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1831	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Kzinti	The Kzinti were a species of aggressive, cat-like humanoids native to the Alpha Quadrant planet Kzin. History In the latter half of the 21st century, the Kzinti fought four wars with Humankind, and lost all of them. In the course of these conflicts, some Kzinti fed on Human meat. By the Treaty of Sirius, the Kzinti were forbidden all weapons apart from police vessels. () In 2269, Dr. Keniclius 5 cited the need to subdue the depredations of hostile species including the Kzinti as his justification for planning to create a "master race" consisting of an army of giant Spock clones. () Among the members of the Ruling Council in the pocket universe of Elysia were Kzinti. () Later in 2269, Kzinti archaeologists discovered two Slaver stasis boxes on Kzin. One of these boxes was turned over to Starfleet. The Kzinti kept the other for themselves, only to find it empty. With the secret support of the Kzinti government, a plan was devised to reacquire the former box from Starfleet's custody, one which would be disavowed by the Highest of Kzin in the event of its failure. On stardate 4187.3, as the 's shuttlecraft was transporting the box to Starbase 25, a group of Kzinti privateers, led by Chuft-Captain and operating from an ostensibly stolen police vessel, the Traitor's Claw, lured the shuttle to a small, ice-bound world in the Beta Lyrae system, using the empty box as bait. In illegal possession of phasers, the privateers ambushed the shuttle's crew of three Starfleet officers, imprisoning them in a police web and confiscating the unopened box in hopes of finding within it a weapon. The Kzinti indeed found a Slaver weapon among the box's contents, but were initially frustrated and confused by its variable functions. In testing one of its settings, the privateers unwittingly nullified the effect of their own police web, allowing Commander Spock and Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu to escape with the weapon. Chuft-Captain was wounded by Spock in the process, and thus humiliated. The Kzinti offered a bargain in which they would trade the life of their remaining prisoner, Lieutenant Uhura, for the return of the weapon, on the condition that Spock allow Chuft-Captain to regain his honor by facing him in personal combat. Although the Starfeet officers refused this offer, the Kzinti nevertheless managed to recapture them and the weapon when the pair inadvertently unlocked the device's most powerful setting and were rendered unconscious by the resulting shockwave. Ultimately, the privateers were undone in their efforts to use the weapon themselves by its own reasoning intelligence. Determining itself to have fallen into enemy hands, the weapon engaged a self-destruct mechanism, killing the privateers and severely damaging their vessel by generating a disruptor field. () At least one Kzinti served in Starfleet by 2381. () In 2399, the Kzinti were said to be "causing a little trouble" around Nepenthe. This was part of the reason that the home of William T. Riker and Deanna Troi was outfitted with shields and the ability to perform perimeter scans. () Physiology Kzinti were bipedal digitigrade felines with orange fur, yellow eyes, pronounced fangs, ears resembling bat wings, four-fingered hands, and long tails. Males stood over two meters tall, with broad hunching shoulders and comparatively slender waists and limbs. Their internal anatomy included ribs with vertical bracing and multiple hearts. They breathed in atmospheres similar to those of Humans and Vulcans. As carnivores, they were acutely averse to the consumption of plants. Their physical attributes made them powerful combatants; Spock estimated his chances of defeating Chuft-Captain in single combat to be no better than sixteen to one. Some male Kzinti were capable of reading minds; the effort required was taxing and took time to recover from, often leaving such individuals unhappy and neurotic. There was no sure way to guard one's thoughts from such a telepath, but the experience could be made especially unappealing for the telepath by the subject concentrating intently on images which Kzinti considered distasteful or alien, such as eating a raw vegetable. () Culture The Kzinti were an aggressive, carnivorous race, who were disdainful of herbivorous species such as Vulcans, and with only marginally more respect for omnivorous ones such as Humans. Kzinti females were considered "dumb animals" without intelligence, and Kzinti males were thus predisposed to underestimate females of other species. Kzinti placed great importance on individual honor, being obliged to seek personal revenge upon an attacker before calling for help. To be defeated or wounded and left alive was considered by them the ultimate insult, which could only be remedied by single combat to the death. The Kzinti had superstitious legends about weapons being haunted by their deceased owners, of which some were frightened. The Kzinti government was led by the Highest of Kzin. They had police vessels and related equipment for the enforcing of laws, but were disallowed all other weapons by the Treaty of Sirius, yet sought ways of circumventing this and rearming. Other pursuits in which Kzinti engaged included archaeology and astronomy. () People Named Chuft-Captain Flyer Telepath Unnamed Unnamed Kzinti Appendices See also Caitian Cat Woman Worene's species Appearances Background information Unlike the other alien antagonists of Star Trek, the Kzinti species was an original creation developed independently of the television production, well before their appearances in , which were in . Science fiction author Larry Niven's Kzinti, which were first introduced as part of his universe in "The Warriors", a short story published in . After reading Larry Niven's story "The Soft Weapon" and thinking it would be a good fit for Star Trek, D.C. Fontana recommended it to Gene Roddenberry, who agreed. Niven was then invited to adapt his own story into "The Slaver Weapon". According to Fontana, the pink coloration of the Kzinti uniforms and ship in the episode was a result of Director Hal Sutherland being color blind, and thus unable to discern them as anything but shades of gray. However, storyboard artist/character designer Bob Kline laid the blame on color director Irvin Kaplan. "Pink equals Irv Kaplan," shared Kline... "Irv was in charge of ink and paint, coloring the various characters and props (and he would do it himself in his office, he would sit down with a cel and paint it). He was also referred to by many people there as the purple and green guy. You'll see it in a lot of scenes, purple and green used together – that was one of his preferences. He made dragons red, the Kzintis' costumes pink. It was all Irv Kaplan's call. He wasn't listening to anyone else when he picked colors or anything." {"Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series", p. 26. In Niven's original work, the term "Kzin" was used to refer to the characters individually in the singular form, while "Kzinti" was used for the plural and adjectival forms. As such, the Elysian councilor was identified by the singular term "Kzin" in the for "The Time Trap". Likewise, "Kzin" was also used in the first and final draft scripts of "The Slaver Weapon". While this reflected Niven's intended usage, the singular term was ultimately never used onscreen because the characters were always referred to in the plural in dialogue. In a of M'Ress made available through Lincoln Enterprises in , it was stated that Kzinti and Caitians shared common roots, having long ago split and developed into separate civilizations in much the same manner as Vulcans and Romulans. The Worlds of the Federation by Shane Johnson further posited that Caitians were descended from an ancient Kzinti colony. Their homeworld of Kzin was subtly included on a star chart created by Mike Okuda that was displayed at Starfleet Headquarters in , and which made occasional appearances thereafter in that series, in Kirk's quarters in , and in the classroom on . It has often been reported, including by Ian McLean, that the "Cat Dancer" played by Linda Fetters in was jokingly referred to by some backstage source or sources in connection with the film as a "Kzinrrett". In Larry Niven's Known Space works, Kzinrret (plural Kzinrretti) is a term that refers to Kzinti females. Howard has stated that she herself was unaware of being called this. Robert Hewitt Wolfe has said that in naming the Tzenkethi, a species first mentioned in , he may have combined the name "Kzinti" with that of "", a deity of piracy in the Glorantha role-playing games. However, Wolfe noted that he could not remember whether he was making an intentional homage to Larry Niven in doing so, and also that he did not imagine the Tzenkethi as felinoid, instead picturing them as "more like the Hakazit [from Jack Chalker's Well World series] ...heavily armored lizard things." Jimmy Diggs, who contributed a number of stories to both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and (and was a friend of Larry Niven's), was a long-time proponent of the Kzinti returning to Star Trek. He made his first pitch for this in , as an intern on . In the following years, he pitched ideas for Kzinti-involved stories so persistently that Brannon Braga came to refer to them as "Jimmy Diggs' Crazy Cats". Diggs even penned a screenplay for a proposed feature length CGI-animated film entitled Star Trek: The Lions of the Night, which was to involve Captain Sulu, Uhura, Chekov, and the facing a Kzinti invasion. For the purposes of pitching this project, Diggs commissioned by Court Jones, including a design for a Kzinti cruiser called the Dark Stalker. The project had the support of George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, D.C. Fontana, and Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, but ultimately failed to capture the interest of Paramount Pictures. Undeterred in his fascination with the Kzinti, Diggs later adapted a story idea originated by Neal and Jana Hallford into a teleplay entitled "Kilkenny Cats", which André Bormanis arranged to have Diggs pitch to Manny Coto for a potential fifth season of . The story was to involve a Kzinti juvenile being brought on board , and the design of the Dark Stalker was revised by Josh Finney to fit the 22nd century setting of ENT, incorporating elements resembling components of World War II-era sea and aircraft per Diggs' instruction. Finney created a rough of the vessel for use in pitching the episode. The revised design bears some similarities in its overall arrangement and coloration to from the Star Fleet Universe (see "Apocrypha" below). Jimmy Diggs also created a thirty-five-page "Guide To Using The Kzinti In Star Trek", which he distributed to those whom he described as "key people in the Star Trek and Man-Kzin Wars franchises," including André Bormanis, Brannon Braga, Manny Coto, D.C. Fontana, Larry Niven, Michael Okuda, Jim Baen, and others. This guide included Diggs' ideas of how Kzinti history and culture should fit within the Star Trek universe. Following Jimmy Diggs' pitch, Manny Coto promised to fight for the reintroduction of the Kzinti on the show, and was so impressed with a Clint Burgin-sculpted maquette of Diggs' proposed redesign for the species that he kept it in his office. However, the series was ultimately cancelled after its fourth season. Diggs subsequently sought to re-adapt "Kilkenny Cats" as an installment of the fan film series Star Trek: Phase II – substituting, by legal necessity, a similar species for the Kzinti – but even that effort was eventually shelved. When asked how the Kzinti reference in the came to be, Michael Chabon responded by saying: "I sent a fan email to Larry Niven – one of the writers whose work inspired me to want to become a writer, as a kid – and asked his permission to include a reference to his battle-and-honor obsessed Kzinti, who as you know crossed over in one episode of TAS – blowing my ten-year-old, Niven-and-Trek obsessed mind – and also, I've always suspected, helped inspire TNG's reinvention of the Klingons. Mr. Niven very graciously said that would be okay." Apocrypha Kzinti in novels Star Trek Log 5, by Alan Dean Foster, begins with a scene of M'Ress' career in Starfleet. Among one of the events is her time as a junior communications officer aboard the ; the starship was attacked by a Kzin cruiser, killing all of the bridge crew, including the chief engineer, and crippling several systems, including engines and communications. M'Ress, who speaks little Kzinti, volunteers to beam over to the cruiser, which was disabled in a counterattack. The Kzinti are sending a distress call to their homebase, which needs to be cut off, and M'Ress' plan is to recode it to send a distress call from her own crew to a Federation starbase. Her actions result in a promotion to lieutenant after just two years of service and her transfer to the Enterprise. The battle was mentioned in M'Ress' biography by Lincoln Enterprises, where it was stated, "She entered Starfleet just three years ago," placing the event in 2266. The novelization of (in Star Trek Log 4) also mentions Kzinti, when Kirk ponders about the Edoans' ongoing neutrality despite the warlike Klingons, Romulans, and Kzinti nearby. Pocket TOS novel , by Barbara Hambly, additionally references the Kzinti. In the book, Maria Kellog, the commanding officer of a particular starbase, is established as having served as chief engineer of the . She was one of six Human crewmembers aboard that craft; the rest were Orions, Kzinti, and Trisk. (Chapter 7, Ishmael) Later, Kellogg and Kirk pass two Kzinti in the starbase's corridors, and Kellogg greets them in their native tongue. (Chapter 13, Ishmael) Kzinti in the Star Fleet Universe The Kzinti race in the Star Fleet Universe – which has traits setting them apart from the Kzin of Larry Niven's works – has fought wars with all of their neighbors, the Federation, the Klingon Empire and their perennial nemesis, the Lyran Star Empire. They are long-standing allies – or more accurately, co-belligerents – of the Hydran Kingdoms. The Kzinti Hegemony eventually formed a tentative accord with the Federation, and allied with them in the General War, but they have been involved in major wars with the Klingons and Lyrans, such as the Four Powers War and the General War itself, in which a substantial region of their territory was occupied by their Coalition enemies and two full-scale assaults were made on the Kzinti homeworld of Kzintai. Eventually, with Federation assistance, they forced the Coalition forces from their territory, but after the war ended, they were involved in a civil war as a disgruntled faction – which had been opposed to the Hegemony's ruling patriarch, sought refuge, developed a power base in the WYN Cluster, and launched an attempted coup of the Hegemony itself in the WYN War of Return. Also, in a fictional variant of the Star Fleet Universe as represented in the games Star Trek: Starfleet Command II: Empires at War and Star Trek: Starfleet Command - Orion Pirates from Taldren, the Kzinti were renamed and re-interpreted as the more canine Mirak. Other appearances The Kzinti also made brief appearances in the to The Wristwatch Plantation, by Sharman DiVono and Larry Niven, with art by Ron Harris. The story involved Kzinti starting an invasion in the 2270s. The authors considered publishing the story as a novel or . However, this did not happen. According to Who's Who in Star Trek 2, the USS Hood (NCC-1703) stopped a proposed invasion of Federation space by the Kzin. The Ferasan playable species in the Klingon Faction in Star Trek Online are stand-ins for the Kzinti in that game. Due to legal issues, the developers could not obtain the rights from Larry Niven to use the species in the game. As previously mentioned in the "biography of M'Ress" concerning the Kzinti, background information in the game reveals that the Ferasans and the Caitians were originally one single species. However, violent disagreements about how to employ genetic engineering forced the Caitians to relocate to another planet, Cait. Unlike Kzinti, Ferasan females are fully sentient. External links de:Kzinti ja:クジンティ Species Felines Telepathic species
1833	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Founder	The Founders were a group of Changelings from the Gamma Quadrant, who mainly existed in the form of the Great Link. They were responsible for both the creation of the Dominion and all strategic decisions undertaken throughout its history. Though generally considered mythical by some Gamma Quadrant races, they remained, as of the late 24th century, the embodiment of the Dominion itself, and the ultimate reason for its existence. () History See also: Dominion history From Changelings to Founders Eons ago, Changelings evolved from non-metamorphic lifeforms, who were limited to one form like other humanoids. () Later, the Changelings roamed space, possibly including the planet L-S VI, searching out other races so they could add to their knowledge of the galaxy. The Changelings came in peace, though "solids" feared their metamorphic abilities, met them with suspicion, and even "beat, hunted, and killed" them. Deeming "Changelings" to be nothing but make-believe by the 24th century, the Rakhari as well as the Yaderans told mythical tales of them, with the latter speaking of "evil shapeshifters." According to Dominion legend, on one planet, a group of Vorta – a species of small, timid, ape-like forest dwellers living in hollowed-out trees – hid a Changeling from an angry mob, and in return the Changeling promised that one day they would be transformed into powerful beings and placed at the head of a vast interstellar empire. () As an adverse reaction to being hunted and rejected by the solids, the Founders accepted the pejorative "Changeling" as their own out of defiance and retreated to in the Omarion Nebula, where they existed as the Great Link. Adopting a philosophy of "what you control can't hurt you," the Changelings realized they had to "guide" the solids, who, in turn, had to "be broken of their love for freedom." They determined that, in order to be safe, they had to set themselves the task of creating order from the chaos they saw around them, and as a result, they became the "Founders" of the Dominion circa 2,000 years ago. The Founders genetically-engineered the Jem'Hadar as their front line soldiers and also kept their promise to the Vorta by empowering them to become the Dominion's civil servants and commanders. Amongst other methods, both species' loyalty was ensured by implanting into them a reverence of any Changeling as a living god. () Contact and war with the Alpha Quadrant Despite their self-protectionism, the Founders still wished to explore the galaxy and sent out one hundred infant Changelings, including Odo and Laas, in order to gather information and explore before bringing the information back into the Great Link. They were genetically programmed to return to the Great Link, to share what they had learned. Laas, who initially attempted to mimic a humanoid life on Varala around the 22nd century, ultimately got disillusioned and frustrated by solids. Odo, on the other hand, was found beyond the Bajoran wormhole in the Alpha Quadrant during the first half of the 24th century and was subsequently studied by Dr. Mora Pol at the Bajoran Institute of Science. In early 2371, roughly two years after the Bajoran wormhole was discovered by the Federation and henceforth frequented as a gateway between the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants, Odo, who was still following his instinctive longing for the Omarion Nebula, returned to the Great Link, where he was not expected until around the late-27th century. However, having spent all his conscious life amongst solids, he decided he was not yet ready to rejoin his fellow Changelings. They communicated with him by forming a female humanoid. () Later in 2371, the Founders were the target of a preemptive strike by the Tal Shiar and the Obsidian Order, which intended to completely eradicate the Founders, thereby removing the Dominion as a threat to the Alpha Quadrant. However, had infiltrated the Tal Shiar and, based on evidence gathered by that Changeling, the Founders relocated to in advance of the Battle of the Omarion Nebula, in which all Romulan/Cardassian forces were annihilated. () The Founders proceeded with infiltrating the powers beyond the wormhole in order to prepare for their eventual invasion, while Odo continued his life among the solids of the Federation, separate from the Great Link. In late 2371, he became the first Changeling to ever harm another, when he killed in order to save his crewmates aboard the . Odo's slaying of the Changeling provoked much debate and disagreement in the Great Link, also because the Founders felt a sense of responsibility for having sent him away as an infant in the first place. In late 2372, they had Weyoun, one of their most trusted Vorta servants, infect him with a disease to force him to return home and be judged – Odo's punishment was to be made into a solid. Although he regained his shapeshifting abilities a few months later in early 2373 by linking with a terminally ill infant Changeling, he was henceforth considered a traitor by the Jem'Hadar, as he had killed one of their gods. (, ) In 2373, the Founders began their invasion of the Alpha Quadrant and the Dominion started a war against the Federation and the Klingon Empire. A few months after the war started, the Female Changeling came to the Alpha Quadrant to oversee the war effort and also to coerce Odo to return to the Great Link. Although they both linked, Odo was not able to understand the Founders' arrogance and ruthlessness, and eventually decided to side against his own people. In 2375, Odo encountered Laas, who had also been one of the 100 infants sent out by the Founders. Although they linked, Odo soon realized he did not share Laas' disregard for the solids and decided not to join him as he continued on a journey to find others who had also been amongst the 100 infants. () Unbeknownst to the Founders, the war with the Dominion was anticipated by Section 31, a rogue Federation organization, which had secretly used Odo to infect the Great Link with a morphogenic virus back in 2372, during his trial for murdering another Changeling. Some Starfleet officers who didn't accept the Federation committing genocide managed, in an effort to save Odo's life, to obtain a cure against the virus. After Dominion forces in the Alpha Quadrant surrendered in late 2375, Odo cured the Female Changeling, who was subsequently taken into custody in the Alpha Quadrant. Odo then returned to the Gamma Quadrant and rejoined the Great Link, which was thus cured as well. () 32nd century As of 3189, the Federation had knowledge of a fourth , whose location was noted on a holographic star chart of the galaxy at Federation Headquarters. () Appendices Background information Conceptual origins Not long after the three-pronged concept of the Dominion was invented, Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe started theorizing about the nature of the trinity's masterminds, the Founders. () Wolfe recollected, "We talked about having a race called the Founders; we wouldn't know who they were, or what kind of creatures they were, for a long time. That would be a big mystery." (; Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 13, p. 12) Behr concurred that the writing staff of wanted the Founders to be somewhat "mysterious and aloof." () Not much information about the Founders was included in a memo Wolfe wrote about the Dominion; as he later remembered, it clearly said of the Founders, "We don't know who they are. We'll never see them." () For a long time, Odo actor Rene Auberjonois had suspected that the civilization Odo belonged to would remain a mystery. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 54) However, one initial thought the DS9 writing staff had about the Founders was that they were actually a group of shapeshifters, of whom Odo was the once and future king. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 79) This notion was a private theory between Wolfe and Behr, which they conceived as a joke at about the start of DS9's second season. Noted Wolfe, "We figured we'd never see [the Founders] over the course of five years or whatever." Throughout the second season, the pair of writers joked about the idea of the Founders being revealed as shapeshifters. () "We always said that with a laugh," Behr reminisced, "because we figured it would be too big a character thing to spring on both the audience and Rick [Berman] and Mike [Piller]." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 79) Behr clarified, "We never thought they'd go for it in a million years." () While being ridiculed and considered too radical by the DS9 staff writers, the twist of revealing the Founders as the same species as Odo was originally thought of as a revelation to be made at the end of DS9's series run, or at least as a season climax. "At the end of season seven we find the Founders [....] That's gonna be the end of the series," Ira Behr remembered thinking. The writers also imagined the group, at about the same point in the series, as being reunited with Odo and coming under his rulership, Odo serving as their rightful king. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 102) In fact, the writers even felt certain, from early in the series, that they wanted the Founders to be reunited with Odo at the end of the show. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, Nos. 4/5, p. 89) Although the concept of the Founders was established in the second season finale , the writers hadn't yet made any firm decisions about precisely who the Founders were. During the hiatus between seasons two and three of DS9, Michael Piller called a production meeting and, thinking the writers would reject the idea straight away, he suggested that perhaps the Founders could indeed be Odo's people. (The Birth of the Dominion and Beyond, DS9 Season 3 DVD, Special Features) Recalled Behr, "Michael said, 'I've got a crazy idea. You're all going to think I'm nuts; what if the Founders turn out to be shape-shifters?" (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 79) At the same time that day, Piller additionally proposed that the Founders were Odo's people, another idea he thought was "nuts." () When Piller suggested these notions, Behr burst out laughing, he and the other staff writers having come up with exactly the same ideas but having expected them to be dismissed. (The Birth of the Dominion and Beyond, DS9 Season 3 DVD, Special Features) Behr continued, "We just cracked up, and Michael said, 'What's so funny?" After Piller learned the other writers had been thinking along the same lines as him over the past several months, he and Behr took the idea of the Founders being Odo's people to Rick Berman, who agreed the concept was a good one. () Subsequently, Rene Auberjonois was immediately informed about the idea of making the Founders actually Odo's race. "We had lunch with Rene Auberjonois to clue him in," stated Ira Behr, "and that's how it came down." Although the actor had originally become interested in playing Odo due to having been fascinated by the character's uncertainty about his origins, Auberjonois happily supported the plan of establishing who Odo's people were. "I must say," the actor admitted, "that I was and have been very satisfied with the solution they've come up with, which is something equally complex." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 79) Robert Hewitt Wolfe observed a likeness between the Founders and the Roman Empire. "They would rather take over someplace without firing a shot, but they're going to take over," he said, pointing out the degree of similarity between the two powers. () On the other hand, Ronald D. Moore stated that the Founders "are, in a metaphorical sense, Nazis." Ira Behr likewise posited that the Founders had "fascist [...] tendencies." () Episodic introductions In the script for , the Founders were implied as being the breeders of the s, genetically engineering them to be gifts for the Hunters. There was a little uncertainty about precisely when to reveal the Founders as Odo's people. "[That] was actually something they were planning for a third season cliffhanger," recollected Ron Moore, who joined the series at the start of that season, "but Michael [Piller] said, 'Let's do this at the beginning [of Season 3]." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 90) Moore thought the revelation, ultimately exposed in third season opener , was "a risk." He commented, "I think it was ultimately a good decision to just go for it, because now we can play all the [complex emotions and] things with Odo and his people out there who want him back." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 82) The script for "The Search, Part I" described the Founders thus; "Their faces have the same 'unfinished' look that Odo's does and they appear to wear simple tunics." Ron Moore explained, "The Founders [...] modeled their look after Odo. They did this initially as a compliment and way of reaching out to their long-lost Changeling, and later they kept doing it as a dig and reminder to him of his own limitations." An illusory scenario created by the Founders in indicated how powerful they could be. "If the Founders are capable of playing with us like that," reasoned Ira Behr, "how much worse could they be in reality? That was our intent, to show that these guys were so ahead of us that they were literally playing with us." Regarding the "The Search" two-parter, Robert Hewitt Wolfe remarked, "Taken as a whole, the episodes showed both sides of who the Founders are." Their interactions with Odo demonstrated the public face of the Founders, whereas their duping of crew members from the "showed their secret face, the dark truth," added Wolfe. He believed the implanted illusion was characteristic of how the Founders tended, like the Roman Empire, to prefer conquering other races without resorting to combat. "So the whole thing was a test for them," he stated. "Can we take over by diplomacy? Can we offer a treaty, get our foot into the Alpha Quadrant and slowly absorb them through cultural imperialism?" () During development of , a Founder (referred to, in a summary of discussions that initiated the series, as "Soup Guy") was briefly considered as a main character of that series. (A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager, p. 177) Establishing the Founders as capable of assuming a convincing humanoid form (first established in third season installment ) facilitated later developments for the group. Explained René Echevarria, "It allowed us to set up the element of paranoia that would come into play later on [....] What's really interesting to me about the Founders is thinking that it's us, that it's you, it's Sisko, and containing the story." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 91 & 99) Further developments Originally, the Founders were to have featured in a two-parter that would have ended DS9 Season 3 before concluding at the beginning of the series' fourth season. The plot would have involved "learning that shape-shifters were on Earth and had infiltrated the very heart of..." René Echevarria paused. "That was the cliff-hanger ending." When Paramount announced they didn't want a cliff-hanger to end the third season, the notion of nevertheless using the Founders remained. However, choosing what to do with them was an issue for the DS9 producers. They decided to keep the Founders-on-Earth storyline for the next season. They also chose to make the third season finale, ultimately entitled , about "shape-shifters running amok," in the words of Robert Wolfe, and structure it around the statement, "No Changeling has ever harmed another," which the writers had first established in "The Search, Part II". () Some production staffers approved of the Founders being established as omnipresent in "The Adversary". "It [...] represented an interesting way to use the changelings, making them more of a threat," Ira Behr remarked. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 80 & 99) Commented René Echevarria, "It also provides another opportunity for [...] setting up in the minds of our fans that this – the changelings – is an ongoing, very dangerous problem." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 99) Ira Behr held the opinion that "deepening" the Founders and their relationship with Odo was an important aim for the writers to bear in mind for DS9 Season 4. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 115) During the show's third season, Behr and Ronald D. Moore had a discussion which determined how the Founders went on to be developed in the fourth season. This period in the evolution of the group was inspired by a statement in , when a Founder posing as a Romulan named Lovok comments, "After today, the only real threat to us from the Alpha Quadrant are the Klingons and the Federation. And I doubt that either of them will be a threat for much longer." Remembering the conversation, Behr related, "I said, 'You know, Ron, a really interesting way to continue the Founders threat is by causing between the Klingons and the Federation." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 28) Once season four of DS9 began, René Echevarria reported about the threat imposed by the Founders, "To a certain extent, it's felt in the fourth season. We've had a lot of internal debates about what this would mean [....] So it's something we'll keep alive but will be careful not to overdo." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 99) In an early version of the two-parter "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost", the Founders played an important role. "The changelings come to Earth, infiltrate the populace, and cause near civil war within the Federation," reported Ronald D. Moore, recalling the story. () As the narrative evolved from then on, though, the repercussions of the Founders' presence in the Alpha Quadrant were toned down, focusing on Earth in particular. "In the most basic sense, Founders on planet Earth was what we wanted to do," remembered Robert Hewitt Wolfe. The much-feared aliens could still be viewed as a metaphor for other groups in Human history, with Wolfe likening them to "the Communists" or the targets of "any number of other witch hunts in history." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, pp. 43 & 45) Ira Behr could foresee, at this relatively early stage, the doom of the Founders, deciding to make it come about via their "rigidity." He elaborated, "They are so anal retentive, so paranoid, so set in their ways. Ultimately, that will be their downfall." () Ever since fourth season finale was in its earliest form as a story pitch by freelance writer George Brozak, the Founders took Odo to be judged for committing what was, to them, an inconceivable criminal atrocity, Odo having killed another Changeling exactly a year beforehand, in "The Adversary". Ira Behr believed that the Founders' punishment of leaving Odo's face as it was, despite changing the rest of his body to become Human, was one of the writers' "many ways, both macro and micro, of making the Founders deliciously evil and calculatingly clever." () As was noted by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, a big revelation involving the Founders provided a cliffhanger ending to both the third and fourth seasons. "The third season was 'Oh, shit, they're everywhere,' and the fourth season is 'Oh shit, they're running the Klingon Empire and are going to start a war," Wolfe pointed out. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 121) For a long time, the writers planned to establish the Founders in such a way as they are depicted in the latter conclusion. "We felt it was an unfolding complication. We always felt the Founders were behind what was going on with the Klingons if nothing else than just because they were making the Klingons paranoid," Wolfe explained, "but we always wanted to show it may be more overt than that." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 70) After the Klingons having been reintroduced as antagonists in DS9 Season 4, resuming the focus on depicting the Founders as the show's main villains was important to DS9's writing staff. Ira Behr recalled, "We were moving back toward making the shape-shifters [...] our enemies." Hence, once a Founder was identified as misleading the Klingon Empire in fifth season's , the Founders were deliberately further concentrated on. "After doing 'Apocalypse Rising' to open the season, we knew we had to get the changelings back into the show," Behr emphasized. () Although the concept of Founders infiltrating Earth had been popular, the nature of the threat posed by the Founders was thereafter changed, because Earth wasn't seen as an appropriate setting for Deep Space Nine. As a result, their menace evolved to become, for instance, a Founder who had secretly replaced Dr. Bashir, as established in fifth season episode . () When DS9 Season 6 installment was written, Ira Behr already knew that the series would end with the Founders being reunited with Odo. () This influenced the writers to make the Founders unwell, firstly in DS9 Season 7 entry . Behr remembered that "giving the Founders an illness seemed to give" Odo a motive for returning to them and trying to save them. () Meanwhile, Rene Auberjonois felt it was "inevitable" that the Founders would end up reunited with Odo and that "the Founders' paranoia, and their feeling that they need to destroy the Federation" would peacefully be put to an end by him. The actor also believed this was "the right thing." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, Nos. 4/5, p. 40) Ira Behr believed that, by callously disregarding and underestimating the Cardassians during the Dominion War, the Founders were akin to those who underestimated the in the and George Armstrong Custer when he underestimated tribes of Native Americans at the . Behr concluded about the Founders, "They're still not nice people." () Appearances (Season 3) (Season 4) (Season 5) (Season 6) (Season 7) Additional references (Season 3) (Season 4) (Season 5) (Season 6) (Season 7) External link ca:Fundador de:Gründer es:Fundadores fr:Changeant it:Fondatore ja:創設者 nl:Stichter pt:Fundador ro:Polimorfi ru:Основатели Groups Founder Dominion
1837	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Sydney class	The Sydney-class was a class of relatively large personnel transport ship utilized by the Federation from the late 23rd century through as late as 2375. (; ) Technical data The Sydney-class, like many of the contemporary classes of that era, possessed several systems still in use during the 24th century, including the transporter system, the subspace radio, sensors and impulse engines. Geordi La Forge speculated that older model ships, like the , could probably "run circles around" a starship at impulse speeds. () Interior design Ops center The bridge was the command center of the Sydney-class; it was located at the upper forward section of the ship. Located at the rear half of the bridge was a small command area, with a helm station, and command chair, with an operations console located at the rear of the bridge. In the port-forward side of the bridge was a two-man transporter stage and adjacent transporter console. The starboard-forward side of the bridge contained the engineering console. () Ships of the class (NCC-2010) (NCC-2010-5) Appendices Appearances Background information The name of this class was named after , Australia. The USS Jenolan was named after the , which were visited by Naren Shankar and episode writer Ronald D. Moore following a Sydney convention. () The studio model was originally used for an orbital shuttle created for , and was substantially modified with and components, notably the bridge module and nacelles, to enlarge the appearance of the shuttlecraft into that of a larger vessel with several decks. The Sydney-class model (measuring 6½"×11"×4") was listed in the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection auction with an estimated sale price of US$4,000 to $6,000; it sold for US$22,000 (US$26,400 with premium). The studio model of the Sydney-class was to have become the basis for the runabouts on , before a new design was ordered. (; audio commentary, TNG Season 6 Blu-ray) External link de:Sydney-Klasse es:Clase Sydney ja:シドニー級 nl:Sydney klasse Sydney
1838	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Autarch	An autarch was an absolute and dictatorial ruler. After Benjamin Sisko was told by Ambassador that the Tzenkethi Autarch had apparently been overthrown by a coup d'etat on Tzenketh in 2371, Sisko was pleased, saying that "I doubt anyone is going to miss the Autarch". () The Ilari in the Delta Quadrant were ruled by an autarch. The term autarch on appeared to be equivalent to the title emperor on Earth, as the Autarch of Ilari resided in the Imperial Palace. This hereditary title was passed to the firstborn child of the deceased leader. () On Kelis' homeworld, there also lived an Autarch. In 2376, Layna threatened to expose B'Elanna Torres to this individual. () External links de:Autark nl:Autarch Titles
1841	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Dominion War	The Dominion War was a major interstellar conflict, fought from 2373 to 2375, though related conflicts began earlier. The war involved all major powers of the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Federation Alliance and the Breen-Dominion Alliance. Marked by massive military and civilian casualties, including the systematic destruction of the Cardassian population (in which more than eight hundred million Cardassians were killed), and the mobilization of starship fleets on a massive scale, it was one of the bloodiest and most destructive wars in modern galactic history. Prelude Main article: Dominion Cold War Following initial Alpha Quadrant expeditions into the Gamma Quadrant, rumors began to filter through of a ruthless race of conquerors known only as "The Dominion". In 2370, first contact was officially made between the Federation and the Dominion, when the Jem'Hadar destroyed the Starfleet vessel . A state of cold war rapidly developed thereafter between several of the Alpha Quadrant's major powers and the Dominion. A Dominion invasion was widely regarded as inevitable, as the Founders were driven by a xenophobic need to exert absolute authority over all other civilizations. () The Dominion began to infiltrate the Alpha Quadrant with Changelings masquerading as important officials, in an attempt to destabilize the political landscape between the major powers. By manipulating a plan originating with Enabran Tain, the Dominion completely destroyed the Obsidian Order and nearly completely destroyed the Tal Shiar at the Battle of the Omarion Nebula in 2371. The subsequent power vacuum left in the absence of the Obsidian Order led to a coup on Cardassia, resulting in the overthrow of the Cardassian Central Command by the Detapa Council. By manipulating frustrated warrior sentiments in the Klingon Empire, and implanting false information that the Cardassian change of government had been engineered by the Founders, the Dominion was able to trigger the Klingon-Cardassian War. The Federation condemned the Klingon invasion, leading to a severe deterioration of relations between the two powers, ultimately concluding with the . Concurrently, the Dominion was almost able to instigate a war between the Federation and the Tzenkethi, and caused mass hysteria on Earth following the bombing of the Antwerp Conference in 2372, which in turn led to a failed coup attempt of Starfleet personnel under Admiral Leyton. () As part of a preemptive defensive effort, the Trill government cooperated with Starfleet in trying to seal the wormhole permanently in 2373, without damaging the beings living within. The attempt was sabotaged by a Changeling infiltrator disguised as Julian Bashir. The Bashir Changeling was stopped by the crew of the in his attempt to destroy the Bajoran sun, which would have killed all life in the system and destroyed the Federation, Klingon, and Romulan fleets that were at Deep Space 9 at the time. () The Klingon invasion of Cardassia had all but destroyed Cardassian infrastructure. In mid-2373, frustrated at the apparent cowardice of the Detapa Council, and the broken state of the Cardassian people, Gul Dukat negotiated the entry of the Cardassian Union into the Dominion. Dukat himself was placed as head of the new Cardassian government. The Dominion rapidly began fortifying Cardassia with heavily armed convoys on a weekly basis. Within three days of their arrival, the Jem'Hadar had expelled the Klingons from Cardassian space entirely, and completely annihilated the Maquis in the Demilitarized Zone. In the face of the new Dominion foothold in the Alpha Quadrant, the Federation and the Klingons renewed the Khitomer Accords. () Although open war did not begin immediately, violence along the Cardassian border escalated, with ships such as the and the being reported missing, though both were later located. The Dominion began making strategic political inroads in the Alpha Quadrant, signing nonaggression pacts with the Tholian Assembly, the Miradorn, Bajor, and, perhaps most significantly, the Romulan Star Empire. With five large convoys having entered the Alpha Quadrant unopposed, the Federation Alliance realized they would soon face an impossible strategic position. In late 2373, the Federation thus decided to mine the entrance to the Bajoran wormhole with self-replicating mines in a last-ditch effort to permanently stop the flow of Dominion reinforcements into the Alpha Quadrant. Both sides knew that this act would lead to open war. () Open war begins Main article: Second Battle of Deep Space 9 Intent on preventing the Federation from completing the minefield, Weyoun arrived on Deep Space 9 and delivered an ultimatum; either Sisko would remove the mines, or the Dominion would. Sisko refused the ultimatum, and, two days later, a large Dominion fleet attacked and captured Deep Space 9. Trusting that the minefield would be activated in time, the Federation Alliance opted not to reinforce the station but used the opportunity to take advantage of the diverted Dominion ships to destroy the Dominion shipyards at Torros III. Though the minefield was successfully activated, the Allies were forced to retreat from the Bajoran system, and the station was subsequently garrisoned by Dominion forces. () Over the following months, Allied forces were forced to retreat on all fronts in the wake of several decisively successful Dominion campaigns. At each instance, the Allies suffered catastrophic losses. During this campaign, Starfleet suffered one of its worst defeats of the war when the Seventh Fleet was dispatched to halt the Dominion's advance at the Tyra system. In the subsequent battle, 98 starships were destroyed out of a fleet of 112, leaving thousands dead. Morale among the forces of the Federation Alliance plummeted, and it became a question of when, not if, the Alliance would be defeated. () While the Allies suffered repeated defeats in large fleet actions, Starfleet and Klingon ships had greater success in raiding operations and in combating small patrols of Jem'Hadar ships. Such operations included the destruction of the Dominion's primary ketracel-white storage facility in the Alpha Quadrant, and the destruction of a massive Dominion sensor array in the Argolis Cluster. The Dominion began suffering a shortage of ketracel-white, greatly concerning the Cardassians in particular. Glinn Damar even proposed that the last rations of white be poisoned if new supplies could not be secured, preventing the Jem'Hadar from running amok. Nevertheless, the Dominion continued to conquer large swathes of Federation and Klingon territory, even approaching the Vulcan border and Bolian territory. On Deep Space 9, efforts to dismantle the minefield surrounding the wormhole were finally beginning to bear fruit. Although Allied forces scored several minor successes in single-ship duels and in small groups, the inexorable Dominion advance compelled them to continually retreat. Morale sunk lower, with even the Klingons doubting they could defeat the Dominion. () Counter-offensive By the latter half of 2374, the Allies were perilously close to defeat. A major victory was needed, if anything to boost morale. Captain Benjamin Sisko, knowing the Dominion would likely figure out how to disable the minefield eventually, proposed to Starfleet Command the Federation Alliance had to go on the offensive. Sisko's plan was to assemble a task force to recapture Deep Space 9, the most strategically important site in the Alpha Quadrant, at the mouth of the wormhole. Despite misgivings that it would leave Earth vulnerable, Starfleet approved the plan. The Klingons proved more difficult to convince; Chancellor Gowron held the same concerns as Starfleet, in committing as many ships as would be required to re-take Deep Space 9, it would leave the Empire vulnerable. While General Martok and Lieutenant Commander Worf made Starfleet's plea to Gowron in person, Federation forces began assembling at Starbase 375. Unfortunately, Starfleet soon received intelligence from active resistance members on Deep Space 9 that the minefield was only three days from being destroyed. With no word having arrived from the Klingons, and only two-thirds of the Starfleet force assembled, Vice Admiral William Ross authorized Benjamin Sisko to lead the 627 ships assembled in an effort to prevent the Dominion from removing the mines. In response, Dukat pulled 1,254 warships from the front lines to intercept the Federation fleet, stalling Dominion advances into Allied territory. () Though outnumbered two to one, Starfleet engaged the Dominion fleet. With the timely arrival of Klingon forces, the Dominion lines collapsed, and the fleet dispersed. Though the breached the lines, it was unable to prevent the destruction of the minefield. With no options remaining, Sisko took the Defiant into the wormhole, and was able to strike a bargain with the Prophets to remove the Dominion forces to protect Bajor. The 2,800 Dominion ships in the wormhole disappeared, and with two hundred Allied ships approaching Bajor, the Dominion position on Deep Space 9 became untenable. The Dominion withdrew all forces to Cardassian territory, giving the Allied forces a decisive victory. Dukat suffered a mental breakdown at the defeat, along with the concurrent murder of his daughter, Tora Ziyal, and was captured by the victorious Allied forces. Damar was subsequently promoted to gul, and succeeded him as leader of the Cardassian Union. () Lull Following the decisive Allied victory in recapturing Deep Space 9, the Dominion forces withdrew to Cardassian space, and major operations temporarily ceased. () Gul Damar extended an olive branch to the Federation, hoping to negotiate a cease fire and end the war. Weyoun proposed to redraw the Federation-Cardassian border to give disputed star systems to the side with de facto control, an arrangement which generally favored the Federation. However, a think-tank of genetically-engineered individuals led by Julian Bashir deduced that the Dominion's true goal was to obtain the Kabrel system. Though strategically unimportant, the Kabrel system contained a tri-nucleic fungi that could be processed to allow the Dominion to produce near-endless amounts of ketracel-white. Bashir advised that the Federation accept the peace proposal; while many suspected the Dominion would renege on any agreement to buy time to re-group, the Allies were in a far greater need of a respite than the Dominion. Instead, the Federation made a counter-proposal and the talks ended inconclusively. () Several weeks later, Dominion activity began to increase all along the border, putting to rest hopes that the Allied recapture of Deep Space 9 would signal the end of the war. Allied losses began to mount, including the destruction of the and the . () In an effort to weaken the Federation-Klingon alliance, Dominion agents established ties with the Orion Syndicate in an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Klingon diplomat opposed to the war and frame the war proponents led by Gowron for it. () With the Prophets barring passage of the wormhole to ships from the Gamma Quadrant, the Dominion began breeding legions of Jem'Hadar, tailoring their genetic profiles for combat in the Alpha Quadrant, and pushed their shipyards to full construction capacity. () The issue of a possible ketracel-white shortage became less imminent when the Dominion acquired new supplies of the drug manufactured by the Son'a. (; ) Having recovered from the loss of Deep Space 9, in late 2374, the Dominion launched a surprise invasion of Betazed from the Kalandra sector, capturing the planet in less than ten hours. With control of this key Federation member world, the Dominion had scored a decisive strategic success; it was now in a position to launch offensives against , Andor, Tellar, and Alpha Centauri. The Second Fleet launched three counter-attacks in just one month against Betazed; however all were repulsed. For the Federation Alliance, suffering from shortages of ships and manpower, defeat once again seemed only a matter of time. () The tide turns The Romulan Star Empire had hitherto remained neutral in the Dominion War, although they were turning a blind eye to Dominion warships crossing through their territory to ambush Federation convoys and shipping. Captain Benjamin Sisko reasoned that the addition of the Romulan military could prove decisive in reversing the fortunes of the Dominion. With the help of Elim Garak, and the approval of Starfleet, a covert mission was carried out to implicate the Dominion in a planned invasion of Romulus; however, Garak used this operation for the assassination of Senator Vreenak, the most ardent pro-Dominion advocate in the Romulan Senate. From the wreckage of Vreenak's destroyed ship, the Tal Shiar recovered a recording of an alleged top-level Dominion conference bringing forward the planning of the invasion. In response, the Romulan Empire officially declared war on the Dominion. Within hours, the Romulans struck fifteen bases along the Romulan-Cardassian border, opening the Romulan front to the war. Although progress remained slow for the allies, the Romulans drove Dominion forces off of Benzar within months of joining the war effort. During the Romulan fight against the Dominion, Shinzon distinguished himself in the Romulan military, leading twelve major engagements against the Jem'Hadar, all of them successful. The Remans were also used as heavy assault troops and cannon fodder for the most violent encounters during the war(; ) The Federation, desperate for additional support, continued to extend diplomatic ties to neighboring species. () In 2374, the Federation Council conveyed an official diplomatic message to Grand Nagus Zek of the Ferengi Alliance, which Jake Sisko speculated was a proposal for an alliance. () In 2375, the Federation accepted the Evora as a protectorate, despite their having achieved warp drive only the previous year. () With the Romulans now fully committed to the Federation Alliance, options for a general offensive into Cardassian territory became a viable possibility. The Romulans had reservations that such an attack could succeed only at horrendous cost, favoring to contain the Dominion within Cardassian space. However, Benjamin Sisko convinced their delegation that the only course to victory was to destroy the Dominion's military-industrial complex itself. The Allies agreed they would commit their efforts to the Chin'toka system, its defenses having recently been thinned to provide additional support for the Romulan front. In late 2374, the Federation Alliance launched their first offensive into Cardassian space, capturing Chin'toka after a hard fight. () Although the planned attack against Cardassia itself was not realized, owing to heavy losses taking Chin'toka, the successful invasion was a tremendous boost to Allied morale. The Allied hold on Chin'toka was tenuous at best; the system remained under almost constant attack, making it extremely difficult to reinforce the garrisoned forces. Further offensives were bloodily repulsed; a Klingon fleet lost thirty percent of its strength attacking Monac IV. () On other fronts, the Allies enjoyed greater success. Elim Garak began working for Starfleet in an unofficial capacity breaking Cardassian military codes; one such breach enabled the Allies to retake the Kalandra system from the Dominion. () While the Allies consolidated their new front, General Martok launched a deep penetration raid into Cardassian space that damaged several key military targets. () Meanwhile, while the Ferengi maintained a sense of neutrality, the Grand Nagus was nevertheless kept up-to-date on the war efforts by Starfleet through their intelligence reports. In 2375, he sent Quark on a fact-finding mission to the front lines, specifically the Chin'toka system, aboard the Defiant. However, according to Quark, "If the Federation had listened to the Ferengi Alliance there never would have been a war, [...] [as they] would have reached an accommodation. We would have sat across the negotiation table and hammered out a peace treaty. One that both sides could lived with." He later quoted the 125th Rule of Acquisition to justify such reasoning, "You can't make a deal if you're dead." () In 2375, the Federation learned of a development that would ultimately help determine the course of the war: a deadly morphogenic virus had infected the Great Link. Despite the Dominion's technological prowess, they were unable to find a cure, and it was determined it would only be a matter of time before the Founders would die. () It was later discovered that the virus had been engineered by Section 31, a rogue branch of Starfleet Intelligence. Although Julian Bashir did find a cure, the Federation Council decided to withhold it from the Dominion for strategic concerns. Some protested this act as abetting genocide. () Cardassian rebellion Meanwhile, the Alliance's slowly encroaching front-line had begun to seriously strain relations in the precarious Dominion-Cardassian alliance. The Founders and their Vorta underlings tended to rest blame upon the Cardassian military for the defeats on the frontlines, an accusation that Damar, now promoted to legate, found particularly galling. Many Cardassian soldiers grew distrustful and resentful of the Dominion, while the Dominion continued to erode Cardassian autonomy. Seeking to rescue the war effort, in mid-2375, the Dominion conducted secret negotiations with the elusive Breen Confederacy to propose a military alliance; negotiations which the Cardassians were not privy to. The Dominion granted the Breen unspecified Cardassian territorial concessions in exchange, concessions which Legate Damar had neither seen nor agreed to. His objections were summarily overruled. () Damar grew concerned with further Allied advances, specifically the garrison of the Eleventh Order on Septimus III, which would fall without Jem'Hadar assistance. The Dominion refused to render aid, regarding it as an acceptable sacrifice. The Klingons subsequently invaded the planet and massacred the garrison. This action finally spurred Damar to rebel against the Dominion. () The Breen Confederacy entered the war in late 2375 with a bold raid on Starfleet Headquarters. This sent shock waves through the Alliance. Now able to mobilize a large fleet to carry out offensive operations, the Breen-Dominion Alliance launched a massive counter-attack against the Chin'toka system. The battle would prove to be the worst Allied defeat of the entire war; of the 312 ships engaged, all but one were destroyed. However, they could not press their advantage, as soon after, the Cardassian Liberation Front attacked the Dominion military installations on Rondac III, diverting vital resources from the front. () The only Allied warship to escape the Breen energy dissipaters at Chin'toka was a Klingon warship, the , owing to a chance modification of the ship's tritium intermix. General Martok ordered the modifications across the entire Klingon fleet, and had 1,500 warships ready for deployment the following day. With the Federation and Romulan fleets effectively useless in the interim until a countermeasure could be developed, the Klingons were left with the daunting task of holding the front-line against the Breen-Dominion Alliance. () However, the Allied defensive efforts were soon jeopardized by Chancellor Gowron, who believed his political position had become threatened by Martok's popularity in the Empire. Gowron took direct command of the Klingon fleet and repeatedly ordered Martok on hopeless attacks, intending for him to be killed or disgraced. With the safety of the Alpha Quadrant at stake, Benjamin Sisko ordered Lieutenant Commander Worf to deal with Gowron. Worf directly challenged his leadership, and slew him in single combat. Worf then proclaimed General Martok as the next Chancellor of the Klingon High Council. () Meanwhile, the Federation Alliance saw a strategic opportunity in the Cardassian rebellion to keep the Breen-Dominion Alliance constantly off-balance. The Federation supplied replicators, weapons and food supplies to the rebels, and dispatched Kira Nerys to train Damar's troops in guerrilla tactics. () The Cardassian rebels began carrying out a number of sabotaging attacks on Dominion ships and military installations, and were able to deliver a functioning Breen energy dissipater to the Allied forces. () Unfortunately, however, the success of Damar's revolt was short-lived. Gul Revok, who allegedly wanted to defect to the rebels, betrayed them to the Dominion. Jem'Hadar and Breen ships rapidly destroyed all eighteen rebel bases, ending the organized resistance against the Founders' rule. () Invasion of Cardassia Although the Cardassian military rebellion had ostensibly been crushed, Starfleet and Romulan engineers were able to develop a countermeasure to the Breen energy dissipater, thus denying the Dominion their one major tactical advantage over the Allies. Facing a renewed counter-offensive on a wide front, the Dominion-Breen forces withdrew from all conquered territories and established a fortified perimeter within Cardassian space. Their hope was that the Allies would balk at the cost of breaching the perimeter, giving the Dominion time to rebuild. While containing the Dominion within its present borders was a tempting move, the senior Allied commanders argued the Dominion could not be afforded any respite. Instead, the Allies would mobilize all their available ships to launch a single, decisive strike against the heart of Dominion power in the Alpha Quadrant: Cardassia. () On Cardassia itself, the remnants of the resistance had not been idle. The bold revolt, though ultimately defeated, had left a scintillating impression upon the Cardassian people. Buoyed with this knowledge, Damar, Garak, and Kira Nerys successfully bombed a Jem'Hadar barracks, rallying the civilian population into a popular uprising against the Dominion. Meanwhile, the Allied fleet crossed into Dominion space and engaged the Dominion-Breen forces in battle. Concurrently, popular revolt on Cardassia sabotaged the planet's power grid, cutting off transportation and communication systems, causing a planetary blackout. The fleet defending Cardassia was completely cut off from Dominion Headquarters. In retaliation, hoping to discourage further attacks, the Jem'Hadar destroyed Lakarian City, killing two million civilians. Instead, it had the opposite effect; the Cardassian military abrogated their alliance, fracturing the Dominion lines, forcing it to retreat. Infuriated, the Female Changeling ordered the Jem'Hadar to exterminate the Cardassian population. While the Jem'Hadar rampaged across the planet, the Dominion-Breen fleets in orbit of Cardassia were ordered to fight to the death, ensuring only a Pyrrhic Allied victory. As the Allies laid siege to Cardassia, rebels breached Dominion Headquarters, capturing the Founder. Odo convinced the Founder to surrender rather than fight; in exchange he would return to and cure the Great Link of the morphogenic virus. The Founder agreed, and the Dominion forces surrendered; the first time it had ever done so in battle. () Aftermath The instrument of surrender, the Treaty of Bajor, was signed on Deep Space 9 between representatives of the Federation Alliance and the Dominion several days after the surrender at Cardassia. The treaty stipulated the Dominion would effect a complete military withdrawal to the Gamma Quadrant, while Alpha Quadrant territories were reverted to their boundaries as of stardate 50564.0, just prior to the Dominion's initial incursion into the Alpha Quadrant. () The Dominion War significantly shifted the power dynamics of the Alpha Quadrant. The Cardassian Union had collapsed completely and Cardassia Prime was left in total disarray; over eight hundred million civilians had been killed by the Jem'Hadar in mere hours, in addition to over seven million troops during the war, and the leading figures in both Cardassia's official and underground governments had been killed. The Breen Confederacy had shown both its impressive military and technological capabilities and its desire for violent expansion. The Klingon Empire, having previously suffered heavy casualties in the conflicts with the Cardassians and the Federation, was projected to focus on recovering from the war for a decade. The two remaining major powers were the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire. Romulan relations with the Federation declined after the war, with the Federation embargo on Romulan goods reinstated. This resumption of pre-war attitudes would last until 2379, when a coup led by noted Dominion War commander Shinzon of Remus led to a brief conflict, and Shinzon's defeat to hope for improved relations with the Romulan Empire, until its botched rescue attempt in the wake of an attack on Mars and the supernova of the Romulan sun. (; ; ; ; ) In the Gamma Quadrant the order of the Dominion was maintained when Odo, fulfilling his pledge to the Female Changeling, did indeed return to the Great Link thus curing it of the morphogenic virus. () Only five years after the war's conclusion, at least one Starfleet officer, Lieutenant Steve Levy, maintained a conspiracy theory that Changelings were not real and "the Dominion War didn't happen." () Appendices See also Starships in the Dominion War Story arcs Appearances (Season 5) (Season 6) (Season 7) References (DS9 Season 6) (DS9 Season 7) : Background information Ira Steven Behr and Ronald D. Moore were the writers most involved with the creation and development of the Dominion War. Rick Berman wanted the war to be over within three or four episodes at the most. Behr and Moore knew the series would never be able to wrap up the war in that many episodes. Berman also criticized the "depressing" and "violent" stories. Moore later said "It's a fuckin' war! What do you mean it's too violent?!" Behr commented in 2019: "Everyone loves the Dominion War. But the Dominion War could have played out with an even bigger arc. There was lots of horse trading to even get what we were able to accomplish in terms of the Dominion War. It would have been great to make it more serialized as well". Peter Lauritson commented: "DS9 was also where we really showed the Starfleet armada for the first time, with big fleet-type shots and big ship battles. I think that remained the only place where you saw that scale of encounters between the different factions, between the Dominion and the Cardassians and the Federation and its allies". (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 147, p.14) Armin Shimerman had hoped to have seen the Ferengi involved more in the Dominion War arc. Shimerman commented: "It would have been very interesting to see how people made profits off of wars, to see a black market during the war, to see how the Ferengi, who were basically neutral during the war, behaved. We did a bit of that but we didn't delve into that as much as we could have". ("The Once and Future Ferengi: Armin Shimerman Reflects on Quark", ) Majel Barrett criticized the arc in a letter published in , claiming that Gene Roddenberry would have never approved of a continuing war in a Star Trek series. Berman has espoused similar sentiments, noting that his opposition "was all based purely on the fact that Gene had been very specific to me about not wanting Star Trek to be a show about intergalactic wars, interspecies wars. He didn't want it to be about humans fighting wars against other species." Responding to the former, Moore admitted, "She's probably right. It would've been very hard to argue Gene into going this way and maybe he'd have never gone for it. However, I would've still argued for doing the Dominion War with him and if he'd rejected it, I would've thought he was wrong. I respect Gene and his work, but I don't think he was always right and I'm not going to pretend that I do. The Dominion War has been one of the better storylines we've come up with whether Gene would've agreed or not." Bjo Trimble commented: "I feel that Gene might have come to like DS9, had he lived to see it. There might have been some changes. Majel recently said that GR would have hated the war in DS9, but frankly I am amazed that she cannot see the same theme in much of what Gene did, including his recent "discovery" of Earth: Final Conflict. The only reason there were not full battles in early Trek is lack of funds to pull it off, and lack of technology to show it. Otherwise, GR would certainly have added it; he knew what audiences liked. I don't know about Voyager; I can't see where it's going, and I don't feel GR would have liked that. I don't think he would have liked the last couple of movies; they were very far removed from the Trek Gene came up with." The Dominion War was directly referred to on four occasions outside of Deep Space Nine: , , and . Michael Chabon of commented that the writers "tried to work [the war] in several times, in drafts. Wiser heads argued correctly that it made things just that much more intimidatingly complicated for non-fans". Apocrypha In Rising Son, it is revealed that the inhabitants of the Gamma Quadrant refer to the war as the "Quadrant War". The war is frequently mentioned in Pocket Books novels and reference books, and there is also a section on it in the Star Trek: Star Charts and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library. Novels Tales of the Dominion War Star Trek: The Dominion War Behind Enemy Lines Call to Arms Tunnel Through the Stars Sacrifice of Angels What You Leave Behind The Battle of Betazed Hollow Men Video games Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion Wars External links bg:Войната с Доминиона cs:Válka s Dominionem de:Dominion-Krieg fr:Guerre du Dominion it:Guerra del Dominio ja:ドミニオン戦争 nl:Dominion oorlog pl:Wojna z Dominium sv:Dominionkriget Conflicts
1843	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Brannon Braga	"Fun to write – Fun to watch." – Brannon Braga, Writer/Producer, on his adage that the best episodes/films are those which writers have the most fun working on themselves, 2 August . Brannon Braga is a writer, producer and creator, serving as such on the spin-off television series , , , as well as on the and . Star Trek A twenty-five year old youth, Brannon Braga started working on Star Trek in 1990 as a writer/producer on The Next Generation, it being his first professional employment within the motion picture industry. Braga was recognized for his work on the Star Trek franchise with eight award nominations, winning two of them. In all, he has written or co-written 109 Star Trek television episodes with two additional movie writing co-credits to boot, more than anyone else in the history of the franchise. The Next Generation On his first day as an intern, Brannon Braga already met his future mentor Michael Piller, who was working on at the time; "I came in just at the right time," he recalled later. Actually, it was Piller who picked him out of a group of finalists of an internship program in script writing offered by the Academy of Televison Arts & Sciences at the university Braga was attending in his final year in 1990. After an eight-week internship period at the studio, Braga was hired "on staff" at the writing department, the episode becoming his first official co-credit and with as his first solo teleplay credit. As a writer/producer on The Next Generation, Braga was responsible for some of the most popular episodes including the series finale . For this episode he won the Hugo Award for excellence in science fiction writing, along with Ronald D. Moore. Braga is a big fan of directors and and their way to create mysterious atmospheres. As a result he was very happy with the way the seventh season episode was brought up. (TNG Season 7 DVD-special feature, "Departmental Briefing Year Seven: Production") Braga also co-wrote the movies Generations (1994) and First Contact (1996). For the sixth season episode , Braga wrote the lyrics for the Klingon aria with music composed by Jay Chattaway. At the conclusion of the sixth season of the series, Piller asked Braga to move over to his co-creation, , but Braga wanted to "(...)see Next Generation through to the end and I am glad I did because Ron [Moore] and I wrote the final episode ["All Good Things"], which was probably our best work on that show." Deep Space Nine therefore remained the only spin-off television production Braga did not work on, though he did write a couple of Deep Space Nine-scenes featuring Julian Bashir for the episode . Having declared the series "terrific" and "an amazing television show", Braga acknowledged its "middle child" status, when he commented, "Personally, with Deep Space Nine, I don't think Voyager should have come on the air so quickly. I think Deep Space Nine should have been on its own for a while." Nevertheless, his decision to stick with The Next Generation did result in him being promoted to co-producer for its last season and his first television award. Generations and First Contact After having completed "All Good Things...", Brannon Braga immediately set to work with partner Moore and Rick Berman writing the first Next Generation film, with the missive that it somehow featured the "passing the baton from one generation to another". For Braga, as it was for Moore, it was their first motion picture assignment, "Writing the movies, those were amazing experiences. It was a different kind of storytelling. It was an opportunity to write feature films, which I'd always wanted to do. It led to some other feature work. Ron and I were new writers and we'd never written a movie before when we did Generation[s]. We were trying to serve a lot of masters and we were passing the baton from one generation to another. I didn't turn out as well as I would have liked." While generally well received, Braga was referring to the ending of the movie, as not only fans but also Spock performer Leonard Nimoy (who had declined both appearing in, and directing the feature, partly for this reason ) took exception to the demise of Captain James T. Kirk as being unceremonious. "The decision to "kill Kirk" was a complex one, made by many people, including Shatner himself [note: confirmed by the latter in his autobiography Star Trek Movie Memories], who was heavily involved in the process of developing that script. I don't remember where the idea originally came from, but I can tell you that everyone was on board. It seemed a fitting way to "pass the baton" to a new generation and a final farewell to Shatner's character. But I don’t argue that his mode of death was less than overwhelming.," defended Braga , adding at a later point, "I don't want to speak for Ron or for Rick Berman, but I think that Kirk and Picard should have been locked in battle on spaceships, on their respective bridges, and not cooking eggs. I can say that now that enough time has passed. I just don't think it was the right second half of the movie, personally. If a fan wants to sit down and watch Generations with the commentary Ron and I did for the DVD, we're pretty honest about what we liked and don't like about that film." As it turned out, Braga even considered resurrecting Kirk, "Kirk back from the grave? Hell, yeah. I even noodled a story that would do that on Voyager. Involved the Klingon hijacking of a modern-day 747 (and some time travel of course). Never wrote it, though." Two years later, Braga, again with Moore and Berman, turned their attention to the movie that "turned out so well" ; Star Trek: First Contact. "I had a saying when we were working on Star Trek: "fun to write – fun to watch." Generally speaking if you are struggling to write something and it’s not making sense, then it is going to be kind of crappy on the screen. First Contact was blast to write, blast to make. We just knew it was going to be fun." On the introduction of the Borg Queen, which a minority of fans had gripes with as well, Braga said, "I think some people liked the Borg Queen and some didn't, but to us the Borg Queen was the thing that made it all work. We realized very quickly that the Borg aren't that interesting for a feature film for two hours because they don't say anything. They're robot zombies. So, to me, the Borg Queen was the coolest new thing about that movie." Countering the perceptions that some fans held, Braga pointed out, "I disagree that Kirk's "death" signaled the "demise" of the franchise. Star Trek: First Contact went on to become the highest grossing Trek film ever, and one of the best reviewed. The TV shows were doing pretty damn well, too." Being very proud of his work on First Contact, Braga had indeed a valid point; First Contact went on to become the highest grossing and best received of all the prime universe movies, even surpassing the hitherto most beloved ones, and . (see for details, Star Trek films: Performance summary) Buoyed on by the success of First Contact, Braga was an obvious choice for the writer's chore of the subsequent Next Generation movie, , but he "(...) didn't write any more movies after "First Contact" because I was running "Voyager" at that point and didn't feel like I could do both justice. Having written two movies with Ron Moore while also doing the TV shows was just too much. I chose to focus my energies on "Voyager" and I'm glad I did. I'm most proud of my work on that show." Voyager Brannon Braga moved to Star Trek: Voyager as a producer, receiving another promotion to co-executive producer in 1997 and a further promotion to executive producer in 1998 when Jeri Taylor retired. During his time on Star Trek: Voyager he entered into a relationship with Seven of Nine actress Jeri Ryan, which has since ended. After Deep Space Nine finished its run, Braga immediately hired his Next Generation writing partner Ronald D. Moore for Voyager, but Moore resigned shortly afterward, citing creative differences with Braga and the other Voyager writers, and criticizing the lack of emphasis on continuity. Though the series as a whole was by the fans received with somewhat mixed feelings, Braga was, predominantly in conjunction with Writer Joe Menosky, responsible for some of its best-received episodes, most notably including the two-part episodes , , , and . Braga had reveled in working with Menosky, later emphatically stating, "Joe Menosky was brilliant. He and I wrote what I thought were some of the best ever episodes. Feel free to disagree, but if you look at those 2-parters we did...cool stuff." Braga himself had stated that he "had the most fun" working on Voyager, and cited the two-parter and as the episodes he considered his best work , on another occasion adding and , but also citing as "the one I'd just as soon forget." Enterprise – controversy, atonement, and defense In 1999, Brannon Braga began work on Star Trek: Enterprise as the series' co-creator with Rick Berman (leaving Kenneth Biller to take over the production of Voyager), and had become Star Treks "number two man" behind Berman. Unlike his former writing partner Ron Moore, Braga has never been a fan, and it was for this reason that he had earlier turned the writing chore for the Next Generation homage episode , which was originally slated to be his, over to Moore, or as he himself had put it, "I knew I couldn't possibly write it. I didn't even know who Scotty was. This was a Ron [Moore] show." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 24, issue 3/4, p. 22) Braga not being a "Trekkie" was not lost on Writer/Journalist Mark A. Altman, who had recorded his "Relics" statement for Cinefantastique magazine, as he subsequently offered rather acerbically in 1999 when Voyager was in production, "The dirty little secret is Berman and the people running Star Trek right now hate The Original Series and hate being compared to it. They are not people who have any affection for the old show. When Harve Bennett and Nick Meyer took over the franchise for Star Trek II, they went back and looked at every episode of The Original Series and learned everything they could about what worked and what didn't. When these guys [Berman and writer Brannon Braga] took over, they hated the original and resented being in the shadow and avoided watching it. They'd be happy if people forgot the original, and that's unfortunate." His admitted lack of understanding of original Star Trek-lore however, backfired on his work on Enterprise, as he was held co-responsible for the dismal performance of the series in its first three seasons, due to the perceived canon violations in established continuity – which, as it turned out, even though Ron Moore resigned over it, had not been an issue of note for Voyager, due to that show's premise, and despite Altman's assessment. Actually, when the new series was announced less than a year later, there were those who feared that the franchise would overstretch itself. When interviewed by TV Guide, Altman, even though he was and is a life-long Star Trek fan, additionally expressed his great doubt and was not convinced of the viability of the franchise when a fifth, prequel series was announced, what eventually was to become Enterprise, being on record as having stated, "People are sick of Star Trek. But rather than give the franchise a rest and re-launch in a few years when fervor has built again, Paramount is going to run it into the ground until it's dead." He was not alone in this assessment as Star Trek legend Robert Justman had in effect already voiced similar concerns earlier, in regard to Voyager; "(...)less is more," stated Justman, "I think the show has been flogged unmercifully and its going to rebound. The reaction is essentially going to be a negative reaction. If it is around in another 30 years, I don't think it's going to resemble what it has been in the past." Events however, would prove them largely right, and Braga came to concur with them to a large extent in later years, "Star Trek was wearing out its welcome. Rick Berman didn't want to make a show so soon but Paramount [Television] did. I think it was too soon for another show. It was a quality show, but the ratings weren't really what they should be. And I don't think the network – the new regime [at UPN] – I don’t think they treated the show with the tender loving care that it needed to thrive." With the additional failure of (on which Braga had not worked incidentally, he deciding to focus all his energy on the television show, just as he had done with the prior one) at the box office in , outspoken critics vehemently clamored for the removal of the "current leadership of the franchise from their positions, including Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, and their entire staff". At the end of the third season of Enterprise, Paramount and UPN indicated its cancellation and the apparent end of Berman's tenure as the overseer of Star Trek productions. Whether or not influenced by the vocal criticism, and though retaining their official credit, both men were indeed essentially relegated to the role of figureheads by franchise management at the end of the third season, their relinquished places de facto filled for the remaining season by Manny Coto and Mike Sussman, under whose tenure as show runners much of the perceived continuity violations was redressed, aided by writers such as Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, who, like them, had an equally thorough understanding of the original Star Trek-mythology. Candidly admitting to his reduced role, Braga has outlined his scaled-down responsibilities for the last season, "I was indeed involved in Ent-season4. But only in a supervisory capacity. Manny was really running that writing staff. I was there to help him fashion stories and give notes, which was only part of the time because Manny was doing an amazing job. I rewrote an episode called I believe. No offense to the credited writer [note: the Reeves-Stevens']. It just needed work and I was happy to help Manny out." While the season as a whole was generally very well received by the fans – though it did not save the series, as its cancellation had already been decided upon – both Berman and Braga yet again took firmly hold of the reins when it came to producing the last episode, , also turning out to be the very last of the entire television franchise for the time being. Intended to be "a valentine to all the Star Trek shows", as Braga had put it in 2007 at the below-mentioned VegasCon, the well-meant intention was again met with intense criticism, again resulting in a violent backlash from production staffers and fans alike, causing Berman to admit years later, "I would have never done it if I had known how people were going to react." In 2013, Braga made the even more unusual, but equally magnanimous, gesture of prostration by openly apologizing for the episode to cast and crew of Enterprise, conceding that he and Berman had made a "narcissistic move" in trying to make the episode a "valentine" to Star Trek. He also called it "a crappy episode" (ENT Season 2 Blu-ray-special feature, In Conversation: The First Crew), and "an idiotic move on my part" in 2014, having caused "(...) the only time Scott Bakula got pissed off at me". Actually, and contrary to former partner Berman – with whom Braga has had no contact for seven years after the series had wrapped (In Conversation: Rick Berman and Brannon Braga) – Braga had already shown real character, when he made a personal appearance at the August 2007 VegasCon, opening himself up for up-close-and-personal scrutiny by the fans. "To those who comment "it took guts" to get on that stage: yes, I was nervous as hell. Because as you point out, I had no clue what the reaction would be," Braga conceded, "But I was prepared to handle it no matter what. And to my relief, the audience could not have been more gracious". With the most vehement passions subsided over time and discussions being waged in a more civilized manner, a relieved Braga continued to chime on the blog covering his VegasCon appearance at for the remainder of the month, clarifying issues which had not been addressed during his live-performance as well as discussing his other Star Trek work. On that occasion Braga lauded the efforts of Coto and Sussman for the fourth season of Enterprise, "I thought Manny Coto did a great job. One could argue that Enterprise might have been that from the beginning. When I was seeing what Manny was doing it was like "you know what? Maybe this should have been the show from the start"," having added, "If Enterprise had continued, we would have kept going with Manny Coto's unique vision of the show." Aside from the "canon violation" allegations, the writing staff, including Braga, were also facing unrelated allegations of sexism, or rather sexist attitudes, exhibited in Enterprise at the time, which actually were already leveled against them with the introduction of the Seven of Nine character in Voyager. In regard to Seven of Nine, Braga has commented, "To me, Seven of Nine added a nice touch of magic that the show needed at the time. The fact that she was a beautiful woman was just, to me, a benefit. A lot of people thought it was in poor taste that we had a buxom babe, but I'm like, "Have you actually watched TOS?" That was babes on parade. Kirk would be considered a sex addict by today's standards. A certain sensuality has always been at the heart of Star Trek. So I'd dispute that criticism of Seven. I thought the character was a great addition to the show. And it kind of lit a fire under the cast, too. It was very controversial. We got rid of Kes and brought in Seven of Nine, and some people in the cast were upset about it and some thought it was cool, but at the end of the day I think it did all the right things creatively to the show, in my opinion." On addressing similar concerns leveled against them in regard to Enterprise, Braga has stated, "I suppose I did (along with Rick and the other writers) infuse Trek with a few sexual moments over the years. Took a lot of flack for Seven’s catsuit. But you know, Roddenberry's Trek universe had an undercurrent of sexuality. He established it in the original series with episodes like . Orion slave girls anyone? [note: as a matter of fact reintroduced by Coto in the lauded fourth season, albeit with a twist] How about Kirk's escapades? And is the catsuit any more offensive than those miniskirts? Roddenberry took some criticism for some of this, I realize; especially for being sexist at times, as in , where he established that women could not command starships. But we always did it in the spirit of fun and exploration. What's wrong with Vulcan neuro-pressure, I ask you? What's so insulting about creating moments of physical intimacy for the characters? Star Trek explores all dimensions of humanity, and sexuality is arguably one of the most prominent. I will concede, however, that Hoshi losing her shirt was a bit "" [note: in ]," and pointing out some hypocrisy, "But then, Trip in his blue underwear didn't seem to get a lot of complaints. Just ask Connor Trinneer. Entire websites have been erected in honor of his skivvies." Though Braga has conceded that "[w]ould I change anything? Of course! Hell, man, if I could travel back to 1999 I would change a lot of things. (...) There are certain episodes that are really stinky that I wish I hadn't done, but how can I go back and change that. There were also episodes that turned out great that we thought were going to be terrible," and that the series "(..) needed Manny Coto. I wish he had been there since season one. That fourth season should have been the first season. It was really what the show was always supposed to be and I didn't until Manny came in and put his imprint on it," he remained steadfast in his pride and defense of the series as a whole. He took exception to the persistent "violations in established continuity" allegations, "Contrary to some people's opinions we paid very close attention to continuity. There has always been a perception that we spit in the face of Star Trek canon and nothing could be further from the truth." Sources of pride for him were the episodes , (for its AIDS allegory theme), as well as the entire third season Xindi story line, having called it "(...) really cool, (...) a science fiction concept I'd never seen before". was cited by Braga as his least favorite episode, deeming it too boring. Coda Once Brannon Braga became a staff writer on Star Trek his responsibilities expanded to organizing writing work shops at conventions, and attending story line pitches from aspiring writers. Together with Ronald D. Moore, René Echevarria, and Naren Shankar he became part of a somewhat pampered writer's quartet, authors Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann have affectionately dubbed "The Young Guns" in their reference book Star Trek: The Next Generation 365. Braga was initially so successful in conjuncture with writing partner Moore, that their colleagues Echevarria and Shankar, jokingly referred to them as the "A-Team" while referring to themselves as the "B-Team". (TNG Season 7 Blu-ray: ", audio commentary) Being all very young, Braga assumed an attitude and sense of humor that was not always appreciated, and which he himself came to regret in later years, as he related in the 2007 blog session, "I wish my 15 years on Trek had all been smooth-sailing. I wish every day and every episode had gone without a hitch. There are arrogant comments I wish I hadn't made in interviews, and in pitch meetings (as one email points out, and dude, I am sorry for that). I don't think I ever really grasped how much I would be scrutinized in my position. I learned the hard way." The "dude" Braga was apologizing to was an aspiring writer, who, under the blogname "Stefanbkk", had in the same blog session described a "pitch session from hell" experience to the Star Trek producers and writing staff, "I pitched to Next Gen, DS9, and Voyager several times during the 90's when I was living in LA trying my hand as a screenwriter. I also had quite regular contact with Brannon, Ron Moore and Lolita Fatjo during that time, as I assisted them doing grunt work at the Trek Writers Workshops they did for Creation at conventions. Ron was a great guy, as was Brannon... one of the quickest wits of anyone I've ever met. But my opinion of Brannon changed when I pitched to him once for Voyager. In the room was Brannon, another writer (can't remember who) and an intern who was taking notes. I was a pitching a pretty cool Harry Kim story, one in which he had a new love interest... the girl character's name was Kayla if I remember correctly. Now Brannon knew me, and he knew that I was gay. This had never been an issue before, but on that day things suddenly were different. Although my story had no gay overtones, Brannon was determined to rattle me throughout the entire pitch: Brannon: "Now Steve, is Kayla a woman or a man?" Me: "Uh... she's a woman, Brannon. Harry's not gay." As I started to pitch again, I was constantly interrupted with comments meant to shake me up and amuse his cronies in the room: Brannon: "So... at any time does Harry actually get to "lick her wormhole"?" followed by guffaws of laughter. It went on like that throughout the rest of my story pitches that day. I was so shook up when I left that I stopped and talked to Lolita, the script coordinator, and after much coaxing from her, I told her what happened. Well she was so pissed at him, that the next day I got a call from Jeri Taylor, who apologized for him and told me that any future pitches from me who be heard by her directly. I think I went back and pitched to Jeri once after that. But the whole experience just left a really bad taste in my mouth about continuing. So it's strange. When I first met Brannon, he was a funny, witty and extremely talented and insightful newcomer to Next Gen who was excited about his work and about writing what he and Michael Piller always called "high concept" stories. Then I encountered him again during Voyager and saw a completely different guy... arrogant, insecure and... a bit of an ass. Loved MOST of his work, but in the end, was not too fond of the guy himself... Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Braga's acknowledgment of, and apology for the episode was appreciatively accepted by Stefanbkk; "You deserved an apology. Just sorry it was a decade late," Braga added further down the line. His three main writing collaborators on the Star Trek franchise, in chronological order, were Ronald D. Moore, Joe Menosky, and Rick Berman, for the television properties The Next Generation, Voyager, and Enterprise respectively, while the first and the latter were his main writing collaborators for the movie properties Generations and First Contact. The controversy surrounding Enterprise has somewhat overshadowed his previous Star Trek work for a time, but as fan reactions on TrekMovie.com have shown, Braga's more endearing work for the franchise is in the process of being reaffirmed, as was exemplified by blog master Anthony Pascale who summarized, "I know that it seems to be some kind of accepted blood sport to rag on Brannon Braga and Rick Berman. However (as I have noted before), Braga was part of some of the best Trek ever. Besides the "highs" mentioned above, Braga was behind what are sure to be top episodes in each of the three series he worked on such as TNG's , VOY's "Year of Hell," or ENT's . I wish many things (especially with VOY and ENT) were different (and apparently he agrees), but I also try and look at his career with Trek in the context of the full body of work". Braga and Berman were rumored to have worked in the early stages on the 2009 movie, , but Braga has since made it clear that his days with the Star Trek franchise were over, as he had already indicated at the 2007 VegasCon, declaring it his last Star Trek convention appearance. Yet, Braga was unable to resist the lure of the convention circuit and has since then returned to the circuit, appearing among others at the 2010 and 2014 VegasCons. Despite all the "grief" Enterprise had brought him, Braga stated in 2014, "I miss Star Trek. I didn't realize how badly I missed it. It's such a great premise. You can do anything you can possibly imagine. It has such a great message. It has such a great feeling. I think one of the reasons I was so passionate about Cosmos [see below] and threw myself so deeply into it was because there was some part of me that missed that Star Trek feeling so I channeled some of that into Cosmos." In 2012, Braga was given the opportunity to slake his worst Star Trek thirst, when he was sought out by publisher IDW Publishing to co-author the four-issue miniseries Star Trek: The Next Generation - Hive. "It'd been a long time since I'd written Next Generation, but the characters came back quickly. I remember, when I was conceiving the story, it just amazed me how fluidly it came back...and how much I missed it," Braga stated in an interview on the occasion. Much of what Braga has stated on the aforementioned occasions, he reiterated in a lengthy in-depth interview, spread over several special features, specifically produced by Roger Lay, Jr. for the 2013-2014 Enterprise Blu-ray Disc releases, mentioning in passing that by then his relationship with the fan base had all but been mended. Braga also mentioned that there had been an additional, personal reason for him handing over the reins of Enterprise to Manny Coto; the stress surrounding the production – which included the negative backlash from audiences – of the series had gotten to him, suffering from a severe case of burn-out by the end of season three. Braga also mentioned that it was he who had selected Coto to work on the series during season three after seeing his work on the short-lived science fiction series Odyssey 5, whereas Coto himself divulged that it had been Braga personally who informed him that he had become the show runner for season four. Career outside Star Trek Brannon Braga was born in Bozeman, Montana (though spending much of his youth in Venice, California, followed by Canton, Ohio) and during his stay on the Star Trek franchise has frequently slipped references to his place of birth into episodes and films he has written (see , Eli Hollander, Gallatin). He studied Theater Arts and Filmmaking at Kent State University and The University of California. He received the aforementioned Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Writing Internship in 1990. An atheist, he has suggested Star Trek as an "atheistic mythology." During his stay on the Star Trek franchise, Braga made one contribution to a non-Star Trek production, when he co-wrote a first draft for the 2000 theatrical feature Mission: Impossible II (which was rapidly becoming a hugely successful, reemerging Mission: Impossible franchise for Paramount Pictures – see also Paramount Pictures: Footnotes), once again in collaboration with Ron D. Moore. After his tenure on the Star Trek franchise ended, Braga worked on various other television projects. In 2005, he was the executive producer of the CBS science fiction series Threshold (co-starring Brent Spiner), which was canceled after thirteen episodes (of which only nine were aired). Braga also wrote the first two episodes of the series. In 2009, Braga co-created the series , where he also served as executive producer and wrote the first two episodes. In 2012, he served as executive producer and writer on Terra Nova, a science fiction action series, reuniting him with René Echevarria and April Nocifora. Both shows were canceled after one season, though FlashForwards episode "No More Good Days" netted him an additional 2010 Hugo Award nomination. From 2009-2010, Braga worked on FOX's hit series 24, as a writer and Executive Producer, working alongside former Enterprise writer/producer Manny Coto on several scripts. He is also credited for the television film 24: Redemption as co-executive producer. Star Trek: The Next Generation – Hive had not been Braga's first foray into the world of comics; in the same period he co-authored the four-issue 2010 miniseries Iron Man vs. Whiplash for Marvel Comics. Braga's more recent work is credited as Executive Producer and Director for the 2014 docu-series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and the 2020 sequel series Cosmos: Possible Worlds (both hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson), the updated and modernized remakes of Carl Sagan's 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (featuring visual effects from Magicam, Inc.). As he had explained above, he approached this project with a particular zeal, and it did net him no less than five 2014-2015 award nominations, one of which, a 2015 PGA Award, won, and most of them shared with Seth MacFarlane (the creator of Family Guy and Rivers on Enterprise), who served as one of the series' executive producers. Braga has subsequently started work as an executive producer on the 2014 fantasy television series Salem, which he had co-created. Having joined up again with MacFarlane, Braga has as of 2017 been working as executive producer and occasional director on MacFarlane's Sci-fi series, The Orville. Similar to Star Trek, the series is about space exploration set and contains comedy elements. Described by several sources (including show creator/star MacFarlane himself) as an homage to the Star Trek franchise, The Next Generation in particular, Braga himself states the series "is aiming to tell stories that ride the line between drama and comedy, with an eye toward earnestness." Writing credits Season 4 – Staff Writer/Intern (26 episodes, uncredited) (teleplay with Thomas Perry, Jo Perry and Ronald D. Moore) (teleplay) Season 5 – Staff Writer/Intern (26 episodes, uncredited) (teleplay, story with Susan Sackett and Fred Bronson) (teleplay with Rene Balcer and Herbert J. Wright) (teleplay with Edith Swensen) Season 6 – Story Editor (26 episodes) (teleplay) (teleplay with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (teleplay with Ronald D. Moore) (uncredited) (teleplay) (story) (story) (with Ronald D. Moore) (teleplay) (teleplay with Skye Dent) (story) (teleplay, story with Joe Menosky) (with Jeri Taylor) (teleplay) (teleplay) (story with Joe Menosky) (with Joe Menosky) (with Joe Menosky) (story with Joe Menosky) (teleplay) (with Joe Menosky) (with Joe Menosky) (with Joe Menosky) (with Joe Menosky) (with Joe Menosky) (with Joe Menosky) (with Joe Menosky) (teleplay with Bryan Fuller and Joe Menosky, story) (teleplay with Joe Menosky, story with Rick Berman and Joe Menosky) (with Joe Menosky) (with Bryan Fuller and Joe Menosky) (teleplay with Joe Menosky, story with Rick Berman and Joe Menosky) (story with Eileen Connors and Joe Menosky) (with Joe Menosky) (story with Rick Berman) (story) (story with Joe Menosky) (story) (teleplay with Joe Menosky, story with Rick Berman and Joe Menosky) (teleplay with Joe Menosky, story with Rick Berman and Joe Menosky) (with Michael Taylor and Joe Menosky) (story) (story with Rick Berman) (teleplay with Robert Doherty and Raf Green) (teleplay with Joe Menosky) (teleplay with Joe Menosky, story with Mike Sussman and Joe Menosky) (teleplay with André Bormanis) (story) (story with Rick Berman and Kenneth Biller) (with Rick Berman) (with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman) (with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman and Fred Dekker) (story with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman) (with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman and Chris Black) (story with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman and Stephen Beck) (story with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman and Fred Dekker) (with Rick Berman and Chris Black) (story with Rick Berman and André Bormanis) (story with Rick Berman) (with Rick Berman) (with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman and Dan O'Shannon) (with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman) (with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman) (with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman) (with Rick Berman) (teleplay with Rick Berman, story with Rick Berman and André Bormanis) (with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman) (with Rick Berman) (with Rick Berman) (with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman) (story with Rick Berman and Manny Coto) (with Rick Berman) (with Rick Berman) Films: (screenplay with Ronald D. Moore, story with Rick Berman and Ronald D. Moore) (screenplay with Ronald D. Moore, story with Rick Berman and Ronald D. Moore) Producing credits ( – ) – Co-Producer ( – ) – Producer Star Trek: Voyager ( – ) – Supervising Producer Star Trek: Voyager ( – ) – Co-Executive Producer Star Trek: Voyager ( – ) – Executive Producer Star Trek: Voyager ( – ) – Consulting Producer – Executive Producer Acting appearance Star Trek interviews TNG Season 4 DVD special feature, "Chronicles from the Final Frontier", interviewed on TNG Season 5 DVD special feature, "Departmental Briefing Year Five" (), interviewed on TNG Season 5 DVD special feature, "Intergalactic Guest Stars" ("Crew Profile: Ensign Robin Lefler", "Profile: Captain Morgan Bateson"), interviewed on 15 November 2001 TNG Season 6 DVD special feature, "Bold New Directions Year Six", interviewed on 15 November 2001 TNG Season 7 DVD special feature, "Mission Overview Year Seven", interviewed on 15 November 2001 TNG Season 7 DVD special feature, "Departmental Briefing Year Seven: Production" ("New Director, New Challenges", "Creating Parallel Worlds"), interviewed on 15 November 2001 TNG Season 7 DVD special feature, "The Making of "All Good Things..." Year Seven" ("Writing The Final Episode"), interviewed on 15 November 2001 VOY Season 1 DVD special feature Lost Transmissions from the Delta Quadrant, interviewed on ENT Season 1 Blu-ray special feature, In Conversation: Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, interviewed on 12 December 2012 ENT Season 4 Blu-ray special feature, "Decommissioning Enterprise – Part Four: End of an Era" (2014) Blu-ray special feature The Unknown Possibilities of Existence: Making "All Good Things" () Star Trek awards For his work on Star Trek Braga received the following awards and nominations in the various writing categories. Emmy Award Braga received the following Emmy Award nomination in the category "Outstanding Drama Series": for , shared with Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor, David Livingston, Peter Lauritson, Merri D. Howard, Wendy Neuss, and Ron D. Moore Hugo Awards Braga received the following Hugo Award and nominations in the category Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo Award for the episode , shared with Winrich Kolbe and Ron D. Moore 1995 Hugo Award nomination for , shared with David Carson, Rick Berman, and Ron D. Moore Hugo Award nomination for , shared with Jonathan Frakes, Rick Berman, and Ron D. Moore Hugo Award nomination for the episode , shared with David Straiton, and Rick Berman 2003 Hugo Award nomination for the episode , shared with James Contner, Chris Black, Rick Berman, and Dan O'Shannon Saturn Award Braga received the following Saturn Award nomination in the category Best Writer for the episode "All Good Things...", shared with Ron D. Moore Universe Reader's Choice Award Braga received the following Universe Reader's Choice Award in the category Best Writing for a Genre Motion Picture for Star Trek Generations, shared with Ron D. 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1845	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Paramount Pictures	Paramount Pictures is the film production and distribution company that currently holds the license to produce the Star Trek feature films, and had formerly controlled the rights in full to not only the Star Trek movie franchise, but that of the television franchise as well until . Paramount is currently owned by the media conglomerate Paramount Global which is, in turn, controlled by National Amusements. Jim Gianopulos, a veteran of the entertainment industry, is the current CEO and chairman. He succeeded the late Brad Grey, who held the position for twelve years between 2005 and 2017. It had been Grey's stated intention to reestablish Paramount as a leading media company by being willing to take risks and lure creative talent to the company. As part of this initiative, he lured Gail Berman, one of the original producers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, into the corporate offices to take on the role of President. Beginning in 1931, Paramount Pictures owned and operated the in Oakland, California where it held many premieres for its films. Since 1986, the theater has been owned and operated as a non-profit organization by the city. Paramount produced and distributed all Star Trek productions from () through () where the television shows were concerned, and from () through () in regard to the feature movies. Through purchase the studio also owned the [[TOS Season 1\|Original Series' first season]] and its two preceding pilot episodes, whereas it had also licensed the production to Filmation in , though retaining ownership. History with Star Trek Paramount formally acquired the Star Trek franchise on when Lucille Ball's Desilu Studios, the company that produced TOS (as it was later dubbed, but then still officially known as simply Star Trek), was purchased for seventeen million dollars by Gulf+Western, Paramount's then owner. Paramount Pictures had previously operated its own rather insignificant television production department and Desilu was incorporated into it to form Paramount Television, placing the Star Trek television series under its aegis. As a result of Gulf+Western's purchase of Desilu, it also acquired three other Desilu television shows that were in production at the time. Mission: Impossible, , and The Lucy Show were considered hugely successful at that time and were the prime motivations for the purchase of Desilu. Star Trek and its middling television ratings were essentially thrown into the deal as an afterthought. The company came under the ownership of the conglomerate, when that company took over the remnants of Gulf+Western in . Acquiring The Original Series Viewed as a commercial disappointment at the time, Gulf+Western initially wanted to exclude Star Trek from its purchase of Desilu. Desilu executive Herb Solow later stated, "Paramount didn't want Star Trek, because it was losing too much money each week and didn't have enough episodes to syndicate successfully. That was a wise business decision at the time." Nonetheless, Lucille Ball insisted on selling her company as an intact entity – excepting her own hugely popular Here's Lucy show – which forced a reluctant Paramount to also accept the legal and financial liabilities for the unwanted property. (NBC: America's Network, p. 218) One week after the acquisition and alarmed by his financial audits, Gulf+Western founder, co-owner, president, and driving force behind the acquisition, Charles Bluhdorn, called one of Desilu's former negotiators named Ed Holly, utterly aghast. Holly recalled, "Just a week or so after the merger, when Bluhdorn had started seeing the cost figures, he called me in the middle of the night. All I heard was 'What did you sell me? I'm going to the poorhouse!' I said, 'Charlie, you must be looking at Star Trek and Mission: Impossible. Those shows are costing almost to the dollar what our projections showed they would cost. You and your people made the judgment that that was all right." (Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, 1994, pp. 297-298) Although he had been known as a formidable business tycoon, Bluhdorn's exchange with Holly betrayed that he and his financial subordinates did not have a thorough understanding of the motion picture and television business. Bluhdorn had only become a "Hollywood Mogul" less than a year earlier when he had bought Paramount Pictures on 19 October 1966 and was not, in the least, reassured by Holly's assurances. Bluhdorn decided to visit the set of Star Trek in person to witness a day of production for himself and found it to be an underwhelming experience. What he saw on that day made him highly skeptical but, even though it was his prerogative as the temporary chairman of the board of Paramount Pictures, he stopped short of actually ordaining the series' cancellation. Instead, Bluhdorn had a small army of Paramount and NBC financial executives and accountants descend on Star Trek to go through the finances of the production with a fine tooth comb. Inevitably, this resulted in more severe budget cuts and creative meddling from these businessmen. This interference eventually turned out to be the impetus for the subsequent departure of the driving forces behind the series which included Solow, Gene Roddenberry, and, eventually, Robert Justman. