Talk:List of weapons in Star Trek

Antimatter Warheads??

Throughout several games, shows, and books, the word "antimatter warhead" has been used, most notably in Star Trek: Shattered Universe and The Immunity Syndrome. I have done enough looking to know it is just like any other bomb made in this time, but uses antimatter instead, which acts, in high concentrations, very volatile when in contact with matter such as a wall, or the hull of a starship. However, due to the properties of antimatter, which is identified as a gas in several books (which is impossible for gas is matter btw), antimatter is highly uneffective when used in space combats due to the gas dispersing rather quickly as it spreads out. One of the Star Trek books written by William Shatner tells that when entering the First Federation's asteroid base, the close confines of the the tunnel allows the Enterprise-E to use antimatter to it's fullest affect against the mirror Enterprise-E but it is latter rendered useless due to the Enterprise running low on the fuel.-- Zedkiller

Tricobalt Warheads and Quatum torpedos.

First of all Quantum torpedos. They are better explained as high yield plasma torpedos, and are described in some episodes as having the same detonation mechanism as a photon torpedo. Instead of focusing on tearing the target apart, the radiation disables systems. The exact specification are never mentioned but they always appear to be used to shield and system disabling. It also seems most vessels in the series that use them are also equipped with photons.

Tricobalts in the Starship Creator warp 2 title, are described as being a photon torpedo with a Tricobalt enhanced warhead (making it sound like a catalyst. They can and may produce subspace rifts, but many vessels carry then, including voyager. They are also common arms for an Akira class vessel, which suggests they do not count under the second Khitomer Accord. How ever, it is suggested in some games and in voyager that they are unlike other torpedo, due to the fact others are launched at warp speeds, and they supposedly have the drive built in. Due to this is is theorisable that if the tagret enters warp spee,d the torpedos targeting computer wont exit the speed (portraid as if objects inside warp field do not contact normal space time matter), This may be the "conditions" mentioned in the following quote, referencing star Trek Insurrection and the Second Khitomer Accord, from the memory Aphla Star Trek dedicated wikki.

It is of note that when used under certain conditions, tricobalt explosives can cause subspace ruptures. They are however, probably not considered subspace weapons, as their effects are highly predictable and they are routinely carried by Federation vessels. Subspace weapons were banned by the second Khitomer Accords. (Star Trek: Insurrection)

Laser

Removed borg example under laser section. I don't know why people keep adding this noncanon data to star trek wiki's. NONE of the weapon systems were ever exactly specified by the crewmembers during q who or best of both worlds. They generally describe them like "cutting beam" (q who) and "kind of magnetic pulse charge"(bobw). Maybe someone could pull up an episode that actually contains evidence of borg using lasers against federation vessels? It is not in either of the episodes I stated...maybe somewhere in voyager? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.203.253.228 (talk) 02:06, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Phaser Issue

The description of the term "phaser" as related to maser is quite interesting. I thought I read in the 1999 (ish) edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia that it was a play on the term LASER: Photon emission through the Stimulated Emission of Radiation - I'll have to check this later.

However, in The Cage, which did not premiere until 1988, they actually used laser pistols, which seems to contradict the information in the article suggesting that lasers were not seen as powerful. Can anyone cite the "production notes?" Michael Sheflin (talk) 20:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

photon grenade launcher

Used in arena. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.15.156.12 (talk) 08:44, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Mixed bag of issues

• Pulse cannons: What is the "newly designed NX class", and when was it new? (ie in which episode? ST:Enterprise) It's the same issue as the one not to write "recently" in WP articles, but rather "as of August 2011". As I see it, there is no "NX class" either. NX vessels are experimental vessels, often one-of-a-kind.
• The image titled "several Bat'leths" cuts into the second line of final Bat'leth paragraph slightly. 1st line ends with "Kahless, Who" on my screen, 2nd line ends with "lock". The 'right foot' of the k is behind the upper left corner of afore mentioned picture. (Is that a more general bug somewhere in the formatting? Report to VP:T?)
• D'ktahg: there is a huge space (~5 lines of regular text) between the heading and the 1st paragraph "A d'ktahg is..." (same bug as above???)
• Qutluch: "It is known in the real world as the "Phoenix" type knife." I was unable to find anything good about "Phoenix" knives. Might be an empty spot on WP's usually flawless coverage of weapons. Anyone? - ¡Ouch! (^{hurt me} / _{more pain}) 12:30, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Article class

Shouldn't this be a List-class article? It definitely isn't a stub, as it's now rated... Cbbkr (talk) 21:07, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Energy Output and Explosive Yield of Starship Weaponry

I was reading about photon torpedoes and a question came up about the explosive yield of these weapons. The article measures the yields in isotons. Going through the list of orders of magnitude, I couldn't find the prefix iso anywhere. If this is a fictional order of magnitude, I think we should mention that. Or if it is real, maybe we should link it to something or give a number using a magnitude that is more commonly recognized like mega or giga tons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.233.4.49 (talk) 01:40, 13 August 2012 (UTC)