TWOK Phasers: Visceral... and Rare?

[Shat Happens]

^^^ Well, one more reason why Chekov is an idiot.

 

[drt]

^^ Good points. It would almost seem that a photon torpedo is a good choice of weapon when you want to hit something and have a large area of damage opposite to a precision slicing phaser beam.

With the torpedo bay gunners disabled or killed Chekov aimed for Reliant's hard-to-miss weapons' pod but destroying the port warp nacelle required precision firing, hence phasers?

Bob

^^ I seem to recall, the Enterprise shot Reliant's nacelle with both weapons.

I always thought the phaser shot seemed like a mistake by the effects team, since the dialog implied they were just firing torpedoes.

 

[DonIago]

Under the circumstances I'd hardly fault Our Heroes for not taking any chances.