Photon Torpedoes

The photon torpedo was the most powerful weapon aboard a starship from the twenty-second through late twenty-fourth centuries. Unlike a directed-energy weapon like a phaser, a photon torpedo represents the ultimate evolution of a projectile or missile-like object. Whether fired from a launcher toward a target, left like a mine in interplanetary or interstellar space, bea med to a location by transporter, or detonated on impact or otherwise, its explosive force was unparalleled as far as destructive power goes.

Visors

'You know, I’ve never seen a sunrise . . . at least, not the way you see them,' says Geordi La Forge to Captain Picard. Like so many people before him, from either birth or a young age, Geordi appeared

destined to live his entire life without his sense of sight. But in the twenty-fourth century, technology had advanced to the point that, despite the Enterprise-D engineer not having a working connection between his eyes and his brain via the optic nerves, a prosthetic device known as a VISOR (for Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement) could overcome those limitations. The VISOR can not only transmit external visual information to his mind but show him the universe far beyond what human eyes can see. While we might know only a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum, visually, the VISOR enables the wearer, through a direct link to the optic nerve, to process information ranging from radio waves all the way up to ultraviolet light.