New Starship Technologies (Definitions)

1. Artifical Gravity - Artificial Gravity Generators or Gravity Plating are found as standard equipment on almost all Star Trek space farring vessels

2. Sensors - Sensors is a generic term for mutli spectral passive and active detection devises which include radar, lydar, IR, Radiation & Energy Emission, Gas Emission, measuring and analysing devices.

3. Navigation Deflectors - Another generic term used to describe a energy field that is projected by a generator array ahead of the vessel to deflect small potentially harmful clestial particles out of the vessels path of travel.

4. Shields - Shields is a non-specific term used to refer to a high energy subspace repulsor field that is used to protect the ship from damage. 

5. Polarizable Hull Plating - An earlier armor technology found on some vessels that are not equipped with subspace energy shields. This armor carries a network of emitters that can change the charge of the armored hull plating to help neutralize the energy of both kinetic impacts and energy weapons. Not as effective as subspace shielding but better than nothing. Believed to be a combination of both rudimentary repulsor technology and charged ion emitters.

6. Plasma Weapons - Plasma Weapons are essentially a bolt or charge of plasma contained within a containment stream of charged particles.

7. Disruptor Weapons - In essence these are particle weapons that use either proton, electron, or alternating charge particle beams.

8. Phasers - Nadion Based Phased Particle Energy Weapons. Depending on energy output Phasers can have a variety of effects from Bio Electrical Disruption (Stun), To Burning, To Cutting, And In Some Cases Can Completely Disintegrate A Item At Their Highest Setting. Phasers are considered closest to Masser Weapons in function, if not nature, in the Star Frontiers Game Setting.

9. Plasma Torpedoes - An earlier type of missile weapon in the Trek Universe that utilizes a plasma based warhead.
 
10. Photon Torpedoes - Standard missile weapon in the Trek Universe. This weapon uses a anti-matter warhead that can deliver a variable yield explosion. Photon Torpedoes are direct fire weapons and some varieties are equiped with self-guided seeking capabilties.

11. Matter / Antimatter Reactors - High Energy Production Power Plants Used Primarily In Interstellar Space Travel which produce power through the reaction of small quantities matter and antimatter in a controlled containment field.

12. Warp Drive - Also known as Hyperspace, the primary form of interstellar travel which uses a "bubble" of subspace field which is used t warp or fold local spacetime around the vessel. The Warp field itself also produces a stable spacial environment around the traveling ship as it warps space time outside of the bubble.    

13. Transporter - An energy / matter transfer device often used as a means of teleportation travel. Considered by many to be dangerous and at times unpredicatble. Transporter Operation in considered part art and part science as it requires a high degree of skill to control the acquistion and transport of an item from one place to another.

14. Tractor / Repulsor Beams - A gravity based technology found on cutting edge space craft and stations that emits a gaviton particle beam that can attract or reple another object. This equipment can be used as both a tool or weapon.