Was watching War of the Worlds remake with Tom Cruise last night.
Now the alien tri-legs had an energy beam that just obliterated the peeps who were blasted by it. Now weren’t the aliens trying to collect the peeps to convert to a food source? Seems like blasting them to smithereens was kinda destroying the product to me! Maybe they needed a heat gun to stun the targets.
Stun? Did I say stun? Set the phasers to stun Mr. Scotty!!
Pew pew pew!!!
What I always liked was that the main battery phasers on the Enterprise could be set to stun.
Talk about an instant solution to lots of landing party problems - stun ‘em all and sort ‘em out later.
Also, I have always wondered why they didn’t use the transporter as a support weapon - just beam enemies away from the fight.