Favorite Phasers!

[Cwj]

I've always loved the phasers in Trek. I'm trying to save up for a fancy replica, but I have 2 Diamond Select toy replicas (TOS and TWOK). They are accurate and FUN to play with!!!

Anyway, what is your favorite phaser design? Mine would be:
1. TOS (very cool 2 in 1 design)
2. TWOK (awesome unique sound, but only fired 3 times in the film).
3. TSFS (also used in TNG's "Final Mission")

I HATE the "dustbuster" from seasons 1 and 2 of TNG. (The later designs were better, fortunately).
I also didn't like the "assault phaser" from films V and VI.

 

[6079SmithW]

My favorite is the TOS Type 2. It has both artistic and utilitarian aesthetics and looks futuristic but relatable at the same time. Unlike TNG era phasers it actually looks like a hand held weapon and not a dust buster.

 

[Galileo7]

TFF and TUC Type-2 Assault Phaser

 

[Dac]

First Contact black "rounded" phaser rifle (I never cared for the silver box nosed one).

 

[Cwj]

6079- I agree.

Galileo- For some reason I'm not crazy about the Assault phaser. Maybe its a little to "militaristic" (best word I can think of) for my liking. A bit too large as well.
However, when it was used in the films I thought the effects were cool. Certainly a vicious weapon!

 

[Warped9]

My favorite is the TOS Type 2. It has both artistic and utilitarian aesthetics and looks futuristic but relatable at the same time. Unlike TNG era phasers it actually looks like a hand held weapon and not a dust buster.

Agreed.

 

[BolianAuthor]

I gotta agree as well.

 

[backstept]

I like the voyager/late ds9 'banana' (or was it boomerang)
however I don't like the nemesis 'dolphin'

my fav alien prop has to be the Hirogen rifle

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The 29th century phaser from "Future's End."

 

[BolianAuthor]

Kinda funny they'd still be using phasers in the 29th century... I guess someone stopped inventing.

 

[Warped9]

Kinda funny they'd still be using phasers in the 29th century... I guess someone stopped inventing.

Why? Guns have been in use for hundreds of years and there's no end in sight. They just keep getting refined. Why should phasers be any different?

 

[BolianAuthor]

Well, because it's an energy weapon... we started with tasers, laser, phasers... what next? We can't find some new exotic form of energy weapon to use? I mean, in just the time of within 100 years, we've gone from using guns with bullets, to making weapons-grade lasers. And in the time between the 23rd and 29th centuries, we can't advance any further?

 

[Warped9]

Not saying we couldn't. But guns as a projectile weapon are still very effective and will likely remain in use for a loong time to come.

 

[BolianAuthor]

Right... I'm just saying that IMO, it's a bit silly that in 600 years, we haven't advanced past phaser tech.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

TSFS, all the way. I've always thought of it as the Colt .45 of the trekiverse.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Right... I'm just saying that IMO, it's a bit silly that in 600 years, we haven't advanced past phaser tech.

That's something to think about... just how old IS phaser tech? It's never been concretely established that humans invented it themselves, they might have bought it from another race in the earliest days of space exploration. In that case, phasers might be a very basic type of technology that comes in a billion different variations, not unlike cannons, missiles, telescopes, etc.

 

[Aahz]

Actually, chemically-propelled projectile weapons have been around for much longer than 100 years. The first "handgonne" appeared in the 1300s, and cannons appeared some time before that. The earliest potential record of a gun being used in battle may have been at the Siege of Metz, in which devices called "serpentines" were used. Some question that "serpentines" in this account refer to handguns, but there is no question that the Council of Florence in 1326 directed the production of bullets, and an Italian painting from 1340 shows handguns, probably French "pot-de-fers".

To paraphrase an earlier poster, "It's a bit silly that in 700 years, we haven't advanced much past handgun tech." It's very likely that phasers of some sort would still be around in the 29th century. They may or may not be the predominant weapon, but advanced versions (compared with the 23rd and 24th centuries) will undoubtedly still be in use.

Oh, and I like the two-piece phasers (Type 1 / Type 2). The assault phasers seen in ST5 and ST6 actually showed up in TMP, and they're updated Type 1 / Type 2 phasers (named Type 1B / Type 2B).

 

[BolianAuthor]

Well look at it this way... our military does not still use muskets instead of modern guns... we use modern guns... because we've advanced beyond the tech of muskets.

 

[Capt_Pickirk]

Right... I'm just saying that IMO, it's a bit silly that in 600 years, we haven't advanced past phaser tech.

Blame the writers of Voyager for that

 

[BolianAuthor]

^

Oh, I blame them for a great many things...