When looking at the "Com Badge" and other Starfleet insignia most people forget that in The Original Series every ship had a distinct insignia similar to modern Military Units having their own patch, the emblem used in all other shows and movies was originally specific to the Enterprise.
Yes, absolutely, and I hate how that detail just gets completely ignored by every later series. It was so much more interesting when each and every starship and starbase had its own individual insignia/service badge, and the Starfleet insignia on the breast of every officer's uniform was actually the service patch of _their individual ship or base_ with the unique _division_ insignia at the center (the star with an elongated top point for Command Division, the circle containing an oval for Sciences Division, and the curlicue for Operations Division.) But for some reason the Federation decided to just start using the _Enterprise_ Command Division insignia as the _combined emblem for _*_all of Starfleet,_* while at the same time _completely changing Starfleet uniforms every 8 years or so._ Just _why_ an immense, interstellar organization would ever decide to completely redesign its uniforms so Goddamn frequently is just _absolutely mind-boggling,_ and even with replicator technology it would still be a huge waste pf time and effort to keep needlessly redesigning the damn things. My personal explanation is that, in the Federation's Post-Scarcity civilization, there are _huge_ swaths of people who choose to devote their lives to the utterly useless "professions" of fashion and clothing design, and in order to keep these utterly useless people occupied with the _illusion_ of contributing to Starfleet and actually accomplishing something meaningful with their loves (without having to _actually_ get any kind of education or training at Starfleet Academy, and without exposing themselves in any kind of risk by _actually_ serving in Starfleet) Starfleet Command must have decided to humor them by running continuous "Design the Next Starfleet Uniform!" contests. I imagine it being a big, stupid, American Idol style show with a panel of inane celebrity judges, with models taking way too long to display every design, and full of endless run-off competitions... and that is why Starfleet keeps getting totally new uniforms every few years despite the confusion and stupidity that completely defeats the entire purpose of wearing uniforms in the first place (to give everyone in the organization a _uniform appearance._ If different people in the same organization are wearing _different_ "uniforms," _then they _*_aren't_*_ uniforms.)_ I could actually see _Lower Decks_ going with this idea.
Unfortunately this trend of new uniforms follows our current Military, every time a new General takes over a Branch they change the uniforms, sometimes small changes like headgear sometimes complete new uniforms.
I read an interview a few months ago with a functionally blind man about using the Apple Vision Pro. Most people who are legally blind don't just see darkness - they either have a very constricted field of view or a limited depth of field (or both). A common trait is that the brightness of their surroundings can be overwhelming, even physically painful. This man could only discern blurred shapes of anything more than a half foot or so from his face. When he used Apple's visor, it effectively projected a perfectly clear panorama of his surrounding on a surface only an inch or so from his eyes. It was not only the first time he had actually been able to perceive the world around him in perfect clarity as the sighted do, it gave him the ability to dim the world, allowing him to view it at a comfortable level of intensity.
Number 6 of the phasers about avoiding inaccuracies by making it all up, that basically applies to /all/ star trek technology. I saw a discussion about it somewhat recently, star trek technology is basically all determined by plot demands, so basically any technology can perform any way it's needed at any time, they /try/ to stay somewhat consistent with what's been said before but sometimes fail. The franchise is /full/ of examples. Like not being able to beam through shields, except when they do it anyway. Using the deflector dish to do /all/ sorts of stuff. All the holodeck and transporter accidents that reveal capabilities that are only usually covered in one episode and never repeated even when it would /actually/ be useful. Not being able to copy the voyager doctor's program even though it should be entirely data, and they can copy /parts/ of it, and in one possibly non-canon episode it's even stated he has a backup module with a copy of his program, yet he's repeatedly risked his program being lost.
The holodecks being incapable of creating anything dangerous is one of my favorites, especially since the holodeck malfunctions in such a way that endangers the occupants or even the entire ship several times. Evidently, no one onboard knows how to 1. open a door 2. find the off switch. Which leads to another tech problem: they can detect life forms from hundreds (thousands? millions) of kilometers away, and beam through empty space, a thick atmosphere, even through soild rock...but they can't detect and beam out anyone from the malfunctioning holodeck.
the last one is because it exists in multiple alternate st universes yet not all, same as the holodeck. the tech can only merge where there is at least scientific study closely related to the tech field where it may possibly be a theory to be experimented with on paper as was e=mc² .
With regards to the Laser weapons in the cage, I've always theorised that there was a certain level of parallel development between phaser and laser weaponry, Star Fleet was working on both, and - while Phaser eventually came out on top - for a while there was parity between the two, with lasers even being better at certain points in time
Even though there's no canon on what phaser stood for before the Next Generation, it originally stood for "PHotons Amplified by Stimulated Emission of Radiation", meaning future lasers. Yeah, the creators of the original Star Trek's technology loved their photon weapons.
I will l be honest. When I saw the Enterprise D get destroyed, I teared up a bit. I remember back in the 80s seeing an add for TNG on a box of Cheerios cerial. I was super excited. As a young boy in the 70s I watched reruns of TOS every chance I got. In the 80s, my parents wouldn't make me come to the table for meal time if a new TNG episode was on. I got to eat in my bedroom. So seeing that beautiful Galaxy class Enterprise crash was a gut punch.
30:30 that is the right side, not left. Look at it from the person wearing them instead of how they look on screen. Federation badges are worn on the left side.
😂 Got the communicator sound wav file and set it to trigger when the phone flipped open. Used it on multiple flip phones up until my motorola Razr. The unintended consequence of also alerting me when the phone accidentally opened in my pocket prevented many butt dials.
