Weapons in Star Trek

STAR TREK WEAPONS

DIRECT ENERGY

Disruptors Cannons.
Phasers Emitter Arrays.
Plasma Beam Cannons.
Phased Polaron Cannons.
Lasers.

BALLISTIC WEAPONARY

Fusion Missiles.
Photon Torpedoes.
Quantum Torpedos.
Tri
Chronoton Torpedoes.

DISRUPTORS

Sonic Disruptors: These were the original disruptors, rather primitive and as the name suggests they are sound waves, they didn't disrupt objects at the molecular level and only had a small effect on dense metals and shields.

Between the 2260's and the 2280's the Klingons developed a new form of disruptor which quickly spread to the other races and civilizations. These were PHASE DISRUPTORS.

Phase Disruptors: These are the most common armaments from 2300's onwards. They concentrated field that is compressed in to a beam of phased energy that disrupts the interatomic cohesion force fields that hold matter together the most devastating possible result is the release of the atoms from their bonded solidarity after which they quickly disperse and combine with the particle in the air effectively leaving little trace of the original targets existence. Depending on what energy level or setting a disruptor can either, shock, stun, damage, kill, fully disrupt into a cloud of unbonded free molecules and atoms.

They are employed by the Cardassian Empire, Romulan Star Empire, Klingon Empire, Borg, Breen and Orions in their hand armaments, military armaments and mounted as cannons, arrays, emitters, turrets and in clusters as banks.

PHASERS

STARSHIP PHASERS: Phasers are an acronym for PHASed Energy Rectification. Phasers are a beam of emitted energy that is slightly shifted in its quantum atomic fields value. This allows it to penetrate many forms of matter quite deeply as it takes effect.

Phasers on board ships are either in the form of a single node wide a variety of firing directions or as an array a tract along the side of a ship which houses one or two phaser beam emitters that can move along the tract, this gives a greater range and coverage.

The ships power system, the Electroplasmic System (EPS), carries Electoplasma in conduits and taps. The phasers have a downward transformer to lower the amount of power in order to prevent overtaxing of the ships power supply. The high quantity of electrons in the EPS matrix is drained and is fired as a beam of concentrated energy, as it passes through the emitter the energy is shifted through a subspace inversion field were it is remodulated to a slightly different quantum atomic fields value. Depending on the compression of the beam the colour can be anything between blue and red in the spectrum.

ARTILLARY PHASERS: Hand Phasers Armaments have taken many forms since the transformation of standard Starfleet weapons from lasers to phasers. Originally a single calculator sized two and a half inches thick called a type one phaser and also a pistol like phaser with a higher power and with more settings called a type two phaser. These phasers as most up until the 24th century used Sarium krellide power cell and used a pre-fire chamber containing a fushigi-no-umi crystals which can focus nadions, high energy, high speed sub-atomic particles that have a highly concentrated reaction with atomic nuclei. The crystal causes the nadions to liberate and transfer strong nuclear forces within the power cell.

Later these two were designed to combine. A small approximately 8 cms long 5 cms wide and about 3cms thick, this could fit into a slot in the top of a pistol like hand phaser which when combined with the smaller one had a higher power, greater focus and more functions.

Later the phaser took a third form, the phaser riffle a larger barrelled hand weapon that has a double-handed grip and sometimes a stock. These first appeared around the 2260’s and changed in shape type and power up until when they were much lighter, powerful and sleeker. These are the type three phaser

PLASMA BEAM CANNONS: These are usually mounted only on vessels and use similar technology to a transporters ACB to emit a beam of highly concentrated, high powered and mildly unstable stream of electroplasma. This weapon was developed by the Romulans and was one of the best-kept secrets from Starfleet and was highly effective against Federation shields and technologies.

Few other races but the Ferengi, who still employ it on their Marauders, use this weapon. The Romulans disbanded with the weapon, as it was not only dangerous to the target but the very nature of electroplasma meant that the weapon was unstable. Nor did the weapon have a modifiable power strength and could easily destroy a target or an object when all that was desired was to disable them.

PHASED POLARON CANNONS: These are weapons that were first encounter when contact with the Dominion was made. Polarons are Anti-Muons, the antiparticle counter part of the muon, it is extremely powerful and has is immensely devastating effect against Federation shielding.

A Polaron is an anti-muon. A Muon is a stellar sub-atomic that can be caused when cosmic rays strike a dense object, what results is either a neutrino, positron, muon or some other particle. These particles have an approximate lifespan of 2.2 microseconds but can be chronoton-modulated to extend their life spans. These have 207 times the mass of an electron with a similar charge. They have properties similar to that of a neutrino. Star ships require immensely compressed shields to prevent these high-speed sub-atomic particles from slipping through the shielding.

LASERS: A tight stream of highly concentrated and energetic photons. These are highly primitive and rely on thermal temperature to induce damage. The power required of a laser to penetrate the average 24th century shield is immense and isn't worth the required size and energy. Photons can be split.

See also: Physics and Star Trek