Timeline for Why do they always say, "Set phasers to stun" when arming up for an away mission?
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| Dec 14, 2015 at 15:58 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @ThePopMachine: Possible. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 15:56 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @LightnessRacesinOrbit, Well, you would think they have a huge compliment of phasers on board, but they only fire a handful of them every few weeks under normal conditions when something goes wrong. The intent would be to never fire a weapon, so even if it takes many months to charge, it's still workable in peacetime. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 15:52 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @ThePopMachine: Right, which is why it's not very likely... | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 15:42 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @LightnessRacesinOrbit: No it doesn't. It's possible to extract energy slowly from ambient electromagnetic radiation, acoustical noise, vibrations, heat, or any number of other ambient sources. It will just take a long time to gain the kind of energy demonstrated by a phaser. | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 18:38 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Richard: It's more likely that the coil interacts electromagnetically with an actual charging station, probably in a weapons locker somewhere. This makes sense given the location of the coil at the top/bottom of the unit's grip. | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 18:36 | comment | added | Valorum | @LightnessRacesinOrbit - The schematic shows something called a "recharging coil". Perhaps it works wirelessly? | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 18:35 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Richard: That violates several physical laws of our reality. Perhaps a component of the phaser recharges itself from another component of the phaser (after all, my tablet+dock combination does this), but as a unit the phaser cannot create power out of thin air. | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 18:34 | comment | added | Valorum | @LightnessRacesinOrbit - Over time, the power replenishes (presumably as a result of a chemical reaction). You can also recharge them much more quickly from "power taps" or "bulk krellium units". | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 18:28 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Richard: They recharge... themselves?! | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 8:39 | comment | added | Valorum | The TNG Technical Manual indicates that they recharge themselves constantly. They charge in the holster or out of it. | |
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| Aug 6, 2014 at 8:03 | history | answered | Greggomon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |