Just like the transporter beam, this was invented to make TV and film production easier. There’s never a body to dispose of. No prolonged death is required.
Stargate did something similar with the Zatnikitel weapons. SG1 was killing so many Goaulds that they were running out of actors, so they just started vaporizing them re-use the actors they had.
@@FutureReverberations what Doc wishes he could do to the Libyans, Biff and Buford Tannen. I'm sure he'd gladly trade his Colt 1873 and his scoped Henry Yellow Boy for a Klingon Disruptor.
@@starsiegeplayer Klingons are far less tolerant of mistakes than most other races. Serving aboard a Klingon ship is like serving on a pirate ship; one simple mistake can get you killed and no one will mourn you.
I always admired the way the phasers knew to vaporize the person, their clothes, and anything they're carrying, but stop there. Can't have any collateral damage that the shooter didn't want.
the old Trek movies always made vaporizing seem like the worst way to go. I mean, even the Federation phasers give people enough time to scream in horrible agony before fading away, to say nothing of the Klingons.
@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire the equivalent for me was seeing that transporter death from The Motion Picture when I was about that age. That scene still makes me really uncomfortable 😂
@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated Yeah, what was it the operator said on the other end? "Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long, fortunately" That sort of statement really fires the imagination as to what they did get back, doesn't it?
I remember that the Star Trek VI teaser had a different scene with “Kirk” being vaporized. He looked down at his torso, then back up, as he was killed. I was 12 at the time, and absolutely floored by that!
@@viborgvee8399 Brilliant you found it! And it had that scene. I just remember that trailer and there are a couple of other scenes in that trailer that weren't in the film.
I love that scene from Star Trek 6, when Kirk and McCoy are being beamed up from the prison planet. While they are being beamed up and being shot at by Klingons , you can hear Kirk yelling " SON OF A..........and once on the ship he finishes with "BITCHHH !!!!" then materializes. I laughed so hard, just listen when you watch the movie. Since Kirk does not know he's being beamed up he thinks he and bones are being killed by the Klingons.
@@johnbockelie3899 No he knows he's being beamed up. His anger is that Klingon warden was going to tell him valuable information and they got beamed out just before that happened. He's been beamed enough times to know what a transporter beam feels like.
These kind of deaths always creeped me the f--- out when I was a kid. Imagine my confusion when I was completely unmoved by a video of someone getting vaporized by Little Boy.
I had watched a science channel that claimed that the energy required to vaporize someone would be equal to the sun, and it''s not possible for a hand gun to deliver. However, in cannon it's stated that they are NOT vaporized, but the atoms that make up the targets are not burnt off, but the bonds that hold the atoms together are removed, and the target breaks down into separate atoms. The "smoke" we see, IS those atoms. Using the word "vaporized" is slang not factual. "Phasers" cause a shift in the phase of a target, and can be adjusted as to what the beam can do. "Disrupters" do only one thing: disrupt the bonds of the target. The only adjustment they have is if the target is "vaporized" completely, or to just a small hole.
Fasinating to hear the theory here... there have been other scifi shows that did similiar breaking of the bonds that hold atoms together.... The day the earth stood still Original version possibly and of course, the Invaders original series both had some wild scenes of this when the rays hit an object..there was even one episode of the Invaders where an entire alien saucer was hit with a beam that just consumed it entirely...
Every molecule of your body exploding at the speed of light. Ghostbusters summed up what happens to you when your vaporized by the max setting of a phaser.
real reason out of Trek universe? The plot needed to happen. In universe during that timeframe with the Federation and Klingon Empire at constant ends and war every location in a starship had weapons ready for intruders who could beam aboard. It wasn't set to kill most are stowed on stun or not set at all. Take note at 0:05 of her other hand that set the phaser to kill followed by the boo beep of it's activation.
oh yes...the poor Klingon at Tactical that got vaporized all because he accidentally blew up a ship when the captain wanted it disabled...Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock I believe. start of the movie.
@@christiandenault7606 "Lucky shot" Hol' up..Since when did Klingons take prisoners and did they seriously go for what looks like an Oberth-class science vessel?
I'm pretty sure he purposely targeted the warp core with full disruptor power....he wanted to destroy something. He could have disabled the engines and life support so the Klingon could beam over, take over the ship and thoroughly "interrogate" the female members of the crew...I mean, that's what I would have done.
@@DantesonofSparda85 Ah, you're referring to Kirk's remark in the previous film after Saavik gets her entire crew killed and her ship crippled in the "Kobayoshi Maru" test. The Klingons do take prisoners ("Day of the Dove", TOS); the Romulans don't ("The Deadly Years", TOS). Kirk's rusty from being Chief of Starfleet Operations for the last 12 years and simply mixed up the two.
