What's the most powerful weapon in Star Trek? (that we've seen on screen)

[Candleicious Ghost]

What's the most powerful weapon that's been shown on screen in all of Star Trek?

I'm leaning towards the Kremin timeship weapon, and the Doomsday Machine from TOS.

 

[DonIago]

The Genesis Device

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

The Genesis Device

Ooh good catch.. Interesting none of Trek's antagonist races besides the Klingons dared to even think of using it as a WMD

 

[DonIago]

Ooh good catch.. Interesting none of Trek's antagonist races besides the Klingons dared to even think of using it as a WMD

We don't really know how many races may have learned about it and considered doing so. Hell, we don't even know that the Federation didn't consider doing so. The moment Spock points out that if the device was used on an inhabited planet it would kill the inhabitants of that planet the calculus regarding the morality of even inventing the device shifts substantially.

Spoiler: Myriad Universes

IIRC, in one of the Myriad Universes novellas, a Federation that finds itself under threat from the Klingons detonates a Genesis Torpedo on Praxis as a warning to the empire.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

We don't really know how many races may have learned about it and considered doing so. Hell, we don't even know that the Federation didn't consider doing so. The moment Spock points out that if the device was used on an inhabited planet it would kill the inhabitants of that planet the calculus regarding the morality of even inventing the device shifts substantially.

Spoiler: Myriad Universes

IIRC, in one of the Myriad Universes novellas, a Federation that finds itself under threat from the Klingons detonates a Genesis Torpedo on Praxis as a warning to the empire.

Oh yeah that's nasty but novels don't count. I wish they did though some stuff in novels is just insane, and amazing in a scary way

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

1x Drop of Red Matter could be turned into a "Ultimate Weapon" IMO.

We can thank JJ-Abrams & his writing crew for coming up with that bit of in Universe MacGuffin tech.

It's effectively a Artificial Black-Hole War Head.

Pair that with a remote control / piloted "Phase Cloaking" torpedo, and you can sneak a torpedo into any target, make it appear in normal space, detonate and destroying nearly anything including Planets.

Doesn't matter how big of a weapon they have or a ship that they have, if you can 1-shot them, it doesn't matter since you'll bypass their defense and leave nothing behind.

 

[Dukhat]

Rock Penis.

 

[StarTrek1701]

1x Drop of Red Matter could be turned into a "Ultimate Weapon" IMO.

We can thank JJ-Abrams & his writing crew for coming up with that bit of in Universe MacGuffin tech.

It's effectively a Artificial Black-Hole War Head.

Pair that with a remote control / piloted "Phase Cloaking" torpedo, and you can sneak a torpedo into any target, make it appear in normal space, detonate and destroying nearly anything including Planets.

Doesn't matter how big of a weapon they have or a ship that they have, if you can 1-shot them, it doesn't matter since you'll bypass their defense and leave nothing behind.

As much as I love the 2009 reboot, Red Matter isn't even in the same class as a warhead.
It is very powerful don't get me wrong, but in-universe TNG, DS9, VOY and even ENT had more powerful and destructive weaponry.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

As much as I love the 2009 reboot, Red Matter isn't even in the same class as a warhead.

It's definitely not a "Explosive WarHead" in the traditional Sense.

It is very powerful don't get me wrong, but in-universe TNG, DS9, VOY and even ENT had more powerful and destructive weaponry.

You have the Ultimate Planet Killing Death Sphere in the Xindi Weapon that was FAR smaller than the Death Star and way cooler.

The DS1 "Death Star" had a Diameter of 160 km.

The Xindi Super Weapons was WAY smaller from my many analysis:
It's somewhere between 671 m - 3854 m in Diameter based on what Screen Shot I can find.
There's no definitive source on the Xindi Weapon size other than it was FAR smaller than the Death Star.

 

[StarTrek1701]

It's definitely not a "Explosive WarHead" in the traditional Sense.


You have the Ultimate Planet Killing Death Sphere in the Xindi Weapon that was FAR smaller than the Death Star and way cooler.

The DS1 "Death Star" had a Diameter of 160 km.

The Xindi Super Weapons was WAY smaller from my many analysis:
It's somewhere between 671 m - 3854 m in Diameter based on what Screen Shot I can find.
There's no definitive source on the Xindi Weapon size other than it was FAR smaller than the Death Star.

And they hunted down every human in that alternate timeline, absolute extinction.
The Romulans wished they had that capability.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Oddly red balls of McGuffin are a JJ Abrams thing. Before Star Trek a very similar ball appeared in the show Alias

 

[matthunter]

Krenim Timeship is a strong contender. Use Genesis on Earth and you get rid of the current population. Use the Timeship on Earth and those pesky humans were never around to form the Federation and keep your Empire expanding in the first place.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Krenim Timeship is a strong contender. Use Genesis on Earth and you get rid of the current population. Use the Timeship on Earth and those pesky humans were never around to form the Federation and keep your Empire expanding in the first place.

Some might call that a win, pesky hoo mans

 

[DonIago]

Krenim Timeship is a strong contender. Use Genesis on Earth and you get rid of the current population. Use the Timeship on Earth and those pesky humans were never around to form the Federation and keep your Empire expanding in the first place.

IIRC, one thing I never quite understood about the timeship is the idea that it could bring people back from the dead. Conceptually it would seem as though if you wipe someone from ever having existed then you can't do something else to make them exist again, unless you pull a Janeway and wipe yourself from ever having existed. Unless the idea is that if A leads to B leads to C and you originally wiped out B to prevent C from happening, so A now leads to Not B leads to D, then you can subsequently wipe out Not B to restore C C, or at least C'...but that seems a bit like an act of luck (which might explain Annorax's perpetual paradox I guess).

Though, I also liked my pet theory that it wasn't that the timeship was wiping anything out, but rather that it was jumping itself into alternate timelines.

 

[David cgc]

I believe because it was a second-degree consequence. If Annorax had directly hit his wife with the time weapon, that would’ve been it, but she died because of a consequence of another race not existing, which led him to think he could remove something else and nullify that consequence, bringing his wife back in the revised timeline.

 

[DSG2k]

If controllable, the Lazarus entry vector in "The Alternative Factor" produced stress, shock, dilithium issues, and "winking out", with galaxy-wide effect. Magnetic and gravity fields went to zero.

 

[publiusr]

Nomad was up there in power….that needed zero point. V’ger too.

My vote would be the weapons used during the Q Civil War. So like Trelane…they did have tech.

If they could kill a Q…

The cannon we saw during that episode of Voyager was also the most powerful (prop?) actual weapon used… only the atomic test the Ferengi flew into on DS9 was more powerful IRL.

NuBSG’s nuclear war mushroom clouds was just tweaked footage from Pinatubo, I think.

 

[Nerys Myk]

A Starship implementing General Order 24.

 

[Tosk]

What's the most powerful weapon that's been shown on screen in all of Star Trek?

Love.

 

[DonIago]

I thought Love was only a weapon for vampire slayers...