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, 1997, pp. 360-et al.) These defections only served to reinforce the decision to cancel Star Trek as soon as possible but fan letter-writing campaigns convinced NBC to renew the series twice. Despite NBC's and Gulf+Western's financial experts' grave concerns about Star Treks high production costs, the final decision to cancel the show was not made by television network NBC until the end of the series' third season, reportedly leaving the entire production at US$4.7 million in debt. (Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry, p. 399) Due to its original contractual obligations, net profits (non-existent at the time) were to be shared between the studio (26⅔%), Roddenberry's production company Norway Corporation (26⅔%), performer William Shatner (20%), and NBC (26⅔%). Due to its losses, Paramount offered Roddenberry the opportunity to obtain the Star Trek property for US$100,000-$150,000 in 1970. However, Roddenberry was unable to raise this sum on his own so the ownership of the property remained with Paramount. This turned out to be extremely fortuitous for the studio, and as Solow put it, "History would show that Gulf & Western's purchase of Star Trek alone, the low-rated, money-losing second-year series on NBC, would become one of the most spectacular business moves in entertainment history." (NBC: America's Network, p. 220) Syndicating The Original Series and resurgence Yet, very shortly after the studio had made Roddenberry the offer, Paramount found that its hot potato was quickly turning into a hot property due to its huge and unexpected success in syndication in the early 1970s. In effect, the very first time Paramount sold syndication rights was already in 1969 while the third season was still being aired in its original run on NBC. The buyer, Kaiser Broadcasting (which operated a small chain of local television stations along the West and East Coast), immediately started to broadcast Star Trek after NBC had canceled the series on a daily basis and, much to their delight, observed a steep rise in viewership and ratings, the latter identified in Star Trek lore as the reason why the Original Series was canceled by NBC in the first place. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, 1997, pp. 417-418) The phenomenon was not lost on other local television stations, and thus the spectacular resurgence of Star Trek in syndication started. It was around that time that Paramount discovered that Roddenberry was selling Star Trek merchandise through Lincoln Enterprises, which was formally an illegal endeavor, as he simply did not own the brand. Yet, both parties struck a deal, which allowed Roddenberry to continue in return of a percentage of the sales, as Paramount also started to realize that their Star Trek property was not a bad one to have after all. Not yet having a well oiled Star Trek marketing machine of their own, Lincoln Enterprises suited the needs of the studio well in raising the awareness of their increasingly profitable Star Trek brand. By early 1987, when a new television series, , went into pre-production, Variety magazine of 2 December 1991 was able to report that the Original Series had by then netted the studio already over US$1 million dollar per episode in domestic syndication fees alone, thus excluding the by then substantial sales revenues abroad, as well as those stemming from home media format, and affiliated merchandise sales. Considering the average production cost of US$190,000 per episode, this turned out to be a more than healthy return on investment, especially since Paramount had not borne the costs of the normally most expensive first season of a production that was essentially thrown into the deal. Any Desilu book losses in regard to the Star Trek production would have been accounted for in the purchase price paid by Paramount. Susan Sackett, Roddenberry's personal assistant, had dryly noted that it was NBC which had borne most (but not all) of the production costs (also explaining why there had been NBC financial experts present in the first place at the due diligence audit back in 1967), not Paramount. (, issue 43, p. 14) Now a less pleasant side of doing business in Hollywood came to the fore in full force, as it became concurrently known that the studio had shortchanged at least one of its other stakeholders, Roddenberry, who was still legally entitled a full one third of the net profits (in exchange for surrendering any and all other legal title to the series, save for his "Created By" credit, according to James Van Hise). Roddenberry was by 1981 perpetually led to believe by the studio that the Original Series was still deeply in the red by as much as US$1 million – or US$500,000 by 1982, again according to Van Hise (The Man Who Created Star Trek: Gene Roddenberry, p. 58) – as supposedly "proven" by doctored account statements handed over to him. Roddenberry instructed his attorney, Leonard Maizlish, to start legal proceedings in order to be given access to Paramount's records, seemingly to no avail initially. "The greatest science fiction in show biz is in the accounting", Roddenberry declared chagrined, referring to the infamous "Hollywood accounting" industry phenomenon. (, issue 43, p. 14) Roddenberry had reasons to be suspicious, as it seemed unlikely that the by 1987 reported net syndication profit of US$78 million dollar was only realized in the intervening six years. While it was at the time unknown what the outcome of the legal proceedings would be, it should be noted that it was around this time that Roddenberry entered into his below-mentioned financially advantageous movie deal with the studio. It was conceivable that Roddenberry and the studio settled their Original Series accounts on that occasion, as Roddenberry became a wealthy man from then on. That this was indeed the case came to light in 1994 when it was revealed that the studio disbursed US$5.3 million in profit distribution to Roddenberry between June 1984 and July 1987. Launching the Star Trek movie franchise As if to underscore Roddenberry's suspicions, former Original Series writer D.C. Fontana was already able to report in the fanzine Star-Borne of that, "Paramount… [is] enormously impressed by the quantity (and quality) of fan mail they continue to receive. The possibility seems to be slowly developing of a Star Trek feature movie for theatrical release, aimed at becoming the new Star Trek television pilot… on the network front, NBC still expresses great interest in doing Star Trek in some form. Both NBC and Paramount continue to receive a great deal of mail and have had to assign secretaries for the sole job of answering it." NBC's complete turnaround not only stemmed from the spectacular resurgence of the Original Series in syndication, but also from its own accounting department. Shortly before Fontana's report, NBC had replaced its old Nielsen rating system, purportedly the results from which having been the primary reason for the cancellation of the series, with a new and updated one. When they ran the original Original Series figures through their new system they found out much to their surprise that it had not only reached full penetration into their most coveted target audience, the male population between 18 and 45, but also that the series had been one of the most successful series the network had ever aired. The sickening realization hit upon the dismayed network executives that they had slaughtered the goose that laid the golden eggs, something that every Star Trek fan at the time could have told them. Hurriedly approaching Roddenberry to see if the series could be revitalized, it turned out to be unfeasible, as Paramount had only a few months earlier cleared out their warehouses from the vast majority of the remaining Star Trek production assets, those either having been scrapped, given away, or simply stolen. Recreating them, calculated at US$750,000, was deemed far too cost prohibitive. It did however, lead to NBC ordering the creation of Star Trek: The Animated Series. (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, pp. 51-52) And indeed, the phenomenon was not lost on Bluhdorn himself, as he had by 1974 completely reversed his stance from the one he had back in 1967, and had by now become enamored with Star Trek due to its huge and unexpected success in syndication – and the recent addition of the Animated Series, which, while not produced by the studio, was legally Paramount property nevertheless, adding an additional Star Trek revenue stream – embracing the property as something of a pet project. It was therefore, after he had been presented by a subordinate, Paramount's then chief financial officer Arthur Barron, with the idea of turning Star Trek into a movie, that he gave Barry Diller, freshly appointed in October 1974 as the new studio head, as one of his consignments, to turn the idea into a project. Not particularly interested in doing Star Trek in any format whatsoever, but, by any standard, a formidable executive himself, Diller nevertheless did not want to repeat the mistake his immediate predecessor Frank Yablans made by antagonizing his new boss and his newfound infatuation with Star Trek and set to work. (The Keys to the Kingdom, Chapter 5) As it turned out, Roddenberry had already approached the studio with a pitch for a Star Trek movie one year previously. Then Paramount President, Frank Yablans, was very interested, but due to Roddenberry's obtuseness at the negotiation table, the proposition fell through. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, 1997, pp 420-421) Despite the failure of the negotiations, Yablans' interest in producing high-tech science fiction was piqued nevertheless and to this end he facilitated and arranged the funding for the establishment of two Paramount visual effects subsidiaries, Douglas Trumbull's Future General Corporation (FGC) and Carey Melcher's Magicam, Inc, a very short time thereafter. Unfortunately, his immediate successors, Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, had zero affinity with science fiction and none whatsoever with visual effects in particular, and tried to shut down FGC immediately upon their ascent, which came back to haunt the production later on. Yablans however, had failed to inform his boss of Roddenberry's prior overtures, and Bluhdorn perceived this as part of Yablans' overall lack of respect for him, which shortly thereafter led to his downfall. Barron, incidentally, had approached Bluhdorn on his own accord. (The Keys to the Kingdom, Chapter 5) Still, getting Star Trek off the ground again as a new live action production turned out to be not as straightforward as it originally sounded, and for three years the project stubbornly refused to come into fruition. However, when Diller thought up a fourth television network for the company, Paramount Television Services, officially announced on , he intended Star Trek to serve as its flagship as a new television series, Star Trek: Phase II (or Star Trek II as its official title was to be). Fully endorsed by Bluhdorn, who sensed an even more profitable repeat performance of the property, actual production of a new live-action production was finally started the same month. His initial enthusiasm notwithstanding, Bluhdorn soon found out that America was not yet ready for a fourth television network, informed as such by then Vice President of Research Mel Harris, as advertiser's interest did not materialize and he already pulled the plug on the network project near the end of July. Still, he allowed the production of Star Trek to continue, which was, aside from his own personal interest, in no small part due to the desire not to lose development costs already sunk in all previous revitalization attempts. Star Trek: Phase II eventually morphed into , which was officially announced by the studio on to the public at Paramount Pictures in the largest press conference held since 's announcement of his 1923 silent movie, . (The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, pp. 50-51). Even set initially at an (in hindsight) unrealistic original budget of US$15 million dollar, Paramount took a huge gamble with The Motion Picture as it was the most complex, ambitious, and expensive movie project the studio had ever embarked upon in its history, Cecil B. DeMille's (inflation adjusted) 1956 remake of his own 1923 silent movie classic The Ten Commandments being the sole exception. Having only just recently reversed the fortunes of the studio, after nearly a two decades long slump, all the studio's biggest box office successes of the mid-1970s, John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever and Grease and Mario Puzo's The Godfather, were in comparison "low-budget" productions, none of them exceeding a production budget of US$6 million dollar (the substantial profits made from these were mainly used as debt relief and repairing the financial position of the studio). Only in the mid-to-late 1980s did production budgets start to habitually balloon exponentially, first in double digits, and subsequently into the triple digits. Partly due to the studio's hitherto utter lack of experience with a technically complex and visual effects heavy productions of this magnitude, the production of The Motion Picture proved to be exceptionally difficult, troublesome, frustrating, and, for those times, extremely costly, the latter in no small part due to the studio's own mismanagement of the visual effects production. "We didn't know what these things were, Bob Wise [remark: the movie's director] was a lovely man, but he didn't know, either," Diller conceded, though only much later. (The Keys to the Kingdom, 2000, Chapter 6) Running massively over budget as a result, Diller and his executive subordinates (close to nervous exhaustion) were bracing themselves for a financial disaster, which fortunately for them did not materialize. Immensely relieved of having dodged the financial bullet, Diller and his colleagues counted their blessings and were fully prepared to move on, entirely willing to leave Star Trek behind them. Yet, Bluhdorn was of different mind and ordered the development of sequels shortly after the premiere of The Motion Picture in early 1980. Bluhdorn personally selected Harve Bennett who would head, as executive producer, the production of the subsequent four Star Trek films, of which two, and , became particularly successful. For all intents and purposes, it was therefore Bluhdorn, who was responsible for the creation of the Star Trek movie franchise. (The Keys to the Kingdom, Chapters 5-7) For a more detailed treatise on the difficult birth of the movie franchise, please see Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Production. Gene Roddenberry, however, indeed responsible for some (but not all) production troubles, was increasingly perceived by the studio as very difficult to work with and was essentially removed by them from creative control over the movie halfway through the production. Actually, Diller had already removed him once entirely from one of the previous revitalization attempts, Star Trek: Planet of the Titans. While the studio, as far as they were concerned, had seen the very last of Roddenberry, the realization also sank in that by now, no Star Trek incarnation could ever be produced without the Roddenberry name attached to it while he was still alive due to his by now firmly established stature in the general populace's awareness as the creator of Star Trek, strongly backed up by a small, but highly vocal hardcore of the more puritanical Trekkies. Adhering to the old adagio "keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer", the studio came up with a crafty solution to the conundrum; Roddenberry was "bumped upstairs", given his own office at the studio with a handsome remuneration, and given the formal title of "Executive Consultant", which meant that directors and creative staff could ask for his opinion on the project, though with the proviso that his advice was not needed to be taken. Required by the agreement to be kept in the loop, but lost in the studio's equivalent of the "Bermuda Triangle", no one ever thereafter heeded Roddenberry's copious, but unsolicited, advice for the subsequent five movies, nor did anyone even bother to consult with him. Though for the studio perhaps a costly solution, it was far cheaper than to be bogged down by incessant lawsuits, which were sure to follow given Roddenberry's character, and dealing with the fallout from the Star Trek fan base, which was equally sure to follow, and the resulting negative publicity. Still, this did not prevent Roddenberry in the slightest from relentlessly harassing studio and production staff alike, on occasion even going as far as threatening with legal actions as Actor/Director William Shatner and Director Nicholas Meyer could attest to. The latter was bluff however, as the stipulations of his studio contract simply did not allow for them, and no legal proceedings ever materialized during this period in time. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge; From Sawdust to Stardust, pp. 240-241; Star Trek Movie Memories, pp. 99, et al.) While acknowledging this state of affairs as "speculation", an opposing view was proffered by authors Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, who have claimed in their reference book Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission (p. 3) that, "(t)he real reason for Paramount's concern about keeping Roddenberry tied to each Star Trek film was that every executive involved with the productions shared the maddening knowledge that no one had the slightest idea why Star Trek was a success… except Gene Roddenberry. Without his input, there was always the chance that the next movie wouldn't capture whatever it was that made Star Trek so enticing." While staunch Roddenberry supporters Reeves-Stevens' did have a point where the studio executives themselves were concerned, their assertion was certainly contradicted by the directors, producers and screenwriters (most notably Spock Performer/Writer/Director Leonard Nimoy, who most definitely had a thorough understanding of what made Star Trek "tick", arguably even more so than Roddenberry himself did) of the subsequent five movies, all of them, save Shatner's , highly successful and produced without any creative input from Roddenberry whatsoever, and each of them actually opposed by him in varying degrees of vehemence. Roddenberry being put out to pasture, it effectively was the Nimoy-Bennett-Meyer triumvirate that became the keeper of the Star Trek films flame in the decade following The Motion Picture. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, pp. 39-42) Creating an overall Star Trek franchise Until 1979, and reflecting the studio's general attitude towards Star Trek, merchandising and licensing Star Trek remained a rather passive and haphazard affair; interested parties had to approach the Paramount Publicity Department with proposals, which the department's involvement somewhat limited to either agreeing to them or not, and drawing up contracts. Having had personal dealings with the department, author Stephen Edward Poe has commented in later years, "Desilu [and its successor] treated the whole idea of Star Trek licensing and merchandising with immense disdain. It was as if studio executives felt greatly annoyed at having to even discuss the subject at all (…) – some sort of corporate aberration – and licensed merchandise emerged only slowly and with, apparently, great reluctance." (A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager, pp. 45-46) Emergence Yet, for all the troubles The Motion Picture represented for the studio as far as the production itself was concerned, it also represented the birth of the modern moneymaking property the studio was to eventually refer to as "The Franchise". Responsible for this was Vice-President of Marketing and Licensing, Dawn Steel, who was charged with coming up with an additional revenue stream after the February 1979 visual effects crisis, which had left the Motion Picture production in a critical situation, as there was no more money left to complete the movie. She did so by organizing a vigorous merchandising and licensing fund drive, which climaxed in a highly imaginative presentation, held in the largest theater on the Paramount lot. A resounding success, the presentation was met with rambunctious enthusiasm by the attending prospective licensee companies. "It was the most unbelievable party Paramount ever had", attending studio producer, Brian Grazer, remembered, to which then novice studio producer Jerry Bruckheimer has admiringly added, "She went to conventions and got every toy-maker, anyone who made T-shirts and key chains and raised every nickel she could. She shook the trees. There hasn't been that energy vortex in merchandise since she left.". Numerous companies signed up, including for the times unusual ones, such as food industry corporations like Coca-Cola and McDonald's. The presentation marked the first time for Paramount that licensing revenues were generated before a production had premiered. The successful fund drive made Steel's name in the motion picture industry, and a thoroughly impressed Paramount CEO Michael Eisner, who was (in)famous for not being easily impressed, promoted her the next day to vice-president of productions in features, getting her off to a stellar industry career. She had been working in the licensing department for less than six months. (New York Magazine, 29 May 1989, p. 45; 6 September 1993, p. 40; Star Trek: The Complete Unauthorized History, pp. 108-109) Hollywood studios had, and to this day, have obviously been exceptionally loath to divulge particulars surrounding their revenue streams stemming from licensing and merchandising efforts, Star Trek not excepted. However, Steel, due to the unexpected and exceptional success of her 1979 fund drive, had understandably been somewhat more loose-lipped, unable to resist some bragging at the time. Revealing in January 1980 that General Mills featured Star Trek artwork on 37 million of their cereal boxes, McDonald's had spent US$20 million dollar on TV adds to promote fifty million Star Trek themed Happy Meals, and Bally had by that time already totaled up a sale of US$19.5 million of US$1.795 apiece Star Trek themed pinball machines, alone, she divulged that by that time she expected that at the most conservative estimations, licensed Star Trek related merchandise would at least amount to US$250 million, with the possibility of reaching double that. "Licensed children's merchandise is the last category to suffer in a recession: Dad will give up his suits, but his kids will still get toys and clothes", she clarified, adding, "Our fee ranges from one to eleven percent, depending on the product." This statement indicated that the studio was to receive at the very least US$2.5 million, or at the very most US$55 million in licensing and merchandising revenues, though it was unlikely that the upper estimate was ever met due to the mixed reception of the movie and the somewhat disappointing sales of related merchandise. (Playboy magazine, January 1980, p. 310) Print material franchise Concurrently, parent company Gulf+Western, through Bluhdorn, had commissioned the development of an accompanying, The Motion Picture-themed, book line through subsidiary Pocket Books and its imprints, which it had acquired in 1975 (and therefore a sister company of Paramount Pictures), and from here on end merchandising and licensing became an integral part of a proactive overall marketing strategy (considerably hammered out by Frank Mancuso, Sr., who was appointed as the department's president after Steel had left), in the creation of a sustained Star Trek product line. In doing so, the franchise rescinded the license for Star Trek book titles other publishers held up until that point in time, Ballantine Books having been been the most notable one. For over two-and-a-half decades Pocket Books was the only publisher of official Star Trek-related book titles, specifically novels, reference works, and calendars, the latter having also been the purview of Ballantine Books before 1979. Other print materials, most notably comics, were licensed out to other publishers. For obvious, commercial reasons, the franchise requires licensed writers to write their real-world production reference works and articles for licensed magazines in an upbeat, somewhat celebratory and slightly promotional manner, and to shy away from any and all critical notes, on the franchise itself in particular, essentially exercising censorship. It was for this reasons that Pocket Books declined publishing the book Return to Tomorrow - The Filming of Star Trek: The Motion Picture for example (in which the dubious role of Paramount itself was highlighted, especially in regard to VFX company Robert Abel & Associates), its then chief editor deeming the copy too "non-" to the franchise's taste. Nevertheless, aside from actual illegal publications, the franchise was unable to curtail the prolific publications of, often more critical, unlicensed (therefore not rarely deemed "illegal" and/or undesirable from the franchise's point-of-view) but legal reference works – those of Schuster & Schuster and (auto)biographies in particular, and eventually including Return to Tomorrow as well – , or any article written by journalists for otherwise unaffiliated magazines for that matter, as these were published making the fullest use of the "works of journalistic/academic nature" exemption clauses in copyright laws, though this meant these publications could not legally feature any Star Trek copyrighted imagery. As of 2002, the franchise has opted not to publish reference works – both in-universe as well as real-world – themselves anymore, but rather to license them out to mostly non-affiliated publishers. As far as specialized Star Trek magazines were concerned, the franchise has until recently opted to farm out licenses to outside publishers. The very first such known publisher was Starlog Press, acquiring the license to carry the denomination "official" in the title of their "upbeat" 1980s-1990s spin-off official movie magazine series, from the 1982 Wrath of Khan magazine onward. Starlog was chosen as its (over which the franchise had no editorial control due to the "works of journalistic nature" exemption clause) founding editors were unadulterated "Trekkies", profusely reporting on Star Trek, even though interviews were featured with former Star Trek performers and production staffers – predominantly from the Original Series and The Motion Picture-era – who, on occasion, vented opinions, the franchise had preferred not to see in print, much of which actually turning up as edited copy in the Schuster & Schuster publications. Nevertheless, aside from the movie specials, it netted Starlog Press the right to publish the recurrent, subsequent "official" The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager magazine series from which any and all critical observations were omitted. There was however, a definite upside of having been able to carry the "official" moniker in title of the spin-off publications; in return of surrendering some of its editorial freedoms as well as magazine revenues, Starlog writers and journalists were given uninhibited access to the sound stages, performers, production staffers, and studio archives – therefore becoming notable for the publication's reproduction of production material, rarely seen afterwards – enabling these publications to report on the inside story of any Star Trek production in detail first, at a time when Star Trek frenzy was rapidly reaching a peak. Pursuant to the 1982 Starlog Press license, the franchise has considerably tightened its (editorial) grip on magazine publications it has licensed to carry the moniker "official" in their (sub-)titles. These included, most notably, (from 1995 onward and being the original 1979 "official" fanclub magazine), (partially absorbing the function Communicator had upon its default in 2005), and , the US off-shoot of the equally "official" Star Trek Fact Files and its international variants. The latter, which ran from 1999 till 2003, was presented as a higher-quality (attempting to come across as less fan club like and less heavy on merchandise peddling), glossy, lifestyle like magazine, though a five percent page count in each issue served as an impromptu franchise message board as well as merchandise product placements, disguised as articles, whereas an additional ten percent still consisted of actual merchandise advertisements. A more recent "official" release in this regard is the British Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection partwork publication and its derivatives, like Starlog and The Magazine before them lacking any and all critical observations. In 2002, the print franchise took it up a notch when it reconsidered the status of reference works written from an in-universe point of view. Henceforth only the , the , and the 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (all of which co-written by Mike Okuda) were considered by the franchise as the sole primary reference sources for all subsequent in-universe reference works; as such these three works were in essence elevated to the status of "quasi-canon". Licensed works of this kind released afterwards by outside publishers after Pocket Books was removed from the franchise mix around 2008 – such as the later GE Fabbri (publisher of Fact Files), Haynes Publishing, and Eaglemoss Collections (publisher of The Official Starships Collection) Star Trek publications – are required to be in concordance with the information contained within these three works, with the Okuda author couple not rarely assigned to these later publications as "technical consultants" to ensure compliance. As a consequence, all previously fully licensed/endorsed/authorized in-universe reference works were no longer considered official references – including such fan favorites as, most notably, Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual as well as Shane Johnson's Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise and Worlds of the Federation. Labeled "unofficial", these works were de facto debunked and demoted by the franchise to the apocryphal status of novels, comics, non-production art (such as Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendars), and (computer) games. It is in this respect that "official", when used in a title, has gained an additional meaning, as it presently also signifies a work in compliance with canon, besides being a licensed work. () Home video format franchise An important cornerstone for the overall franchise became the home video formats franchise. In 1971 Paramount Pictures partnered up with industry competitor Universal Studios when they, as equal partners, established Cinema International Corporation (CIC) in 1971 (as of 1981: United International Pictures – UIP – ) as a joint venture, and responsible for the distribution of feature films outside the US, which included all of the later Star Trek films. This action was necessitated partly for cost-cutting reasons, partly for antitrust rules, specifically aimed to break the hold individual studios hitherto had on the entirety of the industry, otherwise known as the traditional "" (see also Desilu Studios in this regard). With the advent of the VHS and Betamax video tape home video formats, a subsidiary division, CIC Video, was established two years later, responsible for the distribution of this home video format – due to the very high retail prices, predominantly through the rental outlet circuit initially – including all the Star Trek productions released in this format. It was again The Motion Picture that turned out to be the primary agent for Star Trek to make its entrance in the home media market as currently understood (meaning visual formats – there had been a few audio only formats previously, such as the 1976 Inside Star Trek LP). While it was a foregone conclusion that the film itself was to be released on the new videotape formats, Paramount Home Video (established in 1976, later known as Paramount Home Entertainment) also made use of the opportunity to release ten selected episodes of The Original Series, in five volumes of two episodes each, as part of their "Television Classics" collection in the United States as appetizers for the later in October released movie tapes, priced at US$79.95 at the time of their release. Released in early 1980, these five titles are as such, together with the later released movie tapes, the earliest known Star Trek home video format releases, where there had been none previously, that is, officially at least. Having the year previously hammered out a deal with photo developer/video rental outlet , one of the very first such rental companies, it were these tapes that were the first Star Trek titles to turn up in the rental circuit from mid-to-late 1980 onward. Ironically, it was not CIC Video that became responsible for the distribution of the first known Star Trek home video format title outside the US/Canada, but rather the obscure British distributor Mountain Video, when it, possibly unlicensed, released in the same year the one episode only tape of – not included on any of the five original releases in the US – in both tape variants on the UK market, though, again for the high retail price, the majority of them ended up in the rental circuit. From the mid-1980s onward though, CIC Video took over the distribution, not only for the UK alone, but for the entirety of mainland Europe as well. It was Paramount however, who revolutionized the way these home video formats were marketed. Responsible for this was the aforementioned Mel Harris, by now President of Paramount Home Video, who helped to create the home video market by convincing Paramount to sell low-priced videos directly to the public to persuade customers to purchase videos rather than simply renting them. At the time, videos for sale were priced at around US$60-$80 or more; Harris accurately predicted that decreasing the price would create a market for videocassette purchases. Actually, the video tapes for The Wrath of Khan were the first ones to be offered in 1982 for a sharply reduced price of US$39.95, unheard of at the time, and sending shock waves through industry and retail stores alike – though amusingly, Paramount again generated shock waves eight years later, when it offered tapes of the movie The Hunt for Red October for sale at US$99.99, incredibly high by that time. (The Encyclopedia of Television, Cable, and Video, 2012, p. 411) His policies helped immensely to make the by him later initiated Star Trek: The Next Generation a resounding success, aside from tapping into yet another revenue source for the Original Series and movies produced up until then. CIC Video as a joint venture was dissolved in 1999 (corresponding with the demise of the video tape in favor of such later home video formats as the LaserDisc, VCD, DVD, and later still, the Blu-ray Disc) when Paramount reasserted full control over the release of their home video formats through their own division, Paramount Home Entertainment. Yet, after 2006 Paramount had to leave the home video format distribution of the television properties, most specifically the remastered versions of The Next Generation and Enterprise, to CBS Home Entertainment, as it no longer owns the franchise, though they are still entitled to do so for the movie properties – albeit in mandated conjuncture with CBS, the latter thereby asserting its ownership of the franchise. The theatrical distribution arm, UIP, is, as of 2016, still in operation and still equally shared by Paramount and Universal. Yet, while it became one of the most important cornerstones of the overall franchise, it has also become in recent decades somewhat a bone of contention with fans and customers of home video formats alike, due to the franchise's predilection to release numerous versions of the productions, each somewhat different from the other, leaving "double-dipping" (term used by them for incessantly re-buying alternate versions) fans increasingly feeling alienated from, and "exploited" by the franchise, as evidenced by a myriad of angry customer reviews on Amazon.com or . For example, the one episode per Betamax/VHS video tape format, as released from the mid-1980s through the early-2000s and adhered to for all Star Trek television series with the exception of Enterprise, has irked American customers to no end, especially since the format was, excepting a handful of early 1980s British tapes, not utilized in overseas markets, which were served with (at least) two episodes per tape releases. Something similar ensued with the very first Star Trek television series DVD releases, those of the Original Series; starting in August 1999, American customers were first offered the series on "bare-bone" two episodes per disc releases, shortly before season box sets – with, adding insult to injury, four episodes per disc and beefed out with special features – were made available to them. Overseas customers were on this occasion spared the double-dip format, as it were the season box sets that were offered them right from the bat, albeit at a later point in time. Incidentally, Enterprise was not released in the US on VHS but directly on DVD. However, this time around, Europeans were given the double-dip treatment, as they were first offered the series on VHS right before the DVD box set releases. Though certainly not the only one – as Disney and Universal were among those who had solid reputations in this regard as well – it was Paramount in particular that became notorious for these kind of practices, and which were by all means not limited to Star Trek alone. While one of the very first, the Original Series has concurrently the dubious distinction of becoming one of the very few, if not only one, television series to be released on DVD in this manner, as all other Hollywood studios, conceivably forewarned by the bad example Paramount had set, decided right from the start to release their television properties on a per season basis in the new DVD home video format. 20th Century Fox became the pioneering one with their The X-Files DVD box set releases, which, complete with all the accouterments of such releases, started its release run in May 2000, when Paramount's bare-bone Star Trek editions were still in the midst of their release run; the contrast between the two release formats could not possibly have been any starker and was certainly on customers at the time. In Paramount's defense however, it should be noted that, as an "", unintended errors in judgment regarding the initial release formats could be expected. Particularly loathed are the so-called "retailer exclusive" formats. The format entailed that preferred retailers, most notably the chain store Best Buy, would receive versions that contained special features not included on the regular releases. An early notable instance where Paramount had employed the practice was on the occasion of their first movie releases on DVD, starting in 1998 with First Contact. Regular customers could only buy the basic "vanilla" version of the movies, meaning only the movie itself with the theatrical trailer as single "extra", whereas Best Buy customers, for the same price, received an additional disc with the special features which were not available in any manner anywhere else; it infuriated fans, to put it mildly. At the time several scrupulous Best Buy patrons bought these releases in bulk and subsequently offered the special feature discs up at premium prices on eBay, the market site that was at the time rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned with. The perceived injustice was only redressed with the 2001-2005 "Special Edition" releases, though it meant yet another round of double-dipping. While the franchise could traditionally afford to dismiss fan/costumer concerns in these regards as entirely irrelevant – particularly before the advent of the internet age, when customers for the most part remained blissfully (from the franchise's point of view that is) unaware of the varying treatments, euphemistically called "market discrimination" in business economics – criticism of the retailer exclusive format in particular, started to swell considerably during 2012, precisely because of the internet. It became an issue of note with the releases of the Next Generation and Enterprise Blu-ray home video formats. But the situation truly came to a head during the "Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray VAM controversy", which, officially at least, marked the first time that the franchise actually buckled under fan/customer pressure, rectifying their "wrongdoings" by releasing the 2014 Star Trek: The Compendium Blu-ray set, and offering a for US residents only (a discrimination – not the first time – which, somewhat incomprehensibly, implies that the franchise still considers foreign markets as sideshows), who had previously purchased Star Trek or Into Darkness on Blu-ray. Exhibit and attraction franchise From the early 1990s onward, the franchise has, through subsidiaries and conglomerate sister companies of Paramount (such as Paramount Production/Show Services, Paramount Parks Entertainment or CBS Consumer Products itself), branched out in Star Trek-themed commercial public side-activities in the form of exhibitions and attractions. However, it was somewhat ironic that neither phenomenon was actually started by the franchise itself; it was only after the phenomenal successes of the 1988-1996 Star Trek Adventure attraction of distribution partner Universal Studios (though fully licensed by Paramount) and the 1992-1994 Star Trek Smithsonian Exhibit by the Smithsonian Institution (though supported by the studio), that the franchise, from 1993 onward and deeming them commercially viable, took over full control over either, starting with the 1993 Star Trek World Tour for exhibitions, and the 1998 Star Trek: The Experience for attractions. Becoming "The Franchise" By the time the television series went into production, the studio's stance and attitude towards Star Trek had radically changed from the one it had back in 1967. Studio Executive Brandon Tartikoff had already stated by the time The Next Generation went into its fifth season, "When you look at the books, you saw that Star Trek: The Next Generation was a twenty-five-million-dollar-goody, every year. That's the profit it would generate for Paramount." (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 155) Stephen Poe observed two years later for himself how much the studio's stance and attitude had changed, when he resided at the studio on an extended stay in order to chronicle the genesis of the fourth live action Star Trek series, Voyager. Poe noticed that studio employees, executives included, were almost unanimously and reverently referring to their Star Trek property as "The Franchise" due to its reliable and consistent revenue stream, having been from the mid-1980s through the 1990s Paramount's most profitable property, much to the envy of industry competitors. (A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager, pp. 50-51) Reporter Mark A. Altman disclosed that the entire franchise – which is otherwise loath to report the other revenue streams themselves, apart from the box office takes – had already passed the US$1 billion mark in total studio revenues by 1993 (Cinefantastique, Vol 24 #3/4, p. 16), which was upped to US$2 billion gross in Entertainment Weeklys Special Star Trek Issue of 18 January 1995. In his 1998 book A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager (p. 55), Stephen Poe cited a Los Angeles Times article, that claimed nearly US$2 billion franchise revenues in retail sales alone. While the gross box office takes of the Star Trek franchise, US$1.9 billion as of 2015, are relatively well known, the gross revenues from the other franchise elements remain shrouded in mystery (the 1995 Entertainment Weekly US$2 billion statement, implied a rough fifty-fifty split at that time). In December 1998 the Los Angeles Times reported a US$3.5 billion aggregate consumer merchandise turnover, which did not include the box office takes and their derivative home media formats sales, constituting a considerable upward adjustment from the US$1.3 billion franchise total gross they reported four years earlier in May 1994. Richard Arnold has later on reported a US$10 billion total turnover in July 2016, which like the 1994 Los Angeles Times figure, constituted a franchise total up until then, thus also including box office takes and home media format sales, and thus implying a roughly 80/20 split between all merchandise and box office takes – was just released at the time of Arnold's report, its total box office take therefore not yet known. Despite the reluctance of the franchise to divulge more detailed figures itself, but with revenues undoubtedly running in the billions over the decades, Star Trek has become one of the most successful media franchises in history. Yet, it is the financial success of the younger Star Wars franchise, a franchise rival right from the start, and sporting far fewer movie or television productions, that is truly staggering, dwarfing that of Star Trek. (see: main article) Viacom/CBS split and reunification A somewhat ambiguous situation arose in late 2005, when the original holding corporation was split up into two independent corporations (although both corporations were owned by the same company, National Amusements, meaning the franchise was still owned by one company), the television corporation CBS Corporation (which constituted the former Viacom) and a motion picture corporation, which, a bit confusingly perhaps, was also called and of which Paramount Pictures was now a part. The split was formalized in January 2006. CBS licensed the right to produce Star Trek films to Paramount Pictures, but the newly-formed successor of the Paramount Marketing and Licensing Department, CBS Consumer Products, remained the sole entity responsible for the marketing and licensing of the entire Star Trek product line for both the television as well as the movie properties, instead of farming out the latter to Paramount's own division, Paramount Licensing, Inc. However, this confusing division ended in 2019, when the new Viacom and CBS corporations were again merged into a new conglomerate, originally called ViacomCBS. With the companies reunited, the Star Trek franchise was also brought under one roof; although television production remained with CBS Studios, that department was once again a corporate sibling of Paramount Pictures. In , ViacomCBS renamed itself Paramount Global, taking the name of the movie studio for the entire conglomerate. Relaunching the Star Trek television franchise The continuing success of the syndicated Original Series, now augmented with three successful theatrical movies (even The Motion Picture turned out to be far more profitable than the studio initially led to believe – see: Star Trek films: Performance summary) and with a fourth movie and the 20th anniversary of the franchise coming up, enticed now Paramount Television Group President Mel Harris to decide that it would be an opportune time to launch a brand new Star Trek television series, especially since the fourth movie, The Voyage Home, soon proved to be exceptionally successful. To this end he instructed in mid-summer 1986 his subordinate, Paramount Network Television President John S. Pike, to develop what was to become The Next Generation. Initially, the studio wanted to proceed without Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, which was, aside from his notorious eccentricities, partly due to his failing health. Nevertheless Pike, heeding his movie predecessor's considerations, decided to bring him in on 12 September 1986, this time in an active executive producer role. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 7) Unfortunately, Roddenberry's eccentricities, aggravated by ill health and his notorious attorney Leonard Maizlish, soon reasserted themselves yet again, turning the production of the first two seasons of the new series into a repeat performance of what had happened during the production of Star Trek: Phase II - The Motion Picture. In an ironic repetition of what Herbert Solow had to go through twenty-two years earlier, Pike had a tough time selling the series to the networks, as interest in science fiction for television was at an all time low at the time (after The Next Generation started its run, it was for years the only new science fiction series being aired). Most ironically, it was future Paramount President Brandon Tartikoff who declined to buy the series for NBC, which he headed at the time; in 1965 NBC had bought The Original Series. Pike was down to his last option, Fox Broadcasting Company (which, again ironically, was established by Barry Diller, now succeeding where he had failed for Paramount in 1977 in establishing a fourth television network for which Star Trek: Phase II was slated to serve as flagship), finding it interested, but only wanting to commit to a half season of thirteen episodes at an offer that was nowhere near enough to cover the projected budget of US$1.2 million per episode for a full season. For the briefest of times it appeared that the new Star Trek television series had died before it even had been born, when Pike was approached by his colleague, Paramount Domestic Television President Lucie Salhany. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) Salhany convinced Pike to produce the new series for direct syndication, an entirely novel idea at the time, assuring him she could sell a full season of twenty-six episodes. Taking her cue from the syndication history of the Original Series, Salhany reasoned that even if the new series did not turn in a profit in first syndication run, the studio should still take its losses on this occasion, as subsequent runs would, not to mention the future revenues from associated sales, such as merchandise, home media formats (especially appealing to Harris, considering his prior involvement with these), foreign sales, and the like. Even more novel was Salhany's idea to offer the first syndication run of The Next Generation for free, in exchange for control over the seven-minute advertisement blocks. In order to manage financial risk, the studio green-lit a half season run of thirteen episodes packaged with Original Series episodes (which were to be paid for by networks). These were proposed to see if interest in the new series would materialize, especially from the side of advertisers, to continue production if it did. Subsequent events proved Salhany's hunch correct. In ultimately doing so, Star Trek again made television history. Mel Harris officially revealed the news of a new Star Trek television series on . Despite a troubled and rocky production during its first two seasons, The Next Generation went on to arguably become the most successful outing in the television franchise. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge; Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, pp. 5-7, 11) In all fairness though, the concept of direct syndication was not entirely new; Salhany's own division produced the current media affairs show , which was, right from its launch in 1981, already sold through direct syndication. Nonetheless, The Next Generation did become the first major or "real" television show – as in a drama or a sitcom production – to be marketed this way, and it is more than likely that Salhany also got her cue from Entertainment Tonight, whose production she was responsible for. As studio property and an already established show with considerable national coverage, Entertainment Tonight became the franchise's natural choice as the primary outlet for all (live-action) media news regarding Star Trek, and several Star Trek specials have been featured in the show while Star Trek was in production in that period of time. Subsequently, the UPN network, later co-established by Salhany (see below), took over that position. None of the specials aired by either, though, have found their way onto later released home media formats, despite being franchise property. As if to underscore that Salhany's hunch was a correct one, the first season finished with a 10.6 Nielsen rating, representing 9.4 million households, ranking first in the 18-49 age group, the prime demographic group sought by advertisers. While the first season was running, it was already sold to eight European and Asian countries, albeit for a limited run initially and reflecting the studio's thirteen-episode trial run. Additionally, by the start of the series' first summer hiatus, a domestic sale of US$2 million had already been realized in VHS tape sales, which only comprised the first four-six episodes at the time. () For a chauvinistic, male-dominated industry as Hollywood was at the time, it was ironic that Star Trek was effectively saved for a second (or third, if one is to include Dawn Steel's crucial contribution for The Motion Picture) time by a woman, as Salhany's namesake, Lucille Ball, had already done so in February 1966 for the Original Series, followed by the unprecedented 1968 write-in campaign to save the series which was organized, and driven by, another woman, Bjo Trimble. The chauvinistic nature of the industry was further exemplified by the fact that Salhany's name was kept under wraps for decades, even as her novel approach became well-known, with her boss Mel Harris crediting her idea as a group effort. It was not until the 2014 documentary William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge that Salhany was unequivocally credited in full by her former colleague Pike as being the brains behind the format. Unlike its original television predecessor, the series became profitable while it was still in production. On 21 January 1993, the studio declared The Next Generation "in the profit", and announced profit distribution to start the following month. Exceptionally pleased with the result, Mel Harris, in a for the studio uncharacteristic and unprecedented stance, became a Roddenberry supporter (in public at least) when he stated, "In the period since 1987 no other program has been able to get anywhere near [TNG]... It's primarily because of the program that was created....[I]f this hadn't been created in the way that it was by Gene Roddenberry, it probably wouldn't be on the air today and it certainly wouldn't be performing as it is." If Harris' praise had been genuine, then it was obvious that he had not been present on those occasions when his subordinate John Pike had to deal with Roddenberry. Pike has had his share of run-ins with Roddenberry. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge; ) Despite the studio's troubled relationship with Star Trek creator Roddenberry, the studio did at least exhibit the decency to acknowledge him in full for his contribution to their money making franchise. On the occasion of the franchise's 25th anniversary, on 6 June 1991, shortly before celebrating the 100th episode of The Next Generation, the Producers Building on the former Desilu studio lot was renamed the "Gene Roddenberry Building" in a highly publicized ceremony, the only building on the studio lot named for a television production staffer. Paramount television president Harris held a speech, making the above-quoted statement, and during the ceremony Star Trek captain performers William Shatner and Patrick Stewart said a few words about Roddenberry. Not only was it the sole building on the Paramount lot named for a television staffer, it was also a timely one, as Roddenberry passed away less than a half year later. Post-Next Generation productions The late Brandon Tartikoff, now chairman of Paramount Pictures from to , during The Next Generations fifth and sixth seasons, was deeply impressed with the success of the six (at the time) Star Trek films and The Next Generation, and it was he, in a complete reversal of the position he had six years earlier, who initiated and authorized the creation of a third live-action Star Trek series to launch into syndication, . (Trek: The Unauthorized Behind-The-Scenes Story of The Next Generation; DS9 Season 1 DVD-special feature, "A Bold New Beginning") However, him ordering a third live-action Star Trek television series, entailed far more than just doing that. The Next Generation Executive Producer Rick Berman had recounted that he had a series of meetings with Tartikoff, starting in the summer of 1991. As a former television network executive, Tartikoff was acutely aware that even the most successful series had a limited, economical lifespan for a variety of reasons, ranging from psychological cast fatigue, through naturally increasing production costs – if only for the annually inflation adjusted production staff wages as ordained by the Hollywood Unions, and not in the least for star cast salaries habitually inflating exponentially with each sequel – to increased competition with itself for scarce syndication time slots the longer a series runs. Together with Berman, Tartikoff decided upon an optimum Star Trek series run of seven seasons, meaning that The Next Generation had at that time only three seasons left to go. Though enamored with the Original Crew movies, Tartikoff was well aware that they too had run their course, if only for the age of the cast, but figured this was the perfect time to pass the baton to "the next generation", thereby starting a new Star Trek movie franchise. He instructed Berman to start looking into that, and have a movie ready at the end of The Next Generation television series (by which time the new Deep Space Nine series had to be up and running for two seasons), preferably one in which, one way or another, featured the transition of the Original Crew to The Next Generation Crew. Given his marching orders, Berman was sent on his way to his most daunting year in his career, 1994. For all intents and purposes, it was Tartikoff who had come up with the leap-frogging seven-season format of the modern Star Trek television franchise, and the start of The Next Generation movie franchise, though he had to leave the actual production start in February 1993 and oversight of what was to become the first Next Generation film, , to his immediate successor Sherry Lansing, due to his premature departure. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 399-403; Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, pp. 154-157; )Voyager itself was actually conceived to serve as the flagship of Paramount's second attempt of operating a television network, established in 1994 as United Paramount Network (UPN) by Lucie Salhany and her superior Kerry McCluggage. Salhany had previously been recruited in 1991 by Barry Diller to head the by him established Fox Broadcasting Company, but returned in 1994 to Paramount to succeed where her former boss had failed back in 1977. Unlike its unsuccessful 1977 predecessor, UPN fared somewhat better, only ceasing to exist in 2006, after it had aired the fifth live action Star Trek series, . It was in this period of time that the most successful film set in the prime universe was released in 1996, , even surpassing, both in critical as well as financial terms, the two hitherto most successful and beloved ones, The Wrath of Khan and The Voyage Home (see Star Trek films: Performance summary). It was only in hindsight that it became clear that First Contact represented the high water mark of what was then still called "The Franchise". Demise of "The Franchise" in the prime universe While Voyager was generally well received and considered successful by franchise management, its somewhat mixed reception already hinted at writings on the wall of, what Star Trek author and historian Larry Nemecek had referred to as "Franchise Fatigue". (Before Her Time: Decommissioning Enterprise) And indeed, when Voyager premiered, Star Trek alumnus Robert Justman already observed, "I think the show has been flogged unmercifully and its going to rebound. The reaction is essentially going to be a negative reaction. If it is around in another 30 years, I don't think it's going to resemble what it has been in the past." It later turned out that even co-creator and executive producer Rick Berman himself had reservations about the inception of yet another Star Trek reincarnation, so hard in the heels of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, essentially for the same franchise fatigue reasons. Yet, since it had slated the production to serve as the flagship for the studio's own recently established UPN television network, the studio had overriding, commercial reasons to push ahead with Voyager nonetheless. An aggravating contributor to the franchise fatigue, was the proliferation of Star Trek-related merchandise in that period of time, inundating and over-saturating the market. While profitable at first as related above, it has also caused William Shatner to exclaim, "What the hell are all of you people buying, anyway?" in his autobiography Get a Life!, having additionally observed that because of the merchandise proliferation Star Trek was no longer "special" by 1999. Shatner appeared to have a point then, as licensees were already starting to dial down their Star Trek merchandise; long standing Star Trek toy manufacturer Playmates Toys, for example, was already rumored to let its license expire without much further ado in December 1999, which turned out to be true even sooner than expected on 17 September 1999, when Playmates formally canceled all Star Trek lines (though it has acquired a new license in 2008). Likewise, Racing Champions, who had acquired Star Trek merchandise producing companies AMT, Ertl, and Playing Mantis, immediately ceased and desisted any and all Star Trek product lines upon their acquisition in 1999, the Johnny Lightning model toy line of the latter having been the sole exception. For AMT in particular, this was poignant, as it had been the oldest and truest known licensing partner of the franchise, courtesy the aforementioned Stephen Edward Poe, ever since it released the very first Star Trek model kit, that of the , back in 1966 (though it too, under new ownership, has rekindled the license a decade later). However, the first clear-cut and unmistakable sign that the franchise was in trouble came in December the same year when was released; the movie was a flop, at that time the all-time worst performing movie in the franchise ever, and the first Star Trek film to turn in a net loss for the studio, and a substantial one at that. Even the hitherto most reviled one, The Final Frontier had managed to break even. Still, franchise management decided to push the envelope even further, if only for the fact that Voyager had ended its run and that UPN was in need of another flagship. And so, yet another Star Trek live-action incarnation was ordered to premier in 2000. Having had reservations on Voyager already, this time around Berman was near skeptical, as was later revealed by his partner for the new project, Brannon Braga, in 2014, "Star Trek was wearing out its welcome. Rick Berman didn't want to make a show so soon but Paramount did. I think it was too soon for another show. It was a quality show, but the ratings weren't really what they should be. And I don't think the network – the new regime [at UPN] – I don’t think they treated the show with the tender loving care that it needed to thrive." Not only that, but outside voices started to chime in as well; when interviewed by TV Guide, Mark Altman, even though he was and is a life-long Star Trek fan, additionally expressed his great doubt and was not convinced of the viability of the franchise when a fifth, prequel series was announced, what eventually was to become Enterprise, being on record as having stated, "People are sick of Star Trek. But rather than give the franchise a rest and re-launch in a few years when fervor has built again, Paramount is going to run it into the ground until it's dead." Having been given his marching orders, Berman had little choice, other than resigning, but to obey his superiors and set to work with partner Braga. "Contrary to the people on the Internet who seem to think I never cared very much about the Star Trek franchise, I did and I do. I felt that if someone was going to keep it true to Gene Roddenberry's vision it would probably be better me than for me to bow out," Berman stated in this respect to . In order to set the new series apart from the others, Berman tried his hand at an entirely different approach, and it was exactly for these reasons that the series was simply called Enterprise, without the Star Trek prenom. Unfortunately, it did not work out as he had hoped. Debuting with a relatively large audience, Enterprise quickly lost viewer-ship and inspired criticism of both the series and its creators, with fans – and as it turned out after-the-fact by production staffers as well – criticizing alleged violations in established continuity, causing a polarization in the apparently dwindling Star Trek fan base. Enter in 2002, pursuant the ending of the second season of Enterprise; had the performance of Insurrection been dismal, the performance of Nemesis was even worse, considerably worse as it turned out to be, only able to earn back its production budget – barely (see: Star Trek films: Gross vs Net profitability). Already up in arms over Enterprise, for outspoken critics this was, as far as they were concerned, the straw that broke the camel's back and the clamor for the removal of Berman started in earnest. The most partisan ones were united in the "The Star Trek Fan Association" (STFA). A relatively small organization, it was at the time a very vocal one nonetheless, rapidly becoming the focal point for press and media alike, interested in reporting on what all the upheaval was about. (Star Trek and American Television, p. 40) Nationwide attention the STFA garnered, when it very shortly after the release of Nemesis organized an online petition to Viacom President Sumner Redstone and Paramount head Sherry Lansing, calling for sweeping changes within the Star Trek franchise leadership (not realizing that they by proxy also questioned the abilities of Redstone and Lansing as well) and creative direction with the goal of "restoring" the franchise to Gene Roddenberry's creative precedents. While the franchise usually ignored Trekdom entirely, this was media attention it could do well without, and it conceivably contributed to their internal decision to cancel Enterprise after its third season, which was at the time already in full pre-production. Therefore, while already indicating cancellation with the approach of the end of the third season of Enterprise (though better, not that well received either), so too did Paramount and UPN indicate the apparent end of Rick Berman's tenure as the overseer of Star Trek productions. Berman himself divulged that, in the case of Enterprise, the relationship between UPN and Star Trek, which had been a warm one during the production of Voyager, had by then soured considerably and had taken a turn for the worst, "Our relationship with the network was distant. And it wasn't embracing and warm and… a sense of working together that had existed in all the years before." (ENT Season 3 Blu-ray-special feature, "In a Time of War") With the 2013-2014 releases of the Enterprise Blu-ray sets, several of his former subordinates, both cast and production staff, have subsequently corroborated Berman's assessment, coming forward with tales which also pointed at studio politics detrimental to Star Trek in general, and serious mismanagement of Enterprise in particular, especially where ratings and demographics interpretation, as well as air time scheduling were concerned. In the latter respect, it exhibited disturbing similarities with what had befallen between The Original Series and NBC back in the 1960s. Exemplary of studio politics was, according to Braga, their decree, if the series was to be renewed for a fourth season – the network actually already of a mind not to do so – the producers would get rid off Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer, which Berman fought tooth and nail, successfully as it turned out (though he had not been able to counter their decree to add "Star Trek" to the series title which was originally just Enterprise, as explicitly intended). (Before Her Time: Decommissioning Enterprise) Whether or not influenced by the petition and though remaining credited, franchise management indeed virtually relegated both Berman and Braga to the role of figurehead at the end of the third season (admitted as such by Braga in 2007 ), and their places were de facto filled for, what turned out to be, the last season by Manny Coto and his second man Mike Sussman, under whose tenure much of the perceived continuity violation was redressed, aided by writers such as the Reeves-Stevens author couple, who, like them, had an equally thorough understanding of original Star Trek lore. That the series was renewed for a last season, was in no small part due to the fact that strong backing was received from an unexpected corner; Scott Bakula has unequivocally cited Garry Hart, the former UPN head and Star Trek supporter, who had just been promoted to another position within the conglomerate, as the driving force behind the renewal, thereby thwarting the cancellation intents of his successor(s) at UPN, conceivably an instance of "studio politics". (Before Her Time: Decommissioning Enterprise) How eager UPN was to get rid of Enterprise, despite the last season being considered a triumph by staffers and fans alike, was exemplified by the fact that the last season ended four episodes shy of a full season. At the time UPN made it known that it was changing its focus by targeting an African-American audience and produced urban-themed situation comedies with African-American casts, as well as professional wrestling and reality shows. This change in targeted demographics and programming was by contemporaries accepted as the reason for the cancellation of Enterprise after only four seasons of a projected seven season run. No matter what cancellation considerations were in play; prime universe Star Trek was finished, both literally and figuratively. "The Franchise" changes hands Though not directly related, a further aggravating circumstance for Star Trek was, that in January 2006, the former Viacom was split into two separate, independent companies: CBS Corporation and a new Viacom. The split resulted in an extensive "Studio Shuffle" with all the unsavory studio politics surrounding it, not unlike the one that had befallen the studio back in 1991 when The Undiscovered Country was in production, with executives fired, hired, promoted, demoted, reassigned, and not few of them hostile to Star Trek as has been, but ending up in places where it mattered to Star Trek nevertheless, most conspicuously Leslie Moonves, a reputed hater "of all things Sci-Fi" – Star Trek included. Moonves, in his previous position as head of Paramount Television in favor of the earlier by Hart thwarted 2003 in-house cancellation decision, had actually been the executive who personally ordained the ultimate cancellation of Enterprise in February 2005, therefore in turn effectively thwarting the efforts of his now subordinate Garry Hart to keep the show alive, and thus ending Star Trek prime as well for the time being. Less than a year later Moonves ended UPN as well. (In Conversation: Writing Star Trek: Enterprise; ) Within a year, all executives known, or even rumored, to have been Star Trek-"friendly", were either let go or reassigned to other positions within the conglomerate – only forced to leave as well after the split became effective in January 2006; these included in addition to Garry Hart among others, Sherry Lansing (ironically Moonves' superior until 2004, when the latter was promoted to co-CEO of old Viacom), Kerry McCluggage and, ultimately, Rick Berman (who, unlike every other Star Trek production staffer, had studio tenure) as well. CBS Corporation was given ownership of Paramount Television, which until then had always been a dependent division of Paramount Pictures, and was renamed "CBS Paramount Television", eventually known as "CBS Television Studios", and most recently CBS Studios, incidentally terminating UPN in the process. It was therefore from now on CBS that exercised ownership of the Star Trek franchise and television series, while Paramount Pictures, now part of the new Viacom, retained the rights to the Star Trek films through a license from CBS Television Studios, which remained the sole entity holding the copyrights to the Star Trek franchise. For the movies this meant that, with the exception of the direct box-office takes, the subsequent home media sales and the sale of television rights – though an undisclosed, but likely hefty percentage of these still have to be paid as license fees – all other forms of revenues, most notably those of related merchandise, revert directly to CBS, not Paramount. An undesirable side-effect the split has caused, was the aggravation of the already controversial "Hollywood accounting" phenomenon. Yet, for all the repercussions it has entailed for the franchise in practice, it must again be noted and reminded that, while the franchise has formally changed hands – that is, on paper at least – , actual end ownership has remained unchanged factually, as both new entities are still owned and fully controlled by National Amusements, the family owned holding group of "" Sumner Redstone (who not only continued to serve as CEO of new Viacom, but also as that of CBS Corporation – alongside Moonves – until 2016, when he was forced to step back due to age in favor of his daughter Shari) as it has always been ever since his former Viacom acquired the remnants of Gulf+Western back in 1994, until then the property of the Charles Bluhdorn family. Liquidation of assets Whether or not the disappointment over the live-action production performances of the last three Star Trek outings, general animosity toward the phenomenon, simple harsh economic realities, or any combination thereof were in play, fact remained, the new owners came at the franchise with a vengeance. Firstly there was their decision to sell off Paramount's entire warehouses' contents of Star Trek production stock assets in the 2006-2009 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection, and It's A Wrap! sale and auction wave of auctions, with the exception of those that were still on exhibition tour at the times. While CBS put a positive spin on the decision in wordings that amounted to "graciously allowing" dedicated fans the "wonderful" chance to own a piece of Star Trek history (Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier), it did not take a Nobel Prize laureate to realize that the primary reason was CBS' rush to liquidate their Star Trek holdings as quickly as possible, making it abundantly clear that CBS was done with Star Trek as it had been. There was a certain amount of cynicism involved surrounding the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection auction organized by auction house Christie's, as it was presented as the franchise's one of only two official events for Star Treks 40th anniversary. Additional official events were absent, save for employing a barely observed anniversary logo. The contrast with the high profile, highly publicized Hollywood-style gala event for the 30th anniversary, registered as the Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond documentary, could not have been any greater. To date, the 40th anniversary has been the least celebrated anniversary of all, ever since the franchise started to celebrate these in 1986, having seen the conception of The Next Generation as part of that anniversary. If there had been any lingering doubt left within Trekdom about the intentions of CBS, that bubble was popped less than a year later when CBS cut the last line of official communications with the outside Star Trek world (Star Trek Communicator, the official fanclub magazine, had already folded the year previously) when StarTrek.com was taken off-line, almost overnight, with its entire staff fired on the spot as the result of "restructuring" at CBS Interactive. Over the years a substantial amount of behind-the-scenes production information had been gathered on the site, but CBS has not bothered to make backups of this material and as a result, a valuable cache of information was essentially lost to posterity. Next up were the former Paramount entertainment parks and attractions that CBS had acquired in the "divorce settlement", with Star Trek: The Experience as one of its flagships. Within the time span of two years all of these were sold to such third parties as Cedar Fair Enterprise, and by 2008 all Star Trek-themed attractions had become defunct. The print franchise too, enjoyed the scrutiny of the new owners; the number of "official" magazines had already started to dwindle under the previous owner Paramount to just the one, the British Star Trek Magazine, but now CBS went after the foreign language editions that were still in print, as Oliver Denker, the Chief Editor of Star Trek: Das offizielle Magazin (a German language variant of Star Trek Magazine) could attest to. Denker had to renegotiate his license due to the new ownership situation in 2007, only to find out that, much to his dismay, he was unable to and has cited a "mercurial" CBS Consumer Products as the reason for the failed negotiations. Denker had reasons to be dismayed, as the magazine was doing well, since Germany, along with several other European Union nations, enjoyed something of a Star Trek revival due to the syndication phenomenon. Denker was not the only one who found himself in this position, as by 2008, with exception of two GE Fabbri publications, no other foreign language official magazine was still in print, leaving the British magazine the sole "official" survivor. The number of Star Trek books too was whittled down considerably, with Pocket Books ceasing publication of reference books altogether, and the number of new novels reduced to what was essentially a token number only with the majority of 40th anniversary novel releases being cheap reprints. Within two years all Star Trek affiliated editors, most notably, Marco Palmieri and Margaret Clark, were booted out. Remarkably, one successful Pocket Books publication, the Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar series, was as late as 2012 sold to Universe Publishing and Andrews McMeel Publishing. The prevailing mood was not lost on other merchandise license holders either, and their exodus continued unabated, resulting in a 2006-2008 merchandise drought and a stark contrast with the merchandise situation a decade before. There was a single bright spot in this era however; Art Asylum had only gained a merchandise license at the turn of the millennium, releasing products pertaining to Enterprise at first, and refused to give in to the pursuant general mood, stubbornly continuing to release Star Trek-based models and action figures in a period of time that was virtually devoid of competitors. Art Asylum's faith in the franchise has paid off, as it still holds the prime universe license as of 2016. There were however two franchise elements that escaped the scrutiny relatively unscathed. The first one was an obvious one as it had always been relatively easy money – syndication. And as a matter of fact, CBS came in at the tail end of what was essentially a syndication bonanza, courtesy the European Union. From the mid-1990s onward, the Union had ordained its member states to liberalize their broadcast landscape. Up until then, almost all European countries traditionally had their respective governments exercise control over the airwaves, but the member states had now committed themselves to allow commercial broadcasters unrestricted access to the airwaves as well. This sparked a boom in the number of channels all over the Union. However, there was in most countries a proviso: in order to retain their broadcast license, a newcomer committed itself to broadcast a daily minimum number of hours. As virtually none of these newcomers had their own production companies yet in place to fill their time slots, a veritable scramble for 1980s-1990s television productions ensued, Hollywood being the most obvious provider of these. With its impressive backlog catalog, Star Trek fitted the initial need for these newcomers perfectly. As a result, the European airwaves were for nearly a decade flooded with Star Trek, in most cases airing on a daily basis. In a country like the Netherlands, for example, which had only aired part of the Original Series in the early 1970s up until then, all spin-off series were now aired on daily basis, sometimes concurrently on different channels. It should be noted that this was at the time a somewhat unusual situation, as all these series had already been made available to the Dutch public through both the rental circuit as well as the home media format market. The minimum broadcast hours proviso has sometimes also led to odd situations; at one point commercial broadcaster Veronica had to air Enterprise in the dead of night, when the country was asleep, to not lose its license. For the most part this situation applied to the other countries as well, but it has also been a part of the reasons why Denker's above-mentioned magazine was doing so well. However, by 2007-2008, the new situation on the European broadcast landscape had settled, with production companies in full swing, providing the commercial broadcasters with their own productions, and the after-market demand for Star Trek has dropped sharply since then, the movies excepted. The other franchise element that escaped "The Wrath of CBS" unscathed, for partly the same reasons, was the home media format franchise, particularly since it was the dawn of high definition television. In this light the survival of Fabbri's two publications should be considered, as both were a DVD/Magazine combination partwork publication, the DVD element being, quite literally, the saving grace. In effect, it was one of the very few areas, if not the only one, where CBS took affirmative action in that period of time, by commissioning the production of The Original Series remastering project. Favorably received, the remastering project stands out as the single bright spot, in what was otherwise the "Dark Ages" of what once was "The Franchise". Incidentally and somewhat characteristically, CBS gambled on the wrong horse initially when it released the first season of the remastered series in the HD DVD format, the high resolution format that lost out to Blu Ray. Announced on 31 August 2006, the project was the second (and last) of CBS's official events for Star Treks 40th anniversary, and its episodes were first broadcast on television, before being disseminated on home media formats. Contrary to the Christie's auction, this project at least had a positive ring about it, lacking the cynical undertones of the former. Actually, the remastering project conceivably helped to keep Star Trek Magazine afloat, as CBS belatedly realized that they were increasingly left without any official communication channels to promote the project to the very target audience it was intended for; the traditional Star Trek fan base. Publisher Titan Magazines was allowed in late 2006 to launch the magazine in the US – having been devoid of any "official" print publication since 2005 – as well, its contents synchronized with the British source publication. Rekindling "The Franchise" Reestablishing itself in the alternate universe While the last three live-action Star Trek productions had tanked, the same era also witnessed a remarkable upswing in other science fiction productions; television had Ronald D. Moore's critically acclaimed revamped Battlestar Galactica series, whose first regular season started its run, while Enterprises last was being aired, but it was especially the big screen that saw a proliferation of genre feature productions, quite a few of them becoming box-office smashes, those stemming from the Marvel Comics universe in particular. It was after Paramount itself had a hand in four of them, War of the Worlds (2005 as distributor), Transformers (2007 as co-producer), Iron Man (2008 as distributor), and Cloverfield (2008 as co-producer), that the studio decided, even though it no longer owned the franchise, to give Star Trek another go and activate the license they held from CBS. In this it was very reminiscent of their decision to do The Motion Picture back in 1977 in response to Star Wars. In order to maximize the chances for commercial success they contracted Transformer scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci for the same chore, as well as the highly successful Cloverfield producer J.J. Abrams for that, as well as the directorial chores. In effect, it had been Abrams himself, after he had been signed by Paramount for a five-movie deal in 2006 – Cloverfield becoming his first one for Paramount – who presented the idea of revisiting Star Trek to the studio. () These men set to work to reinvent Star Trek, essentially recreating Star Trek from scratch with little of the philosophies behind the Star Trek universe as postulated by creator Roddenberry left intact – if any at all, exactly as predicted by Robert Justman back in 1994, but fifteen years earlier than even he could have foreseen. It worked, the alternate universe feature film became a box office success, easily surpassing any of its predecessors by far. The 2009 film itself became surpassed by its successor, the sequel , also directed and produced by Abrams. Its sequel became the film , which was however, rather unexpectedly, considerably less successful. (see: Star Trek films: Performance summary) Yet, while hugely successful at the box offices, long standing Star Trek production veteran Doug Drexler spoke for many prime universe Star Trek fans, skeptical of the reinvented version, when he stated, "Technically they are beautiful… the work is stunning… however… and I hope no one will hold this against me… I did not enjoy the last two films, and honest… I really wanted to… but for me, Star Trek has to have a philosophical, humanist bend to it… always making a point, or asking a question. It should be introspective, and self examining. That's the Roddenberry factor. The new films are devoid of Gene Roddenberry, and at the end of the day, I'm not ok with that." Drexler's observation was more than validated when Paramount Motion Pictures Group President Marc Evans made the following comment in 2015, "I often think about the areas of the Star Trek universe that haven’t been taken advantage of. Like, I'll be ridiculous with you, but what would look like? Where is the of the Star Trek universe? That fascinates me," a statement that flew straight in the face of Roddenberry's non-militaristic vision for his Star Trek universe – and which had actually already spawned some fan criticism when the MACOs were introduced in Enterprise. Drexler is not the only prime universe production staffer skeptical of alternate universe Star Trek, as Producer Robert Meyer Burnett has voiced similar concerns in public. Still, the box office aggregates of nearly US$1.2 billion for the first three films alone (surpassing the amount all ten previous Star Trek movies had made), as well as the partial resurgence of the overall franchise, indicated that revitalized Star Trek had attracted a new viewership that went well above and beyond traditional Trekdom. Studio executives actively involved with Star Trek productions (Note: This list is currently incomplete.) In the list below, the name of the executive producers for any given production is also mentioned after its title. Formally, they are not part of the studio executive staff, but the creative managerial heads of the actual productions, and as such officially credited, which studio executives – Original Series executives Bill Heath, Herb Solow, Douglas S. Cramer, and The Motion Pictures Lindsley Parsons, Jr. being the notably sole exceptions – are traditionally not. Yet, they do serve as the primary liaison between the actual productions and the studio oversight and consequently, they are answerable to studio executives. Note that even the highest Paramount executives had bosses; Diller, for example, was answerable to Gulf+Western President Bluhdorn, who, while relatively far removed from the production, did make some momentous decisions concerning the Star Trek movie franchise, as related above, aside from being responsible for acquiring the franchise for Paramount in the first place. Also listed are the executives involved with the Star Trek television franchise, since these productions were until 2006 part of Paramount Pictures, as explained above. Note: Executives listed in order of hierarchy. For the executive staff at Desilu prior to the second season of The Original Series, please refer to: Desilu Executive Staff. , Executive Producer: Gene Roddenberry Barry Diller – Chairman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures Michael Eisner – President of Production in Features (from August 1977 onward) Jeffery Katzenberg – Vice-President of Production in Features (from August 1977 onward) Lindsley Parsons, Jr. – Vice-President of Production in Features (from November 1977 onward) Don Simpson – Vice-President of Production in Features (from November 1977 onward) Dawn Steel – Vice-President of Marketing and Licensing , Executive Producer: Harve Bennett Barry Diller – Chairman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures Michael Eisner – President of Production in Features Jeffery Katzenberg – Vice-President of Production in Features Dawn Steel – Vice-President of Production in Features Frank Mancuso, Sr. – Vice-President of Marketing and Licensing , Executive Producer: Harve Bennett Barry Diller – Chairman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures Michael Eisner – President of Production in Features Jeffery Katzenberg – Vice-President of Production in Features Dawn Steel – Vice-President of Production in Features Frank Mancuso, Sr. – President of Marketing and Licensing , Executive Producers: Harve Bennett, Ralph Winter. The death of Bluhdorn in 1983 and the departure of Diller, Eisner and Katzenberg, all within a timespan of two weeks in 1984, initiated a substantial reorganization of Paramount Pictures, most notably the formation of a dedicated television division and a dedicated movie division, which were previously somewhat intermingled departments. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, p. 239) Frank Mancuso, Sr. – Chairman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures Ned Tanen – President Motion Picture Group Dawn Steel – President of Production Motion Picture Group David Kirkpatrick – Vice-President of Production Motion Picture Group Teddy Zee – Vice-President of Production Motion Picture Group , Executive Producer: Harve Bennett Frank Mancuso, Sr. – Chairman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures Ned Tanen – President Motion Picture Group , Executive Producers: Steven-Charles Jaffe, Ralph Winter. The period between 1989-1991 was marked by much turmoil at the top of the studio, brought on by, aside from The Final Frontier, a string of disappointing, yet very expensive, movie releases leaving the studio deeply in the red, only aggravated by a worldwide recession. Executives were almost replaced on a yearly basis resulting in much infighting at the top as well as failing communications. Exemplary of this was, that Mancuso authorized in 1989 the pre-production of Starfleet Academy as the sixth Star Trek movie, to be headed by Harve Bennet as Executive Producer, and featuring an entirely new cast. However, nobody had thought of informing the very highest executive of this, Paramount Communications President Martin Davis (successor of the deceased Bluhdorn), who, when he ultimately was, furiously demanded an Original Crew movie, thrashing Bennet's movie on the spot, followed by yet another round of executive firings, veteran of 31 years Mancuso among them. By that time more than eighteen months of valuable production time had been lost. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, p. 340-396) Martin Davis – President Paramount Communications (formerly known as Gulf+Western until 1989) Frank Mancuso, Sr. – Chairman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures (1990) Stanley R. Jaffe – Vice-President Paramount Communications, Interim Chairman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures (1990-1991, serving as proxy until suitable replacement was found) Ned Tanen – President Motion Picture Group (1989) Sid Ganis – President Motion Picture Group (1990) David Kirkpatrick – President Motion Picture Group (1991) Brandon Tartikoff – President Motion Picture Group (1991) Gary Lucchesi – President of Production Motion Picture Group Teddy Zee – Vice-President of Production Motion Picture Group (1989-1990) John Goldwyn – Vice-President of Production Motion Picture Group (1991) , Executive Producer: Rick Berman Sherry Lansing – Chairman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures John Goldwyn – President of Production Motion Picture Group Star Trek television series (Season 2-3), Executive Producers: Gene Roddenberry (Season 2), Fred Freiberger (Season 3) Charles Bluhdorn – President Gulf+Western, Chairman of the Board Paramount Pictures John T. Reynolds – President Paramount Television Herb Solow – Vice-President of Programs Paramount Television (Season 2) Douglas S. Cramer – Vice-President of Programs Paramount Television (Season 3) Star Trek: Phase II, Executive Producer: Gene Roddenberry Charles Bluhdorn – Chairman of the Board, President Gulf+Western Barry Diller – Chairman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures Michael Eisner – President Paramount Television (until August 1977) Jeffery Katzenberg – President of Television Programming (until August 1977) Mel Harris – Vice-President Research Television Programming , Executive Producers: Gene Roddenberry (Season 1 – 2), Rick Berman (Season 3 – 7), Michael Piller (Season 4 – 7) Frank Mancuso, Sr. – Chairman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures (Season 1 – 4) Brandon Tartikoff – Chairman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures (Season 5 – 6) Sherry Lansing – Chairwoman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures (Season 6 – 7) Mel Harris – President Paramount Television (Season 1 – 3) John S. Pike – President Paramount Network Television (Season 1 – 6) Garry Hart – President Paramount Network Television (Season 7) Lucie Salhany – President Paramount Domestic Television (Season 1 – 4) , Executive Producers: Rick Berman, Michael Piller (Season 1 – 3), Ira Steven Behr (Season 4 – 7) Brandon Tartikoff – Chairman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures (Season 1) Sherry Lansing – Chairwoman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures (Season 2 – 7) Kerry McCluggage – President of Production Television Group John S. Pike – President Paramount Network Television (Season 1) Garry Hart – President Paramount Network Television (Season 2 – Season 7) Tom Mazza – Vice-President of Current Programs and Strategic Planning, Network Television , Executive Producers: Rick Berman, Michael Piller (Season 1 – 2), Jeri Taylor (Season 1 – 4), Brannon Braga (Season 5 – 6), Kenneth Biller (Season 7) Sherry Lansing – Chairwoman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures Kerry McCluggage – President of Production Television Group Garry Hart – President Paramount Network Television (as of 1994 UPN) Lucie Salhany – President of Current Programs and Strategic Planning, Network Television (Season 1 – 4) Tom Mazza – Vice-President of Current Programs and Strategic Planning, Network Television , Executive Producers: Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Manny Coto (Season 4) Leslie Moonves – Member of the Board, Co-President (Season 4) Sherry Lansing – Chairwoman of the Board, President Paramount Pictures (Season 1 – 4) Leslie Moonves – President CBS Paramount Television (Season 1 – 3) Kerry McCluggage – President of Production Television Group (Season 1 – 2) Garry Hart – President Paramount Network Television (Season 1 – 3) Historical overview Founded by in on , Paramount Pictures is America's second oldest, still-operating, motion picture studio behind Universal Studios, though only by a little over a week. Its logo – the highly-recognizable, majestic Paramount mountain – has been part of the company from the beginning, thus making it the oldest surviving Hollywood film logo. For nearly half a century it was one of what once was colloquially known as the "" major Hollywood motion picture studios, along with 20th Century Fox (the "Fox" component having been founded in 1915), and the only surviving one still located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood. Ironically, Universal had not been one of them, it being subordinated in a lower tier. One of the original "Big Five" had been (founded on 23 October 1928) which went defunct on 7 March 1958, after which Desilu Studios bought its assets and real estate – but not its backlog library of film titles, even though a clipping from the 1945 RKO film The Spanish Main became a recurrent Star Trek "guest star". Through the acquisition of Desilu itself in 1967, Paramount became the owner of much of what had been a major industry competitor once. Paramount Pictures was the company responsible for the film to win the very first "Best Picture" Academy Award in 1929, the silent World War I theatrical feature (1927) – also turning out to become the only silent film to do so – additionally winning the very first "Best Effects, Engineering Effects" Academy Award, the later "Visual Effects" category. Clippings of that movie were featured in the opening title sequences of the two mirror universe episodes. Since then, Paramount has produced the Academy Award-winning films Going My Way (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather, Part II (1974), Ordinary People (1980), Terms of Endearment (1983), Forrest Gump (1994), Braveheart (1995), and Titanic (1997). Among the other acclaimed films they have produced are Double Indemnity (1944), Stalag 17 (1953), The War of the Worlds (1953, based on the book by H.G. Wells), The Ten Commandments (1956), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Chinatown (1974), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease (1978), Top Gun (1986), Fatal Attraction (1987), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Zodiac (2007). By 2020 one of only five to pass the US$2 billion mark as the all-time highest (worldwide) grossing films, the multi Academy Award winning Titanic (served by such Star Trek alumni as Robert Legato, Don Pennington, James Horner, and Tony Meininger) stands to this very day out as Paramount's biggest success in its entire history by far, having been the very first one in motion picture history to achieve the milestone and holding on to the record for twelve years after which it became surpassed by Fox's Avatar – incidentally and like Titanic, also directed by . At the time Paramount had staked its very existence on the film, which was produced at a hitherto unheard-off production budget of US$200 million, and the contemporary Hollywood press speculated abundantly on the studio's demise, fully expecting the film to fail because of its tired premise. In a sense, Paramount repeated the gamble they had taken back in 1927 when US$2 million (US$28.3 million in 2018 prices) was shelled out for the production of Wings, for those times an unprecedented amount of money to spend on a film production – nor would it be the last time, as they did so again for the 1956 remake of The Ten Commandments and as indeed they would do so yet again in 1978-1979 for (see: The Motion Picture: Costs and revenues). But like with Titanic (and The Ten Commandments for that matter), the gamble paid off as Wings became one of the very first of what was later recognized as "blockbusters". The film ran for sixty-three weeks in cinemas across the nation, which is presently inconceivable, even for the very biggest of the big-budget film productions; Titanic "only" managed to run for forty-one weeks (already considered exceedingly long by that time), having been the biggest blockbuster of its day, and by 2020 still holding out at third place of the all-time highest grossing films. Along with Ben Hur (1959) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2013), Titanic still holds the record of the most Academy Award winning film with eleven wins, including the one Robert Legato earned for "Best Effects, Visual Effects" and the two "Music" ones for James Horner. Following Titanic in second place at about half the gross as the studio's most successful film is Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), and, together with its 2014 successor Transformers: Age of Extinction, the only other two Paramount films to have surpassed the US$1 billion mark as of 2020. In comparison, The Walt Disney Company, as of 2018 owner of both Lucasfilm Ltd. and Fox, has twenty-three such films they now own listed, including all the others in the US$2 billion plus bracket, whereas sibling and formerly downplayed Universal has seven; Universal and Paramount have actually switched places in the positions they originally held in the early decades, Universal being presently the "bigger" one. Since Star Trek was owned by Paramount Television, many of Paramount Pictures' classic films have been featured on, or referenced to, in the various later Star Trek shows, including I'm No Angel (1933), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Shane (1953), To Catch a Thief (1955), and Rosemary's Baby (1968). The former two are now under ownership of Universal Studios as they own most pre-1950 Paramount sound features. Upon the acquirement of Desilu, Paramount Pictures turned two other former Desilu properties into franchises by releasing in 1987 an acclaimed feature film adaptation of The Untouchables, which was originally an older Desilu television series (also referenced on Star Trek in and ). But it was Mission: Impossible that truly fulfilled the hopes Paramount had for it when it acquired Desilu back in 1967. Already doing well in its original seven-season run (totaling 171 episodes), a two-season (totaling 35 episodes) was produced in 1988, though it suffered the exact same fate the Original Series third season did through inept planning by network ABC. However, aware that Mission Impossible (like Star Trek) had for the longest of times been a sub-culture favorite, convinced Paramount to initiate the development of the first of what was to become the highly successful Mission: Impossible film franchise, starring himself, as well as staking out a considerable claim in them as producer and production company. The first film being successfully released in 1996, to be followed with four others by 2015, Mission: Impossible finally fulfilled its hoped-for potential by becoming a huge and profitable on its own, comparable to that of Star Trek (huge, but still smaller), having been preceded by two television series. As a franchise, Mission: Impossibles history has shared some remarkable similarities with that of Star Trek, including the split ownership issue resulting from the 2005/2006 breakup of old Viacom – see: main article. Other television series they subsequently produced included The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Taxi, Cheers, MacGyver, Wings, Frasier, 7th Heaven, and The 4400. They also continued to produce the news magazine Entertainment Tonight. In addition to Mission: Impossible and Star Trek, Paramount Pictures also holds the rights to such successful franchises as Beverly Hills Cop, Friday the 13th, Indiana Jones, and the films featuring 's Jack Ryan character (The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, etc.). In 2001, Paramount Pictures relaunched itself with a new CGI logo nicknamed the "CGI Majestic Mountain." Losing the television division In , following the CBS/Viacom split, Paramount Pictures purchased the Steven Spielberg's production company (co-founded in 1994 with former Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg). Yet, the split also meant that Paramount from now on was no longer a television production company for the first time in its history, in the process losing any and all title to the Star Trek television property, though retaining the right to produce Star Trek features through a license acquired from CBS. On 8 July 2007, Paramount Pictures set the record for fastest studio to earn US$1 billion at the US box office in a single year, reaching the mark after 189 days. This is the first time they have held this record since 1998. This achievement is due primarily to the success of the Paramount Pictures/DreamWorks release of Transformers, written by Star Trek (2009) scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and has been part of the reasons why the studio has decided to give the by then near defunct Star Trek franchise another go. The studio's 2008 slate of film releases began with the release of the J.J. Abrams-produced Cloverfield on 18 January 2008. This film, which only cost US$25 million to make, earned US$40 million at the box office in its opening weekend – the best January opening on record. It was the studio's 10th biggest opening after Shrek the Third, Transformers, War of the Worlds, Mission: Impossible II, Mission: Impossible III, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Longest Yard, Mission: Impossible, and Deep Impact. Cloverfield broke the Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend record, as well, with a four-day total of US$46 million. Cloverfield is also notable as the film to which the first official teaser trailer for 2009's Star Trek was attached. Paramount's other films which opened in 2008 included The Spiderwick Chronicles, Stop-Loss, the highly-anticipated, but lukewarmly-received Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Marvel Comics-based Iron Man, the animated Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar: The Crate Escape, The Love Guru, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Iron Man earned $98.6 million on its opening weekend, marking the studio's best opening for a live-action release. In 2009, in addition to Star Trek, Paramount released films such as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (also co-written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman), Nowhereland (starring Eddie Murphy, Vanessa Williams, and Ronny Cox), and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (starring Rachel Nichols). Paramount Studios sound stages During production on Star Trek, Paramount Studios had thirty-two sound stages that varied in size from the smallest, Stage 22, to the largest, Stage 16, the former one never utilized by Star Trek. (A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager, p. 49) Backlots Aside from the sound stages, several standing sets and other places located on the outdoors Paramount lot, were also utilized during the filming of Star Trek productions. The exteriors of studio office buildings were used for location shooting for and . The structure known as "B Tank" (short for "Blue Sky Tank") was used as a filming location for , , , and . Prior to 1983, the "McFadden Street" and "Boston Street" backlots were used in , while the "European Town" back lot was used in "Patterns of Force" and . On Thursday , the Paramount lot was struck by a large fire, destroying most of its standing outdoors sets, including the by then fifty-six-year-old "New York Street" set. The fire occurred while was being filmed, and it was the fire where William Shatner had famously claimed that he had served as a firefighter. The "New York Street" backlot was newly rebuilt and extensively used for the later Star Trek television productions. "New York Street" backlot as featured cityscapes : 1941 Holographic version of San Francisco : 1893 San Francisco in 1893 : 1950s Holographic "Keystone City", a generic American city : 2024 San Francisco : 2372 Parallel reality version of San Francisco : 2372 New Orleans : 1950s Fictitious version of New York City : 2375 New Orleans : 2000-01 Portage Creek, Indiana : Generic street with a night club : 1957 Pittsburgh : 2153 San Francisco : 2004 Carpenter Street, Detroit : 1944 Parallel reality version of Brooklyn, New York City In 2016, a street on the back lot was christened "Leonard Nimoy Way" at a fan event in memory of the actor. Appendices See also Star Trek corporate history Further reading regarding Star Trek studio involvement The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, March 1980 Star Trek Movie Memories, November 1994 The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, December 1994 Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, June 1996 Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series, March 1997 Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, November 1997 A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager, April 1998 The Keys to the Kingdom, March 2000 "The Little Program That Could: The relationship between NBC and Star Trek", Chapter 12: NBC: America's Network, August 2007, pp. 209-222 Star Trek and American Television, April 2014 Further reading general studio historyEngulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood'', Bernard Dick, University Press of Kentucky, August 2001 () Footnotes External links – official corporate website – official theater website at de:Paramount Pictures fr:Paramount Pictures it:Paramount Pictures ja:パラマウント・ピクチャーズ nl:Paramount Pictures pl:Paramount Pictures pt:Paramount Pictures sv:Paramount Pictures TV and film production companies Distributors Golden Trailer Award nominees Golden Trailer Award winners Key Art Award nominees Key Art Award winners Peabody Award winners SET Award winners
