Phasers are better than Star Wars blasters and light sabers

"A lightsaber can also be highly versatile. The length of the lightsaber can be adjusted to allow the user to fight at different ranges while in melee combat [1]. Due to the modular nature of the lightsaber, it could be argued that a lightsaber could be relatively easily converted into a training lightsaber, which is a non-lethal lightsaber (thereby being the "stun" setting) generally used for younglings"A lightsaber may have adjustable length and can be converted into a training saber but that doesn't mean it's versatile. That's because of the very definition of versatile: able to adapt or be adapted to many different functions or activities. Changing sizes of blades is more of a modification than a different function and a training lightsaber is simply a variation of a normal lightsaber; and the training saber which you call the "stun setting" doesn't actually stun; according to wookiepedia it burns people it hits. So there are two different functions it has; a universal cutting tool and a weapon that can cause burns. The lightsaber hence isn't as versatile as you say."Secondly, while it is not very debatable that a lightsaber is out-ranged by a phaser, a lightsaber is still capable of closing the gap between the lightsaber wielder and the phaser wielder, as light sabers are known to be able to deflect blaster bolts [5]. Since blaster bolts are similar to a phaser beam, as both are highly heated, and eletromagetically charged gases (phasers being plasma, and blaster bolts either also being plasma or particle-based, but still known to bounce off magnetically shielded walls) [6]."You said that phasers beams could be deflected by a lightsaber because they're made of plasma, but that is only true of ferengi phasers. A federation phaser works by passing plasma to a phaser emitter creating a nadion discharge. You see; at no point in the process does the plasma actually leave the phaser, rather the plasma is simply the mechanism that creates the discharge; not the beam itself. The phaser beam is made of chargeless particles called nadions which "liberate atomic nuclei" to cause damage. Since the particle beam is made of chargeless artificially generated particle, it can't be deflected by a phaser. So no it will be incredibly difficult to close the gap."Your analogy also fails here, because a knight does not wield the power of the force that most lightsaber users can, which is why (as asserted above) lightsaber wielders can deflect blaster bolts and phasers."That is true of blasters, but because a phaser beam is made out of nadions which as stated above are chargeless the lightsaber can't deflect phaser beams; as there is no electrical or magnetic field produced which a lightsaber can push against. So my analogy does stand in the case of phasers because if it isn't electrically charged, even the force can't save them."While you state that there is "plenty of time to get away", such a sabotage is able to cause significant damage to it's surroundings, and still managed to nearly kill three crew members."Sabotage of a blaster would cause just as much damage. Also by the 24th century a self destruct would cause an explosion only a few meters wide as seen in TNG: the next phase. While it was a romulan disruptor that self destructed; Romulan disruptors are around the same power level as phasers, so it's a respectable analog. That significant damage you talk of is likely referring to 23rd century phasers.n the point of hyperonic radiation, I did some research and found that a phaser can be modified to continually recollimate the output to work in hyperonic radiation. The modification likely isn't used during mass production because hyperonic radiation is both rare and lethal, so even if the phaser beam wasn't randomized you likely wouldn't live long enough to actually use the phaser."Blasters are capable of having stun settings. Some, like the GLX Firelance had such effective stun settings that they were used by bounty hunters to capture their targets alive." True; blasters do have a stun setting but still that isn't very versatile since both modes are solely for battle.A phaser on the other hand is very versatile because of it's many settings. On one setting it can stun things. On another it can produce a precise cutting beam for tasks requiring precise cuts. It can also heat rocks to provide light and heat, and disintegrate a great variety of materials which can be used as both a weapon and a tool. With all these settings a phaser is so versatile that it's not just a weapon, it's also a tool.This is a quote from wookiepedia about the accuracy of blasters: "Some storm troopers were known to complain that the original E-11 had excessive recoil, leading to diminished accuracy in fire fights.""Secondly, a phaser must use some type of gas to function, as it utilizes plasma as the main component of the beam [4]. Therefore, a phaser is subject to the same ammo limitations that a blaster must deal with."As I stated earlier, a phaser does not have ammo limitations because while it does require a gas to make plasma; the plasma isn't the ammunition. The plasma generates the nadions which make up the actual beam; because the plasma doesn't exit the phaser it can be reused as long as the power cell can provide energy.Tunnel Vaporization source: Memory Alpha TNG: Chain of Command.Bolt capability: Memory Alpha TOS: The Enemy Within.Sources:Memory AlphaWookiepediaWikipedia