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The Star Trek fictional universe contains a very large number of 'weapons'.
Disruptors are employed by the Cardassian Union, Romulan Star Empire, Klingon Empire, Breen, and Orions in their personal and military small arms as well as being mounted as cannon, emitters, turrets, and banks.
Lasers are a sidearm in the original ''Star Trek'' pilot "The Cage", and laser pistols appear in several ''Original Series'' episodes.
In one instance, the ship-mounted lasers of two spacecraft were incapable of overcoming the navigational shields of the USS ''Enterprise''-D.[1]
Phase cannons are 22nd century weapons, several of which first appear mounted to the ''Enterprise'' in the ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' episode "Silent Enemy". Phase cannons have a variable yield, with the cannons on the ''Enterprise'' being rated for a maximum output of 500 gigajoules.[2] Phase cannons are generally more powerful than spatial torpedoes.[3]
These are weapons that were first encountered when contact with the Dominion was made. The cannon emits a beam of polaron particles, the antimatter counterpart of the muon. Polaron beams were quite effective at tearing through most Alpha Quadrant races' shields. Prior to the occupation of Deep Space Nine, Federation and Klingon ships made modifications to their shields to prevent polaron weapons from penetrating them. During the episode "Call to Arms", Weyoun, the Vorta advisor in the attack fleet, expresses surprise that the Federation shields can now withstand their weaponry.
Phasers are common directed-energy weapons first seen in the and later seen or referenced in almost all subsequent films and TV spin-offs except for the phase cannons of Enterprise. Phaser is a backronym for 'PHAS'ed 'E'nergy 'R'ectification.
Phasers appear as both personal hand-held weapons and as starship-mounted weapons. Hand-held phasers have a variety of settings, able to "stun", "heat", "disrupt", "disintegrate", and "vaporize". Capable of being used as welding torches or cutting tools, they can be set to "overload", whereby they build up a force-chamber explosion internally; the resulting blast will destroy most natural objects within a 50-yard radius. Hand phasers can also be set to fire in "Wide Beam" mode, to defeat multiple targets at once. The phasers mounted on the USS ''Enterprise'' also can fire a stun blast capable of incapacitating groups of people on a planet's surface.[4] Similar to the hand phaser, ship phasers can also be fired to evenly disintegrate a target object such as meteors and asteroids.
The hand-held phasers include a larger rifle which has similar settings to the smaller phasers. The rifle is more powerful than the smaller phasers; there have been a number of different types of phaser rifles, most notably the phase compression rifle which has appeared in a number of ''Voyager'' episodes and in all the recent films from '' to ''.
:''Uses Thalaron radiation''
The cascading biogenic pulse was first used in 2379 by Praetor Shinzon to assassinate the Romulan senate in ''. Shinzon's attempt to use a ship-mounted version to kill the crew of the USS ''Enterprise''-E is thwarted by Lieutenant Commander Data, who is killed in the process.[5]
The biogenic pulse uses thalaron radiation to kill all biological life within its range.5 Thalaron radiation's massive destructive potential leads the Federation to consider it a biogenic weapon.5
The metreon cascade was designed by Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel of the Haakonian Order. Unstable metreon isotopes were used to create a devastating explosion, with radiation effects similar to those of the 20th-century atomic bomb. Those not killed or vaporized in the initial blast suffered terrible radiation poisoning and death in the aftermath. It was used only once, on the Talaxian moon Rinax in 2355.[6]
A substance lethal to humans, but harmless to Cardassians. A team of terrorists attempted to steal Trilithium resin from the warp core of the Enterprise-D when it was docked at Arkaria station to receive a baryon sweep.[7] Captain Benjamin Sisko would later use Trilithium resin torpedoes to render Maquis planets uninhabitable to all human life for fifty years by detonating them in the atmosphere.[8]
A biogenic weapon that affects the nervous system. Lethal to Cardassians, but harmless to most other humanoids.
A bat'leth is a Klingon sword designed by martial arts enthusiast and '' effects producer Dan Curry.[9]
Klingon oral history holds that the first bat'leth was forged around 625 A.D. by Kahless, who dropped a lock of his hair into the lava from the Kri'stak Volcano, then plunged the fiery lock into the lake of Lursor and twisted it to form a blade.9 After forging the weapon, he used it to defeat the tyrant Molor, and in doing so united the Klingon Homeworld.9 This first bat'leth was known as "The Sword of Kahless" and was stolen by the invading Hur'q; an episode of ''Deep Space Nine'' revolves around an effort to recover The Sword of Kahless.9 The name bat'leth itself means "Sword of Honor" in Klingon.