1846	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Ira Steven Behr	Ira Steven Behr was executive producer of as well as a writer of several episodes. He was also a producer on from 1989 to 1990. With writing partners Robert Hewitt Wolfe and, later, Hans Beimler, he possibly deserves the most credit for the Deep Space Nine Dominion War story arc and the series' approach to characterization and story. Behr's latest work, What We Left Behind, is a documentary about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The documentary, released in April 2019, consists of Behr reuniting the writing staff, actors, and production staff while discussing the impact and influence of the series, as well as developing the story for the first episode of the "eighth season". James Darren commented on Behr: "Ira Behr is a bloody genius. He made this work. He chose almost all of the songs, actually. He loved the Rat Pack. And on top of that, he’s a bloody genius as a writer and an incredibly wonderful human being". Behr and Star Trek Star Trek: The Next Generation Behr first joined the Star Trek franchise early in the production of Season 3 of Star Trek: The Next Generation after Michael Piller asked him to come on board and help supervise the writing staff, with his first job being to perform a major rewrite on . Behr recalled that the atmosphere in the writing room was frequently very tense, as the existing writers (including Hans Beimler, Richard Manning, and Melinda M. Snodgrass) were still mostly loyal to former showrunner Maurice Hurley and did not particularly like working under Piller, with interference from Gene Roddenberry also exacerbating the situation. Matters nearly came to a head midway through the season after Piller circulated a note about basic writing practices, which outraged Beimler, Manning, and Snodgrass, with Behr's intervention being the only thing that prevented the trio from immediately quitting the show. From then until the end of the season, Behr had to act as a go-between to Piller and the rest of the writing staff, and while Piller had actually suggested that Behr replace him as showrunner for the following season, he turned the offer down and left the show altogether, though he did return to write the episode in a freelance capacity. (TNG Season 3 Blu-ray special features) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine A few years later, Behr was once again approached by Piller and Rick Berman to be a writer and producer on a new show, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Intrigued by the opportunity to work on a new type of Star Trek show with a fixed setting, Behr accepted the offer. He subsequently played an important part in developing the show's main recurring adversary, the Dominion, and with Piller moving over to another new show, , Behr was the obvious choice to succeed him. Behr therefore became co-showrunner with Piller at the start of the third season, before taking over as the sole showrunner as of , a position he held until the end of the show's run. Behr can be seen sitting at a table in Vic Fontaine's lounge in DS9's finale, , along with other series writers and producers, presumably as part of the holographic audience. In pieces of some background signage (such as the USS Defiant (NX-74205) dedication plaque), there is a listing of Behr's name, meaning that in a literal interpretation, there is a . Among the episodes he has a "special fondness for" are , /, , and . In 1995, Rick Berman praised Behr's work on the fourth season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, saying, "I cannot begin to relate the importance of the work that Ira Behr has put into all of this. The quality of the shows is a tribute to Ira. He is truly pushing his writers to produce above and beyond their already high quality work. He is getting a certain creative element out of his writers. He has become a real inspiration to them and they are all writing beautiful stuff. He's doing a great job." ("Star Trek Update with Rick Berman", ) Morgan Gendel also commended Behr's work on DS9. "Ira's great," Gendel remarked. "He's so straightforward and very direct with writers and to Michael, so you really get a sense of exactly where you stand." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 47) Other Star Trek involvement In 1998, Behr was asked by Michael Piller for his opinion on an early draft of . Piller agreed with many of the suggestions Behr made about the weaknesses in the draft. () Around 2003, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga asked Behr for his opinion on and to offer suggestions on how to improve that series. Behr commented, "Rick called me up, it was his initiative. He asked me had I seen Enterprise, I told him no. He asked if I could look at it – they were thinking maybe of stepping back and that 'this be another DS9 experience,' whatever that meant. I didn't really think it over in terms of what were the chances of that reality happening again. They sent me the three shows, I went in, had a two hour meeting with Rick and Brannon. It was a very cordial meeting, but everything I said I am sure they did not like hearing. I would not liked to have heard it if someone came into my office and talked as bluntly as I was talking to them. Though again, it was done all cordially. After it was over I am sure they were uncomfortable, I was very uncomfortable, we shook hands, Rick said, 'well, all interesting stuff, we'll think it over,' and I never heard from him again. That's the whole story and it's barely a blip in anyone's lives, it has no impact whatsoever on the franchise. It's just something that happened." Ten years later, in , Brannon Braga bluntly recalled that he thought Behr "shit all over the show" during the meeting and that Behr "hated the concept, hated the characters." (ENT Season 2 Blu-ray "Course Correction" special feature) In 2009, Behr participated in an audio commentary on , with Larry Nemecek. Career outside Star Trek Behr was born in New York City, and graduated from Lehman College there. Subsequently, he studied Mass Communications and Theater at Brandeis University where he was offered a playwriting scholarship. However he moved to Los Angeles instead to pursue a career in writing comedies for television and film. But instead of comedy, Behr became known for his television dramas. His first breakthrough was on the James Garner television series Bret Maverick. He later served as story editor for the series Jessica Novack. Behr was also writer/producer of the series Fame, Once a Hero and Bronx Zoo. After Deep Space Nine ended its run, he was involved in many other successful television shows. He was a consulting producer on and was an executive producer on The Twilight Zone (2002-2003). After that, he was the executive producer and writer on René Echevarria's . It was during the writing of The 4400 miniseries that Behr first dyed his beard blue. He commented "There is a story. When we did the first season, it was a miniseries. And they were, let's say, trying to save money, and they would not put us in a studio. They would not get us offices anywhere, as it turned out. So, well, where the hell are we gonna go? You know, we gotta write six episodes... So they put us in Viacom Productions on Wilshire and Westwood, and so suddenly you have this writing staff with all the corporate suits. And it pissed me off, it really did. And we'd be sitting in the offices, and there was a window on my office, and it was frosted, but there was a little bar of clear glass, and every day I'd look up and there'd be eyes staring at me, looking in, I swear to God, and people would come in and go, 'How's it going? How's the scripts going?' I'm going, 'It was going great, until you just interrupted me!' So, I got more and more unhappy with the conditions that we were working under, and I came home one day and I talked to my wife and kids and said, 'You know, I gotta remember, I'm not them and they're not me. How do I keep remembering that?' And my wife said, 'Blue your beard.' And my daughter said, 'Yes yes yes yes yes!' Of course, I had once met Billy Connolly, the comedian, and he had these long ringlets of hair and this little imperial beard; he was like Wild Bill Hickok, and I said, "'Boy, you look awesome, you look great!' And he said, 'I used to want to be the most famous comedian on the planet, now I just want to be the coolest dad at The Oakwood School.' And I said, 'Wow, that's something I have to remember.' And then I decided, hey, Campbell Hall, where my kids go, is even less cool than the Oakwood School, so I could probably be the coolest parent there easily! And at the beginning when I walked in the first time to Jeff [Combs] and all these people, it was like, 'What is going on!?" And it just could not have been better. Now of course they're used to it, and it's a big joke, and it's lost its impact. But my kids like it..." In December 2010, it was announced that Behr would be the showrunner of a new series, . In 2014, Behr joined the staff of Outlander with Ronald D. Moore. Behr was also an associate producer on the documentary That Guy Dick Miller. He currently lives in the Hollywood Hills, California. He and his wife Laura Behr have two children, Roxanne and Jesse. Behr is a fan of The Lord of the Rings movies, as well as The Office, 30 Rock, The Venture Brothers, Deadwood, The Sopranos and Rome. Writing credits (teleplay with Richard Manning, Hans Beimler, and Ronald D. Moore) (teleplay, story with Randee Russell) (story with Sally Caves) (teleplay) (teleplay with Kurt Michael Bensmiller) (teleplay, story with Jeri Taylor) (teleplay) (teleplay with Mark Gehred-O'Connell and Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (teleplay, story with Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor) (teleplay with Gary Holland and Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (story with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (teleplay, story with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (story with James Crocker) (story with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (teleplay with René Echevarria, story with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (teleplay with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (teleplay with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (teleplay with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (teleplay with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Hans Beimler) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (teleplay with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (story with Hans Beimler and Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Hans Beimler) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (teleplay with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) (with Hans Beimler) Bibliography DS9 novels: Legends of the Ferengi (with Robert Hewitt Wolfe) Producing credits ( – ) – Producer ( – ) – Supervising Producer Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( – ) – Co-Executive Producer Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( – ) – Executive Producer Star Trek interviews Online chat with Star Trek:Continuum, 1997 TNG Season 3 DVD special feature "Selected Crew Analysis Year Three" ("Crew Profile: Worf"), interviewed on TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine DVD Preview" DS9 Season 1 DVD special feature "Crew Dossier: Kira Nerys", interviewed on ) See also Archive of Ira Steven Behr's AOL chats External links de:Ira Steven Behr es:Ira Steven Behr fr:Ira Steven Behr it:Ira Steven Behr nl:Ira Steven Behr Writers Performers DS9 performers Producers Star Trek novel authors Hugo Award nominees Star Trek reference authors
1849	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	USS Columbia	The USS Columbia (NCC-621) was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In the 2270s, this scout ship was ordered to rendezvous with the on stardate 7411.4 by Commodore Probert. The orders were relayed through the Epsilon IX station. () External links Forgotten Starships at TrekPlace de:USS Columbia fr:USS Columbia (NCC-621) Columbia, USS
1850	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	USS Revere	The USS Revere (NCC-595) was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In the mid-2270s, the scout ship was ordered by Commodore Probert to rendezvous with the on stardate 7411.4. The order was relayed through the Epsilon IX station. () Appendices Background information In the original version of The Motion Picture, the stardate was 7011.4 but the date was adjusted in the director's version to 7411.4 to better fit the rest of the stardates in the film. Notes regarding dating contradictions for the events in the movie can be found here. The source for this ship, like many other ships mentioned in the radio chatter, was the Star Fleet Technical Manual. The Revere was identified as a starship by this manual. Apocrypha According to the Decipher roleplaying game supplements, this vessel is a starship. External links Forgotten Starships at TrekPlace.com de:USS Revere fr:USS Revere (NCC-595) Revere
1853	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Star Trek Magazine	Star Trek Magazine – known as Star Trek Monthly until issue 110 – was an official magazine, published eight times a year, featuring news, interviews and reviews covering all seven live-action series, and the movies. First published on as a monthly title, the magazine began life in the UK, but soon expanded to Ireland and Australasia, with limited distribution in Europe. Early in its run, the magazine featured reprints of several DC Comics-produced comic strips, but this ended after issue 22. With issue 113, the publication went to a bi-monthly release schedule, and increased its page count from 68 to 100. Before this change, various issues were special "bumper" releases (100 pages, costing £4.99, usually with a gift – typically a Titan-released Trek book) to commemorate a specific occasion, such as the 30th and 35th anniversaries, the end of , and others. A separate North American edition of the magazine came into being in , otherwise synchronized with the UK version for contents, due in part to the loss of the Star Trek: Communicator in 2005, which had aggravated the previous 2003 loss of , leaving the home market devoid of any and all "official" Star Trek franchise magazines. Issue #1 of the run – bi-monthly like the UK edition – was released on . Numbering of the UK edition maintained its internal continuity, with the US #1 being relatively the same as UK issue 128. Later US editions returned to 68 pages in length, with the additional UK pages being inserted in the form of a supplement at the center of the magazine. This practice was quickly discontinued, and the various editions were standardized with issue 134. The magazine began being printed in the United States rather than the UK, meaning that US distribution now takes place some time before UK release. A special cover is available for specialist comic shops ordering via the Diamond Previews magazine. For issue 137, and all subsequent 100-page editions, a new binding format and magazine size was introduced. The issue was perfect bound (instead of saddle-stitched), and measured 8 inches wide × 11 inches high (instead of 9 × 12). The following issue retained the size, but returned to saddle-stitching. With this issue, the UK edition lost its 100-page length, becoming 68 pages long. The magazine is now regularly 100 pages in length. In 2021, after 207 issues, it was replaced by with the first issue published . Recurring sections Hailing Frequencies (Issue 128-present; as The Best of All Worlds, Issue 1-127) News. As of Issue 140, incorporates: Communicator (Issue 35-present; as Communications, Issue 1-34) Readers' letters and Star Trek contact information. A Piece of the Action (Issue 67-103; as The Official UK Star Trek Fan Club Update, Issue 54-66) Update on The Official UK Star Trek Fan Club. Random Thoughts (Issue 82-118, 120) A Star Trek celebrity is asked a series of randomly selected questions. A Fistful of Data (Issue 1-139; Issue 154-present) Richard Arnold, Andrew Darling, and Larry Nemecek (exclusively, from Issue 34 onward), answer fan questions in-depth; beginning Issue 91, the segment "Canon Fodder" looks at an continuity issue in-depth. Log Entries (Issue 146-present; as Replicator, Issue 128-144; as From the Replicator, Issue 13-127) Merchandising and other releases. Originally incorporated the following sections, which had been published as separate items until issue 13: The Most Toys Merchandising. Read Out (briefly as In Review, Issue 35-38) Novel releases. On Screen VHS and DVD releases. Hollow Pursuits (Issue 67-117) Assorted trivia, including Top 10, Greatest Moments in Star Trek, and Unforgettable (notable guest characters). Lost and Found Evolving from a segment in "A Fistful of Data" introduced in issue 117, Larry Nemecek uncovers and discusses the date and context behind rare behind-the-scenes studio stills–initially bloopers, now all kinds–from various Star Trek productions. Data Stream (Issue 104-119) Chris Dows takes a detailed look at an aspect of Star Trek technology. Flashback (Issue 114-130) Focus on a specific Star Trek episode, covering the plot of the episode, with occasional background information. Eye of the Beholder (occasional from Issue 140) Different guest columnists talk about their involvement with the Star Trek universe, usually linked to the issue theme. Developed from: Endgame (Issue 122-139) Another spin-off from a segment in "A Fistful of Data" introduced in issue 117, Larry Nemecek offered a "last word" essay on current Trek topics; occasionally, guest columnists filled in. International editions An edited internationally translated version, the quarterly German-language 68-page Star Trek: Das offizielle Magazin, has been published in the period 1998-2007 by OZ Verlag GmbH, its first issue released in March 1998. With the publication up and running, OZ Verlag offered their readership binders for their magazines in two, "Captains" and "Aliens", variants, something the publisher of the source publication has not done. However, with the next issue already announced, the magazine unexpectedly ceased publication in 2007, which caught magazine subscribers by surprise. In July that year, responding to reader questions, Chief editor Oliver Denker cited failed negotiations with a "mercurial" CBS Consumer Products as reasons for the sudden, and completely unexpected cessation of the publication after only 38 issues. Remarkably, Titan Magazines itself started in December of the same year with an unedited translated 68-page version of the magazine in Germany, its – which as a "special issue" had a 100-page count – becoming the first issue of the monthly Star Trek: Das offizielle monatliche Magazin. However, for otherwise undisclosed reasons, the release did not last very long, and became the last, fourteenth issue in the German magazine release in January 2000. If the later problems of Editor Denker of the contemporary competing magazine had in any way been related, has likewise remained undisclosed. Issues Star Trek Monthly: 1-10 \| 11-20 \| 21-30 \| 31-40 \| 41-50 \| 51-60 \| 61-70 \| 71-80 \| 81-90 \| 91-100 \| 101-110 Star Trek Magazine: 111-120 \| 121-130 \| 131-140 \| 141-150 \| 151-160 \| 161-165 \| 171-180 \| 181-190 \| 191-200 \| 201-210 Star Trek Monthly Star Trek Magazine 111-120 \| 121-130 \| 131-140 \| 141-150 \| 151-160 \| 161-170 \| 171-180 \| 181-190 \| 191-200 \| 201-210 See also Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine Star Trek Magazine - The Archives Star Trek Comic External links – Titan Magazine's official web page for the publication German releases – official site fr:Star Trek Monthly
1860	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Regula	Regula was an uninhabited D-class planetoid in the Mutara sector of the Beta Quadrant. It consisted of various unremarkable ores. According to Captain Spock of the , Regula was "essentially a great rock in space". Regula was orbited by the Federation scientific research laboratory Regula I. The Mutara Nebula was located nearby and the Ceti Alpha system was three days away at warp speed. The Project Genesis team chose this planetoid for their experiments in 2284. The Starfleet Corps of Engineers spent ten months to dig out what would become the Genesis cave. Then, the project initiated the experiment, turning the lifelessness of the planetoid into a new environment, filled with various plant life and water. Later the next year, when the project team thought that Starfleet was commandeering the project materials, Doctors Carol and David Marcus fled to the planetoid to hide along with the Genesis Device. Admiral James T. Kirk and crew arrived to investigate, and found out that Khan Noonien Singh had tricked them and stolen the Device. He tried to maroon them on the planetoid; however, they were rescued by the which had hidden on the other side of Regula. () External link de:Regula es:Regula it:Regula nl:Regula Planetoids
1862	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Curry type	The Curry type Federation starship was in service during the Dominion War. () Ships of the class (NCC-42254) Raging Queen (NCC-42284) Appendices Appearances Background information The Raging Queen has a very similar design to the Curry-type. It may be another of that variant, but with subtle differences due to manufacturing of the vessel - that is, slightly different parts used. It is unclear if this vessel is a Curry-type, or another type designation altogether. For further information on the studio models, see: Curry-type models Technical Manual The following information of specifications and defenses comes exclusively from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual, with regards to the Raging Queen: Type: Medium cruiser Production Base: ASDB Integration Facility, Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, Mars Accommodation: 290 officers and crew Power Plant: Two 1,500+ Cochrane warp core feeding two nacelles; four impulse systems Dimensions: Length: 383.41 meters Beam: 195.64 meters Height: 148.50 meters Mass: 1,270,000 metric tons Performance: Warp 9.75 for 12 hours Armament: Ten type-9 phaser emitters; two photon torpedo launchers External link de:Curry-Typ ja:カリー型 Federation starship classes
1864	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Betazoid	The Betazoids or Betazeds were a telepathic humanoid civilization originating from the Federation planet Betazed in the Alpha Quadrant. Physiology Externally, Betazoids were physically indistinguishable from Humans in every aspect but one: the irises of their eyes were completely black. They could breed with Humans, along with other humanoid races like Klingons and Tavnians. Betazoid iris coloration was present in half-Betazoid individuals such as Deanna Troi, but in those with less Betazoid blood such as Devinoni Ral, Walter Pierce, and Kestra Troi-Riker (who were only ¼ Betazoid), normal Human eye coloration was possible. (; ) Betazoids had a gestation period of ten months. () Betazoids reached rapid eye movement (REM) sleep at a different frequency from other humanoids. () In mid-life, Betazoid females underwent a physiological change known as "The Phase" during which their sex drive increased by a factor of four or more. () Mature Betazoids could also suffer from Zanthi fever, which caused them to lose control over the projective aspect of their empathy. That could result in people around them acting as if they had experienced the same general emotional state as the affected Betazoid, though they were directed by their own subconscious desires, fears, and other emotions. () Telepathic abilities Betazoids were natural telepaths, an ability centered in their paracortex, with psilosynine being a main neurotransmitter. () Most developed their telepathic skill in adolescence, but a few were born with their telepathic abilities already active, such as Tam Elbrun. () These individuals were almost always extremely talented and powerful in telepathic terms, but also unable to screen out the consistent noise of other people's minds, so they generally suffered mental problems of varying severity depending mostly on when the problem was diagnosed. On the other end of the scale were a few individuals who developed psionic abilities that were far below average for the species (for example, Lon Suder). Those Betazoids were barely able to sense even strong emotions (empaths) of other people, much less thoughts. The common psionic abilities of Betazoids extended from sensing thoughts and/or emotions, over projecting thoughts and/or emotions, to manipulating the minds of others. (; ) How capable they were in performing any of those feats depended somewhat on their genetically-defined psionic strength, their psionic training, () their familiarity with the scanned being, their general mental and physical condition, and the species of the subject race. Betazoids can also feel the emotional capacity of animals, and thus were wary of getting too involved in the "passion of the beast" in situations in which they had to rely on an animal, like when riding a horse or keeping of various pets. () Betazoids also were able to read the emotions and thoughts of non-corporeal beings such as Nagilum, the energy vortex, or to gauge the mental prowess of beings such as Q. In essence, a brain based "biology" was not necessary for a Betazoid to register. Other times they were totally unable to read corporeal creature's minds, such as Ferengi and Changelings. Data theorized that the reason they may not have been able to read Ferengi was the structure of their brains. Data himself was able to be read by Deanna Troi when his brother Lore used the emotion chip to transfer powerful emotions to him. One critical weakness of Betazoid telepathy/empathy was that in essence it operates much like any of the typical senses a person possesses (touch, taste, sight, hearing, etc.) that to lose one's abilities an individual may appear inanimate or unrealistic. At one point, when Troi lost her empathy temporarily, she commented that Will Riker was like a holodeck character to her, completely devoid of emotion, as if she had never experienced a lack of empathy from any sentient before. The Traveler was also not able to be read by Troi. Interspecies reproduction involving Betazoids often affected the psionic abilities of the offspring – most commonly the children of such a union developed empathic abilities as their primary psionic talent, while their telepathic abilities, though existing, were rather below average for Betazoids. Usually, the telepathy of those of partial Betazoid heritage, without extensive training, was limited to communication with other empaths or telepaths and full telepathic contact with emotionally very close persons (for example, an imzadi). All full Betazoids were unable to read the thoughts of Ferengi, Breen, Ullians, and Dopterians, but some half-Betazoids were occasionally successful in sensing the emotions of some of these species. Additionally, full Betazoids seemed to even be able to psionically influence some of these species. (; ) In half-Betazoids at least, the ability to sense emotion could be hindered by the individual's own emotion if it was strong enough. () While half-Betazoids could generally tell if somebody was lying, sometimes if the person whose mind was being sensed was experiencing very strong emotions, they had trouble doing so. () Culture and tradition Due to their telepathy, Betazoid culture largely progressed to the point where honesty was embraced by overall society, since the idea of hiding information among a race of telepaths would be functionally impossible; nonetheless, honest feedback was almost to a point considered rude by other cultures. Lwaxana Troi, on numerous occasions, commented on her befuddlement at the Human practice of fibbing to spare others' feelings or for politeness' sake. () While eating, Betazoids expressed thanks for their food by ringing a chime at intervals. () In Betazoid faith, Lwaxana Troi was known to use the exclamation: "thank the four deities you're here." () Betazoids had a complex hereditary nobility; prominent Betazoid diplomat Lwaxana Troi, for example, was "Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, and Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed." Betazoid tradition had children genetically bonded to a future spouse. () The Betazoid wedding ceremony was seen as a celebration of love, therefore all participants (bride, groom and guests) were traditionally nude. (; ) At one time, it was fashionable for Betazoid women to wear elaborate wigs that caged small animals. The practice, which was cruel to the animals, was stopped when one (unknown) woman stood up against it. () The Betazoid government had matriarchal elements, comparable to the Parliament of Angel I. () In the mirror universe, the Betazoids were subjugated by the Terran Empire at some time prior to 2257. Captain and emperor were involved in this action. () People List of Betazoids Unnamed Betazoids Appendices Appearances A list of all appearances of Betazoids (excluding the regular appearances of Deanna Troi): Background information Originally, Gene Roddenberry conceived Betazoid females as having four breasts. He was persuaded not to use this idea by writer D.C. Fontana. (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before paperback ed., p. 110) The black coloration of a Betazoid's eye was achieved by the relevant performer wearing a pair of black contact lenses. The makeup team responsible for devising this method was essentially "trapped in not doing too much," in the words of Makeup Supervisor Michael Westmore. () According to the novel Engines of Destiny, the Betazoids were known to the Borg as Species 1599. External link ca:Betazoides cs:Betazoid de:Betazoid es:Betazoides fr:Bétazoïde it:Betazoide ja:ベタゾイド nl:Betazoid pl:Betazoidzi pt:Betazóide ro:Betazoidi ru:Бетазоиды Betazoid Species Telepathic species
1869	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	A.F.	A.F. were the initials of an "acquaintance" of Jean-Luc Picard. Picard later attributed his failure in Organic Chemistry to his involvement with A.F., whose initials he carved into Boothby's prized elm tree near the parade grounds at Starfleet Academy. () de:A.F. fr:A.F. nl:A.F. Individuals
1870	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Aaron (Admiral)	Admiral Aaron was a male Human Starfleet flag officer in the 24th century. In 2364, Aaron held an important position at Starfleet Headquarters. At some point, Aaron became infected with a parasitic being and was under the control of an alien mother creature that had taken residence in Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick. When the returned to Earth to respond to suspicions of a conspiracy orchestrated by these creatures, Aaron greeted Captain Jean-Luc Picard and invited him to dinner. When Picard arrived, co-conspirators Savar and Tryla Scott, as well as several security commanding officers, all joined Aaron in cornering him in a dining hall and showing him how their people fed on live vermicular lifeforms. When William T. Riker posed as one of the possessed officers in order to recover Picard, Aaron fired on the Enterprise officers and fled, seeking Remmick. Picard and Riker disabled Aaron with phaser fire just outside of Remmick's communications room. The parasite fled Aaron's fallen body and was ingested by Remmick. () Aaron was part of Commander Riker's memories while being infected on the surface of Surata IV and treated in sickbay. () Appendices Background information Admiral Aaron was played by Ray Reinhardt. This senior admiral was originally named "Richard Erik". He was called that in a story outline which Tracy Tormé sent as a memo to Maurice Hurley on (while the episode had the working title "Assassins"). Aaron was described in the script as "old and lean – hollow cheeks and cold, piercing eyes, beneath a shock of white hair." Aaron's rank insignia, a triangle with two pips, would seem to place him above Savar and Mark Jameson, though all three are only described as "admiral". Savar and Aaron are described as "senior admirals" in the script. Apocrypha In the game Star Trek Conquest, Aaron was a player character in a reality where the Milky Way Galaxy was embroiled in conflicts between multiple species and cultures. In 2364, Aaron held the rank of commodore and was in command of a fleet during the conflict. External links bg:Аарон cs:Aaron de:Aaron fr:Aaron (Starfleet Command) nl:Aaron Humans Starfleet Headquarters personnel Starfleet command personnel Starfleet flag officers
1875	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Chantal Zaheva	Captain Chantal R. Zaheva was a female Human officer of the 24th century Starfleet. In the 2360s, she was the commanding officer of the starship until her death in 2367. The Brattain became trapped in a Tyken's Rift, and a telepathic distress call from an alien entity caused a critical disturbance in the brain chemistry of Zaheva and her crew, causing madness for the next month. It also rendered their engines inoperative. Zaheva watched as many of her crew attacked each other, and she along with them. She suspected her executive officer, Commander Brink, was plotting against her and sabotaged the engines. She recorded her fears in her captain's log entries. She finally perished when one of her crew stabbed her in the chest with a knife while she sat in her command chair. Her logs would provide evidence for the when it arrived to investigate their disappearance. () de:Chantal Zaheva Humans USS Brattain personnel Starfleet command personnel Starfleet captains
1876	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Brink	Commander Brink was a Starfleet officer in the 24th century. In the 2360s, he served as the first officer of the until his death in 2367. When the Brattain was trapped in a Tyken's Rift in 2367, he was unable to dream like the rest of the crew. The ship's engines had also become inoperative. Madness spread, and Captain Zaheva suspected Brink and several other crewmen were plotting against her, sabotaging the engines. In the end, all of the crew save one perished through homicide or suicide. () de:Brink USS Brattain personnel Individuals
1877	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Andrus Hagan	Andrus Hagan was a male Betazoid scientific advisor for the 24th century . In 2367, he was assigned to work for Starfleet aboard the starship . When the Brattain fell prey to a Tyken's Rift in 2367, her Human crew eventually went insane and killed each other due to the lack of dreaming. In contrast, he had nightmares he could not control, and therefore got little sleep. The visions he saw were actually telepathic messages from a ship trapped inside the Rift, however, he was not able to understand it or get the crew to take action on it. He became the sole survivor, but almost catatonic. A few weeks later, an away team from the found Hagan, himself either insane or rendered . Hagan was treated in sickbay although Doctor Crusher wasn't able to help him. Troi communicated with him telepathically, but received only information she wasn't able to interpret. With more effort from Hagan, she connected that they were both having the same nightmare, and that it was a message. Once the Enterprise freed the trapped ship, they were able to move away from the Rift and Hagan recovered. () de:Andrus Hagan fr:Andrus Hagan it:Andrus Hagan nl:Andrus Hagan Betazoids Scientists USS Brattain personnel
1878	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Archerite	Archerite was a fictitious mineral invented as a ruse by Andorian Commander Shran, purportedly of great value to the Andorian Mining Consortium. According to Shran, "[e]ven a few kilos will pay our expenses for the next ten s." Archerite was mentioned by Shran in late 2153, as he, while assisting the crew of in investigating a Xindi weapon prototype, attempted to pass off his warship Kumari as a mining scout searching for a rare mineral in the Calindra system – the testing area of the Xindi weapon. When questioned by the skeptical Xindi, he had to think quickly of a name for this supposed mineral. He glanced at Enterprise Captain Jonathan Archer and came up with the name "Archerite". This attempted deception was not accepted, and the Xindi forced the Kumari to leave the system, though not in time to prevent it from gathering valuable technical scans of the weapon. () de:Archerit Fictional Materials
1879	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Rapid eye movement	Rapid eye movement, or REM, was the stage in the sleep cycle where dreams occurred in many humanoid species. Unlike REM sleep, delta sleep was a deep sleep cycle where dreaming does not occur. Betazoids reached REM sleep at a different frequency from other humanoids. () When a humanoid was unable to enter into REM sleep for a prolonged period of time, they might suffer from paranoia or hallucinations. () While raising the mimetic simbiot Sim, Doctor Phlox explained in a letter to Dr. Lucas how he was at a loss to understand how Human adults could endure the REM cycle interruptions that accompany the teething stage of a Human infant. () In 2367, the Tyken's Rift being tried to communicate with the crews of and the during their sleep, and was responsible for the loss of the REM sleep, and eventual madness and death of the Brattain crew. () When Commander William T. Riker wasn't able to sleep properly, due to tampering by solanogen-based lifeforms, Doctor Crusher first assumed that his problems were caused by a lack of REM sleep. () In 2377, Harry Kim asked Seven of Nine if the information she discovered about Unimatrix Zero was part of a dream. The Doctor disputed that, claiming she never reached REM sleep. () External link de:REM-Schlaf Physiology Sleep
1880	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Tyken's Rift	A Tyken's Rift was a massive rupture in space into which energy was absorbed. The rare anomaly was named after Bela Tyken, the Melthusian captain who first encountered it. When Tyken was trapped in the rift, his analysis determined that a massive energy release might overload and dislocate the anomaly. Utilizing his cargo of anicium and yurium, Tyken was able to create an explosion of sufficient power, and subsequently escape through the ruptured center of the rift. In 2367, the starship became trapped in a Tyken's Rift containing an uncharted binary star system after discovering the missing Federation science vessel , whose crew had all killed each other. Succumbing to the same effects as the Brattain crew, the Enterprise crew eventually realized that their condition was being caused by mental transmissions from a telepathic alien trapped on the other side of the rift. By analyzing the messages being received in her dreams, Counselor Troi was able to determine that the alien was requesting that the Enterprise release hydrogen into the rift, where, in combination with a substance the alien would release, it would cause an explosion powerful enough to dislodge both ships. The plan was successful, and both the Enterprise and the alien vessel were able to clear the rift. () In 2371, the location of Tyken's Rift was labeled in the star chart Data and Picard were studying in stellar cartography aboard the . (, display graphic) In 2399, Kestra Troi-Riker claimed that Captain Rupert Crandall of the Inside Straight had "been everywhere, from Qo'noS to Tyken's Rift". () External link de:Tykenspalt ja:タイカン断層 nl:Tyken's kloof Regions
1881	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Andorian ale	Andorian ale was a blue-colored alcoholic beverage concocted by the Andorians. It was typically drunk from shot glasses. Captain Jonathan Archer developed a fondness for Andorian ale. () In 2153, Commander Shran gave Archer several bottles of the drink. () Shortly afterward, Archer tried using Andorian ale to get Degra to loosen up enough to reveal the coordinates for the red giant, , where the Xindi weapon was being held. () In 2154, Shran and Archer toasted the loss of the Andorian battle cruiser Kumari over a bottle of Andorian ale. () In 2371, Tiron ordered a glass of Andorian ale from Quark's. () External link cs:Andorianské pivo de:Andorianisches Ale fr:Bière andorienne ja:アンドリアン・エール nl:Andorian bier Alcoholic beverages Andoria
1883	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Bikini Atoll	Bikini Atoll was a group of approximately twenty islands in Earth's southern Pacific Ocean. In the mid-20th century, the Bikini Atoll became famous for a series of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the armed forces of the United States of America. An image of an atomic bomb blast at the Bikini Atoll proving ground was contained in the library computer aboard the in 2254. () Jonathan Archer compared the Calindra system, used by the Xindi as a weapons testing area in 2153, to Bikini Atoll. () External links – official website de:Bikini-Atoll fr:Atoll de Bikini Earth geography
1884	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Stratagem (episode)	Enterprise captures Degra, the mastermind behind the Xindi weapon project, and Archer tries to trick him into revealing the location of the final weapon. Summary Teaser Captain Archer, disheveled, long-haired, and not in his normal uniform, is on board an unusual shuttle with a grey-haired Xindi-Primate, who is unconscious on the floor. As the Xindi wakes up, the shuttle rocks, and Archer tells him that the ship is being attacked by Xindi ships. Startled and disoriented, the Xindi looks out a portal, and sees two Xindi-Insectoid patrol ships firing at them. He demands that Archer let him communicate with the attacking ships, because they will listen to him. Archer – "It's been a long time since any Xindi took orders from you…" After raising the shields and eluding the attacking ships by dumping warp plasma into their intake manifolds (and thus, Archer reports, overheating their engines), the Xindi demands to be told what is going on – he can't remember anything. Archer tells him his name is Degra, and that, by working together, they've just escaped a Xindi prison colony where they've been held in the same cell for over three years. Degra isn't convinced, and he demands some proof. Archer rolls up his sleeve, and reveals Xindi prison script on both of their forearms. Degra still isn't convinced that a Xindi and a Human could have put aside their differences and become friends so easily. Archer explains about how they used to try and kill each other, but then decided there was no point – both of their species had lost the conflict. Act One Degra is told that the Xindi weapon had been launched against Earth, with the desired effect – Earth had been destroyed. However, since then the old Xindi rivalries had re-emerged, with the Xindi-Insectoids coming out victorious after having stockpiled weapons and ships during the building of the weapon. Many colonies of other species of Xindi had already been wiped out. During the discussion, Degra mentions his family, staying in a colony near a red giant. Archer asks the coordinates but Degra dismisses it as too risky, since they are being followed. Just then, a section of the shuttle's hull is ruptured, and coolant gas is expelled into the cockpit. Degra and Archer work together to fix the leak before settling down for the night. After a few hours of sleep, Archer gets up and uses a hypospray on Degra, then opens the shuttle door. As Archer steps out of the shuttle, it is revealed that the shuttle is in fact some type of simulator, and they are actually inside the . Act Two Archer, , T'Pol, and Hoshi Sato discuss the tricking of Degra. The red giant mentioned by him could be a red herring and would not necessarily mean that it would be the construction site of the weapon; however Archer insisted that his family would certainly live in close proximity to where Degra worked. Another problem is that there were seven red giants in that vicinity. Archer dismisses T'Pol's advice to ask Degra directly and tells them he needs more time with him. Three days earlier, the crew of the Enterprise had returned to the weapon test site and incapacitated a Xindi-Primate ship. After boarding, they found only three Xindi, and that any useful data had already been deleted. They took the three Xindi and searched the ship for anything useful. Archer tried to convince the lead Xindi, known as Degra, to tell him where the weapon was being made. After failing, he decided to try to trick him into telling him. Doctor Phlox told the captain that he can selectively wipe their short-term memories. With this information, Archer decided to create a simulation of a shuttle, and use Degra's wiped memory as an advantage. Captain Archer was implanted with a MACO subdermal transceiver so he could covertly communicate with the Enterprise crew. T'Pol also helped Archer work out the details of the backstory. Phlox created tattoos on Degra's arm as prison markings and injects him with a (harmless) Regulan bloodworm, which Archer tells Degra are a means of interrogation and are the explanation for his memory loss. Back inside the shuttle, Degra is woken again by a sudden jolt. The captain tells him that they're entering a region with high concentrations of spatial anomalies. Apparently the ship's hull was not lined with trellium-D. Archer convinces Degra to send out a distress message to his colleagues, hoping that it won't be intercepted by a Xindi-Insectoid ship. In the command center, Sato and T'Pol are working to gain any information from Degra and the garbled data they recovered from the Xindi ship. Sato intercepts Degra's "transmission", and begins to formulate a reply. Act Three T'Pol is told by Lieutenant Reed that another Xindi ship is approaching the system, about six hours away. Sato reminds T'Pol that Xindi sensors are more advanced than those of the Enterprise, and that they would probably notice them a long time before they arrived in the sector. With that, T'Pol orders the Enterprise back into the debris field of the test moon. Archer and Degra are sharing a bottle of Andorian ale when their message alert sounds. It is a response to their call for help. After clearing it up, the voice claims to be Thalen, one of Degra's colleagues. Sato is using a voice synthesizer of some sort, presumably after having sampled the voice of one of the Xindi prisoners in the brig. "He", tells Degra that "he" is safe on Azati Prime, to which Degra responds by asking if his wife Naara and his daughters are "still there". Degra is convinced to enter the coordinates of the system, and does so, being intercepted by Hoshi who confirms that the coordinates are being encrypted which should validate their authenticity. T'Pol confirms that the coordinates match one of the red giants but will take three weeks to reach at maximum warp. Just then, the Enterprise experiences ship-wide power fluctuations from the debris field that affect the shuttle. Degra notices one of the 'windows' flicker and realizes that he's in a simulation. After asking Archer some questions to validate his story, Degra lunges forward and attacks him with a knife. The Enterprise crew bursts into the shuttle just in time, and take Degra back into custody. Act Four Back in the brig, Degra claims that he worked out the shuttle scenario was a deception when he received the com signal from his colleague as Azati Prime has a deuterium facility run by the Insectoids and would be the last place to hide from them. Although Archer (correctly) suspects he didn't know until the simulator malfunctioned, Degra insists that he intentionally provided false information. The crew discuss if they should head to Azati Prime; three weeks could be a critical waste of time if the weapon isn't located there. Hoshi suggests that the coordinates are genuine as Degra encrypted them, but T'Pol suspects it could have been a double bluff if Degra had indeed already worked out he was being lied to. As there's no way to know for sure, and no time to do the simulator scenario again, Archer puts another plan into action, involving the entire ship this time. Reed bursts into the ship's brig, and demands that two of the Xindi, including Degra, follow him. The ship is being rocked and jolted as they race to engineering, where Archer explains that they've adapted the Xindi technology from their ship to open one of the Xindi's subspace vortices. After Travis Mayweather inverts the warp field and brings them back into normal space, Degra is led with Archer up to the bridge. Once on the bridge, Archer shows Degra a red giant on the main viewscreen. The other officers on the bridge confirm Xindi ships in the sector, along with high levels of kemocite. This is enough evidence for Degra to shout out: "You'll never get close to the weapon! Our defense perimeter will destroy you!" Archer slowly turns round to Degra, and reveals that it has been another hoax, and the viewscreen reverts to show the test site. A stunned Degra is led back to the infirmary. "Thanks for your help," Archer says. After wiping all three Xindi's memories, returning them to their ship, and faking a plasma leak to explain their loss of consciousness, the Enterprise leaves the test site for Azati Prime, on what Archer hopes to be the final leg in their search for the Xindi weapon. Memorable quotes "Too bad he didn't go for the Andorian ale. That would have loosened him up." - Tucker, while Archer tries to get Degra to give him the coordinates for Azati Prime "By capturing us, you've accomplished nothing." - Degra, to Archer "On my mark, initiate a sharp jolt to starboard." "How sharp do you want it?" "Sharp." - T'Pol and Tucker while operating the simulator "The captain's certainly drinking a lot." "The doctor gave him an anti-intoxicant." - Sato and T'Pol observing Archer and Degra drinking Andorian ale in the simulator "When it arrived in your star system, I watched the incoming telemetry with the other members of the council. Seven million lives… were extinguished in front of my eyes. I asked myself how many of those were children? I suppose I've told you this before." "Actually, you haven't." - Degra talks to Archer about viewing the deployment of the prototype weapon while in the simulator "Thanks for your help." - Archer, when Degra ultimately reveals Azati Prime as the location of the weapon Background information Story and script The final draft script of this episode was issued on . The basic story concept of this episode is very similar to that of "36 Hours"; a 1965 film starring James Garner and Rod Taylor, which also inspired "The Train"; a 1967 episode of Mission: Impossible directed by Ralph Senensky and guest starring William Windom and William Schallert. Sets and props The bottle of Andorian ale Archer shares with Degra is a reuse of a Skagaran whiskey bottle seen in the episode . Continuity This was the second episode written by Terry Matalas. The first was , in the same season. In this episode, Phlox refers to Regulan bloodworms as "harmless." Ironically, David Gerrold's rejected "Blood and Fire" script for would have included Regulan bloodworms carrying a dangerous and terrible plague, with a social stigma on carriers. In the teaser, when Archer simulates raising the shuttle’s deflector shields, a computer schematic shows the ship being enveloped by a series of dots. This is similar to computer schematic depictions of the shields being raised (or dropping) on the and in and . Links and references Guest star Randy Oglesby as Degra Co-star Josh Drennen as Thalen Uncredited co-stars Brian Avery as command crewman Douglas Bierman as Xindi-Primate Dominic Calandra as command lieutenant Mark Correy as Alex Paul Eliopoulos as operations crewman Hilde Garcia as Rossi Peter Godoy as operations crewman Glen Hambly as operations ensign John Jurgens as operations ensign Chase Kim as R. Azar Ricky Lomax as W. Woods Aric Rogokos as sciences crewman Ator Tamras as A. Tamras Unknown actors as Command crewman MACO Stunt Double Edward Conna as stunt double for Randy Oglesby Stand-ins David Anderson – stand-in for Anthony Montgomery Jef Ayres – stand-in for Connor Trinneer Dominic Calandra – hand double for Scott Bakula Evan English – stand-in for Dominic Keating J.R. Quinonez – stand-in for John Billingsley Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Scott Bakula Jessica Vash – stand-in for Jolene Blalock Susan Yee – stand-in for Linda Park Unknown performers as Hand double for Jolene Blalock Hand double for Josh Drennen Photo double for Randy Oglesby Stand-in for Josh Drennen Stand-in for Randy Oglesby References amusement; Andorian ale; anti-intoxicant; Azati Prime; ; bath; ; bloodworm; brig; buckling; Calindra system; computer core; coolant tank; debris; defense perimeter; Degra's ship; Delphic Expanse; Denobula; dermal art; deuterium; dilithium; ; Earth; engram; flight school; flight simulator; grasshopper; hair follicle; Human; hydraulics; intake manifold; interrogation chamber; Jaina; kemocite; kilometer; lake; liter; lymphatic system; Maarek III; MACO; Malosian; Malosian cargo shuttle; memory engram; military habitat; Naara; navigational log; navigational deflector; neural pathway; neurophysiology; phase deflector pulse; Piral; plasma conduit; plasma network; plasma tank; prison (prison colony); pylon; reactor coolant; red giant; red herring; Regulan bloodworm; respirator; reunification; sensor drone; sensor; shields; spatial charge; subdermal transceiver; subspace transceiver; subspace turbulence; subspace vortex; tactical alert; trellium; truth serum; warp field; warp nacelle; warp plasma; warp reactor; weapons expert; Xindi-Aquatic; Xindi-Arboreal; Xindi Council; Xindi identification tattoo; Xindi-Insectoid; Xindi-Insectoid patrol ship; Xindi-Primate; Xindi-Reptilian; Xindi reunification; Xindus External links cs:Stratagem de:Kriegslist es:Stratagem fr:Stratagem (épisode) ja:ENT:策略 nl:Stratagem ENT episodes
1886	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Bajoran death chant	The Bajoran death chant was a traditional funeral ritual practiced among some conservative Bajorans and was over two hours long. Ro Laren was one Bajoran who was disdainful of the chant. () External link nl:Bajoran dodenzang Death ceremonies
1887	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Klingon religion	Klingon religion refers to the varied ritual practices and spiritual beliefs of the Klingon race. Sacred texts Texts such as the Paq'batlh ("The Book of Honor"), and the Sacred Scrolls of the Kuvah'magh formed a basis for Klingon belief. () One important religious author was Klavek. () Additionally, some information was passed down orally by High Clerics. () Sacred objects A number of things could be regarded as sacred or holy in Klingon religion. Nay'Poq was considered a holy month. () The planet Boreth was regarded as the most sacred site in the Klingon Empire. () The Caves of No'Mat were a significant pilgrimage site. () There was also a sacred vault on Qo'noS. () Sacred objects included adanji incense, the Beacon of Kahless, the Knife of Kirom, kor'tova candles, the Shroud of Kahless, the Shroud of the Sword, the Sword of Kahless, and the Torch of G'boj. It was customary to display images of Kahless in one's home. () Some ships, such as those commanded by T'Kuvma or Kohlar were considered holy. Beliefs Klingon beliefs might be described as polytheistic, in that a number of supernatural figures were recognized. Nevertheless, imperial cults centered on the historic figures of Kahless the Unforgettable or his rival Molor. () Charismatic or messianic figures, such as the Kuvah'magh, and T'Kuvma, also had devotees. (; ) Creation The mythological place of creation was called Qui'Tu. () Gods were said to have forged the heart of the first Klingon, Kortar, out of fire and steel. Seeing his loneliness, they forged a mate for him. () Because they were "more trouble than they were worth”, the two Klingons “destroyed the gods who created them and turned the heavens to ashes”. () As punishment, Kortar was condemned to helm the Barge of the Dead. () A version of this creation myth was told during the traditional Klingon wedding ceremony. () Afterlife Gre'thor The dishonored dead were ferried across the River of Blood, past the Kos'Karii, aboard the Barge of the Dead. Their destination was Gre'thor, where they would be tortured by a creature known as Fek'lhr. () Sto-vo-kor The honored dead hoped to arrive in Sto-vo-kor, where they would be greeted by the legendary hero Kahless the Unforgettable and join the Black Fleet. (; ) Should a noble warrior die in a manner that might not merit a place in Sto-vo-kor, such as being assassinated in a surprise attack, he may still earn a place, if others dedicated a great battle to his name, thus showing that he had earned respect among the living. (; ; ) When going into battle, Klingon warriors often sang the traditional warriors' anthem, which was essentially an invocation to Kahless and a pledge to win a good death in battle. () Cavern of Despair The Cavern of Despair was the home for those who had died and been forgotten. The dead could not rest in Sto-vo-kor unless the living honored their memories. Consequently, it was a common practice to recite a plea for Kahless to lift family and friends out of the Cavern of Despair. () Burial practices At least until the 23rd century, some Klingons buried their dead in sarcophagi. () However, by the 24th century, many Klingons tended to believe that when a Klingon died, the spirit was considered to have exited the body, leaving behind a worthless shell to be disposed of. () In the Klingon death ritual, it was traditional for those on hand to howl into the sky, as a warning to the afterlife that a Klingon warrior was about to arrive. (; ) In some cases, a funeral dirge was sung in memory of the deceased, or friends sat with the body to protect it from predators, a practice known as ak'voh. () Prophecy The Story of the Promise indicated that Kahless was to reappear in the lava caves on the planet of Boreth. () It was foretold that the discovery of the lost Sword of Kahless would one day unite the Klingon people. () Sacred scrolls foretold the arrival of the Kuvah'magh ("The Savior of the People"). () Formal worship Most Klingons in the 23rd and 24th centuries worshipped Kahless. This was overseen by clerics known as the Followers of Kahless or Guardians. () The Day of Honor was a major Klingon holiday calling for personal reflection. () The Kot'baval Festival was an observance commemorating Kahless' defeat of Molor. () A minority of Klingons continued to identify as Followers of Molor, a sworn enemy of Kahless, in the 23rd century. () de:Klingonische Religion Qo'noS Religion, Klingon
1888	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Risan language	The Risan language was the language of the Risians used on the planet Risa. Ravis spoke Risan. Because Risan culture was so accommodating to others, it was considered unusual for aliens to learn their language. During her visit to Risa in 2152, Hoshi Sato learned the language quickly despite never having spoken it before. According to a Risian woman, Sato spoke the language almost without accent. () Spoken language Words and phrases Danaa? – Really? furanda – beautiful Horga'hn – A fertility symbol Ikara! – Hi! Jamaharon – A sexual rite or activity Lohlunat – The Festival of the Moons lunat – night Na – No preemari – teacher Sara – Thank you tak – good tularee – Exceptionally. (Very good.) Examples of spoken language Hikara. Hello. () Jikara.Hello.Haso furanda lunat.It's a beautiful night.Duet petratta osa petah.You've obviously never been here before.Dano panwali sora?Why do you say that? Lunat setati furanda jaa. The nights are always beautiful. Itti mari Risa. I'm just learning Risan. Danaa? Yutip ferula tani sora. Really? Most people wouldn't bother. Du itti barani somari tybo onik ta nay. When I go someplace I like to learn the language. Kara batta soorah atti konatass? How long will you be here? Zuti tolar ja tolara. Just today and tomorrow. Ittu naren baritti Risa sosa tobar? You've never spoken Risan before today? Naa. Kaytee adatto osa? No. How am I doing? Tilari. Way ittu alo niraal. Exceptionally. You hardly have any accent. Sara. Thank you. Trio p'ittu sapa nwani. It's been very nice talking to you. Na tolara lohlunaat. Ud ittu tuay tostana. We're attending the Festival of the Moons tonight. You should go if you have time. Sara, ittu moronn. Thank you, I'll try. Tak lunat. Good night. Iteveral pal soker uttiti nam pokara. Junat mari ittana. I don't mean to be rude, but I overheard your conversation. You're very adept at languages. Itti oberat. Dalka wutan makbatto wumar. Shikara Hoshi. It's my job. I'm the Communications Officer on a starship. My name's Hoshi. Ravis. Irita? Ravis. May I...? Vi'tammiban iktanna porvort? How many languages do you speak? Motch tona. About forty. Itreva mari iktanna pontarvis? Have you ever heard one you couldn't learn? Naa sol. Kehreht sotola Klingon. Borat terem brakat ju'estal. Not yet. Klingon was hard. It took me months to master the conjugations. Ittu se mari tuson? Do you think you could learn my language? Sora altu ishtu fon? Where are you from? Tak ishtu fon? Pon war ruit. That's the name of your planet? Say it slower. Naa pon faruit. Itam fericuus trekepar. You can't say it any slower. It changes the meaning. Rupassa. Try it again. Parakee omara. Ittu fera barasika. Don't feel bad. My own people can barely speak it properly. Etti duta. Weru tartar etti mari? I'm not ready to give up. Will you teach me? Tika samara puf. Tappa ikun kara. Compasita? It could take a while. I was about to have dinner. Will you join me? it:Lingua risiana Languages
1889	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Kumari	Not to be confused with the 24th-century Talarian warship Q'Maire. The Kumari was an Andorian battle cruiser that was in service with the Andorian Imperial Guard during the mid-22nd century. It was named after the first ice-cutter to circumnavigate Andoria, and was the first starship of her class. History The Kumari was put under the command of Commander Shran in 2142. () The Kumari was capable of speeds in excess of warp five and was armed with advanced weaponry and a tractor beam. In 2154, the ship had a crew complement of eighty-six. () In December 2153, the Kumari entered the Delphic Expanse in search of the Earth starship . After spending several weeks following Enterprises warp trail, the Kumari rendered assistance in capturing a Xindi prototype weapon. It was only discovered later that the Andorians intended to take the weapon for themselves, though Enterprises captain, Jonathan Archer, prevented Shran from doing so by detonating the prototype. The Kumari escaped destruction, but suffered heavy damage. () On February 14, 2154, the Kumari was able to detect the Xindi weapon on its way to Earth through a subspace vortex and followed it, arriving shortly after the weapon and Degra's ship. On Shran's orders, the Kumari provided cover for Degra's ship against Commander Dolim's Xindi-Reptilian warship, enabling Archer and an away team to board the weapon and destroy it, saving the Earth. While Archer was on the weapon, the Kumari continued to engage Dolim's ship and ultimately destroyed it by firing on its unshielded starboard engine. () Later that year, the Kumari was assigned to lead a covert task force of five warships inside a nebula, monitoring local space. Attempting to warn Shran of the Vulcan intent to invade Andoria, Enterprise located the Kumari with the help of Vulcan Ambassador Soval. Though Shran was initially reluctant to trust Soval and the Enterprise crew, he eventually agreed to pass their information on to the Imperial Guard. While the Imperial Guard ultimately agreed to redeploy its forces to counter the invasion, the Kumari was but only one ship in a small and hastily deployed fleet consisting of Enterprise and five other Andorian vessels. The fleet, however, succeeded in holding off a dozen Vulcan cruisers at the Battle of Andoria long enough for Archer, back on , to provide information leading to the removal of Administrator V'Las, leader of the Vulcan High Command and main proponent of the invasion. The Kumari drew fire away from Enterprise on at least one occasion during the battle. () While escorting the Andorian ambassador to a trade conference on Babel in November 2154, the Kumari was destroyed by a Romulan drone ship posing as a Tellarite vessel. Only nineteen of the eighty-six crew members, including Shran and Lieutenant Talas, managed to get away in escape pods. They were later rescued by Enterprise, where Shran and Archer held a toast to the ship, commenting on the futures of both of their ships. () Kumari personnel See: Kumari personnel Appendices Apocrypha The ebook The Future Begins mentions the Federation ship , which was named for this vessel, much as Shran predicted would happen in . Star Trek: Fleet Command features the Kumari as a level 24 3* battleship. Set in 2409, Star Trek Online features a combat ship named for the Kumari. External links cs:Kumari de:Kumari es:Kumari ja:クマリ Andorian starships
1890	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Risian	The Risians or Risans were a humanoid species native to the Federation planet Risa. They resembled Humans, save for a small button-like decoration on their foreheads. They also differed internally, such that in the 2150s a Risian hospital would have difficulty treating a Human. (; ) History Centuries ago, the Risians tamed the earthquakes and rainstorms of their homeworld by installing seismic regulators and a weather control system. By the mid-22nd century, Risa had become well-known as a cosmopolitan vacation destination. (; ) In 2368, Robin Lefler mistakenly referred to the Ktarian game as a "Risian gadget", as William Riker had brought it from Risa. () In 2374, Sirella insulted Jadzia Dax as being a "Risian slut" for hosting a rambunctious party instead of attending the Bre'Nan ritual. () A Risian woman was present at Morn's memorial later that year. () In 2380, several Risians were present in a Risian district on Tulgana IV. () Culture The Risians were known for their sexually permissive culture. The horga'hn, a Risian fertility symbol, was omnipresent in Risian culture. Any individual who displayed a horga'hn statuette indicated their receptiveness to jamaharon, a mysterious and pleasurable sexual practice. Risian women were described as "imaginative" by William Riker in 2366 and as "voluptuous" by Zek in 2369.(; ) However, despite their reputation for hedonism, the Risians were also quite diligent and prided themselves on providing a good experience for vacationers. () The Lohlunat, or "Festival of the Moon", was a popular Risian celebration celebrated at Suraya Bay. () The Risan language was not spoken by many non-Risians, as most visitors did not bother to learn it. () See also Risian lute Risan mai-tai Risian perfume Risian traditional Individuals Arandis Joval Ruon Tarka Unnamed Risians Appearances de:Risaner ja:ライサ nl:Risian Species
1891	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Axanar language	The Axanar language was the language of the Axanar. In 2151, communications officer Hoshi Sato had to learn the language quite quickly in order to clear up a misunderstanding with an Axanar captain, in order to prevent him or an alien vessel from destroying Enterprise. () Written language Some of the cargo containers Menos was carrying when he was arrested in the Pernaia system in 2152 had Axanar writing on them. () Hoshi later kept notated clippings of Axanar text pinned on a bulletin board in her quarters. (, ) Spoken language Words and phrases Dukta-mutoor – ship Kunatsila – distress Dukta-mutoor kunatsila – (The) ship (is in) distress Examples of spoken language Iktuur suktaka, testa tono ista bhur. Owawala kuunat. Iste katsi kolo. Madringu du-stempru. – Kana la staka owawala, Utamilasa testa tono ista bhur. Usha vitar. Itar minuva. Tatal derikuu. – Varoshan. Silah min priku kalani... Recorded Axanar captain's log. () Atad dvii oora! Aureetuan! Mii alo owaba! Minas! Ooran tua calla! (The Axanar captain expresses frustration with Enterprise.) Loor rah tee! Ahtara noss rohnay! (The Axanar captain indicates Enterprise sent a distress call.) Mii toras amayar tee! (The Axanar captain refers to DNA scans.) Atah hoss moor at! Loorah! Atah hoss! (The Axanar captain displays frustration with Enterprises text-based translator.) Ataa duii oora. (Hoshi Sato attempts to explain the situation to the Axanar captain.) Ataa iis? Minas alo. (The Axanar captain's response.) Aata loora iis da! Oorehm miista voor! (Hoshi's response.) Eetova vohmala? (The Axanar captain's response.) Iis da! Tuo, tuo ama tooras da! Veetal, veetal noss ohmeen! Oorah, ootah doee oorah! (Hoshi's response.) Sciitaara. (The Axanar captain's response.) Latoora de... (Hoshi's response.) Emos owaba. (The Axanar captain's response.) Tunmeka. (Hoshi's response.) Aiista. (The Axanar captain's response.) De. (Hoshi's response.) Background information A pronunciation guide for the Axanar language was included in the episode script. fr:Axanar (langue) Languages
1913	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Rigel	Rigel was the primary star of the Rigel system in the Alpha Quadrant. An array of subspace relay stations linked it to Andor. (, okudagram) It was the source of the name for the Rigel Cup. () In 2293, the location of Rigel in the Milky Way Galaxy was labeled in a star chart that was in Captain James T. Kirk's quarters aboard the . (, okudagram) In 2364, the Federation starships and were ordered to recertify the Andor/Rigel link of subspace relay stations. (, okudagram) In 2366, in an alternate timeline, during the , the location of Rigel was labeled on a tactical situation monitor in the ready room aboard the . (, okudagram) In 2367, the location of Rigel was labeled on a tactical situation monitor in Captain Benjamin Maxwell's ready room on the . (, okudagram) Appendices Background information According to the script pronunciation guide for , Rigel was pronounced as "RYE-jell". A cut line in the script of had a Starfleet Command Table Operator report, "Rigel monitoring graphics general data synth with graphic reps on main screen 3," during the Whale Probe crisis of 2286. According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 36) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), the Star Trek universe had two Rigels. The first – Rigel (Beta Orionis) – was the "true" Rigel. This was a bright blue binary star, 773 light years from Sol. The second – Beta Rigel – was a system known for its high percentage of inhabited planets. Four of its planets were M-class. The "true" Rigel was located in the constellation , which is visible on-screen in and on a constellation star chart in . The other Rigel was apparently not a star named by Humans, since Vulcans and Klingons used this name in their native languages and the location of Rigel was not known to Humans before it was learned from the Vulcan star charts in . According to the , the Rigel referenced in Star Trek is the star Beta Orionis. This star is described by the authors as a "bright supergiant star, visible from Earth as one of the 'legs' in the constellation Orion (the hunter)." Apocrypha According to The Worlds of the Federation (p. 36), Rigel and Orion were names for the same star. According to Star Trek Maps (Chart D), the Rigel system was in Beta Orionis. External links de:Rigel es:Rigel ja:ベータ・ライジェル nl:Rigel Stars
1914	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Beta Rigel	Beta Rigel, or, more simply, Rigel, was a star system in the Alpha Quadrant. In 2256, the location of Beta Rigel was labeled on the star chart "Alpha/Beta Quadrant Overview" in the ready room aboard the . () In 2257, during the first , this star system was occupied by the Klingons. () In 2258, the system's location was labeled on a star chart seen on the main viewscreen of the . () In 2259, the location of this system was labeled on a stellar cartography chart that was seen on the 's ready room viewscreen. This system's symbol had a blue color, indicating that it was affiliated with the . () In 2399, the location of Beta Rigel was labeled on a Federation star chart that was in Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy's office at Starfleet Headquarters. The system was in or near Federation space. () In 3190, the location of Rigel was labeled on a star chart used by Commander Paul Stamets for tracking the movement of the Dark Matter Anomaly through the galaxy. () Background information In the episode , the system's name is spelled (Beta) Rigel. The map on which this location appeared was inspired by Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 62) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"). Star Trek: Star Charts was the first to identify this location as a star, explaining on p. 59 that it is distinct from the "true" Rigel, by which it means the of that name. According to p. 52, this Rigel is host to Rigel IV as well as Rigel X, the Rigel Colony visited by on its maiden voyage. As such, the existence of Beta Rigel fixes an issue, as the real Rigel is very remote, given as 773 ly away in the book but more recently estimated at around 863 ly, whereas is set before , which establishes that Enterprise is about 90 ly from home and as such has traveled as far as any Human has ever traveled from Earth. Furthermore, a situation where there are two Rigels explains how there could be both many populated and popular planets with the name Rigel, some apparently even containing Human populations, and yet also seemingly remote and far from civilization planets such as Rigel VII and Rigel XII. In the Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 62) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), the primary of Beta Rigel was an A-class star. Apocryphal According to the ENT novel by Christopher L. Bennett, the Beta Rigel system was the home of the Rigelians, the turtle-like Chelon and the primitive Kalar. See also Rigel Rigel system Beta Antares IV External link Star systems
1917	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Joe Menosky	Joe Menosky is a writer and producer who worked in those roles on which began broadcasting in . He started his Star Trek career as Executive Story Editor during the fourth season of . Besides writing scripts for The Next Generation, , and , he also worked as co-producer on TNG and as producer, supervising producer, and co-executive producer on Star Trek: Voyager. During his time with the franchise, he moved to Europe for three years. There, he wrote and developed television pilots for studio Gaumont in France, while continuing to write scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and then Star Trek: Voyager, on a freelance basis. When he came back to the United States, Menosky joined Star Trek: Voyager in its third season as a writer and producer. Menosky is probably best known as the writer who started inserting the number 47 into his scripts, a tradition carried on by Braga, Ronald D. Moore and others. He is also well known for writing "high-concept" scripts. () Menosky commented on the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine characters: "You can see right away they're not the perfectly engineered humans of TNG. They seem more real. I don't know if that makes them as attractive to viewers or not. But they are really different, and they represent a different way to tell a story. And it was definitely a conscious choice to create that potential for conflict". () In addition to Star Trek, Menosky recently sold a feature screenplay co-authored with Brannon Braga to director called "Real Time". Menosky had been a journalist before working in film and television. He used to be science editor and reporter for 's All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Articles and essays of his have been re-printed numerous times in The Economist, The Washington Post, and MIT's Technology Review, among others. He joined the writing staff of The Dead Zone, a science fiction series from Michael Piller starring Nicole de Boer and worked on the series as executive consultant until 2003. He also wrote the stories for three episodes in 2002 and 2003. He was announced as a writer for on 3 June 2016. The series started airing in September 2017 with Menosky credited as co-executive producer. Menosky officially left the show for The Orville on 21 July 2018. Menosky wrote the episode "Sanctuary", which was directed by Jonathan Frakes and featured Marina Sirtis, F. Murray Abraham, Tony Todd, Victor Garber, Ron Canada, Regi Davis, and Josef Cannon. Writing credits (Season 4) (teleplay with Bruce D. Arthurs) (teleplay Dennis Russell Bailey, David Bischoff, Ronald D. Moore and Michael Piller) (with Ronald D. Moore) Season 4 – Executive Story Editor (26 episodes) (teleplay, story with Philip LaZebnik) (Season 5) (teleplay) (teleplay, uncredited) (teleplay with Michael Piller, story) (story) (Season 6) (teleplay, story with Ronald D. Moore) (with Naren Shankar) (Season 7) (teleplay) (Season 1) (teleplay) (Season 2) (story) (Season 3) (story) (Season 6) (story with Brannon Braga) (Season 1) (teleplay) (Season 2) (teleplay) (story with Brannon Braga) (Season 3) (with Brannon Braga) (with Brannon Braga) (teleplay, story with Brannon Braga) (with Brannon Braga) (with Brannon Braga) (with Brannon Braga) (Season 4) (with Brannon Braga) (with Brannon Braga) (teleplay, story with Jimmy Diggs) (with Brannon Braga) (with Brannon Braga) (teleplay with Bryan Fuller and Brannon Braga) (teleplay with Brannon Braga, story with Rick Berman and Brannon Braga) (with Brannon Braga) (Season 5) (teleplay with Bryan Fuller and Brannon Braga) (teleplay with Brannon Braga, story with Rick Berman and Brannon Braga) (teleplay, story with Eileen Connors and Brannon Braga) (teleplay) (with Brannon Braga) (teleplay, story with Brannon Braga) (teleplay with Brannon Braga, story with Rick Berman and Brannon Braga) (teleplay with Brannon Braga, story with Rick Berman and Brannon Braga) (Season 6) (teleplay) (teleplay with Brannon Braga and Michael Taylor) (teleplay with Scott Miller) (teleplay with Dianna Gitto) (teleplay with Brannon Braga) (teleplay with Brannon Braga, story with Mike Sussman and Brannon Taylor) (Season 7) (with Ted Sullivan) Producing credits ( – ) – Co-Producer ( – ) – Producer Star Trek: Voyager ( – ) – Supervising Producer Star Trek: Voyager ( – ) – Co-Executive Producer ( – ) – Co-Executive Producer External links de:Joe Menosky es:Joe Menosky nl:Joe Menosky Producers Writers Story editors
1921	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Deneb	Deneb was an inhabited planetary star system in the Alpha Quadrant. Four of its planets were Deneb II, Deneb IV, Deneb V, and Deneb XX. It was located between Earth and Argelius II. () In 2293, the location of Deneb in the Milky Way Galaxy was labeled in a star chart that was in Captain James T. Kirk's quarters aboard the . (, okudagram) See also Deneb (Kaitos) External links de:Deneb Kaitos fr:Deneb ja:デネブ nl:Deneb Star systems
1924	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems	The Yoyodyne Division (also known as Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems or YPS) was a shipbuilding entity. In the 22nd century the YPS pulse fusion was utilized in colony ships. () In the 24th century the Division built starships for the United Federation of Planets at various shipyards including 40 Eridani A Starfleet Construction Yards, Copernicus Ship Yards, and San Francisco Fleet Yards. The firm had an office on Deep Space 9's Promenade. () Ships built See also Yoyodyne pulse fusion External links de:Yoyodyne Division ja:ヨーヨーダイン推進システムズ nl:Yoyodyne divisie Earth agencies Federation agencies
1928	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Rigel system	The Rigel system was an inhabited planetary system in the Alpha Quadrant. The system consisted of the primary Rigel, at least twelve planets, and an asteroid belt, and was home to the Rigel, or Rigellian, colonies. (; ) In the mid-23rd century, the Rigel system was part of the most densely populated section of the Milky Way Galaxy. () The species living in the system include the Rigelians of Rigel V, () the similarly-named Rigellians, () the Kalar of Rigel VII, () and the of Rigel IV. () By the mid-23rd century, there were also Humans living in the Rigel system. () The Rigellian hypnoid and Rigellian ox were animal species native to the Rigel system. (; ) Ratana trees were also from this system. () The Barros Inn was known to be one of the wildest bars in the system. () Rigelian chocolates and the Rigelian flamegem were other items that originated from this system, as were the diseases Rigelian fever and Rigelian Kassaba fever. (; ; ) "Moon over Rigel VII" was a song with fairly simple lyrics, inspired by a natural satellite of Rigel VII. () The substance selgninaem was processed in this system for use as a catalyst in industrial biochemical substances. (, okudagram) Location The system was located less than ninety light years from the Sol system. () In the 2250s, the Rigel system was several weeks away from the Vega colony at the maximum cruising speed of a heavy cruiser. () In 2293, the location of Rigel in the Milky Way Galaxy was labeled in a star chart that was in Captain James T. Kirk's quarters aboard the . (, okudagram) In 2367, the location of Rigel was labeled on a tactical situation monitor in Captain Benjamin Maxwell's ready room on the . (, okudagram) In 2376, the location of Rigel was labeled on a star chart in astrometrics on in 2376. (, okudagram) In 2366, in an alternate timeline, during the , the location of Rigel was labeled on a tactical situation monitor in the ready room aboard the . (, okudagram) History By the mid-22nd century, this system had been charted and explored by several species including the Klingons and the Vulcans. Both races knew it as Rigel. In 2151, the system became known to Humans as well, when Captain Jonathan Archer used Vulcan star charts to plot a course there. The Rigel system was the first star system visited by , the first Earth starship with the warp 5 engine, after it departed from the Sol system. The Rigel colony on Rigel X was a popular trade complex at the time, visited by numerous species. () By the mid-2150s, Rigelians from Rigel V were visiting Earth. () In early 2155, the Rigelians participated in talks discussing their wish to join as a possible member in the Coalition of Planets along with Humans, Tellarites, Andorians, Coridanites, Denobulans, and Vulcans. () In 2254, a landing party from the was attacked by the native Kalar warriors on Rigel VII. () By the 24th century, the Kalar castles of Rigel VII had become tourist attractions. () In 2266, several women on Rigel IV were murdered by Redjac. () During the same year, Harcourt Mudd, using the illegal Venus drug, attempted to sell Eve McHuron, Ruth Bonaventure, and Magda Kovacs to lithium miners on Rigel XII. () Some time before 2267, Leonard McCoy visited Rigel II where he met two female cabaret dancers. () In 2267, the Rigel system had a population in the millions. This system was threatened by the planet killer until the combined efforts of the starships and USS Enterprise destroyed the extragalactic doomsday weapon. () In 2327, Ensign Jean-Luc Picard had two dates on Starbase Earhart with Penny Muroc, who was from the Rigel system. () In the 2360s, Starfleet Academy cadets of the Nova Squadron won the Rigel Cup, a competition in which fighter pilots competed for piloting excellence. () During the Dominion War, the Federation maintained a pergium refinery on Rigel IV. () In an alternate future, Geordi La Forge lived with his wife and children on Rigel III. () Appendices Background information According to StarTrek.com, Rigel was located in the Alpha Quadrant. According to the pronunciation guide for , Rigel was pronounced as "RYE-jell". In "Two Days and Two Nights", the set a milestone several months after its mission to Rigel X by becoming the first Earth ship to travel ninety light years away from the Sol system. In the real world, the star , or Beta Orionis, is a star located 773 light years from the Earth in the constellation . This constellation was seen on screen in and on a constellation star chart in the . According to Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual, Starbase 134 was located in the Rigel system, on Rigel VI. It was home to one of Starfleet's many ASDB Integration Facilities and was a major production base for building starships and Type 15 shuttlepods. According to Star Trek: Star Charts (pp. 36, 45, 59, "United Federation of Planets II") and the Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), there were in fact two systems, both located in the Beta Quadrant, that were called the Rigel system. These were Beta Rigel and Beta Orionis. Beta Rigel was a star named by Earth astronomers for its perceived proximity to Beta Orionis. Beta Rigel was a spectral type A5V star with an absolute magnitude of 6.2. The Beta Rigel System was in fact located relatively close to the Sol system and was explored in the mid-22nd century. Of the ten planets in this system, four of them were classified as M class. In the mid-22nd century, the Beta Rigel system was a destination on the space lanes. In 2151, the visited this system on its maiden voyage. The system, in 2378, was a destination on the major space lanes, and the system's inhabited planets were Federation members. A similarly named Rigel Beta ultimately made its way into canon in . Beta Orionis, also known as Rigel, was a binary star system. Rigel A was a B class star with a magnitude of -7. Rigel B was a B class star. Beta Orionis was located 773 light years from the Sol system, in non-aligned space in the Beta Quadrant. Apocrypha According to the reference book The Worlds of the Federation (p. 36), the Rigel system and the Orion system are one and the same, Rigel VIII being of the Orion species. According to the book, Rigel II and Rigel IV were colonized by Humans. According to Star Trek Maps ("Chart D"), the Rigel system was located around the real star Beta Orionis. The chart also references Rigel VIII as the planet Orion. According to the Last Unicorn Games and Decipher role-playing games, the Rigellians were known as "Chelarians" and they were from Rigel III. External links de:Rigel-System ja:ベータ・ライジェル星系 nl:Rigel systeem Star systems
1929	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Rigel V	Rigel V was the inhabited fifth planet of the Rigel system. Prior to stardate 3842, an experimental medical trial of a chemical stimulant was successfully completed on Rigelian test subjects on this planet. This stimulant sped up reproduction and replacement of blood in the body. () Appendices Background information This planet's quadrant of origin is inferred based on the position of its star system as seen in the star chart appearing in . During the Whale Probe crisis of 2286, a Starfleet Command Table Operator reported that they were updating graphics from Rigel V. The line mentioning this location was scripted for , but was ultimately unused in that film. According to Star Trek: Star Charts (pp. 52, 59, "United Federation of Planets I"), Rigel V, also known as Beta Rigel V, was an M-class planet. The planet was a member planet of both the and the United Federation of Planets. Rigel IV was admitted, along with the United Rigel Colonies, to the Federation in 2202. Apocrypha According to The Worlds of the Federation (p. 36), Rigel V became a Federation member in 2184. The novel Tower of Babel depicted Rigel V as the home of the Jelna, the Rigelians seen in Star Trek: Enterprise. They were the first species in their system to achieve spaceflight and made contact with their neighbors, the Zami of Rigel IV and the Chelons of Rigel III. Together, all three native species as well as extrasolar immigrants formed the system-spanning United Rigel Worlds and Colonies, which were admitted into the Federation in 2164. External link de:Rigel V es:Rigel V ja:ベータ・ライジェル5号星 nl:Rigel V pl:Rigel V Rigel 05
1932	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Tox Uthat	The Tox Uthat was a quantum phase inhibitor, a device capable of halting all nuclear fusion within a star. It was described by Ajur as "a crystal cube that fits in the palm of the hand." Invented by a scientist named Kal Dano in the 27th century, the Uthat was almost stolen by two Vorgon criminals, Ajur and Boratus. In order to prevent the Uthat from falling into the wrong hands, Dano traveled back in time to the 22nd century and hid it on Risa. By the 24th century, the history of the Uthat had passed into local legend. A Federation archaeologist, Samuel Estragon, and his assistant Vash took an interest in finding the Uthat. After Dr. Estragon's death in the 2360s, Vash carried on the search, with financial backing from Estragon's some-time associate, a Ferengi named Sovak. However, Vash betrayed Sovak and traveled to Risa without him. In 2366, Vash found the Uthat buried in a cave on Risa, and subsequently threw Sovak off her trail with the assistance of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Ajur and Boratus traveled back to this point in time, having discovered from historical records that Picard would locate and destroy the Uthat. Posing as security officers, they attempted to convince Picard that they were interested in securing the Uthat for safekeeping. However, when Vash informed him that it was two Vorgons who attempted to steal the Uthat in the first place, Picard destroyed it using Transporter Code 14, to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands, thus fulfilling his role in history. () Appendices See also Nuclear inhibitor Quantum implosion Trilithium weapon Apocrypha In Q's Guide to the Continuum, Q says that the Vorgons would not have been a threat even if they had gotten their hands on the device; that in almost every possible reality where they found it, they ended up blowing themselves up with it. But then, Q does have a very strange sense of humor. The Tox Uthat returns in the Star Trek Online episode "Sunrise". Players also meet its creator, Kal Dano, who came from the 31st Century to save his ancestors from their star dying and wiping out their race. However, it was a plot by the Tholians to obtain the device, who steal it when his ship is overwhelmed. The following episode "Stormfront" has the player character and Kal Dano attempt to retrieve the Tox Uthat, only to have it used to kill a star and threaten the homeworld of the Na'kuhl. The two time travel to the 22nd century and bury it on Risa for Picard to fulfill his role in history. In the Agents of Yesterday story line, Agent reveals that Picard had in fact faked the Tox Uthat's destruction by using a transporter, and joins the player in taking the device from its secure vault beneath Starfleet Headquarters during the Breen attack on Earth in 2375. The Tox Uthat is then brought to the 26th century, where it is installed aboard the to defeat the Sphere-Builders at the Battle of Procyon V. External link de:Tox Uthat es:Tox Uthat Weapons
1935	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	The Xindi (episode)	Six weeks into the Delphic Expanse, the crew is tipped off by a freighter captain who knows a lone Xindi working on a remote mining colony. (Season premiere) Summary Teaser The Xindi Council is discussing the coincidental arrival of the "Earth ship." The Xindi-Reptilians and Xindi-Insectoids believe it is the beginning of an invasion. Jannar asks when the weapon will be ready. Degra says he needs time to run some more tests, but Dolim believes they will accomplish nothing if "all you do is run tests". Dolim is asked to learn everything he can about Enterprise. Act One Enterprise is en route to a trellium mining facility. A freighter captain of "questionable character" (according to Reed) has provided them with a tip that one of the miners there is possibly Xindi. Reed wants to proceed with caution. Archer turns to Reed and asks him what room they're in. It is the new command center, which used to be a storage bay for conduit housings. Archer tells Reed that they don't have the liberty of being safe or cautious anymore. In six weeks they haven't collected any data, so the lead given to them by the "freighter captain of questionable character" is all they have, then Archer is satisfied. In the mess hall, Hoshi Sato approaches a table with MACOs sitting round it, so she joins them. They introduce themselves as Major Hayes, Sergeant Kemper, and Corporals Romero and Chang. When asking Kemper about Phlox, Sato surprises him by saying where he was from, Duluth, Minnesota. Major Hayes tells Kemper that Sato is a linguist, and that, given enough time, she could probably tell him which street he grew up on. Chang asks where they're headed, but Sato says that the captain will let them know at the right time. Excusing themselves, the MACOs leave for a briefing. Tucker takes Archer to Cargo Bay 2, where all the equipment has stuck itself to one of the walls. Archer wonders if it is the grav-plating, but Tucker says it isn't. They watch for a moment as suddenly the equipment is sent flying to the opposite wall, where again it attaches itself. Archer asks Tucker to seal it off. T'Pol enters sickbay where Phlox is studying epithelial cells taken from the corpse of the Xindi pilot recently recovered. It turns out that he has Reptilian characteristics. T'Pol asks Phlox why he needed her. Phlox tells her about Tucker, who is struggling with sleep because of the death of his sister. He has been using sedatives, but wants T'Pol to try Vulcan neuro-pressure with him. T'Pol thinks that Tucker wouldn't have the patience for it. Reluctantly, she agrees. Unfortunately, Phlox has already asked Tucker if he would like to try the neuro-pressure, and he declined. Enterprise arrives at the mining facility, and Archer and Reed go down in a , to meet the foreman at the mine. When talking to him, he wants Archer to give him something so that they can meet the Xindi miner – half a liter of platinum. Reed says it would take some doing, but it is possible. Archer demands to see the man and confirm that he really is Xindi, however, the foreman gives them a finger belonging to the Xindi, claiming it was an "unfortunate accident." In the meantime, Tucker wakes up from a nightmare of watching his sister die when the Xindi probe fires its weapon. Act Two Phlox has studied the finger and found that he is and is not Xindi. In relation to the corpse however, the base-pair sequencing is much closer than that of Humans and chimpanzees. He notes that while the corpse was of a Reptilian, the finger isn't. Tucker enters, and tells Archer that 200 relays must be stripped, but it'll be done by the afternoon. Archer leaves, while Tucker asks Phlox for "something stronger" to help him sleep. Phlox tells him to return at 2200 hours, and he'll see what he can do. Back on the planet, Archer prepares to hand over the platinum, but the Xindi's work group is still asleep. Archer tells him that he can wake them early, because it took his people half the night to get the platinum. The foreman agrees. Taking them down to one of the lower levels, Tucker asks the foreman what trellium-D is used for, to which the foreman replies, "insulation, mostly for interstellar vessels." The Xindi, Kessick, is shoved into the area, and Tucker gives the platinum to the foreman, who tells them to take their time, and promptly leaves with his guards. Archer gets straight to the point, asking him if he is Xindi and where their homeworld is, as he has "important business" with them. Kessick says he'll tell them, but only if Archer helps him escape. Tucker confronts Kessick angrily – and rather forcefully – prompting Archer to tell him to take it easy. T'Pol contacts Archer, telling him that three warships are on the way. Realizing that they have to leave, albeit without the information that they wanted, Archer and Tucker make their way to the door – only to find it locked from the outside. Kessick says he can take them back to the shuttlepod, but he has to go with them. T'Pol is contacted by the mine foreman, who tells her that Archer and Tucker will be "slightly delayed", as they've had to start deionizing the landing decks for the three incoming "cargo ships." He explains that the ships are heavily armed because trellium-D is highly valuable, but Reed doesn't buy it. Archer, Tucker, and Kessick are wading through waist deep sewage and reach an access port. The trio gain access, and start climbing. Reed and Hayes are discussing their plans as T'Pol enters. Hayes thinks Reed's security team is too valuable to send on the mission, saying that they'd be better off defending Enterprise should an armed force come on board. T'Pol agrees with Hayes, but leaves the decision to Reed. He asks Hayes to select six of his men, but Reed himself will lead the mission. After Hayes leaves, Reed tells T'Pol that coming from a military family, he's seen men like Hayes all his life. Hayes just thought his team would be more successful than Reed's. Act Three Back on the planet, one of the guards reports to the foreman telling him that Archer, Tucker, and Kessick have escaped. The foreman tells the guard to put a security force at the shuttlepod. Meanwhile, the escapees are scaling a vertical wall, with small indents so they can hold on to it. Archer asks Kessick why he hasn't used the duct before, but the atmosphere is about 30 times more toxic on the surface and there has never been a ship "waiting for him" before. Mayweather pilots the second shuttlepod down to the planet's surface, and tells them that they only have half an hour to complete the rescue mission. Meanwhile, the foreman has detected the escapees. He asks the guard to reroute the plasma flow into their section. Kessick tells Archer about the five species of Xindi. Their conversation is interrupted by the emergency baffles being closed, and the sound of the plasma coming towards them. As they don't know how far up the next access port is, Tucker suggests they go back to the previous one, which means sliding down – and fast. Archer makes it in time, and Tucker and Kessick push each other out of the way to get in safely as well. Both are pulled in by Archer, who closes the port just in time. Tucker fumes at Kessick, who can only stare open-mouthed at the guards who have just arrived. Kessick tries to feign innocence, claiming that they took him with them. He thanks them, and receives a hit in the face by one of the guard's rifles. Archer and Tucker carry Kessick to an open area, where the foreman says that they are too much trouble – so they must be killed. As they are taken away, the MACOs abseil in, starting a firefight. The foreman gets away, but the Earth commandos make short work of the mining guards, killing several. One of the MACOs is injured, but Archer helps him up. When the firefight is over, Kessick begs Archer to take him back to Enterprise as well, promising him the co-ordinates of the Xindi homeworld. Archer agrees. As Reed contacts Mayweather, telling him to set down, more shots come from the mist. One hits Kessick, who collapses. One of the MACOs uses his scope to shoot down their attacker – who just happens to be the foreman. On Enterprise, T'Pol asks Sato to tell the shuttlepods to dock simultaneously, as the warships are closing. The Enterprise then goes to warp. Act Four "Captain's starlog, supplemental. The three alien warships followed Enterprise for nearly an hour but couldn't keep up with us. I guess they'll have to look elsewhere for new additions to their labor force." Phlox enters Archer's ready room and apologizes, telling him there was nothing he could do. Kessick has died. Fortunately for Archer, Kessick told Phlox something with his dying breath, saying that Archer would know what he meant. They are the co-ordinates. Tucker tells Reed that he's been in the shower for two hours, but still can't get all of the trellium out of his hair and from under his nails. He also tells Reed that the rescue team did a pretty good job, but he's sure that Reed's security team could have done just as well, which Reed dismisses with a smile. Reed says goodnight to Tucker, who enters sickbay. He asks Phlox for something to sleep, so Phlox gives him an injection. He then asks Tucker to deliver some bioscans to T'Pol's quarters, as he is busy with work. Tucker says it is no problem. As he leaves, Phlox walks to a comm panel and contacts T'Pol, saying that she has her work "cut out for her." He also says that he injected Tucker with a placebo. Tucker arrives at T'Pol's quarters, giving her the bioscans. T'Pol asks him to sit down. Tucker says he wouldn't be very good company, and still needs to take a few showers. T'Pol offers him a cup of tea, but he graciously declines. T'Pol says that she has been having trouble sleeping as well. She says that Vulcan science teaches them to prompt their own bodies to create medicine, but she can't reach the neural nodes that need stimulating. She asks Tucker to help her, then offers the same in return. Unfortunately, Tucker thinks she's making sexual advances, before claiming that his 'sedative' is starting to kick in, but T'Pol tells him about the Vulcan neuro-pressure that Phlox wanted him to try. T'Pol says she told Phlox this wouldn't work, that Trip is intransigent and unwilling to compromise. Trip protests that he is too willing to compromise. "Then take off your shirt." He does, and T'Pol begins the treatment. Enterprise arrives at the co-ordinates given to them by Kessick. There is no sign of technology, ships, or even planets. Archer fumes that he lied to them, but Trip questions why the Xindi would use his last breath to lie about the location of his homeworld. Mayweather detects a debris field, too big for a ship. T'Pol discovers that it was a planet, 120 years in the past. Trip detects indicators that there had been a civilization there, including an alloy that matches the probe that attacked Earth. Archer orders them deeper into the Expanse, although Reed detects more concentrated spacial distortions ahead. In the Xindi Council chamber, Dolim reports that Enterprise has scanned the debris field and left. They are headed for the Orassin distortion field. Jannar laughs, saying that it is unlikely they'll survive. The Xindi-Insectoid councilor thinks they may survive, and wants to destroy them instead. Degra says it would be best to remain hidden, in case it is the first ship of an invasion force. The Xindi-Insectoid tells them to finish the weapon quickly or he will destroy Enterprise, with or without the council's approval. Memorable quotes "Military Assault Command..." "Captain Archer said he wanted the best." - Hoshi Sato and Major Hayes "Try not to breathe." - Archer, to Reed while on the mining planet "I'm certain, with your delicate guidance..." "Delicate' is not a word I associate with Mr. Tucker." - Phlox and T'Pol "Why would you do this?" "Unfortunate accident." - Archer and the Alien Foreman, discussing how he came to be in possession of Kessick's finger "You know, I'm not sure why but I'm just itching to kick the hell out of you!" "Trip – take it easy." - Tucker forcefully grabs Kessick while Archer tries to calm him down "If they get back to their starship, I'll lose nearly a hundred new workers!" - Alien Foreman, when Archer and Tucker escape and head for Enterprise "Sewage takes on a whole new meaning when it comes from... a dozen different species." - Archer "The son of a bitch lied to us!" - Archer, after discovering the destroyed Xindi homeworld Kessick sent Enterprise to "The doctor injected you with a placebo. He sent you here because he wanted me to persuade you to try Vulcan neuro-pressure. As I predicted it was a pointless exercise." "Why didn't he just ask me?" "He did. You refused." - T'Pol and Tucker "Please disrobe." - T'Pol, to Tucker "The doctor knows how intransigent you can be." "Intransigent?" "Unwilling to compromise." "I know what it means, but it just so happens, it's not true. I'm as willing to compromise as everyone else..." "Then take off your shirt." - T'Pol and Tucker Background information Story and script This was the opener for the third season of and the beginning of the year-long Xindi incident story arc. ENT co-creator and Executive Producer Brannon Braga recalled, "We looked at 'The Xindi' as a pilot of sorts. We were re-establishing an Enterprise that was going to be a little bit different this year, so we had to think of it in those terms [....] We wanted to set the new tone right away, that this isn't going to be your typical season, and get everything rolling. So we really wanted to set up the MACOs and to establish the Xindi right away. We thought it would be kind of startling to just plop them out and say, 'Here they are." () This episode's final draft script was submitted on . Cast and characters Stephen McHattie, Randy Oglesby and Rick Worthy all appeared in . McHattie starred as Senator Vreenak in , Oglesby starred as both Ah-Kel and Ro-Kel in , as well as Silaran Prin in , and Worthy starred as Kornan in . Scott MacDonald previously appeared as N'Vek (), Tosk (), Goran'Agar () and Rollins (). Steven Culp appeared in a deleted scene from , as Commander Martin Madden. Daniel Dae Kim previously appeared in , as Gotana-Retz. Production The "Trellium-D dirt" in the mine was created by throwing lots of blue-painted Styrofoam into a wood chipper. Bits of the Styrofoam stuck to everything, and was tracked all over the Paramount Pictures lot. ("The Xindi" text commentary, ENT Season 3 DVD & Blu-ray special features) The Xindi-Reptilian uniforms were actually Reman costumes from with metal coils added to the shoulders. This is the first episode to use the newly modified version of "Where My Heart Will Take Me" in the opening credits. Continuity This episode marks the first appearances of some of the Xindi regulars: Degra, Jannar, Commander Dolim, Kiaphet Amman'sor, the Xindi-Primate councilor, the Xindi-Insectoid councilor and the Aquatic councilor. The Aquatic and Insectoid species are subtitled; the other species are heard in English. This was the first episode to feature T'Pol and Tucker's neuro-pressure sessions. This episode features the first appearance of Enterprises new command center as well as T'Pol's new civilian look. In addition, her eyebrows are now swept up in the traditional Vulcan manner. An orange Benzite-looking species can be seen in the trellium-D mining facility. The miltary personnel Archer requested in the previous episode, "The Expanse", are shown and identified for the first time as members of the Military Assault Command Operations, or "MACO". Even though Major Hayes would outrank a Lieutenant, he calls Reed "Sir", suggesting the MACOs agreed that Enterprise' chief of security would have authority over them while they serve aboard a Starfleet vessel. The scene where the MACOs descend on ropes and fire their weapons (during the rescue of Captain Archer from the mining facility) was reused in an altered opening credit sequence for and . When asking T'Pol to give Tucker neuro-pressure, Phlox asks if she has any siblings, and says, "Commander Tucker had one sister", seemingly ignoring the brother Tucker mentioned "practicing the two-step with" in , although Phlox might just have wanted to emphasize the sibling Tucker lost. Nonetheless, the brother is never mentioned again in the series. The concept of abducting crews from passing ships, and forcing them to work at the mining facility was previously visited in the episodes and . This episode takes place six weeks after the events of . Reception Brannon Braga commented about this installment, "It was a big episode, [...] very ambitious." Braga more specifically remarked that – because this outing established the MACOs and the Xindi, as well as featuring "an adventure with us and the Expanse" – the episode set up "a lot of stuff." () Following this episode's production, bits of the Styrofoam used in this installment was often found on the Paramount lot during the rest of Star Trek: Enterprise, even when the main sets were being taken apart after the series finale, . ("The Xindi" text commentary, ENT Season 3 DVD & Blu-ray special features) The costume worn by Adam Taylor Gordon as the young Trip Tucker in the Florida dream scene was auctioned off in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction. Links and references Guest Stars Richard Lineback as Kessick Stephen McHattie as Alien Foreman Tucker Smallwood as Xindi-Primate councilor Rick Worthy as Jannar Randy Oglesby as Degra Scott MacDonald as Dolim Marco Sanchez as Daniel Dae Kim as D. Chang Nathan Anderson as N. Kemper And Steven Culp as "Major Hayes" Co-Stars Chris Freeman as Alien Head Guard Adam Taylor Gordon as Young Trip Uncredited Co-Stars Aldric Horton as Xindi-Arboreal councilor Steve Blalock as alien mine guard Dean Bower as alien mine guard Gary Buckner as alien slave miner Cole Chipman as alien mine guard Jason Collins as R. Ryan Marvin De Baca as alien mine guard Drew Delaine as alien mine guard Kevin Derr as Evan English as Tanner Mike Flanigan as alien slave miner Duncan K. Fraser as Walsh Tim Gallegos as alien slave miner Hilde Garcia as Rossi Jeff Hatch as alien mine guard Rabia Louis Haynes as alien slave miner Michael Hugghins as B. Scott Noriaki Kamata as alien slave miner Lalita Lauren as sciences ensign Clint Lilley as alien mine guard Michael McAdam as command crewman David McElhinny as alien slave miner Dorenda Moore as S. Money Michael Northern as alien mine guard Louis Ortiz as Xindi-Reptilian councilor Bobby Pappas as operations crewman Scott Pierce as alien slave miner Erin Price as Elizabeth Tucker Cesar Rodriguez as sciences lieutenant James Sauder as alien mine guard Teddy Schilz as alien slave miner Tim Sitarz as alien mine guard Paul Sklar as R. Richards Monika Spruch as sciences crewman Rob Steiner as alien slave miner Walter Tabayoyong as alien slave miner Chris Torres as B. Moreno Michelle Van Den Broeck as sciences crewman Chad Wolfinbarger as alien slave miner Scott Workman as alien mine guard Susan Yee as sciences crewman Unknown performers as Benzite worker Dee'Ahn's species worker Elizabeth Tucker (young) Tygarian worker Stunt Doubles Shawn Crowder as stunt double for Connor Trinneer Vince Deadrick, Jr. as stunt double for Scott Bakula Derek Mears as stunt double for Chris Freeman Tom Morga as stunt double for Richard Lineback Stand-ins David Keith Anderson – Stand-in for Stephen McHattie Stand-in for Anthony Montgomery Jef Ayres – stand-in for Connor Trinneer Dominic Calandra – hand double for Scott Bakula Evan English – CGI stand-in: Xindi-Insectoid councilor Stand-in for Dominic Keating Utility stand-in Tarik Ergin – CGI stand-in: Xindi-Insectoid councilor Stand-in for Richard Lineback John Jurgens – Stand-in for Steve Blalock Utility stand-in Louis Ortiz – Stand-in for Steven Culp Utility stand-in J.R. Quinonez – Stand-in for John Billingsley Utility stand-in Andre Rhodes – stand-in for Chris Freeman Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Scott Bakula Jessica Vash – stand-in for Jolene Blalock Susan Yee – Stand-in for Linda Park Utility stand-in Unknown performers as Hand double for John Billingsley Hand double for Stephen McHattie Stand-in for Nathan Anderson Stand-in for Daniel Dae Kim Stand-in for Adam Taylor Gordon Stand-in for Scott MacDonald Stand-in for Randy Oglesby Stand-in for Marco Sanchez Stand-in for Tucker Smallwood Stand-in for Rick Worthy References alloy; analogy; antimatter relay; Atlanta; base pair; boarding party; cargo bay; Celsius; centimeter; chimpanzee; cobalt; command center; conduit; corporal; cup; debris; Delphic Expanse; Denobulan; dozen; Duluth; duranium; Earth; epithelial cell; ETA; EV suit; finger; flattery; foreman; freedom; freighter captain; grav-plating; hypospray; insomnia; insulation; junior high school; Kiaphet Amman'sor; landing craft; lever; lie; line of fire; linguist; lining; liter; logic; MACO; maintenance cycle; major; McFarlane; meter; Minnesota; Neanderthal; neural node; neuro-pressure; Orassin distortion field; physiometric profile; placebo; platinum; precious metal; prison break; REM pattern; reptilian; saliva; scale; sedative; sergeant; sewage; sexual advances; ; Shuttlepod 2; skin pigmentation; sleep; spatial anomaly; steel; tactical alert; tea; tissue sample; trellium-D; trellium mining planet; vertebra; Vulcan; Vulcan (planet); wind turbine; worker (aka workforce/labor force); Xindi; Xindi-Arboreal; Xindi-Aquatic; Xindi-Aquatic councilor; Xindi Council; Xindi-Insectoid; Xindi-Primate; Xindi probe; Xindi-Reptilian; Xindus External links cs:The Xindi de:Die Xindi es:The Xindi fr:The Xindi (épisode) ja:ENT:トレリウムD nl:The Xindi ENT episodes
