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A Vickers salesman selling oversized phasers

The sales pitch turns on whether a large weapon can be integrated into a ship.

Question

What would a descendant of the Vickers salesman sell in Star Trek?

Short answer

Oversized phasers, either an ambitious shipboard adaptation of a planetary weapon or existing mega-phasers.

Notes

A fictional descendant of the Vickers salesman would try to sell planetary phasers for use aboard ships. The initial example is the PH7, described as too large for normal shipboard mounting. A competing suggestion is the mega-phaser, which another participant says has already been fitted to ships. The joke depends on the familiar procurement tension between an attractive weapon and the platform needed to carry it.