A d'k tahg is a Klingon dagger. The knife has three blades: a main blade with a cutout in the center, and two smaller blades on either side. In some models, these side blades are spring loaded and can pop out into position and close up for storage. In other models, the blades are fixed. It also features a pommel studded with blunt spikes. The D'k tahg first appeared in '', and appeared occasionally throughout the following films and TV series.
A lirpa is a Vulcan weapon consisting of a wooden staff a little over a meter in length, with a semicircular blade at one end and a metal bludgeon on the other. Captain James T. Kirk and Spock used lirpas when they fought for possession of T'Pring during Spock's Pon farr ritual in "Amok Time". Soldiers sent after Jonathan Archer and T'Pol fought with lirpas because Vulcan's "Forge" region makes conventional energy weapons useless.
A mek'leth is an edged Klingon weapon that appears in several episodes of '' and in the film ''. It was designed by Dan Curry. Worf is the most commonly-seen user of the mek'leth, owning one and using it several times, including in melee combat against Borg drones in ''First Contact''.
Chronoton torpedoes phase in and out of normal time and have been twice seen used by the Krenim. Their temporal nature makes them extremely dangerous and potent.[10] Their reliability is not absolute, as Seven of Nine and Tuvok find an undetonated chronoton torpedo lodged in ''Voyager''' s hull.10
Used by the Borg. The weapon emits a complex phase variance of gravitons to create a gravimetric distortion. Strong gravimetric distortions can severely damage or completely destroy a starship.
A photon torpedo is a torpedo weapon armed with an antimatter warhead. The '' episode ''Sleeping Dogs'' reveals that the Klingons have had photon torpedo technology since as early as 2151. Photon torpedoes first appear on a Starfleet ship in the ''Original Series'' episode "Arena" as part of the USS ''Enterprise's armament. The key ships and installations in subsequent Star Trek spin-offs, other than ''Star Trek: Enterprise'', are also armed with photon torpedoes.
Photon torpedoes appear red,[11] orange,[12] yellow or blue[13] when fired.
Furthermore, smaller Starfleet craft such as shuttlecraft and Runabouts can be armed with "micro-torpedoes", a scaled-down version of photon torpedoes designed for use on craft too small to accommodate the full-sized torpedoes.
Used by the Romulans and Cardassians. The damage of a plasma torpedo spreads out over several systems at once, but the torpedo loses its effectiveness after only a few minutes of travel. Romulan plasma torpedoes use trilithium isotopes in their warheads.
Quantum torpedoes first appear in the ''Deep Space Nine'' episode "Defiant" as a weapon aboard the USS ''Defiant''. Additionally, the USS ''Enterprise''-E fires quantum torpedoes in '' and ''. The '' states that quantum torpedoes derive their destructive power from zero-point energy.[14]
Four of the USS ''Enterprise''-E's quantum torpedoes can destroy a damaged Borg cube12 if targeted properly. Quantum torpedoes are not entirely effective against solid neutronium.[15]
Spatial torpedoes are 22nd century weapons used by the ''Enterprise''. Spatial torpedoes are the ship's most powerful and primary ship-to-ship weapon prior to the installation of phase cannons.2 Spatial torpedoes are themselves superseded by more powerful photonic torpedoes.[16] Unlike photonic torpedoes or any of the warhead's successors, spatial torpedoes are launched at sub-light velocity and can be used much in the manner of a missile, having the warhead on a fly-by-wire.[17]
Transphasic torpedoes appear only once, in the ''Voyager'' series finale, "Endgame". They are high-yield torpedoes that are designed specifically to fight the Borg. The future Admiral Janeway brought them back in time in a Federation shuttle-craft and had them installed onboard ''Voyager'' in 2377. They are among the most powerful weapons used in the Star Trek universe; this is evident from the fact that one torpedo is capable of destroying an entire Borg Cube, a feat normally requiring a severe amount of punishment using standard Federation weapons.
