A Summary of Klingon Disruptors

The Klingon Empire uses primarily disruptors when it comes to battle in person although they do favour the Bat'leth or Klingon Sword. Let's take a look at their other devices in the Imperial Arsenal from 2151's Enterprise Era to the TNG times of the Dominion War.
Chapters
00:00 Design Choice
01:18 2150s Disruptor
02:01 2250s Mo'Kai Disruptor
02:47 2260s KDF Disruptor
04:25 2280s KDF Adaptable Disruptor
05:49 How it Works
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[@Morhek]

It just struck me, the irony that the Klingons, the most aggressive species in Star Trek, have a DEFENCE Force. Edit: I want to clarify that I'm not saying it's inaccurate, or that I don't like it. Only that it's amusingly ironic.

[@brianshea2515]

The best defense is a good offense.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

Militaries have a long and storied history of reversing the meaning of words. Until after WW2 the Ministry of Defence (UK) and the Department of Defence (USA) were the War Office and Department of War, respectively. They were renamed partly because they sounded too agressive. And remember, in Orwell's 1984 the War Office becomes the Ministry of Peace, and the place where they "re-educate" people (aka torture them into submission) is called the Ministry of Love. Even the Nazis liked a good euphemism that made a horrible thing sound less horrible, in the concentration camps official records and in memos, Jews who were to be gassed were to be given "special treatment"

[@vincewilson1]

Right now the Russians have started a war and they want us to believe it is a "Special Operation". They call it a combat operation but to all of us and our friends the Ukranians it is a WAR!

[@Xenotrickster]

@@bipolarminddroppingsIt's much easier to get taxpayer money to fund better killing devices 'for defense'. Especially in countries that have never been invaded since their creation.

[@AberrantChibi]

Would you have prefered it to be called the 'honour' force?

[@scottwalker6947]

I like how they pretty much dropped the whole disintegrate thing in Phasers and Disruptors from later Trek.

[@jphakola]

If you add the equation e=mc2 with the concept of distruptor, you’ll find some immediate problems with firing one in close quarters.. :D

[@savage5128]

You got me. I spit out my tea just a little bit when you said Klingot. Love the Enterprise reference.

[@danjoy2]

I think the pistol aesthetic of disruptors is cool and I'd love to see a klingon gunslinger that spins his disruptor in his hand.

[@nightrunnerxm393]

Need a trigger guard for that...a feature that just about nobody in the future uses, for some reason.

[@hcnif55]

@@nightrunnerxm393 Isn't the trigger on the back top of the gun for them so it wouldn't really be that useful anyway?

[@PongoXBongo]

The spinny bit could be a ring of power packs. A form of Russian Roulette could be played with all but one pack being depleted.

[@danjoy2]

@@PongoXBongo Could see a disruptor be fired until it glows from the heat and you have to shoot out the smoking power pack and slot a new one in.

[@sokagofferenginar8669]

Double wielding would be cool too

[@kenknerr7226]

You forgot to talk about the modular disruptor that the Klingons put together in the Enterprise-D's brig. It was able to be disguised as uniform attachments.

[@chrisjohnson1146]

Probably a specialized tool rather than the standard issue that was showcased here. And we see something similar from the 007 movie Man with the Golden Gun. Scaramanga's signature weapon could be disassembled and disguised as various, non lethal items. Put together though... it was a gun.

[@enisra_bowman]

@@chrisjohnson1146 a Star Trek Spy Adventure would be nice, but the Branch of Burgess and less DS9 Section 31, basicly some of the Lower Decks missions but more fleshed out

[@jacara1981]

That was used by their "Secret Service" units only, this is because its considered dishonorable to hide your weapons. A warrior should display their weapons and welcome any who challenge them.

[@Sephiroth144]

@@jacara1981 Hey, they were completely on display- not the honorable Klingons' fault the puj'choja' didn't properly check for weapons.

[@daveh7720]

@@Sephiroth144That's something that bothered me about that episode. I'm sure they were scanned for weapons before being locked up. But if I had been running that scan I'd have found and confiscated anything with more stored energy than a taut rubber band, let alone a power cell.

