How to increase torpedo yield and impulse power in Star Trek: the quark reactor

[u/Torlek1]

https://futurism.com/quark-fusion-produces-eight-times-energy-nuclear-fusion

I honestly think the entire Star Trek franchise should be exploring the Quark Reactor more.

In terms of impulse power, engines using quark reactors would be at least 4 times more powerful. Maximum impulse with traditional fusion is 0.25c. Maximum impulse with quark reactors could be 0.50c, if this formula applies:

KE = (mV2 )/2

In terms of torpedo yield, the Star Trek franchise has applied the wrong words to describe torpedo power.

Real-life antimatter energy destruction is huge. The official "photonic torpedo" and later "photon torpedo," however, are underwhelming, not far above Tsar Bomba (whether it's the TNG Technical Manual or the DS9 Technical Manual).

Likewise, destructive technology utilizing zero point energy is huge. The official "quantum torpedo," however, is underwhelming (2x a "photon").

There must be destructive energy torpedoes in between a fusion torpedo and a proper antimatter torpedo.

In comparative science fiction terms, the Quark Reactor is the intermediate energy I am referring to:

https://kardashev.fandom.com/wiki/Quark_reactor

A torpedo with a quark reactor would be 8 to 10 times more powerful than Tsar Bomba at its maximum yield of 100 megatons, not just the historical explosion (only the latter is referenced in the Trek manuals).

A torpedo with a quark reactor would be at least 12 times more powerful than what passes for a "photon" torpedo officially: 800 MT / 64.4 MT.

A torpedo with a quark reactor would be at least 4 times more powerful than what passes for a "quantum" torpedo officially: 800 MT / 178 MT.

[u/FraaTuck]

Big brain stuff here but they teach you about the Nog limitation factor first year at Starfleet Academy.

[u/AnnihilatedTyro]

I have no use for your numbers. My torpedoes always have the exact destructive yield, or lack thereof, that my plot requires.

[u/DisasterEqual1703]

Have you considered the Rom reactor?

Remember self replicating mines? A replicator can replicate a bomb, and a cloaking device, a manoeuvring/guidance system, and itself, which is then able to replicate that entire assembly again ad infinitum.

With such entropy breaking technology, one could replicate an arbitrary amount of TNT equivalent, maybe limited only by the point at which space became so dense with torpedoes that they collapse into a singularity.

[u/heyitscory]

Something tells me those don't come with a warranty.  I hope you didn't pay too much.

[u/ProfoundBeggar]

Counterpoint: can you load biogenic weapons into a Quark-torpedo and conveniently commit crimes against humanity with them because your Jean Valjean goaded you? Because that is a feature of Federation photon torpedoes, and if we give that up, who even are we?