Timo wrote:

...Nowadays, and thanks to the reworking done in connection with the blu-ray transfer. Originally, the very first episode already cast serious doubt on there being a yacht there, as an energy transfer beam (according to dialogue, a phaser rigged funny) was fired from the general area.
Timo Saloniemi
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In the early days of TNG, that ship had torpedoes and phasers and random "beams" coming out of all sorts of wrong places.