[@tba113]

I appreciate the Klingons' perspective here. It's a weapon - ergo, it's Serious Business and should _look_ like Serious Business. The rounded, inoffensive Apple Store aesthetic of TNG-era phasers is... Well, I can understand where they're coming from, but the mindset behind making Starfleet sidearms look like electric razors underscores the peace-in-our-time passivity that led to any number of avoidable disasters by expecting everyone they encounter to be reasonable and willing to negotiate.

[@shocktnc]

Fully agree

[@AC20sAkimbo]

Enterprise era Klingon disrupters looked a bit like power drills pained rusty brown. The TNG era ones look kind of like old flintlocks from the age of sail with sci-fi addons.

[@jenniferstewarts4851]

"sonic" and "vibratory" are used interchangeably here. now people will scream, sound doesn't travel in space.... and... they would be wrong. Sound needs a medium to travel through... and the partical beam itself is the medium. These weapons used a partial beam to "vibrate" a target on impact, causing it to rip itself apart with microscopic fractures. Some versions of this used gravaton partials much like a tractor beam effectively shaking a target to death... while others used a particl beam which had all the fun effects of, a partical beam with the added fun of the vibrations...

[@be-noble3393]

I got one of these as a toy from a Star Trek Con in the 90’s and still have it.

[@thanqualthehighseer]

one of the Star Trek novels stated a Klingon disruptor did had a stun setting but if the target wasn't medically treated they would eventually die. if that was a particular type, of one era or all designs i don't know.

[@valor1omega]

Books are non-canon. Not on screen did not happen.

[@mleadenham1]

@@valor1omega TNG S7, episode 11 "Parallels" established that the Star Trek universe is an infinite multiverse, and therefore _everything_ is technically canon, except for your weird attempt at gatekeeping, which isn't canon.

[@UGNAvalon]

Not show-canon*

[@JoacinoDaGona]

5:00 Reminds me of the stock attachment for the C96 Mauser "broomhandle" pistol.

[@daveh7720]

I like the idea but it bothers me that it's not obvious where the gunsight is. The sketches starting at 5:28 look like they have a small optical sight in that mount, but it would be covered up by an attached stock.

[@daveh7720]

When I watched the original series as a kid I assumed the mention of the Klingons' "sonic disruptors" meant a disruptor was a sonic weapon, period. So I was really confused by another episode where the Enterprise was being threatened by "planetary disruptor banks." Even as a snotty 9 year old I knew sound didn't work in space. A few years later I concluded that just living near a planetary disruptor emplacement was probably lethal, whether it reached orbit or not.

[@davidponseigo8811]

As a long time law enforcement officer and Combat Security Contractor sidearms are practically part of my body and I have had to use them for their intended purpose but I also have a TOS Phaser that even at my age of 50 I still play like I'm Jim Kirk every so often and enjoy every minute.

[@EnderMalcolm]

A video on the different types of thrown weapons would be interesting. There are some knives of course, but we also see 'nades and other such devices chucked around as needed. Are there "settings" on some of them, ranging from stun to vaporize, and are there things like short-range EMP weapons which could disable enemy firearms or equipment?

[@jacara1981]

All the way up through TOS Klingon houses had support worlds (normally other races that they conquer) they would incorporate tech from those worlds leading to the various houses having different appearing tech. They rarely traded with other houses (even allies), though would trade with other races to get an advantage over the other houses. By TNG a Unified empire and military began to mass produce a single model for all their troops. However the bladed weapons remained styled by the House you serve.

[@timetraveller6643]

"Sonic" may refer to a frequency band modulating the carier. We would call them the audio bands. 30-30,000 hz SLF, ULF, VLF

[@valor1omega]

Trying to make a klingork tech sound interesting or logical is a fool's errand. It was just as stupid then as it is now.

[@timetraveller6643]

@@valor1omega-- It may be that you are one of those people that fail creativity tests. Practice can improve your score.

[@gg-eo6ez]

@@valor1omega timetraveller6643 eviscerated you I hope you realize that

[@robertramos8607]

Sonic disruptor that was also used in the series, but basically microwaves radio waves are considered sonic so they probably used it as a nomenclature but microwaves were used original explanation was that they used Mazer what we use in microwaves that might be helpful for you I hope.