RE: "Type 1s could actually be slotted into the Type 2 Phaser... (pause) for some reason". It's starting to feel like Trek Lore has been around long enough to begin growing 'Fuzzy'. I feel like any long-time Trek Fan knows the reason. (However, I'll admit this might be "Head Cannon" because I can't credit where I learned this) The Type 1 slots into the Type 2 as the combined weapon unit's controls and energy source and we can think of the Type 2 phaser as a battery and power booster for the Type 1. The Type 2 is used when the Type 1 doesn't have the power. Also, Type 1 is used by shipboard duty crew and away teams on diplomatic or 'low-risk' missions (most often), while Type 2 is issued for shipboard combat or riskier Away missions. I apologize if it turns out that I'm just making this up but if anyone can tell me where this info is documented, I'd just feel better about my geriatric brain's ability to dredge up info!!! Love You, Trek Culture!!! LLAP!
Type 2's were an expanded power pack combined with a second prefire chamber that intensifies the type 1's ability to beam energy. Type 1's could disintegrate single targets, type 2's could vaporize whole crowds on wide field settings.
I see the Type II as the add-on, with the Type I having the "working guts." The Type II gives you a bigger power pack as you said, and better ergonomics, making it easier to aim at something that wasn't literally at point-blank range. In real life there are lots of add-ons available for popular pistols to turn them into carbines. They don't actually become any more accurate in and of themselves, but the superior ergonomics means you can better target something farther away.
I recall, in my now long-past reading on the original series, that the original plan for City on the Edge of Forever included a mile-long valley lined with huge, whispering statues. Obviously, not in the limited budget.
More retro ups and downs please I don't really wanna listen to this whole video but just putting it on for background noise as I am going to sleep for work in the morning. Might be interesting during the time I am awake, and something not too boring to fall asleep to.
Something I think we forget about technical advances. The combadg issue on Enterprise C could be explained. Sometimes technology comes out before it's really ready. For instance the portable phone. One was designed in the 1920s. It worked by connecting to some metallic source that could work as an antenna. Unfortunately, it didn't connect to the phone lines and could only call other devices like itself. It was clumsy and not very useful if others didn't have one too so it fizzled out. But it was the inspiration for the car phone which did take off. There's many things like that like the video phone. They've existed since the 70s but never took off for practical reasons, now facetiming is common. It could be that the first combadges came out but weren't entirely practical due to technical reasons. Hell, it could be they took up too much storage space. so they were phased back out until someone could work out the issues.
As an Air Force veteran I can say the ''DELTA'' symbol pre-dates Trek by about 25 years. Roddenberry also being a veteran in my opinion, let's say he may have ''liberated'' it. To the point of the transporter I think it wouldn't work as well with a Schroeder compensator. Besides a huge box just showing up would leave too many questions.
Heating rocks with a phaser has always bothered me. Heating rocks with moisture in them can make them explode. Is there moisture in there, YOU DON'T KNOW!?
There's a channel where the Solar Death Ray( the detached screen from a 1990 type big screen tv) is used on stuff, and some rocks do go BANG! But not all.
17:46 The medical tricorder is the one thing from Star Trek that doesn't already exist that I would bring to the present. At first I was thinking about places that like Doctors Without Borders go and how useful it would be if you don't have reliable electricity and you could hook it up to a solar charger thingy, but also to have a layerpson version for households so you can scan that rash or that tissue you just sneezed into or whatever and it'll be like, _get this ointment over the counter_ or _sending Tamiflu prescriptions for the whole household to your local pharmacy_ , etc.
Well I hate to say, but anyone who has watched any amount of Star Trek, knows about phasers. There wasn’t anything I didn’t know from the list of 10 things. But it’s always interesting to see what you guys come up with!
Today, we have laser cannons that can destroy airplanes and portable laser flashlights that can burn nearby targets. No stunt mode, all real laser weapons only have killer power. Thanks.
19:18 *NONONONONONONONO* The Daqtagh (as well as all the other Klingon knives IIRC) was designed by master knife maker Gil Hibben. You know, the guy that Paramount Pictures dubbed “The Klingon Armorer”?!?!?!?! The same guy who designed Rambo’s Bowie knife.
48:25 Despite the limitations of the VISOR prop he did a damn good job of conveying emotions. I have been melting over LeVar Burton's smile since like kindergarten when TNG was in early seasons and I was also a big fan of Reading Rainbow ^_^
About 1000 years ago, before most of you were born, some friends and I did a parody radio production for my university’s radio station. We our crew had bi-corders, snowing frequencies, pink-with-purple polka-dots in a swirl of chocolate mocha alert, a character named “Y” (I thought he was on second), and phasers could be set to “liquify”.
On Transporters, I always assume that NORMAL operations is to transport both the matter and the information, but in situations that lead to Transporter Clones, approx. half the matter is bounced back but the information gets through, to ensure the survival of the transportee the Transporter fills in the gaps with mass from a backup storage, or perhaps even the Replicator. It also explains why you can break a person who's been Tuvix'd back into two people, but not into the original two and the new Tuvix'd person, the safety system that they take advantage of does not work when trying to split someone three ways (too little original matter).
The type 1 being "Slotted" into a type 2 is, in fact the ONLY way the type 2 can fire. The Type 1 acts as the generator, while the type 2 adaptation unit is an extended power pack and more powerful focusing array. The Type 2 has additional functionality (The type 1 cannot use "Wide angle stun" which can stun multiple targets with a single shot.) The type 2 is more conspicuous, and is usually carried by security personel, while the type 1 is used typically as a "Hold out" weapon, since it is more easily concealed.
You forgot the sensor net in an episode of classic Trek. Diane Moulder plays a blind woman who wears it over her clothing. It allows her to sense where things are. Being blind allows her character to interact with an ambassador whose people drive any sighted person who sees them into insanity.
Kyle Hill did a video on Star Trek phasers (and in other IPs) and the highest setting that vaporizes people. He said that suddenly vaporizing all of that tissue and liquid would cause a massive explosion and would kill the attacker, too, unless they were quite far away. Oh and blow a hole in whatever ship or space station you’re on.
