| rdfs:comment | - In 2156, Starfleet developed the first working laser cannon and used them alongside the weaker but still reliable Phase cannons. During the mid 22nd century-23rd century, Starfleet's primary energy based weapons were based on laser technology until the advent of phasers in 2257. (Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 4: Starships of the Original Series Era) The U'lanna made use of laser weapons, mounting dozens of laser weapons on a broadside. (Star Trek: The Stoneship Files: "For a New World")
- Jonathan Archer played with a plastic laser pistol toy as a child. (ENT: "Daedalus") The United Federation of Planets utilized handheld laser weaponry from the 2160s onward. (TAS: "The Slaver Weapon") Starfleet crews used laser weapons in 2254, around the time USS Enterprise visited Talos IV. Landing parties carried laser pistols, and large laser cannons were available as heavy artillery. (TOS: "The Cage" ) In 2268, Uhura wondered why the Klingons didn't provide the villagers of Neural with more advanced weaponry such as old-style hand lasers. (TOS: "A Private Little War" ) ) ) ) ) ) )
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| abstract | - In 2156, Starfleet developed the first working laser cannon and used them alongside the weaker but still reliable Phase cannons. During the mid 22nd century-23rd century, Starfleet's primary energy based weapons were based on laser technology until the advent of phasers in 2257. (Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 4: Starships of the Original Series Era) The U'lanna made use of laser weapons, mounting dozens of laser weapons on a broadside. (Star Trek: The Stoneship Files: "For a New World")
- Jonathan Archer played with a plastic laser pistol toy as a child. (ENT: "Daedalus") The United Federation of Planets utilized handheld laser weaponry from the 2160s onward. (TAS: "The Slaver Weapon") Starfleet crews used laser weapons in 2254, around the time USS Enterprise visited Talos IV. Landing parties carried laser pistols, and large laser cannons were available as heavy artillery. (TOS: "The Cage" ) In 2268, Uhura wondered why the Klingons didn't provide the villagers of Neural with more advanced weaponry such as old-style hand lasers. (TOS: "A Private Little War" ) By the 24th century, only a few races still used ship-board laser weaponry, including:
* the Atlec (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona" )
* the Borg (TNG: "Q Who" )
* the Lysian Alliance (TNG: "Conundrum" )
* the Solari (TNG: "Loud As A Whisper" )
* the Straleb (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona" )
* the Talarians (TNG: "Suddenly Human" ) In 2365, the class 9 cargo vessel Erstwhile was armed with a 2.3 megawatt laser array with four emitters. (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona" , production art) As of that same year, the Solari of Solais V were utilizing hand-held laser weapons capable of vaporizing a humanoid during their civil war. The vaporization effect appeared similar to a disruptor at maximum setting. (TNG: "Loud As A Whisper" ) Starfleet Regulations called for a Federation starship to go to yellow alert when targeted by laser weapons from another vessel. In 2365, USS Enterprise-D captain Jean-Luc Picard thought the rule was outdated, since the laser weapons of an Atlec vessel were incapable of even penetrating the navigational deflectors. Picard also noted that Atlecs could fire until their lasers ran dry and they still wouldn't have caused any damage to the Enterprise. (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona" ) In 2371, as a result of both radiation poisoning and close proximity to an artificial quantum singularity, Chief Miles O'Brien began experiencing jumps through time by approximately five hours. In one of these jumps, he saw himself being killed by what he later thought could have possibly been a high-energy laser. (DS9: "Visionary") In The Making of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry stated that two days into the filming of the second pilot, they realized that three years later people are going to say "Oh, come on, lasers can't do that," so the term was substituted with phaser.
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