“And then they switched from the Dustbuster phaser to the compact phaser, and I kept my Dustbuster because it easier to hold, and I kept the power cells for the Dustbuster…”
lets be honest here, the dustbuster was probably pretty heavy. I mean, the amount of energy they held is ridiculous and nobody actually needed that much power in a hand-held weapon.
(for example, in that episode where they’re trying to evacuate an illegal colony before some assholes pyroform it for their own use; data blows up a dam. From miles away. that kind of firepower is just not needed.)
Better to have it and not need it…
Eh.
that’s just it though. For an EDC type weapon, comfort and easy of carry is actually an important aspect. it being big awkward and heavy is how you get people to be like, ‘I don’t really need to carry this’. The keyfob phaser made a lot more sense. Though I’d probably have turned it into something more like the form factor of the goa’uld hara’kesh. maybe give it a holographic interface for aiming and power settings and such.
if you need something more powerful, it can get beamed down or grabbed out of a shuttle’s armory, for example.
a photo of the hara'kesh from SG:1 for reference
At least the handling is much better than a Ferengi energy whip.
Yeah, but do phazers have a “pleasure” setting?
This is why I don’t understand the rifles. What’s the point if a normal phaser can atomize someone? Do you need to blow a hole in the hull behind them as well?
There doesn’t seem to be a limitation to the normal phaser, like you’ve got two kill shots or 10 stuns then you need to charge. Why a bulky scary gun? Just for looking serious to the borg?
Serious answer is that rifles are easier to aim accurately.
Pretty sure phasers have some type of aim bot built into them. The angle they deflect coming off the emitter changes and they never hit hostages.
(Given stun setting…. Being as reliable as it is… I never understood that. Stun everyone and call it good. Details.) (lost opportunity for Garak and Bashir, though. “You shot me!” - “You’re welcome.” - “my good doctor, don’t tell me you didn’t enjoy it”)
Borg. Klingons. Bulkheads. Entire cities.
They’re really quite adaptable.
Unsubscribe … please stop sending this.
This happened recently with some crazy huge distribution list.
Easily 100 replies. About 40 in there were memes like “brace yourself reply all is coming” and “it can’t be stopped”
I don’t know how they killed it but they did.
This is why you have them send it to themselves and BCC everyone else.
Or … you send an Excel spreadsheet attachment with your wholesale pricing to every … single … IT company in a city with over 2 million people and double down with an updated version when someone points out that using the To: field is probably not the best way to start your new business … that immediately folded the next day when those same IT companies, now armed with everyone’s email address in a single convenient discussion thread, started discussing matters at hand … and related issues.
Source: I received that email and the rebuke and the subsequent discussion.
And this is precisely why you set up Approved Senders on Exchange distribution lists.