According to technical texts for TOS and TNG, the type 1 phaser was designed for personnel to beam into a situation in which being armed would be prudent without an obvious show of armament. In the case of TOS, slotting the type 1 into the type 2 assembly would increase the weapon's power output, range, and effectiveness.
I remember reading "The Making of Star Trek" way back in the early 70's and Roddenberry explained that he used the term "phaser" because lasers (back then) were so new that they mostly only existed in labs, and average people didn't know much about them. But he realized they might become common in the not too distant future (ie, like now), and that's when people would start to say "lasers can't do that". Prescient as always.
Thinking about the phaser overload situation, they probably did use an advanced lithium battery. That is likely the reason why an phaser overload is so dangerous.
Fantastic Dan!!! I've been wondering about what happened to the chariot for literaly decades. A die hard fan fromthe beginning. Thankyou soooo much!! 😊😊
I reckon the transporters do, in fact beam the atoms across as well as the information but if there is a problem with the atoms it only sends the information
Thanks for speaking at a reasonable pace and not a mile a minute like some of the other hosts! It's refreshing, less stressful, and most importantly... understandable!!
I'm sure DARPA already has something similar to hand-held Phasers in development. I sent them a note, volunteering to test one out. Haven't heard back yet. 😉
08:25 - Starfleet personnel in the TOS time frame were issued two types of phasers. The smaller hand phaser (Type 1) was easily concealable for more diplomatic encounters and generally carried near the small of the back on a waistband mounted magnotomic adhesion surface. The pistol grip (Type 2) served as an amplifier for the hand phaser. The hand phaser was slip-click mounted into the pistol grip for more overt defense/offense activity. Both Type 1 & 2 were carried on a uniform belt via a magnotomic adhesion surface, which was invented by the Vulcan Science Academy for use by their space-faring scientific forays into the galaxy (ENT:Carbon Creek).
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and executed and very informatively explained in every detail way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter on the various 70 things you didn't know about Technology in Star Trek on phasers and all of the various other technologies within the Startrek universe indeed; A job very greatly well done indeed Brie & Sean!👌.
1:18:03 Desilu acquired their portions of RKO from General Tire and Rubber Company, the previous owner. General Tire and Rubber Company would later change its name to GenCorp to reflect that is was in other industries besides rubber - specifically aerospace and rocket propulsion. GenCorp would eventually incorporate as Aerojet Rocketdyne, which has a very long history in space flight from Gemini to Artemis.
47:30 Sometime, the Duras sisters HAVE to be "saved" as future Alexander had a dagger that was given to the one sister to the other on the occasion of the birth of her second child and in this movie she was barely pregnant with her FIRST. Can you say counterdiction? Like maybe River Song killing Amy or Rory before they met(Doctor Who), or another Rory killing daddy for deserting her before she was born, maybe being the cause of the absence(Lucifer)(That one may be also considered a bootstrap paradox.)
On the idea of the transporter being a matter beam, it could be sending raw matter that can be assembled as the transportee while their original pattern remains in the buffer to be deleted on successful transport or rematerialized on the pad and the beam canceled. So a cloning event is a buffer failure (the subject is materialized twice) or a communication error where one end or the other fails to complete (subject rematerializes at the transport site AND at the destination). In the case of Tuvix, its a scrambled buffer and when they split him, they used the original patterns (templates) in the buffer to sort the mixed pattern out. - These failures would indicate that there's some safety protocols at work where the beam can reassemble if it doesn't get a termination signal from the main transporter and likewise the transporter will reassemble the subject on the pad if it doesn't get a completion signal from the beam. - It would also indicate that they CAN technically replicate living material but its an ethical matter more than it is a technical, the technical matter being insane amount of data storage required for a living pattern (which takes up even more data space as indicated on DS9 when they stored i think 3 people in the computers requiring a LARGE portion of the entire stations data capacity and that such complex data packages are subject to decay and corruption over time, [even in the 24th century large files are not safe it seems])
Thank you I appreciate the transporter phaser was invented in the TNG era was noticed. I actually liked the Gambit 2 parter, a definite departure from typical trek to solve a mystery.
1:17:50 I see you didn't correct your error in this bit about copyright. The film wasn't "The Spanish Man" from 1939. It's "The Spanish Main" from 1945. As a side note, that same footage of a ship firing cannons was also used in the opening credits of Sar Trek Enterprise for the 2 mirror universe episodes.
1:00:52 this reminds me very much of Princess Leia's disguise as a bounty hunter in Jabba's palace at the beginning of Star Wars Episode VI, Return Of The Jedi.
Scotty said the badge design reminded him of the Port and Starboard Warp signature, of a Cochran deceleration. Kirk, on the other hand, felt it was an arrow, rising ever upward and outward.
My own head canon about the transporter, is that any discrepancy between the number and types of atoms denationalized and materialized, is taken care of by bulk matter stores on the ship, basically the stuff that supplies the replicators. Basically the transporter could fix issues through supplying or returning any deficit or surplus to the ship's stores. In fact, it's quite likely stuff like this may be routine when it comes to pattern editing features, like disabling weapons, removing pathogens, or using the transporter for a medical procedure.
Star-Tac - My first cell phone. Bought it for just the Star Trek inspiration. Please note, flipping the thing open resulted in a damaged phone after a bit. 😂😂 BTW; Best video ever for Trek.
Space Force logo is based upon US Logos featuring the Delta starting in 1940. US Space Command used the same symbol. I learned this from William Shatner when people on Twitter asked him for his opinion of Space Force copying Star Trek. He stated it was the other way around. They had evolved existing symbols from USAF and NASA.
I would give up one of my good molars, for a really working TNG & beyond TRICORDER of my own..(and naturally..a fully functional matter/energy replicator...to make many spares..because..obvious real reasons). Also, an upgrade of Gordi's VISOR..more modeled after his cool shades in ST: INSERECTION..