[@rubaiyat300]

Klingon disrupters…when you need to shake things up...molecularly.

[@kevinramsey417]

Klingon disruptors, when you want even your guns to be knives.

[@USS_Grey_Ghost]

I like the one weapon from the first Kelvin timeline movie looks like a Flintlock pistol

[@WolfA4]

It's interesting design-wise but doesn't make sense for a martial society like the Klingons, I can give their melee weapons a pass but their weapon designs for small arms like the disruptor should (in my opinion) emphasize effectiveness in functionality so the flintlock look would be less desirable in a weapon meant for actual combat use.

[@tombaker8481]

I loved the metallic "ping" sounds the weapons in that timeline made something solid, like the energy bolt was something also physical that would cut into you.

[@shingshongshamalama]

The Klingons are the one Star Trek race who have a genuine excuse to have a sidearm that is effectively a gunblade. The old fashioned kind, you know, a gun built into a dueling sword, not a gun that turns into a sword or.... the weird vibro-blade things from FF8.

[@walterlyzohub8112]

Early in the video one of the weapons resembled to me a powered drill or screwdriver. So a DeWalt like device with a removable power pack at the base of the handle seems practical and not add much weight for an average Klingon to handle. Just swap out as needed.

[@Sephiroth144]

Honestly, I thought the part at the end that was, "Most of the time, if they are fighting, it is to the death, because if it was not," was gonna go "then why bother?" instead of, "they would not be drawing a disruptor".

[@earlware4322]

Same here. That's exactly what my brain predicted he was going to say. I even had to rewind to listen again to be sure of what he did actually say.

[@kevinramsey417]

I actually love the Discovery-era Klingon disruptors because using your gun to stab your enemy is so on brand for Klingons.

[@Sephiroth144]

But you'd have to get past the disruptor emitter; they should've moves the grip forward for the spikes are the lead points of the weapon.

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

Aw, I was hoping you'd mention the "concealed" disruptor used by two Klingons in TNG. They had its parts disguised as innocent elements of their clothing to avoid detection, which allowed them to assemble it in captivity and use it to escape.

[@johnowen9349]

Excellent video and just the breakdown I needed for a story I've been writing.

[@GodOfWar109]

TIL the First Kilgore guns was painted corded drills lol God I love ST props!!

[@kaethesage]

I've been looking forward to this

[@KefkaCasselstone]

recently found your channel, these videos are super interesting! even answering a few questions about things I've had. deffinately keeping an eye out for vids ^_^

[@TheArnoor]

My head cannon for the Sonic disruptor is that they lace the plasma with a materials resonance frequency to increase destructive ability

[@DoctorX17]

The 2280s and later are my favorites aesthetically too. Love the pipes. The Discovery era with melee bits DOES make a lot of sense, but I assume the KDF decided it was better to have a pewpew and slice-slice be separate items...

[@dawall3732]

It is actually possible to propagate sound using beams. There is a laser-based listening device that can detect vibrations on surfaces. Allowing you to spy on somebody in a different room from you at a great distance. It is also theoretically possible to use some type of energy beam laser or otherwise to very quickly heat up and release physical matter, causing sound to appear in that location. With this technology, kligons could effectively use that particular gun as a blowhorn. Or a microphone to amplify and project their voice over a large distance. Klinon commander. Taking time to set his disruptor to the sound projection setting, alters the beam so it's of the right size, then speaks into the back of his gun. "Surrender in the name of the Empire, or I shall disintegrate you where you stand." Lieutenant standing next to him. Asks. "How are we gonna hear them if they surrender?" Commander says. "I don't care. I just wanted to yell at them and watch them jump."😂

[@erikanders3343]

sonic stunners and disrupter. As you can imagine disrupting the subatomic structure of a being tends to only kill.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

4:12 that’s a decent explanation for a missing ship model or some other set problem

[@beangrff]

A fascinating video! Great as always, but wasn't there a model that's missing here? It was made for TMP though was not seen out of its holster, and it was occasionally found in TNG season 1 and 2. Much like the WoK phasers in Yesterday's Enterprise, this created an interesting cannon problem. In fact, it was the one the Captain Kargan (shown at 5:40 in this video) wielded when he beamed aboard the Enterprise bridge. It was unusually blocky and had a star wars blaster vibe. It is often referred to as the Death Sting disruptor. EDIT: Actually you have a picture of holo-warriors wielding the Death Sting at 5:44 for Worf's Rite of Ascension ritual.