1936	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Eelwasser	Eelwasser was a type of Ferengi beverage. Its primary competitor was Slug-o-Cola. In 2374, Eelwasser was reporting excellent profits, while Slug-o-Cola was doing quite badly. While posing as Lumba, Quark told Nilva that supporting Grand Nagus Zek and allowing equal rights for females would give Slug-o-Cola an edge over Eelwasser. () Appendices Background information Curiously, the bottle featured a label with the Vulcan IDIC symbol. According to Legends of the Ferengi (written by two of s writers, Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe), Eelwasser was discovered by two boyhood friends named Sluggo and Vorp. Sluggo tricked Vorp into drinking bog water, and was surprised when Vorp commented, "Mmm. Tastes like eel." Wasser is German for water and, as such, is used as a suffix in a number of drinks (not just water types) in the language. An advertising jingle for Eelwasser was included on the Legends of the Ferengi audiobook. External link de:Eelwasser nl:Eelwater Beverages Ferenginar
1939	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Gravimetric torpedo	A gravimetric torpedo was a type of torpedo weapon which could be created by outfitting a standard photon torpedo with a gravimetric charge. In theory, if a gravimetric torpedo were used to detonate a type-6 protostar, it could result in the formation of a wormhole. In 2374, after having detected the presence of the Omega molecule in the Delta Quadrant, Kathryn Janeway, captain of the , ordered Lieutenant Commander Tuvok and Ensign Harry Kim to outfit a photon torpedo with a gravimetric charge with a yield of fifty-four isotons, to create a gravimetric torpedo with which to destroy the molecule, in accordance with the highly-classified Omega Directive. When further investigation revealed that there may have been hundreds of Omega molecules, however, Janeway ordered the yield increased to eighty isotons, which Harry Kim remarked to be enough to destroy a small planet. Eventually it was discovered that the amount of molecules was too great for even a torpedo to destroy, so Janeway had to resort to using a harmonic resonance chamber to destroy twenty-eight percent of the molecules, using the torpedo to destroy the rest. () cs:Gravimetrické torpédo de:Gravimetrietorpedo ja:重力魚雷 Explosive weapons
1942	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	2378	Events By starship or station Q leaves his son temporarily in the custody of Kathryn Janeway in the hope that her Starfleet ideals will correct his negative behavior. () Communications between and the Alpha Quadrant improve when real-time communication is made possible. () Lieutenant Joe Carey is murdered while on an away mission to retrieve the Friendship 1 probe, which had contaminated an unidentified planet in the Delta Quadrant. () Neelix departs Voyager to live with a group of Talaxians living in an asteroid field; he becomes the permanent Federation ambassador in the Delta Quadrant. () Lieutenant Ayala transfers from the operations division to the command division aboard Voyager. () Captain Janeway is captured by former members of the Hierarchy; Voyagers EMH masquerades as the captain in order to save her and protect the crew. () Seven of Nine and Chakotay begin dating. () Voyager detects high levels of neutrino emissions inside a nebula in the Delta Quadrant. A large Borg presence is found inside and the crew initially avoids it. () A future version of Kathryn Janeway arrives from the year 2404 to aid Voyager in using the Borg transwarp network to return to the Alpha Quadrant. () One of six Borg transwarp hubs is destroyed by the crew of Voyager during her successful return trip home. The future Admiral Janeway remains in the Delta Quadrant to introduce a neurolytic pathogen into the Collective. The assault cripples the Borg and makes Voyagers escape and use of the transwarp hub possible. () Miral Paris, daughter of B'Elanna Torres and Tom Paris, is born when Voyager arrives home. () A letter dictated by Tom Paris in 2375 is automatically transmitted from his personal database to Admiral Owen Paris when Voyager arrives back in the Sol Sector. () In an alternate timeline, Andrew Kim is born to Harry Kim and Linnis Paris. () The is decommissioned. ( commemorative plaque ) Other events Admiral Slattery became so intoxicated at the Command Conference after-party that he commandeered a light cruiser and made it "halfway to the Delta Quadrant" before he sobered up. () Notes Given that takes place sometime after (which in turn takes place on the 315th anniversary of ), and taking Seven of Nine's statement in the former episode that the events of take place three months previously, we can conclude that the episodes from "Human Error" to "Endgame" take place in this year. Episodes (in part) (in part) Apocrypha The events of set after the series begin in this year. The Farther Shore Star Trek: Voyager - Spirit Walk #1: Star Trek: Voyager - Spirit Walk #2: Enemy of My Enemy The simulation Star Trek: Bridge Commander and part of the FPS Star Trek: Elite Force II were set in this year. According to the Star Trek: Star Charts'' (United Federation of Planets IV), the United Federation of Planets has 183 members and 7,128 affiliates in this year. External link de:2378 es:2378 fr:2378 nl:2378 sv:2378 pl:2378-2380
1944	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Archon (starship)	The Archon was a 22nd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In 2167, the Archon disappeared while investigating the planet Beta III. The fate of the Archon would remain a mystery for a hundred years, until the visited Beta III in 2267 and learned that the sentient computer had destroyed the ship and had murdered or absorbed her crew. The Archons visit became an apocryphal tale to the s, who mixed it in with their quasi-worship of Landru; her crew became known as the s. () Personnel Appendices Background information In the , the Archon was depicted with the Daedalus-class model with no visible registry. According to Michael Okuda, the authors "[...] speculate that the Archon was a starship, since it was contemporary with the from ." For , the Archon entry showed a drawing of the (NCC-173), though the Archon was elsewhere listed as NCC-189. (p. 470) The listed and depicted the registry as NCC-189. Apocrypha In "The Return of the Archons, Part 2, an issue of IDW's Star Trek: Ongoing comic series set in the alternate reality, the Archon is depicted in a as an but with the nacelles of the and had the registry NCC-189. The story revealed that Landru (first name ) was the head of Starfleet's Advanced Research Division and was apparently creating an artificial intelligence to assist in colony development. His true intentions were more sinister: he was attempting a means of population control. The crew of the Archon attempted to stop him, but the ship was destroyed: the ship's crashed remains were built into a by the descendants of the crew's survivors. After the computer was removed, Admiral was admonished by an unseen superior for not keeping a tighter leash on his protege after the captain exposed the secret experiment that had lasted for decades. External links de:USS Archon es:USS Archon fr:Archon (vaisseau) it:Archon (nave stellare) nl:Archon (sterrenschip) Federation starships
1946	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Romulan ale	Romulan ale was a highly intoxicating alcoholic beverage of Romulan origin with a characteristic blue color (ranging from a pale sky blue to a dark midnight blue). It took a while to ferment, and Doctor Leonard McCoy joked that he used it for "medicinal purposes." () In 2263 of the alternate reality, ordered three Romulan ales for himself at 's birthday party on Starbase Yorktown. () In the prime reality, Romulan ale was illegal in the Federation from at least the early 2280s to the late 2370s, but many Starfleet officers had actually sampled it at one point or another. A rare exception was Admiral William Ross. (; ; ; ) Admiral James T. Kirk was given a bottle of Romulan ale dated 2283 as a birthday present from Doctor Leonard McCoy in 2285. () Captain James T. Kirk was able to procure some for his crew and served it at a state dinner with Klingon High Chancellor Gorkon in 2293. When Brigadier Kerla said he thought it was illegal, Kirk wryly noted it was "one of the advantages of being a thousand light years from Federation headquarters." However, the ensuing hangover convinced him to order the galley to no longer have the beverage served at diplomatic functions. () In 2362, Fallit Kot hijacked a shipment of Romulan ale. He was sentenced to eight years in a Romulan labor camp. () In 2366, the replicators aboard the could not replicate Romulan ale; it would have required programming the devices with the molecular structure of the beverage. The recipe was not readily available, due to the lack of information and communication between the Federation and the Romulan Empire. () The Zibalian trader Kivas Fajo had twelve cases of vintage Pratorean Romulan ale before the Federation confiscated them in 2366. These cases were mentioned in a listing of Fajo's collections in his Federation biographical data file. (, okudagram) Romulan ale was a challenge even for species as stout as the Klingons, whose native alcohols tended to be strong and were usually quite resistant to the effects of alcohol. After drinking a sizable amount of Romulan ale in celebration of William T. Riker and Deanna Troi's wedding in 2379, Worf, obviously suffering its effects, stated, "Romulan ale should be illegal," to which Geordi La Forge replied, "It is." Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Shinzon later also shared a glass of the drink in a side room of the Romulan Senate chambers. (). Julian Bashir ordered a glass of Romulan ale in Quark's in 2375. () This was possible as Romulan ale had been legal in 2375 during the Dominion War, when the embargo was lifted as part of the alliance between the Federation and the Romulans. It was served aboard the on its way to Romulus and on the planet itself during a reception. Senator Cretak, Admiral Ross, and Doctor Bashir shared a glass of the drink in the mess hall of the USS Bellerophon. () In 2399, Soji Asha and Narek shared a bottle of Romulan ale at the Romulan Reclamation Site. () Appendices References : Background information The identification of the blue drink Picard and Shinzon share is from the script of the film. It is also revealed there that Romulan ale was served at Riker's bachelor party and that Worf is still hung-over from the ale he drank at that party. Romulan ale has always appeared some tint of blue. Blue beverages were also seen in Romulan contexts in and . In the latter episode, the blue beverage is identified as kali-fal, which may be the Romulan name for "Romulan ale": they both appear to be bluish liquids that pack a wallop, though Romulan whiskey is another highly intoxicating Romulan alcoholic beverage that is bluish. However, kali-fal is known to have a potent aroma, whereas Romulan ale was never mentioned to have such an aroma. Enterprise officers also enjoyed blue colored drinks in TOS: and . However, the blue drink in the latter was explicitly identified as Antarean brandy on-screen. In the script for , the stage directions stated that, when Kirk and McCoy drink Romulan ale, it is an "instant drunk." According to Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special, the contents for the food props during the dinner scene aboard the in were: plastic sperm whale, hardboiled "Klingon" egg, unspecified flower species, chicken a-la-king, and blue Kool-Aid for the Romulan Ale. Per the Star Trek Cookbook, the Romulan ale shown on the shows was actually Glacier Freeze Gatorade mixed with seltzer. In the first draft script for , Tom Paris ordered a tall glass of Romulan ale in Quark's, aboard space station Deep Space 9. The Las Vegas Star Trek Experience sold bottles and six-packs of "Romulan ale", a blue lager-style beer made by Central American brewery Cerveceria La Constancia on exclusive license from Paramount Pictures. The Klingon actors were scripted to claim that "you Humans cannot hold your neurotoxins!" In real life, the book 488 Bacardi Rum Based Cocktails included a recipe for "Real Romulan Ale", a mixture of Bacardi rum, Everclear alcohol, and Blue Curaçao liqueur. In , an energy drink called Romulan Ale Energy Drink was manufactured by Boston America and released to tie into the film . In , after Montgomery Scott is heard in the background ordering three Romulan ales for himself, he is shown drinking a brownish liquid. The Romulan ale bottle seen in Star Trek Nemesis was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. Apocrypha Diane Duane's The Romulan Way states that Romulan ale is brewed from grains such as kheh, and states that the primary reason it is difficult to imbibe is that it is harsh to the throat. Terise Haleakala-LoBrutto, one of the protagonists, comments that the Romulans drink it in part to prove that they can. The book also has a form of wine that is easier on the throat but more alcoholic. The Romulan tutorial missions in Star Trek Online indicate that the ale produced on Virinat, a Romulan colony, is brewed from honey-like secretions of khellid insects. See also Romulan whiskey Kali-fal External link de:Romulanisches Ale fr:Bière romulienne it:Birra Romulana Alcoholic beverages Romulus
1950	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	USS Excalibur (NCC-26517)	The USS Excalibur (NCC-26517) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In 2368, the Excalibur was put in for repairs at Starbase 234, and much of the ship's crew was reassigned. Later that year, the ship was selected for a mission into Klingon territory. The mission commander, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, selected Commander William T. Riker as the ship's commander. His first officer was Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge. In the mission, the Excalibur joined Picard's fleet which blockaded the Klingon-Romulan border during the Klingon Civil War. The ship was one of twenty-three assembled for the fleet and was one of the seventeen chosen for the tachyon network. Identified by its name and registry number, the ship's position in the network was monitored from the . A plan was hatched by Picard, which he hoped would lure the Romulans through the detection grid. When Gowron launched a full attack against the forces of the House of Duras, the Romulan ships would rush to their aid. During this, the Excalibur would fall back with feigned engine troubles, taking the and the . In doing so, this would open up a small gap in the detection net for the Romulans to attempt to pass through. As their ships passed through the gap, the Enterprise-D and the would swing around, close the gap, and catch the Romulans in the act. The plan was foiled when the network was disrupted by a high-energy burst released by the Romulans, the net was no longer effective in a of ten million kilometers around the . Subsequently, Picard ordered the fleet to proceed to Gamma Eridon at maximum warp, where the fleet attempted to reestablish the net before the Romulans got there. () In the late 2360s, the Excalibur survived an attack by the Borg during a night shift. Several members of the crew, including Marika Wilkarah, were assimilated in the encounter. () Excalibur personnel Appendices Background information The Excalibur was a reuse of the studio model with the modifications introduced on the . New footage of the Excalibur was briefly seen as the fleet departed for the Klingon border; however, some stock footage from was also reused. The short scene on the Excalibur bridge was filmed on Tuesday on Paramount Stage 8. According to the , the Excalibur was attacked by the Borg in 2368. Apocrypha The Excalibur became the star ship of Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontier series and was later destroyed and replaced with a new starship . Captain , a former crewmate of Captain Picard's from his days on the , was mentioned as having commanded the Excalibur for many years in Michael Jan Friedman's novel . It was then commanded by Captain just before the start of the New Frontier series. Korsmo was an old Academy classmate of Picard, but he was killed fighting the Borg during the Battle of Sector 001. Following the vessel's refit, command of the Excalibur was given to Captain . External link bg:USS Екскалибур de:USS Excalibur (NCC-26517) fr:USS Excalibur (NCC-26517) ja:USSエクスカリバー(NCC-26517) nl:USS Excalibur (NCC-26517) pl:U.S.S. "Excalibur" NCC-26517 Excalibur, USS, 26517
1951	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	USS Horatio	The USS Horatio was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In 2364, the Horatio was under the command of Captain Walker Keel. In that year, this ship, along with the and the , secretly rendezvoused with the at Dytallix B. On the planet's surface, the four ship captains had a covert meeting in which they discussed the possibility of an alien conspiracy within Starfleet Command. Soon afterwards, the Horatio was destroyed with all hands in Sector 63 when the ship imploded. The destruction of the ship was recorded as a disturbance by the Enterprise-D's sensors. The Enterprise-D raced to the origin of the disturbance, and discovered the debris of the Horatio. The cause for the implosion was believed to have been due to sabotage at the hands of Horatios first officer, whom Keel had suspected of being under the influence of a parasitic being. () Personnel External link bg:USS Хорейшо de:USS Horatio es:USS Horatio fr:USS Horatio ja:USSホレイシオ nl:USS Horatio pl:U.S.S. "Horatio" Horatio
1953	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Romulan	The Romulans were a humanoid race from the planet Romulus. The Romulans were biological cousins of Vulcans, descended from those who rejected Surak's reforms during the Time of Awakening. By the 24th century, the Romulan Star Empire was one of the major powers in the galaxy. After a supernova destroyed the Romulan sun, the Romulan Free State became the official government. Eventually, the Romulans reunified with the Vulcans and settled on the planet Vulcan, which was renamed Ni'Var. History See main article: Romulan history Origins Spock once theorized that the Vulcans might be descendants of the Arretans. () In 2369, evidence was discovered that several species including the Romulans, and therefore also the Vulcans, trace back to DNA seeded on many planets by ancient humanoids billions of years ago. () By the late 24th century, some Romulans believed that the story of Ganmadan predated the arrival of the ancestors of the Romulans and Vulcans on Vulcan. () When Surak's reforms of embracing logical principles and rejecting emotion spread rapidly across Vulcan in the 4th century, a minority rejected Surak's ideals. They were described as "those who march beneath the Raptor's wings", a symbol later to be used in the Romulan Star Empire, and eventually departed Vulcan after losing a nuclear war called the Time of Awakening. At some point, they settled on twin planets that became known as Romulus and Remus, thereby laying the foundation of the Romulan Star Empire. (; ; ) Relationship with Humans and the Federation Romulans were aware of Humanity for some time before Earth knew of them. Infiltrating the highest levels of the Vulcan High Command, the Romulans were impressed and seemingly confused by Humans. inadvertently encountered a Romulan minefield at one point, officially the first time Humanity became aware of the Romulans. Even after fighting the Earth-Romulan War, it wasn't until the 23rd century that Humans actually made visual contact with Romulans. (; ) After the Treaty of Algeron went into effect, the Romulans retreated into political and social isolation from the Federation. In late 2364, an unprovoked attack on a Romulan outpost near the Federation neutral zone occurred. The Romulans initially suspected the Federation had executed the attack but it was later learned that the Borg may have been responsible. This event marked the end of Romulan political isolationism with the Federation. () Relationships with other species In keeping with their xenophobic attitudes, the Romulans tend to conquer species rather than form alliances with them, and individual Romulans tend to treat other species with varying degrees of disdain. That did not prevent them from employing diplomacy when it suited their purposes. Soon after their emergence from a century of isolation in the mid 2260s, they had established at least two embassies with the Federation. One such embassy was a three-way endeavor on the planet Nimbus III, along with the Klingon Empire, and the other was on Earth itself. (; ) Klingons and Romulans once shared an alliance for a number of years, beginning in the 2260s. Over the years, a number of incidents, including the Khitomer Massacre, led the Klingons to develop a deep-seated hatred for the Romulans, and the Romulans were arguably the species that Klingon society in general despises most of all. (; ) A Cardassian embassy existed on Romulus for a time, and Elim Garak was "employed" there as a "gardener," suggesting that the two species maintained an active diplomatic relationship. () In 2371, Romulan and Cardassian agents in the Tal Shiar and the Obsidian Order cooperated in an attempted attack on the Dominion. () The Romulans had cut ties with the Cardassians by the time they entered into the Dominion War, but precisely when their relationship ended prior to this was unclear. One common saying among the Romulans was "Never turn your back on a Breen." While this statement could be taken as partially humorous and not in itself indicative of hostilities between the two species, the Breen Thot's apparent condition that the Breen be given Romulus in exchange for their help in the Dominion War suggested there was some degree of unfriendly history between the two. () The species that Romulans seem to dislike most, however, were Vulcans, and this feud goes back many centuries. The two powers once fought in a war that lasted a hundred years which was ignited due to a misunderstanding created by one of Q's self-destructive stunts. () The two species remained distrustful of one another for an incredibly long time, but some Romulans grew tired of this, and a grassroots movement for reunification of the two species was active for a time on Romulus. It was generally assumed that after the split, Romulans and Vulcans were unaware of their common ancestry until the 23rd century. (; ) Catastrophe and betrayal In 2387, the Romulan sun went supernova. Ambassador Spock attempted to prevent the supernova from striking the planet using red matter, but he was unsuccessful and Romulus was destroyed. A mining vessel, the Narada, survived and was captained by Nero, who exploited the black hole's creation of a time warp into the past to attack Spock's home planet of Vulcan in revenge and planned to destroy all planets of the Federation so that Romulus could be "free" and possibly conquer everywhere else. The first part of Nero's plan was mostly successful as Vulcan and most of the Vulcan species was destroyed. However, the Narada and its crew were destroyed in the Battle of Earth by the crew of the Enterprise led by the of the alternate reality. () Just prior to the destruction of Romulus, the Romulans reached out to the Federation, which accepted their request for help. Admiral Jean-Luc Picard would lead a fleet of rescue ships to Romulus in an attempt to evacuate as many Romulans as possible but the rescue ships were attacked and destroyed by, what appeared to be at the time, a group of malfunctioning, rogue synthetic life forms during their attack on Mars. This action led Starfleet to withdraw the rescue mission, thus betraying the Romulans in their hour of need. Not wanting to be a spectator in what he viewed as a dereliction of duty and criminal action by Starfleet, Picard gave Starfleet a choice of either accepting his revised plan for the mission, or his resignation, in which Starfleet Command chose the latter. In disgust, he retreated to his vineyard on Earth. () After the destruction of Romulus, some of the surviving Romulans were politically organized as the Romulan Free State. () Reunification Centuries after Spock's death, the Romulans reunified with the Vulcans and returned to their former home of Vulcan, which was renamed Ni'Var. In the early days, the Qowat Milat were crucial in establishing trust between the two peoples, though their reconciliation remained difficult. After the Burn in the 31st century, the Romulans advocated for remaining in the Federation, though they were overruled. () Mirror universe In the mirror universe, the Romulans appeared to be uninvolved in the conflict between the Terran Rebellion and the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. Benjamin Sisko, posing as , indicated to that he was going to visit the Romulans to see if he could get their support. This was, in reality, a ruse to explain his return to Deep Space 9. () Physiology Due to their shared ancestry, Vulcans and Romulans possessed very similar physiology. () In addition, much like being an offshoot from their Vulcan cousins themselves, a race known as the Debrune were an ancient offshoot of the Romulans. () Romulans had pointed ears, eyebrows that were arched and up-swept, varied skin color, and copper-based blood that appeared green when oxygenated in the arteries, or copper or rust-colored when deoxygenated in the veins. (; ) Some Romulans had two brow ridges above the bridge of their nose, forming a V-shape on the forehead, while other Romulans lacked these ridges, making them outwardly indistinguishable from Vulcans. Ridges were a trait associated with Northerners. () The Romulan heart was gray in color. According to Garak, this fact was "altogether appropriate for such an unimaginative race." () Despite their common ancestry, there were also many subtle internal physiological differences between Vulcans and Romulans. Their life signs registered distinctly enough on the scanners of the in 2268 that officer Pavel Chekov was able to distinguish his crewmate Spock from the crew complement of a Romulan starship, though he did note the difficulty of the task. () The physical differences between Romulans and Vulcans were evidenced in Dr. Beverly Crusher's failed attempt to treat a Romulan, Patahk, who had suffered advanced synaptic breakdown, with the methods used to treat Vulcans. Describing that, between the two, there were "subtle differences… too many of them." In fact, it was later determined that the genetic similarities between Romulans and Klingons allowed for the two species to have a compatible ribosome match to effect treatment. () The Terothka virus was a disease unique to Romulan physiology. Romulans were also susceptible to Tuvan Syndrome. (; ) Romulans were known to be inter-fertile with Humans, Klingons, and Vulcans. (; , et al.) Romulans lacked the rigorous mental disciplines developed by the followers of Surak. () Society In Romulan society, military/political rank influences social standing. Because Romulans were members of a militaristic civilization, who considered defending the Romulan Empire and their own personal honor of foremost importance, military service and its accompanying rank were decisive factors in determining social eminence. () However, while the military played an important role in Romulan society, it was the Romulan Senate that controlled the government. () At one point in history, Romulus was a sovereign nation ruled by an Empress, as indicated by Q. () By the 23rd century, the highest position of was held by the Praetor, who presided over the Romulan Senate. (; ) The Praetor headed the Continuing Committee, which was composed of the Empire's most elite individuals, who made decisions of the utmost importance. () By the 24th century, the government of Romulus was dependent upon the Tal Shiar, the Romulan secret police, to maintain order and stability among both civilians and the military. The Tal Shiar was known for its brutal tactics, which included routine kidnapping, torture, and assassination. Many Romulans feared even expressing dissenting opinions in order to not bring the attention of the Tal Shiar. There were also indications that tension existed between the military and the Tal Shiar. () Romulan society was based upon a highly structured caste system. Unlike most of the highly evolved species in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, Romulans still practiced slavery, in this case of the Remans, which they used for slave labor and as shock troops. () Romulans tended to be highly xenophobic, engaging in extended periods of isolationism, and could be perceived as outright racist to other species, believing themselves to be superior. At least some Romulans believed that, one day, the Romulan Empire would rule the entire galaxy and that Humans would be extinct. () According to Miles O'Brien, there was no piece of technology in existence that the Romulans didn't claim they invented before everyone else. () According to Worf, Romulans tried to claim as territory all that was in their field of vision. () Both males and females could command warships, obtain high political positions, and could be members of the Tal Shiar. (; ; ) After the destruction of Romulus, some of the surviving Romulans were politically organized as the Romulan Free State. () See also Romulan language Culture The Romulans lacked the rigorous mental disciplines developed by the followers of Surak. Like the Vulcans, the Romulans gave up unrestrained violence as a way of life. However, in the case of the Romulans, this was replaced with a controlled deviousness: as a species, the Romulans were generally thought of as duplicitous, a reputation reinforced by the actions of their government over time. () The Romulans saw and valued themselves as a passionate people. They dealt with loss differently from Humans: they loved deeply, and if it ended they honored that love by loving again, more deeply still. (; ) During the 23rd century, Romulans practiced the death penalty on criminals by means both painful and unpleasant. Prior to the presenting of the charges, the Romulans allowed the accused a Right of Statement. () Reluctance to rely on overt hostility generally led the Romulans to play a waiting game with their opponents, attempting to manipulate an adversary into breaking – or appearing to break – an agreement so as to give them a solid justification for striking. () They were also well-known for fearing disgrace over death. () With this frame of mind, Romulan parents disposed of any newborn carrying birth defects, as the alternative would mean a waste of resources. () Romulan custom was to promise males and females to each other from birth. () The totalitarian nature of Romulan society, in which dissent was often a crime and Romulan security officers masqueraded as citizens, led many Romulans to be extremely paranoid. () Romulans had three names: one for outsiders, one for family, and a true name for the one they gave their hearts to. () Traditional Romulan homes had a false front door and their true entrance was located in the back. () A common Romulan saying was "jolan tru", which was used for both "hello" and "goodbye". (; ; ) Another saying was: "Sab khut hafeth, frazhannempal was qailefeth" ("Seize today, for we know nothing of tomorrow"). () The Zhal Makh was a traditional form of meditation practiced by the Romulans and considered taboo to non-Romulans. () In the 24th century, a dissident movement began to gain momentum, based on the desire to learn about Vulcan and their ideals. The movement's ultimate goal was the reunification of Romulus and Vulcan. Ambassador Spock was deeply involved in this movement. () Miles O'Brien once played a game of tongo with a Romulan mercenary (). In cases of anonymity, they were known for commonly using hired assassins, such as the Flaxians, to conduct their off-world "justice" (). The deviousness, xenophobia, and practiced duplicity were notably rejected by the Qowat Milat, an order of warrior nuns that were ideologically (and sometimes martially) opposed to the Tal Shiar and the Zhat Vash. They instead practiced the Way of Absolute Candor, i.e. the total communication of emotion without filter between thought and word. They were also open to non-Romulan women being inducted into their ranks. (; ) Foods and beverages Kali-fal Jumbo Romulan mollusk Osol twist Romulan ale Romulan whiskey Viinerine People List of named Romulans List of unnamed Romulans Technology See main article: Romulan technology Appendices Appearances (voice only) (Season 2) (Season 4) (Season 1) (mentioned only) (Season 2) (Season 3) (Season 1) (Season 2) TOS films: (Season 1) (Season 2) (Season 3) (hologram only) (Season 4) (Season 5) (Season 6) (Season 7) TNG films: (corpse only) (Season 3) (Season 4) (Season 5) (Season 6) (Season 7) (Season 1) (Season 3) (Season 4) (flashback nightmare) (Season 5) (hologram only) (Season 7) (hologram only) (Season 1) (Season 2) (Season 3) (Season 4) (Season 1) Background information First television appearances The Romulans were conceived by freelance writer Paul Schneider and introduced in the TOS Season 1 episode . Despite Schneider alone being given on-screen credit for the writing of that particular episode, citation for the creator of the Romulans became somewhat muddied as the years went by. In an article from (p. 20), writing staffer John D.F. Black wrote, "It's been stated so often that the Romulans were created by producer Gene Coon that I find it difficult to keep from walking lockstep with the legend, nodding along with it, in spite of my having been there while the Romulans emerged from the imagination of Paul Schneider." Another person who was there at the time was D.C. Fontana, who was present when Schneider pitched the episode to Gene Roddenberry. Regarding Schneider's work on the Romulans, Fontana later said, "He defined it; he very much laid out who the Romulans were. Paul doesn't get enough credit for it." ( Starfleet Access, TOS Season 1 Blu-ray) (Note that Gene Coon was not yet a member of the Star Trek creative staff when "Balance of Terror" was written and produced. Coon joined Norway Corporation (Roddenberry's production company) roughly a month later, starting with .) Paul Schneider modeled the Romulans on the ancient Romans, naming the species' homeworlds after the mythical founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. "It was a matter of developing a good Romanesque set of admirable antagonists that were worthy of Kirk," Schneider related. "I came up with the concept of the Romulans which was an extension of the Roman civilization to the point of space travel, and it turned out quite well." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 34) D.C. Fontana reckoned that Schneider basing the aliens on the pre-existing Roman civilization was the cause for the writer receiving insufficient credit for creating the Romulans. ( Starfleet Access, TOS Season 1 Blu-ray) Gene Roddenberry, interested in ancient Rome himself, approved of the initial depiction of the Romulan species. "He loved Paul's having endowed the enemy-Romulans with the militaristic character of the ancient Romans," wrote John D.F. Black and Mary Black. () Roddenberry's original concept of the Romulans, however, was that they represented 1960s' Chinese Communists. ( hardback ed., p. xx) The script for "Balance of Terror" originally implied, by describing the Romulan Bird-of-Prey as an Enterprise saucer section attached to a pair of warp nacelles, that the Romulans had somehow stolen starship components from the Federation. ( Starfleet Access, TOS Season 1 Blu-ray) When first introduced in the revised final draft script of "Balance of Terror", the Romulans were described "with ears pointed as Spock's ears are pointed… much like Spock, the Romulans." A description of them from further in the script stated, "They are Spock-like men, dressed in military tunics with strange emblems. Like Spock, their almond-colored faces are coldly impassive." The next paragraph in the teleplay referred to "the striking resemblance they have in common with Mister Spock – Vulcanite ears!" In common with Gene Roddenberry, the Blacks and D.C. Fontana also appreciated Paul Schneider's invention of the Romulans, the Blacks describing them as, "Villains strong enough and clever enough that the audience would be compelled to believe they were capable of the first move that would lead to the destruction of the Federation." () Fontana enthused, "They were a wonderful, wonderful enemy [....] to have, because we could talk about them, people had seen them once, and we didn't know a lot about them. They were wonderfully mysterious. They've always been my favorites, actually – right up there, next to the Vulcans [....] Paul did a very good job of, you know, creating this race, ultimately, in the script." Fontana also cited the Romulans' exoticism, their pointed ears and relation to Vulcans as one element of why she liked the Romulans. ( Starfleet Access, TOS Season 1 Blu-ray) Lots of experience with Vulcan ear and eyebrow prosthetics, as worn by Leonard Nimoy in the role of Spock, stood makeup artist Fred Phillips in good stead for dealing with the Romulans in Star Trek: The Original Series. (Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook, p. 185) However, the makeup was too impractical for the Romulans to be brought back on a regular basis, with the pointed ears especially bringing about several problems. The cost of manufacturing the ears, which were made from latex, was too enormous for multiple actors in any episode and the manpower required to create the ears and apply them for each individual actor would have gone over the budget. The need for costly actor-specific ears was negated via reusable helmets that were worn by the background Romulans. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, pp. 41 & 42) "It took a long time for the ears to be put on [....] And you have a large number of extras coming in, that have to have these ears put on. It's very expensive, it's time," commented Denise Okuda. "And so they came up with this ingenious idea of putting helmets on, so you could hide the fact that these actors did not have pointed ears on." ( Starfleet Access, TOS Season 1 Blu-ray) The Romulan ears were manufactured by Wah Chang, as were the group's helmets. For both, he charged Desilu Productions US$748.80. Chang invoiced Desilu for this payment on and the price was paid in the following month (on either 10 or 13 August). (Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook, pp. 240-241) Following their introduction in the first season, the Romulans indirectly appeared in the second season installment , via recycled footage of the Romulan Bird-of-Prey, and were temporarily planned to appear themselves in the story that became Season 2's . As such, they were written into the first draft script for the latter of those two episodes, then entitled "Mission Into Chaos". The Romulans finally made a physical reappearance in the third season outing , which had the working title "The Romulan Incident". The same episode was an allegorical story that politically based the Romulans on North Koreans. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 277) Applying a pair of the Romulan ear prosthetics during production on "The Enterprise Incident" typically took forty-five minutes. Having portrayed one of the Romulans in that particular episode, actor Jack Donner pronounced, "The Romulans are a great race of people." () Possibility of Star Trek III inclusion The Romulans were originally meant to be the villains in . In an early story outline that Harve Bennett wrote for the third film, the Romulans discovered that the Genesis Planet had extraordinarily rich dilithium deposits and found Spock's coffin on the planet's surface. Even though they initiated a mining operation, the Romulans encountered trouble with this upon discovering that someone was killing members of the mining team, a mysterious individual who was later discovered to be a regenerated Spock. The story also brought the Romulans in conflict with the Enterprise and its senior officers. Though Kirk realized that the Romulans would become unstoppable if they succeeded with their mining mission, the Romulans were ultimately thwarted by the Starfleet officers, who – having caused the Enterprise to self-destruct to prevent a Romulan boarding party from seizing it – proceeded to capture the Romulan ship for themselves. () As Harve Bennett subsequently discussed the story with Leonard Nimoy, the Romulans were at the forefront of their thinking. "Our first conversations were about the Romulans versus the Klingons," Bennett later explained. "I was just looking for a heavy, and in the series – to me – the Romulans seemed to be more dastardly than the Klingons. So it was an error of ignorance." () Bennett went on to say, "I could have chosen the Romulans, but from my experience seeing all the episodes, I'd never gotten that sense of determination and absolutism that the Klingon episodes have revealed." (audio commentary, DVD/Blu-ray) Moreover, Nimoy persuaded Bennett that the Romulans were less theatrical than the Klingons, so the name of the species that would serve as the movie's villain was switched. The Klingon Bird-of-Prey was intended to have been stolen from the Romulans, but this information was left out of the film. (The Art of Star Trek, pp. 215, 217 & 219) Next Generation reappearances In the first edition of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Writer'/Directors' Guide, Gene Roddenberry declared that no stories concerning warfare with Romulans would be accepted for the new series. (The Art of Star Trek, p. 92) However, when Roddenberry was attempting to decide upon a new antagonist for regular use on (while considering that the Klingons would no longer appear as recurring villains), writer D.C. Fontana thought of the Romulans. Fontana later recalled, "I sent him a memo, suggesting 'How about the Romulans?' After all, they hadn't been developed all that much in The Original Series, and they were a glamorous, attractive enemy." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before paperback ed., p. 110) Secure in the knowledge that the TNG viewers had accepted the series as a new version of Star Trek rather than a retread, Roddenberry felt confident enough to bring back the Romulans at the end of the show's first season. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 66) Roddenberry allowed the Romulans to occasionally feature on the new series from then on, but preferred not to use them as the series' primary villains. (Star Trek: The Next Generation 365, p. 036) The return of the Romulans in the first season TNG episode was originally discussed as the first of a multi-part story that would have united them with the Federation against the newly discovered Borg. () Writing staffer Maurice Hurley, who wrote "The Neutral Zone" and devised the multi-episode arc, intended for the Romulans to engage in a major battle against a Borg scout ship in the second of the three episodes, planned for the show's second season. The conflict would have culminated in the Romulans destroying the Borg vessel but being completely annihilated themselves. The extermination of the Romulan people would have left a mystery for Picard as to how they had managed to defeat the Borg ship before it had wiped them all out. () A Writers Guild strike nixed this plan and the introduction of the Borg had to wait. () Nonetheless, the reappearance of the Romulans in "The Neutral Zone" proved the species had lost none of its appeal. () For their appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation, makeup artist Michael Westmore gave the Romulans V-shaped forehead ridges to "compete" with the Klingon redesign introduced in . (The Art of Star Trek, p. 92) The Romulan ridges also developed from efforts to make them look more menacing than how they had appeared before and physically differentiate them from Vulcans. "From the very first moment they appeared on-screen," Westmore commented, "the viewer had to take them seriously, rather than seeing them as stereotyped villains with pointed ears [....] I devised a forehead that had a dip in the center, and then I hollowed out the temple area. We wanted to stay close to their natural forehead, not making them look Neanderthal, but giving them a built-in sullen expression they couldn't get away from." (Star Trek: The Next Generation 365, p. 068) It was found that this facial feature complemented a change to the typical Romulan hairstyle that Michael Westmore wanted to introduce. He said of the restyled Romulans, "I gave them a little wedge to the center of the hair on their forehead instead of the Vulcans' straight-across bang." () Although the Romulan genealogical tie to Vulcans was unspecified by TNG's writers when the Romulans were brought back – with "Balance of Terror" having introduced the species merely as a likely Vulcan offshoot – the opinion of the show's writers regarding the nature of this relationship had changed by the series' fifth season, as had personnel in the TNG writers' room. Writer Ronald D. Moore, who joined the show in its third season, expressed, "I hated the foreheads on the Romulans. The backstory [established in ''] was that they were basically the same race, yet somehow the Romulans got these different foreheads at some point." (Star Trek: The Next Generation 365, p. 068) However, the redesigned Romulan makeup remained for subsequent Star Trek productions, not only those set in the 24th century but also for when Romulans were featured on . The makeup was so extensive that it required the actor's head to be measured during pre-production (at least, it did in the case of Vaughn Armstrong, when preparing to play Telek R'Mor in ). Initially, the alternate timeline in incorporated a Romulan alliance with the Vulcans. Together, they destroyed the Klingons and almost wiped out the Federation. () In , the Romulans were at first deliberately written about somewhat sympathetically by the episode's writers, Dennis Putman Bailey and David Bischoff. "We knew it wasn't allowed to use the Romulans as the 'bad guys,' so we found different way to use them," explained Bailey. "We presented their point of view very clearly and why they felt threatened by the Federation. Interestingly enough, the dialogue about that was cut from the final cut and I think they decided it was okay to use the Romulans as bad guys without justifying it." () Naren Shankar, who wrote the teleplay for , thoroughly approved of how the Romulans are shown in that installment, saying, "The Romulans are not demonised […] which I think is very important." () Return to films For , Romulan makeup was designed and fabricated by Richard Snell, though applied by Makeup Supervisor Michael J. Mills. Even though the Romulan facial features on TNG had significantly evolved from those on The Original Series, the Romulans were returned to their earlier form for Star Trek VI. "Basically, this time they had larger, bushier eyebrows and bigger ears," noted Mills. "We stayed away from the forehead pieces and the radically different ears the new TV series has featured and just went with the original look." (Cinefex, no. 49, pp. 42 & 45) Romulans were one alien race which, prior to the advent of , had become extremely familiar elements of the Star Trek universe. Deliberately, much less attention was paid to them in Voyager. (Star Trek: Voyager - A Vision of the Future, pp. 155 & 162) Romulans were initially intended to show up in a battle sequence near the start of . In this conflict, a group of Romulans would have attacked a couple of ensigns aboard the Amargosa observatory but then been ambushed themselves by an away team from the , particularly Worf. Following comments from Jeri Taylor, this was changed to become a scene aboard a holographic simulation of the , with only the aftermath of the battle being shown. (The Making of the Trek Films, UK ed., p. 150) The Romulans were originally to have filled the conspiratorial role that the Son'a play in . According to writer Michael Piller in his unpublished reference book Fade In: From Idea to Final Draft, the idea of using the Romulans as major villains in the film was inspired by the fact that the species had been a long-standing enemy of the Federation but had never been featured in a Star Trek movie before. Additionally, Piller and Rick Berman imagined that the story might be set against the threat of a new outbreak of hostilities between the two governments. The Romulans went on to be written into the first version of the film's story. As told in Fade In: From Idea to Final Draft, Patrick Stewart criticized even the thought of using the Romulans in Insurrection, believing that they wouldn't make a suitable rival for the follow-up to . On , he wrote a letter to Rick Berman in which Stewart stated, "I think what dismays me most about the story is the dredging up of the Romulans – a race already unexciting in TNG – as the bad guys. It is revisionist and backward looking in a most disappointing way. After the Borg – the Romulans? Oh, my." On 30 June, Michael Piller responded to this letter with one in which he explained, "We have, from the start, intended to re-invent the Romulans because we agree with you. We’ve been talking about a complete overhaul of their look as well as their character. If it means a great deal to you, I’d personally be willing to change it to another race. Do you have any suggestions?" Stewart responded with another letter, which he sent on 7 July and which confirmed that "the Romulan question" was highly important to him. Stewart continued, "I think it is a deadly idea to have even an 'overhauled' Romulan villain. After the Borg Queen it will look as if we just couldn’t come up with any new bad guys. But we must." The change to the newly invented Son'a was made "because nobody liked the idea of using the Romulans, ever," said Michael Piller. (The Secrets of Star Trek: Insurrection, p. 14) Regarding the prospect of including the Romulans, Piller clarified, "No-one here felt a great deal of enthusiasm for that decision." However, Eric A. Stillwell, who contributed to the making of Insurrection as a production associate and script coordinator, believed that the Romulans should have been used, saying, "I think this would have had a greater dramatic impact than introducing an entirely new group of bad guys." He also noted about the exclusion of the Romulans, "I think that was a mistake." One of the first concepts in the writing of was to centrally feature the Romulans. A primary advocate for this choice of villain was writer John Logan – a big fan of the species and "the lethal machinations" characteristic of the group. "For a writer, the malicious subtlety of the Romulans," remarked Logan, "offers great opportunities; the cleverness and formality of their language must suggest that they are simultaneously a deadly political foe and a noble, ancient race. Besides, I had just finished working on Gladiator and was in a classical frame of mind. The serpentine rhythms of the language we created for the Roman Empire in that movie were good practice for writing the august and treacherous Romulans." ( hardback ed., pp. xvii-xviii) Logan also enthused, "I was delighted with the chance to get to play with the Romulans, and I don't think they've quite been explored enough [....] For me the Communist Chinese is a really interesting world that was never fully explored, certainly in the movies, and not even as much as I would have liked in the series, except for individual episodes. I've always found that sort of Byzantine structure of Chinese Communism very interesting and very provocative, and lethal in a way I never found the Klingons. There is so much duplicity and mendacity and cleverness in the way the Romulans move through their world with very strategic chess moves. And also they are an old and ancient race, like the Vulcans, so they have gravitas to them, which I find very interesting." () John Logan doubting that the Romulans would mine dilithium for themselves was a strong influence on the creation of the Remans. "It seemed obvious to me," he said, "that the Romulans would subjugate some other race to dig dilithium for them. Much too messy for our pristine and elegant Romulans." As an homage to Gene Roddenberry's original conception of the Romulans as Chinese Communists, Logan and the other writers of Nemesis made all the Romulan and Reman names in the film of ancient Chinese descent. ( hardback ed., p. xx) Although the Remans are clearly the main villainous species in Nemesis, Rick Berman was repeatedly reported as stating, in an interview on a UPN station local to Los Angeles, that the Romulans would be the major villain in the film. In , he clarified, "What I said was that we would be seeing the Romulans in this movie, which we are, but I did not necessarily say that they were going to be our main villains." In (p. 10), he further hinted about the Romulans, "They are part of the villainy, but not in the way that some might think!" Eric Stillwell was puzzled upon hearing a rumor that the Romulans might be involved in Nemesis at all. He later commented, "I thought [that] was odd after we were asked to remove the Romulans from the original story in Insurrection." Before the release of Nemesis, Rick Berman additionally remarked, "I'm sure you can expect a fresh, updated look for the Romulans [....] I think there will be some surprises as to what the Romulans will look like." As it was, the Romulan designs used in the film were much as they had been in the preceding series. These similarities not only included their makeup but also stemmed to the production design of their ships, with Production Designer Herman Zimmerman saying, "The Romulans have been kind of an art deco culture and that's what you see [in Nemesis], echoes of 1930s geometry in architecture, just turned sideways." Applying the Romulan prosthetics for Nemesis regularly took four hours. "I had a forehead prosthetic that they stuck to my head," reported Donatra actress Dina Meyer. "The morning make-up routine consisted of me going into hair and getting my head wrapped – they make your hair all pin-curled and they put your head in a wig cap, so all your hair is pulled off your face. Then you go to the make-up trailer, where they attach the prosthetic forehead and prosthetic ear tips and then they pile on the make-up. They need a spatula to put it on, it's so thick." () Further television appearances Because "Balance of Terror" had established Starfleet's first confirmed visual contact with the Romulans as being in 2266, it was somewhat difficult for them to appear on Enterprise, that prequel series primarily being set in the 2150s. The show's producers wanted to include Romulans in the series, despite the risk of contaminating Star Trek canon, ever since the series began. () Some initial consideration was given to making unnamed aliens in actually be Romulans. André Bormanis, a writing staffer who wrote that episode, explained, "I wondered whether they might be Romulans until we decided to do a CGI alien effect [for the aliens themselves]. I think the technology of their ship, though, was too sophisticated for Romulans in this era, so that argued against making them Romulans too." The interest in seeing the Romulans on the series of Enterprise continued, however. "We have major continuity issues with them," observed Executive Producer Brannon Braga, at the end of the show's first season. "We would very much like to do Romulans, but a) we don't know quite how yet, and b) since the new movie [Star Trek Nemesis] deals with Romulans, we want to give them some breathing room. We'll do them eventually, but not right away." () Intense speculation regarding whether the Romulans would appear in the series was stirred up at the end of Season 1. () In fact, just prior to the release of Star Trek Nemesis, the Romulans seemed to have disappeared. At the time, John Logan rhetorically asked, "Why isn't anyone using them?" Reflected Jack Donner, "To a great deal they have been ignored. They haven't paid that much attention to them [in recent series]. There have certainly been episodes that dealt with Romulans, but nothing like the Klingons, Cardassians, and Ferengi." () In (p. 85), Rick Berman predicted, "I would […] not be surprised that, within the next six to twelve months, we will have our first run-in with Romulans [....] I […] think we will undoubtedly be running into Romulans at some point." However, Berman made these statements without the writing staff of Enterprise having discussed the species appearing on the series nor the art department doing any design work related to the Romulans. Responding to the news, André Bormanis remarked, "If that's the case, I'm looking forward to it." One possibility, considered at around the end of the first season, was whether John Logan would be able to write the script for the Romulans' appearance on Enterprise, which then began to be a likely option for the show's second season. "Yeah, he would love to do that, and we would love to give him that chance," announced Rick Berman. "It's all going to have to do with his time – he has three huge movies that he is working on now. We'll see what happens." In the same interview, Berman went on to outrightly dismiss the chance that Romulans could show up in the first season. () Despite the second season installment initially excluding the Romulans and its premise being a story set entirely on the hull of , the plot evolved to include the Romulans. "The idea that the attacking aliens would be Romulans came out a little later, during the story break process," Brannon Braga recollected. "We needed to be true to continuity and this was a way to do it." () Braga was happy that this portrayal of the Romulans seemed to come at an appropriate time, commenting, "I think it's cool that on Star Trek Nemesis you can see the Romulans of Picard's time, and at the same time you're seeing the early encounters with them on Enterprise; there's great synergy there." () At a convention in Minneapolis held on the second weekend of , Connor Trinneer conceded that, although he did not know any specifics about the Romulans making a return appearance on Enterprise, such an appearance was very possible, saying he "wouldn't be surprised" by it, at all. It was merely days later, on Tuesday , that Brannon Braga finally announced the upcoming Season 2 Romulan episode, hinting, "I think I can say without getting into too much trouble that very early in the season we will have our first brush with the Romulans. … Capt. Archer will have a very lethal brush with the Romulans early on." On several occasions, Braga also tried to give assurances that the continuity with the Romulans was "airtight." Despite featuring heavily in "Minefield", Malcolm Reed actor Dominic Keating revealed to fans, "I have NO idea who they are!" Prior to the initial airing of Enterprises season 2 finale , many fans at first incorrectly speculated that the Romulans were responsible for the attack on Earth depicted in that episode – thought to be the initial volley in the Romulans' previously established war with Earth – and would be the focus of the series' third season, rather than the multi-species Xindi. Brannon Braga was of the opinion that, had the Romulans indeed been used, they would have become "old" and less satisfying during the relatively lengthy course of the third season arc. He also stated that this did not exempt the species from appearing in that season, in which they nevertheless ultimately did not feature. () The Earth-Romulan War was, however, intended to be explored in the fifth season of and the film Star Trek: The Beginning, neither of which were produced. Brannon Braga and Manny Coto considered making "Future Guy" a Romulan, while Mike Sussman intended on revealing T'Pol's father was a Romulan agent. (Information provided by Mike Sussman) The Romulans would have had a grander future had the animated series Star Trek: Final Frontier been produced instead of the film : set in the 2460s, a war caused by Omega particle detonations (which was not actually the Romulans' fault) permitted them to conquer Qo'noS, destroy Andoria, and force the Vulcans to leave the Federation to negotiate reunification. Depiction in 2009 film During development of the film Star Trek, the writers of the movie's script, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, chose the Romulans as the villains because the film was a continuation of Spock's story from "Unification". J.J. Abrams said, "What was interesting to me was that it wasn't the Klingons. That's what you expect and it was fun to use the Romulans the way we did," referring to their premature appearance in Kirk's life being a clear marker of divergence from the prime reality. "Part of the fact is that they hadn't seen them for so many years, so that it immediately breaks, for anyone who knows, the rules of Trek to start the movie and have Romulans crossing paths with Starfleet." Orci and Kurtzman focused more on writing the Romulans in later drafts of the screenplay. () Romulan prosthetics for the film Star Trek were at first arranged to be the purview of Proteus FX Makeup Effects Supervisor Barney Burman. "I did some early designs for the Romulans in my shop, but when my workload became too heavy, I hired Joel Harlow to come in and handle them. We all decided it would be best if Joel took over the task of creating the Romulans on set close to [Director] J.J. [Abrams] so he could see and direct their progress each day. We set up a makeup trailer for the Romulans, and Joel hired a crew of people to work on that and just did a fantastic job." () This makeup crew, called Joel Harlow Designs, sculpted and designed Romulan ear and forehead prosthetics. A total of forty main Romulan characters were created to appear in the movie, a process that started with lifecasts for each actor. (Star Trek - The Art of the Film, p. 37) Harlow himself remembered, "J.J. did not want to see any hair lace in the wig applications, so we made the entire forehead and eyebrows as one piece, with hair punched into the silicone before application. I wanted to give the Romulans an animal look, so we widened their nose bridge and did some interesting stuff with their brows – but nothing so extreme that you couldn't believe they were real." (Cinefex, No. 118, pp. 46 & 47) After the individual prosthetic pieces were crafted and prepared for filming, Harlow's team also applied the prosthetics. The Romulan makeup designs from the same film incorporated tattoos that were made to look tribal. (Star Trek - The Art of the Film, p. 37) Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci admitted that, even in the alternate reality, not all Romulans are necessarily bald. () In reality, baldness of Nero and his crew was used to set the Romulans apart, physically, from the Vulcans in the movie, due to both species having slanted eyebrows and pointed ears. () Casting Director April Webster was at first very puzzled as to how to cast the Romulans in the film. "I had no idea what we were going to do with the Romulans," she conceded. However, an influence on overcoming this challenge was the fact that the rest of the movie's cast incorporated a wide variety of people, with different skin colors and ages. Webster continued about the Romulans, "We just made a list of the most interesting actors we could think of who could match up and hold their own in a scene with [Nero actor] Eric Bana." () There were subtle alterations made to the Romulan prosthetics (at least for the Nero character) before filming, making it easier to perform on long shooting days. Eric Bana stated, "The prosthetics only underwent very minor changes, just for comfort and actability. Sometimes you make a really tiny change with the prosthetic, or the glue, or where it's attached, and it can really make a difference to your ability to convey expression. We had a few goes at that in pre-production to get that right." By the time a week of filming had gone by, Bana found the new Romulan facial appearance "began to look completely normal to me, and regular humans started to look weird!" () On the other hand, according to (p. 24), the Romulans on set seemed distinctly intimidating. Discovery and Picard The Romulans have been purposely excluded from featuring in . Showrunner Aaron Harberts explained, "Romulan' is a dirty word in our writers' room right now, because of where we are in the timeline. We don't talk about the Romulans [....] The sparks fly when the writers bring up the Romulans." () When Neville Page designed the Romulan makeup for , he decided to use a variety of forehead appliances, some with more prominent ridges and others with a more human appearance, closer to the look of the Romulans in . () After Picard season 1 aired, showrunner Michael Chabon published a blog post on Medium, outlining the history and culture for the Romulan people he devised for the show. Reception and trivia The Romulans proved extremely popular among Star Trek fans. "When my episode first aired," remarked Jack Donner, regarding , "I got a letter from a fan named Lori Carlson in Denver, Colo. She was the president of the Leonard Nimoy/Vulcan club there, but she wrote to me and said that the club was switching their interests around. And now there are Romulan fan clubs all over the place – in Michigan, and Bakersfield, California, to name just a few." () The Romulans had become fan favorites by the end of TNG's first season. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 66)Star Trek novels scribe Susan Schwartz also approved of the Romulans. "I personally like the combination of raw intellect and harnessed ferocity, with all that history underlying it," she explained. "With the Romulans, I like the plotting, too, and the honor and the irony. I've always liked them, from the time I saw Marc Lenard's face in 'Balance of Terror' and realized what they were swiping from." A group of Romulans appeared in a television commercial for a Christmas ornament of the Romulan Warbird, made by Hallmark. Makeup for these Romulans was provided by Michael Westmore's makeup team. () Further reading "The Romulans" by Robert Greenberger, Apocrypha Much of the Romulans' origins are explored in the Rihannsu pentalogy by Diane Duane, and the later Vulcan's Soul trilogy by Josepha Sherman and Susan Schwartz. Duane's novels established that the exodus from Vulcan was led by S'task, a former disciple of Surak, a detail which Sherman and Schwartz followed. In Duane's novel The Romulan Way, Vulcan society becomes polarized by their first encounter with an alien species – Orion pirates attempting to invade their world. S'task, a Vulcan poet and former disciple of Surak, argues in favor of strength, while Surak's increasingly popular beliefs favor pacifism and logic. To avert civil war between the two factions, S'task leads his followers on a mass migration. As part of their exodus, they intentionally invent a new culture and a new language. They refer to themselves as the Rihannsu, which means "the Declared," in their new language. Likewise, they named their new homeworlds ch'Rihan ("of the Declared") and ch'Havran ("of the Travelers"); the names Romulus and Remus were pinned on their worlds by the Federation exploration vessel that first entered their star system – according to Duane, those Rihannsu who learned about the names used for them by the Federation were puzzled, more than anything else, by the myth from which the names originated (twin brothers being raised and suckled by a wolf). In the Vulcan's Soul trilogy, the Romulans' ancestors left Vulcan as a contingency plan approved by Surak, should the wars on Vulcan have completely destroyed their civilization. The eagle emblem was inspired by a huge bird native to Romulus that clutched eggs in its talons. Duane also depicted the Romulans as being extinct in the mirror universe novel Dark Mirror, as they chose to commit mass suicide rather than become subjects of the Terran Empire following the Battle of Cheron. According to the novel Uncertain Logic, the Rihannsu called themselves Rom'ielln during the Romulan-Vulcan War to conceal their true identity from the Vulcans. It is implied that this name became the source of the word "Romulan". The comic book Star Trek: Countdown and the video game Star Trek Online depict the lead up and the aftermath of Romulus' destruction, primarily caused by the Romulan Senate ignoring Spock's warnings about the supernova, which originated from the star of the Hobus system, and the Vulcan Science Council's refusal to lend them red matter. In spite of this, Federation-Romulan relations had been improving and Romulan citizens had become less xenophobic, as indicated in the ending of . After the supernova, Federation aid is either welcomed or met with suspicion and even hostility, while the Klingon Empire seizes the opportunity to conquer Romulan territory. Despite continuing in-fighting between the survivors, a new capital called Rihan is established on Rator III. The Romulans are playable characters in the 2013 Online expansion pack Legacy of Romulus. The playable Romulans and Remans are members of a splinter Republican faction on New Romulus led by D'Tan. It is eventually revealed that the supernova was not a natural occurrence, but was a deliberate act of genocide by rogue elements of the Tal Shiar at the behest of the Iconians, the game's primary villains until the conclusion of Season 10. Romulan religious beliefs vary in non-canon sources.The Way of D'era sourcebook states the Romulans believe in the Way of D'era. Tellus, an enemy of Surak, taught that the inhabitants of Vorta Vor – the mythological world mentioned in – had visited the Vulcans and inspired them to become the supreme rulers of the galaxy. This explains the superiority complex and their hatred for Vulcans, whom they see as traitors. In Duane's Rihannsu series, the Romulan religion is animistic, born out of the apparently innocuous comment, made by one philosopher aboard the ships outbound from Vulcan, that "things notice" – i.e., that lost objects remain lost as long as you are looking for them, then reappear as soon as you stop looking. From this observation grew an entire theological colloquy, and eventually a religion based on worship of the classical elements of fire, air, water, earth and the "Archelement" which oversees the others. In Killing Time, they worship a demon called Bettatan'ru. The Countdown/Nero story portrays the Romulans as polytheistic. There are also various, conflicting explanations for the Romulans' lack of telepathic ability: In Duane's My Enemy, My Ally, Spock explains that the Romulans left Vulcan before the mental disciplines of Vulcan were fully developed, and genetic drift has caused them to lose any latent ability they might have; This is contradicted in Duane's sequel The Romulan Way, which explains that a number of trained telepaths accompanied the Rihannsu ships leaving Vulcan, but eventually died as a result of having to use their psionic abilities to propel the ships from one star system to another; because it required a group of telepaths to train new adepts, the Rihannsu's telepaths died at a faster rate than they could be replaced; according to this novel, Vulcans in the 23rd century believe that the Romulans still possess the raw potential to produce telepaths, but will never do so without hands-on instruction from Vulcan adepts; In the novel by A.C. Crispin, the Romulans kidnap a group of Vulcans, several decades before the Khitomer Conference, and interbreed with them, producing telepathically sensitive hybrids. According to the Vulcan's Soul trilogy, the Romulans rejected the telepathy of the Vulcans and slaughtered or enslaved the telepaths among themselves during their exodus from Vulcan: these telepaths became the Remans. This explains why no Romulan displays telepathic skills in canon, while some Remans, such as Shinzon's Reman Viceroy, do. In Nero, the titular character takes a drug that enables him to meditate, and to develop the skills to communicate telepathically, without mind melding. The Way of D'era explains that the Romulans lack the physical strength of the Vulcans because they no longer live on a harsh environment. Killing Time shows Romulans slightly adverse to the effects of pon farr. The alternate reality Romulans themselves debut in the two-part "Vulcan's Vengeance" story from IDW Publishing's Star Trek: Ongoing comic book series. It is stated the Senate approved of Nero's actions. A group of Vulcans led by infiltrate Romulus and attempt to avenge their homeworld by detonating red matter recovered from Vulcan. Spock convinces his father the plot is a mistake, and prevents the detonation. He and his fellow crew members are allowed to return as a "fair exchange" while the Senate keeps the red matter. They also gain the Narada''s schematics. Later in the series, Section 31 allies with the Romulans to start a war with the Klingons, in a successful ploy to regain the last piece of red matter. External links ca:Romulans cs:Romulan de:Romulaner es:Romulanos fr:Romulien it:Romulano ja:ロミュラン nl:Romulan pl:Romulanie pt:Romulano ro:Romulan ru:Ромуланцы sv:Romulaner Species Romulus
1958	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Starbase 718	Starbase 718 was a Federation starbase administered by Starfleet. In 2364, Captain Jean-Luc Picard was summoned to an emergency conference at this starbase. () External link bg:Звездна база 718 cs:Základna 718 de:Sternenbasis 718 es:Base Estelar 718 fr:Base stellaire 718 ja:第718宇宙基地 nl:Sterrenbasis 718 0718, Starbase
1960	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Fleet admiral	Fleet admiral was a military rank, the equivalent of which was used by the service organizations of many civilizations. As a traditional grade, fleet admiral was the most senior flag officer rank of a naval organization, above all the flag admiral grades save for commander-in-chief. In Starfleet, fleet admiral existed as a separate rank, but was also used as a title awarded and referring to officers wearing insignia of vice admiral or admiral, such as Fleet Admiral Shanthi. () While decorating to entertain Khan Noonien Singh aboard the in 2267, Leonard McCoy commented that the ship must be expecting a fleet admiral for dinner. () Fleet admirals Klingon Defense Forces , a Klingon admiral Starfleet The following admirals wore the insignia for the fleet admiral rank: , Commander in Chief Bob, Chief of Staff Cartwright Kirsten Clancy, Commander in Chief (alternate reality) Morrow, Commander, Starfleet Charles Vance, Commander in Chief The following admirals were referred to as fleet admirals but wore the rank insignia for vice admiral: Brackett Alynna Nechayev Shanthi Appendices Background information First mentioned in , the first fleet admiral seen on screen was Fleet Admiral Morrow in . Robert Blackman's production notes during described this rank as "5 Starfleet Admiral, gold framed bar w/5 dots." The labeled this rank as "fleet admiral" referring to the , and "fleet admiral, five star" referring to its use on , , and . , mistakenly identified the late 2270's-2350's admiral insignia as the fleet admiral insignia. A deleted scene from would have established a Fleet Admiral Gustafson who was at the time assigned to Starbase 218. External links bg:Адмирал на флота de:Flottenadmiral es:Almirante General fr:Amiral de la flotte ja:元帥 nl:Vloot-admiraal Military ranks Titles
1970	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	The Charge of the Light Brigade	"The Charge of the Light Brigade" was a poem written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a British poet who lived in the 19th century. Just prior to entering battle during Operation Return against overwhelming Dominion and Cardassian forces, Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir quoted a stanza of this poem. The quote had particular significance because the 600 Starfleet ships were in danger of being outflanked and surrounded by the larger Dominion fleet. () Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. Apocrypha In Peter David's novel Q-in-Law, Jean-Luc Picard intones an abbreviated version of the last three lines of the above stanza ("Into the jaws of Death rode the six hundred...") when about to enter Lwaxana Troi's quarters for a private dinner. External links "The Charge of the Light Brigade" at Bartleby.com de:The Charge of the Light Brigade fr:The Charge of the Light Brigade Charge of the Light Brigade
1971	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Lieutenant junior grade	The rank of lieutenant junior grade, sometimes abbreviated to lieutenant jg or junior lieutenant, was a junior officer grade used by Starfleet that was positioned between an ensign and a full lieutenant. During certain points in its history, Starfleet discontinued the rank of lieutenant junior grade, promoting ensigns directly to the full grade of lieutenant. This was the case in the mid 2270s, when ensigns adopted the sleeve insignia of the former lieutenant jg rank. () Benjamin Sisko once recalled the time he got promoted to lieutenant, stating that "It took me a while to get used to being called "sir" by my friends who were still ensigns." () In an alternate timeline created by Q, where Captain Jean-Luc Picard was given the chance to walk away from his fight with the Nausicaan that caused serious injury to his heart, which forced a bionic replacement to be installed, he returned to the present as a mere assistant astrophysics officer with the rank of lieutenant junior grade. It was later revealed by Q that it was that near-death experience that made the young Picard realize just how fragile life was and how important it could be, thus making him even more determined to make his mark in the universe and take risks, to earn his place as the captain of the . () After taking the liberty to speak with Starfleet Medical, Captain Benjamin Sisko got them to waive the rest of Ezri Dax's training and gave her a commission as a full counselor with the rank of lieutenant. () Lieutenants junior grade Appendices See also Sublieutenant Background information The rank of "lieutenant junior grade" was portrayed in nearly all Starfleet rank schemes, but was only mentioned in the dialogue of the episode and the episode , while the term "junior lieutenant" appeared in dialogue in . According to one early draft script of (dated ), Lieutenant Ilia had been identified in dialogue as a "Lieutenant Junior Grade". Lieutenant junior grade is never seen on the or referenced in . A article on the 2151 uniforms and rank did not mention lieutenant junior grade or lieutenant commander. () External link bg:Младши лейтенант cs:Podporučík de:Lieutenant Junior Grade es:Teniente grado junior fr:Sous-lieutenant it:Tenente JG ja:中尉 nl:Luitenant j.g. sr:Млађи поручник Military ranks
1977	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Jem'Hadar	The Jem'Hadar were a genetically-engineered reptilian-like humanoid species from the Gamma Quadrant. They served as the military arm of the Dominion and were one of the most powerful military forces in the galaxy during their time. Physiology Jem'Hadar were generated in birthing chambers or hatcheries. Their growth cycle was accelerated such that they reached full maturity only three days after emergence. They did not procreate naturally, and their species consisted solely of males. () As infants, Jem'Hadar strongly resembled mammalian species, with a complexion resembling that of Humans; within a day of maturation, Jem'Hadar children already had advanced language skills and cognitive reasoning. As they aged, their skin paled to a bluish-white and became scaly and reptilian in appearance. () Adolescent Jem'Hadar required food for nourishment. () Adult Jem'Hadar did not require sleep, and their sole source of nourishment was the drug ketracel-white, which provided the Jem'Hadar with all necessary nutrients, as well as an isogenic enzyme that had been deliberately omitted from their metabolism. As a result, all Jem'Hadar were addicted to "the white," which was regularly distributed to them by Vorta overseers. This was the Founders' means of ensuring the Jem'Hadar's loyalty to them. () Without a steady supply of white, Jem'Hadar suffered withdrawal symptoms: their circulatory systems began to shut down, beginning with muscle spasms. Psychologically, they became uncontrollably violent, attacking their enemies, then their Vorta overseers, and finally each other. A few Jem'Hadar were naturally 'born' with the ability to produce the necessary enzyme without actually taking white, but these cases were rarely noted save for exceptional circumstances as they still took the drug on a regular basis and never knew that they weren't addicted. () Jem'Hadar were designed to have excellent vision and strength several times greater than Humans. () They also had the ability to "shroud" themselves, a form of camouflage that acted as a personal cloaking field, effectively hiding them and their weapons from both sensors and the naked eye. () However, they had to drop this effect when attacking. () Also, Jem'Hadar lost the ability to shroud when they were suffering withdrawal from the white. () Jem'Hadar had extremely resilient bodies, such that phaser beams on "stun" intensity had no effect on them. During the Dominion War, Federation fighters quickly learned that only lethal settings could be used to stop them. () After an enormous Jem'Hadar fleet was eliminated inside the Bajoran wormhole during Operation Return, the Gamma Quadrant was effectively sealed off from the Dominion forces in the Alpha Quadrant. The Dominion began to breed Jem'Hadar soldiers in the Alpha Quadrant, known as "s", in 2374. The Alphas' genetic and psychological profiles were designed specifically for combat in that Quadrant, and so the Alphas were regarded – largely by themselves – as being superior to original "" Jem'Hadar, so their introduction led to considerable friction with their Gamma Quadrant counterparts. The Founders believed this made them better leaders than the Gammas, though this opinion may have been revised after one of the Alphas' first missions, led by Kudak'Etan, became a disastrous failure. () Psychology and lifestyle Jem'Hadar were engineered to be soldiers and ship crews, and nothing more. Their culture shunned all forms of relaxation and recreation, on the belief that such things made them weak. () For the same reason, Jem'Hadar fighters, and probably other classes of Jem'Hadar starships, were not equipped with chairs. () Like the Vorta, the Jem'Hadar were genetically engineered to revere the Founders as gods and to be unquestioningly loyal to them. However, this engineering was not flawless, which is why it was necessary to make them dependent on the white. When a Jem'Hadar company assigned to a Dominion science team on Vandros IV rebelled, Dominion experts nervously predicted that they could gather support from other Jem'Hadar units in the Gamma Quadrant and effect a complete takeover of the Dominion in less than a year. () Most Jem'Hadar died young in battle; as such, it was rare for them to live past fifteen years of age. Few ever lived to the age of twenty, and those who did were awarded the title "Honored Elder." To date, no Jem'Hadar has ever lived to the age of thirty. () Culture and tradition Although the Jem'Hadar worshiped the Founders as gods, the vast majority of the Jem'Hadar had never actually seen a Founder, and some doubted that they even existed. () Yet they built their service to the shapeshifters into a religion, literally regarding the Founders as living gods, to the extent that the Jem'Hadar ritualistically committed suicide if they failed to protect a shapeshifter from harm. () The Vorta, as the representatives of the Founders, were also given immense loyalty by most Jem'Hadar – even when such loyalty seemed unwarranted. Absolute obedience from the Jem'Hadar was further guaranteed by the Vorta's control of the ketracel-white. () Although the glory of the Founders meant everything to the Jem'Hadar, they also showed a strong sense of honor for themselves. Ikat'ika, of Dominion Internment Camp 371, showed this when he refused to kill Worf, even after he was ordered to do so by his Vorta superior. He chose rather to yield the fight than to kill Worf, saying, "I cannot defeat this Klingon. All I can do is kill him, and that no longer holds my interest." He was ordered to be shot for this insubordination. This indicated that at least some Jem'Hadar might have preferred insubordination and therefore death to doing something considered dishonorable. () Jem'Hadar combat units followed a very specific hierarchy. Normally, a Vorta commanded one or several units. Every unit contained a Jem'Hadar First, who was in command. Each Jem'Hadar after the First was also given a number rank (Second, Third, Fourth, etc.). In the event the First was killed, the Second took over for the First, the Third took over for the Second, and so forth. Although the succeeding Jem'Hadar assumed the duties of his superior, he only received the higher number rank if his Vorta commander granted it. () Ritual practices Before each battle, the following ritual was observed by the Jem'Hadar: First: "I am [Rank] [Name], and I am dead. As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This, we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar. Remember – victory is life." Jem'Hadar: "Victory is life." () A similar exchange stated, "Obedience brings victory, and victory is life." () When ketracel-white was dispensed, the following ritual exchange usually took place between the Vorta overseer and the ranking Jem'Hadar: Vorta: "[Rank] [Name], can you vouch for the loyalty of your men?" First (or ranking Jem'Hadar): "We pledge our loyalty to the Founders from now until death." Vorta: "Then receive this reward from the Founders. May it keep you strong." () Jem'Hadar Firsts were also capable of distributing the white among those under their command. By 2374, Alpha Jem'Hadar no longer recited the ritual dispersal statement, as they believed they demonstrated their loyalty by their actions, not their words. () See also Jem'Hadar ranks Dominion history Dominion philosophy Technology and equipment Uniforms: Jem'Hadar uniforms allowed their wearers to be almost completely unaffected by many forms of anti-personnel force field. () Ranged weaponry: Jem'Hadar carried plasma weapons in both rifle and pistol variants, capable of firing lethal disruptor bursts with anti-coagulants that were designed to slowly kill their enemies if the burst itself did not. The weapons had at least two other settings: they were able to stun, and to fire a more powerful burst capable of vaporizing a humanoid target. () Other Jem'Hadar weapons included the Houdini mine. Melee weapons: In close quarters, Jem'Hadar preferred the kar'takin or shock blade. () They also carried combat knives. () Jem'Hadar rifles could also be fitted with a bayonet, as seen when Jem'Hadar soldiers engaged Cardassian rebels during the Battle of Cardassia. () Warships Jem'Hadar fighter Jem'Hadar battle cruiser Jem'Hadar battleship Individuals List of Jem'Hadar Appendices Appearances (Season 2) (Season 3) (Season 4) (Season 5) (Season 6) (Season 7) (hologram) Background information According to the pronunciation guide for "The Jem'Hadar", the name was to be pronounced "JEM-huh-DAR". Conceptual origins and name Robert Hewitt Wolfe originated the notion of the Jem'Hadar as a fierce and vicious race of warriors with skins like rhinos. The species, used to carry out the threats of the Dominion in cases of disobedience among those who opened trade with the Vorta, was always imagined as being part of the Dominion. () However, the concept of the Jem'Hadar was that the producers wanted to create something more than merely a fearsome alien, already having plenty of those. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 140) Robert Wolfe wrote about the Jem'Hadar in a memo that defined the Dominion. Even as early a time as when he was writing the memo, Wolfe was fairly certain about the origins of the Jem'Hadar, including the idea that they (and the Vorta) had been genetically engineered by the Founders. Wolfe was even aware of some backstory explaining what had happened to the Jem'Hadar prior to this. "I think we all agreed that the Jem'Hadar were originally like the Mongols," he remembered. "They were some incredibly nasty, conquering subculture on a world of their own, but without all the genetic engineering; they didn't grow up in three days and all that stuff. The Founders got a hold of them and said, 'We'll make you the ultimate killing machines, what do you think?' And they said 'YEAH!' They just volunteered." In the memo, Wolfe declared that the Jem'Hadar had rebelled several times during the history of the Dominion but that all the Jem'Hadar rebellions had been defeated. Regarding the depiction of the Jem'Hadar in the memo, Wolfe related, "It was pretty close to what actually made it to the screen." () The writing staff of realized the Jem'Hadar might be too similar to the Klingons. As a result, the team of writers was determined to ensure the Jem'Hadar had their own unique identity. To make them as different as possible from the Klingons, the Jem'Hadar deliberately had no honor nor any concern for glory, instead caring only about winning and killing. () In Ronald D. Moore's opinion, this focus on victory without the pursuit of honor made the Jem'Hadar akin to "soldiers who've been in the field a long time." () The Jem'Hadar's strong sense of loyalty was based on historical examples. "We used the model of the Roman legionnaire. We also thought about the British soldiers in India, who were really just doing it for the Empire or the U.S. Green Berets. That was sort of our model," recalled Robert Wolfe. "We wanted to go for something we hadn't seen before in Star Trek, which was the consummate professional soldier." () Another way the writers tried to differentiate the Jem'Hadar from most of the other major races in Star Trek was by deciding to make them drug addicts. The writers did so primarily to demonstrate that the Jem'Hadar were fundamentally violent and were only obedient to the Founders. () Ira Steven Behr remembered, "From the very beginning, when we first sat around and talked about the Jem'Hadar – even before we had a name for them – we talked about them being mercenary drug addicts." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 95) Behr continued, "We came to view them as junkies. We came to view them as slaves, as people who were almost not worthy of a name because there wasn't much personality difference between them." Consequently, Behr believed the Jem'Hadar were more like the Borg than the Klingons. He commented, "They were stripped of their humanity. Not because they were machines, but because the drug was their raison d'etre." (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 29, pp. 10 & 11) Though all Jem'Hadar were envisioned as basically the same, the writers felt it was important for the aliens not to lose their ability of evoking fear. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 29, p. 11) At least in Robert Wolfe's opinion, the indomitability of the Jem'Hadar helped make them different from such races as the Klingons, Romulans, and Borg. Said Wolfe, "We wanted people to understand that the more you got to know the Jem'Hadar the scarier they were, and the less you'd want to be around them." () Ira Behr echoed this intent, citing the Klingons and the Cardassians as alien species that the writers wanted to make the Jem'Hadar clearly different from. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 120) Whereas the typical science fiction attitude would have been to make the Jem'Hadar much less aggressive and no longer villainous or loyal to the Dominion if their addiction was broken, the DS9 creative team opted for a more unusual idea. "What we wanted to say was: 'If you break them of the addiction to the white, then you take away what little control anyone has over them, and they'll do what they always wanted to do, which is run around and kill everybody they can get to.' I'm not entirely sure that's just because of the genetic engineering," Wolfe mused. "I think the loyalty to the Founders was probably programmed in there, but I suspect they'd be difficult to reason with in any case." Wolfe additionally theorized that the Jem'Hadar were "very carefully" selected by the Founders, as the ideal candidates for what the Founders planned to use them for. () He contemplated, "The Jem'Hadar are basically killing machines and it's not their fault. It's the reality of who they are. They are another alien race I'm fond of because we worked really hard in creating them [....] With the Jem'Hadar, we sat down and tried to design from the ground up this race so they were fully formed from the first time we saw them. Usually that doesn't work, but this time it did." Behr found achieving the challenge of creating the Jem'Hadar resulted in them having a "complicated" backstory. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 86 & 106) He noted, "You can understand your enemy to death and this time we did not want to do that." (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 29, p. 11) Behr also said, "These are not the kind of guys you want to party with." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 120) He also described the Jem'Hadar as "the toughest guys in the galaxy." () According to , it was Robert Hewitt Wolfe who invented the name for the species. Wolfe himself, however, stated, "We [the DS9 writing staff] named the Jem'Hadar together. We sat there with a 'Roget's Thesaurus' and looked under soldier. Jem'Hadar is a rank in the Indian army; it's first lieutenant or something like that." () In fact, the name of this species comes from , an Urdu term for armed officials of the zamindars (lords) later adopted by the British as a military rank. Fellow writing staffer Peter Allan Fields disapproved of the name, commenting it "sounds like 'mah-jongg,' or some kind of card game!" () However, comics writer Mike Johnson considered the Jem'Hadar as "The species with the coolest name in Trek." ("Top 50 Alien Species!", Star Trek: Ongoing issue #50, "Live Evil, Part 1") The Jem'Hadar were scripted, in the teleplay for , to be bred by "the same people who breed the s as gifts to the Hunters." The script also said, "The Jem'Hadar are genetically engineered soldiers. Unlike the Klingons they have no interest in honor or glory. And unlike the Cardassians and Romulans, they have no love of intrigue or politics. The closest twentieth century analogy would be the professional mercenary, but unlike mercenaries, Jem'Hadar don't fight for material gain and can't be bribed or negotiated with. They are the ultimate professionals. And they look scary, too." Physical design At first, the Jem'Hadar were described by Robert Wolfe as having quite a different appearance than the lizard-skinned creatures they became. "In the original memo," he said, "what I actually envisaged – I overstepped my bounds a little bit – were creatures that would wear no clothing, because they would have armor plating over their entire bodies." Wolfe imagined the protective plating was organic and would, due to having a kind of internal crystalline structure, absorb or reflect phaser fire. As thought up by Wolfe, members of the species would meld items of equipment, such as holsters, onto their bodies. () Rick Berman was initially concerned that the Jem'Hadar, with their rhino-like appearance described as such from the get-go, might look too "comic-booky." That was never a considerable danger, however. () Before designing the look of the Jem'Hadar, Makeup Supervisor Michael Westmore was told to "design something that was tough, that they could shoot at but they couldn't hurt, they were indestructible, as an army they were unstoppable, and they would have thick skin." (Michael Westmore's Aliens: Season 5, DS9 Season 5 DVD special features) Therefore, DS9's makeup department sought to give the Jem'Hadar a look that portrayed toughness and resiliency. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 140) Westmore himself likewise wanted the species to have an appearance that would enhance their strength and aggressiveness. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 103, p. 16) The writing staff and Westmore didn't go through many experimental design stages, since the writers knew they wanted "a very tough character that had hide like a rhinoceros," as worded by Westmore. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 3) The rhino was an appropriate source of inspiration, as it is one of the toughest-looking animals in the jungle (if not the toughest). (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 140) From the writers' simple description of how they wanted the Jem'Hadar to look, Michael Westmore started his work on the species. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 3) The original concepts for the Jem'Hadar were based on the premise that they were all clones and were, therefore, identical in appearance. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 140) Beginning with the notion of giving the aliens "a rhinoceros hide that had folds in it," Westmore also gave the Jem'Hadar a nose like a rhino's, though without a horn. (; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 3) He remembered, "By taking the rhinoceros skin and using that, especially with the type of nose, then the wrinkles, the heaviness, the folding of the skin, all this became part of the Jem'Hadar and I was still fascinated; I had to get the horn in, somewhere." (Michael Westmore's Aliens: Season 5, DS9 Season 5 DVD special features) Westmore feared that, if he put a horn on the end of the Jem'Hadar's nose, he would make each of the aliens look too recognizably similar to a rhino with its large horn, which is really an enormous outgrowth of hair from the nose. (; Michael Westmore's Aliens: Season 5, DS9 Season 5 DVD special features; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 3) Westmore therefore included the horn in a different way. "I took what would be the horn and turned it into a hairstyle!" he exclaimed. In essence, the hair at the back of the head was made to be horn-shaped and extended down to a horn at the back of the head. "I pulled all those little elements together using the rhinoceros as reference," Westmore noted. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 3) Michael Westmore additionally incorporated elements from dinosaur skin, due to it – like the rhinoceros hide – looking heavy. (Michael Westmore's Aliens: Season 5, DS9 Season 5 DVD special features) The combination of rhino skin together with dinosaur-like aspects was motivated by Westmore's interest in giving the aliens a sense of visual "toughness and ruggedness." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 3) The aspects of the Jem'Hadar that stemmed from a combination of the two influences included not only the scaly structure of the body but also the rolls of scaly skin that run down the neck. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 140) The ring of small horns encircling the Jem'Hadar face and on the crown of the head likewise had multiple sources of inspiration. Michael Westmore arrived at that design by studying the faces of various reptiles, including both long-extinct dinosaurs and present-day lizards. "I used a horny toad as reference for that," he explained. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 3) Again, the rhinoceros served as an influence, too. "What makes Star Trek so interesting is that you give the [Jem'Hadar] creature the same feel and meanness [as the rhino] by putting little horns all around his face," Westmore related. "It makes them dangerous – if you bump into one, you're going to bleed. So you know automatically that you never get close to the Jem'Hadar." () The horns atop the head were also inspired by a triceratops. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 29, p. 18) Thus, the top of the Jem'Hadar head, in general, was based on a triceratops or a similar type of dinosaur, having a bony head reinforced with hard plates. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 140) Hence, whereas numerous versions of a rhinoceros horn ended up being placed around the Jem'Hadar heads, the top of their heads was more akin to a dinosaur. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 103, p. 16) Michael Westmore observed that, though the horned toad and rhino are animals familiar to many humans, they were merged to become a new-looking design. Westmore felt the result seemed realistic, as if it could be created via mutation on Earth or another planet. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 3) The full-facial prosthetic masks used for the Jem'Hadar involved a lot of latex. Wearing the masks was considerably difficult for the required actors. "Some actors just get lost in the makeup, while others pop right through it [with their performances]," said Ronald D. Moore. () Episodic introduction During the development of "The Jem'Hadar", the DS9 writing staff tried to depict the Jem'Hadar as "these guys [who] are not to be taken lightly," as expressed by Ira Steven Behr. Robert Hewitt Wolfe related, "We wanted to show the long-term fans how dangerous these guys were." () Wolfe and Behr realized the Jem'Hadar were indeed being portrayed as "tough", upon the pair of staff writers viewing dailies from the episode. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 79) In "The Jem'Hadar", although the simplest and most effective way to create the effect of the Jem'Hadar shroud would have involved blue screen for the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers, this wasn't doable within the episode's filming schedule, which lasted seven days. "I also considered dressing doubles for the actors in blue or green suits," stated Glenn Neufeld, "but there was no time for that either because we would have had to stop everything to place the doubles in exactly the same position as the actors." The live-action footage of the actors playing the soldiers was filmed normally, then rotoscoped out by Patrick Clancey at Digital Magic. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 25/26, No. 6/1, p. 108) Even when "The Jem'Hadar" had been the only episode to have featured the species, it was probable that the Jem'Hadar would reappear many more times. "The Jem'Hadar are very antisocial lizards," Glenn Neufeld laughed, "Which probably means we'll see quite a lot of them!" (Cinefantastique, Vol. 25/26, No. 6/1, p. 108) With hindsight, Ira Behr noted, "We were very nervous at the time, because we were really gambling with the Jem'Hadar. We were saying this is going to become a big part of the show." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 90) Reappearances In , the DS9 writing staff wanted to continue developing the Jem'Hadar, such as establishing their drug addiction, without once again featuring them merely as combatants against Starfleet. Ira Behr recollected, "What we wanted to do is keep the Jem'Hadar alive [....] We wanted to do a Jem'Hadar show that didn't live or die on whether we could beat the Jem'Hadar in a fight. That's one of the problems of keeping the Jem'Hadar alive; once you beat them in combat – once you really nail them – are they the same villains they were?" (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 95) Behr answered, "They lose their ability to strike fear in your heart if you're able to kick their ass too quickly." Regarding the idea of portraying the Jem'Hadar as "drug-addicted villains", Behr stated, "We really wanted to play that out, so we gave the Jem'Hadar some backstory." Robert Wolfe offered, "They started off as nice makeup, and we wanted to use them again." Agreed Ronald D. Moore, "['The Abandoned' was] an important [episode] to tell things about the Jem'Hadar that were different than we had dealt with before." René Echevarria felt the Jem'Hadar are shown as tragic in "The Abandoned", because "we see that there is no turning this type of creature." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 85 & 86) Avery Brooks found analogies between the Jem'Hadar and contemporary teenagers, which Brooks found useful while directing "The Abandoned". He commented, "For me, it was [...] to some extent, a story about a society that is responsible for the creation of a generation of young men who are feared, who are addicted, who are potential killers." However, the similarity between the alien species and young men of the 20th century was merely metaphorical, Brooks admitted; the Jem'Hadar were conceived as the intentional creation of a species with calculated plans, whereas the then-modern male youths were the product of an uncaring society. () Ira Behr and Rene Auberjonois nevertheless agreed with viewing the Jem'Hadar in the same analogous way as Brooks. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 29, p. 12; , issue #222, p. 30) Auberjonois offered, "It really feeds into a very contemporary problem that we're facing in our society and our culture, with kids on crack, and what that does to them. That's the way Avery approached it, and I thought that was very moving." (, issue #222, p. 30) The use of actors wasn't the only method involved in depicting Jem'Hadar on-screen. In "The Abandoned", a shot portraying a Jem'Hadar teenager leaping through Odo's morphed body was rehearsed with a stunt person playing the part of the teen, who was then portrayed by a stand-in for the actual live-action footage. () At the conclusion of DS9's third season, Ira Steven Behr felt "deepening the Jem'Hadar" was an important goal for the staff writers to keep in mind for the next season. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 115) In the development of fourth season episode , the idea of reusing the Jem'Hadar originated in a story pitch by freelance writer Nicholas Corea. "He had been working on a story about the Jem'Hadar and their drug addiction," explained Lisa Klink. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 102) Corea's pitch specifically dealt with a group of Jem'Hadar who wanted to free themselves from the addictive ketracel-white. () When Corea's plot idea was merged with a story Klink had suggested about an alien race imprisoning Dr. Bashir, the Jem'Hadar were instead reused. "So that became the alien race Bashir was dealing with and we took it from there," said Klink. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 102) Remembered René Echevarria, "Somehow we realized that it could be about the Jem'Hadar and freeing [...] them of their drug addiction." Even after the idea of including the Jem'Hadar was decided on, the species became even more central to the installment. Ronald D. Moore remembered, "We [...] decided to make it more of a Jem'Hadar-specific episode with the drugs and this and that." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 106 & 107) From the perspective of appearing as Goran'Agar in "Hippocratic Oath", Scott MacDonald found the Jem'Hadar to be notable villains. "These guys are the ultimate warriors," he observed. "They're sharks. They just swim through the galaxy and destroy." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 3) Ira Behr and Ron Moore were slightly disappointed with how the Jem'Hadar were written into "Hippocratic Oath", though Behr liked the performances of the actors playing the Jem'Hadar in that installment. "The Jem'Hadar themselves did not quite make it for me," he complained. "I thought the potential was there; it just wasn't really achieved. It left me wishing that the Jem'Hadar had been a little more clear in terms of who they are, how they are and how they reacted." Moore expressed, "The Jem'Hadar blended out between themselves. Part of that was the makeup, part of it was maybe the final polish on the script. They didn't come off quite alien enough, yet it was hard to tell them apart." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 106 & 107) Moore also complained, "We still didn't get a sense of the group as a people." () In both "The Abandoned" and "Hippocratic Oath", the Jem'Hadar were used in a traditional Star Trek way, compelling the audience to move beyond hatred and fear to instead look upon even the viewer's most despised enemies with insight and compassion, realizing they're more sophisticated than merely a "faceless evil." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, paperback ed., pp. 202-203) The spotlight on the Jem'Hadar in "Hippocratic Oath" was a contributing factor (along with an intense focus on the Klingons in season four opener ) in the design of the Breen in , the fifth episode of DS9 Season 4. () Moreover, as they were dissatisfied with how the Jem'Hadar are portrayed in "Hippocratic Oath", the DS9 staff writers altered the species for future appearances. "Since then we've done some adjustments to their makeup; we've gone a little bit into their backstory. I think we might eventually do even more adjustments to their look," Ira Behr reckoned. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 106) Midway through DS9 Season 4, Bashir actor Alexander Siddig felt the Jem'Hadar could be scarier villains. "I don't think the Jem'Hadar [...] have gotten to first base with regard to being a serious threat," he commented. "I don't think anybody bites their nails over them." () Although Goran'Agar says (in "Hippocratic Oath") that his crew has "eaten the same food" that he has consumed, later season four episode established that Jem'Hadar don't eat, sleep, or have sex. This apparent continuity error was simply due to the writers forgetting about Goran'Agar's remark when they were working on the subsequent episode, though Ira Behr preferred to regard the earlier line as an example of Goran'Agar being "metaphorically stupid, as the Jem'Hadar so often are." He stipulated, "There's a price to being a Jem'Hadar (not eating, sleeping, nor making love)." () The writers who worked full time on DS9 were very eager to further develop the Jem'Hadar in "To the Death". Relaying what Ira Behr once told him, Actor Jeffrey Combs stated, "They were kind of exploring the Jem'Hadar to see what those characters were like and where they could go with them." () In fact, the opportunity to provide more information about the Jem'Hadar in "To the Death" motivated its production. "Part of the meta reason for doing the show, other than just having a good time, was to bring the Jem'Hadar to life," noted Robert Hewitt Wolfe. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 67) Wolfe even went as far as saying that giving the Jem'Hadar more dimension was "our main purpose in 'To the Death'." () He explained further, "We wanted to spend some time with some Jem'Hadar who weren't screwed up, because the two times we spent any time with the Jem'Hadar was the kid who's so young and doesn't know what he's feeling ['The Abandoned'] and also the ones in 'Hippocratic Oath'. So we wanted to show what a functional Jem'Hadar society is, because we know so much more about them than anyone else does and we wanted to get some of that information out there so the audience could understand them a little better." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 120) The writers meanwhile wanted to retain the scariness of the Jem'Hadar, too. "Our intention was to show that the more you learn about them, the less you want to be around them," Wolfe specified. () During the development of "To the Death", René Echevarria had some concerns that the Jem'Hadar might not be sufficiently interesting. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 120) However, the episode's writers thoroughly thought through how they wanted to represent the species and its coalition with Starfleet. Wolfe recollected, "When we were talking about 'To the Death', we talked about twenty different missions the Jem'Hadar could go on with Starfleet [including one that involved killing Gowron because he was actually a renegade Changeling]." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 121) The writers knew that making the Jem'Hadar seem realistic would require an actor who could, as phrased by Wolfe, "really give these guys some depth." He also believed that Clarence Williams III – the performer chosen to play "To the Death" Jem'Hadar First Omet'iklan – managed to do that. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 67) While preparing to direct "To the Death", LeVar Burton found himself having to undertake some research about the Jem'Hadar, as he had never encountered the species before. "I had to look at previous episodes to understand who they were and what their relationship to the Founders is," he admitted. The large quantity of Jem'Hadar-playing actors on location, all of whom required heavy makeup, challenged Burton during production. "We had twenty-five Jem'Hadar stuntmen who had three-o'clock makeup calls," reflected B.C. Cameron. () The portrayal of the Jem'Hadar in "To the Death" was altered by the editing of the installment, as some fight scenes were cut. "In the first edited version, fifty-two Jem'Hadar had been killed," reported Stunt Coordinator Dennis Madalone. Ten of these had been killed by Dax, whereas seven had been killed by Sisko. "But when the censors got hold of it, they took out thirty-two Jem'Hadar deaths," Madalone concluded. () Ira Behr enthused about the episode, "It kind of restored my faith in the Jem'Hadar, and I think it really makes them interesting." Echevarria's worries were likewise nullified, he holding Behr and Wolfe responsible for having fleshed out the Jem'Hadar. "I think we learned some really fascinating things about the Jem'Hadar [....] [Wolfe and Behr] really did find some great, fascinating stuff about them," Echevarria remarked. "Finally we fleshed them out in a believable way that's a real important building block." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 119 & 120) While working on "To the Death", though, the writers came to the opinion the Jem'Hadar were a less interesting species to examine than the Vorta. () Ira Behr was regretful about how the Jem'Hadar are depicted in DS9's fourth season in general. "I think that it wasn't until later in the [fourth] season [than 'Hippocratic Oath'] that [we had] enough backstory to understand where the Jem'Hadar are coming from," he reasoned. "We probably should have done 'To the Death' first and then 'Hippocratic Oath'. It would have helped." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 3) Plans to further develop the Jem'Hadar in DS9 Season 5 were made. Ira Behr announced, "I think we're going to be doing stuff in the fifth season, both with make-up and costumes, that will help define the Jem'Hadar, make them a little more individual." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 3) When the Jem'Hadar reappeared in fifth season installment , members of the species were represented not only with Human performers but also, for Jem'Hadar corpses, dummies. "We used prop house dummies, like you would throw off a cliff. They're soft and kind of articulated," recalled Laura Richarz. "It was a joint effort between costume, makeup, and set decoration. Michael Westmore made new heads for them, complete with realistic glass eyes. Unfortunately, the feet didn't really fit in the boots. We had to make new ones so that the dummies wouldn't fall out of the boots when they were secured to the top of the set. We also had to remake the arms, because they looked too short hanging straight down. We added four inches to them." () While plotting fifth season two-parter and , allowing the Jem'Hadar to battle it out with Worf was one goal the DS9 writing staff had, an idea suggested by "To the Death". () In , numerous stunt performers played Jem'Hadar on Athos IV. The performers had trouble seeing, though, due to the smokiness of the set. () During the writing of DS9 Season 6 offering , the Jem'Hadar were originally to have conquered an alien civilization, indigenous to a specific planet. The rulership of the Jem'Hadar was to have been opposed by their subjects, who began to be rallied against them by the series' regular characters, who had crash landed on the planet. When the native population was excluded from the story, the Jem'Hadar – marooned on the planet themselves – were instead in conflict with the crash-landed Starfleet officers alone. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, pp. 35-36) The performers who portrayed the Jem'Hadar in "Rocks and Shoals" nearly collapsed, while the installment was in production, due to the heat of the episode's filming location. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 36) Those performers in particular suffered through the heat, finding it virtually unbearable. As can be seen in the episode, their eyes were "red from the sweat dripping into them from beneath their masks," noted Ira Behr. Phil Morris, who played Third Remata'Klan in "Rocks and Shoals", described how the performers cast as Jem'Hadar experienced the location shoot; "The hottest sequence of days in ten years. And we're out there in prosthetics and neoprene, the same stuff that dive suits are made out of." By the end of the day, many of the Jem'Hadar-playing extras were essentially insensible from the sweltering weather conditions. () Phil Morris viewed the Jem'Hadar as distinctly different from the Klingons, who often talked about how bad they were. "The Jem'Hadar are the baddest boys in the bar, so they don't need to talk about it," Morris opined. He also thought of the aliens as akin to samurai warriors loyal only to their feudal lords. "The Jem'Hadar are predisposed to have that loyalty; it's bred into them by the Vorta," he observed. () Visual Effects Producer Dan Curry thoroughly approved of the Jem'Hadar in "Rocks and Shoals". He particularly liked "their fatalistic attitude towards their own existence, and the Jem'Hadar soldiers knowing they were going to die and be betrayed by their leader." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 74) While choreographing shots in , episode writers David Weddle and Bradley Thompson took turns at pretending they were Jem'Hadar, as they toured the sets of the Defiant and tried to determine where they could position a miniaturized runabout without it being seen. Thompson later remembered thinking, "The Jem'Hadar will see this but not this." René Echevarria, who had originally devised the story idea of "One Little Ship", was ultimately dissatisfied with the choice of antagonist, though. "I think the Jem'Hadar were the wrong villains for the show," he sighed. "We needed more comedic villains." Alternatives to the Jem'Hadar that the writing staff suggested during pre-production, by which time it was too late to replace the Jem'Hadar in the episode, included the Pakleds and Harcourt Mudd. () The producers even had problems with some particular footage of the Jem'Hadar in "One Little Ship", regarding a scene in which Jadzia Dax, from inside the shrunken runabout Rubicon, first realizes the aliens are aboard the Defiant. "They thought it made the Jem'Hadar look too dumb," explained Gary Hutzel. This was because the producers felt the Jem'Hadar were too near the runabout to not notice it, an opinion that resulted in Hutzel consulting Digital Muse, who changed the shot so that the runabout was further away from the Jem'Hadar. Scenes in which, deliberately, the aliens reacted to the runabout were choreographed by Hutzel himself, issuing careful instructions to the performers playing the Jem'Hadar. "I'd say, 'I'm going to do a count. You hit here, here, here roughly on these marks, and at this point, pause, turn, turn the other way.' It allowed the actor to interpret the scene, and of course that always works out for the best," he remarked. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 42) By portraying multiple Intrepid-type escape pods ejecting from the during a battle with a Jem'Hadar battleship in , Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes believed the Jem'Hadar were depicted as fiercer than if there had only been one escape pod ejected. "It makes the Jem'Hadar even more ghastly," he observed. "They're just massacring innocent people, which is of course what they do." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 57) A story that DS9's writing staff toyed with, during the sixth season of the show, concerned a Jem'Hadar cloning hatchery, and a Starfleet mission to sabotage it. Using this plot concept as a starting point for a potential installment of DS9 Season 7, Production Assistant Philip Kim imagined and pitched a story that involved a threat to the Jem'Hadar; according to Weyoun, they were to be replaced by a new, far more effective Dominion race of warriors named the Modain. However, the danger to the Jem'Hadar turned out to be a lie, in the course of the story, which was thereafter rewritten as the seventh season entry . () Many people wearing Jem'Hadar makeup appeared in . (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, Nos 4/5, p. 56) Throughout the series, the Jem'Hadar remained extremely aggressive. They were also deliberately portrayed as consistently lacking individuality, so the audience was never really given an opportunity to become very familiar with any individual members of the species. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 29, pp. 11 & 10) Stated Ronald D. Moore, "The Jem'Hadar in a lot of the episodes tended to kind of bland out. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between them." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 120) In fact, Ikat'ika is the only Jem'Hadar to appear in more than one episode of Deep Space Nine. The ultimate fate of the Jem'Hadar was left unclear on the DS9 television series. As Ira Behr liked leaving some things for the audience to figure out, what happened to the Jem'Hadar following the Dominion War was left as one of these unresolved plot points. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 29, p. 13) Reception and aftermath Director Kim Friedman noted, "I like the Jem'Hadar, although they're only the foot soldiers of the Dominion. They weren't the Borg, but they were good." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 76) Two special effects face make-up lots for a Jem'Hadar were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. . Other Jem'Hadar-related artifacts sold at the auction included a special effects gloves lot, a prop pistol, and a knife. Apocrypha In the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels, Odo sends , a Jem'Hadar free of the addiction to ketracel-white, to live on Deep Space 9 to foster understanding of the Dominion. The novel Warpath established that Jem'Hadar have amber-colored blood while the novel Objective: Bajor established that they also do not possess any form of junk DNA within their genome which was a highlighted nature of their genetically-engineered origin. In the novel Time's Enemy, the Jem'Hadar typically refrained from speaking their own language to outsiders and preferred to learn the speech of their enemies which they are capable of doing at a fast rate. This provides them an edge against species that are fully dependent on universal translators. In the mission "Premonitions" from the video game Star Trek: Armada, a small force of rogue Jem'Hadar refused to accept the Treaty of Bajor and remained in the Alpha Quadrant following the end of the Dominion war and Dominion forces returning to the Gamma Quadrant. In 2376, a Starfleet task force led by the and the USS Jupiter destroyed several Jem'Hadar vessels still operating in the Barisa system at around the same time the Borg assimilated or destroyed several other Jem'Hadar vessels and facilities in the Quadrant. The Jem'Hadar are a central focus of the "Victory is Life" expansion of Star Trek Online, which allows players to create Jem'Hadar characters serving in Odo's Vanguard Fleet in battle against the Hur'q. Jem'Hadar characters initially require ketracel-white (obtainable by mission rewards, or from the Vorta Loriss on DS9) to function; after the mission "Home", their dependence on white is removed as a condition of the Dominion joining the Alliance (the coalition of Milky Way powers led by the Federation, the Klingon Empire, and the Romulan Republic), though Jem'Hadar characters can still benefit from its effects in combat. External links ca:Jem’Hadar de:Jem'Hadar es:Jem'Hadar fr:Jem'Hadar ja:ジェムハダー nl:Jem'Hadar pl:Jem'Hadar pt:Jem'Hadar ru:Джем'хадар sv:Jem'Hadar Species Jem'Hadar