I like the Phaser rifles in star trek first Contact. It got used mostly in voyager and shows up in DS9 once when garek goes Liam Neeson from Taken on nog at Empock Nor
The Starfleet logo arrowhead is supposed to represent the warp travel ,the field warps the space but to be possible it's slightly off ,one side off center
Which comm badge will prevent "you gotta see this!" - itis? No wonder Captain Picard went on so many away missions when your first officer doesn't know how to describe what he sees. (the number of times Riker just says "trouble!", or "you gotta see this" when reporting back to the ship!)
the female love interest for kirk in the city on the edge of forever IS NOT EDITH KESLER its Edith Keeler Check the episode actors and Characters for the episode
It cracked us up when in the Cage pilot episode, no 1, looks up at the sky without talking into the communicator and shouts at the Enterprise,to disengage.. hahaha...pex
Hi how do you know the stun setting is not going to kill somebody? As there species can't take a stun setting. As their bodys are so different to ours. It kills them.
42:34. The Kirk being split was explained. A lot of episodes didn’t actually happen and the space crew went space mad. So unless there’s witness an episode isn’t cannon.
On the subject of phasers, specifically where Borg are concerned, I do have to wonder why the modified TR-116 rifle seen in DS9 was never something that Starfleet jumped on as a possible bypass to use when fighting drones. A physical projectile coupled with the micro-transporter, if properly calibrated (I swear I can't even think of that word without hearing Garrus....) would be, I think, incredibly effective. Straight up bullets would work sometimes but we already know their shields can repel physical impacts because they've been shown doing so, but their shields aren't "skin tight" so to speak, they're projected slightly outward from the drone, which makes perfectly good sense when you're shielding a body that can flex and move in unexpected ways, you wouldn't want your own shields accidentally crushing you. So if the micro-transporter were set to drop that projectile just inside the range of those shields then that seems like it should work. I'm already quite certain a whole bunch of people will come up with a whole bunch of "well akchually...." to counter the idea but who cares, it's an interesting thought all the same.
43:17 Couldn't the transporter resulting in two people instead of one be explained by the beam being duplicated somehow? It happens rarely, and pretty much always because of interference or something breaking. Kind of how you can use a prism to split white light into its composite parts (wavelengths) and then use a second prism to recombine them into white light again. What happens if you put a mirror or other object between the two prisms and block or redirect some of the wavelengths before reintegration? Well, you've got a Star Trek transporter episode on your hands! The computers in Star Trek aren't perfect either. Like computers today. Sometimes unintentional copies of a file are made, and if you interrupt the process and/or something goes wrong, those copies are incomplete.
Michael Okuda was once asked "How does the Heisenberg compensator work?"
His reply was "It works very well, thank you."
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Transporter Chief on the Cerritos: We beamed up Dr. T'ana. We have no idea if she is alive or dead until you observe her, Captain Freeman.
@@aqdrobert That would be the Schroedinger compensator.
When looking at the "Com Badge" and other Starfleet insignia most people forget that in The Original Series every ship had a distinct insignia similar to modern Military Units having their own patch, the emblem used in all other shows and movies was originally specific to the Enterprise.
Yes, absolutely, and I hate how that detail just gets completely ignored by every later series. It was so much more interesting when each and every starship and starbase had its own individual insignia/service badge, and the Starfleet insignia on the breast of every officer's uniform was actually the service patch of _their individual ship or base_ with the unique _division_ insignia at the center (the star with an elongated top point for Command Division, the circle containing an oval for Sciences Division, and the curlicue for Operations Division.)
But for some reason the Federation decided to just start using the _Enterprise_ Command Division insignia as the _combined emblem for _*_all of Starfleet,_* while at the same time _completely changing Starfleet uniforms every 8 years or so._ Just _why_ an immense, interstellar organization would ever decide to completely redesign its uniforms so Goddamn frequently is just _absolutely mind-boggling,_ and even with replicator technology it would still be a huge waste pf time and effort to keep needlessly redesigning the damn things.
My personal explanation is that, in the Federation's Post-Scarcity civilization, there are _huge_ swaths of people who choose to devote their lives to the utterly useless "professions" of fashion and clothing design, and in order to keep these utterly useless people occupied with the _illusion_ of contributing to Starfleet and actually accomplishing something meaningful with their loves (without having to _actually_ get any kind of education or training at Starfleet Academy, and without exposing themselves in any kind of risk by _actually_ serving in Starfleet) Starfleet Command must have decided to humor them by running continuous "Design the Next Starfleet Uniform!" contests.
I imagine it being a big, stupid, American Idol style show with a panel of inane celebrity judges, with models taking way too long to display every design, and full of endless run-off competitions... and that is why Starfleet keeps getting totally new uniforms every few years despite the confusion and stupidity that completely defeats the entire purpose of wearing uniforms in the first place (to give everyone in the organization a _uniform appearance._ If different people in the same organization are wearing _different_ "uniforms," _then they _*_aren't_*_ uniforms.)_
I could actually see _Lower Decks_ going with this idea.
Unfortunately this trend of new uniforms follows our current Military, every time a new General takes over a Branch they change the uniforms, sometimes small changes like headgear sometimes complete new uniforms.
Or every Star Trek is actually from another reality where that was always how the uniform looked?
I think it was explained that after the first five year mission, Starfleet adopted the Enterprise symbol fleetwide.
That was actually an error, as shown by letters from the time. There was one design for Starfleet even then.
I read an interview a few months ago with a functionally blind man about using the Apple Vision Pro. Most people who are legally blind don't just see darkness - they either have a very constricted field of view or a limited depth of field (or both). A common trait is that the brightness of their surroundings can be overwhelming, even physically painful. This man could only discern blurred shapes of anything more than a half foot or so from his face. When he used Apple's visor, it effectively projected a perfectly clear panorama of his surrounding on a surface only an inch or so from his eyes. It was not only the first time he had actually been able to perceive the world around him in perfect clarity as the sighted do, it gave him the ability to dim the world, allowing him to view it at a comfortable level of intensity.
