From: cosc1871@rosie.uh.edu (92F06787)
Subject: Re: Infantry Vehicals in ST?
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:38:00 GMT

In article <chan.0clt@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca>, chan@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca (Mike Chan) writes...
>       I am making a Star Trek role plating game and I was wondering if there
>is such things as ground infantry vehicals? I also wonder if they have
>different kind of makes of Phasers. Like we have Smith and Wessons, so would
>they have different kinds of phasers? How about aircraft and naval vessels do
>they have does also? Does Star Fleet have some kind of intellegence division
>like the CIA or the FBi or even Interpol. 

Star Trek to my knowledge has several phaser models.  I'm working
off of memory so I expect some corrections:

TOS "The Cage"  Not necessarily a phaser, could be a laser.  It 
	was a pistol with three emitters on a rotating type barrel.
TOS "The Cage"  Again, I'm not sure if it was a phaser, but they
	had moved a large cannon onto the surface which received power
	directly from the ship.
TOS/The Series  They had the standard phaser-1 which was the 
	palm-sized version.  The phaser-1 could snap onto a pistol
	unit which was called a phaser-2.
TOS "Where No Man Has..."  Kirk wields a phaser rifle.  Basically
	a lengthened phaser-2 with stocks and longer barrel (I think.)
TMS "Star Trek 2"  They had sleek phasers with the same layout
	of the phaser-2 pistol, but the emitter on the front was a
	wide blister, rather than the dish-type.  It made a neat 
	crackling noise when fired.
TMS "Star Trek 3"  Kirk carries a updated version of the phaser-2
	pistol.  It has a cone-like emitter spout and almost identical
	looks to the original phaser-2.
TMS "Star Trek 4"  The crew somehow ends up with the palm-size
	versions of Klingon Disruptors.  (ST 3 had Klingon disruptor
	pistols.  Nasty disintegration mode.)
TMS "Star Trek 5"  The phasers issued to the marines in that 
	movie were similar to the one Kirk had in ST 3.  Definitely
	saw a phaser energy clip (Chrome cylinder with buttons) snap
	into the cylindrical phaser grip.
TMS "Star Trek 6"  The phasers here differ from the phaser in ST 5
	by having a rectangular pistol grip.  The energy-clip appeared
	to be very visible.  Valeris seems to have 'cocked' a phaser
	before firing.
TNG/The Series  They had the basic palm versions which looked
	modern compared to the ones in TOS.  Their phaser pistol 
	resembles a dust-buster (grip at back at an angle).  It did
	not appear to me that the palm-unit attaches to the pistol
	unit.
TNG "The episode with Adm. Jamison."  The terrorists field a 
	phaser rifle, resembling the phaser dustbuster in emitter
	snout looks (rectangular opening)  and has two grips with a
	pop-up glass? sighting system.  This same episode also has
	several familiar? weapons in the background that you could
	probably hypothesize about.

I know there is a Marine Arm to Starfleet.  There probably is an
Intel Arm, since TOS "The Enterprise Incident", TNG's many miracle
pictures just don't come out of thin air.
And there is also the incident with Dr. McCoy in ST 3 when he was
arrested by an undercover person (I remember not his service branch)

> 
>      Also why doesn't the crew members even recognise any earth Holidays? Like
>Christmas or even easter? I mean they go and party on Worf's Right of Passage
>and other stuff but what about the holidays? and what Exactly is the use of
>Credits? wouldn't that cause greed again?

I think Kirk said something about Thanksgiving... But I don't 
remember what episode.  TNG there isn't any mention of holidays.
The only time credits were mentioned was in TOS/TMS.  TNG is apparently
a different time that somehow no longer worries about money... Yeah,
right :)

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