Subspace weapons are a class of directed energy weapons that directly affect subspace. The weapons can produce actual tears in subspace, and are extremely unpredictable. These weapons were banned under the second Khitomer Accords.
Son'a vessels carried and used isolytic burst weapons, a type of subspace weapon. They were seen using this weapon against the ''Enterprise-E'' in ''Star Trek: Insurrection''. The ''Enterprise'' was only able to escape the weapon's effect by ejecting its warp core and detonating it.
USS ''Voyager'' uses a pair of tricobalt devices to destroy the Caretaker array in the '' pilot episode, "Caretaker". Tricobalt devices are not a standard armament of Federation vessels and yields are calculated in Tera-Cochranes. The tricobalt warhead is a subspace weapon whose high-yield detonations can tear holes in subspace.[18][19]
Around Stardate 43995, the Borg used this weapon to drive the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, from the Paulson Nebular. This shortly leads to the abduction of Captain Jean Luc Picard.
During Season 4, Episode 1 (09/03/1997 Stardate: 51003.7) of '', Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) consults with Borg representative Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) on how to destroy Species 8472. Janeway calls Seven of Nine's "multikinetic neutronic mine. Five million isoton yield" a "Weapon of Mass Destruction." Following up on a statement from Tuvok (Tim Russ) that it would affect the entire Solar System destroying innocent worlds, Seven of Nine replies, "It would be efficient."
A five-million isoton yield can disperse the nanoprobes across a five-lightyear range.
Dreadnought was a Cardassian self-guided missile, containing one thousand kilograms of matter, and another thousand of antimatter. Tuvok describes this as enough to destroy a small moon. Although described as a self-guided missile, in practice Dreadnought functioned much like an autonomous starship. It possessed shields, phasers, a complement of quantum torpedoes, a Thoron shock emitter, a plasma wave weapon, engines capable of reaching at least Warp 9, and a sophisticated computer AI. It appeared in the ''Voyager'' , wherein it had been captured by the Maquis it had been originally sent to destroy and reprogrammed to attack its original creators, although unforeseen events led it to target innocents in the Delta Quadrant.
Similar in purpose to the Cardassian Dreadnought, the Tactical Armor Units were self-guided missiles with sophisticated artificial intelligance. They were much smaller than Dreadnought, being only a few feet in length, and while nowhere near as powerful, they were nonetheless classified as weapons of mass destruction, capable of destroying an everything in a 200-kilometer radius with a highly focused antimatter explosion. Their coordination and control was done through a "Strategic Command Matrix," analogous to a nuclear control network of the type used by the United States. Each one possessed shielding, warp drive of unclarified speed, and a sentient, genius-level artificial intelligence programmed to do whatever was necessary to reach their targets and detonate. They could detect and prevent tampering, were intelligent enough to find a way past almost any obstacle, and could win engagements even when outnumbered. Created by a Delta Quadrant race called the Druoda, the devices were greatly feared for their endurance and tenacity. [20]
In the ''Star Trek: Voyager'' episode "The Omega Directive", Tuvok and Kim modify a normal photon torpedo and increase its destructive yield to 54 Isotons. Kim comments that 50 Isotons would have been sufficient to destroy a small planet. Moments later, Janeway instructs them to increase its yield even further, to 80 Isotons. It is not specified exactly how they modified the warhead, but it appears to have required nothing more than a few hours work, with materials readily available on ''Voyager''.
Omega Molecules were first revealed in VOY: The Omega Directive. Omega Molecules were first discovered(as far as the Federation knows) when a scientists named Ketteract managed to artificially create them. How many he made exactly is not specified. They exploded, destroying the entire facility, and destroying Subspace itself for several lightyears around, making Warp Drive impossible through that region. A single Omega Molecule has as much power as a Warp Core. Omega Molecules have almost religious signifigance to the Borg, though even they have never succeeded in creating stable Omega Molecules.
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The Star Trek fictional universe contains a very large number of 'weapons'.
Energy weapons
Disruptors
Disruptors are employed by the Cardassian Union, Romulan Star Empire, Klingon Empire, Breen, and Orions in their personal and military small arms as well as being mounted as cannon, emitters, turrets, and banks.
Lasers
Lasers are a sidearm in the original ''Star Trek'' pilot "The Cage", and laser pistols appear in several ''Original Series'' episodes.
