Star Trek: Torpedoes
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- Fire torpedoes, full spread! Torpedoes in Star Trek come in many forms: photon torpedoes, quantum torpedoes, spatial torpedoes, and more. Although not intended to be comprehensive, this video serves as a representative sample of torpedoes in Star Trek over the years, ranging from The Original Series to Prodigy.
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0:00 - Intro/TOS
0:40 - The Animated Series
1:03 - TOS Films
3:01 - TNG
3:54 - TNG Films
5:09 - DS9
6:23 - Voyager
7:27 - Enterprise
8:45 - Picard
9:10 - Lower Decks
9:43 - Prodigy
10:05 - Conclusion
Episodes used...
*TOS: Obsession, The Ultimate Computer, Elaan of Troyius
*TAS: More Troubles More Tribbles, The Survivor
*TNG: Encounter at Farpoint, Unnatural Selection, Yesterday's Enterprise, Redemption Part II, Relics
*DS9: Emissary, Defiant, The Way of the Warrior, Call to Arms, One Little Ship, Valiant, Tears of the Prophets
*Voyager: The Cloud, Scorpion Part II, Night, Equinox Part II, Flesh and Blood, Endgame
*Enterprise: Fight or Flight, The Expanse, In a Mirror Darkly Part II
*Picard: Assimilation
*Lower Decks: Kayshon His Eyes Open, wej Duj (Three Ships)
*Prodigy: Kobayashi
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The last torpedo fired, at the very end of video...has been and always shall be, the greatest torpedo ever fired in all Star Trek. Live long, and prosper.
Isn't that from the garbage Discovery?
@@BlackangelKatakuri huh? No, it was from the gold standard in TOS Trek films. Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan.
@@BlackangelKatakuri How is that from discovery shit its literally the Enterprise firing the torpedo
@@Yaapo It is Spock’s casket
@@simply2187 Yup... but we see him again in Search For Spock!
Undiscovered Country's depiction of torpedoes during the final battle will always be my favourite.
Often, torpedoes are depicted as slow-moving blobs.
In that movie, they were depicted as screaming missiles. That one tracking shot of the torpedo that blasts clean through the saucer section still gives me chills to this day.
The depiction of the torpedoes yes... the lack of phaser fire to try to hit the BoP no. (And if anyone says the BoP moves too quickly a blind phaser hit against no shields would do damage)
The hulling of the Enterprise A in that shot was indeed spectacular!
Always loved the enterprise and excelsior barrage on general changs bird of prey in star trek 6
To be...or not....to be...Kapow!! (Talk about a Shakespearean pause, huh?)
Exactly and very well timed
Then of course
Sulu target that explosion and fire
Kirk fire
It was one of the best moments to end a trek fight at the time, outside of wrath of Khan. All the cloak hits, to finally barrage the bird of prey. Epic moment
Sure is one of the best moments yet. I figured that once the prototype bird of prey that could fire while cloaked was destroyed, the Klingons decided to make no more since the Enterprise was able to track its exact location, and if the Enterprise could do it, other ships could too.
5:50 - I'm very glad you included this one little shot.
Thanks! "One Little Ship" is a fun episode.
@@JohnDiMarco “Little?” ;D
Bro, even if it is a miniature sized torpedo, it should have pulverised that Jem'Hadar.
The Quantum torpedo sounds are epic
I love how Chang stands up when the Enterprise launches the torpedo as he knows it's going right up his arse.
LoL! I think all Klingons do that when about to be hit by a torpedo...guess it makes more sense than trying a last second evasive manuver.
@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 In space all warriors are cold warrior's!
Chang: To be, Or not to be.
2:32 Always liked this camera tracking the torpedo shot.
Star Trek VI's torpedo effect has always been my favorite. Basically just a laser pointer aimed at the camera lens, but it's so good!
"Photon Torpedo. Is that the universal greeting when communications are down?"
"I think its the universal greeting when you don't like someone"
Star Trek VII: "They have found a way to penetrate our shields!"
