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When fired, this rifle only had a bright muzzle flash and recoil and did not appear to fire a visible phaser beam or a phaser burst. Kirk used a phaser rifle to try to take out Khan's jumpship 208 when it was firing on the Daystrom Conference Room at Starfleet Headquarters. In 2259 of the alternate reality, phaser rifles were issued to Starfleet security personnel on Earth after the terrorist bombing of the Kelvin Memorial Archive. Kirk holding a 2250s-style phaser rifle in the alternate reality

In the original series, type 2 phasers were also sometimes depicted as weapons that did not fire a visible beam, in such episodes as TOS: " Journey to Babel", " Assignment: Earth", " Spock's Brain", " Whom Gods Destroy" for example.

Spock, for example, had to file a special requisition for one to be brought down to Delta Vega in 2265. Typically, rifles were equipped only when firepower heavier than that of the type 2 phaser was required. In the 2260s, phaser rifles were not standard landing party equipment aboard Starfleet vessels. In engineering, Landry fired a cutting beam from her phaser rifle to cut through a door that was otherwise jammed closed. There, Landry and Kowski used theirs, switching the weapons to the kill setting, to repeatedly fire at a creature which survived the phaser fire and chased the group, causing them to hurry to refuge in engineering and killing Kowski. Phaser rifles were also carried by Landry herself and Kowski when they were part of a boarding party that traveled to the USS Glenn. For example, in 2256, a couple of officers in the ship's mess hall were equipped with phaser rifles one of these officers was even about to use his when Michael Burnham began attacking Cold and Psycho using Suus Mahna, though he was stopped by Commander Ellen Landry, who instead brandished a type 2 phaser to persuade Burnham to cease and desist. Type 3 phasers were also occasionally used by officers aboard the USS Discovery. In 2256, Captain Philippa Georgiou discharged a type 3 phaser into a water well on the Crepusculan homeworld, shifting the water table and allowing water to reemerge from the well in a large geyser. Although both settings fired single blasts, these weapons could also be utilized to fire a yellow-colored cutting beam.

In 2256, phaser rifles had at least two settings: stun and kill.