[@montecorbit8280]

Sonic disruptors.... Maybe they use sound inside the disruptor, possibly in the firing chamber, to shape the beam?? Sound would not have to go out into space then....

[@Thaumh]

Style-and-looks wise, my fave is the late 24th Century with emitter shroud version. A close second would be the one with the nasty looking knuckle blades.

[@imscary2]

trek's source material is all over the place at different times. A rpg that came out in the early 90's mentioned that disrupters need oxygen to work

[@jamesmyung9777]

Interesting video, thank you. Have you heard about the "Deathsting" variant first depicted in the book "Weapons and Field Equipment Technical Reference Manual" by Shane Johnson published in 1984, and shown in the Star Trek Next Generation? According to the manual, it was suppose to be the Klingons first foray into utilizing a "pulse" phaser technology for their sidearm. Really enjoyed your presentation, Cheers!

[@Bobdobbinks]

What happened to the "captain Scarlett" disruptors (ones with very long barrels and a red plate along the chamber top) from early TNG and the final frontier?

[@johnfitzgeraldii1952]

Rick, you forgot the Deathsting variant.

[@AshValentine.]

Discovery era Klingon disrupters are my favourite ones

[@doltsbane]

Always wondered how the sonic disrupters that Eminiar 7 used for planetary defense could fire on an orbiting starship. Maybe you could examine that in your future episode too.

[@Nick_Kearney]

Is there any chance you can do a similar video for the various phaser types used by Federation officers? There's a bit of a lack of information on the Picard era phasers. Also I'm wondering about the in canon reason for there being 4 types of phasers used by officers.

[@wren7195]

Aside from the prop/jargon and the like issue, perhaps the "sonic disruptor" was simultaneously a sonic-stun as well as able to be used as a traditional disruptor? Since Birds of Prey could enter atmosphere, perhaps there was a time that their disruptors was used in semi-orbital pacification via sonic stun. Just a thought. Head can-- uh, head disruptor. Had that all through uni.

[@DblOSmith]

Ok interesting! Thanks!

[@samrizzardi2213]

Have you ever thought of doing a video on the son'a? I find it fascinating just how overpowered they are, despite having a mere 70 years of space travel

[@chrisjohnson1146]

Well... technically they have far more experience with space travel. Don't forget the Son'a are actually a group of Ba'ku that decided to leave to follow "the old ways". The Ba'ku were actually a Warp Capable species. They just don't SHOW it anymore with their simpler lifestyle. I mean they understood Data had a Positronic Matrix after all.

[@samrizzardi2213]

@@chrisjohnson1146 That's true, I just wish they had clarified that their ships and technology were scavenged from the original (technological) Bak'u homeworld rather than developed from scratch. The idea that a handful of Son'a, who had been living as medieval peasants for over two centuries, in less than a century could have made ships capable of taking on a Sovereign and possessed medical technology surpassing the combined expertise of the Federation is too much of a stretch.

[@michaelmutranowski123]

I feel like there's an episode of TNG where somebody says that Romulan Disruptors don't have Stun settings so I always thought that applied to all Disruptors and that they were kill only weapons.

[@casbot71]

What if the *sonic disruptor* was a disruptor with a *stun* setting? And the stun setting used some sort of sonic effect created by the disruption of the air caused by the disruption bolt targeting the atmosphere itself. It zapped the air and created a concussive shock wave capable of knocking someone out. And thus it still used similar tech to a ships disruptors. A stun grenade and a artillery shell both use explosives.

[@darkaxel1991]

Particles can become waves thanks to the Observer Effect.

[@BashoftheMonth]

1:50 that's 100% a drill with the cord cut off. It still even has the lightbulb under the chuck.

[@orusandornots1915]

2 things. First, Disruptors like Phasers are particle beam weapons. "Sonic" in this context refers to the way the beam is culminated before the enter which uses high frequency vibration. The prototypes of these weapons actually emitted an audible high pitched whine. 2. I wonder how many Starfleet personal were killed because their weapon designers were concerned with making the weapons"less aggressive" looking instead of focusing 100% on making the most effective tool possible.

