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[[File:Varont.jpg|thumb|A Varon-T disruptor]]
 
[[File:Varont.jpg|thumb|A Varon-T disruptor]]
 
[[File:Varria varon-t death.jpg|thumb|The effect of a Varon-T disruptor]]
 
[[File:Varria varon-t death.jpg|thumb|The effect of a Varon-T disruptor]]
The '''Varon-T disruptor''' was a hand-held [[directed-energy weapon]] banned in the [[Federation]] due to its vicious nature: the [[disruptor]] literally tore the body apart from the inside out, resulting in a relatively slow and excruciating [[death]]. Only five were ever produced; four of them were owned by [[Zibalian]] trader [[Kivas Fajo]] and he slept with one of them under his pillow. Fajo used a Varon-T disruptor to [[murder|kill]] [[Varria]] when she and [[Data]] attempted to escape his ship. ({{TNG|The Most Toys}})
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The '''Varon-T disruptor''' was a hand-held [[directed-energy weapon]] banned in the [[Federation]] due to its vicious nature: the [[disruptor]] literally tore the body apart at the molecular level from the inside out, resulting in a relatively slow and excruciating [[death]] by disentigration compared to most phasers and disruptors. Only five were ever produced; four of them were owned by [[Zibalian]] trader [[Kivas Fajo]] and he slept with one of them under his pillow. Fajo used a Varon-T disruptor to [[murder|kill]] [[Varria]] when she and [[Data]] attempted to escape his ship. ({{TNG|The Most Toys}})
   
 
==Background information==
 
==Background information==

Revision as of 19:56, 5 March 2013

File:Varont.jpg

A Varon-T disruptor

File:Varria varon-t death.jpg

The effect of a Varon-T disruptor

The Varon-T disruptor was a hand-held directed-energy weapon banned in the Federation due to its vicious nature: the disruptor literally tore the body apart at the molecular level from the inside out, resulting in a relatively slow and excruciating death by disentigration compared to most phasers and disruptors. Only five were ever produced; four of them were owned by Zibalian trader Kivas Fajo and he slept with one of them under his pillow. Fajo used a Varon-T disruptor to kill Varria when she and Data attempted to escape his ship. (TNG: "The Most Toys")

Background information

The props used for the Varon-T disruptors were a reuse of the Mariposan phaser-like pistols from TNG: "Up The Long Ladder" and they were later reused again as a Rutian Ansata terrorist pistol in TNG: "The High Ground", a pistol of the Ferengi Sovak in TNG: "Captain's Holiday", a pistol of the mercenary Kelsey in TNG: "Starship Mine", phaser pistol used by the mercenaries in TNG: "Gambit, Part I", "Gambit, Part II", a pistol of the Native American colonists of Dorvan V in TNG: "Journey's End", a Maquis pistol in TNG: "Preemptive Strike" and an alien weapon in VOY: "Fair Trade".

It is not clear if some of these weapons were intended to be Varon-T disruptors. Only in "Gambit, Part II" the reused prop was identified as a phaser. The type of the pistol was not identified in the other instances. TNG: "The Most Toys" was also the only episode in which this weapon was shown to produce the distinctive painful disintegration effect.