Phaser

The ship has a third nacelle, cloaking ability, a spinal phaser lance, and large phaser cannons on the saucer section.

As La'an explains that their standard weapons might not be enough, Pike reveals new phaser rifles, with freeze-ray features, and a tricorder upgrade that will allow the officer to detect nearby Gorn.

The proximity of a black hole plays havoc with phaser aiming.

A phaser beam element was placed on top of the background plate, and Vargas' shots were optically dissolved into an airbrushed disintegration effect which matched Vargas' position in every frame.

A similar change was seen in the starship-mounted phaser banks, which also fire bolts instead of beams.

As the crew exits the module, Sarris wakes up and tries to fire on them, but Nesmith reacts faster, and disintegrates Sarris with a phaser-like weapon.

Doctor Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ) manages to devise a cure, allowing the team to return to the ship. citation When Simon van Gelder enters the bridge armed with a phaser in " Dagger of the Mind ", Spock subdues him with a nerve pinch.

In addition there is a second version of the sidearm that is bunker, completely metallic and without coloring, and without double sided barrels, giving it an even closer appearance to that of the phaser seen in the first two Star Trek films.

Next in the chain, he uses a Foxx Foot Phaser ("We Will Rock You", "We Are the Champions", "Keep Yourself Alive", etc.), and two delay machines to play his trademark solo in "Brighton Rock".

Nimoy also came up with the concept of the " Vulcan nerve pinch ", which he suggested as a replacement for the scripted knock out method of using the butt of his phaser.

Phaser beams can be adjusted in both width and output.

Phaser Phasers are common particle-beam weapons first seen in the original Star Trek series and later seen or referenced in almost all subsequent films and television spin-offs.

Ships of this type are armed with a large phaser cannon (possibly a plasma cannon).

Smaller effects sequences, such as phaser fire, computer graphics, and transporter effects, were delegated to a team led by visual-effects supervisor David Takemura.

Some designed props, such as a redesigned phaser and communicator, were vetoed by Paramount executives in favor of existing materials from The Motion Picture.

Special attention was given to such elements as the Enterprise, alien planets and their images depicted from space, planets seen from orbit, alien spacecraft, and technology such as computer readouts, viewscreen images, and phaser beams.

Their uniforms tend to fit rather loosely, and often feature large phaser holsters that allow the entire weapon to be 'dropped in', hiding most of it from view.

The phaser effect was originally a simpler implementation of the flanger effect since delays were difficult to implement with analog equipment.

The scene in which Terrell kills Jedda, a Regula scientist, by vaporizing him with a phaser was filmed in two takes.

The ship's phaser system was also said to be capable of destroying continents. citation There are several types of phasers used by Starfleet and the United Federation of planets.