Plasma torch

A Plasma Torch was a cutting tool that used a stream of plasma to cut through solid objects. Although it was mainly a tool, plasma torches could be used as weapons by specially trained combatants, and thus were often used by military organizations, such as Starfleet and MACO.

Lieutenant Malcolm Reed used one to burn eyes and a mouth to a snowman on the Archer's Comet, and then stuck it in to serve as a nose.

When  Enterprise  discovered a Xindi-Insectoid shuttlecraft in January 2154, Trip had "half a mind to take a plasma torch" to it.

Reed also used a plasma torch to reach a jammed access port on Enterprise's outer hull in February 2154.

In 2369 Commander Riker had to have treatment for a facial injury sustained during rehersal for a play, Frame of Mind postponed after another crew member entered sickbay after a plasma torch had exploded in his face.

In 2375, the USS Voyager received a distress call from the lost USS Equinox. On a search and rescue mission aboard the Equinox, Ensign Harry Kim had to use a plasma torch to remove debris from a pinned down Noah Lessing.