I think it works slower and sort of turns the person inside out. At least that's what's stated in a TNG episode about a rare type of disruptor. The klingon one did actual look a bit like a disruptor.
That was a Klingon disruptor yes. I am a lore nerd - phasers work by disrupting the nuclear strong force while transitioning the matter out of the continuum. Disruptors disrupt intermolecular forces, and must also transition matter out of the continuum somehow to keep the now-vaporized matter from killing everyone on the bridge.
Good God, I remember this as a child. I hope this technology never comes out in my lifetime or ever. That is like the scariest way to die. Could you imagine all the public shootings with vaporizers 😢
I'm willing to bet that the phaser quickly captured the exact mass of the target entity, then deliver only enough power to vaporize it. But the issues still remain: The energy distribution would be so quick that the dude wouldn't have enough time to so much as blink, and if he was against the console, the energy distribution is even, so the console should have been affected.
Yeah, I remember that. Wasn't she drugged up in a way that she just tanked several shots on lower settings before Riker was forced to resort to that? Pretty nasty scene.
Their phasers were set to level 9 or 10. Level 16 is maximum disintegration; they would have taken out Remmick, the creature inside of him, and the wall behind him.
Can you imagine the stink? Nasty. Aaaand, this question on the part of Chekov never made any sense to me as he was at one point head of security for the Enterprise, he'd KNOW why the boots couldn't be vaporized on board ship. It was exactly his freaking job.
Chekov, sadly was used for all the exposition in VI. Spock was explaining stuff to him on the bridge too. For my money, they should have brought in Majel Barrett as Dr. Chapel one last time. She could have asked all the operational questions, and it would have made sense, since she was just a doctor. (Flip side of that is, Walter Koenig wouldn't have had anything to do at all!)
0:18. I wonder if the Klingon disrupter shown here was at a setting designed to slowly vaporize it's target, as a warning to all of the Captain's crew that failure would not be tolerated. Question: Because the nature of this Klingon Officer's death, would he enter into Sto-Va-Kor or Gre'thor?
THIS is why I always liked Star Trek a little more than Star Wars! Edit: Oh yeah, and why the newer Trek movies with pewpew phasers were a little sadder
There was also a TNG episode where a man treats Data like one of his valued collectibles. In the episode, he shoots a lady with an illegal phaser that "slowly eats her from the inside out."
Damn, with TOS era films up until the first two seasons of TNG, phasers and disruptors we're pretty horrifying weapons to use against a person as deaths were surprisingly graphic and unnerving, though not gratuitous or grossly exploitive. It's strange considering how idealistic an optimistic Star Trek is as a franchise. But in a way it's consistent with the Trek because even though killing maybe justified it makes it abundantly clear it's still an a horrible thing and the act itself is quite harnious, Being very much alive with Roddenberry vision.
@@Idazmi7 its too bad the vaporisation doesn't really do anything outside just look cool other wise it would make the perfect strategy against medic units as they cannot revive allys whos been vaporised.
Not cease to exist, rather the atoms are scattered to the winds...the force that holds the matter solid is released by contact with the beam..it seems to dissolve the object into nothingness but the atoms just lose their cohesive form and scatter
Just like the transporter beam, this was invented to make TV and film production easier. There’s never a body to dispose of. No prolonged death is required.
Pretty traumatising to witness, new version seems cleaner one zap and you are ashes no time to grimace or anything.
Stargate did something similar with the Zatnikitel weapons. SG1 was killing so many Goaulds that they were running out of actors, so they just started vaporizing them re-use the actors they had.
I like how the kitchen has an unlocked weapons locker in it.
to fend off intruders.
@@cosmeticscameo8277 or fend off negative critics.
Yelp reviewers. Just as big of a threat as the Borg.
I assume its there in case some chef gets overworked and loses his mind, pulls a butcher knife and goes mental on the crew
I thought it was a microwave oven filled with futuristic weapons.
Love the Klingon at the end. "Just another Tuesday afternoon at the office."
I wonder what was going through the mind of the Klingon that was sitting next to him.
Christopher Lloyd was always best enjoyed in the original Klingon.
@@SSGLGamesVlogs I'm guessing it wasn't the first time he saw Kruge do that.
@@FutureReverberations what Doc wishes he could do to the Libyans, Biff and Buford Tannen. I'm sure he'd gladly trade his Colt 1873 and his scoped Henry Yellow Boy for a Klingon Disruptor.
