Phasers are better than Star Wars blasters and light sabers

I will concede that light sabers and blasters can be versatile; however it is undeniable that a phaser is much more versatile than either of them giving them the advantage. RangeThere is actually evidence of them being chargeless in that the beam doesn't spread apart. If nadions had a charge, the beam would spread due to repulsion which is not seen. While you could argue that like blasters it may have a magnetic containment field; a magnetic field is first of all never mentioned and second in Deep Space 9 an annular confinement beam jacketed phaser beam is mentioned as new technology. The annular confinement beam is essentially the star trek equivalent of of star wars magnetic containment fields. So with nadions being used for more than a century without a confinement method, it pretty much rules out the possibility of nadions having a charge. By the way there is evidence to suggest the 22nd century phase pistol also used nadions and research hadn't even started on magnetic containment field when they went into use.RANGECon appears to be misinterpreting the polaric ion explosion/ rift. What happens is that the crew of voyager were attempting to open up one of the subspace fractures. The fracture started opening near one of the polaric ion conduits. The rift produced wasn't actually ionized; when the phaser was shot at the rift on the other side Lieutenant Torres; the chief engineer reported "nadion particle resistance" preventing the opening of the fracture. The context of the problem suggests that it wasn't actually an equalization of charges preventing it and that it was actually the nadion discharge interfering with subspace. Therefore there is reason to believe that nadions are chargeless and can't be deflected by a lightsaber.( Even if nadions did happened to be charged, with settings to change beam width it should be quite simple to expand the beam beyond the thickness of a lightsaber blade.)On the issue of sabotage; what evidence do you have that a lightsaber or blaster wouldn't create an explosion just as large? Second whether it's a phaser or a blaster you'd still be walking around with a grenade "just waiting to go off" Secondly, such modifications required a chip from a specific type of android to be implanted in the phaser.Actually the chip from soong-type androids is stated to be able to be utilized; it was never stated they were the only thing that would work. According to memory alpha it simply needs to be a servo circuit; no special android chips required, it was simply convenient at the time to use Data's servo circuits. About the radiation suit thing; hyperonic radiation would already have been detected if they set on a radiation suit, so of course they would add a servo circuit to compensate. It's really only a situation where they are in an environment with Hyperonic radiation with no chance to prepare that this would be a problem."Theoretically speaking, a blaster could be used as a torch, since all one should need to do is keep the Heter valve open slightly to allow a constant stream of Tibanna gas into the XCiter chamber to energize the gas enough that it could produce heat."First of all this is only in theory. Second of all this would take a major modification and be much less precise since a blaster isn't going to be made to make a narrow stream of gas enter the Xciter chamber since the gas is focused later on. After doing a little more research I discovered something else wookiepedia says on the issue of accuracy: "The inherent instability of plasma gas in blasters reduced the weapon's accuracy under sustained fire."GASWhat appears to be the most likely based on star trek canon is that the power cell ionizes the gas to produce the plasma which upon interaction with the superconducting crystal in the phaser emitter produces nadions. This wouldn't cause power cell to be drained at a high rate because like a LASER it's energy passed trough a medium generating the particles not the power itself. Also it doesn't require that much energy to ionize gas; some evidence of this is that the Geissler tube invented in 1857 created plasma (1857 also doesn't seem to modern either.) So lets introduce some math now. Helium has the highest ionization energies out of all the elements at 2370 kJ/mole; in this calculation I will be using the ionization energy of helium since it would be the maximum amount of energy that could be required to make the plasma. Phasers have a power cell made out of a substance call Sarium Krellide which has an energy density of 1,300,000,000 kilojoules per cubic centimeter. 1 mole of helium is 4 grams which should make plenty of plasma for a phaser. So theoretically using the element with the highest ionization energy we can get 1.3 billion seconds of use out of it before it needs to be recharged at the lowest setting. Of course depending on the power level and how much energy is wasted it will be less than 1.3 billion seconds use; however even with the maximum energy discharge of a phaser; 1 MW You'd still be able to use it at that energy continuously for 20 min. So actually it could last a surprisingly long amount of time without recharge even on higher settings which are rarely used anyways. TUNNEL VAPORIZATION "It should be noted that such a capability required the highest level that a phaser can fire at, which obviously means that it would have drained much more of the power cell (if not also the plasma) to accomplish such a task, not to mention that there are materials that is still couldn't penetrate at that setting [7]. Blasters are also capable of this, as Han Solo's blaster in particular could "blow large chunks from stone walls and smaller holes and pockmarks out of durasteel bulkheads" [8]. Unlike phasers, there is no evidence to suggest that Han Solo's blaster was modified to increase the power, as the only modification that was made to his was to remove the optical sight for quicker drawing [9]."First off it should be noted that power levels are different than modification. Con claims that Han Solo's blaster can do this and then quotes it can blow large chunks from stone walls. That is nothing like the phasers capabilities. At just a medium power setting it can already vaporize things with a vaporization point of 2314 degrees Celsius. At maximum setting it can vaporize tunnels in rock at 20 meters per minute or on a wide field setting it can blow away Half of a large building in one shot. Yeah Han Solo can blow meter size chunks of a wall; well a phaser can blow away half of a house; no competition. Also with the speed at which it can perform this it shouldn't be too much of a drain.CONCLUSIONA phaser does have greater power, versatility, accuracy, and range than a lightsaber or blaster. Power is shown in that A phaser can blow away half of a large building while Han's blaster; one of the most powerful can only blow chunks out of a wall. Versatility is proven by both my arguments and cons. With the blaster having less power than a phaser it is unlikely a blaster would be able to cause damage to something a phaser can't. Without plasma instabilities messing with the accuracy we know that it is going to have much better accuracy, and it's undebatable the range advantage between phasers and blaster. Con was able to prove that a sabotaged phaser can cause significant damage but can't prove that a blaster wouldn't cause the same damage. Con hasn't been able to prove that a phaser beam is electromagnetic and can deflected by a lightsaber. The Hyperonic radiation isn't very important because it is lethal and if you have a radiation suit on you would have already modified the phasers. Finally with the plasma never leaving the phaser; the phaser over comes one of the blasters largest weaknesses: ammo replenishment. With all these factors combined; it proves that phasers are ultimately better than light sabers or blasters.