Scimitar (Star Trek)
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The Reman Warbird Scimitar was a very powerful starship in the Star Trek universe that appeared in Star Trek: Nemesis.
The Scimitar had a superficial similarity in design to the Klingon Bird of Prey but was actually closer to the design of a Dominion battleship. The design of the ship was probably the result of observed data and information gained about these ships by Shinzon during his service with the Romulans during the Dominion war. It was constructed at a secret base on Remus to be the personal flagship of Shinzon. Using the Scimitar, one of the heaviest armed and armored starships of the era, Shinzon and his army invaded Romulus to liberate the Remans from Romulan oppression. It carried 52 disruptor banks and 27 photon torpedo bays, and had primary and secondary shields. Its greatest asset was an advanced cloaking device. Not only could the Scimitar fire while the cloaking device was engaged, but it did not give off tachyon emissions or residual antiprotons, like other Klingon or Romulan cloaking devices, thus making it completely undetectable to contemporary sensor technology.
Aside from the cloaking device, the most important (and horrific) device was the thalaron radiation weapon. The Scimitar itself was designed to produce large amounts of the deadly radiation, enough to eradicate all life on a planet.
Shinzon intended to use the Scimitar to destroy Earth as the prelude to a Romulan invasion. It engaged the Enterprise-E in the Bassen Rift and although the Enterprise with help from two new Valdore class Romulan Warbirds, disabled its cloaking device, exhausted all of its torpedoes and almost all of its phaser energy, rammed it, and disabled most of its primary conventional weapons systems, the Scimitar still remained mostly operational. Conversely, both Romulan Warbirds were substantially disabled in the conflict.
A dying Shinzon ordered the deployment of the thalaron weapon, which would kill all occupants of the Enterprise. Just before it would fire, Lt. Commander Data discharged his phaser into the thalaron activation matrix and destroyed the ship.
Despite its eventual destruction, the Scimitar may well be the most powerful and deadliest warship developed by any of the main Alpha Quadrant powers; it was certainly one of the more impressive vessels ever featured in Star Trek.