Yeah right that is such BS. Perfect clarity lol ok
The video is just the right amount of length voted up!
Unless that's just a desperate pick up line directed toward a married chick that you'll never even meet in real life...
Aww love you too
Number 6 of the phasers about avoiding inaccuracies by making it all up, that basically applies to /all/ star trek technology. I saw a discussion about it somewhat recently, star trek technology is basically all determined by plot demands, so basically any technology can perform any way it's needed at any time, they /try/ to stay somewhat consistent with what's been said before but sometimes fail. The franchise is /full/ of examples. Like not being able to beam through shields, except when they do it anyway. Using the deflector dish to do /all/ sorts of stuff. All the holodeck and transporter accidents that reveal capabilities that are only usually covered in one episode and never repeated even when it would /actually/ be useful. Not being able to copy the voyager doctor's program even though it should be entirely data, and they can copy /parts/ of it, and in one possibly non-canon episode it's even stated he has a backup module with a copy of his program, yet he's repeatedly risked his program being lost.
The holodecks being incapable of creating anything dangerous is one of my favorites, especially since the holodeck malfunctions in such a way that endangers the occupants or even the entire ship several times. Evidently, no one onboard knows how to 1. open a door 2. find the off switch.
Which leads to another tech problem: they can detect life forms from hundreds (thousands? millions) of kilometers away, and beam through empty space, a thick atmosphere, even through soild rock...but they can't detect and beam out anyone from the malfunctioning holodeck.
the last one is because it exists in multiple alternate st universes yet not all, same as the holodeck. the tech can only merge where there is at least scientific study closely related to the tech field where it may possibly be a theory to be experimented with on paper as was e=mc² .
my pet theory about phasers was that they didnt disintergrate you.. they dropped you into warp
which could have been much better
With regards to the Laser weapons in the cage, I've always theorised that there was a certain level of parallel development between phaser and laser weaponry, Star Fleet was working on both, and - while Phaser eventually came out on top - for a while there was parity between the two, with lasers even being better at certain points in time
Phased particle(nadions) combined with laser= phaser.
Even though there's no canon on what phaser stood for before the Next Generation, it originally stood for "PHotons Amplified by Stimulated Emission of Radiation", meaning future lasers. Yeah, the creators of the original Star Trek's technology loved their photon weapons.
I will l be honest. When I saw the Enterprise D get destroyed, I teared up a bit. I remember back in the 80s seeing an add for TNG on a box of Cheerios cerial. I was super excited. As a young boy in the 70s I watched reruns of TOS every chance I got. In the 80s, my parents wouldn't make me come to the table for meal time if a new TNG episode was on. I got to eat in my bedroom. So seeing that beautiful Galaxy class Enterprise crash was a gut punch.
30:30 that is the right side, not left. Look at it from the person wearing them instead of how they look on screen. Federation badges are worn on the left side.
Yours or theirs? A matter of perspective .
@@kurtsnyder4752 She clearly says they wear them on the left, so she said their left. It is clearly on their right.
You know what I loved when TrekCulture make more a long hour videos ever since the 80 things about Starship full complete videos
Anyone who had a flip phone and didn't at least once open it like a TOS communicator has no soul.
Ah yep.
I can't count..how many times I did that myself -& then carefully made sure few or no people saw it.
😂 Got the communicator sound wav file and set it to trigger when the phone flipped open. Used it on multiple flip phones up until my motorola Razr. The unintended consequence of also alerting me when the phone accidentally opened in my pocket prevented many butt dials.
Am trying to get the Red Alert sound into my phone.
Yep!
RE: "Type 1s could actually be slotted into the Type 2 Phaser... (pause) for some reason".
It's starting to feel like Trek Lore has been around long enough to begin growing 'Fuzzy'. I feel like any long-time Trek Fan knows the reason. (However, I'll admit this might be "Head Cannon" because I can't credit where I learned this) The Type 1 slots into the Type 2 as the combined weapon unit's controls and energy source and we can think of the Type 2 phaser as a battery and power booster for the Type 1. The Type 2 is used when the Type 1 doesn't have the power. Also, Type 1 is used by shipboard duty crew and away teams on diplomatic or 'low-risk' missions (most often), while Type 2 is issued for shipboard combat or riskier Away missions.
I apologize if it turns out that I'm just making this up but if anyone can tell me where this info is documented, I'd just feel better about my geriatric brain's ability to dredge up info!!! Love You, Trek Culture!!! LLAP!
I think this was in Mr Scott’s Guide to the Enterprise. At least, I vaguely remember reading something like this in my misspent youth.
@@silmarian that seems right... Thanks!
Type 2's were an expanded power pack combined with a second prefire chamber that intensifies the type 1's ability to beam energy. Type 1's could disintegrate single targets, type 2's could vaporize whole crowds on wide field settings.
I see the Type II as the add-on, with the Type I having the "working guts." The Type II gives you a bigger power pack as you said, and better ergonomics, making it easier to aim at something that wasn't literally at point-blank range. In real life there are lots of add-ons available for popular pistols to turn them into carbines. They don't actually become any more accurate in and of themselves, but the superior ergonomics means you can better target something farther away.
And Type two slotted into a rifle type setup.
My two favorite bumper stickers of all time:
Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here.
Very funny, Scotty, now beam down my clothes!
As you probably know, “beam me up, Scotty” was never actually said on screen.
“Commander Riker, beam me aboard.” … “Ouch! Not funny, Number one!”
Must have the Ferengi upgrade.
My favorite:
He's dead Jim.
You grab his tricorder and I'll get his wallet.
I had one that read; there are few problems that cannot be solved by a suitable application of concentrated phaser fire.
I had one that said; there are few problems that cannot be solved by a suitable application of concentrated phaser fire.
I recall, in my now long-past reading on the original series, that the original plan for City on the Edge of Forever included a mile-long valley lined with huge, whispering statues. Obviously, not in the limited budget.