In one instance, the ship-mounted lasers of two spacecraft were incapable of overcoming the navigational shields of the USS ''Enterprise''-D.[1]
Phase cannons
Phase cannons are 22nd century weapons, several of which first appear mounted to the ''Enterprise'' in the ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' episode "Silent Enemy". Phase cannons have a variable yield, with the cannons on the ''Enterprise'' being rated for a maximum output of 500 gigajoules.[2] Phase cannons are generally more powerful than spatial torpedoes.[3]
Phased polaron cannon
These are weapons that were first encountered when contact with the Dominion was made. The cannon emits a beam of polaron particles, the antimatter counterpart of the muon. Polaron beams were quite effective at tearing through most Alpha Quadrant races' shields. Prior to the occupation of Deep Space Nine, Federation and Klingon ships made modifications to their shields to prevent polaron weapons from penetrating them. During the episode "Call to Arms", Weyoun, the Vorta advisor in the attack fleet, expresses surprise that the Federation shields can now withstand their weaponry.
Phasers
Phasers are common directed-energy weapons first seen in the and later seen or referenced in almost all subsequent films and TV spin-offs except for the phase cannons of Enterprise. Phaser is a backronym for 'PHAS'ed 'E'nergy 'R'ectification.
Phasers appear as both personal hand-held weapons and as starship-mounted weapons. Hand-held phasers have a variety of settings, able to "stun", "heat", "disrupt", "disintegrate", and "vaporize". Capable of being used as welding torches or cutting tools, they can be set to "overload", whereby they build up a force-chamber explosion internally; the resulting blast will destroy most natural objects within a 50-yard radius. Hand phasers can also be set to fire in "Wide Beam" mode, to defeat multiple targets at once. The phasers mounted on the USS ''Enterprise'' also can fire a stun blast capable of incapacitating groups of people on a planet's surface.[4] Similar to the hand phaser, ship phasers can also be fired to evenly disintegrate a target object such as meteors and asteroids.
The hand-held phasers include a larger rifle which has similar settings to the smaller phasers. The rifle is more powerful than the smaller phasers; there have been a number of different types of phaser rifles, most notably the phase compression rifle which has appeared in a number of ''Voyager'' episodes and in all the recent films from '' to ''.
Biological weapons
Cascading biogenic pulse
:''Uses Thalaron radiation''
A victim of thalaron radiation
The cascading biogenic pulse was first used in 2379 by Praetor Shinzon to assassinate the Romulan senate in ''. Shinzon's attempt to use a ship-mounted version to kill the crew of the USS ''Enterprise''-E is thwarted by Lieutenant Commander Data, who is killed in the process.[5]
The biogenic pulse uses thalaron radiation to kill all biological life within its range.5 Thalaron radiation's massive destructive potential leads the Federation to consider it a biogenic weapon.5
Metreon cascade
The metreon cascade was designed by Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel of the Haakonian Order. Unstable metreon isotopes were used to create a devastating explosion, with radiation effects similar to those of the 20th-century atomic bomb. Those not killed or vaporized in the initial blast suffered terrible radiation poisoning and death in the aftermath. It was used only once, on the Talaxian moon Rinax in 2355.[6]
Trilithium resin
A substance lethal to humans, but harmless to Cardassians. A team of terrorists attempted to steal Trilithium resin from the warp core of the Enterprise-D when it was docked at Arkaria station to receive a baryon sweep.[7] Captain Benjamin Sisko would later use Trilithium resin torpedoes to render Maquis planets uninhabitable to all human life for fifty years by detonating them in the atmosphere.[8]
Cobalt diselenide
A biogenic weapon that affects the nervous system. Lethal to Cardassians, but harmless to most other humanoids.
Melee weapons
Bat'leth
The bat'leth known as "The Sword of Kahless"
A bat'leth is a Klingon sword designed by martial arts enthusiast and '' effects producer Dan Curry.[9]
Klingon oral history holds that the first bat'leth was forged around 625 A.D. by Kahless, who dropped a lock of his hair into the lava from the Kri'stak Volcano, then plunged the fiery lock into the lake of Lursor and twisted it to form a blade.9 After forging the weapon, he used it to defeat the tyrant Molor, and in doing so united the Klingon Homeworld.9 This first bat'leth was known as "The Sword of Kahless" and was stolen by the invading Hur'q; an episode of ''Deep Space Nine'' revolves around an effort to recover The Sword of Kahless.9 The name bat'leth itself means "Sword of Honor" in Klingon.