Riker: "Remodulate shields and fire phasers on full with a simultaneous spread of torpedos"
[End Credits]
ps.: fun fact - The famous "Torpedos - full spread" only appeard 5 times in ST Voyager ^^
one of the best ones was when Voyager was collapsing a transwarp corridor XD
@@Knight121198 oh yeah, agreed. Chakoty orderd full spread by they fired like 6 or 7 tirpoedos, it was somewhat of a Torpedos super full spread lol
@@AndersonNeo12 the second best was against the Malon frieghter that tried to block the wormhole through that black space area, remember? That was a good one also.
@@Knight121198 Janeway: "time to take out the garbage" 🤭
Considering that they only had "38" (supposedly), it makes sense that they wouldn't have fired a full spread very often.
The most satisfying torpedo had to be the homing torpedo from _The Undiscovered Country._ _Enterprise_ and _Excelsior_ were completely defensive until Bones yelled, "Lock and load!" Chang knew he was finished when he saw that torpedo curve.
The saddest... Well, we all know what that was, and I will hear no arguments about it. 🖖
After the Battle of Khitomer, the Klingon Empire never developed another ship capable of firing while cloaked and the Romulans never developed one of their own.
@@patrickwilson1459 well technically the Romulans did via the Remans
@@durdenswrath What do you mean by that?
@@patrickwilson1459 the Scimitar, the ship that the big baddie had in Nemesis could fire while cloaked
@@doabarrellroll69 And yet as things turned out in the end Schinzon and his crew still failed to defeat Captain Picard and crew.
4:12 Im gonna go on a limb and say this one was my favorite shot. 3 rounds of pure destruction
Agreed, I also love the deeper more intense sound of the quantum torpedoes.
Watching this actually makes me realize how rarely torpedoes were actually used. *Even* in Voyager!
Indeed. Voyager merely used about 120 torpedoes out of the original 38.
Spock got to ride in one!
You know, these weren't all the scenes, right?
@@JohnDiMarco THANK YOU! Magically they grew torpedoes!
@@Doesntcompute2k Hahah! Cue discussion about the ability to replicate some components of torpedoes followed by the counterpoint about early season chief engineer Torres stating they couldn't make more torpedoes followed by the counter-counter point about her referring only to antimatter reactants (which cannot be replicated but could be traded for) and it being perfectly possible to replicate the rest of the photon torpedo components.
Love the quantum torpedoes
Me too!
5:02 The quantum torpedoes launch with the same sound effect as Starfury energy cannons from Babylon 5
Good spot. I miss that one! In Star Trek Nemesis you can hear the Omega Destroyer pulse cannons, and Star Wars laser SFX. Many Babylon 5 sounds were used.
You sir are brilliant!!
I laughed a little too hard at the "a lucky shot, Sir." Bit
Animal!
First contact the rapid fire of all the ships!!! Love it 😁😁😁
7:20 the most powerful set of torpedoes.
The red movie torpedoes will always be my favorite
Missed the best torpedo use in all of Star Trek, when NX was in Earth's atmosphere and blew up that building. Can't tell me that wasn't cool as heck.
Indeed, that was an exciting scene. Thanks for watching.
Well maybe that was the 2nd best.
The torpedo Spock's body was in was the very best.
It was a cool scene... although it has always really bothered me because antimatter warhead explosions should be WAY WAY bigger than what we saw in that episode. Like, destroy the whole city-level big
@@Bearmauls Oh I agree, but you have to remember the torpedoes are variable yield. So they most likely kept it down below 20% just to keep from destroying the entire city and themselves along with it :p
@@tifreak8x True, but there should be a hard limit on how low you can dial it. The TNG tech manual goes over it a bit and talks about the efficiency of 'mixing' the matter and antimatter, which does make a certain amount of sense. In space, you can have the antimatter just disperse into space and it'll react gradually with interstellar dust and such. But in atmosphere? Where exactly is the 'unused' antimatter going to go? Even at minimum setting, it should still be going off like a low-yield nuke. Kilotons, instead of megatons. But a hell of a lot more than blowing up a single building and not hitting the buildings beside it :P
Ah, Voyager and its infinite torpedoes, shuttles and bullshit.
