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Yoeman Rand hurt 'The Enemy Within'
posted by Benton12STAFFMOD on November 25, 2020 at 11:17 PM
Remember when the Enterprise crewmen were stuck on the freezing planet on TEW and that no one thought to use a phaser ( or the ship's phases from afar) to zap a rock and make it hot like Chekov did in Spock's Brain?
Was it a hole? Had the show's writers invented the concept yet that zapping an object with a phaser could make it hotter? Yes they had! Yoeman Rand zapped a coffee container with a phaser in 'The Corbomite Maneuver' to heat coffee!
Reply by Knixon
on November 26, 2020 at 3:51 AM
Evidently the phasers stopped working after a while, due to the cold. It doesn't seem likely that the charges were used up just by heating rocks.
And they couldn't beam down phasers, it would have had the same problem as the heaters, which duplicated and didn't work.
Reply by Nexus71
on December 1, 2020 at 12:57 AM
That's how I understood it
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on September 3, 2022 at 7:12 PM
Didn't Yeoman Rand get attacked by the "evil" version of Captain Kirk in this episode?
Reply by Benton12
on September 5, 2022 at 1:11 AM
Yes. But that is a different point than what I am making.
Reply by sukhisoo
on September 5, 2022 at 8:03 AM
KIRK: How is it down there?
SULU: Oh, lovely, except that the frost is building up. We're using hand phasers to heat the rocks. One phaser quit on us, three still operating. Any possibility of getting us back aboard before the skiing season opens down here?
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on April 1, 2023 at 4:45 AM
@Benton12 : But it's still an important question to ask. Especially when the encounter Rand had with Kirk was obliquely referred to a conversation Rand had with Captain Sulu's daughter in the TOS novel "The Captain's Daughter."
Reply by Benton12
on April 1, 2023 at 6:46 PM
That is a different point period. And Star Trek books are not cannon to the series. I already talked about that in another posting. Will Decker not son of Matt Decker it is only in the books he ( Will) was not the only film the character in a sense appeared in.
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on May 31, 2023 at 1:24 AM
@Benton12 : Let's agree to disagree about this subject.
Reply by Benton12
on May 31, 2023 at 8:11 PM
Fan fiction for ST. Star Trek books. All not Canon to the original show and first ST movies.