Plasma flare (device)
A plasma flare was a low-cost, low-yield plasma-based device.

Plasma flares were one of the components in a biogenic weapon delivery system. In 2370, Starfleet planted disinformation among the Maquis suggesting that the Cardassians were assembling such a weapon in the Demilitarized Zone. The last components of the weapon were to be isomiotic hyposprays, quarantine pods, and plasma flares, being carried on a Yridian freighter. ()

In 2376, a band of con artists led by Dala, pretending they were from the , sold Varn defective photon torpedoes. When Varn confronted them with the fact, describing the torpedoes as "worthless [and] no better than plasma flares," Dala suggested that maybe he "didn't arm them properly." ()

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Weapons