More retro ups and downs please I don't really wanna listen to this whole video but just putting it on for background noise as I am going to sleep for work in the morning. Might be interesting during the time I am awake, and something not too boring to fall asleep to.
Something I think we forget about technical advances. The combadg issue on Enterprise C could be explained. Sometimes technology comes out before it's really ready. For instance the portable phone. One was designed in the 1920s. It worked by connecting to some metallic source that could work as an antenna. Unfortunately, it didn't connect to the phone lines and could only call other devices like itself. It was clumsy and not very useful if others didn't have one too so it fizzled out. But it was the inspiration for the car phone which did take off. There's many things like that like the video phone. They've existed since the 70s but never took off for practical reasons, now facetiming is common. It could be that the first combadges came out but weren't entirely practical due to technical reasons. Hell, it could be they took up too much storage space. so they were phased back out until someone could work out the issues.
From Murdoch Mysteries, Constable Crabtree mused that portable telephones would trip horses with all the cords users would drag around.
As an Air Force veteran I can say the ''DELTA'' symbol pre-dates Trek by about 25 years. Roddenberry also being a veteran in my opinion, let's say he may have ''liberated'' it. To the point of the transporter I think it wouldn't work as well with a Schroeder compensator. Besides a huge box just showing up would leave too many questions.
Heating rocks with a phaser has always bothered me. Heating rocks with moisture in them can make them explode. Is there moisture in there, YOU DON'T KNOW!?
That's an excellent point. When i saw that scene it made me think of how well bricks can retain heat they're used for chimneys and pizza ovens
There's a channel where the Solar Death Ray( the detached screen from a 1990 type big screen tv) is used on stuff, and some rocks do go BANG! But not all.
17:46 The medical tricorder is the one thing from Star Trek that doesn't already exist that I would bring to the present. At first I was thinking about places that like Doctors Without Borders go and how useful it would be if you don't have reliable electricity and you could hook it up to a solar charger thingy, but also to have a layerpson version for households so you can scan that rash or that tissue you just sneezed into or whatever and it'll be like, _get this ointment over the counter_ or _sending Tamiflu prescriptions for the whole household to your local pharmacy_ , etc.
yeah when are they gonna do that with goog? goog lens I mean.
Well I hate to say, but anyone who has watched any amount of Star Trek, knows about phasers. There wasn’t anything I didn’t know from the list of 10 things. But it’s always interesting to see what you guys come up with!
Beam is slower than the speed of light. Hence ability to see and avoid.
8:48 I can't believe they passed up that prime opportunity to name that weapon a "Phazooka."
or bazookoid
Today, we have laser cannons that can destroy airplanes and portable laser flashlights that can burn nearby targets. No stunt mode, all real laser weapons only have killer power. Thanks.
19:18 *NONONONONONONONO* The Daqtagh (as well as all the other Klingon knives IIRC) was designed by master knife maker Gil Hibben. You know, the guy that Paramount Pictures dubbed “The Klingon Armorer”?!?!?!?! The same guy who designed Rambo’s Bowie knife.
48:25 Despite the limitations of the VISOR prop he did a damn good job of conveying emotions. I have been melting over LeVar Burton's smile since like kindergarten when TNG was in early seasons and I was also a big fan of Reading Rainbow ^_^
About 1000 years ago, before most of you were born, some friends and I did a parody radio production for my university’s radio station. We our crew had bi-corders, snowing frequencies, pink-with-purple polka-dots in a swirl of chocolate mocha alert, a character named “Y” (I thought he was on second), and phasers could be set to “liquify”.
I want a star trek phaser😭😭
I would love a in depth look at the love and respect between "Frasier" and "Star Trek" and how it all came about
Kelsey and Bebe ❤
Geordi doesn't see "better" than everyone else, he just see's more. That feels like a very key thing to note about his character.
TIMESTAMPS For :
10 things u didn't know about -
0m - phasers.
12mins- Tricorders.
24m.56s - combadges.
34m.54s - Transporters.
45m.47s - Geordies Visor.
55m.32s - Warpdrive.
1hr.06m. - The Guardian of forever.
End.
On Transporters, I always assume that NORMAL operations is to transport both the matter and the information, but in situations that lead to Transporter Clones, approx. half the matter is bounced back but the information gets through, to ensure the survival of the transportee the Transporter fills in the gaps with mass from a backup storage, or perhaps even the Replicator.
It also explains why you can break a person who's been Tuvix'd back into two people, but not into the original two and the new Tuvix'd person, the safety system that they take advantage of does not work when trying to split someone three ways (too little original matter).
Yesterday’s Son, one of my favorite ST novels!!
The type 1 being "Slotted" into a type 2 is, in fact the ONLY way the type 2 can fire. The Type 1 acts as the generator, while the type 2 adaptation unit is an extended power pack and more powerful focusing array. The Type 2 has additional functionality (The type 1 cannot use "Wide angle stun" which can stun multiple targets with a single shot.)
The type 2 is more conspicuous, and is usually carried by security personel, while the type 1 is used typically as a "Hold out" weapon, since it is more easily concealed.
You forgot the sensor net in an episode of classic Trek. Diane Moulder plays a blind woman who wears it over her clothing. It allows her to sense where things are. Being blind allows her character to interact with an ambassador whose people drive any sighted person who sees them into insanity.
She's older but not moldy. Muldauer
And no relation to a Fox guy.
Kyle Hill did a video on Star Trek phasers (and in other IPs) and the highest setting that vaporizes people. He said that suddenly vaporizing all of that tissue and liquid would cause a massive explosion and would kill the attacker, too, unless they were quite far away. Oh and blow a hole in whatever ship or space station you’re on.
According to technical texts for TOS and TNG, the type 1 phaser was designed for personnel to beam into a situation in which being armed would be prudent without an obvious show of armament. In the case of TOS, slotting the type 1 into the type 2 assembly would increase the weapon's power output, range, and effectiveness.
