10 Most Powerful Weapons In Star Trek
Which Star Trek weapon do you want to avoid the business end of?
To quote everyone's second favourite Ferengi - the first is Rom, and we're not having that discussion - nobody ever went broke selling weapons. A fact that's all the more impressive when you remember that Star Trek is a fictional universe deliberately created not to have any sort of noticeable economy.
Yet despite Gene Rodenberry's desire to see a galactic community move beyond the need for money, there's apparently still plenty of it in making assorted weapons of war. After all, you can seek out all the new life and new civilisations you like, but if all you're coming in peace with is a friendly smile then you're not going to last very long.
But doomsday machines (and, yes The Doomsday Machine) are enormous feats of engineering requiring expert crews with years of training. What we're looking at here, are the objects of such power and simplicity, that anyone could simply pick one up and immediately get elevated from 'background nuisance' to 'season-long primary antagonist'.
With big swords, flashy ray guns, and even a microscopic world-ender, Star Trek's devised some pretty horrifying ways to kill its characters over the years. Let's take a look at the most powerful.
10. The Sword Of Kahless
The first bat'leth ever forged, the Sword of Kahless was a revered item to the Klingon people. It held the same significance in their history as the Holy Grail holds to Human history. It was used by Kahless to instigate the founding of the First Empire and then held in worship following the leader's death.
The item was stolen by the Hur'q during their invasion of Quo'nos, with many fakes cropping up over the years. However, in 2372 a Vulcan survey team discovered a tattered piece of the shroud that covered it on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant. Dahar Master Kor recruited Worf and Dax to help him find it.
The true danger of the weapon became apparent once they and Torral, son of Duras, met on the distant planet. The cultural significance of the blade was enough to drive even the closest friends apart, as evidenced when Kor and Worf came to blows. All three of them feared that if it were to return to Quo'nos, civil war would not be long in following.
While it may physically be the least dangerous on this list, symbolically it has the power to destroy a world.