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My Affair With The Phaser
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Publisher Price: $46.00
Publisher: Qi Press
Published: Nov 17 2025
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.69
Height: 0.66 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
This book describes my reaction to the phaser pistol and the hand phaser when I first saw reruns of Star TrekTM on television in the summer of 1967.
I tell my story of discovery, to learn exactly what the phaser pistol looked like in Star TrekTM, The Original Series (TOS) from the summer of 1967 to 2025.
I present what I have learned about the practical or working or hero Phasers (P2 and P1) on the various prop forums that I joined and from other sources.
I include some of the drawings I made of the Hero Phaser over the years.
The working phasers were fabricated by the employees of the Desilu Effects Department (DED) to the future Art Director's (Walter M. Jefferies) working drawings in the summer of 1966.
I show you what the phaser would have looked like if the DED had made the prop exactly to the Art Directors drawings.
I then provide photo mosaic drawings of the practical phaser pistol (P2) prop actually made by the DED to the Art Director's working drawings.
And I provide photo mosaic drawings of the 4 practical phaser pistol (P2) props and the 4 practical P1s after Wah Ming Chang reworked the original black and white phaser props.
Of course I include photos of my licensed Star TrekTM TOS Phaser replica collection made by: Master ReplicasTM, Art AsylumTM /Diamond Select ToysTM, Roddenberry.Com and the Wand CompanyTM remote control.
I include the links (URLs) for photos and movies of the two surviving practical phaser pistols props - the Greg Jein and the Finney.
Qi Press
Second Printing, November 2025
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