I remember reading "The Making of Star Trek" way back in the early 70's and Roddenberry explained that he used the term "phaser" because lasers (back then) were so new that they mostly only existed in labs, and average people didn't know much about them. But he realized they might become common in the not too distant future (ie, like now), and that's when people would start to say "lasers can't do that". Prescient as always.
I always thought the TNG Era phasers had a security feature that prevented unauthorized users to use them.
Like a poor guy in the late 1930s. RIP. Or in scattered atomic particles.
Thinking about the phaser overload situation, they probably did use an advanced lithium battery. That is likely the reason why an phaser overload is so dangerous.
For a novice trekky this was fascinating. Thank you! 👍
That's a trip down memory lane. Thank you.
11:23 "Gene's history of promoting non-violence" just as we see Chekov getting slapped around by Kirk 🙄😂😂
Fantastic Dan!!! I've been wondering about what happened to the chariot for literaly decades. A die hard fan fromthe beginning. Thankyou soooo much!! 😊😊
0:00:00 phasers
0:11:59 tricorder
0:24:51 transporters
0:45:43 visor
0:55:29 warp drive
1:05:44 guardian of tomorrow
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@ 30:33, do you mean B'joren's have the com badge on the right, opposite of the Federation, who has them on te left? You got it backwards.
I love that they referenced q continuum
Great video! There was a VHS bos set here in teh UK modelled around a TOS tricorcer - IIRC, it had a documentary plus City on the Edge of Forever.
One thing you've missed about hand phasers is, you can use use them to refuel the engines on a Shuttlecraft.
And the OG era tri-corder came with the revolutionary strap😮
Truly an amazing trek show and series. I am so glad I gave it a chance In really expected it to be too childish
I reckon the transporters do, in fact beam the atoms across as well as the information but if there is a problem with the atoms it only sends the information
1:11:08 The Mirror universe(at least ONE of THEM) has Smiley's hand held device to hop 'verses. Or was this NOT "Smiley, but really The Guardian?
Still wanna see more of The Intendant!
Thanks for speaking at a reasonable pace and not a mile a minute like some of the other hosts! It's refreshing, less stressful, and most importantly... understandable!!
This is an AI generated video with an AI generated voice, NOT a human
When? When is the Wand Company going to release the Tricorder!?!
36:02 I remember seeing that and always wondered why. Thank you.
I'm sure DARPA already has something similar to hand-held Phasers in development. I sent them a note, volunteering to test one out. Haven't heard back yet. 😉
08:25 - Starfleet personnel in the TOS time frame were issued two types of phasers. The smaller hand phaser (Type 1) was easily concealable for more diplomatic encounters and generally carried near the small of the back on a waistband mounted magnotomic adhesion surface. The pistol grip (Type 2) served as an amplifier for the hand phaser. The hand phaser was slip-click mounted into the pistol grip for more overt defense/offense activity. Both Type 1 & 2 were carried on a uniform belt via a magnotomic adhesion surface, which was invented by the Vulcan Science Academy for use by their space-faring scientific forays into the galaxy (ENT:Carbon Creek).
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and executed and very informatively explained in every detail way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter on the various 70 things you didn't know about Technology in Star Trek on phasers and all of the various other technologies within the Startrek universe indeed; A job very greatly well done indeed Brie & Sean!👌.
1:18:03 Desilu acquired their portions of RKO from General Tire and Rubber Company, the previous owner. General Tire and Rubber Company would later change its name to GenCorp to reflect that is was in other industries besides rubber - specifically aerospace and rocket propulsion. GenCorp would eventually incorporate as Aerojet Rocketdyne, which has a very long history in space flight from Gemini to Artemis.
Phaser Power Levels also play an important role in the game "Star Trek: A Final Unity".
(anyone here remembering this one?)
"It didn't work." 🖖
47:30 Sometime, the Duras sisters HAVE to be "saved" as future Alexander had a dagger that was given to the one sister to the other on the occasion of the birth of her second child and in this movie she was barely pregnant with her FIRST. Can you say counterdiction? Like maybe River Song killing Amy or Rory before they met(Doctor Who), or another Rory killing daddy for deserting her before she was born, maybe being the cause of the absence(Lucifer)(That one may be also considered a bootstrap paradox.)
42:42 the two Rikers is something like a light beam striking a two way mirror, both thru and reflected.
Great collection of gadget knowledge, that technical manual is full of science-ish-techno-babble sure to bring many years of videos!
The detached nacell is interesting and I wanna know more about it how does it work
On the idea of the transporter being a matter beam, it could be sending raw matter that can be assembled as the transportee while their original pattern remains in the buffer to be deleted on successful transport or rematerialized on the pad and the beam canceled. So a cloning event is a buffer failure (the subject is materialized twice) or a communication error where one end or the other fails to complete (subject rematerializes at the transport site AND at the destination). In the case of Tuvix, its a scrambled buffer and when they split him, they used the original patterns (templates) in the buffer to sort the mixed pattern out.
- These failures would indicate that there's some safety protocols at work where the beam can reassemble if it doesn't get a termination signal from the main transporter and likewise the transporter will reassemble the subject on the pad if it doesn't get a completion signal from the beam.
- It would also indicate that they CAN technically replicate living material but its an ethical matter more than it is a technical, the technical matter being insane amount of data storage required for a living pattern (which takes up even more data space as indicated on DS9 when they stored i think 3 people in the computers requiring a LARGE portion of the entire stations data capacity and that such complex data packages are subject to decay and corruption over time, [even in the 24th century large files are not safe it seems])
1:14:18 *planet
Is this just a combining of previous videos?
Yep.
Cilp show
At least Sean was relatable and could make the stuff we heard before seem interesting (again).
Great video! Can't wait for the 777 PMDG and your content on it.
Thank you I appreciate the transporter phaser was invented in the TNG era was noticed. I actually liked the Gambit 2 parter, a definite departure from typical trek to solve a mystery.