1980	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Tycho City	Tycho City was a domed city on Luna. This colony was founded between 2063 and 2071. (, okudagram; , ) In 2071, was born in this city. (, okudagram) In the late 21st century, was born in this city. (, okudagram) In the mid-22nd century, Steve Miller Raymond was born in this city. (, okudagram) In the 2240s, David Grant Raymond was born in this city. (, okudagram) By 2373, the city was one of several lunar landmarks large enough to be seen from Earth in the daytime. Commander William T. Riker missed the familiar sight of the city, while looking at the moon during his mission to the year 2063. () Dorian Collins and her family were from Tycho City. Once a month, they would hike out from the city to the Sea of Clouds to watch Sol rise over the moon. () When Jack Ransom was an ensign, he claimed to be from Hawaii, but later revealed he was from Tycho City. The sister of another officer, who served under Ransom aboard the , went to Tycho City Prep. () See also Lunar colonies Tycho Base External links de:Tycho City fr:Tycho City nl:Tycho stad Settlements Colonies
1983	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Harbinger (episode)	Enterprise rescues an alien from a massive spatial anomaly, but its lone pilot refuses to explain why he was there. Reed and Hayes confront each other over their roles on the ship. Summary Teaser "That was unexpected." Commander Tucker is in his quarters, practicing Vulcan neuro-pressure on Corporal Amanda Cole's foot rather than his usual partner, T'Pol. After completing a few other pressure points, Cole turns round, and stares at Tucker. She kisses him, and then walks out, leaving him looking surprised, but happy. Act One "Captain's starlog, December 27, 2153. Using the coordinates we got from Degra, we're en route to the location of the red giant star and with any luck, the Xindi weapon." Captain Archer calls Lieutenant Reed to his ready room to discuss training sessions with the MACOs. Major Hayes has already discussed including the senior officers in the training sessions, but Reed has some objections to taking orders from the major. However, he reluctantly accepts his orders. On the bridge, Ensign Mayweather comments that the stars directly ahead appear to be shifting positions. The proceeds to investigate the phenomenon. They arrive to find that it is a convergence of a large number of spatial anomalies. Ensign Sato picks up a weak transmission coming from within the disturbance. T'Pol identifies its source as a small pod containing one humanoid life sign. Archer instructs Reed to deploy the grappler, and they attempt to remove the pod. Upon trying to pull the pod out, the disturbance suddenly expands and envelops the primary hull. Small spatial disturbances begin forming on the bridge, disrupting a few systems, and ammonium sulfide starts accumulating in the atmosphere. The captain orders full reverse from the engineering crew, and Enterprise manages to escape, along with the pod. Dr. Phlox asks T'Pol to join him in sickbay to discuss Corporal Cole. She has been to see the doctor because of headaches, which Phlox associates with the neuro-pressure sessions she'd been receiving from Commander Tucker. Phlox recommends that T'Pol should try to remedy the situation by conducting further sessions with the corporal, and that Tucker should be discouraged from continuing with her. Meanwhile, Reed and Hayes argue over the timing of the training sessions, much to the major's exasperation. Reed is unhappy about the major going over his head with his recommendation to the captain. In the launch bay, Archer, Reed and Tucker open the pod, and discover a humanoid inside, alive, with many electrodes connecting him to the pod. Act Two They take the alien to sickbay, where Phlox tries to revive him. In the command center, T'Pol has been working on the readings from the disturbance, and has gathered some interesting data. She has deduced that the disturbance is located exactly in the center of five spheres. Archer hypothesizes that the spheres are the cause of the disturbance. In one of the cargo bays, Major Hayes has set up a session of hand-to-hand combat, and the MACOs and the senior officers are paired up against each other. Cole immediately pairs with Tucker. Both groups appear to be equally matched, much to Reed's relief. The session goes well, until one of the MACOs goes over the top with Mayweather. Mayweather seems to not be too badly hurt, but Reed stops the session, and demands that the major keep control of his soldiers. Hayes disagrees there is an issue, and the animosity between them continues. T'Pol and Tucker discover evidence that the pod is associated with the makers of the spheres. T'Pol shares this information with the captain, who speculates that the alien is a "canary in a coal mine," intentionally placed in the disturbance to monitor its effects. The captain wants the doctor to revive the alien, but Phlox states that's unethical as he would be in pain. Archer says they're going to have to bend a few ethics. Act Three In T'Pol's quarters, she is conducting a neuro-pressure session with Cole. They discuss Cole's apparent attraction to Tucker, which she admits to. T'Pol is surprised enough that she accidentally presses too hard and hurts Cole for a moment. The doctor confirms to Archer that the alien is dying, but not just dying – he is disintegrating. There isn't much that Phlox can do to stop the alien's demise. Hayes sets up a weapon targeting session as part of his new training regime. Reed doesn't score very high in his first attempt, much to his disappointment, and he isn't consoled by the major's comments. The major then scores considerably higher – on a higher level – and states that the record for this training exercise is held by Cole. Afterward, in the crew's mess, Tucker engages Reed in discussion concerning the training sessions. Reed doesn't wish to discuss Major Hayes, but is more interested in the rumors of a relationship between Cole and Tucker. Tucker is equally not keen to follow this line of conversation. The alien's condition continues to deteriorate, and he continues to demand to be returned to the disturbance site. However, Archer is adamant that he needs more answers about why he was there. Finally the alien reveals that he is from a trans-dimensional realm. He demands to be returned to his pod, even though he knows he will die. "Captain's starlog, supplemental. With Travis' adjustments in place, we've resumed course for the red giant." Tucker goes to see T'Pol for his neuro-pressure session, and discusses his situation with Cole with her. He asks if T'Pol is jealous about him and Cole; she denies it, and asks if he is. When Tucker admits that he finds T'Pol attractive, she quickly kisses him before taking off her clothes and kissing him again… In sickbay, the Doctor talks to the steadily sickening alien about Denobula and Earth. As the Doctor turns away to consult a medical screen, the alien attacks him, knocking him unconscious, but then discovers his arm passes through Phlox's neck. After briefly examining his hand in surprise and testing this new-found ability to pass through solid matter, he then proceeds to walk through the sickbay wall. Act Four The alien is moving rapidly through the ship, causing localized failures that T'Pol notes are a way to track his progress. Meanwhile, Reed and Hayes' conflict has escalated, and they are in the middle of a big fight, which begins as sparring but escalates; clearly, this is personal. Both men trade having the upper hand, but what is now nothing short of a brawl is broken up when they are called to duty to attempt to track down the alien. They intercept him, but their weapons have no effect; the fire passes right through him. In engineering, Tucker encounters the alien, but is knocked unconscious seconds before the MACOs and Reed arrive. The alien then pushes his hand into the warp core, destabilizing the magnetic seals. With Hayes' help, Reed is able to reverse the polarity of the field coils, and this repels the alien. The next day, Tucker and T'Pol discuss their intimacies over coffee and tea in the crew's mess. T'Pol thanks Tucker for his assistance of her "exploration of Human sexuality". They both agree to keep their dalliance between themselves, and in fact Tucker, feeling uncomfortable with T'Pol's logical approach to the matter, suggests they "forget it ever happened", but, as an afterthought, suggests that they need not discontinue their Vulcan neuro-pressure sessions together. Hayes and Reed are called to the captain's ready room for a dressing down because of the wounds they inflicted on each other during their fight. The captain orders their dispute to be ended immediately; Reed and Hayes confirm that it has already been settled. When the captain leaves to speak to the alien again, a bit of humor is added as Reed and Hayes are left wondering if they're dismissed. Back in sickbay, the alien deteriorates further, and disintegrates completely, but not before telling Archer that his people are somehow involved with the Xindi plan to destroy Earth. Memorable quotes "I've noticed that you and Corporal Cole have become somewhat friendly." "Friendly?" "Last week you were eating together in the mess hall, and in the training session yesterday she touched your behind." "You've been keeping a pretty close eye on us." "You're hard to miss." - T'Pol and Tucker "Captain, this man is dying a painful death. To keep him conscious is unethical." "Until I get the answers I need, we're going to have to bend a few ethics." - Phlox and Captain Archer "You and Commander Tucker appear to enjoy each other's company." "We do have a lot in common. Did he tell you we grew up less than fifty kilometers from each other?" "He didn't mention it." "Our high schools were rivals. We went to the same movie theaters. What are the odds?" "Extremely low." - T'Pol and Corporal Cole, discussing Trip Tucker "You two really ought to declare a truce." "Oh, no. This is a fight to the death." - Tucker and Reed "You have to admit, the extra training isn't such a bad idea." "Just… drop it." - Tucker and Reed "Why were you giving Amanda Cole neuro-pressure, anyway?" "What's it to you?" "Well, from what I'm told, it's a pretty intimate procedure… for just friends." "I do it with T'Pol. Are you implying there's something going on there as well?" "That's the rumor." "Look, for the last time, there's nothing going on with any of us… between any of us." "Right, you're all just friends." "That's right." "Huh. I guess this Vulcan neuro-pressure isn't that intimate, after all." "Exactly." "In that case, I've got a nasty little pain just…" "Just drop it." - Reed and Tucker "That's it! Stay loose… excellent! You're improving." - Reed, sarcastically, to Major Hayes as they fight "As you were!" - Reed, to a crewman, seconds before Hayes punches him in the head "What was that?" "It was a little Klingon move I picked up." - Hayes and Reed, after he knocks Hayes down during their brawl "I don't know who did more damage to the engine, the alien or Malcolm." - Tucker, to T'Pol "The last thing I need is to hear is that two of my senior officers have been admitted to sickbay because they suddenly regressed to the level of five year olds." "Captain…" "Don't try to tell me who started it!" - Jonathan Archer, reprimanding Malcolm Reed and Major Hayes "Think we're dismissed?" - Reed, to Hayes, after Captain Archer leaves them standing at attention "When the Xindi destroy Earth, my people will prevail." - The alien, to Archer (last line of the episode) Background information This episode had the working title "Untitled Test Subject". As originally filmed, the famous "love scene" between Tucker and T'Pol included Jolene Blalock's naked posterior. Two versions of this scene exist, however, depending on where and how the episode is watched; US audiences watching the original broadcast on UPN (or later on the Sci-Fi Channel) were shown a version in which the frame was "enlarged," enabling the network to crop the picture just above Blalock's bare bottom. Canadian viewers, however, saw the scene as it was originally shot – with Blalock's bottom shown (see the picture to the right). The "unedited" version of this scene is intact on the DVD release of the episode, HDNet's broadcast, and streaming video providers such as Netflix and . The episode aired ten days after the "" during halftime at Super Bowl XXXVIII, which may have resulted in the alternate versions. Thomas Kopache, who played the test subject here, has portrayed a number of different characters and aliens over the years. He appeared as Mirok in , an engineer in , communications officer in , Viorsa in , Kira Taban in and , and Tos in . Captain Archer states that both MACOs' tactics and technology are "two, three years" beyond Starfleet's. The MACO training fight sequences were choreographed by stuntman Ron Balicki. T'Pol references Sim, a short-lived clone of Tucker seen in , who revealed his feelings (and thus, Tucker's feelings) for her to her. This is the first appearance of a member of the species that was later revealed as the Sphere-Builders. When the tactical alert is initiated in this episode, an alarm sounds that was never included in any episodes prior to this nor after it. Links and references Guest stars Noa Tishby as Amanda Cole Thomas Kopache as The Alien And Steven Culp as "Major Hayes" Uncredited co-stars Adam Anello as operations crewman Solomon Burke, Jr. as Evan English as Tanner Henry Farnam as command crewman Duncan K. Fraser as Walsh Hilde Garcia as Rossi Scott Hill as Hutchison Yoshio Iizuka as V. Brown John Jurgens as operations crewman Lalita Lauren as sciences ensign Andrew MacBeth as E. Hamboyan Marnie Martin as operations crewman Dorenda Moore as S. Money Aric Rogokos as sciences crewman Paul Sklar as R. Richards Chris Torres as B. Moreno Michelle Van Den Broeck as sciences crewman Jeff Wolfe as MACO Susan Yee as sciences crewman Unknown actor as operations crewman Stunt doubles Alex Chansky as stunt double for Steven Culp Mark Hicks as stunt double for Anthony Montgomery Marty Murray as stunt double for Dominic Keating Karen Sheperd as stunt double for Jolene Blalock (deleted scene) Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Thomas Kopache Stand-ins David Anderson – stand-in for Anthony Montgomery Jef Ayres – stand-in for Connor Trinneer Evan English – stand-in for Dominic Keating Louis Ortiz – stand-in for Steven Culp J.R. Quinonez – stand-in for John Billingsley Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Scott Bakula Jessica Vash – stand-in for Jolene Blalock Susan Yee – stand-in for Linda Park Unknown performers as Hand double for Connor Trinneer Photo double for Thomas Kopache Photo double for Noa Tishby Stand-in for Thomas Kopache Stand-in for Noa Tishby References access tube; alloy; ammonium sulfide; biometric data; canary; cellular degeneration; clone; Cole's destroyed hometown; Cole's family; corporal; cross (boxing); Degra; Delphic Expanse; Denobula; divine being; DNA; Earth; elbow strike; ethics; exercise; feedback pulse; Florida; [[forearm freedom; Friday; gravimetric disturbance; hand-to-hand combat; headache; helm; high school; imitation; inflection; Jupiter Station; kidney; kilometer; kilometers per second; kiss; Klingon; life support; light year; lunar; magnetic containment; Makers; meter; Military Assault Command Operations; miner; movie theater; navigational sensor; osmotic eel; pain medication; plasma coil; polarity; pressure point; private; rat; reaction time; red giant; retina; senior officer; sergeant; shock; Sim; space; sparring partner; spatial anomaly; spatial disturbance; Sphere-Builders; Sphere-Builder transport pod; Starfleet training; survival training; tactical alert; test subject; trans-dimensional realm; Triannon; Triannon mythology; ; Tuesday; t-valve; Vulcan; Vulcan High Command; Vulcan neuro-pressure; Wednesday External links cs:Harbinger de:Der Vorbote es:Harbinger fr:Harbinger (épisode) ja:ENT:新たなる脅威の兆し nl:Harbinger ENT episodes
1984	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Doctor's Orders (episode)	In order to traverse a trans-dimensional disturbance safely, Phlox must put the rest of the crew in stasis and pilot Enterprise himself. Summary Teaser is moving very slowly through a pinkish-purple cloud. The warp nacelles are inactive. On board, there is nobody on the bridge, in engineering, in the mess hall, or even in the corridors, apart from Porthos, who is being chased by Doctor Phlox. Porthos stops, but only because he's got to where he wants to be; he paws at one of the crew quarter doors. Phlox suddenly understands, and lets him in. In the cabin, Porthos jumps up onto the bed to look at Captain Archer, who is lying there unconscious, with a small silver disc on his head. Act One Phlox and Porthos are in Phlox's cabin, discussing why Porthos keeps trying to go back to see the captain. Phlox discovers on his PADD that dogs are very territorial, and that a dog called "Scruffers" once traveled three thousand kilometers to get back to see his master. Phlox tells Porthos that he has heard of a Pycan space moth that traveled half a light year, but that it probably didn't have a name. Phlox takes Porthos for a walk, meanwhile dictating a letter to Dr. Jeremy Lucas via the PADD. They arrive at the galley, where Phlox gets some leeches to eat, and gives one to Porthos, claiming he probably won't like it but that his intestinal tract will be thoroughly cleansed. Phlox then continues his letter, musing about his assignment to Enterprise. Two days earlier, Enterprise first encountered a trans-dimensional disturbance, the "cloud" which the vessel is currently in. It is similar to another phenomenon the craft encountered . However, this one is different, because it has only just started forming. It is also on a direct path between the ship and Azati Prime. To avoid several weeks of a detour, T'Pol suggested going through the disturbance. Dr. Phlox explained how he would need to put all the crew members into a coma, though Commander Tucker was extremely reluctant about this proposal. He suggested that they should cross the disturbance at impulse, rather than risk the unpredictable effects of warp drive in the disturbance. Despite Tucker's lack of enthusiasm for Phlox's plan, Captain Archer agreed to it. Visiting Travis Mayweather – who is also in a coma, with a metallic, disc-shaped medical monitor on his forehead – Phlox continues his letter, saying that his own physiology is sufficiently different from the Humans' that he won't be affected by the disturbance, so he volunteered to oversee the wellness of the crew. Phlox then received basic training in the running of the ship, including helm and engineering operations. He also assured Captain Archer about the plan, thinking Archer was having second thoughts, though the captain clarified that he already trusted Phlox with his forthcoming supervisory role, a vote of confidence he was thankful for. In engineering, Phlox hears something odd, but finds nothing. He continues his letter, saying he'll be relieved when he can wake the crew, in another two days, sixteen hours, and forty-three minutes. Phlox is jogging through the corridors of Enterprise, singing a song in Denobulan. () He walks into sickbay, appearing naked, and apologizes to his animals because he's late for their feedings. Later, in the mess hall, Phlox is watching The Court Jester, a 1956 movie, with some popcorn. Suddenly, he hears something odd. Phlox looks at Porthos as if to check to see if the dog heard it, then goes to see if he can find out what it was he heard, though Porthos is at first hesitant to accompany him. Walking through the deserted corridors, Phlox tells Porthos that he shouldn't have let Tucker talk him into watching The Exorcist last week. Then, he hears a sound again, and tracks it to launch bay one, where Porthos runs away from him. Phlox looks up and sees a small gas leak, which is rattling a chain. Suddenly, T'Pol appears behind Phlox, startling him. Phlox voices a rhetorical question to T'Pol, asking if they are on a starship or in a haunted house. Eager for some company, he invites her to dinner later, which she accepts without much enthusiasm. Back in engineering, Phlox is running one of the routine operations that Tucker showed him when he hears, and this time sees, a shadowy figure running away on one of the upper platforms. Angrily frustrated, Phlox calls T'Pol on the intercom, presuming it must have been her, and compares her to a Draxxan cloud viper. However, she claims to be on the bridge. Act Two Phlox and T'Pol are in the galley, where Phlox prepares a meal that his fifth grandmother made for each of his weddings. Apparently, can never get it right and was lacking in his Plomeek broth skills as well, an opinion Phlox and T'Pol agree on. Phlox talks to T'Pol about how crowded his homeworld is, not by necessity but by choice, because Denobulans enjoy living in large groups. For him, being alone on the Enterprise has been unsettling, but T'Pol has found it to be a welcome respite. T'Pol doesn't eat or drink anything during the meeting. While back in sickbay again and then wandering through the corridors, Phlox continues his letter to Dr. Lucas, talking about how much he misses Denobula. He visits Captain Archer to give him a check-up, and is startled by a shadowy form that he sees on the hull, directly outside the window in the captain's quarters. Frightened, he calls T'Pol. In the situation room, they discuss Enterprises sensors, which have found no unaccounted lifeforms aboard Enterprise nor any alien ships nearby. Phlox is unconvinced but T'Pol simply advises him to catch up on his sleep. Phlox continues with his rounds, only to find a Xindi-Insectoid in Ensign Sato's quarters. He is chased by the Xindi through the corridors and sees the silhouette of a second Insectoid that pursues him until he gets to an airlock, in which he traps himself until the Xindi move away, having apparently given up. From inside the airlock, Phlox contacts T'Pol, reporting that the Xindi are on board Enterprise. In the ship's armory, Phlox relays news of the incident to T'Pol, who is very skeptical of his account. He meanwhile arms himself with a phase-pistol that he, after loading, offers to T'Pol. Although she doesn't take the weapon, he insists on searching the entire ship, with or without her help. Act Three Phlox is conducting the shipwide search, T'Pol with him. The areas they search include a set of crew quarters and a cargo bay. By the time they have searched four decks and are walking through a corridor together, T'Pol has become very vocal about her doubts that they will find anything out of the ordinary. Despite using a scanner to look for other lifeforms, Phlox almost shoots Porthos by mistake. This leads to an argument between Phlox and T'Pol, who starts to get uncharacteristically angry with him. Adamant that he will prove he is not hallucinating, Phlox leaves her. In an adjoining corridor, he hears Ensign Sato calling him over the com system. When Phlox reaches Sato's quarters, she is in a steaming shower. He sees, as she emerges from the shower, that she is grossly disfigured. Sato blames him for her condition and reminds him that the crew were under his care. Stumbling from her bathroom, Phlox looks back and then sees Sato lying peacefully on her bed. No-one is actually in the bathroom and the shower is turned off. Phlox calls T'Pol with a request for her to meet him in sickbay. En route, Phlox opens a turbolift door but is shocked to find Archer apparently standing inside the turbolift. As the captain seems unconcerned about Phlox having claimed to have witnessed Xindi outside the ship, Phlox realizes "Archer" is actually another illusion. This belief is proven when T'Pol meets Phlox in the corridor, momentarily distracting him, and he looks back to see there is no-one else there. Back in sickbay, Phlox – having scanned his own brain – notifies T'Pol that the scan shows he's been subtly affected by the disturbance as well, and has in fact been hallucinating. Phlox considers handing over control of the ship to T'Pol, but she refuses after she admits she's been having trouble controlling her emotions due to the trans-dimensional disturbance and could become irrational. On the bridge, they discover that they're still over a quarter of a light year from the edge of the disturbance, although they should have been out of it by now. If they continue at impulse, it will take them another ten weeks to get out of the phenomenon. Act Four In the situation room, Phlox struggles to understand why the ship is still in the trans-dimensional disturbance. T'Pol concludes that the phenomenon must be expanding at an accelerated rate. She insists they engage the warp drive. In engineering, T'Pol is exceptionally unhelpful, because she is finding it too difficult to concentrate on anything. Although Phlox has a dozen scientific degrees, none of them are in warp field propulsion. Since T'Pol can't help, she essentially advises Phlox to instead "read the manual" about how to engage the warp drive. Phlox is momentarily distracted by another hallucination, this time of Tucker reminding him about his warning not to engage the warp drive inside the disturbance. A few minor problems with the warp reactor briefly cause T'Pol to advise Phlox to awaken the real Tucker so he can help, regardless of the fact he will consequently die due to exposure to the disturbance. Finally, Phlox manages to take the ship to warp two and stabilize the vessel. Once the ship is out of the trans-dimensional disturbance, Phlox wakens Archer, commenting there were "only a few minor glitches" during the transit. Phlox additionally reunites Porthos with the captain. T'Pol and Phlox subsequently walk through a corridor with Commander Tucker, who is feeling slightly light-headed due to having eaten no food during the past four days. After Phlox recommends Tucker to "get to the mess hall", Tucker dutifully departs, having had no interaction with T'Pol. She offers to help rouse the still-comatose officers but Phlox politely declines her assistance and instead arranges to walk her to her quarters. There, Phlox finds that T'Pol too has been unconscious in her quarters the whole time, and realizes that he has actually hallucinated her presence during most of the journey through the disturbance. Having realized large portions of his letter to Dr. Lucas are obviously fictitious, Phlox admits in the letter that he has therefore considered deleting the document but has concluded it might nonetheless prove "entertaining", a statement he uses to end the letter. Phlox joins T'Pol at a table in the mess hall, bustling with officers who have since been awakened. She relays to him that Tucker has complimented the way Phlox supervised the ship. Whereas she suspects he enjoyed being alone on Enterprise, he mentions he was not as alone as he had expected. Meanwhile, Enterprise is still warping toward its Azati Prime destination. Memorable quotes "I'd be better off talking to my Pyrithian bat." - Phlox, to Porthos "Bangs, squeaks, rattling chains… is this a starship or a haunted house?" "Are you alright, Doctor? You seem somewhat agitated." - Phlox and T'Pol, as he was investigating a noise in the shuttlebay "Would you mind not creeping around the ship like a Draxxan cloud viper?" - Phlox, to T'Pol "My fifth grandmother made this for each of my weddings. Chef's tried to prepare it, but he never gets it quite right." "Yes, his plomeek broth leaves something to be desired as well." "I always thought so, but, uh, I was afraid to mention it." - Phlox and T'Pol, while sharing a meal in the galley "Being alone on Enterprise – just the two of us – has proven more stressful than I imagined. Two people aren't even enough for a Denobulan marriage – a proper one, anyway." "I'm sorry I haven't been better company." - Phlox and T'Pol "Get away from her!" - Phlox, to the Xindi-Insectoid in Hoshi Sato's quarters "I'm not delusional!" "Are you certain? As I recall, you once told Ensign Sato that it's considered healthy for Denobulans to hallucinate. It's how you release stress." - Phlox and T'Pol "I'm fine!" "You nearly shot the captain's dog!" - Phlox and T'Pol "I'm a physician, not an engineer!" - Phlox, to T'Pol, as he begins his attempt to start the warp reactor "The procedures for restarting the reactor are in the database." "You're suggesting I read the manual?!" - Phlox and T'Pol "How are you feeling?" "A little woozy." "I'm not surprised, you haven't eaten anything in four days. Get to the mess hall!" "Aye, aye, doc." - Phlox and Tucker "I'll assist you in waking the others." "Oh, that won't be necessary. I appreciate the offer, but, uh, you need some rest. Let me walk you to your quarters." "Doctor's orders?" - T'Pol and Phlox "Commander Tucker was complaining that it will take him days to realign the warp coils." "Yes, he gave me quite a talking to." "He also said, and I quote, 'Phlox did one hell of a job.' " "You must have enjoyed having the ship to yourself." "It wasn't nearly as empty as I anticipated." - T'Pol and Phlox Background information Story and script This is one of a mere few episodes of (or any Star Trek series) to credit no guest stars. Due to its omission of any such performers and because only existing sets of Enterprise were used for this episode, it qualifies as a true bottle show. The scene in which Phlox is seemingly nude was inspired by comments voiced by Phlox actor John Billingsley. Very soon after participating in the filming of this episode, he explained, "At a [cast and crew] party a year or so ago, I was talking to the writers and I was speculating that Dr. Phlox, because he had three wives, would probably have three members. And I said something to the effect of, wouldn't it be interesting to have some kind of scene in which somebody walks in and sees Phlox nude and faints dead away. Everybody on the ship is walking around open-mouthed, slack-jawed, because they got a sight of the Doctor […] I think the writers thought I was bluffing, and so they said, 'All right, we've written you a nude scene." () The final draft script of this episode was issued on . The archival, post-production version of that draft was submitted on . A particular voiceover was not scripted. In that dialogue, Phlox, continuing his letter to Dr. Lucas, says that he himself and T'Pol are relieved that their time alone aboard Enterprise is almost over. Cast and characters Although this episode gave John Billingsley the opportunity to play a leading role in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, he was pleased it didn't require him to learn many lines of dialogue. He was mildly anxious, however, about the scene in which Phlox runs away from two hallucinated Xindi-Insectoids. "I was a little afraid," the actor confessed, "that that episode might risk painting him as a little bit of a fraidy-cat […] I suppose there weren't too many other options for him, but part of the Star Trek mythology is that no-one's going to run away from anything." () Billingsley also noted that when make-up was factored in, his time spent working on the episode was close to sixteen hours for each shooting day. He was only lukewarm regarding the finished episode, commenting that he was more suited to appear in "the episodes that are more reflective, philosophical and meditative, that deal with issues such as cultural conflict." What he particularly found difficult about this outing was that it required him to portray Phlox as becoming increasingly disturbed, so he had to keep in mind precisely where the doctor was at emotionally even though the installment was shot out of sequence. Billingsley was also somewhat dismayed that the outing reveals what a seemingly naked Phlox looked like, the actor admitting, "My only regret about it is, it's probably more interesting if it's left to the imagination what the Doctor might look like [in that situation]." He was, on the other hand, relatively happy with the Insectoid scene, remarking, "When I saw the scene, I thought it actually worked out fairly well." In a general fashion, Billingsley remarked, "I think it's a very self-contained episode. It was interesting for me to have a chance to actually get to explore some of his emotionalism." () Billingsley even once cited this as his favorite episode of the entire series. However, he did so mistakenly, clearly referring to a different episode (possibly ). Nonetheless, Chris Black noted about "Doctor's Orders", "That was fun for John [Billingsley]." ( audio commentary, ENT Season 3 special features) Make-up and production For the final scenes of Archer and Tucker in this installment (specifically the last scene for each character), the make-up department ensured that Scott Bakula and Tucker actor Connor Trinneer were showing a few days' growth of facial hair. The make-up department also produced the horrific facial appearance of the illusory Ensign Sato, creating it as extensive make-up for actress Linda Park to wear. Other uses of make-up were to show Phlox naked, which included a set of spinal ridges "glued" to John Billingsley's back and some other striations that were "painted" on the front of his body, matching make-up always used to portray Phlox's face and hands. Principal photography on this episode took seven days, every one of which involved John Billingsley and T'Pol actress Jolene Blalock. The shoot began on . (Information from Larry Nemecek) For five of the seven days, Breezy – the canine performer who mostly played Porthos – was on the set, with animal trainers Scott Rowe and Greg Pittman. Archer actor Scott Bakula worked only one day and none of the other actors were scheduled for more than three days. The production shoot was a relatively easy one and Billingsley was able to spend a lot of time with Breezy. A second beagle, Windy, occasionally doubled for Breezy, mainly for long shots. One particularly challenging shot was blocked out by Director Roxann Dawson; she used a Steadicam for a continuous take that follows Phlox from sickbay through a corridor and into Archer's quarters. John Billingsley provided Roxann Dawson with some instructions about how he wanted her to show the Xindi-Insectoid that his character of Phlox apparently sees in Ensign Sato's quarters. Billingsley later remembered, "The one thing I said to Rox was, 'You've really got to make sure that you see the thing lunging for me, and that's what makes me run, because if it doesn't lunge, I'm going to be leaving Hoshi in there with a giant insect. It can't just be me running away." Billingsley also asked for the Insectoid to be much bigger than him. () Filming the climax of this episode was physically challenging for John Billingsley. "There was a scene at the end where I'm supposed to start the warp engines, and that was pretty much half a day of running and jumping, and I'm not the running-jumping guy on the show," Billingsley remarked, shortly after working on the installment. "My knees were pretty tired the next day. These leaps from the platform down to the floor, which Connor [Trinneer] and [Reed actor] Dominic [Keating] and the captain are all perfectly willing to do in one great fell swoop, I did in half a leap. I put my foot on the lower rung and then kind of hopped to the floor. No matter how dangerous it was I wasn't going to ruin my knees over it, which I appreciated. The ship may blow up, but the Doctor's not going to have any knee problems afterwards!" () "Doctor's Orders" wrapped production on . (Information from Larry Nemecek) Reception Series co-creator and Executive Producer Brannon Braga was delighted with this third season installment. " I was thrilled to have an episode that John Billingsley could just carry from beginning to end. He was wonderful," Braga enthused. "It was also a nice little insight into his relationship with T'Pol, his fellow alien on board. Although the episode was soft, compared to a lot of the episodes we did this season, I thought it was fun. And kudos to writer Chris Black, who basically wrote a one-man play and really turned out a charming script." () Chris Black himself commented about "Doctor's Orders", "That was fun." ( audio commentary, ENT Season 3 special features) André Bormanis once called this installment "a great episode." ( audio commentary, ENT Season 3 special features) Continuity This episode has a striking resemblance to the episode , where Seven of Nine must navigate the ship through a hazardous region of space and the crew is in a comatose state. She begins to hallucinate, too. While debating whether the things that the doctor saw are real, T'Pol references the events of "Exile", where Phlox told Ensign Sato that Denobulans consider hallucinations to be a healthy way for the mind to relieve stress. Since there are no indications that Sato or Phlox ever discussed the matter with anyone else, this could be seen as a clue that the T'Pol that Phlox sees is actually a figment of his imagination. In addition, the illusionary T'Pol never makes physical contact with objects, such as the soup or warp core controls, and offers no suggestions or information that Phlox does not already know himself, providing further clues that she isn't real. This is the fourth time anyone in Star Trek speaks Denobulan. The previous three episodes are , and . Denobulan was also spoken in a deleted scene from the episode . This is the only episode of Star Trek: Enterprise with the "I'm a doctor, not a..." phrase. Phlox says the line "I'm a physician, not an engineer." In the second season entry , he conversely states, "I need to think like an engineer, not a physician." Phlox telling T'Pol about seeing "something" outside on the hull of the ship may be a reference to The Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet;" which featured William Shatner, as a passenger aboard an airplane. He too saw "something" on the wing of the vessel he was on, much the disbelief of his other passengers. Links and references Uncredited co-stars Breezy as Porthos Mark Correy as Alex Daphney Dameraux as operations division ensign John Jurgens as command division crewman Ator Tamras as A. Tamras John Wan as operations division crewman Windy as Porthos Archive footage Danny Kaye as Hubert Hawkins Glynis Johns as Maid Jean Mildred Natwick as Griselda References acceleration; amusement; antimatter constrictor coil; autonavigation; Beagle; canine; ; class C gravimetric field distortion; coma; ; Delphic Expanse; Denobula; deuterium; dilithium matrix; doctor's orders; dozen; Draxxan cloud viper; Earth; engineer; ; galley; Giacomo; hand scanner; haunted house; homecoming; horse; hull plating; I'm a doctor, not a...; impulse manifold; intestinal tract; ion storm; Kaybin District; kilometer; ; leech; ; magnetic constriction coil; medical staff; millicochrane; movie; movie database; neocortex; neurochemistry; neuro-sedation; palace; parsec; particle confinement; pavilion; pestle; phenomenon; Phlox's fifth grandmother; physician; physiology; plasma relay; plomeek broth; popcorn; Pycan space moth; Pyrithian bat; rate of acceleration; red giant (unnamed); San Francisco; science officer; scientific degree; Scruffers; Scruffers' keeper; senior officer; sir; space travel; spatial-compression index; Starfleet training; start-up sequence; theta waves; T'Pol (illusory); trans-dimensional disturbance; vote; Vulcans; warp coil; warp field; warp theory; wedding; Xindi attack; Xindi-Insectoid External links cs:Doctor's Orders (epizoda) de:Auf ärztliche Anweisung es:Doctor's Orders fr:Doctor's Orders ja:ENT:フロックス船長の孤独 nl:Doctor's Orders ENT episodes
1985	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Hatchery (episode)	Enterprise finds a derelict Xindi-Insectoid starship carrying a cache of unhatched eggs and Archer takes an increasingly obsessive interest in preserving them. Summary Teaser is orbiting an uninhabited planet en route to . They discover a derelict Xindi-Insectoid starship on the surface. Interested in finding out more about their technology, Captain Archer sends down an away team in a . Act One On the Xindi ship, they discover that the crew are already dead, and there is no atmosphere. In EV suits, the Enterprise crew members explore the ship. They find no discernible bridge, only access terminals scattered around the ship. This corresponds with what they've already discovered about the decentralized nature of the Insectoid government and hierarchy. Investigating further, they discover an intact Xindi-Insectoid assault shuttle, which they take back to Enterprise. The away team finds an active power source, and moves it to a pressurized room with breathable air. Inside, they find a room filled with eggs –- a hatchery. Captain Archer inspects one of the eggs, and a tendril attached to it squirts him with some substance. He is taken back to the ship. Dr. Phlox looks the captain over, and finds that it was only a mild neurotoxin. There is no permanent damage. Back on the Xindi ship, the crew discover that the life support systems have only a few days of power left. If they fail, the eggs will all die. On Enterprise, Archer calls Commander Tucker and Sub-Commander T'Pol to his ready room, and tells them to prepare to help power up the derelict ship so the eggs don't die. Tucker objects strongly, claiming that the longer they stay near the planet, the more likely that they'll be discovered by another Xindi ship. However, Archer is adamant that they should try to preserve the lives of the baby Xindi. Act Two The Enterprise crew have spent the past two days on the derelict ship, trying to power it up, but nothing is working. Archer is getting more and more annoyed at each failure by his crew. Then he has an idea. On Enterprise, he orders that enough antimatter be sent down to the planet to restart the Xindi ship's engines. He then goes back down to the planet. T'Pol is against the idea, and tells Trip to hold back the transfer of the antimatter until she has had a word with the captain. On the derelict ship, T'Pol confronts Archer about their low antimatter reserves, and the strain giving a third of their antimatter to the damaged ship would put on Enterprise. Archer absorbs this information, but insists that the antimatter be transferred. T'Pol bluntly refuses, at which point Archer relieves her of her post, and orders Major Hayes to escort her back to Enterprise and confine her to her quarters. Act Three Hayes and Lieutenant Reed discuss Xindi ship tactics, and Hayes discovers a weak spot in the Xindi ship's shields where two torpedoes could knock out their engines. Reed, initially skeptical as to Hayes' investigation methods, is impressed. Learning of T'Pol's insubordination, Tucker visits her in her quarters, after having convinced Corporal Chang (stationed outside T'Pol's quarters) into letting him in to see her, claiming he was only there for his regular Vulcan neural pressure session. T'Pol convinces Tucker that the captain is acting irrationally and is jeopardizing the mission. Tucker is wary about directly confronting the captain over the matter because he could also be relieved of his duties and sent to his quarters. On the bridge, Lieutenant Reed is in command when a Xindi-Insectoid scout ship arrives, fires on Enterprise, and attempts to escape. Reed decides to put Hayes' plan into action, and fires at the vulnerable section of the ship. The Xindi ship is destroyed. Archer arrives on the bridge, and is angered because Reed destroyed the ship. He relieves Reed of his post, and confines him to his quarters too. Captain Archer puts Major Hayes in command of Enterprise and posts MACOs all over the ship. He orders Ensign Sato to send out a distress call as soon she completes her translation. Archer goes to the shuttlebay and starts loading the antimatter into one of the shuttlepods. Tucker and Dr. Phlox (who has been informed of the Captain's increasingly obsessive behavior) enter and gently suggest that the captain go to sickbay for an examination. Phlox reminds Archer of the ship's doctor's medical authority to relieve the Captain of command if Archer will not submit to be examined, citing "Starfleet Order 104 Section C" as his authority. Archer still refuses, and forces them to leave under the threat of a MACO. Unbeknownst to Archer, Phlox secretly used his medical scanner to discover if anything was wrong with the captain. In sickbay, Phlox and Tucker find out that there is nothing visibly wrong with the captain, much to Tucker's shock. However, Tucker is not convinced, and begins to plan to take over the ship. Back at the derelict ship, the captain and other co-workers witness the eggs growing bigger. Act Four Tucker gets past T'Pol's guard again, this time by force (with help from Reed). They release T'Pol and begin their insurrection. First, they take over the armory and retrieve some more phase-pistols. Then, Tucker and another crewmember transport to the surface to confront the captain. Reed and T'Pol, with a few loyal crew members, attempt to get to the bridge. On the bridge, Hayes is informed that Chang has been incapacitated and T'Pol has escaped. A second later, the mutineers burst onto the bridge, startling everyone. There's a standoff between Hayes, Reed, T'Pol, and another MACO. Travis Mayweather seizes an opportunity and grapples with Hayes on the floor. The situation is quickly resolved, and the MACOs are secured in their quarters. On the derelict ship, Tucker confronts the captain, and discovers him covered in Xindi hatchlings. He doesn't appear worried or injured, but Trip has to shoot him to get him to come back to the ship. Back on Enterprise, Archer is put through the imaging chamber in sickbay, and Phlox discovers that the captain has been "reverse-imprinted" with the Xindi eggs by the substance that was squirted onto him. Subconsciously, he has been caring for the Xindi babies to the exclusion of everything else. Phlox is able to reverse the effect, and, after retrieving the antimatter, the Enterprise continues on its course to Azati Prime. Memorable quotes "I think it's safe to assume it's dead." "Just being cautious. Certain insects on Earth are known to hibernate." - Reed, after Hayes kicks a body bag containing a Xindi-Insectoid corpse "They may know how to build a weapons system, but these people could learn a thing or two about designing a comfortable chair." "For an Insectoid, maybe they are comfortable." - Tucker and Mayweather "I'd be the last to question the captain's orders but doesn't it seem a little odd that we're staying here to save a nest of Xindi?" - Reed, on Archer's strange request to repair the Insectoid hatchery "The Xindi are trying to destroy Earth because they heard that Humans are ruthless, this is the chance to prove them wrong." - Archer "I never imagined Captain Archer would put the welfare of a few Xindi before his own people!" - Reed "I don't know much about Vulcan ethics but Humans don't throw morality out the window when things start getting a little rough." - Archer, when T'Pol suggests Enterprise abandon the hatchery Background information The final draft script of this episode was issued on . The Xindi-Insectoid assault shuttle was later used in . The interior of the shuttle was later revamped to serve as Shran's ship in the series finale of Enterprise, . The Insectoid console with the glass dome is a reuse of the stellar cartography set piece built for . This episode emphasizes once more the differences between Starfleet and an actual military force like MACO: The MACOs are trained to follow orders without question, while the Starfleet officers are willing to turn against their Captain when his orders become irrational. An NX-01 baseball cap, worn briefly by T'Pol, is seen for the first time since the first season episode . The distressed "goop" costume worn by Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer was auctioned off in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction. Links and references Guest stars Daniel Dae Kim as D. Chang Sean McGowan as F. Hawkins And Steven Culp as "Major Hayes" Co-star Paul Eliopoulos as Crewman #1 Uncredited co-stars Jorge Benevides as R. Azar Breezy or Windy as Porthos Jason Collins as R. Ryan Kevin Derr as Paul Eliopoulos Duncan K. Fraser as Walsh Glen Hambly Dorenda Moore as S. Money Justin Sundquist as a MACO Stunt double Alex Chansky as stunt double for Steven Culp References analgesic; analysis; antimatter; Archer's great-grandfather; armory; asexual reproduction; atmosphere; Augment commander; autopsy; ; battalion; battle simulation; burial ritual; ; chain of command (aka command structure); civilian; confined to quarters; corporal; DNA; docking arm; Earth; egg; egg sac; elder; ethics; Eugenics Wars; evacuated schoolchildren; evacuation; ; genderless; hatchery; hatchling; hibernate; ; iconography; imaging chamber; impulse manifold; incubation cycle; insect; insubordination; lifespan; matrix converter; megajoule; microbe; Monday; morality; movie night; mutineer; mutiny; nest; neurochemical; neuro-pressure; neurotoxin; nitrogen; North Africa; oxygen; particle cannon; particle weapon; physical; plasma torch; port; power grid; ; ; reverse imprint; rulebook; rules of war; sabotage; senior officer; sentient species; Starfleet; starlog; stockade; stun grenade; subspace vortex; suffocation; synaptic pathway; tactical alert; tactical analysis; targeting scanner; thermosphere; torpedo casing; torpedo launcher; Vulcan; West Point; Xindi-Insectoid; Xindi-Insectoid assault shuttle; Xindi-Insectoid hatchling; Xindi-Insectoid scout ship; Xindi-Insectoid starship External links cs:Hatchery de:Brutstätte (Episode) es:Hatchery fr:Hatchery (épisode) ja:ENT:トゥポルの反乱 nl:Hatchery ENT episodes
1986	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Azati Prime (episode)	The crew discovers the Xindi weapon and plans to launch a suicide mission to destroy it, with Archer insisting that he be at the helm. But, when Archer is captured, he must convince Degra and the other Xindi leaders, that Humanity is no threat to the Xindi. Meanwhile, the Xindi launch a heavy attack on Enterprise that leaves the ship defenseless and almost destroyed. Summary Teaser enters the Azati Prime system. Sub-Commander T'Pol detects multiple Xindi starships and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed finds multiple s generating a detection grid. Captain Jonathan Archer orders the Enterprise behind to remain hidden where they detect a convoy led by Degra's ship. There, Degra toasts the fact that the Xindi weapon will soon be completed, noting that it's odd to toast the destruction of a whole planet, but also that they will ensure the Xindi's survival. Act One The Xindi Council meets Degra on his ship. Jannar and the other councilor congratulate Degra, while Dolim prefers to wait on celebrating. Meanwhile, the senior staff plans their moves on the Enterprise. T'Pol determines the detection grid uses thousands of satellites and is resilient if any one is disabled. Archer suggests using the Xindi-Insectoid assault shuttle, but Ensign Travis Mayweather is concerned they need a lot of time to learn how to pilot it. Archer goes with this option. and Mayweather learn the shuttle's controls while Hoshi Sato works out the translation for its language. Mayweather takes the shuttle out and, despite being shaky starting out, he eventually finds his stride and they get through the detection net. Soon, the translation is put to the test when a patrol ship intercepts them, and, fortunately, buys their cover story of a navigational error. They find the weapon under water on Azati Prime, nearing completion. While away, the Enterprise realizes that the moon they are hiding behind has rotated, bringing a station on the surface into scanning range. Archer decides, under protest from T'Pol, to order the base's destruction for fear it will reveal their position when the moon rotates. After Tucker and Mayweather return with information about the weapon's position, Reed notes the location of its power matrix. They determine that they can use photonic torpedoes to destroy it. Archer realizes it's a suicide mission and, despite multiple volunteers, he decides he will go. He orders piloting lessons from Mayweather in a half hour and leaves. However, when he goes into the turbolift, he instantly finds himself on another ship. He finds a large viewscreen where a battle is being fought, and . He explains Archer is in the 26th century on the . Act Two Daniels tries to convince Archer to try a diplomatic solution by showing Archer the Battle of Procyon V, in progress. He reveals to Archer that, in the future, the will be responsible for the success in averting a galaxy-wide takeover by the Sphere-Builders. These beings are trans-dimensional and are the culprits manipulating the Xindi to attack Humanity, when in actuality it is Humans who are ultimately responsible for protecting the Xindi. Daniels is desperate to convince Archer not to sacrifice himself, as Archer would ultimately be pivotal in forming the Federation, but Archer finds this all hard to believe. He knows he needs to save his people, and sees his current plan as the way to do that, but Daniels responds that they will continue to build weapons. Archer doesn't accept it and demands to be sent back to his time. Daniels relents, but also manages to convince Archer to take with him a relic from the future, an heirloom from a Starfleet Xindi crewmember. Back on the Enterprise (NX-01), Archer gives T'Pol the heirloom. She promises to study it, but Archer doesn't need that. He intends to go ahead with his plan, which bothers T'Pol. She uses Daniels' argument, surprising Archer as she doesn't believe in time travel. She says her visit to Detroit affected that belief. She continues to argue, but then flat-out says she doesn't want Archer to die. It gives him pause, but doesn't deter him. On Degra's ship, an argument starts around logistics. Dolim wants to bring more ships with the weapon to stamp out any residual resistance after the weapon is deployed, but Degra is concerned about the extra effort when generating the vortex. Degra says a ship may be lost, but Dolim demands it. He then gets word of the lunar base being out of contact, and leaves to investigate. This leaves Degra to dwell on the ramifications of what he's about to do. He wonders aloud to Jannar, who is convinced it's better the Humans' planet be destroyed then theirs, and it's best not to think about it. Jannar points out they're doing this for their children, but Degra wonders how their children will really remember them. After giving his farewell speech to the crew after asking Phlox to look after Porthos. He emphasizes that, when Earth is safe, they need to get back to being explorers, like on their first day. Without much more, he leaves on the Insectoid ship. Act Three Archer easily arrives at the construction site on Azati Prime, but he discovers the weapon has been moved. He is soon captured by Commander Dolim and his security forces, and interrogated. Archer refuses his questions with his usual wit, revealing the fact that reptilians used to rule Earth 65 million years ago. Eventually, Archer agrees to answer, but only in Degra's presence. He tells Dolim to tell Degra a personal detail about his child. Dolim is very skeptical that Archer knows who he is, but Archer invites him to prove it with the personal detail. Meanwhile, the Enterprise waits for Archer. T'Pol is distraught, having trouble locking her emotions up, so she heads to the ready room to let it out. She stays there for awhile, prompting Tucker to come to talk to her, reminding her she's the captain now and needs to be present. She dismisses him and ponders the situation. Later, it's determined it's been too long since they expected the explosion, so Archer must have been caught. T'Pol goes to listen to Reed's and Tucker's plan to rush in and destroy the weapon themselves, but T'Pol thinks it is impossible. She prefers traveling herself in a to talk to them directly for a diplomatic solution, but the crew is equally skeptical of that. Once alone with Degra, Archer tells him more about the personal details he knows of him. Degra is stunned that Archer knows anything about him, let alone these personal details. He wants to know how Archer knows, but Archer says it's not important. He gives Degra the full story, and shows him the relic he obtained from Daniels: an initiation medal of a Xindi who has joined the Federation. He insists that Degra understand that destroying the Humans means destroying his own people, as well. Act Four Degra goes and verifies that the relic is from the future, then talks to Jannar and other Xindi-Primate councilor. It's very late to be rethinking their course, but Degra has doubts, now. The councilor is adamant about continuing the mission, but Degra now wonders if they have it right. Archer also told him that the Reptilians went 100 years in the past to develop the bioweapon, which he described in great detail. The three then go to see Archer. The councilor says he's unconvinced, and asks for more evidence. Archer has none, but restates his case. He pleads to make his case to the Council as well, pointing out that, if they did not have doubts, they wouldn't be talking to him now. Soon Dolim returns, having grown impatient, to take Archer away for further interrogation. Degra objects, saying they're not finished, but Dolim threatens them and uses his men to take them back to their ship. He also reveals his ships have engaged Archer, after having agreed to hold off. Degra objects again, but Dolim doesn't care, now, and has them taken away. Meanwhile, four Xindi vessels descend on Enterprise and open fire after investigating the destruction of the aforementioned lunar base. Hull plating quickly goes off-line, as does the intercom system. As the Xindi inflict major internal and external damage to the ship, coolant leaks in engineering force Tucker's crew to evacuate. As the Xindi continue their onslaught, a major hull breach in the primary hull blows several crewmembers out into space. Facing imminent destruction, and seemingly certain death, all the crew can do is prepare for the worst as Enterprise drifts defenselessly in space still under heavy fire… Memorable quotes "Patience is for the dead!" - Commander Dolim "I think I found reverse." "Great, but unless we plan to fly in ass-first, we'd better figure out how to make it go forward." - Mayweather and Tucker, while learning to fly the Xindi-Insectoid assault shuttle "Their flight path is somewhat erratic." - T'Pol, to Archer, describing the path of the Xindi shuttle with Mayweather and Tucker at the controls "I thought you were the skeptical one when it came to time travel." "Our recent visit to Detroit has tempered my skepticism." - Archer and T'Pol, discussing Daniels' advice regarding the Xindi "Good. You're starting to think like an Insectoid." "I'll take that as a compliment." - Mayweather and Archer, as the captain learns to fly the Xindi shuttle "I'm going to ask all of you to think back to the day when this ship was first launched. We were explorers then. When all this is over, when Earth is safe, I want you to get back to that job. There are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy – we've only explored a tiny fraction. You have a lot of work to do. Of all the captains who will sit in this chair, I can't imagine any of them being more proud than I am right now." - Captain Archer, in a farewell speech to his command staff "No matter what happens to the Xindi weapon, the captain isn't coming back." - Tucker, to T'Pol "Dismissed." "Dismissed?" "Get out!" - T'Pol and Tucker, as she orders him to leave her ready room, distraught over the captain's impending sacrifice. "I'll bet you didn't know this, but at one time most of my world was ruled by reptiles." "I wasn't aware of that." "A comet hit around 65 million years ago – caused a mass extinction. Most of the reptiles died out. Mammals became the dominant species." "How unfortunate." "Still, the reptiles might've come out on top if it hadn't been for a slight disadvantage." "And what was that?" "They had brains the size of a walnut. That's very small. Apparently, it is a constant in the universe." - Archer and Commander Dolim "You don't want to know my specialty." "Let me guess, stinkin' up the room!" - Dolim and Archer "You want me to kill you." "Just making conversation." - Dolim and Archer "Listen to me, you son of a bitch! It wasn't any easier for me to swallow this than it is for you, but you better understand something: if you destroy Earth you won't just be eliminating my species, you'll be eliminating your own." - Archer, to Degra "Let me speak to this council of yours – present my case." "Some members of the council would sooner execute you than listen." "Then help me change their minds." "You haven't changed ours." "I made an impression, or you wouldn't still be here." - Captain Archer, Degra, and the Xindi-Primate Councilor "Everybody out!" - Tucker, to his engineering staff, as he gives the order to evacuate Background information The final draft script of this episode was issued on . Three crewmen are shown being blown into space through a hull breach; they are later mentioned among those missing in the following episode. The damage inflicted to Enterprise in this episode is not fully repaired until the fourth season episode . This episode relies to a large extent on information obtained by Archer in . The eleventh starship to be called Enterprise with the registry NCC-1701 is depicted in this episode, although the ship's class is not mentioned. Ships named Enterprise that do not have this registry and are not counted include the OV-101, XCV 330, and the NX-01. Many of the ships in the Battle of Procyon V are reused studio models from throughout the various series. Among those that can be clearly identified are , , and starships, as well as the Vissian starship and Devore warship standing in for the Sphere-Builders. Some of the damage done to appears to be reused from previous episodes, including hull damage from and as well as the significantly damaged port hull from . The drinking glasses, used by Degra in this episode, were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. They were previously used in several episodes of in Quark's and are from Victoria and Richard MacKenzie-Childs LTD. Video and DVD release As part of the ENT Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Guest stars Matt Winston as Randy Oglesby as Degra Scott MacDonald as Dolim Tucker Smallwood as Xindi-Primate Councilor Rick Worthy as Jannar Co-star Christopher Goodman as Thalen Uncredited co-stars Geneviere Anderson as operations ensign Steve Blalock Breezy or Windy as Porthos Jacob Chambers Vince Deadrick, Jr. as engineer on fire Henry Farnam as command crewman Glen Hambly Scott L. Treger as Xindi-Reptilian References 2080s; 26th century; actuator; alligator; Anaprolean Fever; Andorians; artificial satellite (satellite array); attenuation; autoconfig; aux mode; axis coil; ; Azati Prime moon; Azati Prime system; calibration; cheese; cold-blooded; communication range; config; cycle; Delphic Expanse sphere; Detroit; dinosaur; dozen; Earth; Enarchis; evolution; explosive matrix; file; gas giant; Great Diaspora; hemisphere; initiation medal; Ithenite; Klingon; lead ship; mass extinction; meter; millions of years ago; Milky Way Galaxy; monitoring station; one-way trip; penance; perimeter scan; photonic torpedo; pregnancy; quantum dating; refugee; regiment; San Francisco; scanning range; security zone; senior officer; SIF; Sim; snake; Sphere-Builder; squadron; submersible infrastructure; subspace vortex; Temporal Cold War; test subject; time traveler; toast; trans-dimensional being; trans-dimensional realm; translation matrix; Trenia; turtle; turtle soup; United Federation of Planets; Vulcan; walnut; warp signature; Xindi bio-weapon; Xindi-Insectoid language; Xindi-Primate; Xindi-Reptilian; Xindi-Reptilian pilot Starship references carrier ship; asteroid-runner; (unnamed); Degra's ship; ; (unnamed); (unnamed); Sphere-Builder vessels; ; (unnamed); Xindi-Insectoid assault shuttle; Xindi-Insectoid starship; Xindi-Insectoid patrol ship; Xindi-Reptilian warship; External links cs:Azati Prime (epizoda) de:Azati Prime (Episode) es:Azati Prime fr:Azati Prime (épisode) ja:ENT:爬虫類族の攻撃 nl:Azati Prime (aflevering) ENT episodes
1987	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Damage (episode)	The Enterprise crew must cope with devastating damage to the ship, with another alien ship needing assistance nearby. T'Pol seeks help from Phlox with a personal problem, and dissent grows in the Xindi Council. Summary Teaser , under attack from the Xindi-Reptilians, suddenly finds the firing has ceased, and the ships are moving back into the system. This leaves overwhelming damage, with most of the major systems have failed, apart from life support, and hull breaches on C, D, and E decks. Even thrusters are gone, leaving the ship motionless. Act One It was the Xindi Council that ordered the ships to retreat from Enterprise. On the Xindi Council ship orbiting Azati Prime, Dolim is infuriated and expresses it to them, emphasizing they should at least be taken prisoner. That's being considered, but they want to interrogate Jonathan Archer in open council. Dolim wants to pursue his own questioning, but the Council orders it, and, further, that the Xindi-Aquatics transport him to the council chamber, now not able to trust Dolim on his assurances. The Enterprise is still assessing the damage. Lieutenant Malcolm Reed finds five are confirmed dead, dozens wounded. The hull is gone, and the launch bay is impossible to get to since E deck is still decompressed. Commander Tucker informs T'Pol that the primary warp coil is damaged beyond repair, and that they've got no spare parts to make a new one. He also needs some extra hands. T'Pol later asks Reed to pull resources to get some engineering components in the launch bay. Archer wakes up to find himself on the Aquatics ship. He tries to get their attention, and sees one of them approach. It doesn't respond, simply sedating him via airborne agent. They release him in an escape pod back to Enterprise. Archer is informed of the damage. At least fourteen crew members have died from the attack, and there are further casualties in sickbay. With only one phase cannon and the aft torpedo launcher working as defense against another attack, the captain orders that they should try to find somewhere to hide, just in case the Reptilians come back to finish them off. They head towards a nearby comet dust field for cover. Archer tells T'Pol he may have gotten through to Degra. Oddly, T'Pol reveals her hands are shaking, and leaves to get back to her quarters to quiet it down. Act Two The crew's morale is low as they continue repairs. Mayweather and Sato examine the Aquatics escape pod, wondering about if they will be home again. Archer and Tucker work in engineering, with small explosions still common. Archer gets word that there is a non-Xindi ship in distress. Archer decides to answer it, hoping they can help each other. The smaller ship, of Illyrian origin, has sustained damage from the spatial anomalies, and the Illyrian Captain asks Archer for assistance. Captain Archer tries to convince him to part with their warp coil in exchange for a supply of trellium-D, but he must refuse, as it would knock out their own warp engines, leaving them years away from their home world. They part ways. T'Pol continues to have trouble, experiencing withdrawal symptoms due to being cut off from the supply of trellium-D by all the damages sustained. She has an erotic dream of Tucker in the shower, which soon becomes a nightmare as she turns into a creature and attacks him. She is jolted awake, and, unable to sleep, she gets an idea. She uses an EV suit to get to it, nearly kills herself in the process and injects some into herself, relieving the symptoms. From the escape pod, Ensign Sato was able to translate some coordinates and a stardate, indicating where Degra will be on that date, three days from now. Unfortunately, it's over four light years from their current position, and without their warp drive the Enterprise will never get there in time. Later, Archer considers his options as Phlox arrives with Porthos. Archer confides to him that he's about to cross a line he never thought he'd cross. Phlox reveals he has had to make unethical decisions before, and knows how many in forty years – two. Archer goes to the armory and orders Reed to put together an armed boarding party. He's decided to board the Illyrian starship to steal their warp coil. Act Three In the Xindi Council chamber, Degra and the Primate and Arboreal Council members meet with a trans-dimensional species member to question her if she helped the Reptilians with the bio-weapon. She admits to helping the Reptilians, but only did so in order to keep them and the Insectoids from leaving the Council. This angers Degra, and he questions if Archer's claim that her species built the spheres is true. She deflects the question, angrily demanding that Earth be destroyed for the benefit of all Xindi, and to not summon her again unless all the members of the Council are present. After she leaves, the Primate Council member asks why they should doubt her. Degra points out that Archer provides proof, something she does not. In the situation room, the senior staff reluctantly plan their attack on the ship. With the ship badly damaged, it won't be as easy as it should be. Tucker says they can't beam the coil off, as it might ruin their engines, and he can only guess it would be 10 minutes to decouple it by hand. Reed doesn't like that amount of time if they decide to fight, and the aliens could take out their starboard nacelle. Archer insists they need to do it right, and be quick, without any casualties. He orders Mayweather to set a course and leaves for his ready room. T'Pol enters to argue with him in private, ignoring his dismissal. Pointing out they are no better than the aliens who attacked them, she pleads with him to reconsider a peaceful option. Archer rationalizes it, giving her a PADD of the supplies they will leave them, but that doesn't convince her (nor him), since they will not be able to defend themselves if attacked. Despite T'Pol quoting himself that they must keep what makes them Human, Archer ends the conversation. T'Pol becomes visibly emotional, yelling that she won't let him continue and smashing the PADD on his desk. She explains it by saying she hasn't been able to meditate, apologizing for her words. He asks her to make the time to do so. He needs her on the bridge for the attack. T'Pol then consults Phlox, who is shocked and needs to know precisely what's going on. T'Pol explains how she began to experiment with trellium after their encounter with the Seleya, and how injecting herself with the compound allowed her to access certain emotions, but that she has now become addicted. He decides to help her overcome her problem, and agrees to not tell anyone. Archer calls her to the bridge. The Enterprise makes its approach to the Illyrians. Act Four On the Illyrian ship, the captain is reviewing repairs when he gets the information that the Enterprise is approaching without answering hails. With a boarding party of Parsons and several MACOs, Archer and Tucker beam onto the vessel and search for the coil, stunning several Illyrians in the process. The Enterprise moves away, with the Illyrians in pursuit. T'Pol refuses to take out their weapons, for fear of leaving them defenseless. Tucker finds the warp coil, but, unfortunately, it is surrounded by a force field, slowing him down. It takes too much time. Parsons gets hit, forcing T'Pol to order Reed to fire on a power junction, which then takes out power from several areas, including where Tucker is. He easily gets the coil and his team is beamed back to Enterprise. Archer is informed and they fall back to prepare for beam-out, however, they turn a corner and find the Illyrian captain waiting. He confronts him. Archer tells him they have beamed over three containers of trellium-D as well as other supplies in compensation. The captain asks Archer why he is doing this, stranding them three years from home. Archer simply states that he has no choice before beaming out. With the incident over, T'Pol and Phlox discuss her residual emotional instability. T'Pol fears that she may never fully be able to suppress her feelings again, but Phlox assures her she'll cope in time. After integrating the coil into the Enterprise systems, Tucker reports they can make warp 3.2, more than sufficient to reach the rendezvous. Archer leaves to order maximum warp speed to the coordinates when Tucker assures him he did the right thing. He regrets having to continue telling himself that. Memorable quotes "At the very least, we should board their vessel and take them prisoner!" - Dolim, after Enterprise is critically damaged "He will not be harmed any further. You have my assurances." "That isn't good enough!" - Dolim and Degra, on Archer "I really don't know what's holding us together. But let's hope it doesn't give out." - Reed "How long?" "A couple of weeks… if we had the parts. We don't. As it stands now, warp drive is out of the question." - T'Pol and Tucker "I thought Insectoid was tough!" "Almost sounds like music." "My mother always wanted me to take piano lessons. I should've listened to her." - Hoshi and Travis "Hard to believe we'll ever get this ship back the way it was." "Just a simple matter of repairs." (Archer glances at him) "Well, perhaps not that simple." - Archer and Phlox "How long have you been a doctor?" "Nearly forty years." "And in all that time, did you ever do anything you thought was unethical?" "Twice. Why?" "I'm about to step over a line, a line I thought I would never cross. And given the nature of our mission, it probably won't be the last." "Probably not. May I ask what you're planning to do?" "There could be more casualties." "I'll be ready." - Archer and Phlox ""We can't try to save Humanity without holding on to what makes us Human." Those were your words to me." "I'm no happier doing this than you are, but we're not going to make a habit of it." -T'Pol and Archer, the former reminding the captain his own words during the events on the Seleya. "We've had our share of disagreements, but you've never taken it out on my desk before." - Archer, to T'Pol "You're stranding us three years from home. Why are you doing this?!" "Because I have no choice!" - Illyrian captain and Archer "You did the right thing." "It seems the longer we're out here, the more I have to keep saying that to myself." - Tucker and Archer Background information The archival version of this episode's final draft script was submitted on . The script included a scene that is not in the episode. It took place in the inspection pod, with T'Pol and Tucker touring Enterprise after the Battle of Azati Prime. The script also detailed the horrific T'Pol seen in a nightmare by describing her as "the spitting image of the homicidal Vulcans seen in . Also, the scene between Phlox and Archer in the captain's ready room was slightly different, Phlox initially mentioning that Porthos kept eyeing a Droxin field mouse in sickbay. In response to Archer saying (later in the scene) that a line he intended to cross would probably not be the last one, Phlox replied, "Sometimes you have to draw a line… sometimes you have to step over one… ethics are not the only consideration," instead of merely responding, as he does in the final version of the scene, "Probably not." The actions of the crew here are reflected back to their own encounter with piracy in . As a result of the Xindi attacks, fourteen members of the crew are dead and three are unaccounted for, probably the ones flying into space in the previous episode. This episode contains the first mention of stardates in the series. The stardate is communicated to Enterprise by Degra. Casey Biggs (the Illyrian captain) is better known for playing the recurring character of Damar in . Three of his co-stars in this episode are also former Deep Space Nine guest stars; Rick Worthy played Kornan in , Scott MacDonald played Tosk in and Goran'Agar in , and Randy Oglesby played both Ah-Kel and Ro-Kel in and Silaran Prin in . Dorenda Moore plays one of the MACOs who participate in the incursion to the Illyrian starship; however, her character is referred to as "Parsons" and not as "S. Money", a character already established in the season. Among the items from this episode which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay was the costume of stuntman Eric Norris, which was previously worn by a background actor in the episode and by actor Bob Rudd in the VOY episode . Links and references Guest stars Casey Biggs as Illyrian Captain Randy Oglesby as Degra Scott MacDonald as Dolim Tucker Smallwood as Xindi-Primate councilor Rick Worthy as Jannar Josette Di Carlo as Sphere-Builder Woman Uncredited co-stars Geneviere Anderson as operations division ensign Brian Avery as Illyrian Solomon Burke, Jr. as Mickey Cassidy as Illyrian Zane Cassidy as MACO Mark Chadwick as Illyrian Mark Correy as Alex Daphney Dameraux as operations division ensign Kevin Derr as Duncan K. Fraser as Walsh Peter Godoy as operations division crewman Glen Hambly as operations division ensign Tamara Hambly as operations division crewman Scott Hill as Hutchison Amina Islam as command division ensign John Jurgens as operations division crewman Ricky Lomax as W. Woods Andrew MacBeth as E. Hamboyan Dorenda Moore as Parsons Eric Norris as Illyrian Cesar Rodriguez as sciences division lieutenant Paul Sklar as R. Richards Jeff Smolek as Illyrian Pablo Soriano as Illyrian Ator Tamras as A. Tamras Scott L. Treger as Xindi-Reptilian guard Windy as Porthos Curtis Wong as Illyrian Unknown actors as four Illyrian crewmembers Stunt double Michelle Sebek as stunt double for Jolene Blalock Stand-ins Hilde Garcia – photo double for Jolene Blalock References ability; addiction; Ansara; antimatter; anxiety; boarding party; cargo bay; ; cometary dust cloud; damage; damage report; day; Delphic Expanse; diamagnetic field; dozen; drug addiction; Earth; emergency power; Enterprise inspection pod; EPS grid; evasive maneuvers; exhaust manifold; force field; guilt; guilt cloud; hour; hull; Illyrian; Illyrian starship; impulse power; injector system; inspection pod; Jaina; kilo; kilometer; kiss; life support; maintenance request form; military installation; neural pathway; NX class decks; O'Malley; one-way trip; Osaarian; paranoid; phase cannon; piano; Piral; plasma injector; region; Sato's mother; Seleya; space; stardate; stun grenade; symptom; synaptic pathway; threat; trans-dimensional being; trellium-D; Trenia; Vulcans; warp coil; warp engine; withdrawal; Xindi; Xindi-Aquatic; Xindi-Aquatic cruiser External links cs:Damage de:Beschädigungen es:Damage fr:Damage (épisode) ja:ENT:球体創造者 nl:Damage ENT episodes Prism Award winners
1988	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Extinction (episode)	Archer, Reed, and Sato are threatened by a virus that mutates them into a primal lifeform. Summary Teaser In a jungle, space-suited aliens are chasing down a primal-like creature whom they promptly kill with their flame throwers. Act One On the , it is late at night. Commander visits Sub-commander T'Pol for a long-overdue massage session. To make up for missing the past two sessions, he brings some Georgia peaches which he got from Earth recently. T'Pol uses Vulcan techniques, but assures Tucker the risk of paralysis is minimal. The session is cut short as Captain Archer calls T'Pol away. He is able to discover, from the Xindi's stolen database, the last planetary stop of the destroyed Xindi ship. These new Xindi seem to be evolved from primates. T'Pol notes they aren't necessarily the ones that attacked Earth, but Archer wants more information, ordering a course. Upon arrival at the planet, Enterprise doesn't detect life signs, but does discover a metallic signature on the planet. Leaving Travis Mayweather in command, Archer leads an away team of Lieutenant Malcolm Reed, Hoshi Sato, and T'Pol, and eventually discovers a Xindi landing craft and some scorched corpses – not Xindi. However, soon the away team is affected by a virus as they explore the surrounding area. T'Pol feels her temples bulge, and, upon seeing Reed again, she sees he has transformed into a primal-like creature. She heads back immediately to the landing craft, only to discover that Archer is now also infected. T'Pol immediately calls for a security team from Enterprise, but is soon attacked by Archer, now speaking in an alien language. She stuns him in a defensive maneuver, only to be attacked by Sato from her side, also transformed. T'Pol attempts to run away but falls and is rendered unconscious. Act Two The troop of new mutants carries T'Pol's body using sticks and branches to a clearing and lays her down. As she wakes, the three seem to be having a discussion about her. T'Pol is tied up and, in a highly agitated state for a Vulcan, asks them to untie her. Archer does so, but seemingly under protest from Sato. Then, T'Pol convinces them to give her the universal translator and tries to get them to talk. On the Enterprise, Doctor Phlox examines the new bio signs and is confident he sees a Vulcan one. The other three are not. Tucker wonders where their team is. Tucker wants to go down after them, but Phlox warns him, saying that T'Pol mentioned being "altered," and is guessing she meant literally. He wants more time to investigate, but Mayweather sees they're moving off, and Tucker decides he can't wait any longer. He orders the other prepared and environmental suits. T'Pol makes some progress talking to them and trying to convince them to get back to the ship. However, she discovers they have a purpose: they are looking for Urquat. Sato and Reed are insistent on finding the rest of "their people," and they believe that T'Pol is lying to them. Archer hesitates. They obviously are intent on finding this Urquat, so T'Pol then tries allowing them to do so. On the way, she sees more of their primal behavior, as Reed climbs a tree incredibly quickly and finds food, immediately triggering a fight over the food among the three. Archer wrestles some food from Reed. Before he eats, he offers some of it to T'Pol, but she refuses. He then also allows Reed to have some. Tucker takes down a rescue team of Corporal Chang and Private Palmer and they start searching. The mutants, with enhanced vision, have an advantage in observing the team from the foliage. Soon, Reed attacks Chang and knocks him out as Sato runs by Palmer, drawing him away. Tucker catches up with Chang, stuns Reed as he attacks again, then is attacked at close range by Archer. Archer bashes a crack in Tucker's helmet and intends to go again but T'Pol stops him, asking if he recognizes Tucker. Archer pauses to consider, but Palmer gets close and he runs away. T'Pol decides to stay with Archer and Sato, ordering Tucker to take Reed back to the ship. A primal Reed is highly agitated in the decon chamber while Phlox observes him. Phlox confirms to Tucker they have a mutagenic virus and that T'Pol's Vulcan K-cells are apparently neutralizing the virus. He needs her active DNA as soon as possible to complete the cure. However, two alien ships intercept Enterprise and declare them under quarantine. He demands they prepare to be boarded. Act Three Tucker refuses to allow anyone on Enterprise, but the alien commander, Tret, says he detects the infected crewmember and that the virus must be eradicated, having been studied for 60 years without another option. Tucker is emphatic that there is no "outbreak" as Reed is in medical isolation. He invites the commander to the ship to discuss it, but promises a fight if he tries to board by force. On the planet, Archer has a dream in which he discovers the great city of Urquat underground. Oddly, he sees himself (as a Human) approach him, jolting him awake. He happily tells Sato about the city, and they're both excited. T'Pol tries to state that his home is really Earth, but they both declare she's lying. Tret comes aboard Enterprise and visits sickbay to observe Reed and inform Phlox and Tucker about the virus. He warns them that the virus is very dangerous and millions of his people had to be killed because of its rapid growth. An ancient race, called the Loque'eque, created the virus to perpetuate their race as they could no longer propagate. Tret's people intend to eliminate all infected victims as the virus spreads like wildfire and drives all who change into Loque'eque to find their home. Tret gets word from his ship that more infected are on the planet, and he orders a containment team together. Phlox says T'Pol is immune, and wants to work together with Tret, but Tret is insistent on examining them himself. He leaves, promising use of force if he is hindered from containing the outbreak. After, Phlox says he needs T'Pol's DNA within two hours, and Tucker gets an idea, remembering she bit into one of the peaches. On the planet, the three close in on the city, however, they discover the lifeless ruins of Urquat. Act Four Archer and Sato can't believe the city is gone, and dwell on it. T'Pol tries to say they can go to Enterprise to find out what happened to them, but Archer refuses. Then, he suggests it was T'Pol's race that destroyed them, and holds her by the neck as she denies it. Then, they are discovered by the aliens searching to destroy them, so they run. The three of them attack the aliens in caves and, in the ensuing melee, they are knocked out and the three escape to the surface at T'Pol's insistence. However, Archer manages to tear the suit of one of the aliens, thereby infecting him. His comrades promptly "torch" him when they find him. The three make it outside of the caves but are soon surrounded by the aliens. They force T'Pol away and prepare to torch the other two, but just then Tucker and the MACOs appear and stun the aliens. T'Pol makes a final plea to Archer to follow her to the shuttlepod, and he finally agrees. As they approach the ship, Tucker orders Mayweather out of orbit, and they are soon chased by the alien containment force. Tucker tries to buy time for Phlox, but after being fired upon briefly, Tret hails them and orders them out of warp. Tucker pleads with him to allow them to find a cure. Tret dismisses it until he see the partially-cured Sato and Archer appear on the bridge. Tret has the ship scanned again and the aliens finally accept that a cure is possible, and break off the attack. "Captain's starlog, supplemental. We've given Phlox's serum to the captain of the containment vessel. With any luck, they'll be able to use it to prevent future outbreaks. As for Malcolm, Hoshi, and me, it may be a few days before we feel fully Human again." Dr. Phlox wants to destroy the last of the mutagenic virus, thereby possibly eliminating the last vestiges of the Loque'eque. Archer doesn't want that to happen and orders the doctor to put the vial in stasis. Archer assumes that the unnamed aliens will destroy the last traces of the virus on the planet with their new cure. He reasons that soon the last trace of this civilization will be Dr. Phlox's sample. Memorable quotes "You sure this is safe? I mean, has anyone ever tried it on a Human before?" "Not to my knowledge. The risk of paralysis is minimal." - Tucker and T'Pol, during a neuropressure session "You're saying these alien bio-signs could be our people?" "From what we've seen of the Expanse, it's a possibility we have to consider. The laws of biochemistry on this world may be just as unpredictable as the laws of physics." - Tucker and Phlox "He didn't even recognize me." "Don't be offended. In his current condition, I doubt he'd recognize any of us." - Tucker and Phlox, on the transformed Reed "Your ship is in restricted space." "Sorry. It wasn't very well marked." - Tret and Tucker "Your vessel is under quarantine. Prepare to be boarded." - Tret, to Tucker "Have you got anything for my stomach? Chef's food isn't sitting too well." "Until your digestive tract is fully restored, you may want to avoid the mess hall." "What do you suggest I eat?" "You're welcome to some of the moth larvae I feed to my Pyrithian bat." - Malcolm and Phlox Background information This episode saw the series' title change from Enterprise to Star Trek: Enterprise in the opening credits, though in the DVD, Blu-ray, and syndicated releases of the series, "Star Trek" appears in the title of all season three episodes. This episode was dedicated to the memory of Jerry Fleck, the show's first assistant director. This was the last episode on which he worked before dying in his sleep at the age of fifty-five. John Eaves notes in his blog that an earlier version of this episode's script called for a new Vulcan shuttle design, but was written out by the time it was filmed. He did, however, post sketches of the unseen shuttle, as illustrated by himself, on his website. This episode shares similar plot elements to , where Geordi La Forge is transformed into another species in an extremely short timespan, as well as . Two flame throwers used in this episode were auctioned off in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction. Ensign Mayweather enjoys a brief period as ranking bridge officer on board Enterprise when all his seniors are off ship in the fourth act. Several costumes and props from this episode were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including the boots of Brian J. Williams. Reception According to Trekweb, LeVar Burton went to the producers and told them he was "ashamed" that he had directed this episode. Ten years after this episode aired, Brannon Braga called "Extinction" "one of the singularly most embarrassing episodes of Star Trek I've ever been involved with." ("In a Time of War, Part Three", ENT Season 3 Blu-ray special features) Links and references Guest Stars Roger Cross as Tret Daniel Dae Kim as D. Chang Troy Mittleider as T. Palmer Co-Stars Philip Boyd as a Com Officer Brian J. Williams as Alien Decon Agent Uncredited Co-Stars Craig Baxley, Jr. as Decon Agent #2 Kiante Elam as Xindi-Arboreal pilot Glen Hambly as operations division ensign Jimmy Ortega as Decon Agent #3 Keith Shindoll as Decon Agent #4 Stunt Doubles Diamond Farnsworth as stunt double for Scott Bakula Alex Madison as stunt double for Linda Park Dan McCann as stunt double for Scott Bakula Marty Murray as stunt double for Dominic Keating Boni Yanagisawa as stunt double for Jolene Blalock References 2090s; ability; antivirus; biochemistry; bio-hazard protocol; blood; century; ; chromophyllic plant species; command center; contagion; Delphic Expanse; digestive tract; DNA; Earth; ecosystem; equatorial islands; EV suit; extinction; fountain; garden; Georgia; humanoid; immunity; K-cell; land mass; larva; Loque'eque; Loque'eque homeworld; Loque'eque language; moth; mutagenic virus; neural node; oxidation; peach; Pyrithian bat; quarantine; race (species); reproduction; serum; ; Shuttlepod 2; ; stomach; transporter; Tret's containment vessel; Tret's species; tropics; Urquat; Urquat citizens; Vulcan; Xindi-Arboreal; Xindi-Arboreal landing craft; Xindi database Deleted references Aurigan; Aurigan Health Authority External link cs:Extinction de:Transformation es:Extinction fr:Extinction (épisode) ja:ENT:突然変異 nl:Extinction ENT episodes
