Star Trek Isn’t As Accurate As We Think
There are little things in Star Trek: The Motion Picture that inaccurately depict the scientific facts. In the movie, Admiral James T. Kirk tries to intercept the USS Enterprise. But if you look at it from an expert’s point of view, whenever a character was shot with a phaser, the person was nearly vaporized down to their shoes, but the ground underneath where they were standing was completely untouched. How is that even possible? If you’re shot with a phaser everything arounds you disintegrates, including your body. You turn into a liquid and then a gas, resulting in a very large explosion that would certainly turn the ground black, at the very least (Stat News).