Title: Star Trek The Next Generation Technical Manual ISBN: 978-0-6717-0427-8 Page: 123 wrote: As installed in the Galaxy class, the main ship's phasers are rated as Type X, the largest emitters available for starship use. Individual emitter segments are capable of directing 5.1 megawatts. By comparison, the small personal phasers issued to Starfleet crew members are Type I and II, the latter being limited to 0.01 MW.
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A typical large phaser array aboard the USS Enterprise, such as the upper dorsal array on the Saucer Module, consists of two hundred emitter segments in a dense linear arrangement for optimal control of firing order, thermal effects, field halos, and target impact.
One emitter segment has an output of 5.1 megawatts, and there are 200 of them that combined their output into a single beam.Title: Star Trek The Next Generation Technical Manual ISBN: 978-0-6717-0427-8 Page: 125 wrote: Energy from all discharged segments passes directionally over neighboring segments due to force coupling, converging on the release point, where the beam will emerge and travel at c to the target.
5.1*200=1.02
The STTNGTM would seem to be claiming that the Enterprise-D's largest phaser array had an output of 1.02 gigawatts.
Let's see how the STTNGTM compares to the actual Star Trek The Next Generation television series.
Small Phaser Bank uses a gigawatt reactor?Series: Star Trek Franchise: The Next Generation Season: 03 Episode: 04 Title: Who Watches The Watchers wrote: LAFORGE: We've finished replicating the parts they'll need, but what I don't understand is why a three man station would need a reactor capable of producing four point two gigawatts.
RIKER: Enough to power a small phaser bank, a subspace relay station, or
The fusion reactor in question is at most only 4 feet high, and about 6 feet long. You could literally fit hundreds of them on a Galaxy class, and no one would notice! Why bother with a complex array when you could just mount a bleep load of guns all oner the hull with their own personal powersource
Series: Star Trek Franchise: The 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.
.06 terawatts=60 gigawattsSeries: Star Trek Franchise: The Next Generation Season: 05 Episode: 09 Title: A Matter Of Time wrote: DATA: There were no errors, Geordi. The variance must be no more than point zero six terawatts.
Terawatts are talked of as relatively small percentages of the total output for the phasers.
But it gets worse when you look at Deep Space Nine
A Cardassian Phase-Disruptor has an output of 4.7 mega joules fired every 0.003, or about 1.6 gigawatts., and its Federation equivalent is only slightly less powerful!Series: Star Trek Franchise: Deep Space Nine Season: 04 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.
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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.
The STTNGTM is claiming that phaser rifles are possibly more powerful then the huge phasers on a Galaxy class.
It gets worse for the STTNGTM in Voyager
That's a rifle that is an entire order of magnitude more powerful then the STTNGTM says the huge phasers on a Galaxy class starship are.Series: Star Trek Franchise: Voyager Season: 04 Episode: 17 Title: Retrospect wrote: KOVIN: Terrawatt powered particle beam rifle, four microsecond recharge cycle, ten kilometer range.
It gets absurdly bad for the STTNGTM when we look at Star Trek Enterprise
That's right, the anemic phase cannons on the NX-01 fad a far higher output then the STTNGTM says the huge phasers on a Galaxy class starship, and the Galaxy class is suppose to be far more powerful then the NX-01! We don't know the exact wattage of the NX-01's phase cannons, but it has a high enough refire rate to look like a solid beam.Series: Star Trek Franchise: Enterprise Season: 01 Episode: 12 Title: Silent Enemy wrote: REED: This, ladies and gentlemen is a phase-modulated energy weapon. It's rated for a maximum power output of five hundred gigajoules. Enterprise was designed to carry three of them. We have one, and it's only a prototype.
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REED: Check the cannons. Be careful down there. The blast yield was ten times what we expected.
ARCHER [OC]: What happened?
REED: Something overloaded the phase modulators.
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REED: Even if these cannons had been installed at Jupiter Station, they wouldn't be any more effective than they are now.
ARCHER: What about yesterday? I saw you blow something up the size of Mount McKinley.
REED: Yes sir, but that was due to an overload.
[Bridge]
ARCHER: Can you overload them again?
[Armoury]
REED: Sir, after the damage from the first time the plasma recoil would probably knock out two decks.
[Bridge]
ARCHER: Can you overload them again?
[Armoury]
REED: I believe so.
[Bridge]
ARCHER: I'd rather knock out two decks than surrender this ship.
Star Trek beam weapons fire pulses so quickly they look like beams, and this means the wattage is far higher then the stated output.Series: Star Trek Franchise: Enterprise Season: 02 Episode: 23 Title: Regeneration wrote: (Malcolm and Crewman Foster are test firing a phase rifle)
REED: Increase power another five megajoules. Fire. Keep it going. Increase to seven megajoules. Try eight. Nine. The density's holding. Bring it up to ten. (it finally blasts a hole in the target) That should do it. We'll reach that transport in less than an hour. Let's modify as many of these as we can.