1989	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Rajiin (episode)	Enterprise takes on board Rajiin, a beautiful, enigmatic passenger with ulterior motives. Summary Teaser The Xindi Council continues to monitor 's advance through the Delphic Expanse and debates whether to develop a bio-weapon to be used instead of Degra's weapon. Since Degra has experienced setbacks for his weapon, Dolim wants to revisit the bio-weapon, even though it has been dismissed before (at least by the Aquatics, Primates and Arboreals). The majority decides to give Degra more time, though Kiaphet Amman'sor warns that, if progress isn't made soon, they'll have to consider all options. Act One Meanwhile, Enterprise is headed to the Xanthan planet where a chemist is said to be able to synthesize liquid trellium-D which will insulate the the ship hull against spatial anomalies within the Delphic Expanse. On the way, and T'Pol are having another session to help him realign his neural pressure. Tucker is dedicated to the technique, as it's helping him, however he pauses during tonight's session to suggest stopping them altogether, due to the perceptions of the crew seeing him visit T'Pol each night. T'Pol dismisses his concern and, since it's not bothering her, they continue the exercises. Elsewhere, Captain Jonathan Archer has trouble sleeping through both the continued nightmares and itching caused by his exposure to an alien mutagenic virus earlier and his recovery. Phlox gives him some ointment, and adds the healing process will not happen overnight. The Enterprise arrives on the Xanthan planet and an away team of Archer, Tucker and Malcolm Reed visit the floating bazaar where the chemist's shop is located. It's a very busy marketplace, but they eventually find it. Archer enters the barge and announces he has an appointment when B'Rat says he is closed. Archer then reminds B'Rat that they met at the deuterium station at Norellus. B'Rat tells them to come back later, but Archer presses him, stating that he claimed he could sell them formula to synthesize trellium-D. B'Rat remembers him and asks about his well-being, but Archer seems impatient with the conversation because he is pressed for time. B'Rat comments how rare trellium-D is when Tucker realizes he is only trying to drive the price of the formula up. B'Rat asks about their interest in the Xindi, and Archer will only say they are on a diplomatic mission. B'Rat mentions that the Xindi were there the week before. Reed asks B'Rat where they could find them now. B'Rat says he would direct them for a small fee. Archer then explains that Tucker has a list of items they would be willing to barter with, and that Tucker can work out the trade details for the information with B'Rat. While Tucker and the chemist work out what to trade, Archer and Reed visit the merchant, Zjod, who met the Xindi earlier. The man, who is apparently in the slave trade, with several women on a platform, admits they came and left two days prior. He keeps turning the conversation to his women, but Archer isn't interested. However, one woman does catch his attention, though they leave, thanking the man for his time. As they leave to go back to the ship for the chemist's payment, Archer and Reed turn around to see the same slave woman running toward them, pleading for them to take her with them. They then protect her from the pursuing slave merchant and take her with them to the ship. In sickbay, Phlox looks her over and sees she is healthy, though he doesn't know her species. She says her name is Rajiin and thanks Archer for helping him. Archer makes it clear he doesn't accept slavery, and he will try to find her homeworld. She thanks him again. Act Two The liquid trellium formula is purchased from B'Rat in exchange for a variety of "exotic" spices, including pepper, paprika, mustard seed, and one Tucker is partial to, cayenne pepper. Tucker and Reed are then warned by B'Rat to follow the protocols precisely, as liquid trellium-D is highly unstable. Meanwhile, Archer speaks with Rajiin over a meal. He hopes she is comfortable, and says she can look around. Rajiin is curious about the crew and their mission. Archer mentions the Xindi, but she only knows little about them. The ones she saw were reptilian Xindi. Tucker calls Archer away to brief him on their planning to synthesize the trellium. T'Pol recommends synthesizing the compounds on E deck, within the emergency bulkheads. Later that evening, Rajiin comes to Archer's quarters to talk to Archer and repay him for his kindness. Archer informs her they have located her home world of Oran'taku, only two days away. She states she doesn't remember the place, but wants to thank him, and kisses him. Despite him saying it isn't necessary, the kiss appears to affect Archer, and Rajiin proceeds to scan him with her hands, allowing a view of his insides. Then, suddenly, Archer snaps out of it and sees her standing away from him. She asks him if he's all right and he says yes. Then then bids him goodnight, leaving him to recover from whatever happened. T'Pol and Tucker's first attempt at synthesizing trellium-D is a delicate balance between input delta radiation and the pressure of the system. Unfortunately, no matter how Tucker changes the radiation, the pressure keeps rising and T'Pol orders them out of the room. They return to see the aftermath of a major explosion in their workspace. T'Pol suggests they have another neuro-pressure session before attempting the synthesis again. Meanwhile, Rajiin explores Enterprise, and comes across the transporter room, where she encounters Hoshi Sato. Rajiin says she's looking for the mess hall, which Sato states she's heading for, noticeably entranced by Rajiin. As they walk, Rajiin asks what Hoshi does, to which she replies "communications officer". A look passes between the two, and Hoshi seductively states that she'd love to hear Rajiin's language. Later, T'Pol, preparing to meditate, is startled to find Rajiin entering her quarters. Act Three Rajiin, noticeably bolder than earlier, claims that the door was unlocked and wanted to talk to T'Pol. She starts to seduce T'Pol physically and mentally, and T'Pol asks her to leave. Rajiin gets more control over T'Pol and starts scanning through her head and spine, but the Vulcan shows some resistance. Tucker comes to the door, but T'Pol cannot answer and Rajiin starts to hurry with what she's doing. T'Pol's able to push Rajiin away, but she comes back and knocks out T'Pol, and, when Tucker finally opens the door himself, she attacks him as well when he checks T'Pol and runs. However, Tucker remains conscious and alerts security. Rajiin then continues her plan, informing someone off the ship of her plan to use the transporter. Reed and his team pursue Rajiin, but she's able to seduce one of them, getting his phase-pistol and make it to engineering. Through her handling of the pistol and ability to evade the crew, she reveals she is much more than a slave girl. She then heads to the transporter room and is caught by Archer and another security team, informed that her communications have been jammed. He has Ensign Walsh take her to the brig. Archer checks on T'Pol in sickbay. Phlox doesn't exactly know what happened, but attributes her survival to Vulcan neurophysiology. Unfortunately, it'll be a few hours before Archer can talk to her. He then goes to the brig, demanding Rajiin to know what she was doing. She replies that her contacts will kill her if she tells him, but he replies he may do the same. She only says that she finds them admirable and doesn't want to see them harmed, recommending they let her go. Then, he gets word that two ships are approaching – Xindi-Reptilian. Act Four The two ships immediately attack Enterprise, knocking it out of warp. In the brig, Archer tries again to ask her, but is soon informed that one of the ships is attempting to board. He starts to leave to organize the crew, but then Rajiin gives in, telling him that the Xindi want medical information on Humans for a bio-weapon they're building. Archer orders the brig secured and protected. The MACOs and crew engage three boarding parties made up of Xindi-Reptilians and Xindi-Insectoids. The Enterprise crew's weapons are unfortunately not very effective against them, and they fall back. The team protecting the brig is incapacitated by the reptilians by a strange organic grenade. The reptilians break open the brig and take Rajiin away with them. Archer chases the retreating aliens only to be tackled by one sacrificing himself to be left behind. The alien is incapacitated as Archer sees Rajiin behind the closing door of the airlock. The Enterprise pursues the ships, but they soon escape through a subspace vortex which loses them. The alien who sacrificed himself is dead, apparently using a genetically enhanced suicide gland. Archer orders a complete autopsy and a thorough analysis of the Xindi rifle from Reed. He orders T'Pol to analyze the vortex. The Reptilians announce their completed mission at the next Xindi Council, infuriating the majority as it was unauthorized and leaves them vulnerable through exposure of their plans to the Humans. They bring out Rajiin and she reluctantly uploads the data necessary to create the bio-weapon. She also tries to state that there is more to Humans than they realize, but Commander Dolim orders her away. Memorable quotes "You were transformed into a different species. Don't expect to recover overnight." - Phlox, when Archer tells him about his dreams of Urquat "I'm called Rajiin. Very grateful for what you've done, captain. I'll serve you well, I promise." - Rajiin believing she is now Archer's property "On our planet... wars were fought over these." - Tucker, showcasing the various spices from Earth "Some of our calculations may have been slightly off." - T'Pol, to Tucker after their failed attempt to synthesize trellium-D "Leaving us so soon?" - Archer, to Rajiin, when she tries fleeing by using the transporter "Have Phlox take a look at your head." - Archer, to Tucker in sickbay Background information This episode was originally titled "Enemy Advances". As evidenced by the final draft script of this installment, the neuro-pressure scene between T'Pol and Tucker, near the start of the episode, was an "added scene", written into the script at a late stage in the making of the episode. A Benzite can be seen at the alien market. Phlox mentions that Crewman Cutler broke her arm when an anomaly passed through the ship. This is the final reference to Cutler; the actress who played her in previous episodes, Kellie Waymire, died a month after this episode aired and the character was retired. Several costumes and props from this episode were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including a slave price tag, a bottle with a Triskelion emblem, a dark bottle, an alien advertising sign, and a schematic lot for the Xanthan floating bazaar, drawn by Set Designer Ahna Packard. Links and references Guest Stars Nikita Ager as Rajiin Tucker Smallwood as Xindi-Primate Councilor Randy Oglesby as Degra Rick Worthy as Jannar Scott MacDonald as Dolim Steve Larson as Zjod Co-Stars Dell Yount as B'Rat BK Kennelly as Alien Merchant Ken Lally as Security Guard Uncredited Co-Stars Aldric Horton as Xindi-Arboreal councilor Joey Anaya as Xindi-Reptilian soldier Staci Anderson as Nuvian slave girl Adam Anello as Xanthan bazaar alien Brian Avery as operations crewman Jef Ayres as Haynem Breezy as Porthos Jacob Chambers as Xindi-Reptilian soldier Jason Collins as R. Ryan Mark Correy as Alex Xanthan bazaar alien Jared Patrick Cox as Xanthan bazaar alien Daphney Dameraux as operations ensign Elizabeth DeCicco as slave girl Kevin Derr as G. Austin Roxanne Doman as slave girl Mark Donaldson as operations crewman Evan English as Tanner Ian Eyre as Xindi-Reptilian soldier Nikki Flux as Xanthan bazaar alien Duncan K. Fraser as Walsh Jamie Freeman as slave girl Hilde Garcia as Xanthan bazaar alien Robert Garcon as operations crewman Peter Godoy as operations crewman Glen Hambly as operations ensign Roy Joaquin as Operations crewman Xanthan bazaar alien as Xindi-Reptilian soldier John Jurgens as Benzite trader Xindi-Reptilian soldier Marlene Mogavero as operations crewman Dorenda Moore as S. Money Tom Morga as Xindi-Reptilian soldier Robin Morselli as Xanthan bazaar alien Lin Oeding as operations crewman Louis Ortiz as Xanthan bazaar alien Bobby Pappas as operations crewman Julie Sands as Xanthan bazaar alien Paul Sklar as R. Richards Justin Sundquist as MACO B. Scott Chris Torres as B. Moreno Unknown performers as Alien slave girl Borothan Dee'Ahn's species member Female bridge crewman (voice) Kolaran on Xanthan bazaar Operations crewman 2nd class Tash's species female Twenty-five Xanthan bazaar aliens Xindi-Reptilian council guard Xindi-Reptilian councilor Stunt Doubles Charlie Brewer as stunt double for Steve Larson Stacey Carino as stunt double for Nikita Ager Shawn Crowder as stunt double for Connor Trinneer Vince Deadrick, Jr. as stunt double for Scott Bakula Boni Yanagisawa as stunt double for Jolene Blalock CGI Characters Kiaphet Amman'sor Xindi-Aquatic councilor Xindi-Insectoid aide (Stand-in: Evan English) Xindi-Insectoid councilor (Stand-in: Tarik Ergin) Xindi-Insectoid soldier (Stand-in: Evan English) Stand-ins David Keith Anderson – stand-in for Anthony Montgomery and utility stand-in Jef Ayres – stand-in for Connor Trinneer and Jason Collins Evan English – stand-in for Dominic Keating and Justin Sundquist Tarik Ergin – Utility Xindi-Reptilian stand-in Shannon Hazlett – stand-in for Nikita Ager Louis Ortiz – Utility Xindi-Reptilian stand-in J.R. Quinonez – stand-in for John Billingsley and Dell Yount and utility stand-in Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Scott Bakula Pablo Soriano – utility stand-in Jessica Vash – stand-in for Jolene Blalock and Dorenda Moore Susan Yee – stand-in for Linda Park References arm; Barge 12; barter; black pepper; biogenic weapon; biometric hologram; biometric scan; boarding party; cayenne; chemical formula; chemist; Cutler; delta radiation; Denobula; deuterium; dose; Earth; emergency bulkhead; exobiology lab; "field day"; gesture; hyperspanner; inner hull; injector assembly; jaw; Khavorta posture; Loque'eque; mustard seed; neocortex; neurophysiology; neuro-pressure; neuro-scan; neurotoxin; newcomer; Norellus; Nuvian; ointment; Oran'taku; ; paprika; phenomenon; Porthos; quarters; retina; sculpture; security detail; senior officer; serpent women; slavery; spatial anomaly; spinal cord; stun grenade; subspace vortex; suicide; surah'tahn''; theta radiation; thumbprint; transporter device; trellium; U'tani; ; Urquat; V'radian; Vulcan; wildlife; Xanthan floating bazaar; Xanthan planet; Xanthan marmot; xenobiology; Xindi bio-weapon; Xindi database; Xindi-Arboreal; Xindi-Aquatic; Xindi-Insectoid; Xindi-Primate; Xindi-Reptilian; Xindi-Reptilian warship; Xindi technology External links cs:Rajiin (epizoda) de:Rajiin (Episode) es:Rajiin (episodio) fr:Rajiin (épisode) it:Rajiin (episodio) nl:Rajiin (aflevering) ENT episodes
1992	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Lwaxana Troi	Lwaxana Troi was a Betazoid Federation ambassador, and the mother of Deanna Troi. She was one of the more wealthy and colorful Federation diplomats, having led a life of both flamboyance and tragedy. Lwaxana had a larger-than-life and extremely flirtatious persona, which caused severe friction with and embarrassment to her daughter Deanna, of whom she tended to be extremely overprotective. Early life Lwaxana's father was something of a traditionalist; he rarely spoke, saying it was for "offworlders and people who didn't know any better." Both of Lwaxana's parents had died by 2372, as had her sister. (; ) Ambassadorial duties Lwaxana was a daughter of the Fifth House of Betazed, the holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, and heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed. She had a tendency to remind people of this fact when she felt that she had been slighted or whenever she chose to establish her authority. (; ) Lwaxana represented the Betazed government at the Pacifica Conference in 2365. Shortly before arriving to the conference, she exposed two Antedian assassins who were planning to bomb the conference with ultritium explosives. () In 2366, Deanna Troi fabricated a story involving Lwaxana visiting the as part of an attempt to encourage Captain Jean-Luc Picard to take leave on Risa. () Also in 2366, Lwaxana, along with Reittan Grax, was part of the delegation of the biennial Trade Agreements Conference on Betazed. Lwaxana irritated her daughter by communicating telepathically even though they were among non-telepaths, and later by gate-crashing her date with William T. Riker. She was kidnapped by Ferengi DaiMon Tog along with her daughter and Commander Riker. The trio was eventually rescued by Captain Jean-Luc Picard. () Lwaxana was part of a delegation of four Federation ambassadors visiting Deep Space 9 in 2369. Her fellow ambassadors included Lojal, Vadosia, and Taxco. () In 2371, she visited Bajor and took a shuttle from there to visit Deep Space 9. Upon her arrival, she explained to Odo that "Officially I'm here as the Betazoid representative to the Gratitude Festival. But the truth is, I came to see you, you poor sweet tortured man." () Personal relationships Marriage Lwaxana was married a number of times. Her first husband was a close friend of fellow ambassador Reittan Grax. Lwaxana described him as "not much of a conversationalist, but what a lover." () A subsequent marriage to Lieutenant Ian Andrew Troi produced two children: Kestra in 2330 and Deanna in 2336. According to Deanna, Ian worshiped Lwaxana. Ian died in 2343, although the circumstances of his death were unknown. Deanna later recalled how she cried after his death. () Her marriage to Jeyal, a Tavnian, produced a son, but she ended the marriage by marrying Odo due to her disagreement over the Tavnian custom of separation of the sexes in child-rearing. () Children Kestra Troi Kestra was the oldest of Lwaxana's children. Tragically, Kestra drowned during a family picnic at Lake El'nar. The incident left Lwaxana so broken with sorrow, guilt, and regret that she decided to repress all memories of Kestra. She also deleted all diary entries pertaining to her. She destroyed everything that could possibly remind her of Kestra and also made her husband promise never to mention Kestra again. A picture of Kestra remained, however, secretly preserved by Mr. Homn. (; ) Deanna Troi Deanna was Lwaxana's second daughter. She was born a few months before Kestra's death. Deanna often felt that she was the parent while Lwaxana was the child. Lwaxana often considered Deanna to be "all she had left," and thus was often protective of her, hoping she would find a husband to take care of her. () Child with Jeyal In 2372, Lwaxana was pregnant with her third child. This child was the product of her union with the Tavnian Jeyal. When their marriage was dissolved, Lwaxana returned to Betazed to raise the child. () Romance In addition to her string of marriages, Lwaxana has also had numerous dalliances and flirtations with various others. During a romance with a native from Rigel, the man named a star in Lwaxana's honor. () Timicin In 2367, Lwaxana fell in love with the Kaelon scientist Timicin while he was performing experiments on board the Enterprise-D. Unfortunately, he was to perform the "Resolution," a ritual suicide which people of his race were expected to perform upon reaching the age of sixty. Although Lwaxana desperately attempted to convince Timicin not to go through with the ritual, Timicin ultimately decided it must be done, and Lwaxana eventually relented. She then opted to respectfully witness the ceremony along with Timicin's family. () Campio In 2368, Lwaxana exchanged personality profiles with Kostolain Minister Campio. Their profiles were very harmonious, but in real life, they couldn't have been more different. Campio was incredibly tied to protocol while Lwaxana was too free-spirited for him. Their marriage was canceled during the wedding when Lwaxana appeared to the ceremony in the traditional Betazoid way – without any clothes. () Odo Lwaxana also had a romantic attraction to Constable Odo, the security chief of Deep Space 9. She first met Odo while visiting the station in 2369, along with several other Federation ambassadors. Odo returned a precious hair brooch for Lwaxana after it was stolen at Quark's, an act for which he caught her attention immediately. According to Lwaxana "All the men I've known... who've needed to be shaped and molded and manipulated. Finally, I've met a man who knows how to do it himself." She tried to seduce him, unfortunately quite unsuccessfully. She didn't lose her interest, however, and further tried to attract his attention. A power failure caused the pair to get stuck in one of the station's turbolifts. During their time in the lift, they bonded and formed a special friendship: as he was the first person ever to see her without a wig, while Lwaxana used her skirt to contain Odo when he had to revert into his gelatinous "liquid state" to regenerate. () Lwaxana returned to the station in 2371 shortly before the Bajoran Gratitude Festival. Officially, she was there to take part in the festival, but in reality, she was there to visit Odo. Her continuous attempts of seduction once again proved unsuccessful. At the time, she was suffering from Zanthi fever, which caused her to project her amorous feelings for Odo to those around her. She was ultimately cured by Dr. Julian Bashir. While parting from Odo, she wished him good luck with Major Kira Nerys, whom she realized he was in love with. () She returned seeking Odo's help the following year, after she had run away from her new husband, Jeyal. She took refuge on the station, and at once depressed Worf, Jadzia Dax, and Kira with the sad story of her marriage. Her mood brightened after spending some time with Odo, who – unlike their previous encounters – had by now grown more comfortable interacting with others, to the point he expressed genuine enjoyment while spending time with her. Jeyal soon arrived in search of her, with the intent of claiming his unborn child. Odo and Lwaxana were married in order to prevent this, as the child would be the ward of any man who was married to the woman, not only the biological one. They parted some time later and she apparently delivered the child on Betazed. () Friendships Jean-Luc Picard Lwaxana first met Captain Jean-Luc Picard aboard the USS Enterprise-D in 2364 when she boarded the ship from planet Haven to meet her daughter, Deanna. Her attitude towards Picard was not the expected one as she initially treated him like a servant, embarrassing her daughter. Picard found Lwaxana's presence aboard his ship to be an annoyance, but Lwaxana did not seem to be bothered by it. She considered joining with Picard, but thought he was a little too old. As she departed, she commented that Picard's thoughts about her were very erotic. () She returned to the Enterprise in 2365 while she was in "the Phase," a period in a Betazoid woman's life when her sexuality is in a heightened state. She decided to concentrate all her energy to a single man, Picard. Despite arranging a private romantic dinner, her advances for him failed. The captain hid from Lwaxana in a Dixon Hill holodeck program. () Picard was responsible for rescuing Lwaxana from DaiMon Tog after she was kidnapped by him. He managed this by convincing the Ferengi that he and Lwaxana had been lovers and that the Captain was insanely jealous; going so far as killing anyone who tried to take her away from him. In order to secure her release from Tog, the Captain played this role whereupon he recited Shakespeare while counting down from ten and threatening to destroy Tog's ship if she was not returned to him. Upon Lwaxana's return, she seemed eager to keep up the ruse, but Picard graciously returned her to Betazed – at warp 9. () Lwaxana apparently "gave up the hope" for Picard, but the Enterprise still remained one of her favorite sites to visit. () According to Doctor Crusher, the arrival of Lwaxana made Picard shudder. () Worf Ambassador Troi commonly referred to Worf as "Mr. Woof", to which he always politely corrected her with, "It is Worf, madam." For a very brief time in 2365, when Lwaxana was going through "the Phase," she considered Worf as a mate, but decided Captain Picard made a better choice. In an alternate quantum reality, when Worf asked Deanna to become his son's Soh-chIm, he did not consider that it would also make Ambassador Troi his stepmother; he ultimately decided to go through with it anyway. Worf once stated that Lwaxana was an "admirable woman." () Alexander Rozhenko Lwaxana befriended Alexander Rozhenko, Worf's son, while visiting in 2368 with the intention of marrying Minister Campio on board. Lwaxana taught Alexander how to have fun, angering both the boy's father and her husband-to-be. She called Alexander her "little warrior." Additionally, young Alexander had something to teach Lwaxana, reminding his elder of the importance of being true to one's self. Lwaxana had resigned herself to compromising who she was in order to not be alone anymore, and she shared this resignation (without mentioning the specifics) with Alexander. He then asked, with characteristic childlike innocence, "why?" which got her to thinking about what she was doing... and why. It was that exchange that finally led to her appearance at the wedding ceremony in the true tradition of her homeworld. As she walked up to the altar wearing all her finest jewelry – and nothing else – Alexander looked up at her, beaming with pride (apparently he had figured out what the issue was). Lwaxana gave him a particularly meaningful, and appreciative, smile in return. () Attendants Xelo Xelo was Lwaxana's attendant before Homn. She apparently had to fire him after his thoughts about her became too erotic. () Homn Mr. Homn was Lwaxana's attendant for several years and he often accompanied her on her journeys. () Chronology Year unknown Born on Betazed. 2328 Married to Ian Troi. 2329 First daughter with Ian Troi is born, Kestra Troi. () 2336 29 March – Second daughter with Ian Troi is born, Deanna Troi. () 2336 Kestra drowns, causing Lwaxana to self-impose a memory block, effectively erasing Kestra from her memory. () 2340 Deletes all journal files from 2329 to a few months after Deanni Troi's birth in 2336. These journal files contain references to Kestra. () 2343 Ian Troi dies. () 2364 Comes aboard the for Deanna's marriage to Wyatt Miller, but they decide not to marry. () 2365 Attends the Pacifica conference, to decide if the Antedians should be allowed Federation membership. Reveals that the Antedian ambassadors are in fact terrorists. () 2366 Attends the biennial Trade Agreements Conference when they are held on Betazed; is later kidnapped by a Ferengi, and rescued by Captain Picard. () 2367 Attends a conference. En route back to Betazed, the Enterprise assists the Kaelon, where Lwaxana falls for a scientist, Timicin. () 2369 Visits Deep Space 9 for the first time. () 2370 Repressed memories of Kestra surface while Lwaxana is working with the Cairn aboard the Enterprise-D. () 2371 Visits Bajor and DS9 to attend the Gratitude Festival. () 2372 Visits DS9, seeking help from Odo. () Appendices Appearances Background information Lwaxana Troi was played by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the wife of Gene Roddenberry. According to Barrett-Roddenberry, "Gene came home one day and said to me, 'Majel, I have a great part for you, and guess what – you don't have to act!" She recalled that her husband went on to describe the character to her as "the of the Galaxy". (Star Trek: The Next Generation 365, p. 033) She is also called this in the DS9 series bible. Lwaxana Troi's costumes were regarded as a highlight by Costume Designer Robert Blackman, who remarked, "All of Lwaxana Troi's clothing is fun because it's fairly outrageous." () Apocrypha In the novel Q-in-Law, Lwaxana formed a romantic attachment to Q. At first, Q seemed to return the feelings, even to the point of sharing his power with her. In truth, Q was just using Lwaxana in an experiment designed to prove the worthlessness of the Human emotion love. Q was initially prevented from removing Lwaxana's power by another member of the Q Continuum, who allowed Lwaxana to use the power to teach Q a lesson about interfering in people's lives. At one point, it is revealed that Lwaxana is in the habit of telling Deanna “Life is a banquet! And most poor bastards are starving to death!” A paraphrase of Auntie Mame's signature line. In the eBook The Insolence of Office, Lwaxana gives birth to her son and names him Barin, meaning "Little One" in the Tavnian language, on Betazed in late 2372. In the short story "The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned" from the anthology book Tales of the Dominion War, Lwaxana was at her home on Betazed when the Dominion took the planet right out from under the nose of the Tenth Fleet in 2374. Her elegant ancestral home was destroyed and Mr. Homn was killed protecting young Barin from the attack. In the novel The Battle of Betazed, Lwaxana became a member of the Betazed underground movement to fight the Dominion's presence on Betazed. It was Lwaxana's idea to recruit the telepathic killer, Hent Tevron, to the cause of Betazoid freedom. Deanna had studied Tevron's case as a student, and had learned some of Tevron's telepathic secrets before he died. Using Tevron's knowledge, the most powerful Betazoid telepaths were able to empathically overload the Jem'Hadar's minds. Many Betazoids died from the strain of the assault, but it was successful, and the world was liberated. In a Star Trek Online in-universe blog, it is established that Lwaxana is still active in 2410 "despite her advancing years", and served as a councilor of sorts to the Federation President, Aennik Okeg, in deciding whether or not the Federation should give the Na'kuhl humanitarian help, after the loss of their homeworld. She also mediated the Lukari/Kentari terraforming crisis. External links ca:Lwaxana Troi de:Lwaxana Troi es:Lwaxana Troi fr:Lwaxana Troi it:Lwaxana Troi pl:Lwaxana Troi pt:Lwaxana Troi ru:Луаксана Трой Betazoids Ambassadors
1993	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Delphic Expanse	The Delphic Expanse was a region of space approximately fifty light years away from Earth. () According to the Triannons, a native species which regarded the Expanse as the "Chosen Realm," an area that had been created by supernatural beings they referred to as "the Makers," in preparation for their eventual return. () Composition Nearly two thousand light years across, the Expanse was riddled with a web of dangerous spatial anomalies and was surrounded by a dense layer of thermobaric clouds, which made navigation extremely hazardous for starships. In some regions of the Expanse, the laws of physics did not function reliably. Artificially created by transdimensional beings using a vast number of massive spheres, the Delphic Expanse ceased to exist in 2154, when the Earth starship destroyed them. () History In 2133, a Klingon vessel attempted to enter the Delphic Expanse. When it reemerged, the entire crew was anatomically inverted but still alive. After this incident the Klingons would not enter the Expanse. Vulcan ships had also entered the Expanse, but only a few had ever returned. () In December of 2152, the Vulcan ship Seleya embarked on a mission to chart the thermobaric clouds surrounding the Expanse. After several days the ship's crew reported that the Seleya was caught in a subspace eddy and being pulled into the Expanse and contact was lost. The crew of the Vulcan ship Vaankara, sent to search for the lost Seleya, went insane, killing each other and self-destructing the ship after only two days inside the Expanse. After this the Vulcans considered any expedition into the Expanse to be a foolishly risky action. The Enterprise later found the Seleya adrift, with its crew gone insane due to trellium-D exposure. () When Earth suffered a devastating attack which resulted in the deaths of seven million people in of 2153, Captain Jonathan Archer received intelligence from the 's mysterious benefactor that the attack had been launched by the Xindi, a race native to the Expanse. With this information, the Enterprise embarked on a mission into the Expanse to find the Xindi, in an attempt to prevent another attack which would destroy Earth. () While in the Expanse, Enterprise encountered the Triannon and discovered that their myth was based in fact, and that the Expanse had been created by a race of transdimensional beings who were attempting to reconfigure space to make it habitable for their species as a prelude to invasion. () The crew discovered that this race had constructed a series of massive spheres, each one of which emitted powerful waves of gravimetric energy, which were responsible for the spatial anomalies. Possessing advanced temporal technology which allowed them to examine alternate timelines, the Sphere-Builders discovered that, in the 26th century, the Federation was destined to finally defeat the Sphere-Builders and drive them back into their transdimensional realm. In an attempt to prevent this future, the Builders contacted the Xindi and led them to believe that Humanity would eventually be responsible for the destruction of their homeworld, and that the only way to save themselves was to destroy Earth first. () In early 2154, Captain Archer was eventually able to convince the Xindi that they had been manipulated, and entered into an alliance against the Sphere-Builders. Enterprise was successful in disabling one of the Spheres with a deflector pulse, causing a chain reaction which destroyed the entire Sphere network. This effectively caused the Expanse to cease to exist, and the thermobaric cloud perimeter dissipated. () The crew of spent nearly ten months in the Delphic Expanse during their mission to find the Xindi from April 24th, 2153 () to February 2154. () Astronomical objects Arakon system "Azati Prime system" Calindra system Delphic Expanse planets Muratas Star Cluster Orassin distortion field Sentient species Haradin Ikaarans Illyrians Kovaalans Loque'eque Oran'taku Skagarans Tarquin's species Tret's species Triannons U'tani V'radians Xindi Appendices Background information The size, mentioned by Soval, presumably did not refer to a spherical diameter of the expanse, as such a huge phenomenon would be a dominant feature within the galaxy. If the size is accurate, it would suggest the expanse was a somewhat flat region of space. In the final draft script of , the Delphic Expanse was said to be nearly a light year across, rather than almost two light years. According to Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Stellar Cartography" p. 17; "Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), the Delphic Expanse was located in the Beta Quadrant. This expanse was "angled some 2,000 light years from "top to bottom" within the 10,000 light year thickness of the galactic disk". According to StarTrek.com, this region could be likened to Earth's "Bermuda Triangle". Apocrypha The Pocket ENT establishes the technical scientific name of the Expanse as "the D-4853 anomaly." A form of the Delphic Expanse also appears in the alternate reality in Agents of Yesterday, the third expansion to Star Trek Online. In the mission "Terminal Expanse", the player character from the "main" timeline – tasked by Agent Daniels to battle the Sphere-Builders and their mysterious 'envoy' – arrives in the alternate reality in the year 2260, and joins with Science Officer 0718 and the USS Yorktown to stop the Sphere-Builders from creating an Expanse in that universe. "Terminal Expanse" also indicates that the Sphere-Builders have attempted to create Expanses in numerous realities, all with often catastrophic results. External link de:Delphische Ausdehnung es:Expansión Délfica fr:Étendue Delphique it:Distesa Delfica nl:Delphic expansie ru:Дельфийское пространство Delphic Expanse Regions
1999	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Cardassian language	The Cardassian language was the spoken and written language of the Cardassians used on Cardassia Prime. Written language Cardassian writing was composed of slender rectangular letters usually widening at the top. Lines of text were written both horizontally and vertically, radiating out from an elaborate circle motif. Lines of text also incorporated dots. (; ) Keiko O'Brien's classroom aboard Deep Space 9 featured a chart with the Human, Ferengi, Bajoran, and Cardassian alphabet. () Spoken language Odo was called odo'ital when he was studied at the Bajoran Institute of Science. The Bajorans at the institute intended to label Odo as "unknown sample", but all specimens had to be labelled in Cardassian, and the Bajorans mistranslated the term using odo'ital, which literally meant "nothing". () In Cardassian ranks, Dukat believed the title of Gul carried connotations of being "much more hands-on than Legate." () In 2380, Captain Carol Freeman spent weeks learning to "bark out" Cardassian small talk in preparation for a speech she was to give at peace summit on Cardassia, though her role ended up being canceled. () Words and phrases Gul – a rank roughly analogous to a Federation captain. Glinn – a rank below Gul. Legate – a rank above Gul. (See: Cardassian ranks) () Lek – Caradassian currency. Odo'ital – Nothing. () Shri-tal – A ritual carried out when a Cardassian was near death. () See also Detapa Council Gettle Groat Kotra Rulot Tojal Yamok sauce Zabu Ziyal Appendices Apocrypha In the New Worlds, New Civilizations short story The Glories of the Hebitians, "Cardassian" means "People of Discipline" in their language. In the Star Trek: Terok Nor novel "Day of the Vipers", is suggested to be a precursor to the modern Cardassian language. External link de:Cardassianische Sprache fr:Cardassien (langue) Cardassia Languages
2000	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Xindi-Avian	The Xindi-Avian species was an extinct member of the Xindi race, wiped out during the Xindi Civil War which was fought between the six Xindi species and which destroyed their homeworld in 2033. As far as known, none of the Avians fled before their homeworld was destroyed due to inadequate technology. Gralik Durr's grandfather, who had resided on Xindus, remembered a time before the planet's destruction when Avians occasionally flocked overhead, filling the sky. () A Xindi-Reptilian lieutenant once speculated that, if the Guardians had given the Reptilians dominance over the other Xindi species prior to the wars, their "Avian brothers would still fill the skies." () The remains of an Avian settlement were found on a planet that dated back to the 2nd millennium BC. The ruins of the settlement were used for the meeting place of the Xindi Council. A skull of an Avian was kept at the Council's location. Commander Dolim commented that the Council chamber had "the stench" of "a race that failed to survive." () Background information The Xindi-Avians were originally devised as a sixth member of the Xindi Council, though this idea was discarded due to uncertainties concerning how to actualize them as physical designs. Executive Producer Brannon Braga explained, "We did [consider avians, or bird people, among the original five], but we thought two CGIs [the Xindi-Aquatics and Insectoids] were enough – and you don't want to do actors as bird people." () To represent a Xindi-Avian skull in (described in the episode's final draft script as "the petrified skull of an Avian"), a model replica of a giraffe skull was used. According to the reference book Star Trek: Federation - The First 150 Years (pp. 57, 56, 53 & 52), the Xindi-Avians were the only Xindi species that did not trust nor believe stories from the duplicitous Sphere-Builders. The book contains an illustration of an Avian, which the publication describes as "the only known image" of a member of the species, and an historical writing involving an encounter between an Arboreal child named J'Acov and an Avian, on the final day of the Xindi homeworld. Apparently written by J'Acov, the account details how, having climbed up a remarkably thin stalk to reach the doorway of an Avian home, J'Acov saw the Avian fly directly at him, land on one of several thick vines surrounding the dwelling, then ask, talking in a harsh rasp, "Why have thee invaded my home?" The document also mentions many nightmare tales, all of which had been heard by J'Acov, of angry Avians plucking Arboreal children from their homes. de:Xindi-Avianer nl:Xindi-Avian pl:Xindi-Lotne Species Avians
2004	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Utopia Planitia	Utopia Planitia was a vast lava plain on the planet Mars. It hosted the surface structures of a starship construction facility, the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, one of the Federation's most extensive construction yards. Utopia Planitia was built prior to 2069. () In the 22nd century, Max Gabl Raymond was born here. (, okudagram) In 2366, Doctor Leah Brahms was living in Quayle Canals Northeast, Utopia Planitia Gardens. (, okudagram) Benjamin Sisko was stationed on Utopia Planitia between the death of his wife (at Wolf 359) and his posting on Deep Space 9. () While on Utopia Planitia, Sisko worked on the prototype – the first in what was to be a fleet of warships to defend the Federation from the Borg. After work on the project slowed, and design flaws became apparent, the project was shelved. () In 2370, in an alternate quantum reality, a partially-constructed starship was housed in the surface facilities of Utopia Planitia. () Appendices Background information Although never stated on-screen, Utopia Colony (itself possibly part of the Martian colonies) probably was located on Utopia Planitia. According to the , the plain was "first explored by the automated space probe , which softlanded there on September 3, 1976, part of Earth's first attempt to employ spaceflight in the search for extraterrestrial life." The notes that the landscape and city seen in was located at Utopia Planetia. It further noted: "The city of Utopia Planitia in 'Lifesigns' was a matte painting by Dan Curry, based on designs by Anthony Fredrickson and Doug Drexler. The fact that the was supposed to have been built at Utopia Planitia was inscribed on the dedication plaque for the ship located on the main bridge. A copy of the dedication plaque was included in a CD-ROM collection of art and literature assembled by the and was launched toward the surface of Mars aboard the Russian space probe, although the probe never made it out of Earth orbit due to a launch vehicle malfunction." The painting of the surface facilities in was by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda. () Asked if construction indeed was intended to take place on the surface of Mars, Okuda answered: "Yes, that was the intent, although I like the suggestion that it might have been a training facility. It was something that Rick and I put together in Photoshop. I don't recall exactly who did what, but I remember that the upper image uses a bunch of simple paper models that we made for use as [...] generic futuristic city buildings for exactly this sort of image. Rick may remember more about this. I do recall that we wondered how the components would be brought into orbit, whether they'd be beamed up, hauled up by space elevator, or carried by a huge orbital tug [....] "It [surface construction] certainly would be difficult, and I personally think that it would be more likely that the major component assembly would be done in orbit. I believe that Rick felt this way, too. Still, impulse engines routinely accelerate starship masses (many tens, even hundreds of thousands of tons) to large fractions of the speed of light in very brief times. This suggests a propulsion technology many thousands of times more powerful than anything we have in the 21st century. Also, structural integrity fields would need to protect against these accelerations, which conservatively would exceed 1,000 gees. As a result, I'd contend that lifting major starship components into orbit from the surface of Mars would be well within the reach of Star Treks postulated technology." In Sternbach's explanation of the painting, he suggested it to be a "systems integration simulator," adding, "the hardware seen on the surface could be the real vessel parts, which were probably only 20% filled with "stuff" and then lifted into orbit for final assembly. If not, then they are flight-quality hardware used as a functioning lab to make sure everything works as designed." External link cs:Utopia Planitia de:Utopia Planitia es:Utopia Planitia fr:Utopia Planitia nl:Utopia Planitia Geography
2006	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Acamarian	The Acamarians were an intelligent humanoid civilization whose homeworld was Acamar III. Distinguishing external physical traits of the Acamarians included a formed indentation on their foreheads. The hemoglobin in their blood comprised an iron and copper base, a rarity among species in that area of the galaxy. Most Acamarians had traditional facial tattoos as well. The Acamarians were governed by a representative government headed by a Sovereign. The legislative body was known as the Acamarian Ruling Council. The Acamarian Internal Security was responsible for law enforcement duties. In 2366, the head of the Acamarian government was Sovereign Marouk. History and culture Acamarian culture placed much importance on clan membership, both in society and politics. For much of their history, this resulted in clan rivalries and blood feuds that lasted for generations. One such feud, between the Lornak and the Tralesta clans, lasted almost three centuries and ended only after the (presumed) annihilation of the Tralesta clan. At some time in the 23rd century, the Acamarians overcame the cycle of fighting, after which they had relative peace. Around 2266, however, a significant population of the Acamarians refused to be a part of the peace settlement and left the homeworld, living as nomadic interstellar marauders for the next hundred years. Calling themselves the Gatherers, they raided outposts and ships in the Acamar system, its sector and neighboring sectors for equipment. Despite many Acamarian's opinion of the Gatherers as barbarians and thieves, the Acamarian government occasionally made attempts to reconcile with the Gatherers and offer amnesty. One attempt was made in 2348 unsuccessfully. The Gatherers rejected the offer each time. In 2366, the Gatherers had raided a Federation outpost, getting the attention of the . Jean-Luc Picard decided to meet with Sovereign Marouk and encourage her to make another attempt at reconciliation. She agreed and traveled to Gamma Hromi II and aboard the ship of the Gatherer leader, Chorgan, to negotiate. Despite some difficulties, including mutual distrust and an assassination attempt on the Gatherer leader, Picard was eventually successful, and the Gatherers agreed to return home the same year. () Foods and beverages Acamarian brandy Parthas Parthas a la Yuta People Named Brull Chorgan Dongren Kikimor Mallon Marouk Mesabb Penthor-Mul Temarek Tograf Volnoth Yuta Unnamed Ships Chorgan's ship Appendices Background information According to an internal reference document, listing all the aliens seen in , which was circulated around the time of the production of TNG Season 5, the Acamarians were given the description of "humanoid in appearance, vertical crease in forehead above the nose and prefer makeup or surgical decoration on one cheek." Apocrypha Taking place in 2409, the computer game Star Trek Online depicts the Gatherers having been re-integrated into the Acamarian society. However, land on the planet is scarce and the Acamarian Ruling Council redistributed it and pushed some clans to the resource-rich outer worlds. In 2409, tensions between the clans are boiling again and the player is asked to mediate a trade dispute in orbit over Acamar III. External link de:Acamarianer fr:Acamarien it:Acamariano Species
2008	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Bajoran wormhole	The Bajoran wormhole was the only stable wormhole known to exist in the Milky Way Galaxy. It was the home of extra-dimensional beings who were worshiped by the Bajorans as gods, known as the Prophets. Before the wormhole was discovered by Commander Benjamin Sisko and Lieutenant Jadzia Dax in 2369, it was considered to be a myth. () Names The Bajoran wormhole was referred to as the Celestial Temple in Bajoran religious context. Kor, a Klingon, once called the wormhole the "Eye of Destiny". In the Gamma Quadrant, the wormhole was known as "the anomaly" by the Jem'Hadar, and to the Skrreea, according to their mythology, it was the Eye of the Universe. The wormhole was known to the Changelings as the "passageway". () Astronomical data The Bajoran wormhole connected two points in the Milky Way Galaxy together which were normally almost ninety thousand light years apart. () One terminus was located in the Alpha Quadrant, in the Denorios belt of the Bajoran system. The other terminus was located in deep space in the Gamma Quadrant, 4.7234 light years away from the Idran system. () For the fastest Federation starship in 2369, it would have taken sixty-seven years of non-stop voyage at maximum warp to cross the distance, but through the wormhole the passage was nearly instantaneous. () Because it was stable, the Bajoran wormhole did not have any of the usual resonance waves found in other wormholes. () It was theorized by Starfleet that the wormhole was formed by verterons, particles that were self-sustaining in nature. () Highly elevated levels of neutrinos were also commonly detected prior to the appearance of the wormhole's event horizon, and as a vessel traversed the passage. It was believed that verteron nodes inside the wormhole played a large part in keeping the wormhole stable. (; ) A chart appearing in Keiko O'Brien's classroom contained a schematic describing the Bajoran wormhole. The graphic itself was titled "A Tunnel In The Sky: New boon for interstellar commerce". The graphic was labeled with several technical terms that mapped the course of the wormhole: Gamma Quadrant, FTR pipeline, F1, B3, negative CTL region, ring singularity, positive CTL region, GBF membrane, point singularity, and Alpha Quadrant. (An additional note stated "subspace distortion in millicochranes".) It defined the phenomenon as: The Bajoran Wormhole A Wormhole is a tunnel through the structure of space. It is a subspace shortcut between the Bajoran star system and a point in the distant Gamma quadrant of the Galaxy, near the Idran system. This wormhole was constructed by an alien intelligence. Most wormholes are either naturally occurring or the result of dangerous warp drive malfunctions. Such wormholes tend to oscillate wildly across time and space, thus making them useless for normal interstellar commerce. To the right of the diagram were a number of vocabulary words: superluminal, space warp, wormhole, singularity, , event horizon, Schwarzschild, Einstein-Rosen, Kerr Newman, negative space, millicochrane, warp factor, positive CTL, negative CTL, Kerr object, Godel Universe, sync shift, and time dilation. () History Bajoran historical records indicate that the wormhole had most likely been in existence for at least the past ten thousand years by the late 24th century. The nine Orbs which had appeared on or near Bajor in that time, and which were revered as active links between the Bajoran people and the Prophets, were thought to have come from the wormhole. There were also several unexplained incidents over the centuries that were later attributed to the wormhole after its discovery. In the 22nd century, at least two Bajorans encountered the wormhole: Kai Taluno, whose ship was disabled inside the Denorios belt for several days and reported that "the heavens opened up and nearly swallowed the ship"; and Akorem Laan, whose lightship was damaged in an ion storm, drifted into the Denorios belt, and was then swallowed by the wormhole, where it, and Akorem, stayed with the Prophets until 2372. Due to the Denorios belt being generally avoided by interplanetary traffic, the wormhole remained undiscovered until 2369, shortly after the end of the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor. When Starfleet took over the operation of the space station Terok Nor in orbit of Bajor, Commander Benjamin Sisko and his science officer Lieutenant Jadzia Dax investigated the many reported anomalies in the belt aboard the , and became the official discoverers of the wormhole. Shortly thereafter, the station, renamed Deep Space 9, was relocated to a position near the terminus of the wormhole. () Keiko O'Brien's classroom aboard Deep Space 9 in 2369 featured a wall chart with an image of the Bajoran wormhole beside other Federation starships. She discussed the history and scientific roots of the wormhole in her lessons, though in a secular fashion, which angered some of the Bajoran devout. () On one occasion, the wormhole transported a runabout and two crew members to a parallel universe in 2370. This was due to a plasma injector leak which caused the runabout to enter the wormhole with an only partially-collapsed warp field. The two crew members, Major Kira Nerys and Doctor Julian Bashir, were later able to return to their own universe by recreating the accident and returning through the wormhole. () The wormhole had an enormous impact on interstellar politics in the Alpha Quadrant. In the first two years, many races eagerly sent explorers and freighters through the wormhole to open relations with new trading partners, and to establish new colonies. However, the wormhole also brought the powers of the Alpha Quadrant into contact with the Dominion, a powerful government that controlled a large swath of territory in the Gamma Quadrant. () In 2371, Starfleet initiated a joint scientific project with the Bajoran and Cardassian governments to establish a trans-wormhole subspace communications relay, to make it possible for ships in the Gamma Quadrant to contact home, as well as to provide early warning of any Dominion attack. The mission was complicated by a warning from Bajoran Vedek Yarka, who cited Trakor's Third Prophecy, about the potential destruction of the Celestial Temple. This prophecy was unexpectedly validated soon after with the approach of a previously-unknown, long-period comet. This comet was infused with silithium, which had the potential to permanently destabilize the wormhole if it interacted with the verteron particles in the passage. Unable to alter the comet's trajectory, a shuttlepod from the used a deflector shield to prevent the comet's material from contaminating the wormhole. During the transit, trace amounts of silithium inadvertently leaked through the shields, however, the small amounts did not destabilize the wormhole, but instead created a subspace filament inside the wormhole that allowed normal communication between the quadrants. () In 2373, when a Dominion invasion became inevitable, Starfleet ordered the entrance to the wormhole be collapsed. Doctor Lenara Kahn of the Trill Science Ministry had devised a means, using a phase-conjugate graviton beam, to seal the wormhole without causing damage to it or harming the Prophets. Deep Space 9 was able to rig the phase-conjugate beam by remodulating the station's deflector grid frequencies and projecting it through its graviton emitters. Unfortunately, when the plan was executed, it was discovered that the emitters had been sabotaged and, as a result, the phase-conjugate graviton beam had the exact opposite effect on the wormhole, and rendered the wormhole's spatial matrix even more stable than before, so stable, in fact, that not even trilithium explosives could destroy the wormhole. Thus, Starfleet was unable to prevent a series of Dominion fleets from entering the Alpha Quadrant. () A few months later, Starfleet was forced to blockade the wormhole with self-replicating mines in order to prevent the growing Dominion threat to the Alpha Quadrant. Deep Space 9 was subsequently lost to the Dominion in the opening battle of the Dominion War, but the minefield was successfully planted, preventing further Dominion ships from traversing the wormhole. The minefield was eventually destroyed while the Federation attempted to retake the station. The Dominion fleet that was passing through the wormhole at the time was destroyed by the Prophets however, since the Prophets' chose to die trying to stop the Dominion fleet rather than heed their will. After this event, no further traffic passed through the wormhole until the end of the war. () With the wormhole considered impassable, the Dominion introduced a new breed of Jem'Hadar, the s, in 2374. () The wormhole was apparently destroyed in late 2374 when Dukat, acting as a conduit for the exiled Pah-wraiths, attacked the Orb of Contemplation, which was then housed on Deep Space 9. Following Dukat's attack, all of the Orbs went dark, and the wormhole itself disappeared. Dukat's aim was to force the Prophets out and make the wormhole passable again for Dominion reinforcements, although he did not anticipate that the wormhole would collapse. () The disappearance of the wormhole and the apparent loss of contact with their deities caused great consternation and fear among the Bajorans, as well as the rise of the Cult of the Pah-wraiths. The wormhole remained closed for the next three months, until Benjamin Sisko, acting as the Emissary of the Prophets, discovered the Orb of the Emissary on in early 2375. The discovery of the previously-unknown tenth Orb caused the re-opening of the wormhole. () Later that year, Dukat told Damar that he had no regrets in failing to reopen the wormhole by killing the Prophets. () Jake Sisko, along with Colonel Kira Nerys, watched the wormhole opening from the Promenade at the end of 2375 after Captain Sisko defeated Dukat in the Fire Caves and the Dominion War had finally ended. () See also Barzan wormhole Appendices Background information The visual effect for the wormhole was created by Rhythm & Hues. Michael Gibson of Rhythm and Hues described the wormhole thusly: "It blossoms suddenly out of black space, with multiple layers of swirling gaseous clouds, miles in diameter, centered with a mushroom dome that irises open to reveal a tunnel pulsing with an energy field of rippling shock waves that explodes from the aperture, blazing with an atmosphere lit by a deep interior sun". (Cinefantastique, issue 97, Vol 24 #3/4) Peter Lauritson commented: "the wormhole effects were cutting edge when we did them". (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 147, p.14) According to the Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Stellar Cartography", p. 42), the wormhole "cut a 70,000 light year journey between the two quadrants down to two minutes". Appearances (Pilot, Season 1) (Season 2) (Season 3) (Season 4) (Season 5) (Season 6) (Season 7) Additional references (Season 1) (Season 2) (Season 3) (Season 4) (Season 5) (Season 6) (Season 7) Apocrypha In the ization of , immediately after Dukat is rescued from the wormhole, he attempts to lay claim to it based on Cardassia's long-standing Occupation of Bajor, before Sisko coolly informs him that he has reached an agreement with the Prophets on behalf of the Federation and Bajor that they will control the wormhole, and anyone trying to go through it without the permission of those sides would find themselves lost somewhere mid-way between the wormhole's entrances (although given later events with various sides using the wormhole this may have been at least partly a bluff). In the novel , a Borg cube tries to pass through the wormhole and is destroyed by subspace compression; Sisko concludes that this event will cause the Borg Collective to believe that the wormhole is unstable and would avoid it from then on (explaining the absence of the Borg from Deep Space Nine). In the novel Devil in the Sky, Starfleet maintained a team on Deep Space 9 dedicated to studying the wormhole. In the Deep Space Nine book trilogy Millennium, there was a second Bajoran wormhole, a Pah-wraith wormhole that opened when the three Orbs of the Pah-wraiths were brought together in Quark's. The second wormhole actually opened inside of Quark's, ripping Deep Space 9 to pieces. The opening of the second wormhole nearly spelled Armageddon for the entire universe as, in an alternate future, Kai Weyoun 5 triggered a gravimetric explosion that brought both wormholes together, causing them to connect to each other and swallow the entire universe. However, thanks to the actions of Ben Sisko, the crew of the USS Defiant, and Elim Garak, Quark, and Jake Sisko (who were close enough to the wormholes to be absorbed directly into the dimension of the Prophets and the Pah-wraiths when the wormholes opened rather than being consumed), these events were undone when they took advantage of a temporal anomaly inside the wormhole dimension – putting them in touch with DS9 prior to its destruction and in the last days of the Occupation – to alter the events leading up to the destruction of Deep Space 9 – without altering anything that would prevent them being in a position to make those changes, culminating in them destroying a ship from that alternate future and using the energy to prevent the second wormhole forming in the first place. In the DS9 relaunch series and the subsequent Typhon Pact series, a renegade branch of the Typhon Pact – an alliance of the Federation's enemies – manage to create an artificial wormhole that 'connects' to the Bajoran wormhole so that they can enter the Gamma Quadrant in secret in the novel Raise the Dawn, believing that Dominion technology will help them develop their own version of the quantum slipstream drive. This artificial wormhole is destroyed by Kira Nerys, but her attack apparently costs her her life and closes the Bajoran wormhole, leaving Odo trapped in the Alpha Quadrant. The wormhole remained sealed for two years until the official "re-opening" of the new DS9 in The Fall: Revelation and Dust. External links de:Bajoranisches Wurmloch fr:Vortex bajoran ja:ベイジョー・ワームホール nl:Bajoran wormgat pl:Bajorański korytarz podprzestrzenny ru:Баджорская червоточина Wormholes
2015	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Beta Quadrant	The Beta Quadrant was the common designation for one-quarter of the Milky Way Galaxy. It was adjacent to the Alpha and Delta Quadrants. One-quarter of the galactic core was located in this quadrant. (, Season 7 production art; display graphics) Part of the United Federation of Planets was located in the Beta Quadrant, along with the bulk of the Klingon and Romulan Empires, including their homeworlds of Qo'noS and Romulus. ( display graphic; display graphic; ; ). The Yattho, a species known for their precognitive abilities, were native to the Beta Quadrant. () History In 2259, the R'ongovian Protectorate held a small but strategically-important region of space in between Klingon and Romulan territory; the Federation sought an alliance with them to secure a safe path to the other side of the Beta Quadrant. () In 2293, the starship , commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu, completed a three-year exploratory voyage in the Beta Quadrant which included cataloging gaseous anomalies. () In 2363, Captain Lisa Cusak and the crew of the began an eight-year mission in the Beta Quadrant. Following this mission, the Olympia crashed on a planet in the Rutharian sector en route back to Federation space. While escorting a convoy to the Vegan system in 2374, the crew of the made contact with Cusak in 2371 via a temporal anomaly. () In an alternate timeline, the used a quantum slipstream drive to cross the Delta and Beta Quadrants, before crashing on a class L planet in the Takara sector, a few parsecs short of reaching the Alpha Quadrant. Also in this timeline, Starfleet Intelligence had salvaged a Borg temporal transmitter from the debris of a Borg cube in the Beta Quadrant. () A Borg scout ship, crewed by Axum and other liberated drones, was located in a remote sector of the Beta Quadrant patrolling the border of fluidic space. () When members of the Hierarchy captured Captain Janeway and forced The Doctor to obtain Voyagers warp core for them, he impersonated Janeway and told Commander Chakotay a cover story involving a fictitious R'Kaal Imperium which supposedly controlled "thousands of parsecs from here to the edge of the Beta Quadrant." () The Borg maintained at least one transwarp hub and thousands of exit apertures in the Beta Quadrant until 2378, when the entire transwarp network was destroyed by the . () In the 2380s, the Romulan supernova threatened the lives of billions of people in this quadrant within its burst radius. () Captain Riker – holoprogram In 2367, while exploring a cavern on Alpha Onias III, Commander William T. Riker was rendered unconscious by gases. While unconscious, neural scanners scanned Commander Riker's brain. The scanners used elements of Riker's reality and constructed a holoprogram with those elements interspersed throughout, so that it felt real to him. What Riker wanted, the scanners made possible. In one of these simulations, the Axanar hosted a conference on Beta Quadrant exploration and Federation security that was held at the Deneva Special Congress on Interstellar Affairs. On Stardate 52384, Captain Riker, the commanding officer of the , was selected for recognition as the special Federation representative to this conference. In 2383, the quadrant was mentioned in Riker's service record that was on display in his quarters on the Enterprise-D. ( okudagram) Governments Acamarian Ruling Council Klingon Empire R'ongovian Protectorate Romulan Free State Romulan Star Empire (until 2387) United Federation of Planets Homeworlds Acamar III Alpha Carinae II Ardana Argelius II Iconia Kolarus III Krios Prime Nausicaa Pahvo Qo'noS Ramatis III Remus Romulus Sigma Iotia II Tagus III Tiburon Valt Minor Vendor Colonies and outposts Ajilon Prime Amargosa observatory Archanis IV (Archanis IV Research Outpost) Beta Agni II Boreth Carraya IV Chaltok IV Corvan II Delta Outpost Delta Outpost 9 Delta Outpost 10 Delta Outpost 11 Doctari Alpha (Doctari Alpha Research Outpost) Epsilon Outpost Epsilon Outpost 1 Epsilon Outpost 2 Epsilon Outpost 3 Epsilon Outpost 4 Epsilon Outpost 5 Epsilon Outpost 6 Epsilon Outpost 7 Epsilon Outpost 8 Epsilon Outpost 9 Epsilon Outpost 10 Epsilon Outpost 11 Epsilon Outpost 12 Epsilon Outpost 15 Gamma Hydra IV H'atoria Jouret IV (New Providence colony) Khitomer (Khitomer Outpost) Korvat colony Lya IV M-Zed-5 Narendra III Nivalla Nuzzo Station Okrand Colony Outpost 1 Outpost 2 Outpost 3 Outpost 4 Outpost 5 Outpost 6 Outpost 7 Outpost 8 Outpost 23 Qu'Vat (Qu'Vat Colony) Regula I Relay Station 47 Rura Penthe Science Station 0812 Science Station Delta-05 Septra Tarod IX Terralysium Turkana IV Vashti Starbases Deep Space 4 Deep Space Station K-7 Lya III starbase Starbase 18 Starbase 23 Starbase 24 Starbase 36 Starbase 39-Sierra Starbase 88 Starbase 105 Starbase 117 Starbase 152 Starbase 157 Starbase 173 Starbase 234 Starbase 343 Spatial landmarks 'etnap Nebula Azure Nebula Baber Nebula Barnes Nebula 'etnap Nebula Foster Nebula Frazee's Nova Friedlich Nebula Gullory Nebula Hodges Nebula Hromi Cluster Mutara Nebula Paulson Nebula Stevens Nebula Winter's Nova Wise Nebula Appendices See also Alpha Quadrant Gamma Quadrant Delta Quadrant Related links Unnamed Alpha and Beta Quadrant planets Unnamed Alpha and Beta Quadrant starships Background information The Fen Domar, with whom Voyager was engaged in battle in an alternate timeline, may very likely be a Beta Quadrant civilization. This is based on the ship's close proximity to the quadrant's border in and Admiral Kathryn Janeway's comments that the ship would have encountered them just a few years after the events of that episode. According to Star Trek: Star Charts, the Beta Quadrant was home to the Vulcans, Andorians, Orions, Bolians, Son'a, Risians, Organians, Coridanite, Axanar, Nausicaans, Suliban, Gorn, and many other alien races. External link bg:Квадрант Бета cs:Kvadrant Beta de:Beta-Quadrant es:Cuadrante Beta fr:Quadrant Beta ja:ベータ宇宙域 nl:Beta kwadrant pl:Kwadrant Beta sv:Betakvadranten Regions Cartography
2016	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Gamma Quadrant	The Gamma Quadrant was the common designation for one-quarter of the Milky Way Galaxy. This quadrant was adjacent to the Alpha Quadrant and to the Delta Quadrant. One-quarter of the galactic core was located in this quadrant. The Denkiri Arm was located in this quadrant. (; , Season 7 production art ) History Vash commented that some of the cultures she had encountered in the Gamma Quadrant had histories spanning millions of years. () It is believed the Hur'q originated from the quadrant. () Using their system of gateways, the Iconians were able to settle the world of Vandros IV, on the edge of the Gamma Quadrant. () Exploration The quadrant was first explored by the Federation's Quadros-1 probe in the 22nd century. () A Barzan probe sent through the Barzan wormhole discovered that the Gamma Quadrant terminus was located beyond the Denkiri Arm, a distance that at warp 9 would have taken nearly a century to cover, this later shifted to the Delta Quadrant and the wormhole was discovered to be unstable. () In 2369, the Bajoran wormhole in the Bajoran system was discovered. This wormhole had a terminus in the Gamma Quadrant that was four light years from the Idran system. This wormhole linked this quadrant with the Alpha Quadrant. () Tosk, a , came through the Bajoran Wormhole from the Gamma Quadrant and docked at Deep Space 9 on a hunt and was pursed by Hunters. The Hunters said that the Tosk was bred to be hunted by them and had spent his entire life preparing; later the Hunters were allowed to resume the hunt and take the Tosk back with them to the Gamma Quadrant after Chief O'Brien helped the Tosk to escape and return through the Bajoran Wormhole into the Gamma Quadrant. () The archaeologist Vash explored the Gamma Quadrant for two years at the invitation of Q in 2367. She was found there in 2369 by members of Deep Space 9's crew. (; ) Deep Space 9 had the distinction of making first contact with a Gamma Quadrant species known as the Wadi. However, the Wadi showed no interest in formalities and headed straight to Quark's. The Ferengi initially saw the Wadi as a potential source of great profit, but when the Wadi Master Surchid Falow started to win at Dabo and went on a winning streak, Quark had one of his waiters rig the game. The Wadi caught him and forced Quark to play "an honest game" called Chula, using living people as players, but this was revealed later to be only a game and not really dangerous. () Kai Opaka was taken through the Bajoran Wormhole by Benjamin Sisko, where they received a distress signal. They then found a planet with a network of satellites, one of which was malfunctioning. Their runabout approached the planet and one of the satellites attacked it, forcing them to crash land. Opaka died in the landing, which devastated Kira; however, Kira's mourning was interrupted by a group of people called the Ennis, who were at war with a group called the Nol-Ennis, both groups being constantly regenerated by some form of extraterrestrial nanotechnology. Rather than a blessing, this technology was a curse: the two groups had been sent to the planet as punishment for centuries of conflict, doomed to die over and over. A regenerated Kai Opaka accepted that she could not leave the planet in the Gamma Quadrant and felt called to help the two warring factions learn how to live in peace. () The Vulcans were at the forefront of the exploration of the quadrant, beginning only months after the wormhole was discovered by Benjamin Sisko and Jadzia Dax in 2369. The Vulcans made many discoveries, including the remains of the Hur'q race. () The Klingons showed an interest in exploring the Gamma Quadrant shortly after its discovery by sending their own scout ships to the quadrant. () The was among the first ships to explore the quadrant in an effort to establish colonies on the other side of the wormhole. The Klingons also operated freighters to the quadrant. () On the other hand, no Romulan ship had ever been to the Gamma Quadrant until late 2371 during the Tal Shiar's abortive attack on the . () The Ferengi saw the Gamma Quadrant as an enormous opportunity to make a profit and their reputations would be, as put it, "absolutely stainless". () The Bajorans also colonized a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, New Bajor, in late 2370. Unfortunately, the planet was invaded by the Jem'Hadar, who massacred the population. () The planet Meridian was also located in the Gamma Quadrant, but it spent most of its time in another phase of existence, in which its people existed only as consciousness, with no physical beings. The planet was in our dimension for a very short time. After twelve days in the Gamma Quadrant, it disappeared for sixty years. Each time it returned, the planet had less time in this universe, and eventually will stop appearing. () The starship was caught in a type of "quantum bubble" surrounding an inhabited Gamma Quadrant planet. After investigation, it was discovered that the inhabitants were the descendants of the Defiants crew. Generations of descendants had been living on the planet for many years and their own history began when the Defiant tried to escape from the bubble. Instead of passing through its energy barrier, the ship was thrown back in time two centuries and crashed with no hope of contacting the Federation or repairing the ship. Faced with that reality, the small stranded crew of the Defiant (including Dax, Sisko, and O'Brien) decided to remain and establish a society. () In 2383, the 's proto-drive unexpectedly brought them nearly 4,000 light years from their position in the Delta Quadrant to the Gamma Quadrant. () The Dominion The Dominion was established approximately ten thousand years prior to 2375. This galactic power was located between forty and fifty thousand light years from the galactic core in an arm of the galaxy. Other powers had been encountered, but their status with the Dominion was unclear. (; Season 7 production art) In the act directly precipitous to the Dominion War, the Federation mined the entrance to the wormhole (leading to the Gamma Quadrant) in 2373. This cut off access to the Gamma Quadrant from any Alpha Quadrant powers and prevented Dominion reinforcements from participating in the Dominion War. () The Borg The Borg maintained at least one transwarp hub and thousands of exit apertures in the Gamma Quadrant until 2378, when the entire transwarp network was destroyed by the . () Governments Argrathi Authority Borg Collective (transwarp hub) Dominion Planets Argratha Dosi homeworld Ennis and Nol-Ennis homeworld Errikang VII (first) (second) Hunters' homeworld Kurill Prime (uncertain) Kylata II Meridian Parada II Parada IV Rakhar Stakoron II Teplan homeworld Wadi homeworld Yadera II Yadera Prime Colonies and Outposts Internment Camp 371 New Bajor Spatial landmarks Chamra Vortex Obatta Cluster Jenkata Nebula Omarion Nebula Denkiri Arm Stars Idran M92 Trialan sun Related topics Gamma Quadrant species Gamma Quadrant star systems Unnamed Gamma Quadrant moons Unnamed Gamma Quadrant planets Unnamed Gamma Quadrant stars Unnamed Gamma Quadrant star system Unnamed Gamma Quadrant starships Appendices See also Alpha Quadrant Beta Quadrant Delta Quadrant Background information Early in the run of DS9, Ira Steven Behr commented "To me, the Gamma Quadrant should be the great unknown. If we ever get too close to any of these cultures, to me the mystery of the Gamma Quadrant has been solved. We have to be very careful with what goes on with the Gamma Quadrant". (Cinefantastique) In response to inquiries as to why the Federation continued to visit the Gamma Quadrant, Ronald D. Moore stated "The Dominion does not own the entire Gamma Quadrant. We had explored the GQ for two years before encountering the Dominion, so it's not as though the wormhole opens up in their living room. There are other races in the GQ that are not part of the Dominion and the Ferengi at least have established trade with some of them. When the Dominion told us to stay out of the GQ, it was as if China told the US to stay out of the . China is the big boy in this neck of the woods, and you better take their warning seriously, but at the same time we have trading partners and allies there and hey, freedom of the seas and all that." Nevertheless, the Gamma Quadrant was visited only minimally during the course of the seven season run, with appearances in that quadrant limited to DS9 Season 1's , , and ; DS9 Season 2's , , , , , , , and ; DS9 Season 3's , , , , and ; DS9 Season 4's , , , , , , and ; DS9 Season 5's , , , ; and then would not be visited again until two and a half years later, during DS9 Season 7's . Apocrypha The exploration of the Gamma Quadrant resumed in 2376, with Elias Vaughn leading the , in the Mission Gamma miniseries. The Gamma Quadrant was added to the galactic map in the "Victory is Life" expansion of Star Trek Online in June of 2018. With the Hur'q rampaging through Dominion space, the Gamma Quadrant map is a "battlezone", a sort of mini-campaign, that involves defending worlds from Hur'q attack and destroying Hur'q capital ships. After completing a certain number of objectives, the mini-campaign ends with the defense of the of Empersa before the map resets. External link cs:Kvadrant Gama de:Gamma-Quadrant es:Cuadrante Gamma fr:Quadrant Gamma it:Quadrante Gamma ja:ガンマ宇宙域 nl:Gamma kwadrant pl:Kwadrant Gamma ru:Гамма-квадрант sv:Gammakvadranten Regions
2024	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Cavit	Cavit was a Human male who served as a Starfleet officer in the late-24th century. In 2371, Cavit held the rank of lieutenant commander and was assigned as Captain Kathryn Janeway's first officer on the newly-commissioned . During Voyagers maiden voyage to the Badlands to locate the Maquis raider Val Jean, Cavit manned the bridge tactical station alongside Ensign Rollins, in Lieutenant Tuvok's absence, as he was undercover in the Maquis. Cavit also had to interact with Tom Paris for the mission, who was brought on board Voyager to act as a mission observer. Cavit, like several other officers, immediately displayed contempt for him, believing his criminal past did not afford him the right to be on board. Cavit readied Voyager and coordinated its departure from Deep Space 9 to head to the Badlands. There, it was hit by a massive displacement wave, later found to have been generated by the Caretaker's array. As a result of the impact, Cavit was killed instantly and Voyager became stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Cavit was later replaced as first officer by Chakotay. () Appendices Background information Cavit was played by actor Scott Jaeck who, despite having dialogue, received no screen credit for this appearance. He filmed his scenes on Tuesday , Wednesday , Friday , Thursday , and Friday on Paramount Stage 8. His work from the second and third day had to be re-filmed due to the replacement of Genevieve Bujold. This took place on Monday on Paramount Stage 8. He also filmed an additional day on 2nd unit on Wednesday on Paramount Stage 8 and some bridge re-shoots on Friday on Paramount Stage 8 and is listed as "Cavit" on all call sheets. Apocrypha The ization of states that in the year 2358 he served on the USS Kingston, a Federation colony-relief transport, during which time his commanding officer was killed by the Orions. It also notes that, during the events of the episode, Captain Janeway makes a mental note to speak to him regarding his attitude towards Paris on the basis that he is a Starfleet officer and needs to act more professional. Cavit also appears in the The Brave and the Bold, Book Two novella "The Third Artifact", which gives his first name as "Aaron". The story recounts the Voyagers shakedown cruise in the year 2371. Cavit is revealed to have had a romantic relationship with first officer Dina Voyskunsky before an acrimonious breakup in 2359. When the Hood comes to the Voyagers assistance following a series of system malfunctions, the two of them agree to get together at the conclusion of their current missions. Unfortunately, due to the events of "Caretaker", this never happens. The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway mentions Cavit, giving his first name as "John". In an alternate timeline featured in the Star Trek: Myriad Universes novella A Gutted World, Voyager was never stranded in the Delta Quadrant and Cavit served as its first officer until it was destroyed by the Cardassians in 2373. His name was spelled "Cavitt" in the short story The Ones Left Behind. External links bg:Кавит de:Cavit es:Cavit it:Cavit nl:Cavit Humans Starfleet command personnel USS Voyager personnel
2026	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Star Trek Blueprints	The Star Trek Blueprints (or Booklet of General Plans) are a detailed "Complete Set of 12 Authentic Blueprints" (sized 9 × 30 inches) of the USS Constitution (NCC-1700), a ship of the same class as the (NCC-1701). (The cover claims the blueprints are "of the Fabulous Starship Enterprise".) Summary The reader is warned in the General Notes that begin with Sheet 4 that the "Booklet Of General Plans" of which these blueprints consist are for familiarization purposes only, and are not to be confused with detail working plans of the actual on-board systems they depict. Sheet 1 Outboard Profile (Port Side View) with NCC registrations of fourteen vessels Sheet 2 Outboard Top Plan (Port Side Looking Down) with Ship's Complement listings, specifying the minimum grade needed to hold each post Sheet 3 Outboard Bottom Plan (Port Side Looking Up) and additional view of Starboard Side registration Sheet 4 Outboard Bow and Stern Elevations (Forward & Rear Views) with Overall Size Particulars and General Notes Sheet 5 Inboard Profile (Port Side Cutaway View) with additional General Notes Sheet 6 Deck Plans 0-1-2-3-4-5 (Top Side Views) as follows: Deck 0: Upper Sensor Platform Deck 1: Bridge (with enlarged detail) Deck 2: Science Laboratories – High Energy, Geology, Ion Study, Chemistry, Biology, Science Officer's Office, Physics [Upper Level] Deck 3: Science Laboratories – Botany, Communications, Special Studies, Cosmology, Physics [Lower Level]; Photon Torpedo Banks Deck 4: Junior Officers' Quarters; Fresh Water Tanks & Pumping Machinery Deck 5: Officers' Quarters; Saucer Section Emergency Battery Rooms; Upper Phaser Bank Rooms Sheet 7 Deck 6 Plan - Crew's Quarters and Engineering/Impulse Engines Power Units – Upper Section Sheet 8 Deck 7 Plan - Main Deck featuring: Ship's Computer and Emergency Bridge Impulse Engines Power Units – Lower Section Main Engineering (Impulse Engineering), Engineering Computer Banks and Maintenance Shops Medical Section (Sick Bay/OR/ICU/etc.) Standard Transporter Rooms 1-4 Sheet 9 Deck Plans 8-9-10-11-12-13-14 as follows: Deck 8: Entertainment/Recreation Facilities: Gymnasium, Entertainment Center (Arboreum), Recreation Area; Emergency Transporters 1-3; Ship's Computer Core; Fresh Water Tanks; Ship's Laundry; Basic Food and Beverage Preparation Facility; Main Dorsal Saucer Section Attachment (for emergency Saucer Separation) Deck 9: (Saucer) Materials Fabrication & Reclamation Facilities (Organic, Metallic and Other); (Dorsal) Auxiliary Machinery Room Deck 10: (Saucer) Cargo and Supplies Storage; Cargo Transporter 1; (Dorsal) Observation Lounge Deck 11: (Saucer) Auxiliary Fire Control; Lower Sensor Platform; Forward Phaser Banks; (Dorsal) Observation Lounge Deck 12: (Dorsal Only) Observation Lounge Deck 13: (Dorsal Only) Observation Lounge Deck 14: (Dorsal Only) Observation Lounge Sheet 10 Deck Plans 15-16-17-18-19 as follows: Deck 15: Secondary Hull Strongback: Visicoms, Air Conditioning Machinery Deck 16: Medical/Warp Drive Engineering: Secondary Hull Backup Medical Facilities, Warp Drive Engineering, Engineering Computers, Turbolift Repairs, Support Pylons, Upper Shuttlecraft Hangar Deck 17: Crew's Quarters; Shuttlecraft Hangar Upper Central Level Observation Gallery; Hangar Control Towers; Botany Hi-Bay Deck 18: Crew's Quarters; Botany Section; Hydroponics Lab; Shuttlecraft Hangar Lower Central Level Deck 19: Auxiliary Bridge; Ship's Aux. Computer Banks; Security Section; Shuttlecraft Lower Level/Hangar Deck/Turntable/Elevator Sheet 11 Deck Plans 20-21-22-23 as follows: Deck 20: Recreation Facilities: Regulation Pool and Sun Deck, Gymnasium, Recreation Area, Showers and Locker Rooms; Shuttlecraft Maintenance Shops; Emergency Battery Rooms Deck 21: Food Preparation Center; Backup Materials Fabrication and Reclamation Facilities; Backup Food Prep. Facility; Bowling Alley Deck 22: Backup Fabrication Facilities Deck 23: Lower Cargo/Storage Facilities; Cargo Transporter 2; Tractor Beam Machinery Room Sheet 12 Tank Top - Miscellaneous featuring: Hull Bottom Cargo Holds and Storage Tanks List of Standard Abbreviations and Plan Symbols used in the Blueprints Production Record of the Blueprints Background information While much of the information included on these plans might now be considered non-canonical or as apocryphal at best, they were used as a source and reference for the first three . Excerpts from these, predominantly deck plans, were used as on screen displays in when V'ger was reading the Enterprises on-board database. The onscreen excerpts at least, remain considered canon. Based in part on a suggestion by Gene Roddenberry, an early, pre-publication version of these deck plans were donated to the Smithsonian Institution by Franz Joseph in April of 1974. They were displayed along with the eleven-foot original model of the USS Enterprise in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum later that summer. Mounted behind Plexiglas on a wall underneath the ship, visitors to the "Life in the Universe" display were encouraged to fill out a form indicating whether they would want to see these and similar works published, as at the time, no publishing deal had been worked out; Random House's Ballantine Books division subsequently did indeed work out just such a deal. See also Star Fleet Technical Manual Star Trek: The Motion Picture Blueprints External links - a timeline of Franz Joseph's activities related to this publication fr:Star Trek Blueprints Blueprints
2028	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Treaty of Alpha Cygnus IX	The Treaty of Alpha Cygnus IX was a treaty ratified sometime prior to 2366. It was one of the major treaties that Ambassador Sarek was credited for. William T. Riker recalled learning about the ambassador in school, naming this treaty among the highlights of the Vulcan's career. () de:Vertrag von Alpha Cygnus IX nl:Verdrag van Alpha Cygnus IX Alpha Cygnus IX
2031	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Akritirian	The Akritirians were a warp-capable civilization native to the planet Akritiri, in the Delta Quadrant. They were humanoid, with a slight ridging on their forehead. History In the late 24th century, they had an oppressive government and a system of justice that, by Federation standards, was cruel, draconian, and inhumane. In this system, once a person was convicted of a crime, the conviction could not be overturned even if conclusive evidence that proved their innocence was uncovered. The person in question would still be sentenced to life in a brutal prison, the Akritirian maximum security detention facility. There the prisoners were induced to kill each other through synaptic manipulation. The Akritirians had ambassadors to deal with offworld vehicles. Another function in their culture was the patroller. A violent group called Open Sky acted against the government. Although considered terrorists by the government, they regarded themselves as patriots. In 2373, Ensign Harry Kim and Lieutenant junior grade Tom Paris, respectively the operations officer and conn officer on the Federation starship , were accused by the Akritirian authorities of carrying out an Open Sky bombing and imprisoned in the Akritirian maximum security detention facility. When Voyagers captain, Kathryn Janeway, captured the actual persons behind the bombing, the Akritirian ambassador, Liria, refused to have Paris and Kim released due to Akritirian court convictions' irreversibility. Captain Janeway led a mission to rescue the two officers, after which Voyager quickly left Akritirian space. () See also Akritirian freighter Akritirian maximum security detention facility Akritirian patrol ship People Named Liria Piri Pit Vel Zio Unnamed External links de:Akritirianer it:Akritiriano nl:Akritirian Species
2032	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Alcyone	The Alcyones were a civilization that destroyed what was believed by the Federation to be the last Tarellian vessel, in 2356. It was later discovered that the ship they destroyed was not the last plague ship, following the discovery of another such vessel near the star Beta Cassius in 2364. () es:Alcyones fr:Alcyone nl:Alcyone Species
2033	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Aldean	The Aldeans were a civilization native to Aldea, which was considered only a legend for thousands of years. The society was self-contained and self-sustaining with incredible technical sophistication providing daily needs. Similar to cultural myths of Neinman on Xerxes VII or the Earth story of Atlantis, Aldea was said to have shed its past of violence and cultural conflict and evolved to a pure state, devoting themselves to culture and art. The Aldean culture developed by emphasizing the fundamental principle that for "everything taken, something must be returned." It was this principle that allowed their civilization to ascend to incredible heights in technology and art. Having reached enlightenment, hundreds of centuries ago, the Aldean society retreated from the rest of the galaxy. To facilitate this, their progenitors built an enormous and advanced planet-wide defense system. The system, run by the computer called the Custodian, maintained an immense cloaking device and defense shield, in addition to a repulsor beam powerful enough to push starships several hundred light years away. However, the long-term effects of the planet's defenses were extremely damaging. Millennia after the Aldeans retreated behind their cloak, cumulative wide-spread environmental damage, including depletion of their ozone layer, began to take their toll. The Aldeans suffered from long-term chromosomal damage from radiation poisoning due to exposure to their sun's ultraviolet rays. By 2364, the entire population of Aldea was infertile and depleted. No child had been born on Aldea for more than thirty years, and most of native wildlife on the planet, including all the fish in their oceans, had long ago become extinct. Desperate to preserve their society as it would likely become extinct alongside themselves, the Aldeans, led by Radue contacted the for help in repopulating their planet. Unable to reproduce themselves, the Aldeans offered to exchange their vast knowledge for a select few of the Enterprise-D's children. The Aldeans were physiologically very similar to Humans, which presumably was a deciding factor when they contacted the Enterprise-D. The Enterprise-D turned down the offer, leading the Aldeans to kidnap the children, creating a stand-off that was eventually resolved when Doctor Beverly Crusher proved that the very thing which had protected Aldea, its cloak, was responsible for their condition. Fortunately, Federation medicine would be able to reverse it and make the species fertile again. The Aldeans returned the children and set about re-learning their own technology and adjusting to a new galaxy where they were no longer just a legend. Aldean society was structured into s, or social groups, which specialized in a particular art or pursuit such as medicine or science. Within each group students were fully devoted to their discipline. The Aldeans had perfected their system of education and study to the point where the natural abilities of the individual blossomed very quickly, sometimes within hours or days of the student's first exposure to a medium. () People List of Aldeans de:Aldeaner es:Aldeanos fr:Aldéen it:Aldeaniano Species
2034	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	USS Excelsior (NCC-2000)	The USS Excelsior (NX-2000, later NCC-2000) was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet from 2285 to 2320. The Excelsior was the prototype of her class. History Trial runs Dubbed "The Great Experiment," the Excelsior was conceived during the early 2280s as the first Starfleet vessel equipped with transwarp drive. An awe-inspiring concept to some, traditional engineers were more skeptical, as in the case of Montgomery Scott, who expressed his doubt in transwarp technology with the analogy, "and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon." () Designed under radically new principles of propulsion, the Excelsior had the potential for becoming the fastest starship in the entire Federation, as at that time, the Starfleet record for faster-than-light travel was warp factor 14.1, set by the in 2269. () In 2285, the Excelsior was under the command of Captain Lawrence H. Styles, and had taken a berth in Earth Spacedock as she was prepared for trial runs, hoping to break some of the Enterprises speed s. The Excelsior was days away from her first full field test of the transwarp drive, when she was unexpectedly called for duty. The crew of the USS Enterprise, attempting to rejoin Captain Spock's katra with his regenerated body, hijacked the Enterprise for an illegal journey to the . Captain Styles, confident in his new "incredible machine," was ordered to pursue as the Enterprise entered warp, fleeing the system. However, Captain Montgomery Scott, assigned as captain of engineering aboard the Excelsior, had sabotaged the ship's transwarp computer, leaving the Excelsior dead in space. Proud of his accomplishment, Scott explained that "the more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." () Following this embarrassing failure, the Excelsior essentially spent the next two years in spacedock. In 2286 she was briefly ordered to be launched during an apparent attack by an alien probe, but the Excelsior, as well as the spacedock, lost all internal power and was left stranded in her bay. () After the Enterprise was destroyed at the Genesis Planet, Hikaru Sulu believed he and his Enterprise shipmates would be assigned to the Excelsior before learning their next assignment was the . At the time, Montgomery Scott believed the Excelsior to be nothing more than a "bucket of bolts." () The Excelsior remained in spacedock until at least 2287, before subsequently being recommissioned for active service by the end of the decade. (; ) Prior to her recommissioning, the Excelsior was refitted with a new bridge module, which also included a significant modification to the aft portion of the saucer section, surrounding the impulse drive, and a modification to the cargo bay on the aft ventral portion of the ship. () Three-year mission In 2287 now-Captain Hikaru Sulu took command of the Excelsior. () In 2290 the ship embarked on a three-year mission, cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in the Beta Quadrant. () In 2293, as the Excelsior was returning to Federation space following the successful conclusion of her mission, she was struck by a powerful subspace shock wave caused by the destruction of the Klingon moon, Praxis. Upon discovering the cause of the disaster, Sulu immediately contacted the Klingon High Command to offer his ship's assistance. The Klingons, including an officer on Praxis, called for help, however, the transmission was cut-off when Brigadier Kerla interrupted and reported that there had been an incident on Praxis, and turned the offer for assistance down because everything is under control, requesting that Sulu obey treaty stipulations and remain outside the Neutral Zone. Thereafter, Sulu reported the incident to Starfleet Command. () Two months later, following the arrest of James T. Kirk and Leonard McCoy on charges of assassinating Klingon chancellor Gorkon, Captain Sulu ordered an aborted raid into Klingon territory from Sector 21185 on an ill-advised rescue attempt. (; ) Sulu, who attempted to sneak the Excelsior into Klingon territory by traversing the Azure Nebula at maximum warp, was discovered by a Klingon battle cruiser commanded by Kang. While Sulu explained that the Excelsior was on a survey mission, studying the nebula, and had gotten lost due to a malfunction in the navigation system, Kang offered to escort the Excelsior back to Federation space. As the Excelsior emerged, she fired a modulated positron beam that triggered a thermochemical reaction, and successfully disabled Kang's ship. The Excelsior then made a break for Qo'noS, but was almost immediately intercepted by three Klingon battle cruisers. The Excelsior and Klingon ships continued to exchange fire until the Excelsior was forced to retreat back to Federation space. () The Excelsior was viewed as a potential participant in Operation Retrieve and would have worked alongside the and the . According to the plans, the Excelsior would have provided protection along the Potemkins starboard flank as the latter ship retrieved the two Starfleet officers. () Shortly thereafter, the Excelsior joined the Enterprise-A at Khitomer where the two ships battled Chang's Bird-of-Prey. Due to the ship's cloaking technology, the two Federation starships were at a disadvantage until a modified torpedo from the Enterprise-A took out the bridge. The Excelsior and the Enterprise-A were then able to destroy the Bird-of-Prey with a combined attack. The Excelsiors crew aided the Enterprise-A crew in preventing the assassination of the Federation President at the Khitomer Conference. (; ) After Khitomer For the next twenty-seven years, under Captain Sulu, the Excelsior carried out hundreds of exploration and first contact missions. In 2320, the ship was decommissioned. ( commemorative plaque) Legacy In 2401, a commemorative plaque depicted the Excelsior alongside other historically significant ships at Starfleet Academy. () Command crew Commanding officer Lawrence H. Styles (2285–2287) Hikaru Sulu (2287–2320) First officer Unidentified first officer (2285–) Chief engineer Montgomery Scott (2285) Helmsman Unidentified helmsman (2285–) Lojur (2290–) Communications officer Janice Rand (2293) Science officer Dimitri Valtane (2293) Tuvok (2293) See also: USS Excelsior personnel Appendices Related topics Captain's log, USS Excelsior Appearances : (LCARS graphic) Background information The USS Excelsior was first mentioned in the script of , in which Kirk stated that Sulu was going to have command of the Excelsior by the end of the month. Apparently, Sulu's presence aboard the Enterprise at that time was solely as a courtesy to Kirk. The Excelsior was featured in the story outline Star Trek III: Return to Genesis (which served as the conceptual starting point for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and was dated ). However, in the first draft script of The Search for Spock (dated ), the ship was instead named USS Valiant. The USS Excelsior was designed for the production of Star Trek III, after the review of several prototype studio model ideas. Built by ILM, this highly detailed studio model was reused for many guest appearances until 1994 when it was refurbished to become the and later the . After that, a half-scale recreation was built for "Flashback", with minor differences – even though it was supposedly the same ship as seen earlier. For example, "Flashback" features the only appearances of the ship's warp nacelles glowing, although the episode also incorporated footage from Star Trek VI in which the nacelle sides did not glow. The model is now part of ScienceFictionArchives.com collections. The ship's computer voice was supplied by Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy, who was credited as "Frank Force". The Excelsiors motto, as seen on the ship's dedication plaque, was "No matter where you go, there you are," a quotation taken from Buckaroo Banzai. In the German dubbing of Star Trek III, Uhura's line "Would you look at that!" was changed to (re-translated) "Look at that: Thorndike's idea!" This could provide insight into who was material to the creation of the ship. Done for lip-syncing purposes, common practice when dubbing episodes and movies, the name "Thorndike" was introduced solely for this purpose and does not refer to any canonical figure in the Star Trek universe. The Excelsior was originally to have been included in the film , being saved (along with some El-Aurian refugees) by the crew of the Enterprise (including Uhura). However, in that case, the Excelsior was ultimately replaced with the Enterprise-B. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 315) According to the , the Excelsior was either launched in 2284 or in 2285. According to Star Trek - The Art of the Film, a USS Excelsior (NCC-1729) was to be among the ships sent to the destruction of Vulcan. It was to be a darker-colored version of the . According to the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual, there was also a USS Excelsior in service in the mid-23rd century, with the registry NCC-1718. Apocrypha In the Pocket TOS izations of and by Vonda N. McIntyre, it was stated that Sulu helped design the ship, and was originally slated to be her captain at the time of the "minor training cruise" in . It was further explained in the novelization for Star Trek III''' that the arrogant Captain Styles was placed in temporary command by Fleet Admiral Morrow as part of an effort to sequester those with direct knowledge of Genesis and Starfleet's unwillingness to delay trial runs until the controversy subsided, due to the considerable investment in the ship's development. In the novel Forged in Fire, Sulu became captain of the Excelsior in 2289, after Captain Styles was murdered by the Albino. The Lost Era novel The Sundered was set aboard Excelsior in 2298 with Chekov as first officer, Christine Chapel as chief medical officer, Leonard James Akaar as security chief, Janice Rand as communications officer, and Tuvok as science officer. In the later Lost Era novel One Constant Star, the Excelsior was destroyed in 2308 after passing through a temporal rift; Captain Sulu and his surviving crew are rescued eleven years later by the , commanded by Sulu's daughter Demora. The crew also appear in the novelization . When DC Comics created the first set of comics for Star Trek, because they were being released in between and , the crew of the Enterprise ends up taking control of the Excelsior after the events of The Mirror Universe Saga'' until "Choices!", when the crew switches over to the . External links bg:USS Екселсиор cs:USS Excelsior de:USS Excelsior es:USS Excelsior fr:USS Excelsior (NCC-2000) ja:USSエクセルシオ nl:USS Excelsior pl:U.S.S. 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2040	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Antedian	The Antedians were an intelligent humanoid species from the planet Antede III. They were capable of spaceflight. Antedians were fish-like in appearance, but of similar size as many other humanoids and capable of bipedal motion. They ate fish like vermicula. Worf considered them to be "a handsome race," whereas Lwaxana Troi stated that the "last time [she] saw something like that it was being served on a plate." Their minds were highly susceptible to telepathic reading. They were somewhat reclusive, and few Humans had seen an Antedian in the flesh. Antedians found spaceflight extremely traumatic and survived the ordeal by entering a self-induced catatonic state. Upon arrival at the end of a voyage, Antedians required great quantities of food to replenish their bodies. In 2365, the civilization was offered membership in the . The escorted two Antedian dignitaries to a conference on planet Pacifica. Here, the Antedians were to be given a formal opportunity to join the Federation. However, immediately prior to transport down to Pacifica it was revealed, by Ambassador Troi, that they were in fact assassins and their robes were lined with ultritium. They had planned on blowing up the entire conference. They were detained on the Enterprise. () In 2381, some Antedians resided on Starbase 25. Beckett Mariner referred to them as "fish people", to which one of them who overheard the comment replied, "we're not people!" () People List of unnamed Antedians Appendices Appearances Background information "an-TEE-DEE-an" was the pronunciation of this name from the script's pronunciation guide. According to an internal reference document, listing all the aliens seen in , which was circulated around the time of the production of TNG Season 5, the Antedians were given the description of "Fishlike in appearance with purplish-silver scales, half shut eyes." External link cs:Antedean de:Antedeaner es:Antedeanos fr:Antédien nl:Antedean Species
2041	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Antican	The Anticans were a large, furry, sentient humanoid canine species from the planet Antica in the Beta Renner system. Anticans were a carnivorous species who preferred to eat their meat alive, and they had no compunction about killing and eating their rivals, the Selay. They killed their food using small weapons which projected a short energy blade. A few Anticans were at Starbase Earhart's Bonestell Recreation Facility in 2327. () In 2364, the Anticans applied for membership to the United Federation of Planets. The transported their delegates to the planet Parliament to help resolve a long-standing dispute with their sister planet, , as part of the admission process. () In early 2365, an Antican was in the officer's lounge of Starbase 173, chatting with a female Starfleet command officer. () While Captain Picard was staying on Risa in 2366, an Antican was also vacationing on the planet. () In 2368, a few Anticans were present at a bar on Qualor II. () Anticans were also seen on Deep Space 9's Promenade in 2369 and 2370. () Several Anticans aboard DS9 in early 2370 were among the evacuees that boarded the Orinoco when the station was evacuated. () People Named Badar N'D'D Unnamed List of unnamed Anticans Appendices Background information The dog-like Antican species was designed by Concept Artist Andrew Probert. As such, it was one of only three alien facial designs that were conceived by Probert prior to Makeup Supervisor Michael Westmore joining the production crew of , the others being the Ferengi and the Selay. Although Gene Roddenberry decided (at about the start of the series) that all aliens shown on TNG were to be depicted without burying the actors under deep rubber or covering their mouths, the Antican makeup – involving a pull-over mask – broke this rule of thumb (in common with the makeup for the Selay and Armus). () According to Cliff Bole, Paramount received mail criticizing the controversial carnivorous nature of the Anticans in "Lonely Among Us". () According to an internal reference document, listing all the aliens seen in , which was circulated around the time of the production of TNG Season 5, the Anticans were given the description of "canine-like face, leathery skin and enlarged rear craniums. mostly bald." Exernal link de:Anticaner es:Anticanos fr:Antican Species
