Star Trek - Weapons Test - USS Constitution (TOS/TMP)

[lonstar70]

Cool, but still looks like a cartoon kind of. I like physical models!

[ElleRoni]

Now THAT'S a powerful sound

[vulpixgrant]

ha, I never liked the original TOS blue phaser's. The reasoning behind the movie version firing in blast is a constant beam isn't as powerful as a broken up beam's hitting the hull or shields. Forget if Memory Alpha said that or another website? To bad the Galaxy Class didn't keep to the Enterprise A's weapon's, maybe my favorite ship wouldn't have been such a push over. :)) Nice vid though.

[ti994apc]

Would not the Torpedo detonate as it pass's through the phaser path?

[px002]

it would be nice if the video was longer than 3 seconds ;-)

[protoborg]

the "forward phaser banks" you have there are firing from the observation windows of 10 forward. Those circles are windows not phaser emitters.

[Daehawk]

I always missed the old style ship's phasers.

[Capt777harris]

Very cool.

[Snowwie88]

I like the sounds the torpedo's make.

[Sulaco516]

Beautiful!!

The Constitution and her sister vessels should have retained the beam-type phasers from their original configuration when they were upgraded.

[MrHoppers002]

also it would've made 100% sense if you used the pre-refit version. just my 2 cents.

[AeronPeryton]

@MrHoppers002 Was the USS Constitution destroyed in canon before the TOS movie? If not, then it makes sense that it was refitted along with the rest of the ship of that class.

[MrHoppers002]

The USS constitution was still in service according to memory alpha. Im just saying with the weapon effects shown it would've made sense to use the pre-refit constitution class or if it's the refit verison use the pulse phasers.

[AeronPeryton]

@MrHoppers002 *shrug* I would be disappointed if you couldn't choose between the two with a console switch. ^_^

[MrHoppers002]

yeah that's also a possibility. my brain is gonna explode. lol

[MrHoppers002]

TMP era ships use the machine gun phasers.

[ConstitutionNCC1700]

@MrHoppers002 True, but I never particularly liked their look (or the sound effect for that matter) so I decided that, since this was a video of the Constitution itself (NCC 1700), this ship pre-dated the movies and still used the old-style TOS phasers. Trek was never that consistent so I took liberties. :)

[MrHoppers002]

really? the machine gun phasers were awesome. Sounded menacing. That's why the new star trek movie used them.

[BMWM3GTRLOVER]

@MrHoppers002 PULSE phasers. they fire in pulses. don't worry, I called them machine gun phasers at first aswell :)

[MrHoppers002]

pulse phasers from ds9 defiant didn't fire as fast as the pulse phasers from the new star trek movie.

[Potrimpo]

@MrHoppers002 And on the episode, Balance of Terror, the ship's phasers were fired in pulses. Also on some episode like Obsession, the twin phaser beams had one beam more intense than the other, and they switched back and forth every second. Best way to describe it is pulse intensity.

Which if you ask me gives added credibility to Star Trek 11's phasers.

[MrHoppers002]

well at least star trek 11 phasers look super cool

[Azakhiel]

@MrHoppers002 Actually, since we only have a sample of one film in which they use phasers, we don't know that.

[dtstrain]

@MrHoppers002 I wouldn't call this "machine gun" phasers:

watch?v=7w18yZdeRl4#t=06m49s

It's beam, but just a very slow beam with directional motion to it. This one is more like machine gun:

watch?v=w5FmSmyHaCI#t=00m53s

[MrHoppers002]

i can't see the links

[dtstrain]

@MrHoppers002 Those lines should be pasted after the youtube.com address, separated by a slash (youtube doesn't allow links in comments).

[benjaminmullin96]

@dtstrain That second one isn't a phaser bank. It's a phaser cannon. There's a difference.

[Rashaed]

nice! wish it was longer.

[AeronPeryton]

@Rashaed Just keep pressing 1 on your keyboard over and over again, great stress reliever. :3

[coldwave007]

Spiffy!