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The hell does that come from, Judge Dee?
It locked them in the Phantom Zone. 
Every time I see the dude in “Conspiracy” get zapped, I hear Mrs Shazam say “Oooh! Lieutenant Commander Remmick’s exploded!” :eek:
Dude, the preferred nomenclature is “vision-impaired Asian-Federation citizens.”
I have a feeling it sends its targets to a parallel universe.
Whether or not our laws of physics even apply in that universe was never confirmed.
Does Macy’s tell Gimball’s?
-A Rule of Acquisition.
**Nitpick: It’s Gimbel’s. As Unca Cecil said decades ago, " Girls don’t get intimate with boys who’re illiterate. ". 
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Wouldn’t messing with molecular bonds release a ton of energy all by itself. Isn’t that how chemical reactions, like burning rocket fuel, work?
I’d imagine disintegrating a human being would be like setting off a human shaped pile of TNT.
And breaking atomic bonds would turn a human into an atomic bomb, taking out everyone within a mile radius.
It sounds better in the original Klingon.
There was a TNG episode in which the floor of one of the decks disappeared for an instant and then reappeared (or “went out of phase” or some sciency-sounding mumbo-jumbo), causing people to fall and then become fused into the floor.
It wasn’t graphic, but the trapped bodies sticking waist-up from the floor was possibly the most disturbing image I can recall seeing on Star Trek.
In the first two movies…the transporter accident in TMP (rated G!!) is terrifying. Then in TWOK there are the ear slugs and all the various burn wounds. Sheesh.
In the first pilot, Spock says “If our readings are an illusion also, one could find oneself materialized inside solid rock.”
I always thought that two objects can’t occupy the same space at the same time. 
Remember that the basic building block of everything is nothing.
Breaking out the ol’ TNG Technical Manual brings up some interesting points, and surprisingly technobabble-free, relatively speaking—it somewhat cryptically mentions that, for hand phasers, when the “disruption” settings begin (Power level 8 out of 16), " 50% of affected matter transitions out of the continuum." Presumably this would mean subspace, and that shunting mass or energy into it might not be noticeable to someone in normal space.
Granted, 50% of matter being vaporized in normal space is still a lot, but it’s possible that in higher power levels (or in older, TOS-era phasers), a much higher percentage of the target’s mass is disintegrated straight into another dimension, minimizing the negative explosive effects to a shooter at pistol-fight distances.
Still, on much higher phaser settings (everything above 11 is defined, in-canon materials, as an “explosive/disruption effect”), this would still be dangerous. Level 16 is stated “Catastrophic geological displacement, as approximately 650 m[sup]3[/super] of rock (of average density 6.0 g/cm3) is explosively decoupled by a single discharge,” of a power level of “1.55 x 10[sup]6[/sup]” [Energy units being used here are not immediately clear.] over .28 seconds.
I guess what I’m saying is…I still get annoyed by “The Siege of AR-558.”
In ST: Enterprise, phasers make a nice round hole all the way through aliens.
If nothing else, total disintegration probably drains the power pack way too fast. Overkill for most purposes.
If you want gruesome, the most realistic depiction of a disintegrater would have it turn people into something like large lumps of bloody hamburger.