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...how about more on the different types of phaser rifles? I know of about 4...the original one that looked like a type II on a stick, the voyager one (urgh) and the two post-first contact ones (look very cool)...
- - Notes: Settings 1-8 can be used by all types of personnel phasers, and Settings 9-16 can only be used by Type II & III Phasers. Also, the following power settings refer only to the phasers used in Star Trek: The Next Generation (other star trek shows may show significant differences to the following list).
As a side note, the phaser output and emitter numbers from the Next Generation and
Deep Space Nine Technical Manual are incorrect. In the TNG episode "
A Matter of Time", a variance in the power output of the second largest phaser array on the
Enterprise-D could not exceed
0.06 terawatts or a chain-reaction would occcur and burn off
Penthara IV's atmosphere. That is 60
gigawatts, or nearly 59 times higher than the oft-cited 1.02 gigawatts from the non-canon technical manual. We also know from "
Who Watches the Watchers", that 4.2
gigawatts is enough to "power a small phaser bank". We know from the TNG episode "
The Mind's Eye" that Federation phasers have efficencies of up to 86.5%, which means that the output of a small phaser bank is probably somewhere around 3.6
gigawatts. We also know from "
The Mind's Eye", that a phaser rifle output is "1.05
megajoules per second", or 1.05
megawatts, which clearly contradicts the Next Generation Technical Manual's 0.01
megawatts output statement for phaser rifles.
A close-up examination of the large dorsal phaser array on the 4-foot Enterprise-D model, [1], clearly shows it has more than 200 emitter segments, at least 950. So again, the tech manuals are proven inaccurate.
I'm all for a merge; actually, I've never heard of a " phaser receiver" and, arguably, that article should be nixed instead. E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 20:10, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
My problem with the table: I thought there was a "kill" setting - "Disruptors" disrupt, phasers attack w/ "phased" energy...
"Kill" is probably an informal term for Setting 7, which will kill (but not 'phazorize') ordinary organic beings. The order 'set phasers to kill' would be understood by Starfleet personnell as Setting 7, or whatever setting is equivalent to it on a less powerful or more powerful model of phaser. -- JaceCady 15:33, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
I do believe that Types I, II and III Phasers were used in The Original Series (TOS). The current writing of this section seems to ignore that Type I , II and III designations were used in the original series and the nicknames specifically refer to the nicknames from TNG. Daroldhiga 22:50, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
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...how about more on the different types of phaser rifles? I know of about 4...the original one that looked like a type II on a stick, the voyager one (urgh) and the two post-first contact ones (look very cool)...
- - Notes: Settings 1-8 can be used by all types of personnel phasers, and Settings 9-16 can only be used by Type II & III Phasers. Also, the following power settings refer only to the phasers used in Star Trek: The Next Generation (other star trek shows may show significant differences to the following list).
As a side note, the phaser output and emitter numbers from the Next Generation and
Deep Space Nine Technical Manual are incorrect. In the TNG episode "
A Matter of Time", a variance in the power output of the second largest phaser array on the
Enterprise-D could not exceed
0.06 terawatts or a chain-reaction would occcur and burn off
Penthara IV's atmosphere. That is 60
gigawatts, or nearly 59 times higher than the oft-cited 1.02 gigawatts from the non-canon technical manual. We also know from "
Who Watches the Watchers", that 4.2
gigawatts is enough to "power a small phaser bank". We know from the TNG episode "
The Mind's Eye" that Federation phasers have efficencies of up to 86.5%, which means that the output of a small phaser bank is probably somewhere around 3.6
gigawatts. We also know from "
The Mind's Eye", that a phaser rifle output is "1.05
megajoules per second", or 1.05
megawatts, which clearly contradicts the Next Generation Technical Manual's 0.01
megawatts output statement for phaser rifles.
A close-up examination of the large dorsal phaser array on the 4-foot Enterprise-D model, [1], clearly shows it has more than 200 emitter segments, at least 950. So again, the tech manuals are proven inaccurate.
I'm all for a merge; actually, I've never heard of a " phaser receiver" and, arguably, that article should be nixed instead. E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 20:10, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
My problem with the table: I thought there was a "kill" setting - "Disruptors" disrupt, phasers attack w/ "phased" energy...
"Kill" is probably an informal term for Setting 7, which will kill (but not 'phazorize') ordinary organic beings. The order 'set phasers to kill' would be understood by Starfleet personnell as Setting 7, or whatever setting is equivalent to it on a less powerful or more powerful model of phaser. -- JaceCady 15:33, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
I do believe that Types I, II and III Phasers were used in The Original Series (TOS). The current writing of this section seems to ignore that Type I , II and III designations were used in the original series and the nicknames specifically refer to the nicknames from TNG. Daroldhiga 22:50, 18 August 2006 (UTC)