We only see phasers on stun (and the person being shot instantly faints to uncounsciousness) or desintegrate (where they, well, desintegrate). I remember Terrell and Kruge's gunner screaming.
Does it hurt to be shot by phaser?
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If a taser does, I imagine a phaser could. Starfleet phasers might have settings that hurt less, depending on who you're shooting at, given the more enlightened Humans we supposedly become.
In "The Man Trap," Crater did not faint from the Phaser setting Kirk used; Crater was in a sort of dazed / drunken state:
CRATER: "Ooh! I feel strange."
KIRK: "Just stunned. You'll be able to think in a minute."
If it didn't, they'd be a sleep aid.
Just don't try to quickdraw yourself in the mirror (unlike Jon Arbuckle in my Garfield/TNG crossover fic)
There's a canonical answer, in DS9:"Profit and Loss"
- Natima and Quark
Wonder why being shot by a Varon-T Disruptor apparently hurt so much more than being vaporized by a Phaser or other disruptors, so that the weapon became banned?
The Vaporization process doesn't last much longer than what happened to Kruge's gunner and just a short moment longer than a TNG Handphaser.
The Vaporization process doesn't last much longer than what happened to Kruge's gunner and just a short moment longer than a TNG Handphaser.
As Kivas Fajo described the Varon-T disruptor, "It's vicious. It tears a body apart, inside out, and very slowly too by your phaser standards. It's tortuous. A very, very painful death" (as transcribed at chakoteya.net). Comparing the scene to other disintegrations, it does seem take a longer amount of time from the moment when Fajo pulls the trigger until the victim disappears.
Kor
It's not the time; it's the mileage. It's designed to inflict pain as you are being disintegrated. Not just kill you; hurt you as you die. Cruelty in handheld form.
I would liken pain from a phaser hit on a scale of 1 and up as a 1 being... a 9 volt battery just to get your attention, to a disintegration. (Capt. Terral)
In between I think they would feel like increasingly strong electric jolts. Highest I have felt is 110 so I can imagine 240 - 480 - 960 as voltages I would not want to
around with.
In between I think they would feel like increasingly strong electric jolts. Highest I have felt is 110 so I can imagine 240 - 480 - 960 as voltages I would not want to
around with.
I'm sure it smarts a bit.
Maybe.
True, but we'll have to take into account that Quark is a whiny little creature. Moreover, he was trying to get a rub from Natina at that point (and possibly more).
That said, these phasers deliver an energy blast to your body so it probably really isn't a pleasant felling, even on low settings.
This topic reminds me of Down Periscope:
I suspect that, as far as Fed weapons are concerned, the "kinetic stun" that Kirk used to blast the Klingon guards 20 feet in the air on Genesis in TSFS would probably hurt more than any other kind of stun. As for kill settings, who knows? Has anyone ever canonically survived being shot by "kill" to say "that REALLY fucking hurt!!"? 
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