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| - Phasers of this type were the only weapons carried by members of the Enterprise-D senior staff when they were transported to Q's game planet where they faced French soldiers with hideous animal faces. While the animal-things were armed with directed energy weapon muskets, the hand phasers were able to simply vaporize them before they fired, until Q deactivated the weapons. (TNG episode: "Hide and Q") William Riker snuck a phaser of this type into Starfleet Headquarters in 2364, in order to protect himself against conspirators who had been infected with bluegill-type neural parasites. Riker wore a false bluegill to disguise himself, and when the conspirators asked him to join them in a repast of live worms, Riker pretended to eat while drawing his phaser. He disabled a security commander, allowing Picard, who was the only other uninfected person present, to gather up a larger mark VI battle phaser. The pair used the two phasers to destroy the bluegill mother creature that was residing in Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick. (TNG episode: "Conspiracy") Geordi La Forge attempted to use a weapon of this class to assassinate Governor Vagh of Krios in 2367, while La Forge was under the sway of a Romulan mind-control transmission received by his VISOR. Captain Jean-Luc Picard was the only person present who noticed the small phaser in Geordi's hand, and was able to deflect the blast. (TNG episode: "The Mind's Eye") Wesley Crusher was detailed a sidearm of this type when he was a cadet at Starfleet Academy in 2368. When being pursued by the Enterprise security detail, he set the phaser to automatically fire at a force field put up to capture him. The phaser control computer fired randomly-timed bursts to fool ship's sensors into thinking Wesley was remaining stationary firing at that location. (TNG episode: "The Game")
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