Natural and Alien/Man Made Disasters in Star Trek

[Romulan Loyalist]

I think it is safe to say there are many more disasters in the Star Trek Universe than could really be listed.. Every dead world could have been populated at some point if the right conditions ever existed.. The universe is limitless - and even as we sit here imagining what is in the Star Trek universe, our own variations of Romulans, Klingons, Vulcans, and etc are out there right now - ignoring us until we unlock ourselves from Einstein.

Quite frankly I think that is the more fun possibility - that the story of Star Trek may indeed be playing out in the distance and we do not even see it... YET.

 

[Gabriel Bell]

Wow.
Thank you, everyone! I'm really glad this was my first try at a post here! Some really great points made. The Trek universe is even more deadly than I thought!

 

[DonIago]

Nomad did an unknown amount of sterilizing beyond that which we learn about in "The Changeling".

V'ger probably caused a fair amount of havoc as well.

 

[Shawnster]

The M-5 computer test took out several Constitution-Class ships.

I don't think I'd count starship losses as a natural or man-made disaster. We don't count navy ships as such today. Unless it's a big loss like Pearl Harbor.

 

[Romulan Loyalist]

Nomad did an unknown amount of sterilizing beyond that which we learn about in "The Changeling".

V'ger probably caused a fair amount of havoc as well.

Gene Roddenberry said that the source of V'ger becoming dangerous might have been the Borg - which makes them possibly responsible for V'ger as well.

Also - cannot forget the Whale song probe from ST:TVH - was a disaster...

 

[Sgt_G]

"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" ... only one planet, but they destroyed themselves.

There was a near-miss in "The Paradise Syndrome".

And in "Miri", some sort of plague wiped out all the adults.

 

[Greysun]

Attacking the Founder's homeworld with a combined fleet of Obsidian Order and Tal Shiar ships seemed fairly disastrous.

 

[Shawnster]

Whatever decimated the Yonada homeworld to the point they escaped in a hollow world where one could touch the sky.

 

[B.J.]

The Delphic Expanse would certainly qualify here, at least according to some species.

 

[KelisThePoet]

The Hakonians used the Metreon Cascade to kill over 300,000 people on the Talaxian moon Rinax (from the Voyager episode "Jetrel").

 

[Horizons96]

In 'Rise' (VOY) the Nezu's colony planet suffers an asteroid bombardment, which ends up being an attack dressed up as a natural disaster, designed to make the population evacuate prior to invasion.

 

[MAGolding]

People often complain about civilians, families, and children aboard the Enterprise D. They wonder what sort of parents would bring their children into danger. People often fail to correctly judge the relative probability of various possible disasters. It is possible that the parents of the children aboard the Enterprise D think of all the disasters that wiped out entire planets and think - correctly or otherwise - that leaving their children on a planet wouldn't be any safer than taking them into space.

 

[Captain Rob]

In ENT's "Chosen Realm" a group of religious zealots hijack the Enterprise and want to use it to destroy their enemies on their homeworld. Archer and co recapture the ship and they arrive at the planet only to discover that the war is over. Both sides lost. A few months earlier the planet has been reduced to a nuclear wasteland. Reminding me of the end of TOS' "Let this be Your Last Battlefield".

 

[publiusr]

The Omega Particle explosion mentioned in Voyager that damaged subspace across a large region, preventing warp travel.

The Genesis Planet.

The anti-warp rift in TNG's Force of Nature ep.

I'm surprised no one thought to put some of these particles along neutral zone (s)

Ceti Alpha VI blows up (for unknown reasons), turning Ceti Alpha V into an all-but-lifeless wasteland.

"This is Ceti Alpha V!"

On one of the DVD's, an individual explained this as a result of a passing black hole

Not so fast.
http://fulltext.study/article/119103/Lunar-origins-The-day-Earth-exploded
https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?145115-Mistake-in-the-National-Geographic
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/12/research-suggests-blackhole-or-wormhole.html

 

[Shawnster]

Have we mentioned all the off-screen plagues/outbreaks that the Enterprise was carrying vital supplies for when it got sidetracked in (insert various episode names here)?

 

[retroenzo]

Two that just came to mind after @Shawnster's post. What about the planets in Pen Pals and Hide and Q? For Hide and Q, I mean the mining colony, not Q's creation.

 

[Cyke101]

Sisko poisoning an entire planet to make it uninhabitable for decades. I'm sure loss of life was minimal, if there was any (he bombed the planet to drive out the Maquis, but he gave them advance warning as well), but still, rendering an entire planet as toxic can't be healthy. It's like Chernobyl (though with much better evacuation).

 

[DonIago]

^Not uninhabitable to Cardassians, as evidenced by the Maquis and the Cardassians switching planets at the end of the episode...though it seems people often like to overlook that.

 

[Cyke101]

^Not uninhabitable to Cardassians, as evidenced by the Maquis and the Cardassians switching planets at the end of the episode...though it seems people often like to overlook that.

Okay, but forced relocation can also cause great physical, environmental, and mental damage, too, esp. for single communities of people (i.e. the US' historical treatment of Native lands, including forced sales, flooding lands, and relocation under threat of police/military action).

 

[Tenacity]

Okay, but forced relocation can also cause great physical, environmental, and mental damage, too, esp. for single communities of people

The Maquis presence on the planet was because they had established a base of operations there, which they used to carry out terrorist attacks.