I love the sound the original phasers make, both the hand phasers and the ships phasers. They just ooze cool factor!

Aside from the Federation and the Ferengi, not many space faring races use phasers. This is because phasers vs disruptors phasers are more complex to make and the only reason the Federation uses phasers is that they have a high degree of consideration for life regarless of friend or foe. Most other space faring races uses disruptor or some variant of.

"Trekobabble" 😂 I can't believe I have never heard that term before! I wish I had coined it.

When it comes to the destructive power of the phaser it really depends on the size because certain ones aren't crazy powerful. In the episode A Piece of the Action Kirk implies a hand phaser or phaser # 1 might knock out the side of the building they're in if fired. I want to say Kirk meant if you fire it you could hit and destroy a support beam and take an entire section of building if not careful. Because in episodes like Devil in the Dark, Arena, and others it is fully stated that a phaser # 1 is far less powerful than a phaser # 2 but to do heavy damage but we never see even phaser rifles wipe out massive rock formations and lord knows in DS9 that would have come in handy.

My favorite phasers will always be those of The Original Series. Perhaps because they resemble our handheld firearms. Except for the first episode in season 1, a rifle phaser is never seen in TOS.

"N signs of Command" never saw that episode.

Thanks for the memories. I made a Mark I when I was 14 and a better one when I was 15. I started on a Mark II when I was 16 but never built the electronics. My girlfriend pointed it at George Takei once, but he didn't say, "Oh my!"

4:36 “Enzymes of Command” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The ensigns of command

Thank you for a very interesting video on phasers.🖖

And now I know. I've always been interested in how they work.

Thanks shayla

Not all "space shows" had "energy weapons" as the show Firefly (and the follow up movie Serenity) used projectile weapons, that shot typical bullets from them!! In fact only one episode of Firefly (Episode title: Trash) showed a "laser pistol" that was unique, but basically worthless in it!! Even Firefly's Jane Cobb, who owned Vera, which was a rifle shot normal bullets, and required "air around her" to be fired in space!!

I never thought that phasers were actually that good of a weapon tactically as it had quite a few flaws to be a military weapon in most of its depictions. For one thing, and this is not true for every version of the phaser, is that it is a single shot weapon. The person firing the phaser has to remain exposed to enemy fire for several seconds while its single shot completes its firing sequence before you can fire the next shot, in which the process repeats again. This is true for the handheld type 1 phaser, all the way to shipboard versions. The phasers from The Next Generation era onward, don't appear to be very ergonomically designed for humanoid hands and has a thumb trigger. The Kirk era phasers, at least, had pistol grips with a forefinger trigger and the TNG era phaser power settings weren't conveniently placed either. The phaser rifle or type three phaser, from the Kirk era and the TNG era as well, were very bulky, in the TOS era in design and boxy in the TNG era. Voyager introduced the Phased Compression Rifle which, in design, harkened back to the TOS era in design and was, eventually, thrown away om favor of the TNG movie era design with absolutely no explanation whatsoever. The TNG movie era phaser rifle was a far better design, in my opinion, as it fired balls of energy rather than beams and fired in, what appeared to be, a semiautomatic firing pattern. The phased plasma guns of the Enterprise era were a much better design, I believe, at least with the rifle. The pistol, while appearing similar to the TOS in design, still had the same problem with the other handheld designs in regard to the firing sequence Lower Decks, Picard, Discovery and Strange New Worlds, I haven't watched with the same dedication that I watched the older series so I can't comment on except for this. Lower Decks takes place in the same time period as TNG. Discovery and Strange New Worlds takes place BEFORE TOS and, in Discovery's case, long after. Picard takes place long after Voyager

THAT WAS REALLY COOL!! 🤔I don't even know WHERE THOSE SINGLE LOOKING FIGHTER VALKRIES CAME FROM BUT I LIKE THEM!! I've always wondered why they didn't use the PHOTON TORPEDOS OVER THE PHAZER/PHASER BANKS MAYBE THATS A DIFFERENT STORY-and! How STARFLEET ALWAYS SEEM TO COME ACROSS OTHER RACES THAT PACK!!!! A BIGGER PUNCH ‼️AND STARFLEET STILL DID NOT UPGRADE their FIREPOWER!!

The weapons used in the Cage were lasers. I thought it was a mistake to introduce phase pistols in Enterprise.

VERY VERY VERY VERY interesting i am Not sure when But at some point i just could Not follow any ~ more Great Job Nice .

AI announcer ???😂😂😂

TASERS (an actual brand name for a Conductive Energy Weapon) cannot have their power output adjusted. You are given whatever level of voltage that particular CEW is designed for and that's it. By the way, could you say 2 or 3 more times how phasers are the pinnacle of weapons for any future society or phrases like capacity to incapacitate...lol

Funny you use the Theurgyy Online-sim, a non-canon fanon concept.

