OMG Explosives

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Originally Posted by jbalsle

Mind you, Trek writers don't seem to understand what a 50MT nuke looks like. That's like setting the Tsar Bomba off.

That.
Remember the "low yield" nuclear warhead the Romulans jettisoned in thier first encounter in original series?
That was a proximity detonation and it pretty much took out the enterprise.
I think most photon torpedo hits are proximity hits and shields help real well against them. Most direct hits against unshielded foes took them out but even then the yield looked rather low.
Trek was simply not very consistent.