> Why is it that on the Star Trek television shows (the original, Star > Trek the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager) whenever an > "away" team beams down from the ship the leader of the team always > says, "Set phasers on stun", and everyone changes the settings on their > phasers. Why aren't the phasers AUTOMATICALLY set on stun? What were > the phasers set to? Mildly annoy?
And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
} I am so glad you asked this, I have been meaning to bring this up } to the producers of the Star Trek shows in our weekly meetings. One } time when we were setting up the premise of the show we decided that } the phasers should be defaulted to "Wipe out everything in your path" } that way if they found that they were in harms way they could WOEIYP! } However since the new producers were not in those early meetings, they } have no idea what we decided on so long ago. In future episodes you } may hear the phrase "Set Phasers to annoy only" and you will know that } your concern has been heard by the producers and writers. } } Live long and, oh hell, do what ever you want to do!