The plasma phaser was a proposed Starfleet weapon for use against the Borg.
The plasma phaser was still on the drawing board in late 2366. It was projected that this, and other weapons designed to defend against the Borg, would take eighteen to twenty-four months to be ready.
While preparing to face an imminent Borg invasion in that year, Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Shelby attempted to suggest modifying the plasma phaser design to adapt it to the existing technologies aboard the USS Enterprise-D. She was stopped by Commander William T. Riker, who ended discussion for that night. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds")
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| 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 |