I watched this video today by Cathode Ray Dude who made an analogy to real life battle shorts to the fictional plasma/EPS relays that are frequently "bypassed" in the Star Trek TV series as a way to force a system to respond to a command.
There are a lot of episodes across several different series, and I seem to recall some instances where the bypass worked, but then there was then a small explosion a few moments later, possibly indicating a surge (I may be misremembering this one).
My question is, was there ever an instance in any of the series where an attempt was made to bypass a relay, it failed, and there was some kind of explosion or subsequent damage from the attempt?
