Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Phasers

These devices have several interesting features that rarely come up in the franchise.

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[marcress]

One unmentioned use: they can be an emergency power/fuel supply. In the TOS episode "The Galileo 7" Scotty was able to drain the phasers to refuel the shuttlecraft engines.

[bonusbaby]

6:48...Will ALWAYS be my favorite Star Trek effect. Love it when the Enterprise phasers power up along the track & fire👍

[wickideazy]

The "transporter phaser" was also used in the DS9 episode Inter Arma Enem Silent Leges to get Sloan off of Romulus while making it appear as if he had been vaporized.

[trevordennis]

Basically, phasers are a magical weapon that does whatever the script calls for at the moment.

[Houze]

B'Elanna also used a phaser along with a piece of the Delta Flyer to create a makeshift forcefield when there was a small hull rupture (I'm wanting to say it was something like an EPS part, manifold or something) - Voyager S5, Ep 3 "Extreme Risk"

[jacara]

Ships Phasers are also more commonly used as 'tools' more than weapons. They can be modulated to provide power to other ships, stop or create storms, vaporize ice on a comet, or even feed space animals.

[gbkworf]

I think in the first season of TOS they were confused between Phasers and Photon Torpedoes, because the Phasers being fired were actually Photon Torpedoes. The Show took some time to evolve.

[rscottdjr]

I thought the Omega Glory did a great job of highlighting how powerful phasers were. After Captain Tracy came back from the Yang attack he described how they came at them, hundreds if not thousands and despite his killing most of them, the were overrun. While they lost the battle due to sheer numbers, one hand phase decimated that many before they had to retreat.

[scubasteevo]

Did anyone else know or at least partially know most of this list?😅
The biggest surprise was a ships stun setting.

[haweater]

Worf: "They are pointing 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙨 at us!?!"
Riker: "Lasers? They won't even penetrate our navigation shields."

[richardshawver]

The combo of the type one and type two was a promotional product idea for toys. The type one was the control portion. Allowing the settings controls. The type two portion was for all a power pack. This increased range, duration and number of shots.

[DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Another aspect of the stun feature is that the heavy stun setting can be fatal if a prolonged, close range beam is used. In Star Trek 6, Valeris used this to bump off the two crew members she’d convinced to beam aboard Gorkon’s flagship and assassinate the chancellor, so that the Enterprise alarm systems wouldn’t go off, because apparently it’s no big deal to the sensors if someone just fires a phaser on stun aboard the ship.

[MisterPersuasion]

I read in one Star Trek tech manual that Phasers got their name because they were a "phasing" of Laser tech and Particle Beam tech. The phasing of the two types of tech created a synergistic effect making the Phaser much more powerful than either of other two techs were individually.

[GrymmSoul]

Now for polaron, disruptor, plasma, antiproton, and tetryon weapons....also, for my personal favorite, the Cardassian spiral wave disruptors.
:P

[TheBitGuy]

You didn't even mention the "stun setting at point blank range" as was used in Star Trek VI... which is apparently lethal.

[RealScotticus]

Great video and I was getting bugged by how Roddenbury's philosophy of 'I don't want them using 'guns'' wasn't mentioned then bam...it's the number one point. Great stuff, set phasers to 'good job'.

[Skaramine]

Tbe crickets plugged into the Type 2 as a means of boosting the cricket's power supply and "handling, " I assumed. I can't imagine the crickets having a lot of energy as compared to the Type 2.

[joermnyc]

Funny thing about #1: the type 2 “assault phaser” from Final Frontier and Undiscovered Country WAS designed to be more like firearms, as per William Shatner’s desire to make them less dainty looking and more “like a .45” (caliber) pistol. To wit they had “power packs” that were like magazine clips, and the move to check the power was to rack the “Slide” like on a semi-automatic pistol. (There are slight differences between the “assault phasers” made in the first batch, and the replicas made for the next film (as they needed to make a lot more of them.)

[johntracy]

In the original Star Wars movie, the stormtrooper incapacitated Leia with a stun setting on his blaster. That sounds like Star Trek's phaser in that the shot stunned her.

[robinburt]

10 things i already knew about phasers...