Portal weapon ejected from Shrike
The Titan passes through portals created by the weapon
The portal weapon was a device that created a pair of wormhole-like portals within a short distance of each other. Anything that entered the first portal would emerge from the second, which appeared after a short delay and could be precisely aimed for tactical effect. Because the weapon utilized gravimetric distortion, bringing it into close proximity to a gravity well was extremely dangerous. (PIC: "Seventeen Seconds", "No Win Scenario")
The weapon was based on experimental quantum tunneling technology stolen from Daystrom Station by renegade Changelings in 2401. Several months after the theft, it was used to destroy the Starfleet Recruitment center in District Seven on M'talas Prime, causing 117 casualties. (PIC: "The Next Generation", "Disengage")
Meanwhile, the USS Titan-A also encountered the portal weapon during a battle with Vadic's warship, the Shrike. The Shrike used portals to prevent the Titan from escaping the Ryton Nebula, and later to send a volley of photon torpedoes fired by the Titan back at the Federation starship, disabling it. Vadic was subsequently ordered by her superior to pursue the Titan into the gravity well at the center of the nebula, which necessitated that she jettison the portal system. (PIC: "Seventeen Seconds", "No Win Scenario")
External link[]
- Portal weapon at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works