Risa

Oof. So You're not actually vaporized like a regular phaser, just sent to O'Brien's shadow realm

They’re TRANSporters!!

Trans-porters (dematerialize and rematerialize) matter!

To be fairrrrrrrr.....

The beams are wider than normal phasers in most situations. Like mariner cleaning carbon off slightly harder carbon or the crew cleaning the crystal graffiti off the ship.

I could see that being an energy-intensives thing though, and having worked on handheld high-current devices, I could totally see limiting the beam power/width settings to ensure you don't melt your hand. Or accidentally trip the overload setting...

here's a crazy idea: dedicated cleaning beams that make that kind of thing a "boop and we're done" situation. Or like.... Use the rifles. Those have to be able to handle more power, right?

It's probably easier to animate that way.

Best part of that scene is how Uhura just barges in there before security even arrives

But be careful if it has the post-Wolf-359 remodulation hotfix, because it's really easy to end up stuck in the nutation settings menu if you press either button 5 times within a few seconds.

You can disable this behavior with a long press of the firing button, which unsurprisingly got its own hotfix shortly after that.

Unfortunately, the side buttons default to back/next on your browser and Starfleet really locks down rebinds.

It's the trigger - like a weedwhacker. The actual firing mechanism is on the bottom of the handle. You use your little finger. Any small children or pre-warp civilizations just assume it's designed to be convenient and fumble about uselessly. Nah: if Starfleet can't make a dangerous tool smart enough to say no, they make using it a pain in the ass.

Pretty sure that's the "vaporize aqueduct" setting.

Tasha Yar is coming back?! 🥺

Or power a cargo bay transporter.