The Worfzooka

[redwood973]

I found this on line and wondered what you all think of it. I don't have the link to the sorce at the moment, but I'll work on finding that to post it.

ISOMAGNETIC DISINTEGRATOR

Shoulder-mounted large caliber engery weapon. This could in reality be the Tetryon Pulse Launcher, in which case the Isomagnetic Disintegrator remains unidentified; either it hasn't been seen, or it is the correct term for what we've been calling the First Contact Type-III Phaser Rifles.

I'd say the Tetryon Pulse Launcher was the Worfzooka, while the Isomagnetic Disintegrators were the rifles. I remember the old sci-fi TV "disintegrator" weapons always inferring a beam or ray that disintegrated its target. The rifles fired beams as well as short beam pulses. On the other hand, the Wolfzooka only launched a pulse.

In the yacht scene, "ten isomagnetic disintegrators and eight tetryon pulse launchers" were taken onto the yacht, along with some explosives. No mention was made of any other weapons. The rifles were the most used weapons, but were not mentioned? Let's face it, the term "launcher" seems to fit the Worfzooka pretty good, but doesn't fit the rifle at all. And, by more traditional use of the term "disintegrator," the reverse is true.

I think the Star Trek Encyclopedia guys got it wrong. They assumed the rifle was a phaser based on Worf's barked order, "Phasers ready!" in First Contact. When this weapon showed up, they seemed to have a choice between two terms, and picked the wrong one.

It would appear that the Worfzooka lives on, at least in redressed form--it is identical to certain parts of the Argo's weapon in Nemesis.

Ah, found it.

[The Tatterdemalion King]

Their logic is that traditionally, disintegrators were rays? What about the disintegrator, uh, you know, disintegrating (explosions!) instead of just interfering with their weapon systems?

[Tobian]

Yeah it's hard to say to be honest, it could be either... Since disruptors and phasers (more or less the same thing really) can also fire as a pulse, and cause large amounts of rock to explode - as seen in the same film, with a normal phaser.

Otherwise I do agree, it doesn't do a lot considering how large it is: regular phasers have been seen to do much more!

[redwood973]

So, it's like really freakin' cold here in Iowa so rather than face the below zero temps and go out on a Friday night, I bundled up in easy chair with a blanket and some hot chocolate and slipped ST:I into the DVD player.

Watching and listening to this scene closely, and backing up and replaying it serval times I noticed something: there are two crates of equal dimensions sitting one on top the other. The good captain opens the top crate and pulls out one of the five "rifle" packed inside. Shortly there after Worf give his line about "ten isomagnetic disintegrators and eight tetryon pulse launchers."

Seems unlikely there would be five rifles packed in the first crate and only three in the next when it's capacity would hold two more. There were a lot of little cases which I assumed held the explosive, but I never seen any other crates which could have held the Worfzooka, nor were the Worfzookas laying out in the open that I could see.

Could it be we've got it wrong. . .is it not logical to assume the rifle to be the isomagnetic disintegrators?

[The Tatterdemalion King]

Because they're obviously phaser rifles.

Maybe isomagnetic disintegrators disintegrate isomagnetons.