darthgordon
Sr Member
:confused This is the first I'd heard of this
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=DC17808
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=DC17808
DST TMP Phaser?
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darthgordon
Sr Member
Yeah, I'm not sure why DST needs to make everything talk :rolleyes
hardworkingguy2000
Well-Known Member
Anyone know when the TWOK Phaser from DST will be released ? According to their website, it should have already released right ?
Onigiri
Sr Member
Release date on TWOK is now October. The approval phaser (TWOK) is bada$$ and there were no voice effects.
Features
1. There are four LEDs in the emitter. The higher the setting the more LEDs 'fire'.
2. Every setting has its own sequencing light pattern.
3.There is a 'self destruct' mode.
4. The P1 connects via a really strong magnet and a slight 'guide' to center it. Pretty solid.
5. Dilithium Crystal lights up
6. Screw holes filled with plugs
7. Pretty accurate colorization
Features
1. There are four LEDs in the emitter. The higher the setting the more LEDs 'fire'.
2. Every setting has its own sequencing light pattern.
3.There is a 'self destruct' mode.
4. The P1 connects via a really strong magnet and a slight 'guide' to center it. Pretty solid.
5. Dilithium Crystal lights up
6. Screw holes filled with plugs
7. Pretty accurate colorization
darthgordon
Sr Member
Dilithium crystal?
"Dilithium crystal" is the flat disc on the rear tail where the "tenturn" knob is, on the TOS version of the phaser.
darthgordon
Sr Member
I'm slightly off topic here... but why would a phaser need a dilithium crystal? There's no antimatter in them... I honestly always thought that was nob for settings. In fact, I'd swear Kirk uses it as such in TWOK.
With the exception of the coloring, the only real difference I can see this EE exclusive will have is that there's no circular dud on the trigger. Personally, I think that's awesome so this gets cheers from me.
I wonder if the sounds will be any different. Unlikely since we never heard the phaser fire in the movie. There was a deleted scene where a security guard shoots the lightning pole probe and gets vaporized as a result, but due to the nature that the sound effects track was severely lacking, I guess they never got around to developing it.
I wonder if the sounds will be any different. Unlikely since we never heard the phaser fire in the movie. There was a deleted scene where a security guard shoots the lightning pole probe and gets vaporized as a result, but due to the nature that the sound effects track was severely lacking, I guess they never got around to developing it.
It was.
I'm sure someone here has pics of the original prop(s); if you look you'll notice a demarcation where the P1 is supposed to disconnect. Although, never seen on-screen it can be reasonably assumed that this was the intent of the design team.
Jaruemalak
Well-Known Member
Everything I've read in the past says that the original design was for there to be a Phaser 1 - Phaser 2 separation, as shown in the toy. However, again, from what I've read, no actual props were made with the ability to separate.
This does NOT stop me from wanting one! Looking forward to this for over a year now! (I saw a prototype of this little sucker at the 2008 Wizard World Chicago.)
Blackbirdcd
Well-Known Member
Now it's November 2009? Sheesh.
The TMP phaser was famously designed to have a separating P1 but of course we never saw that on screen, and I think the props were NOT even designed to do this. In any case I've never seen a prop photo of a separate p1.
Initial phaser prop (deemed too big and bulky)
Andy Probert redesigned slimmer phaser
Prop shots
TMP phaser prop compared with Brad Nelson phaser prop built for the abandoned "Star Trek Phase II" TV show
In the prop shots (and these are the BEST photos of this prop that have been circulated), you can see that the trigger is being held on with clear tape! Obviously a very fragile prop. For Wrath of Khan, the phaser had a cylindrical trigger added, probably for ease of use and reliability of the prop. Note also the WOK prop also has a very prominent dividing line where the P1 separation would be.
As to why a phaser needs a "dilithium crystal"... well you're right, it doesn't. The role of dilithium crystals has always been rather hazy in Star Trek canon. If you go back to the earliest TOS episodes, a lot of references are made to "lithium" crystal circuits (mostly in the context of them having burned out). Somehow the Enterprise "drew her power through" these hand-sized crystals, of which the ship had about four or five (once those burned out or were depleted, the ship had to run on "battery power").
Later in the series of course, it was established that the Enterprise's power comes from the mutual annihiliation of matter and antimatter.... but the ship still had dilithium crystals, and they still had to be in working order for the ship to operate
It is in this context, of the dilithium crystals possibly having a role in "channeling" power or "amplifying" it somehow, that the TMP designers threw a dilithium crystal into the phaser pistol, probably in an effort to make it sound "redesigned" and more "advanced".
It was non-canon of course but Franz Joseph put a "dilithium crystal" into the TOS phaser in his Star Fleet Technical Manual... so likely the idea could have come from there originally.
k
Initial phaser prop (deemed too big and bulky)
Andy Probert redesigned slimmer phaser
Prop shots
TMP phaser prop compared with Brad Nelson phaser prop built for the abandoned "Star Trek Phase II" TV show
In the prop shots (and these are the BEST photos of this prop that have been circulated), you can see that the trigger is being held on with clear tape! Obviously a very fragile prop. For Wrath of Khan, the phaser had a cylindrical trigger added, probably for ease of use and reliability of the prop. Note also the WOK prop also has a very prominent dividing line where the P1 separation would be.
As to why a phaser needs a "dilithium crystal"... well you're right, it doesn't. The role of dilithium crystals has always been rather hazy in Star Trek canon. If you go back to the earliest TOS episodes, a lot of references are made to "lithium" crystal circuits (mostly in the context of them having burned out). Somehow the Enterprise "drew her power through" these hand-sized crystals, of which the ship had about four or five (once those burned out or were depleted, the ship had to run on "battery power").
Later in the series of course, it was established that the Enterprise's power comes from the mutual annihiliation of matter and antimatter.... but the ship still had dilithium crystals, and they still had to be in working order for the ship to operate
It is in this context, of the dilithium crystals possibly having a role in "channeling" power or "amplifying" it somehow, that the TMP designers threw a dilithium crystal into the phaser pistol, probably in an effort to make it sound "redesigned" and more "advanced".
It was non-canon of course but Franz Joseph put a "dilithium crystal" into the TOS phaser in his Star Fleet Technical Manual... so likely the idea could have come from there originally.
k
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WinstonWolf359
Sr Member
I've always assumed the tape was to keep the trigger depressed, therefore the top lights on, for the photograph's sake, and not an indication of build quality. But I could be wrong...I really don't know much about the TMP props other than it's taken almost 30 years for the designs to finally grow on me.
