Forced chamber explosion

A forced chamber explosion was a violent release of energy which could be caused by overloading certain energy-producing technologies.

In 2254, Number One set her laser pistol to overload, threatening a forced chamber explosion, as a means of convincing the Talosians that Humans would rather die than be kept in captivity. This, combined with information they had assimilated from the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)'s historical records, convinced the Talosians that Humans were too dangerous for their purposes. 

In 2368, a Romulan science vessel experienced a forced chamber explosion in their resonator coil during an test of an experimental interphase cloaking device, resulting in a member of their crew being phased out of reality and the deaths of all but seventy-three of their crew.