@@starsiegeplayer Klingons are far less tolerant of mistakes than most other races. Serving aboard a Klingon ship is like serving on a pirate ship; one simple mistake can get you killed and no one will mourn you.
I always admired the way the phasers knew to vaporize the person, their clothes, and anything they're carrying, but stop there. Can't have any collateral damage that the shooter didn't want.
Smart weapons :)
I'm sure there's a very good techno babble reason for their precision of complete destruction.
Should Terrell’s phaser have fallen out of his hand to the floor? Instead it vapes itself 😧
@@Enzo012
There isn't. Pure TV logic at play.
Until NextGen gave us phaser setting 16. It not only vaporizes organic matter, it will also disintegrate anything behind the target.
the old Trek movies always made vaporizing seem like the worst way to go. I mean, even the Federation phasers give people enough time to scream in horrible agony before fading away, to say nothing of the Klingons.
There probably just screaming because there scared to die and disappear
Pshah, that's nothing. Try death by Varon-T disruptor.
The first Wrath Of Khan phaser death was graphic. The guy was screaming at the same time he was vaporizing.
I first saw that when I was maybe 7 and was horrified by it
@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire
This was very early on for me 5 maybe 6
@@xanderathome tos vaporization was pretty quick and seemed less painful.
@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire the equivalent for me was seeing that transporter death from The Motion Picture when I was about that age. That scene still makes me really uncomfortable 😂
@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated Yeah, what was it the operator said on the other end? "Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long, fortunately" That sort of statement really fires the imagination as to what they did get back, doesn't it?
I always felt sorry in Wrath of Khan for that poor scientist dude vaporised when caught in the crossfire, he didn't deserve to die.
I remember that the Star Trek VI teaser had a different scene with “Kirk” being vaporized. He looked down at his torso, then back up, as he was killed. I was 12 at the time, and absolutely floored by that!
I need to try to find that now
ua-cam.com/video/RYA2q2Sm_Jo/v-deo.html
@@viborgvee8399 Brilliant you found it!
And it had that scene.
I just remember that trailer and there are a couple of other scenes in that trailer that weren't in the film.
I love that scene from Star Trek 6, when Kirk and McCoy are being beamed up from the prison planet. While they are being beamed up and being shot at by Klingons , you can hear Kirk yelling " SON OF A..........and once on the ship he finishes with "BITCHHH !!!!" then materializes. I laughed so hard, just listen when you watch the movie. Since Kirk does not know he's being beamed up he thinks he and bones are being killed by the Klingons.
@@johnbockelie3899 No he knows he's being beamed up. His anger is that Klingon warden was going to tell him valuable information and they got beamed out just before that happened. He's been beamed enough times to know what a transporter beam feels like.
I love Chekov's expression at 0:06. He knows he just asked a standard question when he's tired and he's getting his answer.
0:08 question how does it vaporize the steel container but leave the batter inside intact?
Imagine all the heat if this was really vaporizing people. The room would fill with steam and smoke.
These kind of deaths always creeped me the f--- out when I was a kid. Imagine my confusion when I was completely unmoved by a video of someone getting vaporized by Little Boy.
I had watched a science channel that claimed that the energy required to vaporize someone would be equal to the sun, and it''s not possible for a hand gun to deliver. However, in cannon it's stated that they are NOT vaporized, but the atoms that make up the targets are not burnt off, but the bonds that hold the atoms together are removed, and the target breaks down into separate atoms. The "smoke" we see, IS those atoms. Using the word "vaporized" is slang not factual.
"Phasers" cause a shift in the phase of a target, and can be adjusted as to what the beam can do. "Disrupters" do only one thing: disrupt the bonds of the target. The only adjustment they have is if the target is "vaporized" completely, or to just a small hole.
Fasinating to hear the theory here... there have been other scifi shows that did similiar breaking of the bonds that hold atoms together.... The day the earth stood still Original version possibly and of course, the Invaders original series both had some wild scenes of this when the rays hit an object..there was even one episode of the Invaders where an entire alien saucer was hit with a beam that just consumed it entirely...
Now you know why on TOS Kirk had all phasers set on STUN.
Every molecule of your body exploding at the speed of light. Ghostbusters summed up what happens to you when your vaporized by the max setting of a phaser.
And you'd likely take out several decks if not a small ship if you crossed the streams of a phaser.
This reminds me, why did the galley have an unlocked weapons cabinet with phasers set to kill?
So that crew members would think twice before criticizing the chef.
