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Quantum torpedos are more widespread thann you might think. In a DS9 episode, Quark mentioned that they were availabe on the market if the price was right.
About ZPE generators - several times during star trek, we had no ideea what technology an alien power source used - just that it was better than M/AM. The borg would be the first example that comes to mind.
My personal speculation would be that the borg showed tha Alpha quadrant that ZPE actually works. Afterwards, the feds (and not only) tried to recreate the technoloy. Quantum torpedos were the first result. Generators that could extraxt energy from the void - ineffectively, but still well enough to power the mines - followed.
The cardassians had their own "little" science project. They built a "subspace generator" aka "ZPE generator" that powered their defenses around Chin'toka. This generator compensated for the ineffectiveness of the process with its size. The results were spectacular.
About ZPE generators - several times during star trek, we had no ideea what technology an alien power source used - just that it was better than M/AM. The borg would be the first example that comes to mind.
My personal speculation would be that the borg showed tha Alpha quadrant that ZPE actually works. Afterwards, the feds (and not only) tried to recreate the technoloy. Quantum torpedos were the first result. Generators that could extraxt energy from the void - ineffectively, but still well enough to power the mines - followed.
The cardassians had their own "little" science project. They built a "subspace generator" aka "ZPE generator" that powered their defenses around Chin'toka. This generator compensated for the ineffectiveness of the process with its size. The results were spectacular.