[@leightoncressman6188]

The Klingon on disruptors in the original were not sonic based though they were reused props from the episode, a taste of Armageddon those disruptors were said to be sonic based, but it was never stated that the cling on disruptors were sonic-based though they did also share the same sound effect, which probably contributed to people thinking that it was.

[@balrighty3523]

I was under the impression that the Klingons never actually had a "sonic disruptor", that that was the name of the weapon of a different civilization (I want to say Eminiar and probably Vendikar, too) that just looked the same because they needed to reuse the prop.

[@DocWolph]

Sonic weapons are typically used to prevent unintentional damage to structures and equipment. Klingons may tend to be trigger happy and having weapons that can kill enemies without destroying everything else, unless you mean to, would be a reasonable lean to have.

[@MrSeriousGuy]

The Sonic disruptor is likely capable of stunning a target by disrupting their bonds, without actually breaking them. It's similar to Vibro-distruption versus Atomic-distruption, which is a lethal type of disruption.

[@johnsteiner3417]

You didn't cover the covert assemble disruptor in the TNG episode with the three Klingons waking from cryogenics.

[@earlware4322]

Was this the TNG episode where the Klingons built a disrupter from pieces they had on them while in the brig? (Way to go Security, did they forget to do a scan for weapons? Heck, a standard pat-down would have discovered at least some of the parts. SMH) From what I recall it looked a lot like the model used in ST3 by Christopher Lloyd, but was slightly smaller.

[@johnsteiner3417]

@@earlware4322 Can't believe that wasn't included here. It was the episode where the showrunners made it clear Klingons were misunderstood compared to TOS and the movies.

[@thejarredhog3936]

In Star Wars, I remember Sonic Charges being used by Jango and Boba Fett during dogfights. They were those blue bomb things he'd use to attack Obi-Wan above Geonosis.

[@commandoepsilon4664]

I believe those were Seismic Charges, still doesn't make a whole lot of sense as a name for a weapon in space either way.

[@thejarredhog3936]

@@commandoepsilon4664 Probably. They're called sonic charges in Rogue Squadron 3. And they're so loud that all other audio literally shuts off.

[@Stormcaller3801]

Are we sure the sonic disruptor technology wasn't something they picked up from a guy in a blue box?

[@EvilXero359]

Granted just about all the species and militaries have their own designs but I think an interesting design for the Klingon disruptor handgun or small firearm would be gauntlet like with the firing mechanism housed in either the palms or near the wrists

[@coreymicallef365]

Sonic disruptors are just very high pressure shower technology of the 23rd century.

[@populuxe1]

You can probably fudge the sonic thing given that "hypersonic" as applied to fictional Trek elements doesn't seem to have much to do with sound either.

[@Nope_handlesaretrash]

Really though, is there a reason nobody thought to break out a simple 1911 lead chucking firearm? Nobody seems to be in possession of personal shields or anything.

[@dmitrivladimir-nagant8633]

In "First Contact," Picard uses a tommy gun from the holodeck to kill Borg, and the projectiles apparently defeat their personal shields. I always wondered why Starfleet didn't start mass-producing projectile weapons after Wolf 359.

[@valor1omega]

​@@dmitrivladimir-nagant8633 One of the worse movies in trek, I ignored the tommy gun thing. It was a dumb scene to make Picard some kind of action hero thing. Kirk beat the washed up Capt. To it, lol

[@BennyLlama39]

Is it my imagination, or does the disruptor at 1:50 look like power drills from the front? 🤔

[@tomalator]

I like the TNG phasers more, looking more like a remote than a gun

[@kevinramsey417]

They phased the type 1 phasers (early TNG) out because every time somebody used one, the doors in the shuttle bay would open.

[@rubaiyat300]

Agreed. Honestly thought them missing ever was kinda silly. I’d hope by the 24th century depending on manual aiming of weapons would be comically backwards.

[@angelsandautobots]

Star Trek Online takes place in the 25th century and Federation phasers still look likr fancy TV remotes. 🤣

[@mleadenham1]

Their ergonomics of TNG phasers are absolutely terrible. Pistol grips are designed that way for a reason.