Ensigns is pronounced en sins, not en signs

The Tasers that police officers use cannot be adjusted by the officers. Some Tasers have multiple cartridges that an officer can use. But they all operate at the same power level. Being required to calculate the power needed on a per person basis requires clairvoyance. And the thought that all the choices an officer has to make in a split second, use open hand force, use pepper spray, use a night stick, a Taser or use deadly force can be made that guarantees a good outcome at all times for all persons involved is faulty thinking. One wrong choice has deadly consequences for one or more parties. And of course it’s always the police officer who chose wrong. Not the bad guy holding a deadly weapon. Star Fleet weapons would be welcome.

In the first pilot they where quite different than the 3 year run of the show witch was very well designed and probably the nicest looking and most detailed of all of the star treks to come but in the first pilot they looked kind of cheaply put together budget no doubt but they where referred to as lasers in pilot one the second pilot used the same prop and a phaser riffle was introduced and through out the original series the original prop would show up in the first season in the hands of people who had not been contacted for years so it would make sense that the older model is what they where left with many things in the 2 pilots worked back into the show rather than spend the limited budget on designing a completely new object things could be reused turned over with lights added and colors changed.

Setting phasers for stun🔫🔫🔫

Interesting What did the Sheiak use ??

I didn't like the inconsistencies in the phasers. Sometimes the original Enterprise fired and they were blue sometimes they were red. Sometimes the phaser rifles in TNG and DS9 fired a long beam other times just a pulse of energy. Didn't really make sense. Also we know phasers can vaporize people but whenever there was a major battle they never vaporized enemies. The dominion war was a perfect example of that, they just shot soldiers and they went down.

After the time point of 21:50, why couldn't it have just been said as "cubic meters" rather than "m3",.. for the effects of the heavier phaser beam settings on dense materials, rock & heavy metallic objects? It's a little annoying to hear it keep referring to cubic meters as "m3".

My favorite thing to do is to listen to how many mispronunciations the AI says during the video. But great video nonetheless.

They really should be called “Projected Energy Weapons” aka P.E.W. aka “pew pew”

21:50 I think you should've said "ten cubic meters of rock" there?

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This video doesnt account for Star Trek: Dicovery, or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds or Star Trek: Picard. Strange New Worlds (and Discovery before it, really) introduced a new Type III phaser rifle that looks way less clunky than the one used in the 2nd pilot of TOS Star Trek: Picard introduced a new type II phaser that almost returns to the roots of the phaser, looking more like a pistol than its 2270s predecessor, while keeping the 24th century aesthetic, alongside a new, somewhat more compact Type III Rifle. There is also a variant pistol shown in Season 2 of Picard that is used by the alternate Confederation of Planets.

M 3, do you mean cubic meters? 😂

I'm just going to mention the M3 of rock. Do with it as you must!

Directed energy or Projected energy?

Just waiting on the i-phaser, what could go wrong?

Great video. What source did you use when showing the evolution of , say the type 3?

Is this read by a computer ?

The type 2 phasers used in TNG didn't look like a pistol. This version was not displayed in the video even though it was used throughout the whole series.

Please up date your robo voice/ text to speech as so to recognize M3= Cubic Meters its a dead give away your using one on otherwise a good video.

How can a weapon that can kill and blow holes in starships be attenuated to just stun?

10 M 3 of rock? Do you by any chance mean 10 cubic meters of rock?

Explain this. A type 1 phaser has an exposed trigger on top. Ya put the type 1 on top of the type 2, the barrels don't line up. With the exposed trigger on the type 1, ever time ya bump the trigger, the phaser fires, with trhe barrels not lining up, well ya get the picture!

Phasers can heat rocks, stun, heavy stun, disrupt, kill, & overload self destruct... Done.

Sad indictment of the education system, when people don't even know m3 means cubic meters,

New technologies, Don’t you mean, newly dreamt fantasies?

TASERs aren't adjustable...

Compromised you mean compromised whoever wrote this script didn't understand Phasers and added to much artsy style of writing

Nobody says M3 of rock, you mean cubic meters of rock.

The Type 3 Phaser is a hand-held rifle. I stopped watching at the point where you got this wrong.

.... did you REALLY mispronounce the word ensigns? seriously, if you cant be bothered to proof check your computer voiceover , dont bother posting things.

The Next Generation Phasers were quite ugly. Didn't look good at all. The 'classic' Phaser is still the best. Absolutely brilliant design and timeless. It still looks good 60 years later. Never bettered.

The original is best ,tos

Give me the Defiant. I give u peace on Earth.