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Do photon torpedoes serve any function that phasers don't?
Posted on 5/29/14 at 9:49 pm
Posted on 5/29/14 at 9:49 pm
Knowledgeable Star Trek fans, help he out here. Seems like Phasers can do anything a photon torpedeo can do, and maybe even do it better. What am I missing.
Ad while we're at it - what weapon arrays have the upper hand - Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica?
Ad while we're at it - what weapon arrays have the upper hand - Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica?
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Posted on 5/29/14 at 9:50 pm to Methuselah
One cuts, the other booms
Posted on 5/29/14 at 9:57 pm to Methuselah
I always thought, perhaps mistakenly, that phasers were best used for depleting a ships shields but would have a vastly decreased effect on the hull, and vice versa for photon torpedoes.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 9:58 pm to Methuselah
Couldn't use phasers in Star Trek The Motion Picture when they were caught in the wormhole due to the new engineering that had the phasers tied into the warp drive, so they had to use a photon torpedo. Hence the discussion that ensued between Kirk and Decker.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 9:59 pm to jacks40
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that phasers were best used for depleting a ships shields
Why were the shields so crappy? They were the equivalent to Capt America's shield made out of cardboard.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 10:17 pm to saintsfan22
phasers are a discharge of pure energy. Photon torpedoes are small bombs.
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Photon torpedoes were warp-capable tactical matter/antimatter weapons commonly deployed aboard starships and starbases by various organizations. Photon torpedoes, often abbreviated as "photons"
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Phasers were the most common and standard directed energy weapon in the arsenal of Starfleet and several other powers. Most phasers were classified as particle weapons and fire nadion particle beams, (Star Trek: First Contact; TNG: "The Mind's Eye"; VOY: "Time and Again", "Demon") but some like the Ferengi hand phaser were classified as plasma weapons and fired forced plasma beams. (TNG: "Descent") Based on the intensity and field of the beam and a variety of adjustments, a wide variety of effects could be achieved.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 6:51 am to jacks40
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I always thought, perhaps mistakenly, that phasers were best used for depleting a ships shields but would have a vastly decreased effect on the hull, and vice versa for photon torpedoes.
This kinda makes the most sense (to me anyway). But it sure seems like they blow stuff up with the phasers fairly often.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 7:12 am to Methuselah
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Ad while we're at it - what weapon arrays have the upper hand - Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica?
Strictly comparing weapon arrays, the death star's primary weapon is awfully formidable.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 8:06 am to TigerFanatic99
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Strictly comparing weapon arrays, the death star's primary weapon is awfully formidable.
And horribly slow and easily out maneuvered.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 9:13 am to SG_Geaux
The big, simple difference between phasers and photon torpedoes is that the torpedoes pack more of a punch and there's a limited number of them on a ship.
Photon torpedoes are the ship's "heavy weapon."
But you can blow shite up with either. A ship's phaser array is nothing to laugh at in the Star Trek universe.
Photon torpedoes are the ship's "heavy weapon."
But you can blow shite up with either. A ship's phaser array is nothing to laugh at in the Star Trek universe.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 9:27 am to SpqrTiger
What get me is, photon torpedoes are said to have a 1.5kg anti-matter/matter warhead, which is enough for an enormously large explosion. Yet, on the tv shows and movies it looks like a couple of Molotov cocktails impacting the ship.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 9:51 am to Methuselah
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Seems like Phasers can do anything a photon torpedeo can do, and maybe even do it better. What am I missing.
Phasers require more energy - photons (and quantums) can do more against shielding, can be modified, pack a bigger punch - although not as accurate.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 8:50 pm to Ace Midnight
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Phasers require more energy - photons (and quantums) can do more against shielding, can be modified, pack a bigger punch - although not as accurate.
Makes sense.
Posted on 5/31/14 at 12:11 am to Methuselah
Also helps to shoot a spread of torpedoes at multiple targets. Phasers were fast, but localized to one target at a time
Posted on 5/31/14 at 8:13 am to The Easter Bunny
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Also helps to shoot a spread of torpedoes at multiple targets.
Good point - spreads are also effective against a single target - gives them fewer options for evasion or counter measures.
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Phasers were fast, but localized to one target at a time
Depends on the number and type of arrays - I think the Galaxies and Sovereigns can fire on multiples targets with their numerous arrays and targeting system. It does spread out your firepower, though, vice concentrating on 1 target at a time.
Posted on 5/31/14 at 11:15 am to Ace Midnight
I was trying to remember if the D could fire multiple, but I was thinking it always did the charge up and fire of a single beam.
Looks like TOS allowed for multiple shots
But yeah, phasers are all about pin point accuracy
Looks like TOS allowed for multiple shots
But yeah, phasers are all about pin point accuracy
Posted on 5/31/14 at 11:16 am to Ace Midnight
I'm sure if we found images from Wolf 359 we'd see dual shots, or anything from the Dominion war, but the Defiant doesn't count
Posted on 5/31/14 at 1:56 pm to The Easter Bunny
The Cylon heavy ships(Basestars weren't they?)would have been mauled by Federation Starships and the attack ships would have been gnats against a starship's shields.
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