Star Trek Fan Makes A Surprising Choice For The Federation's Most Deadly Weapon

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While the Star Trek universe is stuffed with many powerful weapons and dangerous technologies, one fan has outlined what they see as the most deadly weapon in the United Federation of Planets' arsenal.

Star Trekhas been at the forefront of driving the general view of science fiction technology since its inception in the 1960s, with each new entry in the franchise giving fans more and more futuristic devices, systems, and techniques to accomplish everything from solving world hunger to crossing galaxies. One of the more prominent ways that sci-fi properties show off this advancement is with weapons and how potent they can be. Despite the utopian trappings of the Federation, it still has its fair share of bizarre futuristic weapons seen across mediums, which fans have discussed at length and ranked over the years.

While there is certainly no shortage of weapons in Star Trek with the capacity to do some wicked damage, Reddit user FatherBobby has a unique pick for which of the Federation's armaments should be considered its deadliest weapon. Taking to the site’s r/startrek board to post his controversial opinion in a post titled “Shower thought… The Federation's most deadly weapon is...”, the user would answer… the transporter. The answer is controversial for several reasons, notably that the transporter isn’t a weapon. Present in almost every episode and film in the franchise, the transporter is the device used to teleport people and objects within the Star Trek universe, notably to and from Federation ships. While some unusual uses for transporters have been explored in Star Trek, the idea of this tech being the deadliest Federation weapon is a new one, which the OP proceeds to elaborate on.

Forget phasers and photon torpedoes, it's already been shown that entire planets can be evacuated via transport, so it would be just as easy to transport an entire planet of people up a few hundred feet and splat them back into the planet, or even just into space. Wanna take out a