RE: RE: RE: ST designing, railgun

>I seem to recall a hex based ST space combat game. Think it 
>was called Star Trek 3 or something
>God my memory is bad.
>

FASA Tactical Combat Simulator

>Anyway it seemed to suggest that the disruptor was a powerful 
>cannon type weapon. More like the FT wave 
>cannon than a beam weapon.
>
>In the episode where the Defiant uses it's tractor beam the 
>Klingon weapon fires like a phaser (i.e. 
>constant stream) it's just that they do it blue in colour.
>Where as in the civil war episodes it's more like a single 
>shot ball of energy.

The blue is the tractor, disruptor fire is generally a green
pulse, sometime with a thickened pulse business end, see timescape 
where a disruptor pulse is frozen in place and generations and
yesterdays
enterprise where there is a good disruptor fight.

A wave gun is IMO too powerful a representation of a disruptor and
much more like a TOS rom plasma torp, which the roms drop on their
warbirds for some weird reason.