Range: ?????Franchise: Star Trek Series: Deep Space Nine Season: 4 Episode: 14 Title: Return To Grace wrote: KIRA: This is a standard issue, Cardassian phase-disruptor rifle. It has a four point seven megajoule power capacity, three millisecond recharge two beam settings.
ZIYAL: How do you know so much about Cardassian weapons?
KIRA: We captured a lot of them during the occupation. It's a good weapon, solid, simple. You can drag it through the mud and it'll still fire. Now this. (Federation phaser rifle.) This is an entirely different animal. Federation standard issue. It's a little less powerful, but it's got a more options. Sixteen beam settings. Fully autonomous recharge, multiple target acquisition, gyro stabilised, the works. It's a little more complicated, so it's not as good a field weapon. Too many things can go wrong with it.
ZIYAL: I can see why my father likes having you around.
KIRA: I think you should stick with the Cardassian rifle. It's smaller, easier to use, and if we get boarded I don't want you to have to think too much about the weapon you're using.
Rate of Fire: 20,000 Rounds Per-Minute
Cartridge: 4.7 Megajoules
Output: 1566.66667 Megawatts or roughly 1.6 Gigawatts
As we can see the standard Starfleet Phaser has an output slightly below a Cardassian Phase Disruptor's 1566.66667 Megawatt output.
Franchise: Star Trek Series: Next Generation Season: 06 Episode: 26 Title: Decent Part 1 wrote: WORF: These wounds were caused by a forced plasma beam, similar to a Ferengi hand phaser.
Franchise: Star Trek Series: Next Generation Season: 03 Episode: 26 Title: The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1 wrote: SHELBY: I think we should look at modifying the plasma phaser design.
Clearly a large aspect of the standard issue Starfleet phaser comes from plasma and photonsFranchise: Star Trek Series: Next Generation Season: 03 Episode: 26 Title: The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1 wrote: LAFORGE: At the same time, we'll be retuning phasers to higher EM base emitting frequencies to try to disrupt their subspace field.
1.05 Megawatt nadion pulses are commonly fired from Starfleet Type-3 phasers, but Major Kirs stated that a standard Starfleet Type-3 phaser fired a little less then 1566.66667 Megawatts.Franchise: Star Trek Series: Next Generation Season: 04 Episode: 24 Title: The Mind's Eye wrote: (Data and Geordi are doing test firings of the phaser rifle)
DATA: Energy flow is within normal parameters, from the pre-fire chamber to the emission aperture.
LAFORGE: Rapid nadion pulse, right on target. Beam control assembly, safety interlock, both checked out. Beam width intensity controls also responding correctly.
DATA: Energy cell usage remains constant at one point oh five megajoules per second. Curious. The efficiency reading on the discharge crystal is well above Starfleet specifications.
LAFORGE: Yeah, by quite a bit. Ninety four point one percent efficiency.
DATA: Our most efficient discharge crystal typically fires with eighty six point five percent efficiency.
Nadions make up roughly 0.06700701978302488% of a standard Starfleet Type-3 Phaser's output.
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