliban) term for it, it was just ionized gas.
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Anyhoo, I'd always been hoping that the phase cannons would be surpassing, but not completely replacing, the plasma cannons. There was this image I'd wanted to see of the Enterprise blazing away with plasma cannon, phase cannon, AND spatial torpedoes, sorta like what the White Star did...
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Christ, was that a novelisation - or an Icelandic saga?
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Erik Njorl, son of Frothgar, leaves his home to seek Hangar the Elder at the home of Thorvald Nlodvisson, the son of Gudleif, half brother of Thorgier, the priest of Ljosa water, who took to wife Thurunn, the mother of Thorkel Braggart, the slayer of Cudround the powerful, who knew Howal, son of Geernon, son of Erik from Valdalesc, son of Arval Gristlebeard, son of Harken, who killed Bjortguaard in Sochnadale in Norway over Cudreed, daughter of Thorkel Long, the son of Kettle-Trout, the half son of Harviyoun Half-troll, father of Ingbare the Brave, who with Isenbert of Gottenberg the daughter of Hangbard the Fierce. . .
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Actually, I've changed my mind - that passage reads like it's been translated from a Japanese manual. I'm sure I've seen the phrase "luminous announcement" in relation to a warning indicator light on my Sony TV.
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I've got a slightly related question..has anyone ever thought about what kind of recoil a plasma cannon might have? Phasers are obviously recoiless, but plasma is real live matter and should have a Newtonian equal-but-opposite reaction, right? If we knew what kind of plasma it was, its density, and its muzzle velocity maybe we could actually work it out...anyone have *any* educated guesses, non-canon novel references, anything?
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Phasers do have a kick, even though it only manifests at the receiving end...
I'd say recoil is a null and void issue in starship weapon applications, because starships already control their inertia by artificial means and routinely defy Newton's laws. And apparently recoil is similarly under control in handguns, be they phasers or plasma throwers.
Indeed, one might surmise that both phasers and plasma guns have immense kick, which just happens to be negated by subspace fields or whatever. We have seen a hand phaser send a heavily built man flying through the air (ST3), and hits from plasma pistols can also topple a big brute as if he were hit by a .50 cal rifle bullet.
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In recently re-watching some early ENT episodes, there were a couple of scenes with Hoshi getting used to the new phase pistols versus the old EM-33 plasma gun. She was having trouble with things like particle drift and recoil, stuff that she'd gotten used to with handling the EM-33 but didn't need to compensate for with the phase pistol.
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Maybe people are sent flying by phaser hits due to some energetic reaction occuring at the point of impact, and not because of any, you know, velocity deal.
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