Starship Asterisk*

http://www.space.com/15293-space-shuttle-discovery-viewing-tips.html wrote:

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On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, between 10 and 11 a.m. EDT, space shuttle Discovery atop a Boeing 747 jet will fly from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., to the Smithsonian's NASM Udvar-Hazy Center and may be visible from the locations on this NASA map. If you take a photo of Discovery's ferry flight, please send it to SPACE.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com.

geckzilla wrote:
Don't forget to remind me about Enterprise arriving in NYC on Monday!
All the damn planes fly directly over my house so I should be able to spot it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weapons_in_Star_Trek wrote:

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<<Photon torpedoes are a standard ship-based weapon armed with an antimatter warhead. They are present in every version of the Star Trek series and are a standard weapon on almost every Federation ship, though in Star Trek: Enterprise the titular ship uses less powerful spatial torpedoes (guided, rocket propelled missiles) until receiving the more powerful "photonic" (as the characters describe them) variant.

Photon torpedoes first appear on a Starfleet ship in the original series' episode "Arena" as part of the USS Enterprise's armament—in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Expanse", the Enterprise NX-01 first receives photonic torpedoes. When fired, photon torpedoes usually appear as a spiky ball of energy of varying colours, such as red, orange, yellow, blue, or green. According to the original notes to TOS and The Making of Star Trek, Photon torpedoes are energy shielded to allow armor-penetration. The energy output of a photon torpedo, according to the Technical Manuals is a maximum theoretical yield of 25 Isotons and a maximum rated yield of 18.5 Isotons.

Torpedoes are often depicted as being easy to modify to suit specific situations. Despite the stated maximum yield, torpedoes can apparently be made far more destructive with relatively little effort. In Star Trek: Voyager, Tuvok and Kim modify a normal photon torpedo with a gravimetric charge, a Borg technology, to increase its destructive yield to 54 isotons. Kim comments that 50 isotons would have been sufficient to destroy a small planet. Janeway later instructs them to increase its yield even further, to 80 isotons. It is not specified exactly how they modified the warhead, but they only required a few hours to complete the work using materials readily available on Voyager. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Spock and Dr. McCoy modify a photon torpedo to track the plasma emissions from a cloaked Klingon Bird of Prey as it attacks the Enterprise-A and the Excelsior.>>

Beyond wrote:
Photon torpedos???? We don't need no stinkin' photon torpedos Starship Asterisk* has the one and only neufer. He'll fire rapidly quoted Shakespeare at them until they disintergrate, Just like this---> ((Reconstitution of spam targets for illustration purposes only))