Roddenberry returned to Klamer’s offices after two weeks passed to pick up the new weapon and was thrilled. “It took a lot of hard work and at least three men on it at all times to put it together.” “Bill Shatner jumps up and says ‘we gotta have it - we gotta have it!’” Klamer recalled. Roddenberry told Klamer that they needed this prop in two weeks because they were about to shoot the second pilot. “To come up with the theme and the design in two weeks - that was impossible,” said Klamer. Julien's Auctions Star Trek Phaser Rifle Both the Phaser 1 (pistol) and Phaser 2 (power-pack) are beloved by fans and collectors. Jefferies’ design was really for two phasers - the pistol-style phaser and the power-pack (which fans dubbed the “jewel phaser”), which popped out of the top of the pistol. He asked the great Matt Jefferies to design a new weapon, and with the help of Desilu’s propmaster, Wah Chang, the phaser was born. The lasers became phasers because Roddenberry did not think the audience would believe that a laser could do all of these fantastic things. In “The Cage,” these lasers were an upgrade from what Roddenberry called for in his original TOS “ pitch document ,” where he said that the crew would be armed with “rifles and pistols with an adjustment and will fire simple bullets, explosive projectiles, or hypodermic pellets which will stun or tranquilize.” On “Star Trek,” the phaser name actually is an acronym, meaning “PHASed Energy Rectification.” According to Mike Okuda and Rick Sternbach’s “ Star Trek: The Next Generation – Technical Manual ,” the phaser used energy stored and “converted to another form toward a target.” Okuda and Sternbach write that the phaser replaced the laser and other EM (electromagnetic) weapons. ” These were different from the phaser and more like the “ray guns” or “ blasters ” that were seen in the film “ The Forbidden Planet ,” which many consider to be the spiritual precursor to Roddenberry’s show. But in “The Cage,” Captain Pike and his officers used “ round barreled lasers.
įans might not realize that the “phaser” was a later addition to Trek since, from the very start, Kirk, Spock, and the other members of the Enterprise crew used them liberally. Don't Play with Phasers – Star Trek TOS A 20th century USAF Colonel, Bela Okmyx, and a bum are reckless with 23rd century weapons.
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