The primary phaser coil was a critical component on board a Cardassian warship such as a Galor-class cruiser. The coil can be ejected, but doing so would leave the ship defenseless. (TNG: "Chain Of Command, Part II")
The "primary" denotation suggests that there are secondary phaser coil(s) on board a Cardassian warship. The primary coil therefore most likely operates the large forward emitter as opposed to the smaller dorsal emitters.
| Phaser technology |
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| Tools: phaser bore • phaser drill |
| Weapons: Automatic bridge defense system • Bajoran phaser • Bajoran phaser rifle • compression phaser rifle • Ferengi hand phaser • Galor-class phaser bank • hand phaser • Kzinti phaser • particle phaser • phaser array • phaser bank • phaser cannon • phaser emitter • phaser pulse • phaser type-1 • phaser type-2 • phaser type-3 • phaser type-4 • phaser type-8 • plasma phaser • Regalian phaser rifle • regenerative phaser |
| Other: phaser adapter • phaser coil • phaser coolant • phaser coupling • phaser range • phaser relay • phaser room • phaser station • phaser sweep |