Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- Star Trek vs Star Wars

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Subject: Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser

Author:
capn hayes

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Date Posted: 17:29:44 09/05/02 Thu
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In reply to: TrekGOD 's message, "Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser" on 08:57:28 09/05/02 Thu

>>>>In all reason LASER stands for Light Amplification
>by
>>>>the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Please note
>>the
>>>>words "Light Amplification" add a turbo infront of
>>>>that "TurboLASER" that basicly means "Greater Light
>>>>Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of
>>>>Radiation". Remember lasers CANNOT penitrate the
>>main
>>>>navigaion shields of any Trek ships. Something you
>>>>warsies might contridict with in a star trek episode
>>>>is:
>>>>
>>>>"Q Who"
>>>>
>>>>Worf: "A type of laser beam is cutting into the
>>>>saucer section"
>>>>
>>>
>>>At that point the E-D's shields were already down, so
>>>this scene cannot be used to determine whether a
>laser
>>>would normally get through.
>>Don't here me arguing! Thank God star wars ships don't
>>use lasers as weapons just gas exciters!
>
>SO WHY ARE THEY CALLED TURBOLASERS THEN!! IF THEY ARE
>NOT LASERS THEY SHOULDN'T BE CALLED LASERS! catch my
>drift
>
>I would attribute this to a "MAJOR" technical
>inconsitancy in George Lucas's ability to accuratly
>write a script. want another example? In ANH Han
>Solo says that the MF (Motha Fuka) made a run in less
>then 12 parsects (how nice) George measures a speed
>and time in a unit of distance.. which we are lead to
>inturpret as him using some miraculas power to shrink
>the distance between two points along one course.
>("How Touching" Q) actually I think Q may be the only
>being in the 2 universes that can move planets closer
>together to decrease their distances (not saying that
>is why he would) ahh another major screw up for Lucas
>Films to ponder and live with.
>
>*frowns*
>
>I guess us trekies only have one MAJOR inconsistancy
>to live with, Oops try a lot! I call it "Star Trek V: The Final
>Frontier" anything mentioned in the series is minor
>compared to these examples I have givin. These are
>good examples of bad writing skills on both sides in
>the RL. But impossible to explain in the movies.
>
>If some yokle in some tavern said to me what Han did
>in that scene I would laugh and said "That's
>Impossible"

Uh yeah....
Anyway, WOW there is no getting through to you is there!
The "real life" reason George Lucas used the term laser is because he figured the audience would be confused by any weird terms like "laser induced antiproton pariticle energy emmission array" or something even worse! And "phaser" was already taken. So give the guy a break, hell back in '77 did you even know what a L.A.S.E.R. was!

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser	The Divine Shadow	01:14:24 09/06/02 Fri

Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser	capn hayes	05:03:15 09/06/02 Fri
Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- BabyBel, 15:48:45 09/06/02 Fri Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- TrekGOD, 16:46:52 09/06/02 Fri Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- capn hayes, 21:27:06 09/06/02 Fri
Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser	TrekGOD	16:42:59 09/06/02 Fri
Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- The Divine Shadow, 03:50:06 09/07/02 Sat Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- TrekGOD, 08:43:56 09/07/02 Sat Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- The Divine Shadow, 17:36:02 09/07/02 Sat Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- TrekGOD, 17:02:40 09/09/02 Mon Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- capn hayes, 03:53:38 09/10/02 Tue Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- trekie, 04:15:56 09/10/02 Tue Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- capn hayes, 04:46:01 09/10/02 Tue Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- NeutralZone, 12:21:33 09/10/02 Tue Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- capn hayes, 13:27:53 09/10/02 Tue Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- TrekGOD, 16:09:17 09/10/02 Tue Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- The Divine Shadow, 22:58:30 09/10/02 Tue Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- NeutralZone, 16:34:51 09/11/02 Wed Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- NeutralZone, 16:31:20 09/11/02 Wed Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- The Divine Shadow, 22:53:03 09/10/02 Tue Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- capn hayes, 00:45:48 09/11/02 Wed Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- trekie, 04:12:04 09/11/02 Wed Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- Capn hayes, 05:08:13 09/11/02 Wed Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- The Divine Shadow, 22:34:47 09/11/02 Wed Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- anonymous trek fan, 23:59:28 09/11/02 Wed Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- capn hayes, 00:17:11 09/12/02 Thu Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- The Divine Shadow, 01:12:53 09/12/02 Thu Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- anonymous trek fan, 07:36:24 09/12/02 Thu Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- capn hayes, 13:42:37 09/12/02 Thu Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- The Divine Shadow, 13:45:42 09/12/02 Thu Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- WarsGOD, 11:34:03 09/15/02 Sun Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- capn hayes, 14:21:43 09/12/02 Thu Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- The Divine Shadow, 13:44:11 09/12/02 Thu Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- NeutralZone, 16:44:58 09/11/02 Wed Re: Turbolaser vs. Phaser -- The Divine Shadow, 22:27:14 09/11/02 Wed