2044	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	"The battle for peace has begun." An interstellar cataclysm cripples the Klingon Empire's homeworld, leading to their Chancellor seeking peace with the Federation. But covert acts attempt to thwart the peace process with the assassination of the Klingon Chancellor. With Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy as the prime suspects, the Starships Enterprise-A and Excelsior must attempt to uncover the truth before the conspirators can plunge the Federation and Klingon Empire into fullscale war! Summary Prelude An explosion erupts, creating a massive subspace shock wave. Aboard the , Captain Hikaru Sulu takes a sip of tea, reads a report handed to him by his science officer Dimitri Valtane, and records his log: "Stardate 9521.6, Captain's log, USS Excelsior, Hikaru Sulu commanding. After three years, I have concluded my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in Beta Quadrant. We're heading home under full impulse power. I'm pleased to report that ship and crew have functioned well." Suddenly, red alert klaxons sound on the bridge as the subspace shockwave reaches the Excelsior, throwing Sulu and his crew to the deck. Sulu orders helmsman Lojur to turn Excelsior into the wave and the ship clears the disturbance. At his post, Valtane locates the origin of the shockwave – Praxis, a Klingon moon, which Sulu notes is the Empire's key energy production facility. Sulu orders communications officer Janice Rand to hail the moon and offer their assistance, then asks Valtane for more data. Valtane, perplexed, says that he can confirm Praxis's location... but not its existence. An image appears on the viewscreen: Praxis, or rather barely half of it, ripped in two by some catastrophe, to the disbelieving horror of Sulu and the rest of the bridge crew. Rand reports that she has intercepted a message from Praxis and puts it up: the viewscreen is filled with the grisly image of a Klingon officer, standing on a deck heaving beneath his feet and surrounded by flames, shouting desperately at the pickup. The message abruptly cuts off and is replaced by an official transmission from Klingon Brigadier General Kerla, speaking for the Klingon High Command. Kerla explains that there has been an "incident" on Praxis, but that everything is under control and Federation assistance is not required, warning the Excelsior to obey treaty stipulations and remain outside the Neutral Zone. Rand asks Sulu if they should notify Starfleet and Sulu simply replies: "Are you kidding?!" Act I – The Mission and Catastrophe Two months later on Earth, the senior crew of the assembles for a meeting at Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco. The of Starfleet opens the meeting, bluntly stating that the Klingon Empire has only fifty years of life left in it. Federation Special Envoy Spock announces that the destruction of Praxis has polluted the Klingon homeworld's ozone so badly that the planet has only fifty years remaining without diverting resources from its significant military expenditures. At the behest of Vulcan ambassador Sarek, Spock has opened a dialogue with Klingon Chancellor Gorkon, who wishes to end all hostilities between the Empire and Starfleet, proposing the dismantling of all starbases in and around the Neutral Zone. The Military aide asked Bill that are they talking mothballing the Starfleet, but Bill said that their "exploration and scientific programs would be unaffected". Admiral Cartwright interrupted, vehemently objects, saying the Klingons must not be offered safe haven in Federation space, suggesting Starfleet use military force in order to dictate terms from a superior position. Captain Kirk agrees that giving the Klingons free reign in Federation space is a "terrifying idea." However, Spock counters, arguing that they must act now to support the Gorkon initiative before conservative elements in the Klingon Empire can seize control and try to fight to the death. Spock has volunteered the Enterprise and its crew to welcome Gorkon and his aides aboard and escort their ship to a peace meeting on Earth. Kirk protests that he is hardly the man for the job but is overruled and commanded to extend full diplomatic courtesy. Verbally sending the Enterprise on its way, the commander in chief thanks the assembled Starfleet officers and reminds them the meeting they've just had is classified, dismissing them too. At that point, Kirk is left alone with Spock, who reminds him of an old Vulcan proverb that "only Nixon could go to China." Kirk is angry that Spock would volunteer the Enterprise without consulting him. Spock states that his father – though Kirk knows that Spock's father is the Vulcan ambassador – requested he open the negotiations with the Klingons. Kirk is furious at Spock for having to treat the Klingon "animals" like honored guests after what they did to his son; Spock knows how he feels about the Klingons, but reminds Kirk they are dying. Kirk snaps, "Let them die!" Upon Spock's somewhat startled reaction, Kirk asks Spock if he has realized that the Enterprise crew is due to stand down in just three months time, saying that they have all done "our bit for king and country" and Kirk says that Spock should have trusted him. They stand in the conference hall in silence, looking at each other from opposite ends of the long conference table. Soon after, Captain Kirk and party are ferried to the Earth Spacedock aboard SD-103 and board the Enterprise. Upon arriving at the bridge, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy meet Lieutenant Valeris, a young Vulcan female and the first Vulcan to graduate at the top of her class at Starfleet Academy, who is volunteering as helmsman. "Let's get this over with. Departure stations," Kirk announces to his crew. After an awkward moment when Kirk orders Valeris to depart spacedock at one quarter impulse power when Regulations specify thrusters only, the Enterprise departs Spacedock and the Sol system to rendezvous with Gorkon's battle cruiser, Kronos One. "Captain's log, stardate 9522.6. I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion and I'd like to believe him. But how on Earth can history get past people like me?" Valeris then interrupts Kirk in his quarters. She informs him that the Enterprise is almost upon arrival at the rendezvous point. Valeris then tells Kirk how much of an honor it is to serve with him. Kirk tells her she piloted well out of spacedock and Valeris tells him she has always wanted to try it. Later, Valeris discusses logic and philosophy with Spock in his quarters in terms of their current mission. Spock says history is replete with turning points and she must have faith that the universe will ultimately unfold as it should. When Valeris begins to ask if that is logical, Spock points out a simple fact that has taken him a lifetime to learn; logic is only the beginning of wisdom and not the end. Spock is soon going to retire, with this being his last voyage on the Enterprise as a member of the crew and he intends for Valeris to replace him. Valeris states that she could only succeed Spock. Upon this, an announcement is made through the ship's intercom that all hands are to report to duty stations as a Klingon battlecruiser has arrived off the Enterprises port bow. Upon rendezvous with Gorkon, Captain Kirk reluctantly, but formally, invites the Chancellor and his staff to have dinner aboard the Enterprise at 1930 hours as guests of the Federation. Valeris then suggests opening up the supply of Romulan ale that is aboard, thinking it may help the evening progress more smoothly. Kirk compliments her thinking and leaves the bridge. "Guess who's coming to dinner?", Commander Chekov quietly says. Later, in the transporter room, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scott are on hand to greet Gorkon and his party. All behave cordially on the surface. Gorkon introduces his daughter, Azetbur, his military adviser, Brigadier General Kerla, and General , his chief of staff. While Gorkon is dignified and gracious, offering Spock his sincere gratitude for his actions towards peace, Chang, who has an especially smug, obnoxious demeanor, tells Kirk that he has so wanted to meet the great Captain Kirk, "warrior to warrior" out of admiration. "Right," Kirk coldly replies. He leads the Klingon delegation out of the room, thinking they might enjoy a brief tour of the vessel. Shortly afterward, both Kirk and Gorkon's staff dine together. Gorkon gives a toast to "the undiscovered country – the future". Spock recognizes the line from Hamlet, specifically from act III, scene I, and Gorkon tells Spock that one has never read Shakespeare properly until reading the text in "the original Klingon". McCoy diplomatically offers a toast to Gorkon, calling him "one of the architects of our future." The dinner proceeds with surface pleasantries gradually melting to reveal angry hostility. In particular, Chekov says the Federation believes all worlds have the sovereign claim to inalienable Human rights and Azetbur points out that this statement is racist and that the Federation is little better than a homo sapiens only club, "present company excepted, of course," Chang adds. Chang tells Kirk that they all need breathing room, which Kirk points out is the same thing Hitler said in 1938, which offends Chang. Thinly masking his disappointment, Gorkon simply quips that they have a long way to go. As the Klingons prepare to leave, Kirk sarcastically jokes that they must do this again sometime. Gorkon says he knows Kirk doesn't trust him, and offers that "if there is to be a brave, new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it." Chang walks up to Kirk before leaving, telling him "parting is such sweet sorrow," and steps onto the transporter platform while Kirk shakes his head. Once the Klingons are safely beamed off the ship, the entire senior staff relaxes, observing that the Klingons exhibited poor manners; Spock notes that they were little better. "I'm going to sleep this off. Please let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight," Kirk says before leaving. McCoy announces he is going to find a pot of black coffee. Spock raises his eyebrow. "The Enterprise hosted Chancellor Gorkon and party to dinner last night. Our manners weren't exactly Emily Post. Oh, note to the galley, Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions." Lying down to sleep, and nursing a terrible hangover, Kirk is summoned to the bridge by Spock. Sensors are picking up an enormous amount of neutron radiation which appears to be emanating from Enterprise (which an equally hungover Chekov painfully jokes that it is only the size of his head). A photon torpedo shoots out and strikes Kronos One. The entire bridge crew immediately jump into action, as a second photon torpedo knocks out the gravity. Kirk asks Scotty if Enterprise actually fired and Scotty denies it as according to the inventory the ship still has her entire complement of torpedoes. As the Klingons begin floating helplessly about, a transporter beam engages and two men in Starfleet uniforms with closed helmets and gravity boots begin walking through the corridors, shooting every Klingon they come in contact with, including Gorkon. When auxiliary gravity is restored on Kronos One, Gorkon is discovered, mortally wounded. A furious Chang accuses Kirk of defiling the peace they're striving to work for, and saying that he'll blow them out of the stars. Kirk denies that they fired, although the ship's data banks say they did according to Spock. Kirk orders that the Enterprise surrender, much to the surprise of the bridge crew. He prepares to board Kronos One leaving Spock in command – where he'll be able to get Kirk out of trouble. Spock subtly slaps a small black patch on Kirk's back. McCoy decides to go too in case they need a doctor. "Uhura, tell them we're coming and tell them we're unarmed!", Kirk says. When they materialize on Kronos One, Kerla asks if Kirk has "lost his mind". Kirk and McCoy insist they genuinely do not know what has happened and that they only want to help. Kerla reluctantly allows them to follow him to Gorkon, who is badly wounded. Chang tells him about the torpedoes, the gravity, and the assassins. McCoy tries to save Gorkon but fails due to his lack of knowledge of Klingon anatomy. Before dying, Gorkon reaches up to Kirk, grasping the back of his head and begs him not to let it end this way. General Chang has Kirk and McCoy arrested for murder under article 184 of Interstellar Law. Act II – The Trial and Spock's Investigation On the Enterprise Uhura relays the news of their arrest. Spock then formally assumes command of the ship and begins a full-scale investigation. When Chekov asks what will happen if they cannot piece together what happened, Spock says then "in that case, Mr. Chekov, it resides in the purview of the diplomats." On Earth, the Klingon Ambassador is speaking with the Federation President in his office in Paris, defending his government's decision to arrest Kirk and McCoy for the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon. The president has ordered a full-scale investigation too, but the Klingon ambassador says that by the articles of interstellar law Kirk and McCoy must stand trial in a Klingon court. Sarek and Romulan ambassador Nanclus concur. The commander-in-chief, Admiral Cartwright, and Colonel West enters. They propose a plan they call Operation Retrieve, to rescue Kirk and McCoy, West states that they could go in and get Kirk and McCoy in less than 24 hours with acceptable losses in manpower and equipment. The president asks what would happen then if they precipitate a full scale war and West frankly states "Then Mr. President, we can clean their chronometers." Nanclus tells the president that the Klingons are vulnerable and there would never be a better time to strike them. Cartwright says that the longer they wait, the less accessible the hostages become. The president then dismisses everyone saying he'll keep all this in mind. Everyone except for Sarek leaves the president alone. At the door, the C in C stops and reminds the president that Kirk and McCoy have literally saved the planet. The president knows this and tells the C in C that they are now going to save it again… by standing trial. Uhura receives a message from Starfleet Command ordering them to return to Earth immediately. Both she and Chekov agree they cannot abandon the captain and Dr. McCoy. Valeris tells the both of them how 400 years ago on the planet Earth, when workers felt threatened by automation, they flung their wooden shoes called sabots into the machines to stop them, thus coining the word "sabotage." Uhura comes up with a response that Enterprises backup systems are all inoperative. "Excellent. I-I-I mean, too bad," Chekov says. Azetbur, now Klingon Chancellor, communicates with the President. She says in one week she will attend a peace conference at a neutral, secret site on the condition that they will not extradite Kirk and McCoy and that the Federation will make no attempts at a military extraction. If they do so, the Klingons will consider it an act of war. After ending the transmission to the Federation President, Azetbur's advisors (including Kerla) suggest attacking the Federation now while they still can, or else the Federation will take advantage of Praxis' destruction and enslave them. Azetbur stands up to them, saying that war is obsolete, as they are in danger of becoming. One of her advisors sneers, "better to die on our feet than live on our knees!" Azetbur firmly says that her father wanted peace, and Chang, standing aside in the corner, speaks for the first time, reminding her gently that her father's wishes got him killed. Azetbur stands her ground, saying the peace process will go forward, but adds, with resolve, that Kirk alone will pay for her father's death. Spock's investigation is proceeding. The computer says that Enterprise fired and the torpedo inventory says they didn't, so they'll have to inspect each torpedo visually. The trial now begins, with Chang as prosecutor and Colonel as Kirk and McCoy's defense attorney. In a Klingon trial on Qo'noS, the prosecution and defense question witnesses at the same time. The first witness says the murderers were wearing magnetic boots, a fact which, while viewing the trial back on the bridge of the Enterprise gets Spock to thinking. Chang then begins questioning McCoy beginning with McCoy's current medical status, to which McCoy jokes stating "other than a touch of arthritis, I'd say, pretty good!" Chang tries to impugn McCoy's medical competence and questions whether he really tried his best to save Gorkon. McCoy says he desperately tried to save Gorkon as he was the last best hope for peace. The judge then excuses him. Chang then turns to Kirk and calls him "the architect of this tragic affair." Chang accuses Kirk of plotting to kill Gorkon as revenge for the death of his son, a charge Kirk denies. Worf objects, stating Kirk has not been identified as the assassin. Chang enters into the record an excerpt from Kirk's personal log: "I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I have never been able to forgive them for the death of my boy." Kirk admits that he did indeed say this. Chang uses a number of examples from Kirk's record to show that it's possible he arranged for Gorkon's murder, such as his demotion from admiral to captain for insubordination. Kirk is maneuvered into stating that of course he is responsible for the actions of every member of his crew. The judge finds both guilty as charged, which carries a death penalty. Worf argues that the bulk of the evidence against his clients is circumstantial and begs the court to consider this upon sentencing. The judge agrees then commutes their death sentences to life without parole on the penal asteroid of Rura Penthe, known throughout the galaxy as the aliens' graveyard. On Excelsior, where Sulu and his crew have also been watching the trial, the captain directs that a message be sent to Enterprise, telling them that Sulu and the crew of Excelsior stand ready to assist them. With the trial concluded, Spock asks Valeris to replay the footage of the torpedo launch. Scott insists that all the Enterprise torpedoes have been visually accounted for, and there is no way the ship could have fired. Spock repeats a maxim of one of his ancestors: "once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." If Enterprise could not have fired, it must have come from a cloaked ship, probably a Bird-of-Prey, hiding underneath Enterprise. Scotty objects that a Bird-of-Prey cannot fire its weapons while cloaked, but Spock rejoins that apparently this one can. Unfortunately, they have no evidence, only a theory which happens to fit the facts available. Chekov argues that if there was a cloaked ship, the assassins must have beamed onto Gorkon's ship from there, not Enterprise, but Spock reminds him that someone was responsible for firing the torpedoes or making the false entry in the ship's data banks; either way, the person or persons responsible are aboard Enterprise. Spock puts Valeris in charge of a search for two pairs of gravity boots. Kirk and McCoy are taken from Qo'noS, along with a group of other prisoners, to the frozen wasteland of Rura Penthe, an appropriately harsh place protected only by a magnetic shield. On arrival at the prison, they are greeted by the warden, who warns them that escape is quite impossible, and that anyone who is disobedient or fails to work hard enough will be punished via exile from prison to the surface; something which is graphically demonstrated when a naked prisoner is dragged out and thrown into the snowy wastes, where he rapidly freezes to death. Inside the prison, Kirk almost immediately has an altercation with a large alien, but is rescued by an exotic looking woman, Martia. In the galley, Spock and Valeris observe the search going on. When Chekov asks Valeris why the assassins didn't simply vaporize the boots, she pulls a phaser out from a weapons locker and vaporizes a nearby pot. The alarm goes off and she deactivates it, explaining to Chekov that you cannot fire an unauthorized phaser set to vaporize aboard a starship. Scotty and Uhura come in wanting to know who triggered the alarm by firing the phaser. They continue to stall for time by claiming malfunctioning equipment. Uhura reminds Spock that they have lost all contact with Kirk and McCoy. Spock notes this but says that if he knows Kirk well, by this time he is deep into planning his escape. Meanwhile, Kirk is engaged in hand-to-hand combat with another alien, and is surprised when he wins. Kirk informs McCoy and Martia that he was lucky the brute had knees. Martia tells Kirk that that was not his knee, noting that not all species have their genitals in the same place. Martia offers to help Kirk and McCoy escape. That night in their bunks, Kirk admits he'd gotten so used to hating Klingons that it never even occurred to him to take Gorkon at his word. Martia comes in, gives Kirk a big kiss and tells him where to meet her to plan an escape. Act III – The Rescue and Revelation Aboard Excelsior, Sulu's officer tells him that Starfleet wants to know what has happened to the Enterprise. Sulu states that he nor the Excelsior personnel know anything about the Enterprise and dismisses the officer. Now Sulu is getting really worried. In the transporter room, Chekov finds some small dried remains on the transporter platform and takes a sample of it to Spock, who discovers that it is Klingon blood, which must have been floating through the Klingon ship and got tracked back to Enterprise by the assassins walking through it. Spock notes this as the first piece of evidence to corroborate their theory and therefore expands the search to include all uniforms aboard ship. Valeris eventually finds the magnetic boots; however, they are in the locker of a whose feet are shaped differently from Humans'; the boots couldn't possibly be his much to Chekov's surprise. Kirk and McCoy get into a lift for mining duty and discover that Martia is a shapeshifter. She changes bodies several times in the course of leading them out of the range of the magnetic shield. Uhura and Spock have noted Kirk's exit from the beaming shield as well. Spock orders the ship to Rura Penthe. It seems that what he put on Kirk's back was a viridium patch which enabled him to track the captain. The Enterprise passes into Klingon space and gets the attention of a Klingon listening post. If they responded while useing the universal translator, the sentries would pick it up. In badly broken Klingon, Uhura identifies her ship as a freighter, IKS Ursva, headed to Rura Penthe to deliver supplies and "things". The Klingons at the listening post are fooled and end up making a Klingon joke, in which the Klingon and the Enterprise crew forcibly laugh at. As Martia produces warm clothes and other supplies and lights a flare for heat, Kirk realizes that Martia is setting him and McCoy up to be killed. She's spoken previously of a huge reward to the person who gets them, and the flare is a dead giveaway. Martia changes into a duplicate Kirk and they fight, rolling all over the snow before being stopped by a jackal mastiff, Klingon guards, and the warden. Kirk and Martia (still appearing as Kirk) stand next to each other. Kirk convinces the warden to shoot Martia, since they don't want any witnesses. Kirk then asks who wanted them killed. Just before the warden can identify the culprit, Kirk and McCoy are beamed out of the cave – with Kirk swearing the whole way up. Materializing on the transporter pad, Kirk asks Spock if he couldn't have waited just two more seconds, as the warden was about to explain the whole thing. When Chekov sheepishly asks if they want to go back, McCoy answers "Absolutely not!" Kirk adds, "It's cold." Chang finds out about this from the commandant and prepares to intercept the Enterprise. Sitting in the Enterprises officers' mess, Scott discovers two sets of uniforms with Klingon blood on them. Scott runs up to Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Chekov in a corridor and they subsequently find Yeomen and Samno, both dead, killed by a phaser stun at close range. They were the ones on guard in the transporter room when Gorkon and party first beamed aboard the Enterprise. To lure out the assassin, an announcement is made over the ship's intercom ordering the court reporter to sickbay and that statements will be taken from Burke and Samno, as if they are merely injured. Someone walks into the darkened sickbay with phaser in hand – it is revealed to be Valeris. Valeris is stunned to see Kirk and her mentor Spock in the bio-beds instead of the dead crewmen. Hurt and angry over her betrayal, Spock challenges Valeris to shoot him (while Kirk prefers she didn't), and violently slaps the phaser out of her hand. McCoy emerges from the shadows and informs her that the operation is over. On the bridge, Valeris denies firing and says that Kirk has no proof to back it up. But Kirk does. He reminds her that his personal log was used as evidence against him at the trial; she must have recorded him talking on his personal log that night Valeris was standing outside his doorway. Valeris dodges the accusation by accusing Kirk and the entire ship of betraying Starfleet. When McCoy calls her on it and asks her what she thinks she's been doing, she says she's been working to save Starfleet. She doesn't believe Klingons can ever be trusted, and reminds Kirk that they killed his son and how he said to "let them die" rather than help, and Kirk can't help but feel ashamed that he made such a statement. She reveals that some Klingons conspired with Starfleet officers to kill their own Chancellor – how trustworthy can they be? McCoy ponders the concept of peace between the Klingons and Federation being so unacceptable to members of both sides that they worked together to prevent it (while implying the irony that the conspiracy actually proves that Humans and Klingons actually can coexist and work together). Kirk demands the names of her co-conspirators, and Valeris claims she does not remember. "A lie?", Spock asks. "A choice," she replies. Spock slowly walks up to Valeris near the viewscreen and forces her into a mind meld, discovering that the conspirators include Admiral Cartwright, General Chang, and the Romulan Ambassador, Nanclus. Kirk asks where the peace conference will be held, so Spock looks further into her mind to the point it causes her physical pain, but Valeris ultimately does not know where the peace conference is. The Enterprise contacts the Excelsior and Sulu tells Kirk that the conference will be held at Camp Khitomer, beginning later that day. Act IV – Realizations and Confrontations Later, in Spock's quarters, Kirk admits that he couldn't get past the death of his son and that it took Gorkon's death to get him to realize how prejudiced he was. Spock admits he was prejudiced by Valeris's accomplishments as a Vulcan and speculates that he and Kirk – with their inflexible thinking – are obsolete. "Come on, I need you," Kirk tells his Vulcan friend. The Khitomer conference begins, as Enterprise drops out of warp and races towards the planet at impulse. If Chang's ship is there, it's cloaked, and the only means of detecting it would be the same surge of neutron radiation that occurred when Gorkon's ship was fired upon – with the Bird-of-Prey directly underneath her hull. Tension mounts on board the ship as they get ever closer to transporter range. With just over 40 seconds to go, Chang contacts Kirk over subspace and asks him, "warrior to warrior", to admit that Kirk prefers for the Federation and Klingons to remain enemies, and continue slaughtering each other in glorious combat: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends…" Then, with another quote of "to be or not to be…" in Klingon, Chang signals his gunner, and the Bird-of-Prey opens fire with photon torpedos. With the cloak in place, Enterprise cannot return fire, and though Chang keeps talking, Uhura tries but fails to locate the source of his transmissions. Excelsior is hurtling to Khitomer at maximum warp. Aboard the bridge, where everything is literally trembling with the force of acceleration, helmsman Lojur warns, "She'll fly apart!" Sulu retorts, "Fly her apart then!" On Khitomer, Azetbur's speech has begun and a Klingon stands up and walks out carrying a briefcase. Admiral Cartwright nervously watches, sweat dripping down his face. In space, Enterprise continues to take heavy damage, and Scotty warns their shields are collapsing. A minor explosion on the bridge prompts Kirk to order auxiliary power, but Spock reports that the auxiliary circuits have been destroyed. Watching Enterprise attempting to evade, Chang quotes The Merchant of Venice: "Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us... shall we not revenge?" Spock realizes that even with her cloak in place, the Bird-of-Prey's impulse engines will still vent plasma exhaust; Uhura suggests using the equipment they have on-board to catalog gaseous anomalies as a guidance system. Spock asks McCoy to help him "perform surgery" on a photon torpedo to enable it to do so. "Fascinating!", the physician says. Enterprise continues to suffer heavy damage, but before she can be crippled, Sulu arrives with Excelsior, taking some of the pressure off of Enterprise as Chang has to divide his attacks between opponents. However, Chang has merely been slowed down: with his ability to fire while cloaked, Chang is still running circles around both ships. At Khitomer, the Klingon who left has found a vantage point on an upper level and is cutting a small hole in one of the glass panes to aim a weapon at the President. Chang relentlessly fires Shakespeare quotations such as: "I am constant as the northern star…" and continues firing torpedoes, weakening Enterprises shields to the point that it takes a direct hit on the ventral-port side of the saucer section that ruptures the hull. Spock and McCoy complete their modifications to the photon torpedo, and with a great deal of satisfaction, Kirk gives the order to fire. It homes in on the cloaked Bird-of-Prey and lands a direct hit, but not before Chang gives his last Shakespeare quote from Hamlet: "To be or not to be." Enterprise and Excelsior then target the location of the explosion, unleashing a barrage of torpedoes that destroy Chang's now decloaked (and shield-less) ship. The Enterprise crew beam down just in time for Kirk to knock the president out of the way of the would-be assassin's phaser rifle blast. He identifies himself to the dazed president. Cartwright orders them arrested and Spock retorts "Arrest yourself!" displaying a handcuffed Valeris. McCoy says that they have a full confession just as the Klingon assassin is about to shoot Valeris. At that moment, Scott kicks in the door to the assassin's hiding place, and shoots him just before he can kill Valeris. He falls through the glass pane to the floor. The Commander In Chief and Colonel Worf rush to the body and find out that it's not a Klingon; it's Colonel West. Cartwright takes advantage of the ruckus and tries to flee but is thwarted when Sulu, armed and accompanied by two security guards, transports from Excelsior and holds him there. A confused and angry Azetbur demands to know what is going on. Kirk tells her this is all about the future and that history has not ended quite yet. Thinking of Gorkon's reference to the future as "the undiscovered country", Kirk notes that people can be very frightened of change. Azetbur tells Kirk he's restored her father's faith and Kirk tells her she's restored his son's. At that moment, the room breaks out into applause as the remaining Enterprise officers (including Sulu) walk up and join Kirk on the platform. Epilogue Later, Enterprise and Excelsior rendezvous above Khitomer, Kirk and crew reenter the bridge and exchange pleasantries with Captain Sulu. "Nice to see you in action one more time, Captain Kirk. Take care," Sulu says as Excelsior moves away from the Enterprise, departed Khitomer. "By God, that's a big ship," McCoy says. "Not so big as her captain, I think," Scott adds. Chekov said, "So… this is good-bye.". "I think it's about time we got underway ourselves," Kirk mentions. Uhura then tells Kirk that they've received direct orders from Starfleet Command to return Enterprise to Spacedock for its decommissioning. The crew look around at each other, emotional that their time together as a crew is now coming to an end. Spock contemplates that for a moment and then remarks, "If I were Human, I believe my response would be 'Go to Hell.' If I were Human." When Chekov asks for a course heading, Kirk tells him "Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning." Uhura steps over near Scott and everyone watches as Enterprise heads off toward the stars. "Captain's log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man – where no one – has gone before." And when the Enterprise entered the star, it flashes out to the end credits. Log entries Sulu: "Stardate 9521.6, Captain's log, USS Excelsior, Hikaru Sulu commanding. After three years, I have concluded my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in Beta Quadrant. We're heading home under full impulse power. I'm pleased to report that ship and crew have functioned well." Kirk: "Captain's log, stardate 9522.6. I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I'd like to believe him, but how on Earth can history get past people like me?" Kirk: "The Enterprise hosted Chancellor Gorkon and party to dinner last night; our manners weren't exactly Emily Post. Oh, note to the galley: Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions." Kirk:" Captain's log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew; to them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man – where no one – has gone before." Memorable quotes Shakespeare Hamlet "I thought I would assume a pleasing shape." (Act II, Scene II) - Martia, to Kirk "The undiscovered country." (Act III, Scene I) - Gorkon, toasting "To be, or not to be." (Act III, Scene I) - Changs last words Julius Caesar "Cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!" (Act III, Scene I) - Chang "I am constant as the northern star." (Act III, Scene I) - Chang King Henry IV, Part II "Have we not heard the chimes at midnight?" (Act III, Scene II) - Chang, to Kirk King Henry V "Once more unto the breach, dear friends." (Act III, Scene I) - Chang "The game's afoot." (Act III, Scene I) - Chang The Merchant of Venice "Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us, shall we not revenge?" (Act III, Scene I) - Chang, paraphrasing Richard II "Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings." (Act III, Scene II) - Chang, at Kirk's trial Romeo and Juliet "Parting is such sweet sorrow." (Act II, Scene II) - Chang, to Kirk The Tempest "Our revels now are ended." (Act IV, Scene I) - Chang General quotes "Do we report this, sir?" "Are you kidding?" - Rand and Sulu, after Praxis explodes "I must protest. To offer Klingons safe haven within Federation space is suicide. Klingons would become the alien trash of the galaxy." - Cartwright, on the proposed peace treaty with the Klingons "I don't know whether to congratulate you or not, Jim." "I wouldn't." - Cartwright and McCoy, to Kirk on his diplomatic mission with Gorkon "There is an old Vulcan proverb. Only Nixon could go to China." - Spock, to Kirk "Don't believe them! Don't trust them!" "They're dying." "Let them die!" - Kirk and Spock, on the Klingons "You must be very proud." "I don't believe so, sir." "She's a Vulcan all right." - Kirk, Valeris and McCoy "I've never trusted Klingons and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy." - Kirk, recording his personal log "History is replete with turning points, Lieutenant." - Spock, to Valeris "Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end." - Spock "Guess who's coming to dinner?" - Chekov, after the Klingons accept Kirk's invitation "I offer a toast. The undiscovered country … The future." - Gorkon "In space, all warriors are cold warriors." - Chang, to Kirk "Human rights. Why the very name is racist. The Federation is no more than a homo sapiens only club." - Azetbur, at dinner "We need breathing room." "Earth, Hitler, 1938." "I beg your pardon." - Chang and Kirk "If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it." - Gorkon, to Kirk "Did you see the way they ate?!" "Terrible table manners!" "I doubt that our own behavior will distinguish us in the annals of diplomacy." - Uhura, Chekov and Spock "Valeris, do you know anything about a radiation surge?" "Sir?" "Chekov?" "Only the size of my head." "I know what you mean." - Kirk, Valeris and Chekov, as Kirk and Chekov suffer a terrible hangover "We come in peace and you BLATANTLY defile that peace! And for that, I shall blow you out of the stars!" "We haven't fired!" "Captain, according to our databanks we have. Twice." - Chang, to Kirk, Kirk's response and Spocks shocking revelation "Don't let it end this way, Captain." - Gorkons last words to Kirk "This president is not above the law." - Federation President, to the Klingon Ambassador "Then, quite frankly, Mister President, we can clean their chronometers." - Colonel West, on attacking the Klingons "Sir… Those men have literally saved this planet." "Yes, Bill, I know that. And now they're going to save it again. By standing trial." - Commander-in-Chief and Federation President, on Kirk and McCoy "I'll bet that Klingon bitch killed her father!" - Scott, suspecting Azetbur killed Gorkon "Doctor McCoy, would you be so good as to tell me your current medical status?" "Aside from a touch of arthritis, I'd say pretty good!" - Chang and McCoy, during the trial "James Tiberius Kirk… What would your favorite author say, Captain? Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings. Tell us your sad story Kirk, Tell us how you planned to take revenge for the death of your son." "That's not true." "Objection! Captain Kirk has not been identified as the assassin!" "Sustained." - Chang, Kirk, Colonel Worf, and Klingon Judge "Do you deny being demoted by these charges?! Don't wait for the translation!! Answer me now!!" "I cannot deny it." "You were demoted?" "Yes." "For insubordination?" "On occasion, I have disobeyed orders." - Chang and Kirk "An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Spock quotes Sherlock Holmes "This is the gulag Rura Penthe. There is no stockade. No guard tower. No electronic frontier. Only a magnetic shield prevents beaming. Punishment means exile from prison to the surface. On the surface, nothing can survive. Work well, and you will be treated well. Work badly, and you will die." - Rura Penthe Commandant, the welcome speech that Kirk, McCoy, and the other new prisoners receive upon arriving on Rura Penthe, an homage to the speech made by Colonel Saito to the British POWs from The Bridge on the River Kwai "If my surmise is correct, those boots will cling to the killers' necks like a pair of Tiberian bats." - Spock, on finding the gravity boots "I'm Martia. You're Kirk and McCoy, I presume." "How did you know that?" "We don't get many presidential assassins." - Martia, introducing herself to Kirk and McCoy on Rura Penthe "I was lucky that thing had knees." "That was not his knee. Not everybody keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain." - Kirk and Martia, after he beats the horned alien prisoner in a fight "What is it with you, anyway?" "Still think we're finished?" "More than ever." - McCoy and Kirk, after Kirk kisses Martia "Perhaps you know Russian epic of Cinderella? If the shoe fits, wear it!" - Chekov, to Crewman Dax "Mr. Scott, start your engines." "Aye, aye sir." - Spock and Scott "Leave me. I'm finished." "No! Bones, I'm wearing a viridium patch on my back. Spock slapped it there just before we went on Gorkon's ship." "Why, that cunning little Vulcan." - McCoy and Kirk "An accident wasn't good enough." "Good enough for one. Two would've looked suspicious. Killed while attempting escape … now that's convincing for both." - Kirk and Martia, as she transforms into Kirk "I can't believe I kissed you." "Must have been your lifelong ambition." - Kirk and Martia, after she transforms into Kirk "Isn't it about time you became something else?" "I like it here." - Kirk and Martia, transformed as Kirk "Kill him! He's the one!" "Not me, you idiot! HIM!" - Martia, transformed as Kirk, and the real Kirk "Who? Who wanted us killed?" "Since you're all going to die, anyway, why not tell you? His name is…!" - Kirk and Rura Penthe Commandant, as Kirk and McCoy are beamed aboard the Enterprise "Couldn't you have waited just two more seconds!?" "Captain?" "He was just about to explain the whole thing!" "You want to go back!?" "Absolutely not!!" "It's cold!" - Kirk, Spock, Chekov, and McCoy, right after Kirk and McCoy are beamed to the Enterprise before learning who ordered their assassination "First rule of assassination. Kill the assassins." - Kirk, on seeing the bodies of Burke and Samno "You have betrayed the Federation. All of you." "And what have you been doing?" "Saving Starfleet!" - Valeris and McCoy "Then we're dead." "I've been dead before." - Scott and Spock "Thank you, Captain Sulu." "Don't mention it, Captain Kirk." - Kirk giving his thanks to Sulu after he provides him with the location of the peace conference "You were right. It was arrogant presumption on my part that got us into this… situation. You and the Doctor might have been killed." "The night is young." - Spock and Kirk "You're a great one for logic. I'm a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread." - Kirk, to Spock "Is it possible that we two, you and I, have grown so old and so inflexible that we have outlived our usefulness?" - Spock, to Kirk "Do you want to know something? Everybody's Human." "I find that remark… insulting." - Kirk and Spock "Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing it does not necessarily follow that we must do that thing." - Federation President, at the peace conference "I can see you, Kirk." "Chang." "Can you see me? Oh, now be honest, Captain, warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be? No peace in our time. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends." - Chang and Kirk, over the intercoms at Khitomer "Come on. Come on!" "She'll fly apart." "Fly her apart, then!" - Sulu and Lojur, as the Excelsior heads for Khitomer "Doctor, would you care to assist me in performing surgery on a torpedo?" "Fascinating!" - Spock and McCoy "I'd give real money if he'd shut up." - McCoy to Spock, about Chang's endless Shakespeare quotes "We've got a heartbeat!" - McCoy, as the torpedo is activated "Where's that damn torpedo?" "It's ready, Jim. Lock and load!" - Kirk and McCoy, as the torpedo is loaded "Some people think the future means the end of history. Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet." - Kirk, to Azetbur "You've restored my father's faith." "And you've restored my son's." - Azetbur and Kirk, before the peace conference erupts in applause "Once again we've saved civilization as we know it." "And the good news is, they're not going to prosecute." - Kirk, on the bridge, and McCoys response "Nice to see you in action one more time, Captain Kirk. Take care." - Sulu, saying farewell to his former commanding officer "So… this is goodbye." - Chekov "Captain, I have orders from Starfleet Command. We're to be put back into Spacedock immediately. To be decommissioned." "If I were Human, I believe my response would be: Go to hell! If I were Human." - Uhura and Spock "Course heading, Captain?" "Second star to the right. And straight on 'til morning." - Chekov and Kirk, with Kirk quoting James Barrie's Peter Pan Background information Landmarks This is the second of two Star Trek productions (the other being ) between 1986 and 2005 to be produced without any involvement from Rick Berman. Although this is the final Star Trek film to feature the entire cast together, only Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) and DeForest Kelley (McCoy) make their final official Star Trek appearances in this film (Kelley's appearance as an admiral in TNG: "Encounter At Farpoint" the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation had occurred four years previously). James Doohan (Scotty) would appear in , and then with William Shatner (James T. Kirk), and Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) in . George Takei (Hikaru Sulu) appeared in and Leonard Nimoy (Spock) appeared in , , , and . Chronologically, McCoy, Spock and Scotty appeared in long after the events of this film. This movie is the first canon instance of Sulu's first name, Hikaru (Japanese for "shining"), being stated. Prior to the film, it was commonly used in the novels (and reportedly approved by Gene Roddenberry and George Takei ), but had never been made official. This is currently the only Star Trek movie shot in format instead of . The film was nominated for two Academy Awards. It was nominated for "Makeup" and "Sound Effects Editing." It was also nominated for the Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation" and five Saturn Awards, winning for "Best Science Fiction Film." Leonard Nimoy co-wrote the story for this final outing of the TOS cast. Likewise, the final outing of the TNG cast () was co-written by one of its cast members, Brent Spiner. The film confirms Kirk's middle name, which had previously been established in the animated series episode as "Tiberius," for the first time in live action production. Finally, just before the closing titles roll, the signatures of the seven main cast members from The Original Series are displayed one by one, writing themselves on the starfield. Cast Rene Auberjonois' role as Colonel West was cut from the theatrical release, as Gene Roddenberry was uncomfortable with ideas that were presented in his scenes. The scenes were later restored for the VHS, LaserDisc, and DVD release, but the BluRay release contains the theatrical cut. Auberjonois later played Constable Odo on . West wore an admiral's rank insignia, which was incorrect. The naval equivalent of colonel is captain. While the notion of a Starfleet Marine Corps had been discussed and seen in fan writings and some older role-playing games, West's rank of colonel was the first ever on-screen hint of Army/Marine-like ranks in Starfleet and would be the only one until the MACOs were introduced on . Michael Dorn only found out he had a role in this film as Worf's grandfather when Nicholas Meyer and Herman Zimmerman were walking past the soundstages for and informed him about it. The only actors, aside from the original cast, to appear in both this film and in are Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand) and Mark Lenard. In both films, Whitney appeared as Janice Rand, whereas Lenard appeared as Sarek in The Undiscovered Country and a Klingon captain in The Motion Picture. This was the penultimate appearance of Rand, who went on to appear in the episode . She is a lieutenant jg in this film, although "Flashback" incorrectly depicts her as a lieutenant commander at the time of the film's setting. Some of the comics set around the time of Sulu taking command of Excelsior not only support her lieutenant commander rank, but imply that she was also the Excelsiors first officer. Rand was supposed to be the character that wakes up Sulu to inform him that Starfleet was looking for the Enterprise instead of Christian Slater's character. Slater was a huge fan of the show and his mother – Mary Jo Slater, the movie's casting director – petitioned heavily to get him a part. Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn and Kurtwood Smith would later star together in the Deep Space Nine fifth season episode , where Auberjonois plays Odo, Dorn plays Worf and Smith plays Thrax. This is Rene Auberjonois and John Schuck's fourth film together. The first was , followed by , and . Merritt Butrick appears posthumously as David Marcus, via a photo in Kirk's quarters. Story and production The Undiscovered Country was almost never made as a Star Trek film, not only due to the dismal box office receipts of , but also for an unbroken string of, for Paramount Pictures, disappointing yet very expensive film releases as well, leaving the studio deeply in the red, only aggravated by a . However as seen on the Star Trek VI DVD set and also according to William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories, Paramount, specifically its president Frank Mancuso, Sr. – who had been intimately involved with Star Trek ever since – , did not really want to end the Original Crew run on The Final Frontier low note, especially with the franchise's 25th anniversary coming up, and wanted one more film, but found himself seriously hampered by the strictest of budget limitation: under NO conceivable circumstance was a potential new film to exceed the budget of The Final Frontier, not even by one dollar. It was at this point that Harve Bennett proposed his Starfleet Academy prequel, featuring a brand new, and thus far cheaper, cast, and was green lighted by Mancuso to go into pre-production, and proceeded as such, until Gene Roddenberry vehemently objected, and with him the fanbase and the secondary cast. But it was only when the (at the time) head of Paramount Communications (formerly Gulf+Western, owner of Paramount Pictures), Martin Davis, found out about the Academy concept and furiously demanding an Original Crew film be made, that Bennett's project was scrapped on the spot. Because nobody had thought of informing the highest boss, nearly eighteen months of valuable pre-production time had been lost. Because he wanted to do the prequel, and Mancuso no longer dared to continue, Harve Bennett left Star Trek after a decade with the franchise. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 347-348; Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, pp. 24-30) Earlier, a revised draft of Bennett's script featured a scene in which Kirk flashed back to his days at Starfleet Academy, allowing William Shatner and others to reprise their Original Crew roles as cameos – Bennett's effort to appease Roddenberry's (et al.) criticisms, before his project was scrapped altogether. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 343-345) Thoroughly chastized by his boss Davis, Mancuso subsequently turned to Leonard Nimoy in May 1990 to get a completely new film, featuring the entire Original Crew, started. It was during this meeting that Nimoy suggested the contemporary real world // events as an allegory for the Federation and the Klingon Empire as basic story line, which was enthusiastically embraced by Mancuso. Informed that Bennett had gone, Nimoy requested to return Nicholas Meyer into the fold as co-writer and director, which was also embraced by Mancuso. In the early summer Nimoy and Meyer had an extended meeting at his holiday address in Cape Cod where they essentially hammered out the details as eventually featured in the film, though they became seriously hampered by studio politics through trying to burden the pair with the woefully inadequate dilettante Konner/Rosenthal "writing" duo. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 349-363) As the upper studio echelons were at the time, for the aforementioned reasons, embroiled in a tumultuous and very messy power struggle, derisively called the "The Studio Shuffle" in the contemporary press, the executive sponsors, Sid Ganis and Teddy Zee, of the Konner/Rosenthal duo were a short time later kicked out, and so were they, without having made a single noteworthy contribution whatsoever – according to both Nimoy and Meyer, what little they did turn in, immediately and literally trashed by (other) executives upon reading, was blatant plagiarism of their own story outlines. Yet Nimoy and Meyer (their relationship having actually become strained because of executives playing the one against the other in this matter, as it only became later apparent to both men) were too premature in their relief of being rid of the interloping duo, as the latter, near the end of the production, started legal procedures against both men for writing credits, partially succeeding, and nearly stripping Nimoy of any and all creative credit. (see below) Incidentally, Paramount veteran of 31 years Mancuso was also gone less than a month after he had approached Nimoy, unceremoniously fired over the telephone by Davis. When Nimoy was reaching out to Meyer, the latter was working in London, UK, working as writer/director on the MGM film Company Business (featuring Kurtwood Smith, he to subsequently play the President of the United Federation of Planets in The Undiscovered Country), which ironically, had a similar glasnost theme. However, Meyer felt that the producers had "butchered" the film, and being vocal about it, it had at the time led in the industry grapevine to the rumor that it was this that led him to recycling the theme in The Undiscovered Country. For the remainder of the year Nimoy and Meyer, now reinforced by scriptwriter Denny Martin Flinn (he actually wanted, as it was Meyer who brought him in), communicated with each other by phone, fax and the early email, which however, made them susceptible to the studio politics as played by Ganis and Zee. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, pp. 28, 30; ) Incidentally, before Nimoy even contacted Meyer at his holiday address, Meyer had already been informed by Davis and Mancuso, when the latter two were in London, that a "thirty million dollars" sixth Star Trek film was green-lighted. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 354-358, ) When the Klingons return to their ship after the dinner on the Enterprise, Chang speaks a Klingon phrase into his communicator (without English subtitles). Chang says "daHmacheH" which, in English, means "Ready to return now." During the dinner, Azetbur says a unsubtitled Klingon phrase that, when translated to English, means "Daddy" or "Father." Originally, a prologue was planned for the film, in which it was established that, before they all got the call to reassemble: Kirk was in a revitalized relationship with Carol Marcus; McCoy was making a nuisance of himself by showing up drunk at medical celebrity events (as he despises the hypocrisy of it all); Spock's status was "classified;" Uhura had become a radio show hostess; Scotty was working as an engineering professor; Chekov was competing as a not altogether successful chess grandmaster (losing to Betazoids – which was another attempt to tie in the Original Crew franchise with that of ); and Sulu was working as a taxi driver on some backwater alien colony. A fully worked-out prologue sequence, approved for shooting, had already been scripted by Co-Script Writer Flinn. Last-minute mandatory budget limitations, however, forced the creative production team, much against their grain, to scrap the entire prologue sequence, leaving only the introductory Original Crew scene at Starfleet Command instead. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 26; Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 376-378) An early storyboard draft featured in spacedock being disassembled by Starfleet engineers, under the supervision of Professor of Engineering Scott, before he got the call to meet up with his fellow former crew-members. This actually was part of the above-mentioned planned prologue of the film. It was originally intended for the Vulcan traitor to be Lt. Saavik, but the role was instead assigned to Lt. Valeris as a new character. According to William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories, this change was vehemently resisted by Gene Roddenberry, who felt that Saavik was too popular a character to be handled this way. Meyer (thoroughly fed up with the disruptive and incessant interlopings of Roddenberry, ever since he came aboard Star Trek, a decade earlier), could not care less what Roddenberry's thoughts on the matter were, rightfully claiming that the character was his creation, not Roddenberry's, and proceeded as planned. Yet, Meyer wanted only Kirstie Alley to reprise the role, but as she was at the peak of her popularity with Cheers at the time and her asking price was far too high. Only when Alley turned out to be unavailable, was it then decided to change the character, instead of casting yet another actress for the same part. Kim Cattrall initially refused the role as she was under the false impression that she had to portray Saavik, but jumped at the opportunity when she learned that that was not to be the case, as she considered Saavik "just a girl", whereas Valeris was a woman. Ironically, Cattrall had auditioned for the role of Saavik for . To her big disappointment, Robin Curtis had never been considered to reprise the role of Saavik for this film. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 31; Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 374-375) Other stories say that Kirstie Alley refused Nicholas Meyer's requests that she reprise the role, as she was uncomfortable about her weight, and that she did not want to look overweight onscreen in the form-fitting uniforms. Many of General Chang's quotes and the subtitle, "The Undiscovered Country," come from Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy, by William Shakespeare. Chang also quotes or paraphrases Richard II, , The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, Part II, Henry V, and The Tempest. Chang's demand, "Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now!" is a reference to 's similar demand of Soviet Union representative at the United Nations during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. () Nichelle Nichols objected to the scene in which the crew desperately searches through old printed Klingonese translation dictionaries in order to speak the language without the standard universal translator being used. It seemed more logical to her that Uhura, being the ship's chief communications officer, would know the language of the Federation's main enemy, or at least have the appropriate information in the computer. However, director Meyer bluntly overruled her. Chekov can be heard explaining at the beginning of the scene that "a universal translator would be recognized". (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Special Edition) DVD-special feature, "text commentary") In the alternate reality of Star Trek Into Darkness, Uhura — who may have had a different education from that of the Prime Uhura — does speak Klingonese (or as she and Captain Kirk refer to it, "Klingon"). Uhura originally had a line "Would you let your daughter marry one?" (that is, a Klingon), but the line had to be cut because Nichols absolutely refused to say it. Chekov's line "Guess who's coming to dinner?" was also originally Uhura's, but Nichols considered it also to be racist and declined to say it. The line was moved to Chekov. It was a reference to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, the first major film to deal with interracial marriage, in which Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Sidney Poitier starred. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 365-366; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Special Edition) DVD-special feature, "text commentary") The perceived racism toward the Klingons was of great concern to Roddenberry as well, as he felt there was no place for it in his Star Trek universe, but his considerations were entirely ignored by both Meyer and Nimoy. Aghast, he then summoned a meeting, even though Roddenberry had no formal say in the film whatsoever. Complete with heavy legal representation, a very charged meeting followed between the two sides, which quickly turned into a shouting match as Meyer finally unleashed his years of pent up frustration with Roddenberry in full. In later years Meyer came to regret his behavior. "He was not well, and maybe there were more tactful ways of dealing with it, because at the end of the day, I was going to go out and make the movie. I didn't have to take him on. Not my finest hour.", a rueful Meyer recounted in 2011. Roddenberry died a few months later. (; Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 366-367) Meyer remained regretful of his behavior as he reiterated the incident as recent as 2016 when he retold the story in Roger Lay, Jr.'s 50th anniversary documentary Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen (Chapter 5: "End of an Era: Charting the Undiscovered Country"). In December 1990 a finalized script draft was turned in to the studio, and this version was approved to go into production. Meyer, finished in London, relocates to Los Angels later that month. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 30) However, less than a month later in early January 1991, the original, immovable studio budget restriction decree reared its ugly head in full force, as David Kirkpatrick, who had replaced Teddy Zee as the Paramount Motion Picture Group President in another round of "The Studio Shuffle", demanded a detailed budget breakdown for the script as submitted. Somewhat falsely reassured by the remarks Davis and Mancuso made to him in London the previous spring, Meyer came back with a total figure of US$40 million dollar. Kirkpatrick's reply was short and to the point; It would not do. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, pp. 33-35) A desperate scramble among the creative staff ensued to trim as much as possible of the budget as possible; the entire prologue was (albeit painfully) scrapped, scenes were trimmed, all planned set construction for new starship interiors was abandoned (though a new Kronos One corridor set did get build ultimately), the planned live-action shoots in Alaska for the Rura Penthe scenes were scrapped as were plans for new studio models and other visual effects elements. Starship sets were to be entirely recycled from , which was concurrently in production, but was slated for its summer hiatus, when filming of The Undiscovered Country was planned to start, and only existing studio models were to be used. Major cast and crew even agreed to deferred payment of (part of) their wages. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, pp. 35-36) Co-Producer Steven-Charles Jaffe, a former Trekkie, was so desperate to see the film come to fruition that he even went as far to suggest dropping Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) as the visual effects vendor for the film, instead going for a cheaper company. However the Associates and Ferren visual effects debacle for the previous film was still very much fresh on the minds of his colleagues, and no one was willing to go that far. However, the planned 110 visual effects cuts were whittled down to just 51. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 35) With an absolute, rock-bottom downward revised budget of US$30 million dollar Meyer returned to Kirkpatrick & co. and vigorously and emotionally made a case for it. Kirkpatrick strictly adhered to the US$25 million dollar the previous film had originally been budgeted at, but was willing to up the budget with US$2.5 million to the total that film had actually cost, but not a penny more. Moved to tears, Meyer knew that the film could not be made for that amount and continued to make a passionate plea for it. After Kirkpatrick had deliberated with his colleagues, the verdict came back: The film was canceled. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 368-371) Yet, a few weeks later, with all activity on the film halted and production crews sent home, Meyer received a call from interim Paramount Pictures President Stanley R. Jaffe (not related to producer Jaffe), standing in for the released Mancuso, who had heard that the production was in trouble. Informed by Meyer that he could not make the film as he was shy of US$2.5 million dollars, Jaffe succinctly retorted, "Okay, you've got it," effectively canceling Kirkpatrick's cancellation decision. Instead, it became Kirkpatrick who got "canceled" in April as a result of yet another round in "The Studio Shuffle". (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 371, 393) One of the major reasons Meyer could not budge from his budget was that there was one of the most expensive sets that absolutely had to be built, and that there was no way around it: the refit-Enterprise bridge set. The original set had a few months earlier been temporarily stored on the outside studio parking lot, in order to make room for other sets. A freak weather event completely wrecked the set beyond salvation, save for some parts such as the two turbolifts. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Special Edition) DVD-special feature, "text commentary") However, once rebuilt, the set had to do double duty as the bridge as well by means of reshuffling the variable wall panels, as the original, more cavernous Excelsior bridge set had already been struck years earlier, shortly after its use in . Ironically, the Excelsior bridge scenes were shot first, before it became the Enterprise bridge. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Special Edition) DVD-special feature, "text commentary") Aside from his intimate familiarity with The Next Generation sets (which he had helped design and built), it was one of the most overriding reasons why Production Designer Herman Zimmerman was brought in, as he was the one who had been responsible for the bridge redesign as featured in The Final Frontier. In the process, it has also explained why The Next Generations received a new battle bridge, as it had been the (heavily re-dressed) original refit-bridge that had stood in for it in the early seasons of the series. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 35) Trimming down the visual effects cuts to 51 turned out to be too ambitious, as 30 of the originally jettisoned effects sequences had to be produced by ILM and inserted after all, in order to make the film "cut" well. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 35) While the studio had no budget from new studio models, one was actually constructed as something of a labor of love by ILM staffers John Goodson and Bill George, the SD-103-type. The script had a scene featured which both men felt needed embellishment, and so, of their own volition, they constructed the model. (Cinefex, issue 49, p. 48) The model went on to later become the . It has made The Undiscovered Country the feature in which the fewest new Star Trek starship designs were featured. George incidentally turned out to be a stickler for detail; As he was aware that the Excelsior now a new and smaller bridge, he made the effort to replace the originally larger bridge module on the Excelsior-class filming model with a smaller one, in order to reflect the change. (American Cinematographer, January 1992, pp. 58-59) Reportedly, William Shatner was champing at the bit to assume the director's role for the film in order to redeem himself for The Final Frontier, but as writer Flinn had dryly noted, "It's amazing what three million dollars will accomplish." As Shatner had, already since days, entered into a mutual "favored-nation clause" covenant with Nimoy which stipulated that, simply put, what the one got so did the other, this meant that Nimoy was to receive the same remuneration for his portrayal of Spock alone – and thereby discounting his writer's fee. However, it was also the reason why Nimoy, already being two for one in director's chores, declined the original offer by Mancuso to direct the film himself, instead opting for Meyer. It is not only for Star Trek that star cast salaries had habitually inflated exponentially with each sequel, and it had been one of the overriding reasons why Bennett's "Academy"-project was green-lighted originally, but also one of the reasons why Meyer could not give in any further to the budget demands of Kirkpatrick. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 244, 350; Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 30) On the Special Edition release of Star Trek VI, it was revealed that Brock Peters' scene in the council chamber had to be shot in numerous takes, as he was very uncomfortable with the racial undertones in his lines that the Federation take the opportunity to "bring them to their knees", which was itself, a reference to another film in which that line was said about African Americans. Also on the DVD (and in his memoir Star Trek Movie Memories), William Shatner stated that he was unhappy with the final cut of his interchange with Spock in the Council Chamber, as he felt that it made Kirk seem too cynical and bitter. He originally had done the scene in one take, adding a dismissive wave after his comment to "Let them die!" which was subsequently edited out of the final film despite Meyer promising Shatner that he wouldn't do that, according to Shatner. The dinner scene in the officers' mess as scripted was originally longer, and filled with a bit more build up and escalating comments between the Federation and Klingon crews. The scene was originally to build almost to blows, when Gorkon says the line "It seems we have a long way to go." The first scene at Rura Penthe was heavily influenced by The Bridge On the River Kwai, where the commandant of the POW camp gives a similar speech to the new British prisoners. According to Denny Martin Flinn in a audio commentary for The Undiscovered Country, Martia's alien language exclamation "Fendo pompsky" became a popular gag among the crew. Used in place of certain expletives, the line was even embroidered on the inside of the production crew jackets. The romantic comedy was filming at nearby soundstages on the Paramount Pictures lot during production. Director arranged for William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley to appear in full Star Trek costume and makeup, out of camera shot, behind a door in one scene, to elicit genuine surprise from star when he opened it. The poster artwork for the film was designed by John Alvin, who took over from previous Trek poster artist Bob Peak. Alvin was asked to design the poster in the style of Peak's. Co-producer Ralph Winter provided the film with a remarkable coda. Though understandably proud of what he and the creative team had achieved, he had second thoughts on Bennett's abandoned "Academy"-project, reasoning in hindsight that it would have instituted a long-term studio strategy for a sustainable Star Trek live-action production line, as opposed to the somewhat chaotic, spur-of-the-moment planning as hitherto employed. "With a long term plan you could milk this forever," Winter mused. (Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, p. 35) As it so happened, Winter got his wish sooner than even he could have foreseen, as David Kirkpatrick's immediate studio successor turned out to be Brandon Tartikoff. Brought in at the tail-end of the production of The Undiscovered Country, Brandikoff was yet to leave his mark on Star Trek by exactly doing that, what Winter had imagined. Sets, props, and costumes General Chang's eyepatch had the Klingon crest painted on the heads of each rivet. The makeup artist painted them on for fun and they were never intended to be seen. Filming took place during the break between the fourth and fifth seasons of The Next Generation. Most of the Enterprise-A sets were redresses of sets: Kirk and Spock's quarters (Data's quarters, which were originally Kirk's quarters from Star Trek: The Motion Picture) Transporter room (Enterprise-D transporter room) Sickbay (Enterprise-D sickbay) Laboratory (Beverly Crusher's office) Officers' mess hall (the dining room, redress of Enterprise-D observation lounge) Engineering (clear redress of the Enterprise-D engineering; they simply replaced the display graphics and repainted some surfaces) Corridors (retouched with more metallic appearance) Galley (redress of Counsellor Troi's Office, later the bridge) These sets had been in turn recycled by TNG from the first three movies. The TNG warp core was a complete redress of the first movie's warp plasma conduits, Data's quarters a redress of Kirk's and Ilia's quarters. Even the sickbay from TNG was recycled from the movies' sickbay. Captain Kirk's quarters featured two different maps of the Milky Way galaxy created for early TNG episodes () Captain Sulu's coffee table was a bit more than a cute addition to the Excelsior bridge. Beneath it was the support for an apparatus used to shake the whole bridge set during the Praxis explosion. As a side note, you may also notice the coffee cup that broke had no markings on it like the one Sulu was drinking from moments earlier. It was such a nice cup, the prop department didn't want it damaged. A similar table, likely for the same reason, can also be seen on the Enterprise bridge as well, between the captain's chair and the helm/nav console. Pfaltzgraff made the china used in the film, and sold 3,000 sets of reproductions. The company logo can be seen at the bottom of the aforementioned broken cup. The office of the Federation President is a redress of Ten Forward. A viewscreen is located in place of the art ornament behind the bar counter, and the walls are painted with some shade of brown. () The doors for the set accidentally retained the TNG style insignia during filming, and this can clearly be seen in the film. One of the models of the original in Kirk's quarters was built by writer Ronald D. Moore when he was eleven. The book used by Uhura while frantically searching for a linguistic reference of the Klingon language while entering Klingon territory is actually the 1951 catalog for the "Alloy Steel Products Company, Inc.". Interestingly, the title of the modified book states Introduction to Klingon Grammer, in which "grammer" should be spelled as "grammar". Several props and costumes from this movie were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including a Rura Penthe miner's mask , a Vulcan Khitomer attendee's costume , a Klingon court attendee lot , a Klingon canteen , and a Klingon uniform lot, partially worn by Scott Leva. Also sold off was a desk lamp, which was featured during the Starfleet staff meeting. It was designed by F.A. Porsche and labeled as model "Jazz". Miscellaneous Gene Roddenberry saw the movie two days before he died. According to William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories (1995, p. 394), Roddenberry, after seeing the film, gave thumbs up all around, and then went back and phoned his lawyer, Leonard Maizlish, angrily demanding a full quarter-hour of the film's more militaristic moments be removed from the film, but Gene died before his lawyer could present his demands to the studio. Originally, director Nicholas Meyer wanted to bring back composer James Horner, whom he worked with on to score The Undiscovered Country. However, Horner turned the offer down, saying his "career had moved past Star Trek." Meyer then offered the film to composer Jerry Goldsmith, but he turned it down, citing the poor results of , which he had also worked on. The film eventually went to composer Cliff Eidelman. According to the liner notes for the soundtrack album, Meyer's original concept for the score was to adapt Gustav Holst's The Planets, but getting the rights to the music proved too expensive. (Eidelman's score therefore pays homage to Holst, most notably in the opening credits where the score bears a close resemblance to "Mars," the first movement from The Planets.) An excerpt from The Planets was used a few years later in the trailer for . Eidelman was picked because of his extensive knowledge of Holst's "The Planets", having written his master's thesis on the complete suite. This movie and are the only Star Trek films released before the alternate reality films not to use the opening fanfare from the "Theme from Star Trek" in the main title music. According to William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories, the original story credits for the film were to be "Story by Leonard Nimoy and Nicholas Meyer, Screenplay by Denny Martin Flynn" as nothing from the original submission by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal were used in the final film. According to Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, Konner and Rosenthal went to the for arbitration as they felt they should deserve story credit. The WGA spoke to Nimoy and he showed them his notes where he had initially come up with the story idea for the film and they initially sided with Nimoy. However Konner and Rosenthal appealed again and eventually the WGA changed the credits to "Story by Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal, screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flynn," leaving Nimoy out of the credits. An incensed Nimoy contacted his lawyer and said if this weren't resolved by the end of the upcoming weekend, he would immediately sue Paramount and the WGA over the matter. Nimoy's lawyer reportedly worked non-stop over the weekend, working with Meyer's attorney, with Konner and Rosenthal's attorney, until finally coming up with a credit which was acceptable to all: "Story by Leonard Nimoy and Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal, Screenplay by Nicholas Meyer & Denny Martin Flynn." The galley scene was quickly written into the movie just to demonstrate that you can't fire a phaser (set to kill) on board the ship without triggering an alarm. (This raises the question as to why a phaser locker is in the galley. The answer could be found as early as . While the Enterprise is being towed by Balok's ship, Yeoman Janice Rand brings hot coffee to the bridge. Dr. McCoy asks her how she made coffee when the "power was out" in the galley. Her pragmatic answer was, "I used a hand phaser and zap – hot coffee.") The blue food at the dinner scene was so disgusting that actors had to be bribed to eat it. Each actor was offered twenty dollars for every bite. Shatner did it, and won $240, before throwing up. (According to Leonard Nimoy, it was chunks of squid treated with blue food coloring.) Reportedly, Shatner was the only member of the cast able to swallow any of it, and the first time Shatner ate the colored squid, he turned and looked right at Nick Meyer and said, "Where's my twenty?" Meyer called "cut!" and pulled out the twenty and gave it to Shatner. (William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories) Spock attributes the quote "If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" to an ancestor. This quote (and numerous variations) derives from the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Fans, noting the similarities between the characters of Spock and Holmes, have long speculated that Spock might be a descendant (on the side of his Human mother, Amanda Grayson) either of the fictional Holmes or the historical Doyle; the first such speculation is found in a Ruth Berman article in Spockanalia in 1966. Writer/director Nicholas Meyer, a Holmes fan, wrote the well-received Sherlock Holmes novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and adapted it into an Academy Award-nominated screenplay. During the search of all uniforms on board the Enterprise, a crewman takes off the cover of a power conduit. When he moves to put the cover down, you can see production markings on the back. At the dining room, you can see paintings of many dignitaries, including Surak, founder of Vulcan philosophy and American President Abraham Lincoln. The Enterprise crew met recreations of both of them in . Another painting is of an unnamed Andorian dignitary. After the first day of shooting, someone noticed that Valeris's jacket was trimmed in gray, not red, to match her red turtleneck undergarment. Since re-filming would have been too expensive, it was quickly decided to just let it pass. As was her incorrect rank insignia of lieutenant commander. Valeris was only a lieutenant. During the Battle at Khitomer, Uhura mentions that the Enterprise is carrying equipment to study gaseous anomalies. In the beginning of the film, Sulu states that the Excelsior is also on a mission to study gaseous anomalies. It is not clear whether this is done intentionally, as the Enterprises mission is strictly escort duty for the Chancellor's ship. According to George Takei's autobiography To the Stars, early drafts did feature the Excelsior discovering the Bird-of-Prey's weakness and using their gaseous anomaly equipment to find it. According to Takei, William Shatner asked that the scene be re-written, arguing that Captain Kirk would never need anyone to come charging to his rescue. The second edition of the Star Trek Chronology states that the study was a long-term one and that Enterprise, as well as several other Federation ships, had been outfitted with such equipment. The sets for the Excelsior and Enterprise-A bridges were redresses of the same set, which were made up of modules to be rearranged, as needed. In the final shot of the Enterprise bridge crew, the helmsman's chair is left empty, symbolizing that Sulu is not present. In the credits at the end of the movie, Uhura is misspelled "Uhuru." The final scene also has the characters standing in a staged lineup. The producers wanted it known that it was the last movie. The final captain's log was actually shot on the bridge of the Enterprise. This, however, was the last scene shot. Instead of using a dubbed log, they recorded it live. The Khitomer hall was represented by the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, located in southern California. The footage of the Enterprise-A in spacedock is actually modified footage from Star Trek IV (budgetary constraints, as well as the disappearance of the spacedock interior miniature from ILM's archives, dictated its use). This marks the second time that footage shot for a previous film was re-used for a second time (the other being the Genesis sequence from Star Trek II, which also appeared in Star Trek III and Star Trek IV). The Bird-of-Prey explosion from this film was later used in . For some unknown reason, the art on the label for the special features disc of some editions of the Special Collector's Edition features an upside-down close-up image of the Enterprise-B while still in drydock from the film ; Paramount Home Entertainment later corrected this problem by reissuing it as a silver labeled DVD. A similar error occurs on the HD and Blu-ray editions of the film, with the Enterprise-B on the back cover. During the dinner scene, Kirk says that having Romulan ale is "One of the advantages of being a thousand light years from Federation Headquarters." Given that 78 years later, a faster and more advanced would expect to take seventy years to travel seventy thousand light years, one may infer that it would take far longer than a year for the Enterprise to reach the rendezvous point with Kronos One. It is more likely that Kirk was speaking metaphorically and not quoting an exact figure. A scene in the script and novelization took place on Excelsior just after Sulu's conversation with Kirk, where Valtane was to have told Sulu, "Do you realize you've just committed treason, sir?" Sulu was supposed to reply something along the lines of "I always hoped that if I ever had to choose between betraying my country or betraying my friend, I'd have the courage to betray my country." This exchange remained in the novelization. The events of this film were later revisited in , in which it is established that Tuvok served as an ensign aboard the Excelsior. External footage of the Excelsior and the Praxis explosion wave were reused directly from the film, but all other scenes were specially re-shot, partly to include Kate Mulgrew and Tim Russ, who had not appeared in the film originally, but also because the movie's actors had aged significantly since the film was shot, meaning new footage of the actors filmed for the episode would not have matched any of the reused movie footage. As with , this film shows Spock having full command of the Enterprise. In fact, this is the only film in which Spock actually gives Kirk orders. Spock references the events of this film during , citing his guilt over ordering Kirk to be a negotiator in the Klingon peace talks and the consequences that followed. After and , this marks the third time that a shapeshifter has assumed the form of Captain Kirk. A similarly extended, establishing prologue was later envisioned for the subsequent movie, , but it too, though partially filmed, was scrapped for budgetary reasons, as well as for running-time considerations. NBC, Star Treks former network, fittingly premiered Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country on November 6, 1994, a good 12 days in advance of 's nationwide release. It was the first time any kind of Star Trek was seen on The Peacock Network since in 1973. Dating In Star Trek VI, during his trial, Bones says that he has been the ship's surgeon for 27 years. He took the post from Mark Piper at some point in 2265, after , or in early 2266, before . This statement establishes a time frame for the film from 2292 to 2293. The film ends with the last voyage of the ship and crew. The prologue of is set more precisely in 2293, or 78 years before 2371. In the prologue, a news reporter and Scotty talk with Kirk about how he has settled down into his retirement, suggesting that the retirement from the previous film is still a very recent thing for him. StarTrek.com, , and use the year 2293. Memory Alpha uses this year as well. Merchandise gallery Production history 5th draft script: Start of principal photography: End of principal photography: Screening for Gene Roddenberry (2 days before his death): Hollywood, California premiere: US theatrical premiere: CD soundtrack: Comic adaptation: Australia theatrical premiere: Novelization: UK theatrical premiere: Japan theatrical premiere: Germany theatrical premiere: Hungary theatrical premiere: Netherlands theatrical premiere: Spain theatrical premiere: US LaserDisc: France theatrical premiere: Japan LaserDisc: VHS: UK network television premiere: on BBC1 UK LaserDisc: France LaserDisc: Widescreen VHS: Region 1 DVD: Special Edition Region 1 DVD: Special Edition Region 2 DVD: iTunes Store: 2006 Blu-Ray: September 2009 Different versions Aspect ratios. The film was originally filmed and edited in Super 35 (4-perf). It was composed for multiple aspect ratios (meaning that all the important action had to be centered in a fairly small part of the frame). Every release is a reduction (croppings) from the original, never-released full frame using so-called "soft mattes". For theatrical release, the master was reduced to the usual 2.39:1 aspect ratio used for anamorphic 35mm projection (all the other Trek movies were filmed in this ratio, using anamorphic lenses instead of Super 35). A 2.20:1 version was also prepared for 70mm release (the same was done with all the previous Trek films). The film has never been commercially available in either theatrical aspect ratio, until the Blu-ray release. The non-widescreen television broadcasts and VHS releases were reduced to the 1.33:1 aspect ratio, thus easing up the matte on the top and bottom, but cropping some of the sides. Early widescreen VHS and laserdisc transfers and the first DVD release were opened up to yet another ratio, 2.00:1, and then centered high on the screen with space at the bottom for subtitles, but was non-anamorphic. The Special Edition DVD release was opened up to the same 2.00:1 ratio, but was anamorphicly enhanced for widescreen TVs. Which portion of the full frame is used varies from shot to shot, rather than being a purely mechanical reduction – and the choices are made differently in each release, including the two 2.00:1 releases. Apparently the 2.00:1 is the director's preferred aspect ratio. However, for the May 2009 Blu-ray release, the film was made available in its original theatrical ratio of 2.39:1 for the first time. Extra scenes and edits. Until , the theatrical cut had never been released commercially in English (however has aired on TV a few times before then). The original home video release added back in the "Operation Retrieve" scenes (originally, the scene in the president's office ended with the line "This president is not above the law"), the scene between Spock, Scotty and Valeris directly before the trial, and the unmasking of Colonel West on Khitomer (just a few shots are added: Colonel Worf touching West's blood and saying "This is not Klingon blood" between Cartwright trying to escape and Sulu stopping him, the actual unmasking and the C-in-C and Worf looking at each other directly after). These scenes remained in all subsequent commercial releases until . The Special Edition DVD release re-edited the scene when Scotty is drinking coffee from a mug and drawing on a blueprint (using alternate shots) and added in flash frames of Cartwright, Chang, and Nanclus during Spock and Valeris' mind meld and slight alternate takes during her interrogation on the bridge. The original cut, albeit with the 2.00:1 aspect ratio, was present on the dubbed German VHS release. It was also released on iTunes, cut at 2.00:1 (640x320). The various releases of the movie on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in featured the original theatrical cut in its original aspect ratio. The end credits had a different format for the theatrical version. It featured the Starfleet Insignia at the top and the screen split between a white background and dark lettering and the other side with a dark background with white lettering. Apocrypha Star Trek VI was adapted into novelization by Jeanne M. Dillard. A comics adaptation was written by Peter David and drawn by Gordon Purcell and Arne Starr. A novel and comic sequel to the events of this film, The Ashes of Eden, written by William Shatner and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, depicts a plot created by a Klingon-Romulan alliance, staged in Chal, a homeworld populated by a race of genetically-engineered Klingon-Romulans. Kirk is called there by a native of the planet, Teilani, to help her people with this crisis. The conference at Khitomer was explored again in the non-canon Star Trek novel Assignment: Eternity. While it was mentioned in the film that the crew was standing down, it wasn't directly stated that the entire Enterprise senior staff was retiring so it's been generally believed that most of the crew were simply stepping down and retiring from active ship duty. To that end, several novels have postulated that only Kirk, Spock, and Scott actually fully retired and then Spock became part of the diplomatic corps and became an ambassador. The novel Provenance of Shadows established that McCoy started doing research at Starfleet Medical and other novels have had McCoy as Chief of Starfleet Medical as well. clearly establishes that McCoy was an admiral at that point in time. According to the novel The Star to Every Wandering, at the time of , Chekov was working a ground assignment on Earth waiting for an executive officer position to open up. It's likely he was assigned to Excelsior as executive officer shortly thereafter (according to the non-canon novel The Sundered, he took the post of executive officer on the Excelsior), eventually commanding two starships on his own before becoming an admiral. In the movie, Uhura said she was supposed to be chairing a seminar at the Academy, and The Lost Era novels established that she was going to do that very thing when she was recruited for Starfleet Intelligence and eventually rising to become an admiral and head of Intelligence by 2360 at the latest. The Starfleet Corps of Engineers novels have established that Montgomery Scott eventually became the head of the Corps of Engineers and other books established Scott as having helped to design and work on building the . In fact, the novel Ship of the Line, which dealt with the actual launch of the Enterprise-E, established that Scott was acting chief engineer for the ship's shakedown cruise with Geordi La Forge as his first assistant chief. Awards and honors Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country received the following awards and honors. Links and references Credits Uncredited co-stars David Keith Anderson as Enterprise-A crewmember Rene Auberjonois as Colonel West Lena Banks as Federation president's assistant Terrence Beasor as Klingon voices Robert Bruce as Klingon officer Faith Burton as Starfleet flag officer Max Cervantes as Daz Barron Christian as Klingon assistant to Commandant Dragon Dronet as Klingon spectator Andre Dukes as Klingon Rura Penthe guard Douglas Dunning as Alien delegate Joe Durrenberger as Klingon officer Farrel as Klingon General Mark Gonzaga as Vulcan delegate Trent Christopher Ganino as Klingon judge Clay Hodges as Klingon officer Ampy Koran as Klingon officer Klingon helmsman Bruce Koski as Alien delegate Tony Lawson as Klingon Susan Lewis as Enterprise-A officer Beau Lotterman as Romulan delegate Daryl F. Mallett as Rura Penthe prisoner James Mapes as Zelonite official Marin as Enterprise-A crewman Patrick Michael as Enterprise-A crewman Claude Nemeth as Klingon Rura Penthe guard Dennis Ott as Knee Jerk Alien Jim Portnoy as Starfleet flag officer Douglas Price as Khitomer flag bearer Klingon spectator Evans Riccardi as Starfleet flag officer Denise Lynne Roberts as Enterprise-A crewmember Richard Sarstedt as Romulan delegate Eric A. Stillwell as Klingon spectator Roma Lee Tracy as silver tube amazette alien dignitary Guy Vardaman as Klingon officer J.D. Walters as Klingon Clint Zehner as Rura Penthe prisoner Unknown actors as Five Klingon Kronos One crewmen Three Klingon Rura Penthe guards Klingon judge Romulan delegate Romulan delegate Romulan delegate Tellarite delegate Tellarite delegate Tellarite delegate Zelonite ambassador Zelonite official Female USS Excelsior security officer Male USS Excelsior security officer Bekka Branz Chanak Danz Donas Fambi Isang Jarkra Marva Moonsafi Pashtor Raz Rogg Sanarek Sangrom Sheeza Smalla Stoyra Straeth Strath Suryan Tamaron Taral Tashmom Trag Trax Vell Zan Zanatos Zorath Uncredited stunt performers Greg Gault as stunt double for David Warner Dennis Madalone as a Klingon officer Charlie Skeen as Klingon officer Stunt double for Christopher Plummer Stand-ins Patrick Michael as stand-in for Leonard Nimoy Joycelyn Robinson as stand-in for Iman Lita Stevens Kenny Studer Jim Thompson Marty Valinsky Philip Weyland as stand-in for William Shatner Uncredited production staff David Abbott – Special Makeup Effects Artist Aaron Albucher – Assistant Production Accountant Dave Archer – Artwork Provider: Paintings Margaret Bessara – Prosthetic Makeup Artist: David Warner, Kurtwood Smith, and Robert Easton Tom Boyd – Musician: Oboe Barney Burman – Special Makeup Effects Artist Rob Burman – Special Makeup Effects Artist Mary Burton – Makeup Artist: Iman Cogswell Video Services, Inc. – Visual Effects Unit Video Assist Company Danna Edwards – Costumer Robert Fletcher – Costumes Design Christopher Gilman and Dilligent Dwarves Effects Lab – Prop and Wardrobe Creator and Provider Kristin R. 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2045	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier	"The greatest enterprise of all is adventure." When a renegade Vulcan captures the Federation, Klingon, and Romulan ambassadors on Nimbus III, the so-called "planet of galactic peace," it can only mean one thing: the vacation is over. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the new Starship Enterprise-A are pressed back into service to come to the rescue. But, when the Vulcan has a prior association with Spock, it allows him to seize control of the Enterprise and put it on course for the center of the galaxy where he and his followers believe they find the place from which creation sprung. Summary Prologue On the desert planet Nimbus III, a scavenger named J'onn is digging holes in a field. He stops digging and sees, emerging from the dust in the distance, a man riding towards him on a horse. Dismounting from the horse, this man has a strange power to cleanse people of their emotional "pain", which he uses to join the scavenger to his cause. "What is it you seek?" he asks. The man tells him he seeks what he seeks, what all men have sought since time itself began – the ultimate knowledge. To find it, he notes, they will need a starship. J'onn mentions that Nimbus III has no such vessels, but the mysterious man reveals he may have a way to bring one to them. When J'onn asks how he plans to accomplish this, the man throws back his hood, showing the scavenger his distinct pointed Vulcan ears. He then begins laughing. Act One The recently-demoted Captain James T. Kirk is back on Earth, spending his shore leave free climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in North America. Halfway up he is greeted by Spock, who has followed him wearing levitation boots. Dr. McCoy is watching with binoculars from a safe distance while cursing Kirk's "irresponsibility" for climbing the mountain. In a moment of distraction, Kirk falls off of El Capitan. Spock dives after him. After a terrifying moment for the captain, he's snatched from certain death by Spock who catches him by grabbing his ankle only mere centimeters from the ground. Out in the galaxy, three ambassadors from the United Federation of Planets, Romulan Star Empire, and Klingon Empire meet alone in Paradise City on Nimbus III for a private conference. The young Romulan ambassador, Caithlin Dar, rides into Paradise City on a horse, and expresses optimism in Nimbus III, which had been billed as "The Planet of Galactic Peace" at its founding twenty years before. However, the Human and Klingon ambassadors, St. John Talbot and General Korrd, are much more jaded and cynical, and point out that it has rapidly devolved to a barren wasteland rife with corruption and debauchery. Talbot points out that they had forbade weapons, but the settlers began to fashion their own projectile weapons. Korrd, in particular, is a decorated and respected Klingon general who fell out of favor with the Klingon High Command, and has become a bitter, apathetic drunk. Their meeting is interrupted when the city compound is overrun by fanatical followers of the Vulcan who informs the ambassadors that they are his hostages. Caithlin Dar defiantly tells the Vulcan that she doesn't know who he is or what he wants but assures him that their three respective governments will stop at nothing to ensure their safety. The Vulcan retorts "That's exactly what I'm counting on." Sitting in the Earth Spacedock, undergoing repairs and refits, the new sits lifelessly under the care of Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, who notes in the shakedown cruise report that the new Enterprise must have been the product of a team of monkeys – while the warp drive is up to Scott's exacting standards, he laments that half the doors on the ship won't open and that it's his responsibility to repair them, among other disabled systems aboard the ship, primary of which is the ship's transporter. As Scott repairs the helm/navigation console on the main bridge, Nyota Uhura arrives from a turbolift with his dinner – understanding that the extensive repair schedule will cancel their shared plans for shore leave. At that moment, the Enterprises mangled red alert system goes off and a voice from Starfleet announces to Scott and Uhura that they have a priority 7 situation at the Neutral Zone. Scott is incredulous that Starfleet would assign the mission to the Enterprise considering that the ship is currently "in pieces" and has less than a skeleton crew aboard. Uhura asks Starfleet if they are aware of the Enterprises current status. Starfleet acknowledges and tells Uhura to stand by to copy operational orders and to recall all key personnel. Uhura contacts Hikaru Sulu and Pavel Chekov, who are lost hiking in the woods. Chekov is grateful that they'll soon be rescued but warns Sulu not to tell Uhura that they got lost after she instructs them to return to a set of prearranged coordinates. Sulu and Chekov try to explain they're caught in a blizzard and can't see which way they're going. Uhura, monitoring the weather on the sensors, reads nothing but sunny skies and 70 degree Fahrenheit weather and assures them she won't tell anyone about their embarrassing situation as she sends a shuttlecraft to pick them up. "Uhura, I owe you one. Sulu out," the Enterprises helmsman says as he flips shut his communicator. Meanwhile, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are sitting around the campfire at Yosemite, where the three discuss their time together and philosophize about life and death around a pot of whiskey-spiked baked beans, roasting "marsh melons," and singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat", although Spock cannot grasp the meaning of the words and thus declines to sing along. McCoy admonishes Kirk for risking his life on crazy stunts, such as falling off El Capitan earlier and McCoy wonders if it crossed Kirk's mind that he should have died when he fell off. Kirk admits it did – but, even as he fell, he knew he would not die. Spock does not understand. "I've always known... I'll die alone." After Kirk's revelation, McCoy offers that the three of them spend so much time together in space, getting on each other's nerves, yet spend their shore leave together. Kirk believes that while other people have families, they don't. Out in space, the long-lost Earth probe Pioneer 10 is intercepted by a Klingon Bird-of-Prey commanded by the young Klingon warrior Klaa, who easily vaporizes the probe with his disruptors. Klaa tires of shooting space garbage, as he believes it is no test of a warrior's mettle, and wishes for a target that will fight back. The Klingons are soon notified about the hostage situation on Nimbus III as well, which piques Klaa's interest as it is obvious that the Federation will send a ship of their own to deal with the situation and sets his course for Nimbus III. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy's leave is interrupted when Uhura takes the down to their campsite in Yosemite since the Enterprises transporters are inoperative, waking up all three men with the Galileos bright landing lights. She informs Kirk of important orders from Starfleet Command. Kirk wonders why she didn't contact him via his communicator but she notes he conveniently forgot it. The Galileo eventually arrives in the Enterprises shuttlebay and the problems with the starship are immediately obvious to Kirk as the turbolift malfunctions en route to the bridge, a console shorts out and the viewscreen barely works. Chief of Starfleet Operations Fleet Admiral Bob eventually comes through and orders Kirk to Nimbus III and assess the hostage situation. Kirk tries to decline the mission due to the problems plaguing the ship and suggests another vessel nearby handle the situation. The admiral refuses on the grounds that while there may be other ships out there, none of their captains are as experienced as Jim Kirk. With an "oh, please" dismissal on his lips, Kirk signs off and orders the Enterprise to Nimbus III. Klaa and his crew discover that the Enterprise has been dispatched to Nimbus III as well. Klaa is well familiar with the Enterprise being Kirk's vessel and wonders what defeating Kirk in battle would do for his reputation. His first officer Vixis marvels that destroying the Enterprise and and defeating Kirk would make Klaa the greatest warrior in the galaxy. Klaa, originally hoping for an engagement with just any Federation starship, is now elated at his chance to fight Kirk and the Enterprise and orders maximum speed. The Enterprise, so plagued with technical problems that Kirk can't even record an entry in the captain's log recorder, finally receives a copy of the hostage tape sent from Nimbus III. In the tape, Dar, Talbot, and Korrd plead with the Federation to send a starship to parlay for their release at once, per the instructions of the leader of the Galactic Army of Light, the Vulcan who enters the frame and begins addressing the Federation. He claims to regret his desperate act and has no desire to harm the hostages but will do so if the Federation does not respond immediately. Spock, taken with the Vulcan, calls up a freeze frame of him on his science station's monitor and regards it intently. Kirk wonders if Spock is familiar with him. Later, Spock is in solitude in the Enterprises observation lounge when Kirk and McCoy join him. Spock recounts for Kirk and McCoy a brief history of Sybok, a gifted Vulcan who at a young age broke with tradition and decided that emotion, not logic, was the key to self-knowledge. According to Spock, Sybok was banished from when he attempted to lure other Vulcans to his worldview. Act Two The Enterprise arrives first at Nimbus III. Paradise City demands to know their intentions but Kirk tells Uhura to respond with static and make them think they are having some difficulties – which is not far from the truth. Kirk tries to simply beam the hostages aboard but Scott tells him that the transporter is still inoperative. The captain realizes they'll have to go down and take them out by force. However, Spock detects the Bird-of-Prey entering the area leaving them 1.9 hours before their weapons come to bear. An assault team consisting of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Uhura, and a detail of security personnel head down in the Galileo leaving Chekov in command of the Enterprise. Despite the primitive scanning equipment of the natives of Nimbus III, their sensors are nevertheless effective and it forces the Galileo to land significantly far away from the settlement. Meanwhile, Chekov hails Paradise City from the Enterprise and poses as the ship's commanding officer with the intention of distracting the enemy from Kirk's actions. The Vulcan responds and is amused by Chekov's posturing, who orders him to release the hostages or suffer the consequences. Chekov, not backing down, informs the Vulcan that a Klingon vessel is on the way. The Vulcan, unmoved, replies that it's likely that they'll be fairly angry. Chekov tries to impress upon him that the Klingons are likely to destroy the whole planet but the Vulcan knows that a Federation starship would not stand idly by and let the Klingons do that. He then instructs Chekov and his first officer to beam down to his coordinates. Chekov tries to stall the Vulcan as Kirk and Spock realize that they don't have enough time to get to Paradise City on foot. The captain notices a stable of horses through his binoculars and has Uhura perform a seductive dance (with a team of armed security guards out of sight) to distract the wranglers while the assault team steals the horses. The ploy works and the assault team rides into Paradise City. Under the cover of nightfall and covered in cloaks, the assault team looks no different than the wranglers. J'onn believes them to be their lookout party and allows them access to Paradise City. However, J'onn soon becomes suspicious as Spock locates the hostages on his tricorder. The Galactic Army of Light begins to open fire on the assault team with their primitive weapons, but they respond with their Starfleet-issue phasers. The Vulcan becomes aware of the commotion outside and Chekov orders him to surrender at once as he is under attack by superior Federation forces. The Vulcan is incensed as bloodshed is the last thing he wanted. Chekov tries to reason with him but he flees. Kirk fights hand to hand with the Galactic Army of Light's warriors and the fight continues. With a clear entrance into the bar where the hostages are being held, Kirk orders Uhura to bring the Galileo down so they can make a quick escape and goes for the captives. After a brief struggle with an exotic alien dancer, Kirk and Spock free the hostages. However, Korrd and Dar turn their weapons on them and hold Kirk and Spock hostage instead. Outside the bar, the Galactic Army of Light has also captured the Galileo, Uhura, Sulu, McCoy, and the rest of the security detail. As they loudly cheer their victory, the Vulcan suddenly recognizes Spock among the group and joyfully reveals that he is, in fact, Sybok. However, Spock is not cheered by the apparent reunion and informs Sybok that he is under arrest for seventeen violations of the Neutral Zone Treaty. Sybok and the others laugh at the notion – they clearly have the Enterprise team outnumbered. Spock offers Sybok leniency if he surrenders, but Sybok jovially announces he can't surrender as he isn't through violating the treaty and intends for his next crime to be the theft of something "very big" – the Enterprise herself. Kirk finally speaks up and indignantly inquires if Sybok has staged this entire affair just to get his hands on his ship. Sybok, equally indignantly, wonders who Kirk even is. He clarifies that he is the captain of the Enterprise. Sybok realizes that Chekov had been deceiving him and applauds Kirk's clever tactics but moves on and asks Spock if he would like to join him. Kirk is also curious as to what Spock will say but Spock simply states that he is a Starfleet officer. Sybok understands and states he will just take the Enterprise without Spock's help. Unaware of the serious situation on the planet's surface, Chekov and Scott are faced with another serious situation – the Klingon vessel is closing on their position. Klaa orders their cloaking device engaged in preparation for their attack on the Enterprise. Scott notes the loss of the Bird-of-Prey on sensors and deduces they must have cloaked. Chekov, knowing his first responsibility is to the ship, orders Scott to raise shields. Scott protests that the shuttlecraft is coming up from the surface but Chekov firmly repeats his order and follows it up with an order to go to red alert. Scott obliges and the Enterprise prepares for battle. The Galileo approaches the Enterprise and while Kirk retains his command of his officers, Sybok and his followers have them all under their command. Talbot informs them that once they have seized control of the Enterprise, they will bring up the rest of the Galactic Army of Light. Kirk, in an untenable position, laments that with the Klingons on their way, they will be lucky to even get back to the ship at all. Chekov hails the Galileo, informs them of the situation and recommends they find a safe harbor until the situation is secured. However, Sybok refuses and orders Kirk to bring them aboard. Kirk desperately tries to explain to Sybok that in order to dock the Galileo, the Enterprise will be vulnerable to a Klingon attack as her shields must be down for at least fifteen seconds to enter the shuttlebay. Korrd tells Sybok that Kirk is speaking the truth but Sybok refuses to return to Nimbus III. He allows Kirk to take whatever action is necessary in order to get the Galileo aboard. Kirk tells Chekov that they cannot return to the planet and cryptically tells him to stand by in executing "Emergency Landing Plan B." Chekov and Scott have no idea what Kirk is talking about but get the general idea when Kirk says that "B" stands for "barricade." Kirk intends to forgo the tractor beam and fly the shuttlecraft in manually in order to minimize the time the Enterprises shields will be down. Klaa, meanwhile, has been monitoring the communications channel and realizes that Kirk is on the shuttle and alters his attack course to bear down on the Galileo. The Enterprise lowers her shields just as the Bird-of-Prey decloaks. Sulu engages the shuttle's thrusters and makes a hasty course for the shuttlebay. With no tractor beam, the shuttlecraft blasts into the bay, throwing its occupants to the deck and knocking out its systems. The barricade in the shuttlebay flies up to contain the craft before it crashes through the wall and decompresses additional compartments of the ship. The Bird-of-Prey fires at the Enterprise, but Chekov orders immediate warp speed and she streaks away just as the torpedo misses. Klaa is enraged but impressed at Kirk's cunning and orders his officers to track the Enterprises course. In the Galileo, the Starfleet officers and the outlaws are in various states of unconsciousness from the crash. Sybok recovers as Kirk does and both note a projectile weapon on the deck. They struggle for it but Sybok gets the upper hand and orders Kirk to change course at once. The captain agrees to take Sybok to the bridge but tries to get the weapon away from Sybok as they disembark from the shuttle. The Vulcan easily outmatches Kirk in physical strength and grabs him in a choke hold. Kirk is able to get the weapon away from him and it slides across the deck to the feet of Spock, who picks it up and orders Sybok to surrender. Sybok refuses and bluntly tells Spock he must kill him. Kirk bellows for Spock to "SHOOT HIM!" but Spock cannot and the weapon is confiscated by Sybok, who is relieved as he thought Spock might have actually done it. J'onn takes an injured Dr. McCoy and Kirk to the brig as Sybok asks Spock to accompany him to the bridge but again Spock refuses. Sybok tells him he has no choice but to join his friends in confinement. Korrd, Dar, and Talbot escort Sulu and Uhura out of the Galileo as Sybok requests a moment alone with them in order to release their pain as he had done to the others. From the observation deck, a disturbed Scott watches as the Galactic Army of Light pour out of the Galileo and out to the rest of the ship and goes into hiding. In the brig, Kirk is cursing Spock for betraying the entire crew. Spock says it's worse than that – he's betrayed Kirk and does not expect the captain to forgive him. Kirk simply cannot believe it – why wouldn't Spock defend his ship and follow orders and just pull the trigger on the weapon he had on Sybok. Spock claims he could not because Kirk ordered him to kill his brother. Kirk is incredulous and claims Spock is lying because he knows for a fact that Spock does not have a brother. Spock agrees that Kirk is technically correct – he has a half-brother. Dr. McCoy tries to make sense of it all – that Spock and Sybok have the same father but different mothers. Spock says that Sybok's mother was a Vulcan princess and upon her death, Sybok and he were raised as brothers. Kirk can't believe Spock never mentioned any of this to them before and Spock apologizes for it. Kirk is fuming but McCoy tells him to stop berating Spock as he could no more kill Sybok than he could kill Kirk. More to the point, they have bigger problems to deal with like escaping from the brig. "I'll say one thing, Spock. You never cease to amaze me," McCoy says. "Nor I myself," Spock responds. Kirk, sitting on the brig's toilet, shakes his head. On the bridge, Sulu and Uhura enter with several of Sybok's followers. Chekov wonders where Kirk is but Uhura tells him not to worry about it – Sybok will explain everything. As Sybok's followers begin to take up positions on the bridge, Sulu begins entering commands into the navigation console. Chekov demands to know what he's doing as Sulu answers that he is plotting their new course. Chekov is incredulous as Sulu has no authority to take that action. Sybok arrives on the bridge as Chekov demands an explanation. All Sulu will say is that Chekov simply has to listen to Sybok. The Vulcan tells Chekov that he won't force him into anything but encourages him to share his pain with Sybok as all the others have and gain strength from it. As a result, Chekov can't help but be taken into Sybok's cause like the rest. In the brig, several efforts to escape are proven to be fruitless as Spock has personally tested the new design of the brig and found it to be "escape-proof." Back on the bridge, Sybok has fully assumed command of the Enterprise as they proceed on their new course at warp 7. As they are now underway, Sybok announces his intentions to the rest of the ship. Via the ship's intercom and computer terminals, Sybok asks the crew of the Enterprise to consider the questions of existence – the same questions that man himself has considered ever since he looked up at the stars and dreamed. They dreamed about a place where questions of existence would be answered. Although modern dogma says that place is a myth, Sybok believes it exists and has taken the Enterprise with the intent of making the greatest discovery of all time – the discovery of Sha Ka Ree, which lies beyond the Great Barrier at the center of the galaxy. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy watch from the brig. Kirk is alarmed as the center of the galaxy cannot be reached – no ship has ever entered the Great Barrier and no probe has ever returned. Suddenly, a mysterious tapping sound is heard coming from the wall of the brig. Kirk and Spock immediately recognize it as Morse code – the taps spelling out the letters, "S", "T", "A", N", "D", "B", "A", C", "K." As they realize what the message wants them to do, the wall explodes outwards and Scott, from the other side, chides them for not recognizing a jail break when they see one. Sybok, Sulu, J'onn, and some followers enter the brig – Sybok still intent on converting Kirk, Spock, and McCoy to join his cause but realize they have escaped. He orders Sulu and J'onn to find them. Below decks, Scott tells Kirk that the crew is sympathetic to Sybok and they cannot be trusted now. Spock reminds Kirk of the emergency communications transmitter in the observation lounge but they cannot easily access it as it is in the forward section of the ship, far and away from their current position near the bottom of the secondary hull. Scott tells them they may be able to avoid the search parties if they get there by accessing turboshaft 3 as it is closed for repairs, but warns it's a long and dangerous climb. Kirk tells Scott to finish repairing the transporter because they'll need it if they can contact a rescue ship and head for the turboshaft. As they depart, Scott inadvertently smacks his head off a low-clearance bulkhead and falls unconscious just as the red alert goes off – the search parties consisting of Sybok's followers mobilize to find Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. Sulu and J'onn quickly find Scott's unconscious body and rush him to sickbay. As the trio begin their climb, Spock immediately makes a quick and quiet exit – he realizes that using the levitation boots will be much faster than climbs up all those decks. Kirk and McCoy join him, but their added weight is too much for the boots and they begin to descend back to the bottom of the turboshaft where Sulu and a contingent of Sybok's followers have found them. Kirk orders Spock to use the booster rockets on the boots but Spock warns against it. Kirk is insistent and Spock obliges, but the boosters propel them upward at an incredible rate, nearly right into the top of the shaft. Nevertheless, they exit the shaft and head for the observation lounge. From the lounge, Kirk sends out a distress call on the emergency channel. Starfleet Command responds, and Kirk informs them that they've been hijacked by a hostile force that has put them on a direct course for the Great Barrier and they require immediate assistance. However, the responding voice is not in fact Starfleet Command, it is Vixis aboard the Bird-of-Prey, impersonating a Starfleet officer. After Kirk signs off, Klaa orders them into the Great Barrier as well with the intent of following Kirk wherever he goes. As the three exit the lounge, they are intercepted by Sybok and his armed followers, who trusts that their message has been received. Kirk claims that he can't expect them to sit by and let Sybok take the Enterprise into the Great Barrier. Sybok claims that what Kirk really fears about the Great Barrier is that it is an unknown and cites numerous examples from Earth's history about similar fears – Christopher Columbus proving the Earth was round, Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier, and Zefram Cochrane achieving warp speed. Sybok desperately wants Kirk's respect and understanding and challenges the captain to hear him out. Meanwhile, in sickbay, Scott has recovered and returns to work on repairing the transporter. Sybok continues to speak of Sha Ka Ree to Kirk, Spock, and McCoy – that it is Heaven, an Eden. The Klingons, Romulans, and Andorians all have different names for it but they all have a shared concept of it. For the Enterprise, that concept will soon be a reality. Kirk is less than convinced, however – the only reality he knows is that he is a prisoner aboard his own ship and challenges Sybok about the power he has over the minds of his crew. Sybok retorts that he doesn't control minds – he frees them. McCoy, a bit more inquisitive, wonders how this is accomplished. Sybok explains that he forces people to face their pain and draw strength from it. Once that's the done, he continues, fear cannot stop you. McCoy is less than convinced and compares it to brainwashing. Sybok begins to peer into McCoy's pain, claiming it runs the deepest of the three of them – he can feel it, surely McCoy can. An apparition begins to appear in the corner of the room – an elderly man in a bed, sick and dying, calling out to him. McCoy approaches it and discovers that it is his father, David. McCoy begs Sybok not to put him through this memory but Sybok continues. David weakly begs his son to help him – the pain of the disease that is afflicting him is too much to bear and wishes to be released. McCoy turns to Sybok and laments that with all his medical knowledge, he can't save his father. Sybok whispers to McCoy that's he's a doctor – he should know the reality of that life. McCoy responds that he's also his father's son and deactivates the life support system sustaining him. He watches as his father dies before his eyes. Sybok questions why McCoy did it, who responds that he did it to preserve his father's dignity. But Sybok knows that the act itself wasn't the pain the McCoy carried with him all these years. McCoy admits that it wasn't – the real sorrow was that not long after he released his father, a cure to the disease was found – had he not killed him, he might have lived. McCoy doesn't know if he did the right thing or not and hasn't been able to answer that question all this time. His pain has been released. Sybok next turns his attention to Spock, claiming each person's pain is unique. Spock claims to hide no pain but Sybok doesn't believe him. Spock allows Sybok to proceed and another apparition appears. The image of Amanda Grayson giving birth to Spock on Vulcan appears. As Spock is born, the midwife presents the child to Sarek, who coldly regards the infant and dismisses him as being "so Human." Kirk regards Spock who is disquieted by the experience. Sybok claims he has done nothing to either Spock or McCoy and wonders if Kirk knew this about either of them. Kirk claims he did not. Sybok offers to help Kirk learn something about himself but the captain refuses. McCoy tries to tell Kirk to be a bit more open-minded about what Sybok is proposing but Kirk can't believe any of it. He knows what his mistakes are and doesn't need Sybok to point them out to him. McCoy tries to tell Kirk that Sybok took away his pain but Kirk tries to tell him that he being a doctor should know better than anyone that pain can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand – the good and bad experiences in one's life is what makes us who we are. If one loses that, they lose themselves. Kirk is adamant that he doesn't want his pain taken away, he needs it. At that moment, Uhura's voice comes over the intercom from the bridge that the Enterprise is in approach of the Great Barrier. Sybok regrets he couldn't help Kirk but believes he has swayed Spock and McCoy to his cause and asks them to join him on the bridge. McCoy agrees to go but Spock still refuses to join – he belongs right where he is, which is by Kirk's side. Sybok doesn't understand but Spock explains that while Sybok is his brother, he does not know Spock. Since the time he was an outcast boy on Vulcan until now, Spock has found himself and his place and knows who he is and he cannot go with Sybok. This rings true to McCoy, who chooses to stay with Kirk and Spock. Sybok, with a smile, allows them to remain. Kirk is still unconvinced that the Enterprise will survive the trip through the Great Barrier. Sybok challenges Kirk to be convinced that his vision was true if they do survive. Sybok claims his vision came from God, who waits for the Enterprise on the other side of the Great Barrier. Kirk cannot believe his ears and claims that Sybok is mad. Sybok, allowing the possibility to exist, says that they will see. Act Three The Enterprise bears down on the Great Barrier. The bridge crew, along with the three ambassadors, Sybok, and his followers, are awestruck by the swirling vortex of blue and green colored electrical energy discharging before them on the viewscreen. Sulu ominously reminds Sybok that it's been said that no ship can survive the Great Barrier but Sybok disagrees – the danger is an illusion. Chekov cannot get any sensor readings on the phenomena – is it there or isn't it? Sybok is convinced it isn't and orders Sulu to enter the Barrier. The Enterprise engages her impulse engines and breaches the barrier. The journey through is not as dangerous as had been predicted as the starship rather easily completes the journey. As the distortion clears, a planetoid appears through the mist, which looks to be made of pure energy. