NDF effects wouldn't harm the Jeffries tubes (assuming that this is what happens when a phaser explodes). An overloaded phaser may still be dangerous to unarmored opponents -- hell phasers act this way anyway, a phaser on overload takes awhile to "charge up" so we can suppose that what it is doing is creating a huge amount of NDF particles until the phaser can't contain them anymore. Worf called the tactic "ingenius" which probably means this tactic isn't in any standard SF training manual, and given that SF probably doesn't mount self-destruct devices on its weapons, so the phaser overload has got to be part of a phaser's functionality. Generation of NDF particles is part of a phaser's functionality.Lord Poe wrote:In TNG's "The Hunted", Roga Danar set a phaser to overload in a Jeffries tube, and it did very little damage.
Brian