#17, RE: GotW 46: Phaser Mk IV
Posted by ebony14 on May-30-17 at 12:17 PM
In response to message #16
>>There's also another factor in favor of the Type II that's rarely >>brought up in the literature, for the simple reason that most >>publicized materials focus on humanoid-crewed ships: >> >>The 'dustbuster' form factor is a lot friendlier to nonhumanoid >>manipulation apparatus. > >Well, yeah, but nobody on Star Trek has that, so the point is a >bit moot. :) >And a number of the nonhumanoid species in Starfleet really don't need a phaser. I mean, can you see a Horta using one of those things? Ebony the Black Dragon "Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."
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