OK, I've been on my computer for about three solid days rewriting my site. In between moments of fury at HTML, I began thinking about the weapons in Trek.
Specifically, we have seen several weapons used that have basicly the same end result; vaporization of the target. Examples:
TOS: I remember the episode where Kirk Nukes Roc the android. ST2: Terrell vapes himself ST3: Kruge vapes Lieutenant "Lucky Shot" ST6: Valeris vapes a kitchen pot
And I know there are a lot more. What I am wondering is this, How does it know what to vaporize and when to stop? Does it envelop the target on contact and then dematerialize it? If so, then where does the effect stop? Why wouldn't it vaporize the ground or deck the target was standing on? If you are going to say that it chain reacts with what it hits and what that is touching, then there should still be the boots and jock strap etc. that wasn't hit by the beam.
I would think it more likely that these weapons would vaporize a hole straight through at the point of contact. Yes, I realize that it is cleaner and cheaper FX wise to just have it all go away, but if you are going to have that happen then you need a viable explanation for the effect.
I know this is nit-picky stupid but I was up REAL late and the mind does funny things after too much HTML. At least I haven't bolded, all caps, and italicized every other word in this post! Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
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