| rdfs:comment | - Although phase-pistols handled similarly to an EM-33, they were different in that they did not require the user to compensate for particle drift, but to instead point straight at the target. (ENT: "Fight or Flight", "Sleeping Dogs") The effects of a phase-pistol hit also differed from those experienced with other weapons of that era. 22nd century Suliban and Coridan weapons inflicted identifiable wounds, tearing through clothing and into the victim's flesh. (ENT: "Shadows of P'Jem") The phase-pistol, however, was capable of having an effect more comparable to an electric shock, capable of causing severe injury without breaking, burning or otherwise damaging the skin. Along with the beam, a pulse would surge through it, causing more damage. (ENT: "Broken Bow") It was also capable of making
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| abstract | - Although phase-pistols handled similarly to an EM-33, they were different in that they did not require the user to compensate for particle drift, but to instead point straight at the target. (ENT: "Fight or Flight", "Sleeping Dogs") The effects of a phase-pistol hit also differed from those experienced with other weapons of that era. 22nd century Suliban and Coridan weapons inflicted identifiable wounds, tearing through clothing and into the victim's flesh. (ENT: "Shadows of P'Jem") The phase-pistol, however, was capable of having an effect more comparable to an electric shock, capable of causing severe injury without breaking, burning or otherwise damaging the skin. Along with the beam, a pulse would surge through it, causing more damage. (ENT: "Broken Bow") It was also capable of making the rounds harmless for training purposes, possibly by setting the weapon to stun. (ENT: "Sleeping Dogs") However, it was possible for phase-pistols to inflict wounds. (ENT: "Demons") Crewmembers from Enterprise NX-01 first used phase-pistols in April of 2151, when Captain Jonathan Archer infiltrated a Suliban helix. Aboard the helix, Archer was able to stun a Suliban soldier before having his own phase-pistol turned against him by Silik. Due to bizarre temporal effects within the helix's temporal chamber, however, Archer was able to literally dodge the phase-pistol beam and escaped relatively unharmed, while the beam's presence in the chamber caused a large shock wave to surge through it, as Silik had said it to be unwise to use the weapon in that room. (ENT: "Broken Bow") Enterprise carried a total of fifteen phase-pistols on the ship during 2151. (ENT: "Shadows of P'Jem") Ensign Masaro committed suicide with a phase-pistol in 2155. (ENT: "Terra Prime") Starfleet phase-pistols were used as late as 2161, when an away team from Enterprise fought against a group of aliens on the planet Rigel X. (ENT: "These Are the Voyages...")
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