Random thought

[Vic]

Heck, all sorts of extraneous shit is stuck on pistols these days. Can't hit the broadside of a barn sticks (lasers), or shoot me here sticks (flash lights), why not a 'separate you into your constituent particles box'.

[Deepcrush]

Then its agreed, all Ma Deuce and Avengers will have type one phasers from now on.

[Sionnach Glic]

Phaser bayonets? It would certainly be cool, if nothing else.

[Deepcrush]

Phaser bayonets? It would certainly be cool, if nothing else.

Yeah, just before you reach the line as the enemy pull knives and swords, you cut them in have with phaser sweeps...

[kostmayer]

Phaser bayonets? It would certainly be cool, if nothing else.

Yeah, just before you reach the line as the enemy pull knives and swords, you cut them in have with phaser sweeps...

They pull a knife, you pull a Phaser bayonet..

[Sionnach Glic]

Phaser bayonets? It would certainly be cool, if nothing else.

Yeah, just before you reach the line as the enemy pull knives and swords, you cut them in have with phaser sweeps...

A phaser set on widebeam would actually be a pretty damn good close-quarters defensive weapon.

[Deepcrush]

That it would.

[Vic]

Star Trek version of a blunderbuss.

[Lighthawk]

Phaser bayonets? It would certainly be cool, if nothing else.

Yeah, just before you reach the line as the enemy pull knives and swords, you cut them in have with phaser sweeps...

A phaser set on widebeam would actually be a pretty damn good close-quarters defensive weapon.

Too bad they never seemed to remember phasers could do that when they really needed it. Like say to repel a massed rush of jem'hadar while sheltering in a cave with a choke point. Nope, far better to take individual, slowly aimed shots into the zerg rush.

[stitch626]

Yeah... still trying to figure out why they picked that moment for incompetence.

[Lighthawk]

Yeah... still trying to figure out why they picked that moment for incompetence.

I blame Q. Seriously, I think he's been fucking with Starfleet since he first found them, inflicting them with random moments of idiocy for his own amusement. How else can they jump from being so brilliant to so moronic?

[Deepcrush]

Star Trek version of a blunderbuss.

Would be helpful in a lot of places.

[Tyyr]

There's got to be some reason they don't use the wide beam more often. Maybe it's a huge power drain, only works at short range, something like that. "They're idiots" is a patently unsatisfying answer.

[Reliant121]

It would be consistent with Starfleets history.

However, I imagine it probably makes a huge power drain batteries or something.

[Tyyr]

There's a lot of stuff that can only be explained by idiocy. I'd love to avoid adding to the list.