Future's End

[Mrcasio]

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this was so cool star trek does time travel well i loved seeing them in the 1990's.. It was funny seeing the 90's, the phones, the computers, 90s california beach bums. I was happy to see the doctor get the power to go anywhere. The best part was when he walked into that room and the people shoot at him and the bullets went through him. I loved how they said that computers happened because of the time ship. I loved seeing tom and tovok driving around. i also love seeing sarah silverman in the episode as the seti person it was also funny seeing the Voyager on TV news flying in the sky like one of them crappy youtube videos of UFO's.

 

[2takesfrakes]

"Future's End" is everything you could ask for from sci-fi in one package. I'm amazed that this truly inspired 2 parter never got nominated for, or won a HUGO, or SATURN Award, or anything like that. Probably my most favourite episode in all of STAR TREK television. And Rain Robinson was played to perfection by Sarah Silverman, who - certainly at this time - was absolutely one of the most beautiful and talented women in all of Hollywood. You couldn't have chosen better ...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The best part of the whole thing is when Starling's assistant fires a 29th-century phaser at Tuvok and company. For the first time in all of Trek, a phaser beam works like it should - it instantly appears between the phaser and target. Logically speaking, a beam of light should not take any 'time' to do so.

Rant over.

 

[Mrcasio]

Its got to be my fav episode so far

 

[Guy Gardener]

The best part of the whole thing is when Starling's assistant fires a 29th-century phaser at Tuvok and company. For the first time in all of Trek, a phaser beam works like it should - it instantly appears between the phaser and target. Logically speaking, a beam of light should not take any 'time' to do so.

Rant over.

It's not light.

In my head I hear the term "phased energy" which probably means absolutely nothing because it's maybe from a novel.

Originally (from the production notes to TOS), the phaser was a PHoton mASER, since at the time of writing the laser was a relative unknown, and powers were not expected to be very great. Masers, on the other hand, were already very powerful machines which produce very destructive radiation pulses. The term "phaser" has since been revised as a backronym for PHASed Energy Rectification, though from a physics standpoint even this is of equal semantic content—ordinary incoherent light is not "rectified", or synchronous, whereas lasing and masing emissions are rectified, or synchronous. Phasers release a beam of fictional subatomic particles called "rapid nadions", which are then refracted ("rectified") through superconducting crystals. Given the nature of photons the first acronym seems more accurate.

Maser = "microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation".

Laser = "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"

So although a photon is (in very simple and inexact terms) a light particle, a maser is an electro magnetic device, from which the issue of which moves much slower than light.

The scene however, Dunbar disintegrated an SUV with his phaser, and then when Tuvok(?) returned fire, all that blast had the grunt to do was jolt Dunbar's weapon out of his hand.

Let's just assume that Tuvok's Phaser was dialed back because he's a swell guy mindful of other people nd the timeline, and not that his personal weapon is impotent.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

So although a photon is (in very simple and inexact terms) a light particle, a maser is an electro magnetic device, from which the issue of which moves much slower than light.

A 'maser' in itself may be a device, but anything issuing from it is still energy - light, whatever - and thus should be expected to move at lightspeed. And thus, not take any measurable time to do so.

On a completely unrelated matter: I like the Borg Queen's line in ST:FC about "Watch your futures end". Of course this can be taken as "Watch your Future's End".

 

[Guy Gardener]

It's all about relative perspective.

My Futures End, her Futures end and your Futures End could be three entirely different Future's End.

 

[F. King Daniel]

One of my favourite Voyager episodes.

(so long as one pretends they can't slingshot around the sun to reach 24th century Earth again, or that they don't know about it)

 

[Melakon]

It's all about relative perspective.

My Futures End, her Futures end and your Futures End could be three entirely different Future's End.

[groucho] And the queen's end is something I can get behind. [/groucho]