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Hollismason posted:Haha drat I was watching MacGuyver and was like "drat this person seems really familiar" and its Nana Visitor from DS9 on the show. She's super young.  you weren’t kidding they both look like kids in this
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Animal-Mother posted:She looks weird without the nose bumps. I would join Nana for nose bumps
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naem posted:
drat, those are some sexy mullets
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if you watch any of the long running 80's syndicated tv shows you'll see the same actors over and over again. macguyver, murder she wrote, matlock, etc.
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There’s that scene in “Return to Grace” where Kira explains to Ziyal the relative advantages of Cardassian vs Federation rifles that’s supposed to be an AK vs AR analogy.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:if you watch any of the long running 80's syndicated tv shows you'll see the same actors over and over again. macguyver, murder she wrote, matlock, etc. I saw Worf playing a cop in CHiPs and it hosed me up pretty badly tbh
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Hollismason posted:Haha drat I was watching MacGuyver and was like "drat this person seems really familiar" and its Nana Visitor from DS9 on the show. She's super young. lol saw the same episode recently too, and had the same thing happen
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Big rear end On Fire posted:
Phasers agitate molecular bonds and impart electrical energy? i think? so they can heat, but also a certain level will stun the nervous system, and a certain level will vapourise. Also you can get finer precision and control over the outputs if a phaser so it's kinda just a multitool. Disruptors simply disrupt molecular bonds, so they're good for blasting but not much else. The way I think of the difference is that a phaser can be used as a scalpel in surgery, it can slice through tissue without damaging surrounding tissue Whereas a disruptor will just gently caress up the integrity of the surrounding tissue
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can a phaser be used to cauterise a wound?
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Non Compos Mentis posted:can a phaser be used to cauterise a wound? Probably not, but you could heat up a chunk of metal and then use that
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okay, i watched the sword of kahless the other day and dax not zapping worfs wound annoyed me
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Non Compos Mentis posted:can a phaser be used to cauterise a wound? I would tend to believe they could, they can be attuned to some pretty specific effects. A phaser can uniformly heat a rock, break up rock like a power tool or fully disintegrate large volumes of rock; it can lightly stun a person, knock a person unconscious, burn them with thermal energy, cause narrow projectile-like penetrating damage or outright vaporize them. They're pretty drat versatile.
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Why they'd have phaser rifles? Do they need more power in a phaser? Just seems unnecessarily unwieldy compared to how convenient the hand held phaser is.
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naem posted:
Nana looks like Cheri Oteri as Barbara Walters.
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redshirt posted:Why they'd have phaser rifles? Do they need more power in a phaser? Just seems unnecessarily unwieldy compared to how convenient the hand held phaser is. I imagine the dustbuster and keyfob versions probably run out of juice a lot quicker. I would also think a rifle is easier to aim consistently than a handheld.
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The rifles have a bunch of extra features probably. Kira goes through a bunch of them inApollodorus posted:There’s that scene in “Return to Grace” where Kira explains to Ziyal the relative advantages of Cardassian vs Federation rifles that’s supposed to be an AK vs AR analogy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8aYkrVrhgA&t=182s Dabir fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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John Wick of Dogs posted:I imagine the dustbuster and keyfob versions probably run out of juice a lot quicker. I would also think a rifle is easier to aim consistently than a handheld. lmfao im keeping these
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redshirt posted:Why they'd have phaser rifles? Do they need more power in a phaser? Just seems unnecessarily unwieldy compared to how convenient the hand held phaser is. So, I was a marksmanship instructor for a bit, and rifles are waaaaay more stable and easier to shoot than pistols for your average shooter. Except for phaser rifles because they are missing the key thing that makes rifles better, which is the shoulder stock. Phaser rifles still get two hands vs dustbuster's one hand, so it'll be a bit better, but not as good as it could have been. Also yea the technical manual points out rifles have bigger batteries.
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John Wick of Dogs posted:I would also think a rifle is easier to aim consistently than a handheld. efb
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Need a Lower Decks gag where someone turns off the phaser aim assist and everyone misses everything like a stormtrooper.
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Rifles are just the "big guns." Kirk used one when Gary Mitchell turned into a god because he knew the pistol wouldn't be powerful enough. I also see some references to the rifle being able to regenerate energy, but I dunno if that's canon.
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"Regenerative phasers", whatever that means, is the technology that obsoleted the bullet rifle from that episode where Ezri catches the murderer. It was developed to deal with situations where normal phasers couldn't fire for some reason I forget.
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Phasers that are continuous-beam instead of pew-pew should be pretty easy to aim -- do you have much difficulty putting a laser pointer dot right where you want it? Of course, 99% of the time you wouldn't be pointing it perfectly when you started firing, so you'd have to move the beam onto the target. Which would look silly on TV.
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just turn on the beam and whip it around the room
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I'll check my technical manual when I get home but iirc it has like 5 times the power cells as the dustbuster type.
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They should make a phaser that's a continuous beam but only of about the length of a sword. With like a focusing dilithium crystal that bends the beam back onto itself into the phaser 'hilt' so most of the energy is recycled. And different characters could have different colors dependant on their role, similar to division uniforms. And you could use these to deflect phaser fire.
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Blotto_Otter posted:yeah, even if all else were equal, it's much much easier to shoot more accurately using a longer two-handed object braced against your shoulder than it is onehanding a TV remote-sized object. the enterprise crew are apparently all incredible marksmen, on TNG they're regularly making shots that would be quite difficult with any pistol-sized object, and they're not even bothering to aim down the "barrel" or whatever Intent sensors revolutionized a variety of ergonomics and accessibility fields.
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ChairmanMauzer posted:Sometimes they try pumping in crazy knockout gas (anesthizine). It is really handy that the starship designers set up the air systems in such a way that any random gas can be pumped through it into specific rooms and then pumped back out just as fast.
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I didn't have anywhere else to post this but I couldn't find a gif of Odo's fingers turning into hotdogs so I made the gif myself. Enjoy.
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Grey Cat posted:I didn't have anywhere else to post this but I couldn't find a gif of Odo's fingers turning into hotdogs so I made the gif myself. Thank you for your service!
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Grey Cat posted:I didn't have anywhere else to post this but I couldn't find a gif of Odo's fingers turning into hotdogs so I made the gif myself. Oh that's where the Daniels got the idea from... 
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I sensible chuckled Should really be a picture of the symbiote rather than Jadzia maybe but lol
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maybeadracula posted:I sensible chuckled I dunno she seems pretty comfortable being one of the boys, the girls, and an old man.
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Time to get back to my fanfiction featuring Jadzia and Goa'uld Ba'al.
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Grey Cat posted:I dunno she seems pretty comfortable being one of the boys, the girls, and an old man. Her answering to Old Man is cute I never thought she wasn't fully owning femininity though, even when outdrinking Klingons and kicking worfs rear end Just a badass lady who has centuries of memories of being a man... yeah ok our terms are probably just inadequate lol
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maybeadracula posted:Her answering to Old Man is cute I know she's not a fan favorite, but I enjoyed Ezri's story in a bubble. To have that much history, memories, life experiences dumped into you on an emergency basis has to be incredibly hard. Jadzia was trained for it, Ezri was not.
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I like that the picture of Odo is mid-eyeroll Is it because of 'solids' and their concepts of gender? Is it for the pun? Both?
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