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Disruptor illegal
in the Federation, only 5 were built. A merchant named Kivas Fajo owned one, and claimed
to have four of them. If so, following his arrest they would have been confiscated and destroyed (as was the
one he was seen with, it being deactivated during a transporter sequence).
The weapon itself was decidedly unpleasant,
with the disruption effect being initiated within the victim's body and then being very
slow to propagate, taking upwards of 10 seconds to compete vapourisation - a singularly
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Seen in Star
Trek: The Next Generation's 3rd-season ep "The Most Toys."
The name itself seems to be a bit of an SF
in-joke: there was a character in the pilot episode of Blakes 7 called Tel Varon. If not,
it's a hell of a coincidence! Especially since the USS Liberator destroyed at
Wolf 359 was allegedly named for the ship from that show.
The prop was subsequently
re-dressed to play a variety of phasers carried by members of the Maquis
and the "Gambit" space pirates.
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