[@kutter_ttl6786]

​@@mleadenham1 I remember back in the day (mid 2000s), there was a ST focused site that had a page that highlighted just how bad the ergonomics of the Type 2 phaser were. It had screen grabs from TNG that would show some of the extreme angles applied to the phaser beam in post production compared to where the phaser was actually pointing at. I wish I could recall the site, it was pretty funny.

[@peterdanior4538]

Kind of off topic, in Undiscovered Country, when they assassinated the chancellor, the phasers pierced the Klingons causing them to bleed. Has phasers ever done this before or after since?

[@AT2Productions]

Notice how everything for every faction from the first few seasons of STD do not fit with the rest? That should be a massive clue to stop including them as part of the prime universe progression.

[@jonasklose6472]

The frequency thing could result in a change of the pulses or phase of the beam in space.

[@d.b.4671]

They stopped using sonic disruptors once Starfleet figured out they didn't work on wood. 😛

[@JohnDoe-nq4du]

Also, there's now a banana grove at the site where the factory used to be.

[@terraprime4457]

the 22nd century disrupter looks like a painted power drill, change my mind

[@feralprocessor9853]

I like the spikey disruptor.

[@dot2562]

whats with the spikes on gun.surely the barrel would get in the way.

[@vincewilson1]

There are no left handed Klingons as they wiold have been killed or reprogrammed during childhood. Remember this is the Klingons we are talking about.

[@monsterhunter66]

What do the Klingons have against left handed people?

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

Remember when a Chang king had the gall to imply a phaser wouldn’t work on them, despite us seeing Odo get popped like a water balloon by a disruptor

[@generaljimmies3429]

An idea if you're running out of ideas: Star Wars vs Star Trek Pick any category you want: Tech, Tactics, Officers, etc.

[@leightoncressman6188]

My issue with Star fleet not wanting there to phasers, not looking like a gun is because guns don’t look the way they are for aggressiveness real life. Weapons appearances are based primarily on economics. Modern weapons are designed the way they are for ease of use effectiveness and safety, and the problem that I have with Starfleet phasers and many of the weapons in Star Trek is that they are deficient in many of those areas. For example, many don’t have a trigger guard many don’t have sites or someway to aim it other than to simply point with many designs, actively interfering with aiming. Many are also uncomfortable to hold. I’m looking at TNG phasers, as well as the issue with, how do you reload one when you’ve depleted the power cell. This is why in my opinion, my favourite phaser the Star Trek, five and six phaser, though it is deficient in many areas of ergonomics it is still out of all the phasers in Star Trek one of the best in Ergonomics.

[@ChrisBellNYCSocial]

The old FASA RPG defined both hand held and shipborne disruptor weapons as microwave projector weapons.

[@Rubix003]

Phasers are a multi tool. I mean, you wouldnt heat a rock or weld with a Disruptor. Disruptors are a weapon of war.

[@d.b.4671]

"This is a Federation Type-2 phaser. It is a weapon of diplomacy, meant to defend against the enemy. " _This_ is a Klingon disruptor. It is a weapon of war, meant to kill the enemy."

[@PongoXBongo]

Perhaps a painful Klingon disrupter stun is like a seizer caused by the disruption of atoms in the brain?

[@Ship-security]

It is a logic that only somebody in Hollywood would come up with. Don’t get me wrong. I love the aesthetic choice. But a device shaped like a fluffy bunny that can disintegrate you is still a dangerous weapon. Phasers don’t kill people sentient beings with phasers and or disruptors do.

[@davidjordan697]

Trigger guards are for honorless cowards with all their fingers apparently.

[@chrisjohnson1146]

Unless its got pointy bits on it, then punching with said weapon is more... interesting.

[@cryptohivemind205]

I love it Rico my man from another nan

[@rfletch62]

"Stun settings are for people unwilling to commit."

[@Pendra37]

The phasers are bullpup design. The disruptors look like impact drills.

[@Sollace]

Maybe the sonic disruptor gets its name more from the way in which the target is disrupted rather than how the device transmits the disruption? i.e. Inducing sonic vibrations inside the whatever it hits

[@rifleman2c997]

Warrior race that couldn't figure out a bayonet.

