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PostWed Jun 25, 2003 3:56 am    How many type of torpedo?

Please explain

Photon Torpedo : ...........
Quantum Torpedo : .........



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PostWed Jun 25, 2003 8:02 am    

torpedoes are just like casings with various warheads inside
Quantum, Photon, Temporal, Transphasic, Spatial Charges(might count), Gravimetric, Tri-Cobalt, Micro-Quantum


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PostWed Jun 25, 2003 8:16 am    

^technically tri-cobolt devices are not really torpedo, more a subspace weapon.

The torpedos the federation use are the photon and quantum torpedos.


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PostWed Jun 25, 2003 2:37 pm    

There is polaron and plasma as well the polaron is used by the klingons and the plasma by the romulans


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PostFri Jun 27, 2003 4:39 am    one more.

in addition to the regular photon used by the federation the klingons used to use an advanced photon torpedo (seen in Kligon Academy) which gives off a bluish tint, and tons of energy when it hits

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PostFri Jun 27, 2003 11:01 am    

yeah but half the weapons seen in games are never shown in the shows lol
however plasma is correct and i think that polaron is but im not sure about advanced torpedoes


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PostFri Jun 27, 2003 11:36 am    

i want the photic cannon ( the one in voyger withthe dotcor daydeams about ECH)

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PostFri Jun 27, 2003 11:39 am    

Don't forget the plasma torpedo. That's the Romulan one.

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PostFri Jun 27, 2003 11:40 am    

i want them all on my ship

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PostFri Jun 27, 2003 3:44 pm    

Do keep in mind, storage, different tubes, and energy required to fire them. I'd only keep 2 kinds, Photon and Quantam. Photon to do normal amounts of damage (small torpedo, big boom), but the Quantam for the heavy hitters (big torpedo, even bigger boom).

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PostMon Jul 07, 2003 11:13 pm    

I'm not 100% sure, but I think there are 7 or 8 different kinds.

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PostThu Jul 10, 2003 6:15 am    

Not to mention the powerful photonic ones used by the Borg...

POSSIBLE SPOILER AHEAD:

Voyager 6.13 - Unimatrix Zero Part 1:

2 fired by the cube, completey destroyed the Delta Flyer...it's shields were down at the time, but still...


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PostFri Jul 11, 2003 9:57 pm    

Its the Delta Flyer. Its a speck, they could, smack it, and it would blow itself the pieces. The borg would be like, what was that?

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PostSat Jul 12, 2003 2:19 am    

No way! The Delta Flyer rules, it could hold it's own...

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PostSat Jul 12, 2003 4:50 pm    

My favourite ship! Being slandered! Oh how I could cry!

Erm, yeah, right - I know I'm a weirdo.

They also used those Photonic Missiles in the one where they picked up those babyborg (Wow, sounds like a new type of that cheese, BabyBel lol)...the damaged cube chased the Delta Flyer with them although they looked more like lasers than torps.

In the Playstation game Star Trek Invasion, there are photonic missile, photon, quantum, trilithium and a few more but like you said about Klingon Academy, I don't think they are in the series and thus cannot be considered canon.


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PostMon Jul 14, 2003 12:07 pm    

Ronevick wrote:
torpedoes are just like casings with various warheads inside
Quantum, Photon, Temporal(rare as they are highly unstable), Transphasic(doesnt exist), Spatial Charges(might count) (just a torpedo with proximity sensors), Gravimetric(hard to make, dont think it exists though.), Tri-Cobalt (A bomb in a torpedo casing), Micro-Quantum(doesnt exist)



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PostTue Jul 15, 2003 1:09 pm    

Link wrote:
Ronevick wrote:
torpedoes are just like casings with various warheads inside
Quantum, Photon, Temporal(rare as they are highly unstable), Transphasic(doesnt exist), Spatial Charges(might count) (just a torpedo with proximity sensors), Gravimetric(hard to make, dont think it exists though.), Tri-Cobalt (A bomb in a torpedo casing), Micro-Quantum(doesnt exist)


Gravimetric is the borgs torpedo and micro quantums are used on the danube class runabout it says so in the startrek deep space 9 encyclopedia thingy, they are around 13 cm long and transphasic exist in anothe time line



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PostTue Jul 15, 2003 9:39 pm    

I still like the Photon

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PostSun Sep 21, 2003 1:15 am    

*revives another thread*

There are five forms of torpedoes that are/have been used onboard Federation vessels. Four are weapons, one is not.