Why is a bullshit? Voyager is equipped with an industrial replicator, so they are capable of producing almost any equipment if they have the right amount of materials(later the bio-neural gelpacks too). It was stated in the episode, when they built the first Delta Flyer. The other hand they are able to trade stuffs with other races on the way home.
@@talos86 It's a bit lame to just shoulder-shrug away potential good storylines about lessening resources and thriftiness, having to barter with other races and perhaps deal in technologies that they may not normally distribute because the can just replicate everything. Voyager should've looked more battered as the series progressed instead of being pristine every episode
I can honestly say the old star trek sound effects are much better then what they got in the Kelvin serise. Yes I know I'm crazy
You're not crazy, they're awesome! Especially the E firing quantum torpedoes in first contact.
the sounds of Freedom!!! nice work...
Thank you.
TOS torpedo sound has been my text message tone since 2009 and I still get asked "what was that?" every time I get a text notification .
He's done it again! 🙌👏
TNG (PIcard): "Use photon torpedoes as a very last resort, Mr Worf! Use it only to destroy condemned vessels and relics, not for combat! We must give peaceful diplomacy every chance to succeed!!"
Kelvin-verse Trek (Kirk): "Diplomacy my a$$!! Mr Sulu, FIRE photon torpedoes, full spread!! And MORE lens flares!!" 😄😆😅
LoL! How many Lens flares?
Jar Jar Abrams: yes.
@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 1,000 lens flares being lightened all at once 😄
This is why a lot of people can't wait to see Anson Mount raise some old school cain with Strange New Worlds. Can't wait.
I hate to agree with Salty-Trekker, but after looking at all of them, I think TMP's look the best.
Naaaah, for me, the best torpedoes are the Quantum Torpedoes, that are launched from the Enterprise-E in ST: First Contact!
I love your archives of Trek effects (phasers, torpedoes, explosions, ships)! While it hasn't had the highest budget of sci-fi/fantasy, I think the legacy designers for Star Trek really put a lot of thought and heart into their special effects. Thank you for posting these!
Would you ever consider doing a similar archive of phaser/disruptor side-arms and perhaps the times these weapons were used to disintegrate or stun? I've often wanted to examine these effects in sequence.
Glad you enjoy! Also, a video about hand phasers or disruptors is on my to-do list.
@@JohnDiMarco It will be brilliant, I'm sure. A couple more questions (if you have the time and inclination to answer) from one fan to another:
1) What is your favorite Trek series?
2) What is your favorite ship?
3) What inspired you to place 1 Cor 15:57 at the end of your videos?
@@Acrosurge Thanks for asking! My favorite Trek series is Deep Space 9, and my favorite ship is the Enterprise refit from the movies. I include the verse from 1 Corinthians because, as a Christian, I think it is a good, succinct expression of my faith.
@@JohnDiMarco Well said, sir. Ds9 was perhaps the most broad-reaching series from both a storytelling and philosophical perspective and the Andrew Probert refit was a work of art (I have the light up ornament on my desk right now and I have lit the warp nacelles and deflector dish in your honor).
It is always good to meet a fellow believer in Jesus Christ AND a fan of insightful sci-fi. Far from closing the mind, I find that the truth of God's Word gives one the moral and logical foundations to accurately examine the full range of human experience; scientific, social, and metaphysical. My own favorite verses are John 17:3 and Psalm 16:7-11. Jeremiah 9:23-24 has also recently become a favorite.
Godspeed, my friend!
2:43 FIRE!
The sound effect from TOS, and the early TNG episodes is the best. Even when they updated the visual, they should have kept that same sound effect.
The photon torpedo sound used in TOS .. was made by recording a steel wound tension wire hit with another piece of metal , screwdriver, etc.... recorded and then slowed down to a sweet spot.
