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meters in diameter. (“A Matter of Honor" [TNG]). Worf and Guinan hand phasers, which were used pnmarily when conspicuous shared a practice session together in the Enterprise-D's phaser weapons were undesirable, or the larger, more powerful phaser range in late 2367. Guinan was a better shot than Worf. type-2, formerly known as pistol phasers. Phaser type-2 “Redemption, Part I" [TNG). weapons were capable of power settings as high as 16. (“Frame of Mind” [TNG]). Type-3 phasers, also known as phaser rifles, phaser rifle. SEE: phaser type-3. were seldom used. (“Where No Man Has Gone Before” [TOS], “The Mind's Eye” [TNG]). Large ship-mounted phaser weapons, phaser type-1. Small handheld weapon used by Starfleet per- often called phaser banks, were standard equipment aboard sonnel who preferred not to appear conspicuously armed, as many Starfleet vessels. By 2367, the effective tactical range of during diplomatic functions. Like all such weapons, phaser type- shipboard phaser banks (and most directed-energy weapons) 1 could be adjusted to a variety of settings including stun, heat, was about 300,000 kilometers (about one light-second). Ship's and disruption. Phaser 1, also known as a hand phaser, was not phasers could be reconfigured to drill into planetary surfaces, as powerful as the phaser type-2 pistol. (“The Devil in the Dark” and could effectively drill to great depths. (“Inheritance [TNG). [TOS]). Some versions of phaser type-1 were designed to fitinto Ship's phasers were also used to drill into a planet in the episodes a pistol grip unit, forming the more powerful phaser type-2. “Legacy” (TNG) and “A Matter of Time" (TNG). Phasers did not exist during the 22nd century, phaser type-2. Medium-sized hand- according to Worf in “A Matter of : held weapon used by Starfleet per- Time" (TNG), so they had to have x — sonnel. Early versions of phaser been invented no earlier than the rey type-2 were pistol-like in design. year 2200. Phasers were apparently » Significantly more powerful than the not in common use as late as 2254, tiny phaser type-1, the phaser pistol when the Enterprise landing party in . actually incorporated the phaser 1 “The Cage” (TOS) was equipped into its design. Like all handheld with laser weapons. SEE: Illustration. phaser weapons, phaser 2 could be adjusted to a variety of settings including stun, heat, and disrup- phasing cloak. Invisibility-screen generator that was designed tion. (“The Devil in the Dark" [TOS]). Later versions of phaser-2 not only to disguise a starship from visual and sensor detection, were wandlike in design. (Star Trek: The Next Generation). but also to alter the atomic structure of the ship, so that ship could pass through normal matter. The strategic advantages of phaser type-3. Handheld phaser rifle weapon. Extremely power- the device would have been numerous, and the Federation ful, seldom necessary on Starfleet missions due to the great covertly worked on its development, in violation of the Treaty of power and utility of the smaller type-1 and type-2 phasers. Algeron. The cloak eventually proved itself in practical use, but Nevertheless, Spock believed a phaser rifle to be necessary while the Federation was forbidden from using it by the terms of the attempting to quarantine Gary Mitchell on planet Delta Vega in treaty. (“The Pegasus” [TNG]). SEE: cloaking device. 2265. (“Where No Man Has Gone Before" [TOS]). Hundreds of type-3 phaser rifles were captured from Kriosian rebels in 2367 Pheben system. Planetary system; site of a mission by the by the Klingon government, evidence that the Federation was Klingon vessel Pagh during William Riker's tenure as first officer aiding the rebels. Investigation revealed the weapons to be of that ship in 2365. (“A Matter of Honor" [TNG]) Romulan in origin. (“The Mind's Eye” [TNG]). Federation phaser rifles can be modified to emit an expanding energy pulse. The Phelan system. Star system located some 2.5 light-years from pulse does not harm equipment, but does affect some living the J'naii planet. The Enterprise-D was assigned to a diplomatic beings. In 2371, the crew of the U.S.S. Defiant used phasers con- mission in the Phelan system following an assignment at the figured in this manner to sweep the ship for a Founder who was J'naii system in 2368. (“The Outcast” [TNG]). sabotaging their starship. (‘The Adversary” [DS9)). Even less frequently used were compression phaser rifles, although some pheromones. Biochemicals secreted by many carbon-based Federation starships, including the U.S.S. Voyager, carried them life-forms, whose scent affects the behavior of other members of in their weapons inventory for contingency situations. the same or similar species. Many animal species use (“Caretaker” [VGR]). In 2372, a standard-issue Starfleet type-3 pherenomes for communication or to attract members of the phaser rifle had 16 beam settings, a fully autonomous recharge, opposite sex. Empathic metamorphs produce highly elevated and multiple target acquisition, and was gyrostabilized. (“Return levels of a substance similar to pheromones during the final stage to Grace” [DS9)). A phaser rifle was used only once during the of their sexual maturation. (“The Perfect Mate" [TNG]). SEE: Original Series, the one wielded by Kirk in “Where No Man Has Kamala. Enterprise-D personnel used pheromones extracted Gone Before.” Phaser rifles were not used for the first few sea- from Deanna Troi to lure the devolved Worf away from sickbay, sons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, until “The Mind's Eye,” while they worked on a cure for Barclay's Protomorphosis because it was believed that type-1 and type-2 phasers were Syndrome in 2370. (‘Genesis” [TNG]). powerful enough to handle just about anything. pheromonic sensor. Instrument sensitive to pheromones phaser type-4. Medium-sized phaser emitter device, mountable ~~ Pheromonic sensors can be set to be triggered when a person of on small vehicles such as shuttlecraft, although not part of most a particular species gets within range, and were a favored tool of shuttles’ standard equipment. (“The Outcast” [TNG]). SEE: Flaxian assassins. (“Improbable Cause” [DS9]). Magellan, Shuttlecraft. Philana. (Barbara Babcock). Wife of Platonian leader Parmen. phaser type-8. Ship-mounted phaser emitter device. Maquis Although she looked some thirty years old, she was in fact some ships in the Demilitarized Zone gained possession of several two thousand three hundred years old and enjoyed the benefits type-8 phasers through covert means and used them in an attack of power in her repressive society. (“Plato's Stepchildren” [TOS]). on Gul Evek’s ship in 2370. (“Preemptive Strike" [TNG]) SEE: Mea 3. phaser. Acronym for PHASed Energy Phillips, Zoey. Former girlfriend of a young Benjamin Sisko. The Rectification, a directed-energy wea- two dated for three years. (“Paradise Lost” [DS9]). pon used by the Federation Starfleet and others. Phasers were used as Phoenix Cluster. A dense expanse of stars, largely unexplored sidearms by Starfleet personnel. by 2368. The Enterprise-D was assigned to conduct two weeks Most such weapons were either of research in the Phoenix Cluster when the Ktarian plot to infilphaser type-1, otherwise known as trate Starfleet was launched. (“The Game" [TNG]). The Phoenix