Adam,
Open here:
C:\Program Files\Activision\Sfc3\Assets\Textures
Unity just finished a textures package. Was fun work.
Lots of files. For example.
Pulse phaser = pulse_phaser

Open it ,look at it. OPen it in just paint. Make it whatever you want, whatever color. save a copy, test it. Play with color more, blotching -- whatever.
Look at the photon: heavy-photon

Klingon disruptors: disruptor-burst

This was fun to make for me. It looks cheesy here, but the affects in game are a trip.
Then the poloron:

Ions same way; phasers are trickier.
Making sense?
<S>
WaterTiger