Yup. It was a component of Starfleet Battles. (Awesomest space miniatures game that I never actually played.) They had boardings and transporter bombs, but you couldn’t beam through shields, IIRC.
In the book Kobyashi Maru,
Scotty attempts to fight the Klingon ships, employing a series of unorthodox tactics, such as bypassing the Klingon shields using a works-on-paper-only calculation and transporting various photon torpedos into them. At first, he is surprisingly effective, but the computer scenario ups the ante with the arrival of additional Klingon ships. Scotty responds in kind with even more unorthodox tactics that rapidly escalate in on-the-fly engineering derring-do and destructiveness. The simulation is shut off before reaching a completed state, but it is clear that the simulation will never end, no matter what the student throws at the Klingon ships, as an ever-increasing number of Klingon vessels will arrive on the scene, guaranteeing that the testee will lose eventually.
That is the only instance I can think of as Transporter as a weapon.
I played Starfleet Battles extensively. It’s awesome played as a minatures game using metal figures of ships and a mapboard with big 1 inch (approx)-wide hexes. But long before that I played it with just the cardboard game pieces and the smaller hex map.
Tell you the truth, we never ever used transporter bombs in game play. Partly cuz it kinda seemed so non “Star Trek” put also because they’re not a practical weapon. If you do manage to bash down an enemy’s shields, you’re gonna want to immeatiately start firing to do internal damge on the enemy with whatever you got—disruptors, photon torpedos, phasers. To get close enough to use transporter bombs means you’ve already missed the opportunity to use the above mentioned weapons.
And if I WAS in transporter range and the enemy had an open shield, what would I rather do? Beam over bombs, or beam over boarding parties to capture the ship. It’s much cooler to capture, IMO.
Ah, I wish was 15 years old right now and could spend my weekends playing Star Fleet battles. So much fun!!!
Anyway, I’m such Trek/Games-geek…obviously.
This is pretty cool (for any of you that know the game Star Fleet Battles):
I found a cannon example.
Just saw that Janeway ( of all people) used the transporter to transport a photon torpedo onto a Borg cube in the opeening scene of the episode Dark Frontier.
True enough. Also, in the Enterprise episode E^2, Archer transports critical hardware from the innards of the time-traveled Enterprise, disabling the vessel (since shields didn’t exist back then, this was able to be done mid-battle)
There was an early episode of TNG I think it was ‘The High Ground’ where terrirorists had a transporter that could be used at a large distance and through shields but caused damage to any person using it. I figured that piece of technology would be better used transporting large bombs on to ships.
There was no official TNG SFB. The creators of SFB only had a licence to use the Franz Joseph designs from the origianl series, and were not allowed to use anything that was created after that for the TV shows or the movies. But anybody could make up their own sheets, as long as they didn’t charge anything for their work.
Ossim! That’s what I thought.
Anything on the damage boxes? (And is it maybe time to spin off an SFB thread?)
Don’t forget, Scotty used the transporters to launch a biological warfare attack against a Klingon Battle Cruiser at Station K7. That was fairly traumatic, if I understand correctly.
other than large scale ship to ship weapons, I think on DS9 the transporter has been used to transport a bullet right after it leaves the barrel to hit targets in another section of the station.
bombs has also been transported to crowded room as a terrist plot.
but the can’t transport through shield thing really puts an end to ship to ship transporter weapon.
though it makes you wonder in episode when the enemy’s shield frequency is known, why not use the transporter?
I wouldn’t call that biological warfare. Tribbles aren’t really weapons 
Tell that to those poor Klingons.
Oh and this use of the transporters are not new. Not that we had seen it used in Trek until Voyager did it. There used to be a Star Trek board game. For the life of me I can’t recall the name. It wasn’t the one done by FASA. Anyhow, one of the more effective weapons was called a transporter bomb. When that thing went off in the ship, whole sections collapsed. After you soften up your target this would be used to finish them off from the inside out.
Star Fleet Battles? That was mentioned in the original thread that this was split off from. I should probably pull that over.
ETA: Done. You may want to review this thread.
They did weaponize a transporter in Stargate Atlantis, but the Wraith developed a counter to it pretty quickly.
Yes that was it. Haven’t played that in years but if you have a full day with friends it’s a blast.
Yep they got one two ships then it was rendered infective.
In one of the older Star Trek novels I read, they used a transporter to beam hand grenades into rooms a boarding party had taken over. It was messy!!
And in another they transported over an armed photon torpedo into the engineering section of a battlecruiser who’s sheilds had been disabled.:eek:
But the doctor said I’m not supposed to get photon torpedoes there!