Starship combat is the main activity in Star Trek Online, but the game doesn’t necessarily do the best job of defining what makes a ship good in combat and what weapons to use. Are cannons better than phaser arrays? Can I have a ship with all torpedoes? What does a quantum torpedo do anyway? Can I make a tribble my tactical officer? Well, the answer to that last question is no, but otherwise your friends at Ten Ton Hammer are here to provide an overview of starship weapons in STO.

Beam weapons are the standard weapons of any starship and encompass many different types. Each style of beam weapons inflicts a certain type of damage (phaser, disruptor, plasma, tetryon, and polaron). Beam weapons have arcs ranging from 45 degrees to a full 360 degrees and can be placed in either the forward or aft weapon slots.

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