First used in War of the Worlds , it was the sound from the green lit manta wing tips, aka, the skeleton ray ....
It was later tweaked for Robinson Caruso on Mars ....
After that Star Trek TOS ... !
Then reused again, by this time highly modified , George Lucas still wanted a physical recording of that sound and it appears throughout Star Wars in all kinds of places ...!
It's just one of the best sounds to convey a powerful bundled energy blast !!! 😁
That was a lotta stuff, that blowed up real good. That was fun -!
Thanks!
I love the firing speed of the Enterprise D! So awesome!☺️ Later,the Sovereign fires torpedoes so slowly,that you could just pick them down,one by one!
4:01
Slooooooooow
Photons peaked for me in the period of the OS movies starting with Wrath of Khan.
The photons during that time had that wonderful brighter core surrounded by a strobe effect, and they hit hard. They later became less visually interesting and lost their power. By TNG, they were being fired in salvos that often did little other than reduce the enemy shields by a few percent.
The TOS photon torpedo sound effect was used a lot in the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, as well.
My favorite sound effects for torpedoes are TOS and quantum torpedos.
November or December of 1991 in San Diego, Cali when the ENTERPRISE AND THE EXCELSIOR fired on that bird of prey. The whole audience CHEERED LIKE IT WAS A GAME WINNING NBA finals SHOT.
The last one was epic🤣🤣🤣
I loved in TNG and it’s films torpedoes do some sort of maximum damage
Always love the torpedo autoloader in ENT.
The Nemesis torpedoes look blurry and dull compared to the Generations torpedoes which look vivid and detailed.
Weird how they get worse with time the TNG movies, but in the TOS movies they get better with time.
3:24 is honestly my favorite moment because Patrick Stewart’s voice sound so authoritarian
04:40 - 04:45 isn’t the photon torpedo the universal greeting? I think it’s the universal for when you don’t like someone.
😂🤣🤣
Nice work
Definitely gotta do one for Phasers now 🤝
Funny you should mention that: ruclips.net/video/tLjiciyxikQ/видео.html
@@JohnDiMarco
Can you please do one just for "beam me up, Scotty"?
@@SOCORROSILVA-in7px That's a possibility, even though, ironically, that exact phrase was never used on the show.
@@JohnDiMarco
It was used a lot by Captain James T Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series.
@@SOCORROSILVA-in7px Most people don't realize this, but, while "beam me up" and similar phrases were used frequently in TOS, the exact words "beam me up, Scotty" were never said.
It was at least two more type of torpedoes. First is tricobalt charge - it was used by Voyager's crew to destroy the Caretaker massive. Second is chroniton torpedoes, that used by krenims.
Always got a kick out of the Klingon Phaser sound effects in Elaan of Troyus
Fire
I loved that video that counted all the torpedoes Voyager fired
Hey, Alexa! Fire photon torpedoes.
I like how know one talks about Discoveries epic torpedo spread when they spore jump over three Klingon warbirds and absolutely vaporize them
Janeway: "No way to replace [our 38 torpedoes] when they're gone."
So that was a lie.
Nice video!!
Thanks!
1. Thanks for not including Discovery 2. Thanks for quoting from a Bronze Age book full of myths about an invisible sky daddy.
We agree on #1, at least. Thanks for watching.
ya the religious crap is out of place with trek.but i also agree about leaving out discovery.
1701Es brace of quantum torpedoes v Borg was awesome.
I remember hearing it in theaters. Those torpedoes packed a punch.
1:32 I swear ILM recycled a lot of their Explosions from the OG Star Wars Trilogy.
Not that I’m complaining, those explosions are awesome.
That's a lotta torpedos!!
Did they re-use the TNG torpedo sound when they remastered TOS? I remember it sounding different in TOS originally...
I came to investigate the mystery of Voyager's never ending torpedoes... I guess we'll never know
trade, salvage and repaired replicators
Janeway must have known the infinite ammo cheat code.
