A photon pulse fired from a type 4 phaser
A type 4 phaser emitter was a small ship-mounted phaser emitter of a type that could be used on shuttlecraft.
Though phasers were not normally installed on type 6 shuttlecraft, they could be fitted for special purposes. The emitters were placed on the forward tips of the two warp nacelles.
In 2368, the Magellan, a shuttle from the USS Enterprise-D, was equipped with type 4 phaser emitters in order to chart the null space in the J'naii star system with a series of photon pulses. (TNG: "The Outcast")
In the original pencil drawings of the hand-held compression phaser rifle, it was also designated as a type IV phaser. [1]
StarTrek.com uses a picture of the type 8 shuttlecraft firing its phasers to depict the type 4 phaser, suggesting its armaments also share this designation. [2](X)
| 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 |