what's up lore masters this is the conclusion of a two-part series so for
you to get the full scope be sure to click in the top right hand corner right
about now it'll make a lot more sense if you do don't worry I'll wait okay done
great let's just get into it in the last video we discussed the genesis of the
phaser technology personal phaser weapons as well as the use of phasers as
a tool today we'll be focusing on the ship's weapons as well as discussing
disruptors themselves and so since we're talking about ship mounted phasers we'll
be talking about Type four phasers and on phasers as most know or the standard
weapon that's utilized on Starfleet ships the genesis of ship mounted phaser
technology similar to like what we see with the personal weapons starts with
the United Earth s-- Starfleet who utilized phase cannons these cannons
would be precursors to the phaser technology itself again I'm not saying
that the United Earth created phasers this is just where we as the audience
see the genesis of it it is possible that after the formation of the
Federation phasers were introduced by another member world that had already
discovered the technology perhaps the Vulcans or the in Dorian's but without
much more information this is what we'll have to go with early ship mounted
phaser technology would store power within rechargeable sources on the ship
itself at which point when they were fired the
phasers of course would be depleted once they were used later iterations would
derive power directly from the warp core this would allow the phasers to be more
powerful but also have the unfortunate side effect of the ship not being able
to defend itself if the warp core was shut down interestingly before this the
power would have been stored so even if the ship lost power it could still fire
phasers and till the energy was depleted of course and also I may have missed it
and God knows I'll be called out in the comments if I did but this made me
wonder why there were ever limitations on how long you could fire phasers if
the energy is pulled from the warp core itself couldn't you just fire until
there was no more power left I mean again I don't know again this may have
been explained and I just missed it but why wouldn't you just fire until what
Everett was was dead moving into the 23rd century Starfleet ships would come
standard with phasers specifically phaser turrets and phaser banks turrets
would be used widely throughout the 23rd century but lose favor into the early
and mid 24th century phasers can be fired both as one steady
beam or as shorter individual bolts ultimately the bolts would be cut
entirely due to Star Wars executives threatening to sue the hell out of Star
Trek executives ultimately advancements in phaser technology would mean that the
phasers themselves would generally fire in a continuous stream well into the
24th century the bolts we saw in the 23rd century would be all but gone
except for in special circumstance in the 24th century technology would Vance
the point that you would have phaser banks combined to create powerful phaser
emitters and later advancements would allow for the phaser cannon shipboard
phasers save for the phaser cannons which I could never really confirm this
about would be able to fire steady streams concentrated bolts proximity
blasts and stun like you could stun entire populations at least in the
original series so crazy according to memory alpha ship phasers
could also be modified to provide power transfers they could be used for
antimatter spreads laser pulse beams photon pulses pulse compression waves
modulating phaser pulses and covariant phaser pulses they also came standard
with gelato machines from what I could find it would appear that the latest
version of ship mounted phasers as of the upload of this video released is
type 10 phasers it could possibly be higher uh additionally as somewhat noted
before phaser Technology numbering system put the first three types of
phasers as the handheld or as the rifle and then the rest are for ship mounts or
land turrets what's curious is at least to me is if they improved upon the
original design of phaser technology if they made handheld phasers better would
they continue the numbering system so type 10 phasers are for ships but type
11 would be for a new type of rifle I mean it's not completely crazy but that
would be interesting and confusing now the original question posed by a patreon
counselor of the lore was what's the difference between phasers and
disruptors and let me say this recently I did a video on transwarp Drive and if
future Starfleet ships were using the excelsior
transwarp Drive itself which would explain the new TNG skill you should
check it out it's in the top right hand corner right now if you want to take a
look now in that video I made the comment that every alien that ever
interacted with the Federation utilized the same warp scale as the Federation
and of course I took a jab at it that it didn't make sense some people took me to
task I'll say reasonably on that the argument that was used by my audience is
that regardless of what the alien species calls warp drive the
communicator will relate warp drive specifically to Starfleet personnel
something they would understand so while the Romulans might not call their
propulsion warp nor utilize the warp scale the communicator magically knows
what they mean and puts it into terms that Starfleet officers would understand
and taking a look at this research what I've done today this theory is bolstered
by the fact that there doesn't appear to be a lot of cohesiveness to what a
disrupter is or how disruptor technology works or how aliens use them disruptors
honestly seem to be a catch-all for any alien tech that is into phaser disrupter
arrays disruptor cannons disruptor blasts sonic disruptors polaron
disruptors these technologies appear to be very drastically different in how
they work but they're all still disruptors now some sources will state
that a disruptor excites the material or cells until it loses cohesion though how
it doesn't impact air molecules I'll never know and this can also be seen by
several different types of disruptors when used however this doesn't seem to
be consistent one thing I will state though is that it generally is
preferable to be killed by a phaser than by a disrupter based on how horrific the
deaths appear ultimately the differences between phasers and disruptors seems
vast and yet unexplained are they similar are they not mainly this is
because Star Trek doesn't go out of its way to delineate it doesn't go out of
its way to explain disruptors the interesting piece to this was the use of
phasers as a tool I mean it's very Federation I don't know if it was
written this way on purpose or if just by happenstance but the fact that the
Federation did not create something specifically for the use of weaponry
seems very apt but those are my thoughts what are yours let me know in the
comments below
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