Photon: Basically, a mini warp core wrapped in a tube. Photon torpedoes use matter and antimatter to make their explosions, but does not contain nearly as much antimatter that is required to completely destroy a starship. Photon torpedoes are capable of warp travel, but the farther/faster they go, the less explosive yield they have (the farther they go, the more of their antimatter they have to use, the less effective the explosion.)

Quantum: Based on zero-point energy, quantum torpedoes pack a larger explosion than their photon counterparts. They have the capability of going farther without a loss in explosive yield, because antimatter is not the primary explosive.

Transphasic: Transphasic torpedoes do not exist yet. Well... they're not supposed to, anyway. Based on what little information there is available about them, they are several times more powerful than a quantum torpedo, and have the capabilities of ripping a ship apart from the inside out. It's believed that transphasic torpedoes were developed as a countermeasure primarily against the Borg.

Trilithium: Ah, yes. Dr. Soran. Trilithium torpedoes are not weapons at first glance, but when used in the fashion that Soran used them, they are weapons of unimaginable power. By stopping all nuclear reactions in a star, trilithium will cause a star to implode on top of itself, sending out a shockwave large enough to destroy anything orbiting the star, such as planets, space stations, and starships.

Probes: In all honesty, most people do not consider probes to be torpedoes. However, they follow the same basic principle; they carry a payload in a tube at warp speeds. Their payload, however, is not explosive. Probes usually carry scientific equipment, communications equipment, or in odd situations and with many modifications, living beings.

There are several forms of torpedoes that I have purposely left out (plasma, temporal, tricobalt, gravametric). Tricobalt torpedoes are more like high-yield sublight bombs, and are technically not classified as 'torpedoes'. Plasma torpedoes are somewhat harder to explain, since I don't know much about Romulan tech, so I decided to stay away from them. I don't know much about gravametric weapons 'period'. And temporal torpedoes are a doozy to explain, so... I'll save it for a later discussion.

Until next time. =D


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PostFri Sep 26, 2003 10:00 am    

You also get "Spatial Torpedoes" and "Photonic Torpedoes" in Enterprise don't forget. In one of the books, "What Price Honor", it is also mentioned that Enterprise carries "Fusion Torpedoes" but I think this is a mistake. It also mensions Enterprise carries Photon Torpedoes despite the novel being set before "The Expanse" so they shouldn't have the weapon at that point.

In the "Broken Bow" novel, the lasers the ship fires in the episode are referred to as "Phased Artillery Shells" - not torpedoes but not lasers/phasers either. Again, I think that may be the author's impression rather than canon info.


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PostThu Oct 02, 2003 1:26 pm    

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You also get "Spatial Torpedoes" and "Photonic Torpedoes" in Enterprise don't forget. In one of the books, "What Price Honor", it is also mentioned that Enterprise carries "Fusion Torpedoes" but I think this is a mistake. It also mensions Enterprise carries Photon Torpedoes despite the novel being set before "The Expanse" so they shouldn't have the weapon at that point.

In the "Broken Bow" novel, the lasers the ship fires in the episode are referred to as "Phased Artillery Shells" - not torpedoes but not lasers/phasers either. Again, I think that may be the author's impression rather than canon info.


I really do tend to agree with you on this one. And I like to think I know a lot on the weaponry. Timeline problems exist everywhere in Star Trek, we just have to learn to get around them.


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PostFri Oct 17, 2003 8:04 pm    

Did you know that in a standard photon torpedo there is only 1.5 kilograms of antimatter in it!! only 1.5, doesnt that seem a bit small! I wonder how powerful a torpedo if we overloaded it with anti matter ssay about 10kg then what would its effect on the target be! I know its way to dangerous for the ship carriering it! but oh well!!.......KABOOOM

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PostFri Oct 17, 2003 8:40 pm    

I think that a Gravametric Torpedo would work on the principle of creating a small sub-space well upon detonation. Thus causing whatever it hit to be pulled into the well and torn apart.

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PostFri Oct 17, 2003 9:02 pm    

I don't think they would do that, because, as we learned in Insurrection, the Federation outlawed all types of subspace torpedoes.

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PostSat Oct 18, 2003 7:48 pm    

Whitehero wrote:
I think that a Gravametric Torpedo would work on the principle of creating a small sub-space well upon detonation. Thus causing whatever it hit to be pulled into the well and torn apart.


And you have a risk of being pulled in yourself!!


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