Replicators
Voyager torpedo count video: ruclips.net/video/PIGxMENwq1k/видео.html
I assume when she made the comment that they had no way to replace them, she meant in that moment in time (and to her knowledge). Over time they would have procured the necessary materials to produce more photon torpedoes to add to their stock or developed a way to extend their supply of photons between more torpedoes.
I love quantum torpedoes. They can even take out a Borg cube.
4.16 and the one after that 😍💪🏻👍🏻
I'm sad the sound used for Quantum torpedoes in First Contact were never used again, same for the Defiant's pulse phasers in that film too. DS9 pulse phasers and quantum torpedoes never sounded as good as this.
Essas séries pra min são as melhores séries de ficcao cientifica de todos os tempos star trek e top e nota 1000
Oh i get the tingles... lovely weapons of pew pew
I almost went on to the next video and decided to go on and watch I've watched all the older star trek shows and movies and watched season one of Picard and the other trek series but not the newer animated series however I am glad to I saw this video , do you happen to know how many episodes of Picard there will be ?
Thanks for watching. There are supposed to be 10 episodes in this season of Picard.
@@JohnDiMarco thank you
4:25 Data estuvo tentado a unirse al Colectivo Borg por 0,68 segundos y ahí esta el tiempo que tardo en oprimir el botón de disparo.
Que miedo
I knew fun was to be had when we got to DS9
I will always love DS9. It really shows the darker and grittier side of the Trek universe. It isn't all rainbows and unicorns. "In The Pale Moonlight" is one of my favorite episodes. Garak is my spirit animal.
What is that bridge setup at 3:02? I'm not a Star Trek historian or anything but I'd assume I'd at least be able to identify the bridge of the Enterprise lol. If you made me guess, I'd have to guess it's from a pilot episode or something?
That is indeed from the pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint." Specifically, that is the Enterprise-D's battle bridge, used when the saucer has been separated.
TMP and Generations’ torpedoes are the best looking. They radiate power.
So I got a question then about voyager. How many they had a complement of 38 and once they used them they couldn’t replace them. How many times did they fire them during the whole show?
For the answer to that question, I recommend this excellent video: ruclips.net/video/PIGxMENwq1k/видео.html
TOS torpedo sound was taken from 1953 "War of the Worlds". Paramount, naturally.
I gotta remember that Geordie quote the next time I greet someone whom I don't like...
Me: Photon torpedoes away!
Them: (puzzled look on face) huh?
Me: (smiling to myself knowing I have totally destroyed them and they don't even realize it.)
torpedo is a underwater projectile, i always wondered why it was called that until i thought it may be using a kupier drive and hidden below the fabric of space.
Why does it almost always seem like TOS ships never have shields or are they just useless? xd
Fire photon torpedoes, full spread!
I say that every time I flush the toilet.
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VOYAGER has more of a small CULT FOLLOWING. That's why there were no motion pictures were created I think
Just noticed that jj trek topedo colour is the same as tmp
Is it suppose to be more powerful than nuclear weapons
I think you missed a scene from star Trek II where the reliant fired a photon torpedo at the enterprise at the first battle. And you missed a scene from Star Trek III where the Klingon Bird Of Prey fired a torpedo at the Enterprise.
I did omit some scenes like those for the sake of time. Thanks for watching.
@@JohnDiMarco ruclips.net/video/9mmp9fsasIM/видео.html
Voyager season 1-3:
Chakotay: "we have 38 torpedoes-"
Janeway: "-and no way to replenish them once they're gone."
Voyager season 4-7:
Janeway: "Haha, torpedoes go brrrrrrrt!"
Nicely done. Though I could have lived without the Kurtzman Trek.
No torpedo shots from Discovery or the JJ Abrams movies? The scene with Discovery battling Klingons and teleporting all over the place was badass!
ruclips.net/video/3lDx2mxaI4s/видео.html
And is uss cerritos vs uss enterprise
Me ten minutes ago: “I’m not going to watch a 10 minute video about torpedoes”
What's the difference between photon and quantum torpedoes?