1:00:52 Doesn't power, they focus the energy to the correct configuration and intensity.
1:17:50 I see you didn't correct your error in this bit about copyright. The film wasn't "The Spanish Man" from 1939. It's "The Spanish Main" from 1945.
As a side note, that same footage of a ship firing cannons was also used in the opening credits of Sar Trek Enterprise for the 2 mirror universe episodes.
1:00:52 this reminds me very much of Princess Leia's disguise as a bounty hunter in Jabba's palace at the beginning of Star Wars Episode VI, Return Of The Jedi.
Scotty said the badge design reminded him of the Port and Starboard Warp signature, of a Cochran deceleration.
Kirk, on the other hand, felt it was an arrow, rising ever upward and outward.
My own head canon about the transporter, is that any discrepancy between the number and types of atoms denationalized and materialized, is taken care of by bulk matter stores on the ship, basically the stuff that supplies the replicators. Basically the transporter could fix issues through supplying or returning any deficit or surplus to the ship's stores. In fact, it's quite likely stuff like this may be routine when it comes to pattern editing features, like disabling weapons, removing pathogens, or using the transporter for a medical procedure.
41:27
"Definely not Khan" reminds me of critics talking about ROP's Halbrand "definitely not Sauron". 😎
Star-Tac - My first cell phone. Bought it for just the Star Trek inspiration. Please note, flipping the thing open resulted in a damaged phone after a bit. 😂😂 BTW; Best video ever for Trek.
4:12 on that eposode, the phaser makes a noise akin to a gun ricochet.
Space Force logo is based upon US Logos featuring the Delta starting in 1940. US Space Command used the same symbol. I learned this from William Shatner when people on Twitter asked him for his opinion of Space Force copying Star Trek. He stated it was the other way around. They had evolved existing symbols from USAF and NASA.
This is so wonderful thank you. BRAVO
I would give up one of my good molars, for a really working TNG & beyond TRICORDER of my own..(and naturally..a fully functional matter/energy replicator...to make many spares..because..obvious real reasons). Also, an upgrade of Gordi's VISOR..more modeled after his cool shades in ST: INSERECTION..
I like the Phaser rifles in star trek first Contact. It got used mostly in voyager and shows up in DS9 once when garek goes Liam Neeson from Taken on nog at Empock Nor
01:00:18
_By the 31st century..._
If you mean that of Star Trek Discovery, it's actually the late 32nd century.
Functioning Tricorders. What time to be alive :D
The Starfleet logo arrowhead is supposed to represent the warp travel ,the field warps the space but to be possible it's slightly off ,one side off center
I love David Gerrold. He's a fantastic writer. If you like scifi/adventure in the spirit of trek, try his "Silk Road" novel series. Great fun.
Which comm badge will prevent "you gotta see this!" - itis? No wonder Captain Picard went on so many away missions when your first officer doesn't know how to describe what he sees. (the number of times Riker just says "trouble!", or "you gotta see this" when reporting back to the ship!)
Considering we have body-cams that was an interesting oversight.
Obso- LEET! Yeah, Obso1337 is truly elite. ❤
the female love interest for kirk in the city on the edge of forever IS NOT EDITH KESLER its Edith Keeler Check the episode actors and Characters for the episode
8:30 The reasoning was that type 1 needed more Amplification. Similar to old sound systems.
Holy crap I am totally geeking out on this
I owned the TriCorder but it didn't make it in the move from Fl to Tx. 😢
It cracked us up when in the Cage pilot episode, no 1, looks up at the sky without talking into the communicator and shouts at the Enterprise,to disengage.. hahaha...pex
Tricorders are full of bees. No really, full of bees trained to detect various things. Bee scan room, bee lunch room, bee sleep room, tri-corder.
Just before 12:00
Sorry but the “stun” setting is absolutely a violent action when used.
Hi how do you know the stun setting is not going to kill somebody? As there species can't take a stun setting. As their bodys are so different to ours. It kills them.
42:34. The Kirk being split was explained. A lot of episodes didn’t actually happen and the space crew went space mad. So unless there’s witness an episode isn’t cannon.
On the subject of phasers, specifically where Borg are concerned, I do have to wonder why the modified TR-116 rifle seen in DS9 was never something that Starfleet jumped on as a possible bypass to use when fighting drones. A physical projectile coupled with the micro-transporter, if properly calibrated (I swear I can't even think of that word without hearing Garrus....) would be, I think, incredibly effective. Straight up bullets would work sometimes but we already know their shields can repel physical impacts because they've been shown doing so, but their shields aren't "skin tight" so to speak, they're projected slightly outward from the drone, which makes perfectly good sense when you're shielding a body that can flex and move in unexpected ways, you wouldn't want your own shields accidentally crushing you. So if the micro-transporter were set to drop that projectile just inside the range of those shields then that seems like it should work.
I'm already quite certain a whole bunch of people will come up with a whole bunch of "well akchually...." to counter the idea but who cares, it's an interesting thought all the same.
i been watching star trek since before you were born 1967.🤣 but you guys did a good job.
Ahah Spock figurine talking in a dream, love the big bang theory reference ;)
I think the first, sorta, visor shown is in ToS, specifically Miranda Jones sensor web.
43:17 Couldn't the transporter resulting in two people instead of one be explained by the beam being duplicated somehow? It happens rarely, and pretty much always because of interference or something breaking.
Kind of how you can use a prism to split white light into its composite parts (wavelengths) and then use a second prism to recombine them into white light again. What happens if you put a mirror or other object between the two prisms and block or redirect some of the wavelengths before reintegration? Well, you've got a Star Trek transporter episode on your hands!
The computers in Star Trek aren't perfect either. Like computers today. Sometimes unintentional copies of a file are made, and if you interrupt the process and/or something goes wrong, those copies are incomplete.
@11:27 without the sound effect to tell you Kirk struck Chekov, is really really really obvious that he never touched him.
Love long vids!