Starfleet standard‑issue hand phaser — Enterprise tactical/away-team (handheld)

Away-team phasers are drawn by the crew as a defensive precaution while investigating the wreckage; they serve to underscore the threat level, are held ready during Worf's struggle with Patahk, and enforce the team's posture of controlled force.

Away-team phasers are drawn when evidence suggests survivors and possible explosive sabotage; they serve as defensive tools to contain threats, and signal Starfleet caution while approaching injured Romulan personnel.

Geordi uses a handheld Starfleet phaser as an improvised heat source — directing focused energy to melt small ore fragments inside the mud mold, controlling temperature to liquefy metal without destroying the mold. The phaser converts from a weapon to a precision tool in the scene.

The away-team phaser is repurposed as a practical survival tool: Geordi uses its energy setting to heat the piled rocks. Its role shifts from weapon to improvised heater, enabling immediate warmth and demonstrating creative adaptation under stress.

A handheld phaser is the instrument of coercion in this beat: Bochra levels it at Geordi to enforce a sit-down and to physically deny access to the cave mouth. The weapon's presence defines the power dynamic and prevents Geordi from testing the storm-exit while the two characters negotiate proximity and intent.

Bochra holds a Starfleet-style phaser (in this scene used by a Romulan) leveled at Geordi as a coercive instrument; the weapon enforces a temporary power dynamic and is used to command compliance when Bochra orders Geordi to sit.

The phaser is Bochra's immediate coercive instrument — held level to enforce 'don't move' commands and preserve his leverage even as he becomes physiologically compromised and less able to dominate the encounter.

A phaser (in Bochra's hand) functions as the immediate instrument of coercion and honor: it keeps Geordi under threat until Bochra's moral calculation compels him to lower it. The weapon's lowering marks the shift from confrontation to conditional cooperation.

A handheld phaser (represented here by the canonical away-team phaser entry) is the immediate instrument of coercion: Bochra keeps it trained on Geordi until he consciously lowers it, making the weapon itself a physical measure of trust being negotiated.

Away‑team phasers (and ship phasers) function as the imminent threat in the room: locked and ready; Worf reaches for his phaser when Bochra beams aboard, underscoring how close the situation is to violence while none are fired.

Away-team phasers and Worf's personal phaser serve as immediate security measures: weapons are locked on target earlier, and Worf reaches for his phaser when the Romulan materializes, demonstrating the immediate threat even as diplomatic brakes are applied.

Away‑team phasers and Worf's phaser locks are functionally present — weapons are readied and his reflex to seize a phaser when Bochra appears signals the combustible tension between security and mercy.

Standard-issue phasers are referenced as the cause of the scientists' wounds — multiple phaser stuns are diagnosed by Beverly. Narratively, the phasers function as the physical means of attack that makes the forensic clue urgent and frames the incident as a violent raid rather than an accident.

Standard-issue phasers are the event's operative tools: fired initially by the Gatherers to ambush, then by Riker, Data, Geordi, and Worf to vaporize the noranium pile. They serve both as weapons and as instruments enabling a tactical smoke screen and the threatened confrontation when the smoke clears.

Away-team phasers are used in two phases: first to strike the noranium pile at a specific setting to create the smoke screen, and then as weapons leveled at Brull and his followers when the team re-emerges. They function as both improvisational tools and coercive instruments.

Phaser energy (represented by standard issue phasers) makes itself known as an offscreen strike against the ship; the phaser hit physically shakes the quarters and is the kinetic stimulus forcing Riker's abrupt departure to duty.

Enterprise standard‑issue phasers are prepared, locked, and fired in a controlled, targeted blast that disables the Gatherer ship's forward shields without destroying the hull; they function as the precise coercive tool converting tactical superiority into diplomatic leverage.

Enterprise phasers are prepared, locked, and fired under Picard's order to precisely disable the Gatherer ship's forward shields — a calibrated use of force that converts a tactical action into leverage for diplomacy.

Commander Riker's hand phaser is the decisive instrument: used first to stun the guard, then to command and control Chorgan, and finally to escalate lethality against Yuta—moving through stun to higher settings and ultimately to vaporize—mapping Riker's moral escalation into mechanical steps.

The Enterprise standard-issue phaser is Riker's instrument of escalation: first used to stun the Gatherer guard, then to immobilize Chorgan, and ultimately dialed to a vaporize setting to annihilate Yuta after she lunges. The phaser converts moral dilemma into irreversible action and is the physical mechanism of the episode's tragic climax.

Standard-issue phasers are locked and readied on command as a deterrent and immediate defensive option; they serve to keep tactical pressure available while diplomacy proceeds.

Phasers are brought to lock as a deterrent to the warbird and to provide immediate defensive options; Riker orders phasers locked to maintain a posture of force while negotiations and rescue proceed.

A standard-issue phaser is physically referenced as Worf keeps his hand on it, signaling readiness to escalate to force. Its presence functions as an immediate deterrent and a silent check on Setal's movements and claims.

A Starfleet hand phaser is drawn by a security officer to enforce a perimeter and physically block Beverly from immediate access to a victim, making the weapon a focal point of the clash between medical urgency and tactical containment.

A Starfleet hand phaser is drawn by a security officer to enforce a perimeter and block Beverly from crossing into the blast area, symbolizing the tension between containment and care.

Finn's holstered Starfleet-pattern phaser is never drawn but is explicitly present at his hip, serving as a coercive subtext to his courteous behavior — a constant threat that neutralizes any real equality in the interaction.

Standard-issue phaser is drawn and used by Worf to stun one terrorist on the bridge, temporarily neutralizing an attacker and allowing a brief defensive window; the weapon also represents the immediate, kinetic defense available to the crew amid the dimensional breaches.

Standard-issue Starfleet phasers are drawn and used during the intrusion—Worf employs a phaser to stun an Ansata terrorist on the bridge, interrupting their action before they vanish; phasers serve as the immediate defensive tool during close-quarters engagements.

Alexana draws a Standard‑Issue Starfleet phaser as she leads her men deeper into the camp; the weapon functions as both a practical defensive tool and a symbol of authority and lethal backup, shaping how her team advances and how opponents perceive the threat.

A handheld phaser is brandished by Finn as he enters the alcove and is the immediate lethal threat Alexana responds to; Alexana fires her personal phaser to stop Finn, converting a private exchange into violent resolution.

A handheld phaser is brought to bear at the alcove mouth: Finn raises a phaser to threaten Picard, and Alexana uses her phaser to deliver the single, fatal shot. The device converts threat into immediate, lethal consequence and reframes the rescue morally.