@@DavidLS1 Ha ha!
real reason out of Trek universe? The plot needed to happen. In universe during that timeframe with the Federation and Klingon Empire at constant ends and war every location in a starship had weapons ready for intruders who could beam aboard. It wasn't set to kill most are stowed on stun or not set at all. Take note at 0:05 of her other hand that set the phaser to kill followed by the boo beep of it's activation.
@@Darth1Marik Or maybe it was in case the power went out. Remember when Yeoman used a phaser to heat up a pot of coffee for Captain Kirk?
@@Darth1Marik Real reason, I was trying to be funny...
oh yes...the poor Klingon at Tactical that got vaporized all because he accidentally blew up a ship when the captain wanted it disabled...Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock I believe. start of the movie.
Kruge: "I wanted prisoners!"
@@christiandenault7606 "Lucky shot" Hol' up..Since when did Klingons take prisoners and did they seriously go for what looks like an Oberth-class science vessel?
I'm pretty sure he purposely targeted the warp core with full disruptor power....he wanted to destroy something.
He could have disabled the engines and life support so the Klingon could beam over, take over the ship and thoroughly "interrogate" the female members of the crew...I mean, that's what I would have done.
@@DantesonofSparda85 Ah, you're referring to Kirk's remark in the previous film after Saavik gets her entire crew killed and her ship crippled in the "Kobayoshi Maru" test. The Klingons do take prisoners ("Day of the Dove", TOS); the Romulans don't ("The Deadly Years", TOS). Kirk's rusty from being Chief of Starfleet Operations for the last 12 years and simply mixed up the two.
Technically,wouldn't the Klingon have used a disrupter? Not a lore nerd but it is supposed to work on a different principle than a phaser.
I think it works slower and sort of turns the person inside out. At least that's what's stated in a TNG episode about a rare type of disruptor. The klingon one did actual look a bit like a disruptor.
Who cares, he's waporized.
@@prion42 Ok- thanks for the positive input. I'll have it sent to Memory Alpha for further analysis.
That was a Klingon disruptor yes. I am a lore nerd - phasers work by disrupting the nuclear strong force while transitioning the matter out of the continuum. Disruptors disrupt intermolecular forces, and must also transition matter out of the continuum somehow to keep the now-vaporized matter from killing everyone on the bridge.
When Kruge says "target engine only", he means it!
Hands down the best phaser sound they used. They shoul dhave kept it.
Good God, I remember this as a child. I hope this technology never comes out in my lifetime or ever. That is like the scariest way to die. Could you imagine all the public shootings with vaporizers 😢
China has been reportedly working on their own version of a phaser to quell riots and rebellion. I occasionally read up on it online
I'm willing to bet that the phaser quickly captured the exact mass of the target entity, then deliver only enough power to vaporize it. But the issues still remain:
The energy distribution would be so quick that the dude wouldn't have enough time to so much as blink, and if he was against the console, the energy distribution is even, so the console should have been affected.
They Just got Tyler Christopher! 🔫
its funny how the vaporizing knows when to stop.... imagen it would not stop vaporizing... ever!
I always think that when she shoots the pot
"Why do you have a pencil?"
"To go with my eraser!" *Zap*
If someone were to convert a phaser into a cooking device or a campfire, it would be great.
I remember the scene from 'Star Trek III', that klingon tactical officers death used to give me nightmares.
A lady from a TNG episode wants revenge, and Riker vaporizes her when she doesn't back down.
Yeah, I remember that. Wasn't she drugged up in a way that she just tanked several shots on lower settings before Riker was forced to resort to that? Pretty nasty scene.
There was also a TNG episode where Picard and Riker fire their phasers at a man's head, and it explodes, only to reveal a xenomorphic-like creature. 😬
Their phasers were set to level 9 or 10. Level 16 is maximum disintegration; they would have taken out Remmick, the creature inside of him, and the wall behind him.
Can you imagine the stink?
Nasty.
Aaaand, this question on the part of Chekov never made any sense to me as he was at one point head of security for the Enterprise, he'd KNOW why the boots couldn't be vaporized on board ship.
It was exactly his freaking job.
Chekov, sadly was used for all the exposition in VI. Spock was explaining stuff to him on the bridge too. For my money, they should have brought in Majel Barrett as Dr. Chapel one last time. She could have asked all the operational questions, and it would have made sense, since she was just a doctor. (Flip side of that is, Walter Koenig wouldn't have had anything to do at all!)
Forgot the one where Riker had to vaporize a woman who was attempting murder.
No fuss, no muss, no mess.
How did you come across this channel?
@@xanderathome It turned up on my UA-cam feed... I'm a Trekker!
