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UNfortunately, the rest of the episiode is as awful as ever...yet another incredible technology that could change the whole Federation is forgotten as the credits roll... (sigh)
Kirk's phaser color of the week: bright green.
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Naaa....no one ever has a red beam weapon on Trek: I'd never realized it before now.
I was just watching a (senseless) Voyager Episode (Fury) where the Videans employed cool dual-barrelled energy weapons with bright blue color. A nice change for baddies.
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"Starfleet" in Enterprise started out with a weapon that had a red beam.
The Cardassians in season 4 and 5 of TNG had a pink phaser colour. That got changed to the orangey colour by season 6 I think.
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Also, the renegade ship in Gambit had red/pink beams. And I thought the 1701 and Reliant both had red phasers. Maybe Jason only meant TOS and hand weapons, though the phasers in Devil in the Dark were red.
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So what was the majority of phaser colours in TOS? Someone should work that out! From Kahn onwards the movies seem to have that same orangey red phaser effect.
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My favorite is the one in TUC, that blue beam that was fired so much on the Kronos, it was nice. A bit slow in the travel velocity, though.
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quote:Originally posted by Johnny: Also, the renegade ship in Gambit had red/pink beams. And I thought the 1701 and Reliant both had red phasers. Maybe Jason only meant TOS and hand weapons, though the phasers in Devil in the Dark were red.
why is it that the TWOK is the only movie that showed that particular version of phaser fire, almost ammunition like, in terms of sound and appeareance (since it's clearly different from later TNG phaser beams or TOS beams)
what was it about that affect that they seemingly didn't like in later movies?
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Well, you can consider that the official phaser look of the TMP era (circa TMP-STVI). Sadly, it's the only time in SIX MOVIES that we see the fucking ships fire phasers!
Six. Movies.
(shakes head in abject disgust).
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Just a curious thought, but couldn't the local "atmospherics", particular elements in the area the energy is passing thru, affect the appearance of the phaser color? A beam fired in one nebula is red, fired around another nebula is green etc.
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