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A disruptor cannon is a directed energy weapon commonly used aboard starships of many different species. Disruptor weapons generally carry more energy then standard phaser weapons but lack in accuracy and fast discharge. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual)
[[Image:Romulan disruptor.jpg|thumb|right|A Romulan hand disruptor.]][[Image:Vorcha disruptor.jpg|thumb|right|A Klingon starship disruptor.]]A '''disruptor''' is a common energy weapon in [[Star Trek]].  They are the preferred weapons of the [[Klingon]] and [[Romulan]] civilizations. Disruptors are scalable, ranging in size from sidearms to primary capital ship weapons.
Klingon 22nd century Klingon Birds-of-Prey were equipped with an impressive arsenal, for the time, and included wing-mounted (and belly mounted) disruptor cannons and photon torpedo launchers. (ENT: "Borderland") These cannon were capable of firing in either disruptor pulse or beam modes. (ENT: "The Augments")
 
These weapons were also found on Romulan Valdore-type Warbirds, Ferengi D'kora-class attack cruisers, Cardassian Hideki-class assault vessels, and Klingon Birds-of-Prey, Negh'Var and Vor'cha-class cruisers.
==Nature==
While their operating principles are unclear, disruptors seem to perform much like [[phaser]]s.  While equally effective, the damage they inflict tends to be more mechanical in nature -- ripping or tearing of affected material -- than that of phasers (TNG, "Hero Worship").
 
Disruptors of either scale can fire pulses or continuous beams.
 
==Quotes==
:''"It's not just an effective weapon. It's... vicious.  It tears a body apart... and very slowly by your phaser standards."'' <br> -- Kivas Fajo describing a Veron-T disruptor, [[TNG]] "The Most Toys"


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Latest revision as of 21:20, 27 January 2009

A Romulan hand disruptor.
A Klingon starship disruptor.

A disruptor is a common energy weapon in Star Trek. They are the preferred weapons of the Klingon and Romulan civilizations. Disruptors are scalable, ranging in size from sidearms to primary capital ship weapons.

Nature

While their operating principles are unclear, disruptors seem to perform much like phasers. While equally effective, the damage they inflict tends to be more mechanical in nature -- ripping or tearing of affected material -- than that of phasers (TNG, "Hero Worship").

Disruptors of either scale can fire pulses or continuous beams.

Quotes

"It's not just an effective weapon. It's... vicious. It tears a body apart... and very slowly by your phaser standards."
-- Kivas Fajo describing a Veron-T disruptor, TNG "The Most Toys"
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