When all that is left, is a scream...
That last one looked painful as f__k 😳
"Haptem baaahkktckk!"
Where did this go? We need more of this!
idk which I like more phasers, or disruptors
This is also pretty fun in Star Trek Voyager Elite Force 🤭
Mmm yes, secondary fire on Compression Rifle. Those screams used to seem so morbid back in the day lol.
By comparison we never saw an on-screen vaporization in Star Wars until Mandalorian. Meanwhile in 'peaceful' Star Trek...
Good point
0:18. I wonder if the Klingon disrupter shown here was at a setting designed to slowly vaporize it's target, as a warning to all of the Captain's crew that failure would not be tolerated.
Question:
Because the nature of this Klingon Officer's death, would he enter into Sto-Va-Kor or Gre'thor?
why does the kitchen have a hidden armory though
imagine a starship being taken over and the cook is in the jeffries tubes like Red October
Or under siege
THIS is why I always liked Star Trek a little more than Star Wars!
Edit: Oh yeah, and why the newer Trek movies with pewpew phasers were a little sadder
Imagine if weapons like this existed right now. Assassins could do their job without leaving any evidence of the murder.
they'd probably need an internet connection though and account with sms 2fa
Sharp shooter 😉
0:12 RIP TERREL
There was also a TNG episode where a man treats Data like one of his valued collectibles. In the episode, he shoots a lady with an illegal phaser that "slowly eats her from the inside out."
Yeah that one is pretty grim as well if I remember, she screams quite a bit, and quite convincingly too.
The banned Varon-T disruptor from the episode "The Most Toys"
Did anyone else wonder why there were phasers in the kitchen?
I find it odd they have a galley aboard a ship where replicators are normally used.
0:10 is the most most hard to watch because they go to block themselves
Imagine if a ships lasers did that to another ship. Type 99 Lasers.
They have achieved this with modern sea ships.
Imagine what the weapons of the future can do
Damn, with TOS era films up until the first two seasons of TNG, phasers and disruptors we're pretty horrifying weapons to use against a person as deaths were surprisingly graphic and unnerving, though not gratuitous or grossly exploitive. It's strange considering how idealistic an optimistic Star Trek is as a franchise. But in a way it's consistent with the Trek because even though killing maybe justified it makes it abundantly clear it's still an a horrible thing and the act itself is quite harnious, Being very much alive with Roddenberry vision.
What’s the kitchen one from again I forgot.
Star Trek 6
0:10
0:08 why explain why you can't do something when you can just give an active demonstration?
And this is why you don't vape, kids!
Now that I binged Babylon 5... I can never unsee scotty as Bester that Psycorp bastard
You mean Chekov?
At least its clean.
I will always wonder why the kitchen/galley required a weapons locker lol
Just in case there were Klingons in the bread bin.
I used to wonder why they had a Gally when they had replicators
@@xanderathome They didn't have replicators in TOS era. They had some automatic food preparation machines. I guess actual cooked food tasted better.
That was a stupid movie
1) why are there weapons in the kitchen?
2) Amazing you can vaporize someone without so much as scorching the console he's lying on.
And 90% of the other stuff that happens on Startrek
wish they had more weapons like this in Star Trek Online.
Any Romulan disruptors or plasma weapon will do this on STO. It's a random death animation. They die jusy like the Klingon did in this video.
@@Not-Ap getting type 2 phasers are usually one of the things i get their normal firing attack will vaporize the enemy about 80% of the time.
@@SkrapMetal84
Exactly why I started using the Type 2 phaser exclusively... back when I still cared.
@@Idazmi7 its too bad the vaporisation doesn't really do anything outside just look cool other wise it would make the perfect strategy against medic units as they cannot revive allys whos been vaporised.
@@SkrapMetal84
That's what happens when a _Star Trek_ game is based around _World of Warcraft_ game mechanics.
Phasers ?… those were Varon T Disruptors.
The Klingons use a disruptor not a phaser.
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So phasers have the ability to make matter cease to exist? What the actual...
They have achieved this with modern sea ships.
Imagine what the weapons of the future can do
Matter is being converted to energy
Not cease to exist, rather the atoms are scattered to the winds...the force that holds the matter solid is released by contact with the beam..it seems to dissolve the object into nothingness but the atoms just lose their cohesive form and scatter
Why not simply... Waporize them?
Klingons use disruptors, not phasers.
What's the difference?
@@xanderathome disruptors don't have a stun setting.
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Just out of curiosity.
How did you guys come across this please.
@@xanderathome well, it came up in my home page.
Why?
imagine the smell
Disruptors suck