What happened to phasers that vaporize?

[Longinus]

I’ve lived on 4 continents, but that’s a dealbreaker for not being able to live in certain places.

Proper English is a dealbreaker?

 

[Lord Garth]

Once you can speak Proper English, ain't nobody gonna change that.

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

Proper English is a dealbreaker?

Too set in my spelling ways. But to each their own.

 

[DaveyNY]

Too set in my spelling ways. But to each their own.

... and on that note ...

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[Delta Vega]

I’ve lived on 4 continents, but that’s a dealbreaker for not being able to live in certain places.

Ive already indulged in the old "Corbomite Maneuver", "Corbomite Manoeuvre" debate

 

[Shamrock Holmes]

But we know the standard DSC phasers can do it all - beams and pulses, stun and kill and vaporize. The rifles have not stunned yet AFAIK, though. Can all starship phasers do all the tricks? Or is the stun setting something built into Kirk's hardware, rather than a rarity elsewhere for obvious tactical reasons? I hope we get to revisit that one at some point.

Personally, I'd prefer they either had only one weapon with ergonomic add-ons (hand phaser/battery --> pistol handle --> carbine butt, handguard, secondary battery) that does all of stun-heat-kill-disintegrate-anti-armor/geologic, or there should be two or three different weapons (pistol for stun & heat/kill, carbine for kill & unshielded anti-armor, cutting/shaped charge tool or grenade for shielded anti-armor/geologic.

 

[publiusr]

In TNG, really - after the first season, it was a rare event indeed. Heck, I don't think we saw it done by Starfleet guns after Riker did Yuta in "Vengeance Factor".

Timo Saloniemi

The mirror Archer used a disintegrate setting

 

[CLIFF2020]

It seems that hand phasers have gotten weaker over the years. Maybe helps as a plot device

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I always thought that the only reason TOS had phasers which vaporize was that they didn't have the effects budget to do anything more complicated.

 

[fireproof78]

Phasers sucking goes back to VOY at least.

 

[drt]

I always thought that the only reason TOS had phasers which vaporize was that they didn't have the effects budget to do anything more complicated.

Surprisingly, I bet disintegration was viewed as being less violent as well.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

It seems that hand phasers have gotten weaker over the years. Maybe helps as a plot device

This topic is even older than the other one you resurrected to talk about the same thing. You're not new here, so you should know better. Please stop. Closed.