Well they really did a good job here, that Scalosian city is beautiful!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
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.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Maybe in TOS it was akin to lightsabre colour! Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
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.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
"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.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Also, the klingon D7:s attacking DS9 in WOTWYLBAGT, red beams from the torp nozzle.
Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
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.
Phaser color was determined by the user's mood, like mood rings!
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
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.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
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.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
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?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
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).
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
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.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Hand phasers though? Maybe the colour is determined - in TOS - by the setting or intensity??
Red phaser beam - stun... all the way up to a blue kill setting??
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I like the "mood ring" theory, personally.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I actually have an updated TOS pistol-phaser page ready to upload, which features just about every time a phaser is fired (haven't put together the Type-I update yet, however). I may even include some Remastered caps, what ones I have anyway.
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