[@MrGadfly772]

Sadly you did not include the very anachronistic hand disruptor used in Star Trek IV.... What was that anyway?

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

I suspect there is a lot of lore that only exists due to reusing of props.

[@valor1omega]

Yeah, like the transporters in TNG is a flipped TOS transporter pad, I wonder what the lore is behind that change.

[@darthrevan1281]

@@valor1omegaPeople kept materializing upside down and the transporter operator had to push a button to flip them over. Then one day Leah Brahms had a brainstorm…

[@MysteriousMose]

From what we saw in their invasion of DS9, the Klingons only THINK they're good at melee.

[@sulljoh1]

Can they stun? I thought that defeated the point

[@yelwinmoisesacostaduarte8915]

You didn't mention the disruptor that can be disassembled and passed off as part of the Klingon armor outfit.

[@valor1omega]

Yeah that's stupid, glad he did ignore it. Scanning would have flagged the parts.

[@hanelyp1]

The battery powering the weapon should be really easy for a basic tricorder to identify just for high energy content. The emitter assembly would also tend to use uncommon materials. A knife, made from materials typical of armor, would be a much easier weapon to get past scanners. Especially when every major military is using directed energy weapons.

[@grahamturner1290]

🖖

[@StarsAndDreamz]

I always liked to believe that the Klingons overtook and stole, and then reverse engineered, Romulan technology.

[@BlazingOwnager]

I'm surprised they didn't ever really go into more detail about the Romulan / Klingon falling out. The Romulans screwing over the Klingons during that trade and setting the political tone from there out would make more sense.

[@nightrunnerxm393]

Love the 24th century Klingon disruptor design, but I _hate_ the T'kuvma design. Damned thing looks like someone went to the Zemoch school of armor design and applied it to a firearm. Or possibly the Goa'uld school of weapon design. It's what someone with no clue about weapon design and _why_ things go where they do would _think_ a melee attachment on a firearm would look like. That thing would be _useless_ in the melee because the barrel gets in the way. You can't hit anything with those spikes placed where they are. They're just there to look intimidating, not because they'd actually _work._ About the only thing they got right was the addition of a trigger guard. Nobody designs that into their pistol-form weapons in the future, which is odd, give how many of them retain the firing control in that position (the Klingons, the Romulans, the Cardassians, the Bajorans, 23rd century Federation, 24th century Federations phaser rifles...the Dominion). You'd think they'd want some way of physically ensuring those things can't go off if it comes in contact with a stiff branch or something, even accounting for more advanced tech like biometrics, and whatnot. ...Of course, the number of times some idiot flags their away team with their phaser/disruptor in Star Trek is almost beyond counting, too, so there's that...

[@MischaHosten]

I always thought Klingons and romulans both used Disruptors

[@literalsarcasm1830]

For the Almighty Algorithm

[@metal87power]

Waving a beard shavers at your opponents

[@housecoatgaming]

Enterprise-era disruptors very easily flow into TOS and TMP-era ones. They're bulky because the KDF (which DID exist back then, so quit claiming otherwise) wanted more _power_ for their space guns, power that requires large, bulky power cells to cause things to _explode._ Welcome to the WONDERS of miniaturization, Rick! Doesn't take a leap to know what happened there as _IT HAPPENED AND CONTINUES TO HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE!_ This, kids, is why we _stop_ bothering to look at anything that takes place in _another goddamn timeline_ that is not part of the primary canon. Ignore STD for your own sakes!

[@dariustiapula]

Honestly Star Trek weapons are freaking op. 40k Space Marines = vaporize their ass. 40k Eldar = vaporize their ass. 40k chaos = Find the right frequency and ghost buster their ass. Halo flood = Vaporize their ass. Jedi/Sith tries their space magic = Vaporize their ass. Etc.

[@spartanonxy]

With the Flood its more "nuke the continent and hope". Remember if a single spore survives the Flood survives. Though as far as weapons go yeah they are really strong and pretty dang cool.

[@UNLebanon]

Why would an aggressive species like the Klingon's call their unified military a "defense" force? That does not seem like a very Klingon name.

[@tomhenry897]

Bad translation

[@d.b.4671]

A condition of the Khitomer Accords, perhaps?