D'k tahg
A d'k tahg
A d'k tahg is a Klingon dagger. The knife has three blades: a main blade with a cutout in the center, and two smaller blades on either side. In some models, these side blades are spring loaded and can pop out into position and close up for storage. In other models, the blades are fixed. It also features a pommel studded with blunt spikes. The D'k tahg first appeared in '', and appeared occasionally throughout the following films and TV series.
Lirpa
A lirpa is a Vulcan weapon consisting of a wooden staff a little over a meter in length, with a semicircular blade at one end and a metal bludgeon on the other. Captain James T. Kirk and Spock used lirpas when they fought for possession of T'Pring during Spock's Pon farr ritual in "Amok Time". Soldiers sent after Jonathan Archer and T'Pol fought with lirpas because Vulcan's "Forge" region makes conventional energy weapons useless.
Mek'leth
A mek'leth is an edged Klingon weapon that appears in several episodes of '' and in the film ''. It was designed by Dan Curry. Worf is the most commonly-seen user of the mek'leth, owning one and using it several times, including in melee combat against Borg drones in ''First Contact''.
Projectile weapons
Chronoton torpedoes
Chronoton torpedoes phase in and out of normal time and have been twice seen used by the Krenim. Their temporal nature makes them extremely dangerous and potent.[10] Their reliability is not absolute, as Seven of Nine and Tuvok find an undetonated chronoton torpedo lodged in ''Voyager''
Gravimetric torpedoes
Used by the Borg. The weapon emits a complex phase variance of gravitons to create a gravimetric distortion. Strong gravimetric distortions can severely damage or completely destroy a starship.
Photon torpedoes
An ''Akira''-class starship fires photon torpedoes.
A photon torpedo is a torpedo weapon armed with an antimatter warhead. The '' episode ''Sleeping Dogs'' reveals that the Klingons have had photon torpedo technology since as early as 2151. Photon torpedoes first appear on a Starfleet ship in the ''Original Series'' episode "Arena" as part of the USS ''Enterprise's armament. The key ships and installations in subsequent Star Trek spin-offs, other than ''Star Trek: Enterprise'', are also armed with photon torpedoes.
Photon torpedoes appear red,[11] orange,[12] yellow or blue[13] when fired.
Furthermore, smaller Starfleet craft such as shuttlecraft and Runabouts can be armed with "micro-torpedoes", a scaled-down version of photon torpedoes designed for use on craft too small to accommodate the full-sized torpedoes.
Plasma torpedo
Used by the Romulans and Cardassians. The damage of a plasma torpedo spreads out over several systems at once, but the torpedo loses its effectiveness after only a few minutes of travel. Romulan plasma torpedoes use trilithium isotopes in their warheads.
Quantum torpedoes
Quantum torpedoes fired by the ''Enterprise''-E.
Quantum torpedoes first appear in the ''Deep Space Nine'' episode "Defiant" as a weapon aboard the USS ''Defiant''. Additionally, the USS ''Enterprise''-E fires quantum torpedoes in '' and ''. The '' states that quantum torpedoes derive their destructive power from zero-point energy.[14]
Four of the USS ''Enterprise''-E's quantum torpedoes can destroy a damaged Borg cube12 if targeted properly. Quantum torpedoes are not entirely effective against solid neutronium.[15]
Spatial torpedoes
A spatial torpedo.
Spatial torpedoes are 22nd century weapons used by the ''Enterprise''. Spatial torpedoes are the ship's most powerful and primary ship-to-ship weapon prior to the installation of phase cannons.2 Spatial torpedoes are themselves superseded by more powerful photonic torpedoes.[16] Unlike photonic torpedoes or any of the warhead's successors, spatial torpedoes are launched at sub-light velocity and can be used much in the manner of a missile, having the warhead on a fly-by-wire.[17]
Transphasic torpedoes
Transphasic torpedoes appear only once, in the ''Voyager'' series finale, "Endgame". They are high-yield torpedoes that are designed specifically to fight the Borg. The future Admiral Janeway brought them back in time in a Federation shuttle-craft and had them installed onboard ''Voyager'' in 2377. They are among the most powerful weapons used in the Star Trek universe; this is evident from the fact that one torpedo is capable of destroying an entire Borg Cube, a feat normally requiring a severe amount of punishment using standard Federation weapons.
