Weapons List

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Druoda warhead	In late 2375, Voyager received a distress call from a nearby Class M planet. On investigating the away team commanded by Ensign Kim discovered that the call had originated from an artificial source, a metallic device approximately 1.2 metres in length. Scanning revealed that the device had para-trinic shielding and a dense energy matrix, as well as bio-neural circuitry which mimicked Humanoid synaptic functions and proved to be both sentient and highly intelligent. It was badly damaged, and had no memory of the time prior to its crash landing on the planet. [1] The device did remember that it had been travelling with a companion, but on scanning the surface Voyager could not locate any other machinery. They did discover minute traces of metallic particulates scattered across the planets northern continent. The continent had a four hundred kilometre diameter crater on it, the walls of which had concentrations of radiogenic decay and fracture gradients consistent with a highly focused explosion. Voyagers crew realized that the device was in fact a weapon of mass destruction. They tried to deactivate the weapon, but in doing so it regained some of its damaged memories and became determined to fulfil its function by attacking a nearby system. It seized control of Voyager and plotted a course for its target, 2.3 light years away. The crew was unable to disarm the device, but Neelix realized that they had recently acquired a power node with transkinetic energy regulators and bio-neural circuitry very similar to those in the warhead from a trader named Onquanii. Voyager signalled the trader and he rendezvoused with the ship. Onquanii told them that the device was of Druoda manufacture and featured a Class 11 intelligence, warp drive, heavy armour, a self guiding system and a maximum range of 80 light-years. It was designed to fly through ion storms or even an entire armada of hostile ships on the way to its target. [1] Onquanii attempted to buy the warhead but Captain Janeway declined. He attempted to take it by force, but the warhead destroyed his ship in the process and ordered Voyager to continue on its way to the target. [1] During the trip Ensign Kim was able to discover that the warhead had in fact been deliberately ordered to crash by its creators. The war which it had been built for had ended three years previously; the weapon had been launched by accident along with 33 others and had been destroyed rather than recalled. Ensign Kim was able to convince the warhead that its mission should be aborted, but the remaining warheads had already passed their 2 light year targeting threshold, at which point they were programmed to refuse all further recall orders. Still in space nearby, the remaining bombs detected the one on Voyager and intercepted the ship in order to launch a co-ordinated attack. [1] The warhead on board agreed to leave Voyager and accompany the others in order to destroy them. Once clear of the vessel the warhead detonated its antimatter energy matrix, resulting in a chain reaction which set off all of the other weapons harmlessly in space. [1] Voyager has not had any further contact with the Druoda, and the amazingly advanced weapon remains their only encounter with this species thus far. [1]
Dream Species Rifle [2]	Rifle used by the dream species which Voyager encountered in 2374. [2]
Dreadnought [3]	Maquis designation for an experimental Cardassian heavy penetrator missile armed with a 2,000 kg matter/antimatter charge and controlled by an advanced computer. [3]
Doomsday Machine [4]	Robotic space going weapon with a hull composed of pure neutronium. The machine cut planets up to use the material as fuel. [4]
Dominion Torpedo [5]	Dominion torpedo, type unknown. The weapons are built by the Karemma. [5]
DITL Species No. 1222 rifle	A weapon used by DITL Species No. 1222. Although it looks like a pain stick it is actually an energy weapon. Spock was able to easily pick up and use the weapon without training. [6]
Disruptors, System 5 [7]	Type of large Cardassian cannon used for planetary defence. [7]
Disruptors [8]	Also known as a Phase Disruptor, these weapons are in common use throughout the alpha quadrant. [9] They follow the same basic principle as the Federation Phaser in that they cause the target to transition violently out of this continuum. But the Disruptor uses slow nadions rather than rapid nadions in generating the energy beam. This gives the disruptor a considerably lower energy conversion efficiency than the Starfleet phaser. This is partially offset by a moderate reduction in the size of the hardware required for the weapon itself - the space freed up by this allows a higher power weapon to be installed in the same space. The Federation phaser is therefore considered to be more sophisticated and generally more effective than the disruptor, which relies on brute power to overcome its efficiency failings. Like phasers, disruptor weapons can fire sustained beams or pulses depending on the exact configuration of the hardware. [9] One major drawback to this type of weapon is that no user has been able to develop the efficiency of the system to a point where individual emitters can be linked via force coupling. This makes it virtually impossible to construct a linear disruptor array along the pattern of Starfleets phaser arrays. Since these weapons entered Federation service on board the Ambassador class there has been massive investment by the Klingons and Romulans to overcome this deficiency, but neither power has been able to field such a weapon. Recent warship designs by these two powers have instead concentrated on building ever larger and more powerful single emitter weapons, culminating in the two giant disruptor cannon fitted to the Klingon Negh'Var class. The linear phaser array thus remains a significant advantage for Starfleet.
Disintegrator	Used on the planet Angel One, the disintegrator was the standard method of execution on the planet. It comprised a pair of emitters which flanked a small platform. A transparent sphere was touched to activate the device, which would cause whatever was on the platform to disintegrate. The process took several seconds, and was regarded as a humane method of execution. [10] In 2364 Mistress Beata planned to use the disintegrator to execute Captain Ramsey and his crew, who had been campaigning for gender equality on the planet since they were marooned there some years previously. Beata relented at the last moment and instead exiled the fugitives. [10]
Dicobalt Explosive [11]	A high yield explosive used during the mid 22nd century. The Coridan insurgent movement was known for demanding dicobalt explosives in exchange for hostages. [11] A group of pirates who preyed on Human cargo ships in the 2150s would attach a locator beacon to the hull of their targets, allowing them to easily find it again. The beacon was equipped with a dicobalt explosive to prevent removal. [12]
Delta Quadrant Rifle [13]	A pistol-style weapon used by a species in the Delta Quadrant. [13]
Delta Quadrant Pistol [13]	A pistol weapon used by a species in the Delta Quadrant. [13]
Defence Orchid	An unusual botanical weapon used to attack ships in orbit. They were able to wrap themselves around ships and disable their systems. The additional mass would then cause the orchid and ship to fall from orbit crashing the ship on the surface of the planet. [14]
Daelen's Pistol [15]	A pistol weapon used by Daelen when Voyager encountered him. [15]

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References

#	Series	Season	Source	Comment
1	VOY	5	Warhead
2	VOY	4	Waking Moments
3	VOY	2	Dreadnought
4	TOS	2	The Doomsday Machine
5	DS9	4	Starship Down
6	SNW	1	All Those Who Wander
7	DS9	4	Return to Grace
8	TOS	1	Arena
9			Various Next Generation episodes
10	TNG	1	Angel One
11	ENT	1	Shadows of P'Jem
12	ENT	2	Horizon
13	VOY	1	Time and Again
14	STP	1	Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1
15	VOY	4	Vis-a-Vis

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