A regenerative phaser was a type of phaser weapon designed in the late-24th century by Starfleet.
The TR-116 rifle was also considered as an alternative to this weapon, as it could have been used in any type of environment where a normal phaser was useless, such as inside energy dampening fields or radiogenic environments. The TR-116 however never entered production. (DS9: "Field of Fire")
Other phaser weapons, such as the compression phaser rifle, could be used in a dampening field. In the episode VOY: "Night", when the USS Voyager became trapped in a Night Alien dampening field the rifles were still operational. Also, some phaser arrays were not disabled by radiogenic environments. In the episode VOY: "Dragon's Teeth", USS Voyager fired its phasers inside the radiogenic atmosphere of the Vaadwaur homeworld. The Delta Flyer also fired its phasers inside the radiogenic ring around a class T planet in VOY: "Good Shepherd".
In the novel Mere Mortals, it was attempted to use regenerative phasers against the Borg, but they failed to be effective.
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 |
External link[]
- Regenerative phaser at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works