Subspace weapons
Subspace weapons are a class of directed energy weapons that directly affect subspace. The weapons can produce actual tears in subspace, and are extremely unpredictable. These weapons were banned under the second Khitomer Accords.
Isolytic burst
Son'a vessels carried and used isolytic burst weapons, a type of subspace weapon. They were seen using this weapon against the ''Enterprise-E'' in ''Star Trek: Insurrection''. The ''Enterprise'' was only able to escape the weapon's effect by ejecting its warp core and detonating it.
Tricobalt devices
USS ''Voyager'' uses a pair of tricobalt devices to destroy the Caretaker array in the '' pilot episode, "Caretaker". Tricobalt devices are not a standard armament of Federation vessels and yields are calculated in Tera-Cochranes. The tricobalt warhead is a subspace weapon whose high-yield detonations can tear holes in subspace.[18][19]
WMDs
Magnetometric Guided Charges
Around Stardate 43995, the Borg used this weapon to drive the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, from the Paulson Nebular. This shortly leads to the abduction of Captain Jean Luc Picard.
Multi Kinetic Neutronic Mines
During Season 4, Episode 1 (09/03/1997 Stardate: 51003.7) of '', Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) consults with Borg representative Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) on how to destroy Species 8472. Janeway calls Seven of Nine's "multikinetic neutronic mine. Five million isoton yield" a "Weapon of Mass Destruction." Following up on a statement from Tuvok (Tim Russ) that it would affect the entire Solar System destroying innocent worlds, Seven of Nine replies, "It would be efficient."
A five-million isoton yield can disperse the nanoprobes across a five-lightyear range.
Dreadnought
Dreadnought was a Cardassian self-guided missile, containing one thousand kilograms of matter, and another thousand of antimatter. Tuvok describes this as enough to destroy a small moon. Although described as a self-guided missile, in practice Dreadnought functioned much like an autonomous starship. It possessed shields, phasers, a complement of quantum torpedoes, a Thoron shock emitter, a plasma wave weapon, engines capable of reaching at least Warp 9, and a sophisticated computer AI. It appeared in the ''Voyager'' , wherein it had been captured by the Maquis it had been originally sent to destroy and reprogrammed to attack its original creators, although unforeseen events led it to target innocents in the Delta Quadrant.
Series 5 Long Range Tactical Armor Unit
Similar in purpose to the Cardassian Dreadnought, the Tactical Armor Units were self-guided missiles with sophisticated artificial intelligance. They were much smaller than Dreadnought, being only a few feet in length, and while nowhere near as powerful, they were nonetheless classified as weapons of mass destruction, capable of destroying an everything in a 200-kilometer radius with a highly focused antimatter explosion. Their coordination and control was done through a "Strategic Command Matrix," analogous to a nuclear control network of the type used by the United States. Each one possessed shielding, warp drive of unclarified speed, and a sentient, genius-level artificial intelligence programmed to do whatever was necessary to reach their targets and detonate. They could detect and prevent tampering, were intelligent enough to find a way past almost any obstacle, and could win engagements even when outnumbered. Created by a Delta Quadrant race called the Druoda, the devices were greatly feared for their endurance and tenacity. [20]
Modified photon torpedoes
In the ''Star Trek: Voyager'' episode "The Omega Directive", Tuvok and Kim modify a normal photon torpedo and increase its destructive yield to 54 Isotons. Kim comments that 50 Isotons would have been sufficient to destroy a small planet. Moments later, Janeway instructs them to increase its yield even further, to 80 Isotons. It is not specified exactly how they modified the warhead, but it appears to have required nothing more than a few hours work, with materials readily available on ''Voyager''.
Omega Molecules
Omega Molecules were first revealed in VOY: The Omega Directive. Omega Molecules were first discovered(as far as the Federation knows) when a scientists named Ketteract managed to artificially create them. How many he made exactly is not specified. They exploded, destroying the entire facility, and destroying Subspace itself for several lightyears around, making Warp Drive impossible through that region. A single Omega Molecule has as much power as a Warp Core. Omega Molecules have almost religious signifigance to the Borg, though even they have never succeeded in creating stable Omega Molecules.
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