rdfs:comment | - A variant of the Plasma torpedo which can partially phase through a barrier like a shield before detonating. These devices were never used or tested by the Federation Starfleet before the year 2378, when 20 were given to the USS Sovereign after protecting Starbase 12 from a joint-Cardassian/Kessok fleet in the Maelstrom. (TNG video game: Bridge Commander) It seems that phased plasma torpedoes could be fired from a normal quantum torpedo launcher, but this assertion has yet to be verified in canon.
- The Phased plasma torpedo was a variant of the plasma torpedo that could partially phase through a barrier (like a shield) before exploding. These weapons were never used or tested before 2378, when 20 rounds were given to the USS Sovereign after protecting Starbase 12 from a joint Cardassian/Kessok fleet in the Maelstrom during the Kessok Incident. (TNG video game: Bridge Commander) They were used against a Borg tactical sphere in Lyran space, successfully destroying it during the Battle of Krypton. (RIS Bouteina: "Sphere of Influence")
- Phased plasma torpedoes are an advanced variation of the quantum torpedo that can phase out of normal space-time to bypass shields, then phase back in to detonate on a ship's hull, thus making shields worthless against them. They only appeared in the PC game Star Trek: Bridge Commander. Shortly after the recovery of the Pegasus device, the phasing properties used in the design were seen as a delivery system for torpedoes. Since Borg ships are almost impossible to destroy by Starfleet's current technology, it made sense to their engineers, if a torpedo could phase itself and enter the body of a Borg cube, it could then materialize and detonate, causing devastating damage. However, reducing the phasing coils used to accomplish an intangible state to torpedo size proved difficult. Also, the a
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abstract | - A variant of the Plasma torpedo which can partially phase through a barrier like a shield before detonating. These devices were never used or tested by the Federation Starfleet before the year 2378, when 20 were given to the USS Sovereign after protecting Starbase 12 from a joint-Cardassian/Kessok fleet in the Maelstrom. (TNG video game: Bridge Commander) It seems that phased plasma torpedoes could be fired from a normal quantum torpedo launcher, but this assertion has yet to be verified in canon.
- Phased plasma torpedoes are an advanced variation of the quantum torpedo that can phase out of normal space-time to bypass shields, then phase back in to detonate on a ship's hull, thus making shields worthless against them. They only appeared in the PC game Star Trek: Bridge Commander. Shortly after the recovery of the Pegasus device, the phasing properties used in the design were seen as a delivery system for torpedoes. Since Borg ships are almost impossible to destroy by Starfleet's current technology, it made sense to their engineers, if a torpedo could phase itself and enter the body of a Borg cube, it could then materialize and detonate, causing devastating damage. However, reducing the phasing coils used to accomplish an intangible state to torpedo size proved difficult. Also, the antimatter within the warhead had a destabilizing effect on the phasing coil. A new kind of explosive material was needed, and it was found using the principles behind the first observed Romulan plasma weapons. The installation of high-energy plasma infuser would allow a torpedo casing to be filled with a warhead tube charged with high-energy plasma from the ship's warp nacelles. Warp plasma is considered highly unstable and can be easily detonated. Until recently, it was considered an undeliverable medium that could not be controlled. However, filling the detonation tube with warp plasma, and using a nanite controlled trigger for reactant release, now allows vessels to deliver a high-energy plasma warhead payload within a Mark IV torpedo casing.
- The Phased plasma torpedo was a variant of the plasma torpedo that could partially phase through a barrier (like a shield) before exploding. These weapons were never used or tested before 2378, when 20 rounds were given to the USS Sovereign after protecting Starbase 12 from a joint Cardassian/Kessok fleet in the Maelstrom during the Kessok Incident. (TNG video game: Bridge Commander) The TNG game Bridge Commander implied that phased plasma torpedo casings could be fired from a normal quantum torpedo tube, because the Sovereign could fire phased plasma torpedoes through either quantum torpedo launcher. However, this assertion has yet to be verified in canon. The Bouteina refit of the Norexan-class were outfitted with a complement of such torpedoes. Since plasma torpedo launchers, along with their casings, were too bulky to be used practically on Federation ships, Starfleet had to use the smaller casings (F-type according to Romulan shipbuilding conventions because it was the largest, if only, size the Federation could use) to develop these phased plasma torpedoes. They were used against a Borg tactical sphere in Lyran space, successfully destroying it during the Battle of Krypton. (RIS Bouteina: "Sphere of Influence") Stoneship-class starships were equipped with phased plasma torpedoes. (Star Trek: The Stoneship Files: "Highly Illogical") Jem'Hadar battleships had a weakness that was exploitable by shooting phased plasma torpedoes at the antimatter storage system's primary support braces. (Star Trek: The Stoneship Files: "Generational Ghosts")
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