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The '''transphasic torpedo''' was a [[Starfleet]] weapon developed sometime in the [[2380s]] in a future [[alternate timeline]]. It was designed specifically to handle the [[Borg]] threat, with input by [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway]] and the crew of the {{USS|Voyager}}. |
The '''transphasic torpedo''' was a [[Starfleet]] weapon developed sometime in the [[2380s]] in a future [[alternate timeline]]. It was designed specifically to handle the [[Borg]] threat, with input by [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway]] and the crew of the {{USS|Voyager}}. |
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| − | In [[2378]], the point to which [[Admiral]] Janeway from the alternate timeline had traveled back in time, the admiral introduced Captain Janeway to this technology for use in reaching a Borg [[transwarp hub]] accessing the [[Borg transwarp network]] to return to [[Earth]]. When entering the [[nebula]] where the transwarp hub was located, one transphasic torpedo was enough to destroy a [[Borg cube]]. Despite the use of transphasic torpedoes to destroy two cubes, the [[Borg Collective|Collective]] had not yet adapted to the torpedoes when ''Voyager'' fired at the interspatial manifolds in the transwarp network. ({{VOY|Endgame}}) |
+ | In [[2378]], the point to which [[Admiral]] Janeway from the alternate timeline had traveled back in time, the admiral introduced Captain Janeway to this technology for use in reaching a Borg [[transwarp hub]] accessing the [[Borg transwarp network]] to return to [[Earth]]. When entering the [[nebula]] where the transwarp hub was located, one transphasic torpedo was enough to destroy a [[Borg cube]]. Despite the use of transphasic torpedoes to destroy two cubes, the [[Borg Collective|Collective]] had not yet adapted to the torpedoes when ''Voyager'' fired at the interspatial manifolds in the transwarp network. ({{VOY|Endgame}}). This may have been because transphasic torpedo technology was designed specifically to combat the Borg, who had become a serious threat in the future. |
{{bginfo|After their critical role in "Endgame", transphasic torpedoes were not shown or mentioned in {{film|10}}.}} |
{{bginfo|After their critical role in "Endgame", transphasic torpedoes were not shown or mentioned in {{film|10}}.}} |
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Voyager firing a transphasic torpedo
The transphasic torpedo was a Starfleet weapon developed sometime in the 2380s in a future alternate timeline. It was designed specifically to handle the Borg threat, with input by Captain Kathryn Janeway and the crew of the USS Voyager.
In 2378, the point to which Admiral Janeway from the alternate timeline had traveled back in time, the admiral introduced Captain Janeway to this technology for use in reaching a Borg transwarp hub accessing the Borg transwarp network to return to Earth. When entering the nebula where the transwarp hub was located, one transphasic torpedo was enough to destroy a Borg cube. Despite the use of transphasic torpedoes to destroy two cubes, the Collective had not yet adapted to the torpedoes when Voyager fired at the interspatial manifolds in the transwarp network. (VOY: "Endgame"). This may have been because transphasic torpedo technology was designed specifically to combat the Borg, who had become a serious threat in the future.
Apocrypha
According to the Pocket Books novel Greater than the Sum, transphasic torpedoes were in fact kept by Starfleet as the weapon of last resort to be deployed to starships only when all else had failed against the Borg. They were the one and only thing Starfleet knew the Borg had not yet adapted to and for that reason wanted to keep this ace in the hole for as long as possible.
The warhead technology of the torpedoes was also revealed in the novel. It is based on generating a destructive subspace compression pulse. Upon detonation the torpedo delivers the pulse in an asymmetric superposition of multiple phase states. Shields can only block one subcomponent of the pulse. The other subcomponents deliver the majority of the pulse to the target. Every torpedo has a different transphasic configuration, generated randomly by a dissonant feedback effect to prevent the Borg from predicting the configuration of the phase states.