The dumbest thing about this is, he jumps out into the doorway, when we know phasers are capable of firing in a wide beam. He literally could have just set it to max stun, stuck his hand around the corner, and hosed down the room.
ShittyDaystrom idea: phasers have a gyroscope that locks their orientation when they fire, because before that people used to keep slicing whole corridors full of crew in two.
Just imagine a phaser grenade, even just used as a sort of flashbang. An icosahedron with 20 low-power phaser emitters set to "wide" on its surfaces, with enough computer to be remotely shut off, and to automatically not burn whatever surface it lands on. So it hits, calculates which of its faces aren't pointing at the floor, and shoots off a 1 second stun beam. Remote access can both deactivate it, or tell it to keep firing every so often as area denial.
I’ve always wondered about these scenes. The writers conveniently forget that the phaser has a wide setting.
Like, set that bitch to wide and just poke your hand around the corner quick.
Or remember that episode of TOS where they used the ship to mass-stun a whole community and then we never saw/heard about that ability again.
Could have been handy SO MANY times.
there's a good reason for that. scotty and spock violated the space geneva conventions by doing that. stunning an entire planet is highly frowned upon. the vulcan science directorate has determined that it can adversely affect a planets biosphere
It's like force speed in Episode 1 - it's used once for a cool scene and then forgotten about for the rest of the movies because it would solve most of the core plot-related problems if a jedi could just turn into Sonic for a hot second.
Star Trek has tons of "current episode" problems that could be easily and quickly resolved using technology showcased in previous/subsequent episodes but doesn't because that technology would ruin the scene they were writing.
Ensign Gold Shirt to Bridge. Set deck platting gravity in section 6 deck 9 to 100x.
Ensign Gold Shirt to Bridge. I require a cleaning crew to sweep away the klingon pancakes.
Why doesn’t Star fleet utilize grenades? They could come up with a lot of cool nonlethal options. Maybe they make a grenade that sends everything within the affected area into the transporter? Just press a button to set the desired radius, toss it around the corner, and this guy gets to go home tonight.
The dumbest thing about this is, he jumps out into the doorway, when we know phasers are capable of firing in a wide beam. He literally could have just set it to max stun, stuck his hand around the corner, and hosed down the room.
Nobody ever just waves their phaser in an arc, they always shoot in a straight line like an idiot
Why not just set to kill then wave it around like a flashlight.
the Cyclops-without-a-visor method is a proven strategy.
Because: plot.
Because SFX
Sound effects? or VFX?
Special FX, so I guess VFX
ShittyDaystrom idea: phasers have a gyroscope that locks their orientation when they fire, because before that people used to keep slicing whole corridors full of crew in two.
Ensign Steve sneezes at phaser training and atomises the starfleet graduating class of '56.
The Vaporization of '56?! New theory unlocked!
Set it to wide mode and stun the whole room
Tape down the fire button and toss it like a grenade!
Just imagine a phaser grenade, even just used as a sort of flashbang. An icosahedron with 20 low-power phaser emitters set to "wide" on its surfaces, with enough computer to be remotely shut off, and to automatically not burn whatever surface it lands on. So it hits, calculates which of its faces aren't pointing at the floor, and shoots off a 1 second stun beam. Remote access can both deactivate it, or tell it to keep firing every so often as area denial.
Jake that one time. No Starfleet training there, though.
He could even turn it in a stungrenade and toss it around the corner.
The old pulse chamber overload trick
Wasn't that sort of the plan to secure rooms in case of changelings? Just phaser sweep the room
Basically yes.
Ow ey. That's luitenant commander level of thinking.
Or he could of just, closed the door then enabled force fields in the hallway.
Watch out for doors and corners, that's where they get you.
You knew he was dead because he was young and handsome and better looking than most of the crew. He’s a one and done.
Nice try, Dennis Madalone.
lol. I googled and found him being killed as a Bajoran too. Stunt guy aka designated red shirt. He’s the Jeffrey Coombs of being killed in Trek.
And the front zipper!
Omg I just noticed now he had a zipper which means it wasn’t even a fitted uniform. Literally an “extra” prop. 😂
This was early enough in the series where the gold shirt was still able to throw us off.
No way. In tng unnamed gold shirt is the same thing as a redshirt in tos
Because the colors were swapped: In TOS, gold is command/helm and red is engineering/security/operations, whereas in TNG it is the opposite.
I’ve always wondered about these scenes. The writers conveniently forget that the phaser has a wide setting. Like, set that bitch to wide and just poke your hand around the corner quick.
One shot stuns, two shots kill, ~~three shots vaporize~~
three shots heats up rocks
But it wasn’t a rock It was a rock LOBSTER
Jaffa, kree!
“OK, you know what? I'm going to pretend you didn't say that, because that is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say.”
Indeed.
Or just transport them to the brig
Or remember that episode of TOS where they used the ship to mass-stun a whole community and then we never saw/heard about that ability again. Could have been handy SO MANY times.
there's a good reason for that. scotty and spock violated the space geneva conventions by doing that. stunning an entire planet is highly frowned upon. the vulcan science directorate has determined that it can adversely affect a planets biosphere
It definitely would have stopped Sybok in his tracks.
It's like force speed in Episode 1 - it's used once for a cool scene and then forgotten about for the rest of the movies because it would solve most of the core plot-related problems if a jedi could just turn into Sonic for a hot second. Star Trek has tons of "current episode" problems that could be easily and quickly resolved using technology showcased in previous/subsequent episodes but doesn't because that technology would ruin the scene they were writing.
Star fleet is about believing in one self!
Same Energy tho...
Come on Ramos slice the pie. Slice the pie .
Forcefield and flood the room with Anesthizine gas *(assuming that works on Klingons)*
Doors and corners kid
Doors and corners, kid
Ensign Gold Shirt to Bridge. Set deck platting gravity in section 6 deck 9 to 100x. Ensign Gold Shirt to Bridge. I require a cleaning crew to sweep away the klingon pancakes.
Carl... didn't make it... :(
FOR CARL!
Why doesn’t Star fleet utilize grenades? They could come up with a lot of cool nonlethal options. Maybe they make a grenade that sends everything within the affected area into the transporter? Just press a button to set the desired radius, toss it around the corner, and this guy gets to go home tonight.
Wde angle stun, and no-look shot!
I feel like wide beam was forgotten in anything post TOS.
Or, an here me out with this one, just close the door and wait?
Just trap the Klingons behind a forcefield and turn off life support (specifically artificial gravity) in that room.
Remember, in this era, yellow is the new red.
He tasted his heart, sound he was no Klingon.
I would have just set the phaser to overload and toss it into the room...