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Originally Posted by Steelspawn18
No you misunderstand, he knows it fires a phaser too. But the main weapon on teh defiant is its cannons, he said those were made to fire pulses because the weapon was too powerful to fire a concentrated beam.
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No. They fire pulses because pulses are more effective when you're trying to cut through borg shields. Each pulse can be on a different frequency so that the borg can't adapt to it (theoretically). A beam you have to stop and refire to retune the weapon frequency for, but each pulse can have it's own.