User talk:Jack Sebastian/Phaser (fictional weapon)
Sources
[edit]- Daystrom Institute Technical Library website - in-universe, unverified reliability
- Discussion of the prop —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack Sebastian (talk • contribs) 15:50, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
- StarTrek magazine - a source that I'll need to search through an archive for info citable.
- Can You Drill a Hole Through Your Head and Survive?: 180 Fascinating Questions and Amazing Answers about Science, Health, and Nature By Simon Rogers - a book that talks seriously about recreating the science of ST, quoting sources like Hawking and Krushelnick.
- HSV Technologies - a company cited int he aforementioned source that is patenting a device inspired by the phaser.
- Weapons of Science Fiction - by John Hamilton
- The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture - referring to the preparations and making of the first ST film
- The Making of Star Trek - by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry
- The World of Star Trek - by David Jerrold
- The Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion: Revised Edition - by Larry Nemecek
- A computational model of routine procedural memory - By Franklin Patrick Tamborello (II.), Rice University, the study refers to something called the "Star Trek Phaser procedure" - worth following up as to how the procedure got its name (real world reference)
- Popular Science Dec 1967 - how they saw it in the 60's
- The Art of Star Trek - by Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, invaluable source for images and development
- Star Trek: the human frontier - discussing why the phaser was designed as a mostly non-lethal device
- Encyclopedia of television subjects, themes and settings - Vincent Terrace, speaking on the phaser as the "most famous of all the ST gadgets"
- Star Trek: a post-structural critique of the original series - by Michael Hemmingson, how and what the phaser represented in TOS
- The Physics of Star Trek - by Lawrence Krauss, Stephen Hawking - nuts and bolts
- Star trek, deep space nine : technical manual / Herman Zimmerman, Rick Sternbach, Doug Drexler ; with a special introduction by Ira Steven Behr.