As far as I can remember, the difference was never explained on screen, but quantum torpedoes are implied to be more powerful.
@@JohnDiMarco they disappeared quickly after "Star Trek: first contact", where I heard of.
The Defiant had them.@@calogerohuygens4430
Thank you for leaving out discovery.
My pleasure.
Voyager firing a lot more than 38 torpedoes lol
I don't understand why Paramount did not delay the production of Star Trek V when it became apparent that Bran Ferran's firm was no where near up for the challenge. The film, as originally envisioned by Shatner would have been much better. Even TNG's in house effects would have been better than what was produced. V wold have done better at the box office too with a Christmas 1989 release instead of trying to compete in the greatest Summer season of all time. I have to re-read Shatner's book to see if there is a reason why Paramount simply didn't wait until ILM or another reputable effects house was available.
I know i'm a nerd but I always noticed that the Klingon Torpedoes were white in Star Trek #3 but red in Star trek #5 and
#6
I will never understand why the so called 'last resort' weapon that's meant to be their strongest choice, is shown to be so weak.
Or why in an IP with such weapons, why no one thought point defence phasers would be a good idea.
Or even why not all torps are fully tracking and lock on to targets.
Torpedoes are ANTIMATTER. Think about it! It's so damn stupid that an antimatter explosion on shields doesn't destroy a ship; And in one episode of Discovery, Pike's Enterprise gets an enemy torpedo through it's hull, unexploded, and a simple blast door stops the entire ship from exploding. I'm losing trust in antimatter, I've got to tell you! LOL
@@Doesntcompute2k Its sort of consistent, at least with legacy Star Trek. I mean, the shields allow them to weather ion storms and close proximity to stars. At a certainly level, shields should protect them from matter-antimatter weapons, at least for a while.
The Disco Pike Enterprise example doesn't make sense to me, though. Shields were not involved at all in that instance. The warhead was inside the ship with only one blast door. And that blast door had a window!
@@Acrosurge The problem you come across is that in Trek Canon (Not NewTrek), Shields are great at defending against radiation, gravity, lasers, phasers and non-matter waveform weapons and effects.
But as soon as you add a physical aspect to a weapon or natural effect, like a particle beam or coronal mass ejection, they crumble like tissue paper. Trek ships are also shown to be VERY susceptible to EM interference, like it's the MOST common thing to disable sensors/transporters in the show.
I mean they are meant to be super advanced to the point they can make ships that do not need; reaction engines, food/water/fuel supplies or any form of armour. Yet they cannot handle even an asteroid strike at slow speed with their shields up, what is up with that?
@@Ishlacorrin ikr? Flying through space at warp speed, and they somehow never run into an asteroid or comet(except for that one time in TMP)...maybe they should just keep the navigational deflector up instead of the shields?
@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 Technically at warp speed they are below normal space in a subspace bubble, not sure how that works 100% but it does seem to help vs 99% of space debris.
Of course space is also VERY empty, so it could just be dumb luck. They do tend to plan routes outside of solar systems as well, while in warp. So the chances of them finding and hitting anything are insignificant.
The Undiscovered Country had the best looking photon torpedoes imo.
2:35 MY DISHES
Star Trek The Motion Picture, in my very humble opinion, had the best photon torpedo effects of any Trek film since. Only Generations managed to slightly recreate that effect with the Enterprise D's parting shot on Lursa and Betor's bird of prey. The other torpedo effects seem lazy by comparison.
If a torpedo is supposed to be a "guided missile" how are they translucent?
i feel as though ALL star trek starships are very fragile. one shot from the enemy and they scramble. "shields down to 80%"
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I never understood why Klingon torpedoes kept changing color between green and red.
it worries me that the Mode Selector also is the torpedoelaunchbutton. That is not a safe design. 2:43
OSHA would have a field day with Starfleet.
I believe a Kirk era photon torpedo had an approximate yield of 53 megatons.
Any Discovery?