I had a dream about this recently. Would taking a phaser array and cutting it up into equal sections(length of each section = width of the array) and placing them randomly(well...not totally random ofcourse) around say Voyager in Year of Hell actually work? Or would it be a major strain on a ships power systems? Imagine it, Voyager could be pointing no less than 25 phasers at you with total 360 coverage. Good god man, imagine a Galaxy with that kind of setup! That would be a hundred phasers nocking at your door at any given time!