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy watch from the observation lounge and are awestruck, as is the rest of the crew. Sybok is overjoyed – he believes this planet is Sha Ka Ree. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy return to the bridge. Sybok says the ship needs its captain and returns command to Kirk with no conditions as he believes that even though Kirk didn't believe Sybok before, what they have discovered would seem to indicate he was right and Kirk won't refuse to investigate it. His assumption is correct and Kirk agrees to take a landing party down to the planet via a shuttlecraft and asks that the rest of Sybok's followers remain aboard until he has determined exactly what they have found. "Well, don't just stand there. God's a busy man," he says just prior to entering the turbolift. The shuttlecraft heads down to the planet carrying Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Sybok. As they descend, Spock discovers that some external force has taken control of the shuttlecraft and lands it for them. Kirk wants to bring a phaser along with him but Sybok recommends he leaves it behind. Kirk agrees and the four make their way down the mountain range. As the crew watch in amazement from the bridge, no one notices on the sensors that Klaa's Bird-of-Prey has entered into sensor range. Sybok calls out to whatever force might be on the planet that they have traveled far but gets no response. With nothing apparently there, Spock attempts to console Sybok but the ground begins to shake. Large pillars explode out of the ground to form a large amphitheater-like enclosure and the sky turns completely dark. As the four move in to investigate, a magnificent blue pillar of light bursts from within the enclosure, far up into the sky and outstretching past the Enterprise in orbit. A booming voice calls out to them. McCoy wonders if it is the voice of God and indeed, a face appears that claims to suit the expectation of such an entity. Sybok is convinced and vindicated. The entity claims that the journey to reach him could not have been an easy one. Sybok agrees that it wasn't – it took a starship to breach the Great Barrier. The entity wonders if this starship could carry his wisdom beyond the barrier. Sybok agrees that it could and the entity makes claim to the Enterprise. Sybok jubilantly calls the vessel his chariot. Kirk, however, is less than convinced. Why would God need a starship? The entity continues to boast what it will do with the Enterprise but Kirk presses on and repeats his question. The entity asks who Kirk thinks he is. Again, Kirk is incredulous – wouldn't it know if it really were God? Sybok tells the entity that Kirk simply has his doubts. The entity is outraged that Kirk would have the audacity to doubt it. Kirk simply states he seeks proof but McCoy cautions Kirk not to ask the Almighty for identification. The entity answers all of Kirk's questions by blasting him backwards with an electrical charge emanating from its "eyes". Kirk, almost mockingly, asks why "God" is angry? Sybok cannot believe that he would attack his friend, Kirk, like this. Spock presses Kirk's issue on as the entity has not answered anything and repeats the question – "what does God need with a starship?" The entity attack Spock as it did Kirk. It then turns its attention to McCoy and dares him to doubt it as well. McCoy claims he would doubt any God who would inflict pain for his own pleasure. Sybok claims to the entity that the God of Sha Ka Ree would not do such things. The entity mocks Sybok's vision of Sha Ka Ree as a vision that Sybok created himself and morphs itself into an image of Sybok and demands that he give him the Enterprise or he will destroy all four of them. It is now apparent that the this is not the God of Sha Ka Ree, Spock says, or any other God but merely a malevolent life form imprisoned on this planet behind the Great Barrier and it simply needs the Enterprise to escape. Sybok turns to Spock and cannot believe any of it. He claims his own vanity and arrogance created this situation and now he must do what he has to do to ensure that Spock, Kirk, and McCoy are protected from the entity. He begs Spock to forgive him and holds up his hand in the Vulcan salute. Spock returns it as Sybok asks the entity about his pain. The entity is caught off-guard by the question. Sybok claims it runs deep and attacks the entity. As they struggle, Kirk, on his communicator, orders Sulu and Chekov aboard the Enterprise to fire a photon torpedo at the encompassing entity. Chekov protests as Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are too close but Kirk tells him to fire immediately. The Enterprise opens fire and the torpedo obliterates the amphitheater. Spock laments about Sybok, who has been lost in the blast but the entity has not been completely destroyed. Kirk and the others make a hasty escape back to the Copernicus but Spock finds that the thrusters have been rendered inoperative as the entity then violently shakes the shuttlecraft. Kirk flips open his communicator and begs with Scott to tell him that he has finally repaired the transporter. Scott replies that it has partial power and might be able to beam up two of them. Kirk tells Scott to bring up Spock and McCoy, the latter of which protests all the way up. Back aboard, Spock instructs Scott to now bring up the captain, but before he can, Klaa's Bird-of-Prey opens fire on the unshielded Enterprise, severely damaging her. Kirk now finds himself face to face with the entity, who has manifested itself in the cockpit of the Copernicus. The captain takes off running with the entity in pursuit. Spock and McCoy return to the bridge, which is in a state of disarray. Klaa hails them and claims he hasn't destroyed them yet because he has come for James T. Kirk and promises to spare the lives of the crew if Kirk is handed over. Spock claims that Captain Kirk is not among them, he is on the planet below. Klaa wants his coordinates but Spock has a better idea. He asks General Korrd for his assistance as he is Klaa's superior officer. Korrd is skeptical about what good he can do as, while he might have been a great military leader at one time, he is now a "foolish old man." Spock implores Korrd to at least try and rehails Captain Klaa, stating that someone wishes to speak with him. On the surface of the planet, Kirk is pursued by the entity. With nowhere to hide from it, Kirk stares down his impending death as the entity closes in for the kill when Klaa's Bird-of-Prey closes in and destroys it with a thunderous blast from its disruptors. Kirk realizes that the Klingons have obvious come for him themselves as they beam him aboard. The captain is escorted to the bridge where, to his great surprise, General Koord has ordered Captain Klaa to apologize to Kirk – the attack on the Enterprise was not authorized by the Klingon Empire. Koord entreats Kirk to meet the new gunner of the Bird-of-Prey. From the gunnery chair, Spock spins around and welcomes Kirk aboard – it was Spock who saved Kirk's life from the entity. Kirk tells him that he thought he was going to die, echoing their earlier conversation around the campfire. Spock, likewise, tells him that it was impossible as the captain was never alone. Kirk, feeling like he wants to hug Spock, moves to do so but Spock advises against it – not in front of the Klingons. Aboard the Enterprise, the Starfleet crew hosts a reception in the observation lounge for the Galactic Army of Light, the three ambassadors and Klaa's crew, reflecting on their voyage to the center of the galaxy. Even Klaa himself offers a sign of respect to Captain Kirk, one warrior to another, which Kirk reciprocates. As McCoy and Spock speculate on whether or not God is actually out there, Kirk postulates that while God might not be out in space, perhaps he goes with them wherever they are in the Human heart. As Spock mourns the death of his brother, Kirk comforts him by relating that he once lost a brother. While McCoy may have thought he was referring to his late brother George Samuel Kirk, the captain adds that he was lucky enough to get that brother back, implying Spock, instead. McCoy challenges Kirk's earlier claim at the campfire that "men like us don't have families", but, Kirk concedes that he was wrong – that both Spock and McCoy are his family, and the three of them resume their trip in Yosemite, this time with Spock singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and playing the song on his Vulcan harp. Log entries ", shakedown cruise report. I think this new ship was put together by monkeys! Oh, she's got a fine engine, but half the doors won't open! And guess whose job it is to make it right!" "Captain's log, stardate: 845... (malfunction, tapping sounds) Captain's log, stardate: 84... (malfunction, computer voice saying "Good morning, captain.") That's... forget it." Memorable quotes "Each man hides a secret pain. It must be exposed and reckoned with. It must be dragged from the darkness and forced into the light." - Sybok, talking to J'onn "You'll have a great time, Bones. You'll enjoy your shore leave. You'll be able to relax.' You call this relaxing? I'm a nervous wreck. If I'm not careful I might end up talking to myself." - McCoy, talking to himself "Captain, I do not think you realize the gravity of your situation." "On the contrary, gravity is the foremost on my mind!" - Spock, with levitation boots, and Kirk "Goddamn irresponsible! Playing games with life!" - McCoy "Mind if we drop in for dinner?" - Kirk, to McCoy, after Spock saves him from his fall "Borgus frat! 'Let's see what she's got,' said the captain. And then we found out, didn't we?!" - Scott, complaining about the shape of the Enterprise "You really piss me off, Jim! Human life is far too precious to risk on crazy stunts!" - McCoy, to Kirk "I've always known I'll die alone." - Kirk, on how he knew he would survive his fall "It's a song, you green-blooded... Vulcan. You sing it. The words aren't important. What's important is that you have a good time singing it." "Oh, I am sorry, doctor. Were we having a good time?" "God, I liked him better before he died!" - McCoy and Spock, after Spock did not join in singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" "Captain." "Spock, we're on leave. You can call me Jim." "Jim." "Yes, Spock?" "Life is not a dream." "Go to sleep, Spock." "Yes, captain." - Spock and Kirk, after Spock had been pondering the meaning of the words to "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" "You told me you could get this ship running in two weeks. I gave you three! What happened?" "I think you gave me too much time, captain." - Kirk and Scott, regarding the Enterprises technical difficulties "I could use a shower." "Yes." - Kirk and Spock, in the turbolift on the Enterprise "Jim, if you ask me – and you haven't – I think this is a bad idea. We're bound to bump into the Klingons, and they don't exactly like you." "The feeling's mutual." - McCoy and Kirk, on the Nimbus III mission "We'll beat those Klingon devils even if I have to get out and push." - Scott, to Kirk "I miss my old chair." - Kirk, to McCoy "Imagine that. A passionate Vulcan." - McCoy, as Spock describes Sybok "Hello, boys. I've always wanted to play to a captive audience." - Uhura "Be one with the horse!" - Kirk to Spock, riding to Paradise City "Forgive you? I ought to knock you on your goddamn ass!" "If you think it would help." "You want me to hold him, Jim?" - Kirk, Spock, and McCoy "I'll say one thing, Spock. You never cease to amaze me." "Nor I, myself." - McCoy and Spock "This person didn't by chance have pointed ears and an unending capacity for getting his shipmates into trouble, did he?" "He did have pointed ears." - Kirk and Spock, regarding the tests of the brig "Spock, my only concern is getting the ship back. When that's done and Sybok isn't here, then you can debate Sha Ka Ree until you're green in the face." - Kirk to Spock, touching on his Vulcan heritage "What are you standing around for?! Do you not know a jailbreak when you see one?!" - Scott, rescuing Kirk, Spock, and McCoy from the brig "I know this ship like I know the back of my hand." - Scott, before banging his head into a bulkhead "I'm afraid of nothing." - Kirk "I don't control minds. I free them." - Sybok, to Kirk "I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain!" - Kirk, refusing Sybok's offer "You are mad." "Am I? We'll see..." - Kirk and Sybok "Are we dreaming?" "If we are, then life is a dream." - McCoy and Kirk, as the Enterprise passes through the Great Barrier "Is this the voice of God?" "One voice, many faces." - McCoy and "God" "What does God need with a starship?" - Kirk, challenging "God" "Who is this creature?" "Who am I? Don't you know? Aren't you God?" - "God" and Kirk "Jim, you don't ask the Almighty for his ID!" - McCoy "Why is God angry?" - Kirk "You have not answered his question! What does God need with a starship?" - Spock "Do you doubt me?" "I doubt any god who inflicts pain for his own pleasure." - "God" and McCoy, after "God" strikes Kirk and Spock "Stop! The god of Sha Ka Ree would not do this!!" "Sha Ka Ree?! A vision you created. An eternity I've been imprisoned in this place! The ship. I must have the ship! Now... give me what I want!" - Sybok and "God" "What's wrong? Don't you like this face? I have so many, but this one suits you best." - "God", after transforming into a clone of Sybok "I couldn't help but notice your pain." "My pain?" "It runs deep. Share it with me!" - Sybok and "God", before Sybok sacrifices himself "General, I require your assistance." "My assistance?" "You are his superior officer." "I am a foolish old man." "Damn you, sir! You will try!" - Spock and Korrd "I thought I was going to die." "Not possible. You were never alone." - Kirk and Spock, on the bridge of the Klingon ship "Please, captain. Not in front of the Klingons." - Spock, refusing Kirk's hug "Cosmic thoughts, gentlemen?" "We were, speculating... is God really out there?" "Maybe He's not out there, Bones. Maybe He's right here... the Human heart." - Kirk and McCoy, on the possibility of God "I was thinking of Sybok. I have lost a brother." "Yes. I lost a brother once. But I was lucky, I got him back." - Spock and Kirk, as Kirk refers to Spock as his brother Background information Co-Writer and Director William Shatner once remarked that he initially intended this movie to be written by thriller and fantasy author . "My biggest failure [in the making of the film] was I had read some books by Eric Van Lustbader, who had written some wonderful novels about an American in Japan and how out of place he felt. I thought, 'God, that'd be perfect for a Spock movie.' I went to see him and we walked the streets of New York pondering the plot of Star Trek," Shatner recalled. "He was a fan. I thought, 'God, I've got a bestselling author ready to do a Star Trek.' And then they couldn't agree on the novel rights. So I lost him and my movie was going downhill before it even started." (50 Years of Star Trek, p. 15) William Shatner stated in his memoir Star Trek Movie Memories (1995, pp. 278-279) that he came up with the story idea of the search for what turned out to be a false god, while he was watching the at-the-time controversial televangelist couple Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, on television. He became amazed and disgusted by the idea how such vulgar people had the audacity to purport they alone were the harbingers of God and had become rich from donations by their followers. Though Paramount Pictures President Frank Mancuso, Sr. was a religious man, he was sympathetic to Shatner's story outline and green-lit the production of the movie when Shatner pitched his story outline to him in person. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, p. 282) Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry had, since , no formal creative say in the by that time, only the title of "Executive Consultant". All subsequent movies were vehemently resisted by Roddenberry, particularly The Final Frontier. Roddenerry went as far as to have his attorney Leonard Maizlish prepare legal procedures against Shatner. The legal action did not proceed. Roddenberry's position did not allow for this but Roddenberry declared the film "apocryphal". (Star Trek FAQ 2.0, chapter 13; Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 283-284) The Final Frontier approximated Roddenberry's atheist worldview, and was reminiscent of his own unrealized movie script The God Thing, a reworked version of which became In Thy Image and then, reworked further, the script for The Motion Picture. Richard Arnold, who was working at Roddenberry's office at the time, was present when the first story outline of The Final Frontier was delivered to Roddenberry as an FYI, later explaining to Shatner why Roddenberry reacted as he did, "So when you came along, though it was years later, with very similar themes, Gene was really hurt. I think it hurt Gene's ego that you finally going to tell the story that he wanted to tell ten years earlier. You were about to succeed where he had failed. At the time, Gene's secretary, Susan was making matters worse by walking around the office stating things like 'I can't believe it! He stole your idea. Bill's an asshole. Bill's a bastard.' So that did not help, and additionally, I know there was a fairly legitimate concern on Gene's part that your sense of humor [in regard to the way the secondary cast was eventually portrayed in the movie] was a little different than had ever been visualized before." While Susan Sackett's reaction might be construed as personally motivated, she actually had, in all fairness, a point; Shatner himself has related how he had stumbled upon Roddenberry ten years earlier when the latter was busy writing The God Thing, and was on that occasion given a beat-for-beat summary of the story. Some of this may have nestled in Shatner's subconscious. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 46-49, 289-291) Though Shatner had implied as much in his memoir, Arnold's remarks confirmed that Shatner had neither consulted nor communicated with Roddenberry even once, during the entire production of the movie. Co-Writer/Producer Harve Bennett, partly responsible for the three previous successful Star Trek movies, initially did not want to make the film as both his relationship with several key production staffers, in particular with Leonard Nimoy, had started to deteriorate with . He also fed up with Roddenberry's interloping. Shatner trusted Bennett, but had a hard time convincing him to come aboard. (Star Trek Movie Memories, 1995, pp. 283-285) Star Trek V, released in June 1989, was the last Star Trek movie to be released in the summer months until 2009's . Star Trek V was the first Star Trek production to be made in tandem with another (Star Trek: The Next Generation, whose second season was in production during the filming) and one of only two productions to be made during that time period without any involvement from Rick Berman. Star Trek V has provoked controversy among fans. Many consider this movie to be the weakest Star Trek film ever made, although financially, the later performed even worse worldwide, though it was initially the number one film at the box-office on its first weekend of release and grossed a solid US$17 million. It ultimately earned over $52 million in the US and Canada plus over $17 million overseas. It was not as successful as its predecessor, , which had grossed US$109.7 million in North America alone. (see also: Star Trek films: Performance summary) Six issues contributed to the film's dismal box office business: During the 1988 Writer's Guild of America strike, the film's pre-production and shooting schedule were severely trimmed. Paramount decided that Star Trek V would be as comedic as Star Trek IV. Star William Shatner made a deal with Paramount that if Star Trek IV was successful, he would be contracted to direct the next film, although according to Star Trek Movie Memories (1995, p. 244), both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy had what Shatner referred to as "favored nation clauses", in their contracts meaning essentially that what one got, the other got. According to Shatner, it was Nimoy who put the idea of directing Star Trek V in his head during the production of Star Trek IV, telling Shatner that because of their favored nation status, he could successfully demand to direct the next film. There was public dissatisfaction with Star Trek: The Next Generation among fans at the time. Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) was not contracted to do the effects for the film, due to the unavailability of the company, with the job going to a lesser known company, Associates and Ferren. The result was poor quality, and in some cases, obviously unfinished special effects shots. Intense competition during the summer of 1989 with the release of a multitude of blockbusters, including the long awaited Tim Burton Batman film, Lethal Weapon 2, Ghostbusters 2, and Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (according to Harve Bennett in Star Trek Movie Memories – 1995, pp. 395-396). As a result of these six factors, the film did not succeed as well as the cast and crew thought it would. Gene Roddenberry publicly expressed his own dissatisfaction by stating that certain plot elements were "apocryphal," although it is not known exactly which elements he was referring to. Some believed at the time that one of these elements was Spock's brother Sybok, but, as related above by Arnold, in actuality all of it was for egotistical reasons. Subsequent Star Trek episode and film writers have generally avoided referencing events from the movie, although one slight reference can be found in a deleted scene from which would have made mention of horse thieves on Nimbus III. In 2010, Executive Producer Ralph Winter made this candid observation about his role in the production, "We had fun and felt good about IV, that wasn't the case on V. I think on V we were smoking our own press releases. We made the mistake of searching for god. That is what the first movie did. What did we think we were going to find? What did we expect? We were focused and we wrote a good script. Larry Luckinbill (Sybok) was terrific. There were a lot of good things about it. I think we were, not delusional, but we almost killed the franchise. And, unfortunately I almost killed the franchise in terms of the visual effects. We felt like we got taken advantage of by ILM and so we shopped to go to other places. We found a guy in New York, Bran Ferren, who had a pretty good approach to doing the effects, but ultimately they were horrible. And the combination of a story that was not working, it just wasn’t commercial, the effects were terrible – we almost killed the franchise, it almost died." He has also contradicted Shatner's claim that the film failed due to the budget restrictions imposed by the studio, "I don’t agree that Paramount short-changed the movie. They didn’t give [Shatner] as much money for the story that he wanted to tell, but remember Star Trek II was done for $12 Million, and III was done for just under $16 Million, and IV came in a million under budget at $21 Million – I have a letter at home from the president of the studio that shows that. And I think we did the fifth movie at around or just under $30 Million, so it was more. But what he wanted to do was a big grander thing. But I don’t think more money would have made the movie better." Principal photography began on and ended on 28 December of the same year. The first scene filmed was Harve Bennett's cameo as Rear Admiral "Bob". Production began shooting at Yosemite National Park, then moved to the Mojave Desert, then back to Paramount Studios, where they filmed next door to . The last scenes filmed were the Kirk-Spock-McCoy trio's campfire singalongs. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier DVD special features) On 28 December, the last production day (only a few missing special effects shots were filmed that day), a press conference was held on the set to various newspaper, television, and radio reporters. Producers Harve Bennett and Ralph Winter, director William Shatner, and the entire Star Trek main cast participated, answering questions. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier DVD special features) The also references and shows Sybok showing the crew how to radically adjust the deflector shields in order to be able to pass through the extreme radiation environment of the Great Barrier. Another oddity is the Enterprises trip to the center of the galaxy, which should have taken decades but seemed to occur in less than a day. In the novelization of Star Trek V, it is mentioned that Sybok's tinkering allows them to decrease their travel time. The Bird-of-Prey scans the Enterprise during their pursuit and is able to duplicate their rate of travel as well as Sybok's shield modifications allowing them to penetrate the Barrier. The film was the "winner" of the 1990 Razzie awards for "Worst Picture," "Worst Actor" (Shatner), and "Worst Director" (Shatner). It also received nominations for "Worst Picture of the Decade," "Worst Supporting Actor" (Kelley), and "Worst Screenplay" (Loughery, Shatner, and Bennett). In 2006, former co-stars and writers and mocked the film in a downloadable audio commentary track for Nelson's service. Because of its failure at the US box office, in some countries this film was not distributed in the theaters, but only on VHS. In the United Kingdom the film was released theatrically on . The Final Frontier was a modest success, opening at the top of the box office and earning £1,451,378 overall. Some of the special effects in this movie are markedly different than those featured in previous Star Trek films. Among other changes, photon torpedoes have a different design and color (the torpedo from the Enterprise was a slightly recolored reuse of V'gers "whiplash bolt" from The Motion Picture, and a slightly different effect was used when going to warp speed. The release of , however, marked a return to the effect designs that characterized earlier Trek films. ILM, the company which did the special effects for the previous three Star Trek films and , was unavailable because the company was working on and at the time. The result of this is the considerably cheaper-looking effects seen in the film. The sequence of "God" chasing Captain Kirk on the Sha Ka Ree planet was originally conceived to be much longer and extensive, but it had to be severely cut as a result of awful-looking special effects. In addition, some of the outer space shots are stock footage from the previous films. The shot of the Enterprise in spacedock is from the end of The Voyage Home. Also, a few Klingon Bird-of-Prey shots are reused from . The spiraling starfield during Kirk's unfinished log entry is lifted from the opening titles of . William Shatner's first outline for this film was entitled "An Act of Love" and, according to William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories, would have been a much darker tale and would have seen the first true falling out between Kirk and Spock and McCoy. Also, Spock and McCoy would also have joined with Sybok, leaving Kirk alone. This was changed when Nimoy absolutely refused to play that, stating that there was no chance whatsoever that Spock would ever turn on Kirk, especially after what Kirk risked and sacrificed for Spock in Star Trek III. Director Shatner talked to Nimoy, attempting to change his mind, but Nimoy was firm in believing that pain or no pain, brother or no brother, Spock would not betray Captain Kirk. Shatner eventually conceded and had the script adjusted. In the book, Shatner comments that he was aware there was no chance he could know Spock as well as Nimoy would and he certainly couldn't force Nimoy to play the part as written. According to Shatner, on the same day that Nimoy objected, DeForest Kelley also refused, believing that McCoy would not turn against Kirk either and Kelley was as adamant about it as Nimoy was. Shatner said that he didn't know and still doesn't know if changing the script was the right decision to make, but he also conceded that if someone else had come in and written a scenario where Kirk would turn against Spock and McCoy, he too, would "raise the roof" over it. Nevertheless, Shatner said he would still have loved to have seen and been able to play the original version of the scenario. The name "Sha Ka Ree" was taken from "Sean Connery", the actor Star Trek producers originally wanted to play Sybok. Unfortunately, Connery was busy working on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and was unavailable to play the part. (Star Trek Movie Memories 1995, p. 292) After the campfire scene, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy say "good-night" to each other in a way that is clearly a parody of the "good-night" in the television show "". In the original script, Kirk was attacked by ten large "rockmen" emerging from the rock faces of Sha Ka Ree. Unfortunately, with an extremely limited budget (which was responsible for other "high budget" items being removed from the final script, as well as for the use of cheaper effects for the space scenes), only one animatronic "Rock Man", portrayed by stuntman Tom Morga, was created. The single rockman was filmed attacking Kirk, but the scene was thought too poor to include in the film, although an extremely brief (a few frames) glimpse of the creature occurs in the final print during the scene where "God" fires energy blasts at Captain Kirk. Some test footage of the creature is available in the two-disc DVD release. The idea did make it to theaters in the Star Trek parody . A few images of Morga as the rockman were later released in the special feature "Tom Morga: Alien Stuntman" on the box release Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection (DVD). Closeups of the El Capitan climbing scenes were filmed on a fake wall made of fiberglass. The real mountain can be seen at distance. Closeups of Kirk's fall were actually shot horizontally, then flipped so that they appeared vertical. When Kirk returns to the bridge of his ship for the first time, he is given his uniform jacket by a yeoman. The yeoman is played by Shatner's youngest daughter, actress Melanie Shatner, and had been credited for it as such. Incidentally, her two older sisters, Lisabeth and Leslie, had already had uncredited cameo appearances as two of the Only girls in The Original Series episode . Upon the conclusion of the movie, daughter Lisabeth wrote a book on her father's experiences making the movie, Captain's Log: William Shatner's Personal Account of the Making of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Several deleted scenes are available on the Special Edition DVD, including one of Sulu and Chekov visiting the Mount Rushmore monument, with the added face of an African-American woman. The novelization has some additional dialogue about Spock and McCoy speculating that the great barrier might not have been meant to keep them out, but to keep "God" in, prompting Spock to say that they may have yet to reach the final frontier. As had been the case with , this film sports a rare instance of Trek product placement. Kirk and McCoy wear Levi's blue jeans for the first half-hour of the film, and gets a credit at the end of the film. In another product tie-in, this time with Kraft "Jet-Puffed" marshmallows, Kraft Co. sold replicas of the marshmallow dispenser that Spock used, via mail-order, in the summer of 1989. Spock makes an uncharacteristic mistake when he calls "marshmallows" by the name "marsh melons". The novelization shows that McCoy, knowing Spock would want to study what the ship had in the library computer about camping out before going out, paid a computer tech to change all references in the Enterprise computer about marshmallows to "marsh melons." The novel also includes characterizations of McCoy's and Kirk's reactions and McCoy having a silent laugh at Spock's error. In the final picture, McCoy simply stumbles over the pronunciation to continue the joke. Later, in the levitation boots scene on the Enterprise (mentioned below), Kirk again mentions "marsh melons", which some have thought to be the mistake, but is evidence he also recognized Spock's error. When they return to the camp site at the end of the novel, Spock has since then detected McCoy's activity and has had his misinformation corrected. The entire movie was filmed on such a tight schedule that many of the shots were set up in a matter of minutes, instead of hours. According to Shatner, the campfire scenes had to be shot in closer angles, because time and budget constraints prevented the production team from building the top of the trees on the set. The cloak with the numerous medals that Ambassador Korrd wore appeared again in as the cloak worn by the Klingon chancellor. The first chancellor to be seen, K'mpec (who first appeared in ), was also played by Charles Cooper. During location shooting, locals were hired to portray Sybok's "army" during his raid on Nimbus III. Because of the severe budget cuts and not enough number of these extras, many of them were re-used in different shots, running through the gates over and over again. One of Kirk's famous lines in this film is his prediction that he "will die alone." In the movie , Kirk dies after emerging from the Nexus in the 24th century. Although he dies apart from his closest friends (Spock and McCoy), Jean-Luc Picard is with him at his passing. Near the end of the film when Spock mentions that he lost his brother, Sybok, Kirk retorts, "Yes. I lost a brother once. I was lucky I got him back." While Kirk's biological brother, George Samuel Kirk, died in , he was clearly making a reference to Spock, who died in and was resurrected in . (However, Spock and McCoy look visibly surprised when Kirk mentions having lost a brother, creating a potential continuity error as both were present when George died.) This is the second time that Kirk refers to Spock as his "brother". The first time occurred in . The Star Trek V comic adaptation had Kirk say "I've lost two brothers, but I was lucky to get one of them back." After the Bird-of-Prey destroys "God", Kirk says, "So, it's me you want you Klingon bastards?", a reference to a scene in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock in which Kirk calls them the same thing after Kruge kills his son, David Marcus. Shatner originally wanted Sybok's horse to be a unicorn, adding a more "mythical" approach to the character, but Gene Roddenberry disapproved of it, saying that it would turn Star Trek into a space fantasy instead of science fiction. This is the first Star Trek movie not to be nominated for a Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation". In an interview for the book Captains' Logs, Harve Bennett blamed the movie's failure on . Shatner had been so impressed with Production Designer Herman Zimmerman's work on The Next Generation, that he hired Zimmerman to upgrade the Enterprise interiors for the film. Hence, the upgraded bridge from the movie resembles the bright atmosphere portrayed in The Next Generation. Decades later Zimmerman later jokingly commented after seeing the film, considered so flawed by many, "After the show was over, I was pretty sure I would never do another!" (The Art of Star Trek, p. 249; Star Trek: 45 Years of Designing the Future) The Enterprise-A corridors are from The Next Generation. Except for the turbolift, they were not changed for the movie. The Enterprise-A bridge is mostly a new set, except for the turbolifts, Sulu and Chekov's helm console, the handrails, and some of the platforms on which the portions of the bridge stood. According to the Collector's Edition DVD text commentary, a new bridge set was necessary due to the original movie bridge set being mostly damaged by a sudden windstorm while in temporary storage at the Paramount studio parking lot (other sources have the reason for the new bridge set's construction as being because it had been extensively modified for use on TNG to the point that it could not be converted back), and only those few pieces used on the Enterprise-A bridge were salvaged from the original set. Captain Kirk would thus seem to briefly break character when he muses, "I miss my old chair." The decoration from the salvaged set was also used for the Stargazer bridge and for the battle bridge in TNG. Another all-new set was the forward observation lounge where several dramatic scenes take place. According to Michael Okuda, this room was located on the forward-center edge of the saucer section (much like Ten Forward on the Enterprise-D). However, when looking at the exterior of the Enterprise-A, there are no windows which match the location of this room. The plan was to update the filming miniature with the three larger windows, however time and budget constraints forced the producers to omit this change as it was believed they would be unnoticed due to their small size. Nichelle Nichols, an accomplished singer and dancer, provided an authentic performance of the "fan dance" routine in this film; she was outraged when her vocals in the scene were later overdubbed in editing without her approval. In the levitation boots scene on the Enterprise, where Spock, McCoy, and Kirk fly up the turbo-shaft, the deck numbers are seen going higher as they rise through the ship, in contrast to all other starships ever seen on screen, which have the highest deck number on the lowest actual deck. In addition, Kirk, McCoy, and Spock pass a sign for Deck 78 on their way up. They also pass Deck 52 twice, obviously, either an editing error or an attempt to lengthen the scene. After this shot was done, Zimmerman pointed this error out to director Shatner. He explained that the Enterprise has only 23 decks, counted down from the top, Deck 1. But Shatner refused to change it. He wanted to shoot this scene exactly this way because he was convinced that the shot was so highly dramatic. A Bandai Nintendo Entertainment System was slated to be released in 1989 along with the movie. The game was canceled following the failure of the film at the box office. A prototype has surfaced and is circling the net as a ROM. It is notable for its many basic spelling errors (example: at one point Scotty is named "Scotto") and lack of an ending (the game may have been incomplete at the time it was scrapped). This film marked the return of Jerry Goldsmith to the Star Trek franchise. He returned again to compose the music for , , and , and to compose the theme for . An attempt was made to bring Goldsmith on to compose for after James Horner turned it down. However, Goldsmith also refused, citing the poor results of Final Frontier. Among the items featured in this film which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay were a Starfleet Field Duty Commando division strip and the stunt costume for David Richard Ellis. The rock climbing costume worn by Shatner was also auctioned off. The costume had "Boreal"-brand shoes. This is the only one of the first six Star Trek films not to feature any scenes based in and around Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco. The otherwise very Star Trek friendly magazine Cinefantastique has made no mention whatsoever of this production in their publications. A draft version of the film's script was submitted on . This is the first Star Trek film to use the 1986-2002 Paramount Pictures logo. CBS would air its one and only Star Trek movie network TV premiere with Star Trek V: The Final Frontier on December 3, 1991, a good three days ahead of opening in cinemas nationwide. Dating Star Trek V continues the story of the previous film only a short time after its ending, where the Enterprise-A departs for its shakedown cruise. This film begins with the Enterprise back in spacedock and Scott filing in his shakedown cruise report. The previous film, Star Trek IV, is dated to 2286, when Gillian from 1986 mentions that she has three hundred years of catching up to do, suggesting this film takes place in 2286, or at the latest in 2287. In the film, Caithlin Dar makes a reference that Nimbus III was established as a planet of galactic peace 20 years ago, when the Federation and the Klingon and Romulan Empires attempted unsuccessfully to usher into a new era of peace and co-operation. While not explicitly stated, these are references to the Organian Peace Treaty of 2267 at the end of and the Romulan-Klingon Alliance some time in or before 2268 based on references from and These references give Star Trek V a timeframe from 2286 to 2288. In the episode (broadcast as the third-season premiere), it is mentioned by Lt. Commander Data that "[there] has not been a systems-wide technological failure on a starship in seventy-nine years." The episode was the very first filmed TNG installment to air following the June 1989 theatrical release of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (in September 1989), and this line of dialogue was very likely written by Michael Piller as a "nod" to the events of the most-recent movie, placing the events of the film in the year 2287 (seventy-nine years prior to the year 2366). Another complicating factor is that the film itself makes it quite clear that it picks up just a few weeks after the events of Star Trek IV given how Kirk points out that Scotty said he could have the Enterprise ready in two weeks and Kirk gave him three. Additionally, Star Trek IV at the beginning of that film makes it quite clear that the movie takes place three months after the very end of Star Trek III which in turn picks up immediately where Star Trek II leaves off at. It is now considered canon that Kirk's birthday, which was celebrated in Star Trek II, takes place in March. Due to these factor, this would mean that Star Trek V would actually take place sometime around the summer of 2286. StarTrek.com, and use the year 2287, or twenty years after the Organian Peace Treaty. Memory Alpha uses this year, as well. Characters During production of the Original Series, James Doohan took pains to conceal his right hand from the camera, due to it missing a finger as the result of an injury the actor suffered in the Second World War, and when close-ups of Scott's hands were required a body double was used. Thus, Scott canonically was not missing any fingers during the TOS timeframe. In this film, Doohan's injured hand is clearly visible in one scene, establishing in canon that, at some point between TOS and Star Trek V, Scott lost a finger, for reasons as yet unrevealed. Merchandise gallery Awards and honors Star Trek V: The Final Frontier received the following awards and honors. Apocrypha The novel The Fire and the Rose shows that as Spock began to regret undertaking the Kolinahr, that he remembered what Kirk had told Sybok about how the regrets and the pain one carries with them is part of what makes them who they are and it does help in Spock's decision to reverse the Kolinahr. The Sha Ka Ree entity is identified in The Q Continuum trilogy as The One, a being that was drawn into this universe through the Guardian of Forever by the entity known as 0, subsequently being defeated in a confrontation with the Q Continuum and locked away in the galactic center – having been reduced to only a head – until His repentance or the heat death of the universe, "whichever comes first." Vonda McIntyre's novelizations of the three previous films had Hikaru Sulu's rank at captain (based on cut material from Star Trek II) for sake of continuity within the novels. When J.M. Dillard wrote the novelization of Star Trek V, she included a reference that Sulu had taken a temporary reduction in rank back down to commander in order to serve on the Enterprise, a decision which, when Kirk found out, made him furious at Sulu for not thinking of his own career first, and after giving Sulu hell about that decision, Kirk thanked him afterward. According to the novel The Sorrows of Empire, McCoy's mirror universe was also responsible for his father's death, though under dramatically different circumstances: he tortured him to death on the orders of the Terran Empire. The massively-multiplayer online video game Star Trek Online features Nimbus III as a location players can travel to, including Paradise City and its featured bar. There are other adventures players can partake in out in the neighboring desert wasteland, including one of the first introductions of the Elachi race to non-Romulan players. Links and references Credits Uncredited co-stars Charles Bazaldua (The Loop Group) Gene Cross as Sybok's follower David Dewitt Steven Johnson as Starfleet field security crewman Carlyle King (The Loop Group) Kevin Lindsay as alien bar patron Patrick Michael as Enterprise-A crewman Richard Penn (The Loop Group) Paige Pollack (The Loop Group) Susan Savage Gary Schwartz (The Loop Group) Carey Scott as voice of a teenage Spock (deleted scene) Mike Smithson as Klingon helmsman Adrian Tafoya as Nimbus III bar patron "Wrinkles" Rhoda Williams as alien vocals Ilona Wilson as Nimbus III bar patron Unknown performers as "Ape Face" "Bone Head" "Dark Eyes" "Leather Face" "Long Face" "Lost Soul" "Round Eyes" Nimbus III lookout party Alien sentry Bar tender Klingon commander Seven Starfleet field security officers Four followers of Sybok Three Nimbus III bar patrons Uncredited stunt performers Terry Jackson David Wendler as stunt double for William Shatner (horse stunts) Uncredited production staff Tom Boyd – Musician: Oboe Cogswell Video Services, Inc. – Visual Effects Unit Video Assist Company Lynette Eklund – prison alien anatomy pieces artist Christopher Gilman and Global Effects, Inc. – creator and provider of the cool suits Karen Hulett – Costume design Lisa Logan – Cutter/Fitter David Nicksay – Executive Producer References 2267; 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2046	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	STAR DATE: 1986. HOW ON EARTH CAN THEY SAVE THE FUTURE? "A catastrophe in the future can only be averted by a journey into Earth's past." - 1986 TV ad Admiral James T. Kirk is prepared to take the consequences for rescuing Spock and stealing and then losing the starship Enterprise, but a new danger has put Earth itself in jeopardy. Kirk and his crew must travel back in time in an old Klingon Bird-of-Prey to right an ancient wrong, in the hopes of saving Earth – and the Federation – from certain doom. Summary 23rd century It is the year 2286, and an alien vessel is moving through space. The huge vessel is detected by the , and sensor analysis reveals it to be some sort of probe. The captain of the Saratoga contacts Starfleet Command and informs them that this alien probe is apparently headed to the Terran solar system. Starfleet tells Saratoga to continue the tracking and they will analyze their transmissions and advise. Back on Earth, the Klingon Ambassador to the United Federation of Planets demands the extradition of Admiral James T. Kirk for murdering a Klingon crew and for stealing a Klingon vessel. The ambassador also denounces the failed Genesis Project as a mere weapon and the Genesis planet as a staging area from which to launch the annihilation of the Klingon race. Just then, Ambassador Sarek arrives in the council chambers and says that Genesis was named for creating life and not death. He goes on to accuse the Klingons of shedding the first blood in attempting to possess the secrets of Genesis. Sarek points out that the Klingons destroyed and killed Kirk's son, which the Klingon ambassador does not deny, saying they have the right to defend their race. Sarek then asks if the Klingons have the right to commit murder, which causes an uproar in the council chambers; breaking his silence by calling for everyone else to make silence, the President states that there will be no further outbursts. Sarek says that he has come to speak on behalf of the accused, which the Klingon ambassador decries as a personal bias, as Sarek's son was saved by Kirk. The president tells Sarek that the council's deliberations have already concluded. He then tells the Klingon ambassador that Admiral Kirk faces nine violations of Starfleet regulations. The Klingon ambassador says that the fact Kirk is only facing Starfleet regulations is outrageous and decries that as long as Kirk lives, there will never be any peace between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. As he and his aides storm out of the council chambers, someone in the council chambers calls the ambassador a "pompous ass." "Captain's log, stardate 8390. We're in the third month of our exile, and it was Dr. McCoy with a fine sense of historical irony who decided on a name for our captured Klingon vessel. And like those mutineers of five hundred years ago, we too have a hard choice to make." On Vulcan, Kirk surveys his crew and they all vote "Aye, sir." Kirk states then to them "Let the record show that the commander and the crew of the late starship have voted unanimously to return to Earth, to face the consequences for their actions in the rescue of their comrade, Captain Spock." Scott tells Kirk that it'll take him one more day to get their Klingon ship, named by McCoy as the , ready to go saying that while damage control is easy, reading Klingon is hard. McCoy laments that Starfleet could have at least sent a ship to pick them up as it's bad enough to know they will be court-martialed and likely imprisoned but the worst is going home in the "Klingon flea trap." Kirk says the "Klingon flea trap" has a cloaking device "which cost [them] a lot." McCoy comments that he wishes they could cloak the stench. Kirk looks up and sees Spock standing at a cliff looking down at them and the ship. Spock then walks off and goes back in a room and resumes computer testing of his mental faculties. While the tests show Spock has regained full control of his faculties once again, he is confused when the computer asks him how he feels. Then, Spock's mother Amanda enters and reminds Spock that as he is half-Human he has feelings and the computer is aware of this. Spock says he must go to Earth with the others and offer testimony because he was there when the events occurred. Amanda asks if the good of the many outweighs the good of the one and Spock says it does. Amanda then says that it was a mistake by his flawed, feeling, Human friends for them to sacrifice their futures because they believed that the good of the one, Spock, was more important to them. Spock says that Humans make illogical decisions. Amanda smiles and agrees that they do indeed. Just then, at the Neutral Zone, the probe comes close to the Saratoga. The captain orders yellow alert, but the probe, issuing a powerful signal, begins draining the ship of all power. As the Saratoga begins to drift, the captain tries to issue a distress call to Starfleet Command. Meanwhile, at Starfleet Command, the President asks Starfleet Admiral Cartwright for a status update and he tells the president that the probe is headed directly toward Earth and that its signal is disabling everything it comes into contact with. According to Cartwright, two Klingon ships have been lost while two Federation starships and three smaller vessels have been neutralized. He then orders contact with the and their captain says his chief engineer is trying to deploy a makeshift solar sail hoping they can generate enough power to keep themselves alive. As the probe continues toward Earth, on Vulcan the Bounty is almost ready for launch. Kirk comes on the bridge and asks for status reports, Uhura says communications systems are ready and the communications officer is "as ready as she'll ever be." Sulu reports the on-board computer will now interface with the Federation memory bank. Chekov reports the cloaking device is repaired and is now available in all flight modes. Kirk admits to being impressed with all that work for such a short flight. Chekov then tells Kirk since they're in an enemy vessel, he didn't want to risk being shot down on the way to their own funeral. Kirk compliments Chekov's thinking and then calls Scott, who tells him that they are ready to go. Scott says the dilithium resequencer has been converted into something not quite so primitive and that he has personally replaced the Klingon food packs as they were giving Scott a sour stomach. Kirk turns and tells all who's not going to Earth that they better get off. He then turns to Saavik, who is remaining on Vulcan, to tell her goodbye and to thank her. Saavik says that she's not yet had the opportunity to tell Kirk how bravely his son David died and that he saved her and Spock and she wanted Kirk to know. Just then, Spock arrives on the bridge and Saavik wishes him a good day and hopes his journey be free of incident. Spock tells Saavik to "Live long and prosper." Spock gets permission from Kirk to come aboard and tries unsuccessfully to get Spock to call him "Jim" as Kirk is in a command situation. Spock also apologizes for only wearing his Vulcan robes as he seems to have misplaced his uniform. Kirk tells Spock to take his station, a move that concerns McCoy as after all that Spock's been through, he's not liable to be ready to assume such responsibilities but Kirk expresses confidence that it will all come back to him. Kirk then tells Sulu and Chekov to take them home. Sulu and Chekov gently lift the Bounty off the surface and as Saavik and Amanda watch, the Bounty heads off into the Vulcan sunset, on course for Earth. At that time also, the probe has reached Earth and begins the process of neutralizing the Earth Spacedock before they can get the space doors open and all ships inside the dock, including the , are all neutralized and disabled. The probe then continues into Earth orbit and begins pulling water and moisture from the oceans and clouds begin gathering over the Earth as the probe continues its transmission. Sulu reports planet Earth 1.6 hours away, and Chekov reports there are no Federation vessels on assigned patrol stations, which Kirk finds odd. Uhura tells Kirk that the comm channels are flooded with overlapping multiphasic transmissions sounding almost like gibberish. She asks Kirk for some time to try to sort it all out. Just then, McCoy sits next to Spock and asks if he's busy. Spock says that he is simply monitoring and that Uhura is busy. McCoy says that it's sure nice for Spock's katra to be back in Spock's head and not his, stating that he might have carried Spock's soul but he couldn't fill Spock's shoes. When Spock doesn't understand the quip, McCoy drops it and asks if he and Spock could speak about philosophical matters such as life and death but Spock says he didn't have time on Vulcan to review philosophical disciplines. McCoy tells Spock that he's "…really gone where no man has gone before" and is amazed that Spock can't tell him what it felt like. Spock says that they can't discuss the subject because they don't have a common frame of reference. When McCoy asks if Spock is joking, Spock defines a joke as "a story with a humorous climax." McCoy is amazed that Spock is inferring that McCoy would have to die in order to discuss Spock's insights on death. Just then Spock tells McCoy he's receiving a number of distress calls, which McCoy doesn't doubt as he gets up and walks away. Back on Earth, the situation is worsening. Reports from all over the world pour into Starfleet Headquarters. These reports include weather conditions worsening around the planet, such as how temperatures in Juneau, Alaska were dropping and cloud cover was up to 96%. In Tokyo, Japan, all power was gone and only available from reserve banks. Both it and Leningrad had 100% cloud cover and their temperatures were decreasing rapidly. The president asks about worldwide cloud cover and a report of 78.6% comes in. At that point, Cartwright orders a planet-wide emergency and declares red alert. Just then, the influence of the probe comes over and power begins to fade. Cartwright tells the president that even with planetary reserves, they are doomed without the sun. The president states he is well aware of that fact. Just then, Sarek enters into the command center and the president laments that there may be no way to answer the probe. Sarek comments that one cannot answer easily if you don't understand the question. Then Sarek suggests that the president issue a planetary distress signal while there still is time. Still en route to Earth aboard the Bounty, Uhura tells Kirk that a signal is finally coming through from the Federation. Kirk tells her to put it on screen and they all watch in shock as the president tells all ships everywhere to not approach the planet Earth as the probe is causing critical damage to the Earth, almost totally ionizing the atmosphere. The president says that all power sources have failed and all Earth-orbiting starships are powerless. The probe, according to the president, is vaporizing Earth's oceans and that everyone on Earth will not survive unless they can find a way to respond. The president warns all ships to save their energy and to save themselves and they should avoid the planet Earth at all costs. He then bids farewell and the transmission fades. A stunned Kirk and crew are amazed at what they saw and heard. After a moment, Kirk asks to hear the probe's signal and Uhura patches it through. Spock says that the probe signifies aliens of great intelligence that somehow, are unaware of the signal's destructive nature and that he thinks it illogical that the probe's intention is hostile. When McCoy asks if this is the probe's way of saying hello to the people of the Earth, Spock points out that Human arrogance assumes the message must be meant for them. When Kirk asks if it could be for some other lifeform, Spock does point out the signal is pointed at Earth's oceans. Kirk asks Uhura to adjust the probe's signal to account for what it would sound like underwater. When she does so, Spock theorizes there can be no response to the message. He then excuses himself to test the theory and he is quickly followed by Kirk and McCoy. In the Bountys lab, Spock discovers that it is in fact a whale song, specifically that of the humpback whale. McCoy at first wonders who would send a probe across the galaxy to speak to whales, but Kirk and Spock recognize that whales were on Earth ten million years before Humans. Humpback whales, Spock points out, have been extinct since the 21st century, and so it is possible an alien intelligence sent the probe to establish why they lost contact. Kirk wonders if they could simulate a response to the probe's call, but Spock says the language would be gibberish. Kirk asks if the species could exist on some other planet, but Spock answers that they were indigenous to Earth. When Kirk says they must find a way to destroy the probe before it destroys Earth, Spock reminds Kirk the probe would neutralize the Bounty with no effort. Spock does say then that they could theoretically go find some humpback whales. McCoy realizes what Spock is suggesting and is about to ask Kirk to "wait just a damn minute," but is interrupted by Kirk, who orders Spock to start computations for a time warp. Meanwhile, the situation on Earth is worsening. In the Bountys cargo bay, Kirk asks Scott if they can enclose it to hold water and Scott says he could and McCoy agrees that Kirk is about to go swimming "Off the deep end, Mr. Scott!" Kirk tells Scott they have to go find a couple of humpback whales. McCoy asks Kirk if he is seriously going to attempt time travel in "this rustbucket." Kirk responds that they have done it before. As he and McCoy head back toward the bridge, McCoy wonders aloud about the plan; "You're proposing we go backwards in time, find humpback whales, then bring them forward in time. Drop them off and hope to hell they tell this probe what to go do with itself?!" Kirk says that's it and McCoy comments that Kirk's plan is crazy. Kirk tells McCoy if he has a better idea now's the time to tell him. On the bridge he asks Spock about the computations and Spock is working on them. Meanwhile, Kirk has Uhura open a channel to Starfleet Command. On Earth, a faint transmission believed to be from Admiral Kirk is received and Cartwright orders it put through. Kirk advises Starfleet of their analysis of the probe's signal, tells them that Spock's theory is that only the extinct humpback whale can properly answer the probe and they are going to try time travel and they are computing their trajectory at the same time. At that moment, Kirk's signal degrades. Cartwright orders the transmission picked back up, but just then the windows behind him shatter and the wind and rain begin to blow into Starfleet Headquarters. At this point, all anyone in the command center can do is wait. On the Bounty, Spock has completed his calculations and informs Kirk their time target is the late 20th century. Unfortunately he can't be more precise because of the limits of the equipment aboard the Bounty. Additionally he had to program some of the variables for his time travel computations from memory. When McCoy worriedly recites a line from Hamlet, "Angels and ministers of grace, defend us," and Spock recognizes it as act one, scene four, Kirk establishes his faith in Spock's memory and has the ship prepared for warp speed. Kirk orders Chekov to raise the shields and then tells Sulu to engage the Bountys warp drive. "May fortune favor the foolish," Kirk says as the Bounty engages to warp speed. The ship slowly accelerates up over warp nine and then as they get closer and closer to the Sun, the ship begins to shake seriously between the effects of high warp and the high solar gravity. A console next to Uhura blows out, but she says she's ok. At the last moment, Kirk orders Sulu to kick in the last of the thruster power, and the Bounty successfully performs the slingshot effect around the Sun. For a brief time, the crew is unconscious as Kirk dreams of voices of the crew and their faces (quotes from later are heard here, including Scott saying "Admiral, there be whales here!"), of a whale, and eventually of a person falling from space, through Earth's atmosphere and landing in a lake in a tranquil forest, with a sound of what may be a ship landing. 20th century Kirk awakens to find ship and crew seemingly still intact. He rouses Sulu from his unconsciousness and Sulu finds the braking thrusters have successfully fired. When the viewer is activated Spock determines by the atmosphere's pollution content they have successfully arrived in the latter half of the 20th century. He then reminds Kirk they may already be visible to the Earth's tracking devices of the time and so Kirk orders the cloaking device engaged. The Bounty crosses over the terminator into night and Spock homes in on the west coast of North America. There, Uhura finds whale song, but is confused to find it coming directly from San Francisco. Just then Scott calls needing to see Kirk immediately. Scotty reports a new problem, informing Kirk and Spock the Klingon dilithium crystals have been drained by the time travel and are de-crystallizing. Unfortunately, even in the 23rd century, re-crystallization is not possible and Scott gives them 24 hours before they lose all power and become visible – and dead in the water. Spock theorizes that because of the use of nuclear fission reactors in this time period, they could construct a device to collect some high-energy radioactive photons safely which could then be injected into the dilithium chamber which, in theory, could cause crystalline restructure. Spock then points out that nuclear power was widely used on Naval vessels. From his seat at the Bountys helm, Sulu recognizes San Francisco and tells everyone he was born there. McCoy remarks that it really doesn't look all that different from the San Francisco of their time. Kirk instructs Sulu to set the ship down in Golden Gate Park. He then assigns everyone to teams, Uhura and Chekov will take care of the photon collection. McCoy, Sulu, and Scott are assigned to find materials to construct a whale tank aboard the ship; and Spock and Kirk are to attempt to find the two humpback whales they detected in San Francisco. Kirk then tells everyone to be very careful as most of their customs will doubtless be surprising to the time travelers. Everyone then looks at Spock and Kirk says "It's a foregone conclusion none of these people have ever seen an extraterrestrial before." With that, Spock tears a piece from his robe and wraps it around his head like a headband which covers his eyebrows and ears. Kirk calls late 20th century culture extremely primitive and paranoid. Chekov is to issue everyone a phaser and communicator but the crew is to maintain radio silence except in emergencies, and anyone in uniform should remove their rank insignia. Then, Kirk tells everyone that they should do their job and get out of there as their own world is waiting for them to save it. If they can. The Bounty lands in Golden Gate Park, accidentally crushing a trash can (as well as indenting the surrounding ground) under its invisible landing gear, and when the hatch opens, it scares two sanitation workers, who drive out of the area leaving trash behind. Oblivious to this, the Enterprise crew continues onward, Uhura gives the coordinates of the whales to Kirk who quips, "Everybody remember where we parked!" In San Francisco, the crew has trouble adjusting, from watching out for traffic – to which Kirk swears back at a driver – to Kirk's realization that they're going to need some money, being that Earth of then still saw it as a driving force. Kirk and Spock go to an antique shop to sell the glasses McCoy earlier gave Kirk on his last birthday. Kirk receives one hundred dollars (wondering aloud if that's really very much) and then divides it among the teams. He and Spock walk down the streets of San Francisco and Kirk wonders how they're going to find the whales. Spock finds a city map and starts to work out the coordinates on the map. Kirk sees an ad for the Cetacean Institute and the two attempt to get on a bus, only to be tossed back off because they don't have exact change and don't know what the term "exact change" means, either. In another part of town, McCoy, Scott, and Sulu walk the streets. McCoy wonders how they'll make the whale tank. Scott says he'd normally do it with transparent aluminum but he and Sulu both realize he's well too early for that feat so they'll have to make do with a 20th century equivalent. Just then they notice an ad on a wall for the Yellow Pages. Elsewhere, Chekov and Uhura have also been perusing the phone book and have found the address for the Alameda Naval Base. Unfortunately, their luck in getting those directions isn't entirely successful with people (including one SFPD police officer) completely ignoring them and a lady telling them the ships are in Alameda, which they already knew but they don't know how to get to Alameda. Kirk and Spock finally find a bus and, after Spock renders a punk rocker unconscious with a nerve pinch, they arrive at the Cetacean Institute and join in with a tour group which is being led by Dr. Gillian Taylor, a guide and whale lover. During the tour, Spock jumps into the whale tank and performs a mind meld with one of the two whales, which Taylor has said were named George and Gracie. Earlier in the tour, Kirk comments on the amazing stroke of luck in finding a male and a female humpback in a contained space, they can beam them up together and be on the way home. During Spock's mind meld, he is noticed by a completely astonished Kirk and then an elderly lady in the tour group, which raises Taylor's ire and she and Kirk run back up to the tank and she confronts Spock. Spock tries to explain that he was trying to communicate. Kirk attempts to act as if he's there to help Taylor, but when Spock tells him that if they think the whales are theirs to do with as they please, then they'll be as guilty as those who caused the whales' extinction. At that point, Taylor throws both of them out, threatening to call the police as Spock was messing with her tanks and whales. Spock says the whales like her very much, but they are not "the hell "her" whales," and when she asks if they told him that, he admits they did. As they walk away, Kirk asks about Spock's mind meld. Spock says the whales are not happy with how Humans have treated their species, which Kirk finds understandable and asks if they will help. Spock says he believes he was successful in communicating the Enterprise crew's mission. Dr. Taylor is outraged by their actions, but later tries to relax with the whales and tells them the intruders didn't mean them any harm. Just then her boss, Bob Briggs, steps up and asks how Gillian is doing and she admits she's very upset. Briggs sympathizes but points out again that they endanger the whales' lives by keeping them at the Institute and they take the same risk letting them go. He tries to calm her by reminding her that they've never been proven to be as intelligent as Humans, but Taylor doesn't buy it, angrily saying she doesn't limit her compassion for someone based on an intelligence estimate. Chekov and Uhura finally find the location of a nuclear vessel. Chekov begins attempting to make contact with Kirk as Uhura locates the exact coordinates of the reactor. Once Kirk is reached, Chekov reports they found the ship which pleases Kirk, and then Chekov tells Kirk "And Admiral… it is the Enterprise." Kirk acknowledges and asks the plan. Chekov says they'll beam in that night, get the photons and beam out before anyone can ever know they were there. Kirk approves the plan and tells them to keep him informed. Just then Taylor approaches in her truck and agrees to give Kirk and Spock a ride back to San Francisco. Taylor asks Kirk where he's from and he says Iowa. Then asking what Spock meant about the whales' extinction, Kirk says he meant if things go as they are, the humpbacks will disappear forever, but Taylor recounts what Spock said exactly, including referring to the whales as already extinct. Kirk promises that they have nothing to do with the military teaching whales to retrieve torpedoes or "dipshit stuff" like that. Spock then blurts out the fact that Gracie is pregnant, which causes Taylor to slam on her brakes, stopping the truck in amazement because this is something nobody outside the institute knows. She demands to know how Spock knows this. Kirk says he can't say but if she gives them a chance, he'll promise they're not in the military and have no harmful intentions toward the whales. He then says that they may be able to help them in ways she can't imagine. Taylor figures she probably won't believe it either. Kirk and Spock manage to agree that she's not catching them at their best. Kirk then suggests that they all go out to dinner and discuss this further. Taylor asks if they like Italian food and Kirk and Spock banter back and forth for a moment before Kirk can get out that he loves Italian and he tells Spock he does too. In the meantime, Scott and his team have managed to find a manufacturer of large plexiglass walls – Plexicorp – and he and McCoy masquerade as scientists from Edinburgh who were to tour the plant – unbeknownst to the plant's head, Dr. Nichols. Scott makes a scene, but is given a tour of the plant by Nichols and Scott, playing the role, asks if McCoy (his "assistant") can accompany. Nichols says he can and as he commandeers a forklift for them to ride on, McCoy tells Scott "Don't bury yourself in the part!" Sulu approaches a helicopter pilot and begins speaking to him about the old Huey 204 helicopter on which the pilot is working. The pilot asks Sulu if he's flown any and Sulu says he's flown "here and there." Sulu then tells the pilot that he flew something similar during his Academy days, and the pilot recognizes that the helicopter must be old to him which Sulu admits, but says it's still interesting. He then asks if he can ask a few questions and the pilot agrees to answer them. Meanwhile, at Plexicorp, after the tour, Scott tells Nichols that they have a very fine plant here and Nichols compliments Scott's impressive knowledge of engineering skill. Scott then says he sees Nichols still working with polymers. Nichols asks what else he'd be using. Scott asks how big a piece of the plexiglass need to be at the measurements they'll need for the Bountys cargo bay, holding the pressure of the water that will be inside. Nichols says that a six inch piece would do it. Scott then supposes he shows Nichols a way to make a wall that would do the same thing but only be one inch thick. At first Nichols thinks Scott is joking but McCoy suggest Scott make use of Nichols' computer and he obliges. Although Scott mistakes the old computer for one he can talk to, when Nichols finally tells him to just use the keyboard, Scott does so and quickly comes up with the formula for transparent aluminum. Nichols says it'd take years to work out the dynamics of the matrix, but McCoy tells him he'll be richer than he can dream. When Nichols asks what Scott wants, McCoy excuses them and they go over to the corner. McCoy tells Scott that if they give Nichols the formula, they alter the future. Scott then asks how do they know Nichols didn't invent transparent aluminum? McCoy agrees to Scott's logic and they go off to make the deal. Kirk and Taylor bring Spock back to Golden Gate Park. She asks if Spock won't change his mind about dinner and Spock wonders if there's a problem with the one he has. Kirk says that's a little joke and then tells Spock goodbye. Taylor asks how Spock knew that Gracie is pregnant when nobody knows that. Spock says that Gracie knows she's pregnant and he'll be here in the park. Taylor asks Kirk if Spock is going to just hang out around the bushes and Kirk just shrugs and says it's his way. As Gillian and Kirk drive away, Spock is beamed back aboard the Bounty. Kirk and Taylor are at a pizza restaurant and Kirk allows Gillian to order for them. He then asks how she ended up as a cetacean biologist. She says she is just lucky and a sucker for hard luck cases, mentioning that while she'll never see the whales again after they're released, they'll be tagged with radio transmitters so they can keep track of them. She then asks why Kirk hangs around with "that ditzy guy who knows that Gracie's pregnant and calls you admiral." Just then, Kirk's Klingon communicator beeps. He tries to ignore it, but it keeps beeping and Taylor notices, calling his communicator pocket pager and then asks Kirk if he's a doctor. Kirk finally answers it and feigns irritation, saying he said not to call him. Scott is the one calling, he apologizes for the interruption but he thought Kirk would want to know he's beaming Chekov and Uhura in now. Kirk says to tell them to set their phasers on stun and wishes them good luck. He then kills the transmission. Taylor asks for an explanation, Kirk asks when the whales are leaving. Gillian asks who he is, he asks who she thinks he is. Taylor then speculates he's from outer space. Kirk reiterates he's from Iowa, but that he works in outer space. Taylor said she was sure outer space would play a role sooner or later. Kirk then decides to tell her the truth to try and gain Taylor's cooperation in getting the whales. Kirk reveals that he is, by her calendar, from the late 23rd century and he's come back in time to bring two humpback whales with him so they can repopulate the species in his century. Taylor is enthusiastic about getting the details (while not believing a word of it). Kirk asks again when the whales were leaving. Taylor decides to go ahead and tell Kirk that Gracie is indeed very pregnant and that at noon the next day, the whales will be shipped out. At that point, Kirk jumps up and tells Taylor they have to leave just as the pizza arrives. Gillian asks if they can have it to go and then asks Kirk if they use money in the 23rd century and Kirk confirms they don't. At the same time, aboard the Enterprise, Chekov and Uhura hide briefly from a guard and his dog. They then finish their way to the reactor and Chekov attaches the to the reactor. When Uhura asks how long this is going to take, Chekov says it will depend on how much shielding there is between them and the actual reactor. Back at Golden Gate Park, Taylor tells Kirk that was the briefest dinner she's ever had and the makes it clear she doesn't believe Kirk's story at all. Kirk asks what the whale's radio transmitter's frequency is, but Taylor refuses to tell him, citing that it's classified information. Kirk then tells Taylor that he is here to take two humpbacks to the 23rd century and if he has to do so, he will go to the open sea to get them but he'd much rather have hers as it'd be better for him, for Taylor, and for the whales. Gillian once again implores Kirk to tell her who he really is, but he ignores the question and asks her to think about this but not to take too much time and if Gillian changes her mind about helping them, he'll be right there in the park. As Taylor drives off, Kirk walks toward where the Bounty is parked and Taylor hears the transporter beam taking Kirk aboard and sees the light in the corner of her eye. She looks back and sees Kirk gone and drives on, puzzled. Aboard the Bounty, Kirk asks for an update. Spock says the tank will be finished by morning and there has been no word yet from Chekov and Uhura since beam-in. Kirk grows frustrated that they are so close with two whales that will work great for them if they don't let them slip from their grasp. Spock says there is a possibility then their mission will fail. Kirk reminds Spock he's talking about the future of everyone on Earth and as he walks away angrily ask Spock that as he's half-Human does he not have any feelings about that? McCoy and Scott look at Spock but he does not answer and simply stands there contemplating Kirk's words. Chekov and Uhura continue to collect the photons. On the Enterprise bridge, their attempts have been noticed in the form of a power drain evidently coming from somewhere aboard and the Enterprise crew begin investigating. Meanwhile, in the reactor area, Chekov and Uhura have gained enough photons and Uhura calls for transport but the signal is very weak. At that same time, the Enterprise crew confirm the power drain and the duty officer calls the commanding officer and reports intruders aboard. Uhura finally makes contact with Scott but as power is down to minimum, he'll have to transport them out one at a time. Chekov sends Uhura first with the collector. Uhura transports out safely with the collector, but due to radiation, Chekov's beam-out fails, and as soldiers converge on the reactor area, Chekov continues to try to contact Scott but his signal fails and he is discovered and taken prisoner. Chekov is held for interrogation. Chekov kept his Starfleet ID with him which is discovered by the investigator. He asks Chekov why is on the Enterprise and what the communicator and phaser are for. Chekov simply reiterates the truth about being a commander in Starfleet and gives his rank and serial number. The investigator and his aide see that he's obviously Russian but the main investigator says about Chekov "…of course he's a Russkie, but he's a retard or something!" While they're distracted, Chekov picks up the phaser and tries to hold the investigators saying if they don't lie on the floor he'll have to stun them. The investigator tells him to go ahead and do so. Chekov apologizes and tries, but the radiation has disabled his phaser. He attempts to escape captivity but just before he can get off the Enterprise, he falls off a ledge landing in the ships elevator shafts and is injured. The Marines who were chasing Chekov call for a corpsman. On the Bounty Uhura is desperately searching for any sign of Chekov. Kirk comes on the bridge and asks if she's found anything and Uhura says she should never have left Chekov behind, but Kirk tells her to keep looking and then she did what was necessary. He then contacts Scott and asks for a progress report on the recrystallization. Scott says it'll be well into the next day but Kirk says that's not going to be good enough and he needs to speed it up. Scott acknowledges and mutters to Spock how Kirk is in "a wee bit of a snit". Spock agrees and offers that Kirk is a man of deep feelings and Scott wonders what else is new. That same day, Taylor arrives at the Institute and lets herself in. She then heads back to the aquarium where she is shocked to see the whales gone. She runs back inside, horrified, only to be intercepted by Bob Briggs who tells her that to avoid a mob scene with the press they were taken away the night before and they felt it would be easier for her. In tears and anger, Taylor slaps Briggs hard across the face and calls him "You son of a bitch!" before storming out of the Institute, getting back in her truck and then speeds back to the park in hopes of finding Kirk. Sulu meanwhile, has the helicopter he was speaking to the pilot about earlier and is using it to transport the large pieces of plexiglass to Golden Gate Park to be installed aboard the Bounty. Just then, Taylor arrives in the park and begins yelling for Kirk, when she sees the helicopter lower itself down and then she sees a man seemingly appear waist up out of thin air. After being stunned for a brief moment, Taylor begins running toward that spot still screaming for Kirk when she bumps into something invisible. She stands and feels along the cloaked Bountys landing gear, screaming for Kirk still and saying she needs his help as the whales are gone. Scott notices her and yells down at Kirk that they have a problem. Kirk sees Taylor screaming for him on a monitor and then transports her aboard. When Taylor materializes in the transporter chamber Kirk tells her "Hello , welcome to Wonderland." Taylor is amazed then that what Kirk had told her before was true. Kirk shows her the whale tank and she tells him that the whales were taken the night before without her knowledge. She says that while they're in Alaska by this point, they're tagged as she said so they can track them but Kirk says that they can't go anywhere just yet. When Taylor wonders what kind of a ship this is, Kirk says it's a ship with a missing man. Just then Spock appears to tell Kirk full power has been restored. He then greets Gillian and welcomes her aboard and Taylor can only nod back at Spock, seeing him without the headband for the first time and his ears and eyebrows are exposed to her. Just then an upset Uhura calls Kirk and says she's found Chekov in Mercy Hospital. Chekov is going into emergency surgery and he is not expected to survive. McCoy comes up and tells Kirk he's got to be able to go to the hospital and begs Kirk not to leave Chekov in the hands of 20th century medicine. Spock comes up and tells Kirk he believes McCoy to be correct and they must help Chekov. Upon questioning from Kirk, Spock concedes that it is not the logical thing to do, but it is the Human thing to do. Kirk asks if Gillian can help them. She asks how and McCoy says they'll have to look like physicians. In the hospital, McCoy, Kirk, and Dr. Taylor begin their search for Chekov. While McCoy walks down a hall he passes by an elderly woman who is in serious pain. He stops and asks what's wrong with her and she says it's . McCoy mutters to himself about this being the dark ages. He reaches into his bag, gives the woman a pill and tells her to swallow it and if there's any problem for her to call him, then very kindly touches her face. She takes the pill and he walks away. Kirk and Taylor finally locate Chekov and after meeting up with McCoy, the three grab a stretcher, put Gillian on it and cover it up, and run for the elevator. They reach the next floor and when they try to go into the operating room where Chekov is in, they're stopped by hospital security. Taylor screams as if in pain and McCoy tells the police guards that the woman has "Immediate postprandial upper abdominal distention!" The guards let them in, Kirk asks McCoy what he said she had and he said she had cramps. Just then, McCoy steps up to the operating table before the attending surgeon can start drilling on Chekov's head. The surgeon demands to know who they are and then what sort of device McCoy is using. McCoy diagnoses Chekov's problem as tearing of the middle meningeal artery. The surgeon asks if McCoy's degree is in dentistry. McCoy gets angry and asks how the surgeon would explain a slow respiratory rate and pulse with coma and he says fundoscopic examination will be useless in this case. The surgeon says the pressure can be relieved by a simple evacuation of the expanding epidural hematoma. McCoy passionately tells the surgeon that the artery must be repaired and you can't do that by drilling holes into the patient's head. He then asks the surgeon to let him "put away your butcher knives," and save this man before it is too late. The surgeon threatens to have the new arrivals removed, but Kirk takes his phaser out and moves the surgeon and the nurses and the other techs into a small room where he melts the lock and McCoy can now heal Chekov's injury with a cortical stimulator. When Chekov comes to, Kirk asks him his name and rank. Chekov recites his name and gives his rank after looking at Kirk as admiral. McCoy, Kirk, and Taylor come out with Chekov on the stretcher. The guards ask how the patient is doing and Kirk says he'll make it. But the guards realize they came in with a woman which Kirk simply mutters "One little mistake!" The guards run in, see the surgeon and others are trapped and they ask the guards to get some help as the patient has been kidnapped. Realizing their cover has been blown, the three start running the gurney down the hospital corridors with the police guards after them. They run around several corners and pass the elderly woman who McCoy gave the pill to and she's happily telling everyone that a doctor gave her a pill and she's growing a new kidney which has all the hospital doctors and nurses stunned. They continue running and when Chekov tries to look up, Kirk puts his head back down on the gurney. They finally run into an elevator and the police officers run down the stairs intending to catch them at the next level but the four have disappeared from the hospital and have been beamed to safety while the elevator was in motion. When Kirk asks where the whales might be, Gillian says she can show them if there's a chart on board. But all Kirk wants is the radio frequency. Taylor wants to go with Kirk but Kirk says their next stop is the 23rd century but Taylor, saying she has no one there, insists on helping the whales but Kirk won't hear of it. He then asks her again for the radio frequency and Taylor tells Kirk it's 401 megahertz. Kirk thanks her for everything and then orders himself beamed up but Taylor jumps into his arms just as he's being beamed aboard. On the Bounty, Kirk and Taylor come on the bridge just as Scott calls Spock to tell him that he's ready. Sulu is taking a few moments to readjust to the Bountys helm console as he got used to the Huey. Kirk accuses Taylor of tricking him but Taylor says Kirk will need her. He tells Taylor to sit down and orders Sulu and Chekov to take off. The Bounty, still cloaked, lifts off from Golden Gate Park just as a couple of joggers are running by and they get blown over by the dust and wind. The Bounty lifts up into the skies above San Francisco and head toward Alaska. As power settles in and stabilizes, Kirk orders Uhura to start scanning for the whales on the frequency Gillian gave him. When they reach the proper altitude, Kirk orders full impulse power which Sulu estimates should get them to the Bering Sea in twelve minutes. Scotty reports the whale tanks are secured but this will be the first time he's ever beamed up four hundred tons before. When Kirk asks why it's that much, Scotty reminds Kirk they're having to beam aboard not just the whales, but the water around them as well. Kirk then checks with Uhura but the whales haven't been located yet. At that same time, McCoy checks on Spock who appears to be concerned. Spock says that he has tried to use the calculations he used to get them to the 20th century as a reference when calculating to return to the exact moment they left the 23rd unfortunately there are some issues with the calculations that just aren't working out. McCoy says Spock will have to take his best guess. Spock says guessing isn't in his nature and McCoy says that no one is perfect. Just then, Taylor recognizes the whales' signal and Uhura confirms. Just then, she detects another signal, which is determined to be a whaling ship. Kirk orders the Bounty into a full power descent and they arrive over the whales just in time to prevent the whaler's harpoon from hitting one of the whales. When the harpoon bounces off seemingly nothing the whalers are confused. Just then the Bounty decloaks over the whaling ship causing the whalers to panic and turn away from the whales in terror. Scotty asks for ten seconds to redirect power from all over the ship to the transporter. Scotty then beams the whales and the surrounding water into the whale tank. The tank creaks, but holds the whales and water securely. Scotty tells Kirk they have full power and as the Bounty leaves Earth behind and enters warp, Kirk takes Taylor to see the whales. But first, he stops and asks Spock about his time calculations and because Scotty couldn't give Spock exact figures he will have to make a guess. This statement surprises Kirk, who calls it extraordinary. When he and Gillian leave, Spock thinks Kirk is confused but McCoy tells him that means Kirk feels better about Spock's guesses than he would most anyone else's facts. Spock then understands it as a compliment and endeavors to make the best guess he can. At the whale tank, Kirk quotes a line from "Whales Weep Not," which Taylor recognizes. Kirk then notes the irony of how in the past when men were killing the whales, they were destroying their own future. Scotty notes the whales seem happy to see Gillian and hopes she likes the tank. She calls it a miracle but Scotty says that's still to come and Kirk explains that their chances of getting home aren't great and she might have been better off staying where she belonged. Taylor says she belongs with the whales as she is a whale biologist. And suppose they do make it to the 23rd century, who there knows anything about humpback whales? Kirk admits her point there. Just then the ship shudders and Scotty reports a power fall-off. Kirk tells Gillian to stay with the whales and heads to the bridge. The ship is at high warp approaching the sun and Scott reports that warp 7.9 is the best he can do. Spock reports that not only can they not make breakaway speed, they might not even escape the sun's gravity so he shall try to compensate by altering their trajectory. Spock then requests thruster control which Kirk grants. At the right moment, Spock orders the thrusters fired and the Bounty again disappears behind the Sun. 23rd century Everyone wakes up again and Kirk asks if the thrusters fired. Spock reports they did and Kirk wonders where they are. Just then, he hears the drone of the probe as the Bounty begins to lose power. As the ship's systems shut down, the Bounty plunges through the Earth's atmosphere and when McCoy wonders where they might be Kirk can only tell him "Out of control and blind as a bat." Just then at Starfleet Command, the original transmission from Kirk to Starfleet fades. Cartwright calls for it to be restored just as the window shatters as it did before. This time Sarek points at something which is revealed to be the Bounty, and Cartwright notes it's heading right for the Golden Gate Bridge. The Bounty sails under the bridge and crash lands in San Francisco Bay. Kirk orders the hatch blown. He looks outside, sees it's the right place and now the task at hand is to get the whales out before the Bounty sinks. Kirk orders everyone to abandon ship. When he can't reach Scott, Kirk runs toward engineering after telling Spock to ensure the safety of everyone else. Kirk runs down toward the whale tank and manages to force the door open, and pulls Scott and Taylor out of the tank area which is almost completely submerged. Taylor notes the whales are trapped and if they're not freed, they'll drown. Scott says the bay doors have no power and that the explosive override is underwater. Kirk sends them out through the bridge hatch and he swims underwater to the explosive override and pulls it open, knocking the hull of the Bounty open and allowing Kirk and the whales to swim out of the ship. Kirk reaches the surface just in time and is pulled up to safety by Spock and Taylor. After a few moments the whales are seen swimming. Meanwhile, the probe keeps calling for the whales and everyone at Starfleet just watches and waits as the power completely fails. Having oriented himself pointing straight downward, George begins to sing back to the probe, to which it also orients itself downward to a vertical position before replying. After a few minutes of communication with the whales the probe deactivates its scanner and the weather on Earth begins to calm. Power begins to be restored all around the planet and as the probe leaves the way it came, it passes Spacedock and power is restored aboard the station. As the skies clear over Earth, the Enterprise crew and Gillian celebrate at the Bountys crash site. Kirk pulls Taylor in the water and everyone else except Spock jumps in. Kirk gets up on the ship and manages to toss Spock in, going with him as well. The crew celebrates the end of the crisis in the water as a Starfleet shuttle heads toward them to pick them up. Having saved the Earth, George and Gracie head towards the Golden Gate Bridge for open water to explore the new world they've entered, free from the threat of Human hunters. However, Kirk and crew still have to face court martial. In the Federation Council Chambers, the President calls the trial to order. Kirk, McCoy, Scott, Chekov, Sulu, and Uhura are brought in from where they are held, only to be joined by Spock, who was sitting in the Council with his father. The president reminds Spock that he is not accused, but Spock intends to stand with his shipmates and the president accepts. He then lists the charges and specifications against the Enterprise crew: conspiracy (which is directed at Bones), assault on Federation officers (which is directed at all of them), theft of Federation property (the starship Enterprise) (which is directed at Kirk, Scotty, Bones, Sulu, and Chekov), sabotage of the USS Excelsior (which is directed at Scotty), willful destruction of Federation property (again, the USS Enterprise) (which is directed at Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov), and disobeying direct orders of the Starfleet commander (which is directed at Kirk). The president asks Kirk for his plea, and on behalf of all the officers, Kirk announces he is authorized to plead guilty. The president then says that because of "certain mitigating circumstances," though, all charges are dropped, except for one, and that charge: disobeying a superior officer, is directed solely at Admiral Kirk. The president asks Kirk if he recognizes the need for keeping discipline in any chain of command and Kirk tells the president he does. The president announces that Kirk's punishment is that he will be reduced in rank to captain, and as a consequence of that rank, he is given the duty for which he demonstrates unswerving ability: the command of a starship. The council chamber begins to cheer until the President silences them and he then tells Kirk that he and his crew have saved Earth from its own short-sightedness and the people of Earth are forever in their debt. At that point, the council chambers breaks into cheering and applause, with people coming down to congratulate the Enterprise crew. Kirk sees Taylor and she says how happy she is for him and thanks Kirk before starting to leave. Kirk stops her and asks where she's going. Taylor says since she's got three hundred years of catchup learning to do, she's going on board a science vessel. Kirk asks if this means goodbye, especially as one might say back in the 20th century, he doesn't even have Gillian's telephone number and asks how he'll find her. Taylor says she'll find him and kisses him goodbye. "See you around the galaxy," she says just before departing. Meanwhile Spock has caught up with Sarek and as his father is planning to return to Vulcan, he wanted to take his leave of Spock. Spock thanks Sarek for the effort he put out for them, Sarek says there was no effort as Spock is his son and in any case, he was very impressed with Spock's performance during the crisis. Sarek then recalls how he initially opposed Spock's entrance into Starfleet, saying that judgment may have been incorrect. Sarek says that Spock's associates are people of good character. Spock tells Sarek they are his friends. Sarek accepts that and then asks if Spock has a message for his mother. Spock says he does, and to tell Amanda that he feels fine. He raises his hand in the Vulcan salute and tells his father to "Live long and prosper," and Sarek reciprocates. Then Spock turns from Sarek, who starts to leave Council chambers en route to Vulcan, and Spock rejoins Kirk and they walk out of the chambers themselves. Flying through spacedock in a travel pod, following a orbit shuttle leading them, the crew heads toward their new assignment. McCoy, saying the bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe, expects they will get a freighter, while Sulu hopes for Excelsior. When Scott asks why Sulu would want "that bucket of s" Kirk simply tells Scott that "A ship is a ship", to which Scott begrudgingly agrees. From the forward window, the crew notes the Excelsior come into view, but, rather than docking with it, the travel pod continues over it revealing their true destination – a refit Constitution-class starship with the primary hull proudly displaying its Starfleet registry: . The crew beams as Kirk joyfully announces "My friends… we've come home." As the new Enterprise departs the Spacedock, the crew take up their familiar positions on the bridge. With eager anticipation, Sulu informs the captain that the helm is ready. As Kirk takes the center seat, he gives the order: "Let's see what she's got!" With a flash, the Enterprise engages her warp drive, ready to once again boldly go where no man has gone before. Memorable quotes "Behold the quintessential devil in these matters! James T. Kirk, renegade and terrorist! Not only is he responsible for the murder of a Klingon crew, or the theft of a Klingon vessel! See now the real plot and intentions. Even as this Federation was negotiating a peace treaty with us, Kirk was secretly developing the Genesis torpedo, conceived by Kirk's son and test-detonated by the Admiral himself! And the result of this awesome energy was euphemistically called the Genesis planet, a secret base from which to launch the annihilation of the Klingon people!!" - Klingon Ambassador, in the Federation Council chamber "We demand the extradition of Kirk! We demand justice!" "Klingon justice is a unique point of view, Mr. President. Genesis was perfectly named the creation of life, not death. The Klingons shed the first blood while attempting to possess its secrets." "Vulcans are well known as the intellectual puppets of this Federation!" - Klingon Ambassador and Sarek "Your vessel did destroy . Your men did kill Kirk's son. Do you deny these events?" "We deny nothing. We have the right to preserve our race!" "Do you have the right to commit murder?" - Sarek and Klingon Ambassador, on the deaths of the Grissom crew and David Marcus "Mr. Ambassador, with all respect, the Council's deliberations are over." "Then Kirk goes unpunished?" "Admiral Kirk has been charged with nine violations of Starfleet regulations." "Starfleet regulations?! That's outrageous!! Remember this well. There shall be no peace as long as Kirk lives!" - Federation President and Klingon Ambassador, after the Federation Council rejects the extradition request. "You'd think they could at least send us a ship. It's bad enough to be court-martialed and to have to spend the rest of our lives mining borite, but to have to go home in this Klingon flea trap?" "We could learn a thing or two about this flea trap. It's got a cloaking device that cost us a lot." "I just wish we could cloak the stench!" - McCoy and Kirk, on the Klingon vessel "Emergency channel 0130. Code red. It has been three hours since our contact with the alien probe. All attempts at regaining power have failed." "It's using forms of energy we do not understand." "Can you protect us?" "We are launching everything we have." "Our systems engineers are trying to deploy a makeshift solar-sail. We have high hopes that this will, if successful, generate power to keep us alive." - Yorktown Captain, Admiral Cartwright and Federation President "Cloaking device now available on all flight modes." "I'm impressed! That's a lot of work for a short voyage." "We are in an enemy wessel, sir. I did not wish to be shot down on the way to our own funeral." "Good thinking." - Chekov and Kirk "…and Admiral, I have replaced the Klingon food packs. They were giving me a sour stomach." "Oh, is that what that was?" - Scotty and Kirk "Saavik… this is goodbye. Thank you." "Sir, I have not had the opportunity to tell you about your son. David died most bravely. He saved Spock. He saved us all. I thought you should know." (to Spock) "Good day, Captain Spock. May your journey be free of incident." "Live long and prosper, Lieutenant." - James T. Kirk, Saavik and Spock "I don't know if you've got the whole picture, but he isn't exactly working on all thrusters." "It'll come back to him." - McCoy and Kirk, on Spock "I may have carried your soul but I sure couldn't fill your shoes." "My shoes?" "...Forget it." - McCoy and Spock "Come on, Spock. It's me, McCoy! You really have gone where no man has gone before!" - McCoy, asking Spock about death "You mean I have to die to discuss your insights on death?" "Forgive me, Doctor. I am receiving a number of distress calls." "I don't doubt it!" - McCoy and Spock "There are other forms of intelligence on Earth, Doctor. Only Human arrogance would assume the message must be meant for man." - Spock, on the probe's transmissions "Are you planning to take a swim?" "Off the deep end, Mister Scott." - Scott and McCoy, as Kirk asks about a water tank enclosure "You're proposing that we go back in time, find humpback whales, then bring them forward in time, drop 'em off, and hope to hell they tell this probe what to go do with itself?!" "That's the general idea." "Well, that's crazy!" "Got a better idea? Now's the time." - McCoy and Kirk "Angels and ministers of grace, defend us." - McCoy, quoting Hamlet (Act I, Scene IV) "May fortune favor the foolish." - Kirk, quoting a Latin proverb "Did you see that?" "No, and neither did you, so shut up!" - Two garbage collectors in Golden Gate Park, upon seeing the crew exit the cloaked bird of prey "Everybody remember where we parked!" - Kirk to his crew, after they arrive in San Francisco "Why don't you watch where you're going, you dumb-ass!" "Well, a double dumb-ass on you!" - Taxi driver and Kirk "It's a miracle these people ever got out of the twentieth century." - McCoy "The rest of you, break up. You look like a cadet review." - Kirk, to McCoy, Scott, Sulu, Uhura, and Chekov in downtown San Francisco "Weren't those a present from Doctor McCoy?" "And they will be again. That's the beauty of it." - Spock and Kirk, on selling the eyeglasses in an antique shop "I'll give you one hundred dollars." "Is that a lot?" - Antique Store Owner and Kirk "What does it mean, exact change?" - Spock, after he and Kirk are kicked off a bus "Excuse me, sir. Can you direct me to the naval base in Alameda? It's where they keep the nuclear wessels." (no response) "Nu-cle-ar wes-sels." - Chekov, to a 20th century San Francisco police officer "Ooh, I don't know if I know the answer to that. I think it's across the bay. In Alameda." "That's what I said, Alameda. I know that." "But where is Alameda!?" - A SF passerby, Chekov, and Uhura "Excuse me! Excuse me! Would you mind stopping that noise? (punk rocker turns up boombox louder) EXCUSE ME! WOULD YOU MIND STOPPING THAT DAMN NOISE?! (punk rocker flips Kirk off)" - Kirk attempting to reason with a rude punk on the bus, just before Spock neck-pinches him "Your use of language has altered since we arrived, Admiral. It is currently laced with... shall we say, more colorful metaphors.""You mean the profanity." "Yes." "Well, that's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word. You'll find it in all the literature of the period." "Such as?" "The collective works of Jacqueline Susann. The novels of Harold Robbins." "Ah. The giants." - Spock and Kirk "To hunt a species to extinction is not logical.""Whoever said the Human race was logical?" - Spock and Gillian "They like you very much, but they are not the hell your whales." "I … I suppose they told you that, huh?" "The hell they did." "Right." - Spock and Gillian "If we play our cards right, we may be able to find out when those whales are leaving." "How will playing cards help?" - Kirk and Spock, as they encounter Gillian again "Very little point in my trying to explain." "Yeah, I'll buy that. What about him?" "Him? He's harmless. Back in the sixties he was part of the free speech movement at Berkeley. I think he had a little too much ." "LDS?" - Kirk and Gillian, as he tries to explain Spock's eccentricities "I have a photographic memory. I see words." - Gillian "Are you sure it isn't the time for a colorful metaphor?" - Spock, to Kirk "You're aren't one of those guys from the military, are you, trying to teach whales to retrieve torpedoes, or some dipshit stuff like that?" "No, ma'am. No dipshit." - Gillian and Kirk "Gracie is pregnant." (Gillian suddenly stops her truck) "Alright, who are you, and don't jerk me around anymore. I wanna know how you know that?" - Spock and Gillian "You're not exactly catching us at our best." "That much is certain." - Kirk and Spock, to Gillian "I love Italian." (Kirk looks at Spock) "And so do you." "Yes." - Kirk, and Spock, as Gillian asks them out for dinner to discuss matters "I find it hard to believe that I've come millions of miles!" "Thousands! Thousands!" "Thousands of miles on an invited tour of inspection!" - Scott and McCoy, with Nichols "Don't bury yourself in the part!" - McCoy, to a gleeful "Professor" Scott "Hello, computer." - Scott, speaking into a computer mouse "NOT NOW, MADELINE!!!" - Dr. Nichols being interrupted by a co-worker "You realize, of course, if we give him the formula, we're altering the future." "Why? How do we know he didn't invent the thing?" - McCoy and Scotty "Are you sure you won't change your mind?" "Is there something wrong with the one I have?" - Gillian and Spock "Wait a minute! How did you know Gracie's pregnant? Nobody knows that." "Gracie does." - Gillian and Spock "Don't tell me. You're from outer space." "No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space." - Gillian and Kirk, in the restaurant "Okay, the truth. I am from, what on your calendar, would be the 23rd Century. I have come back in time to retrieve a pair of humpback whales in an attempt to... repopulate the species." "Well, why didn't you just say so? Why all the coy disguises?" - Kirk and Gillian "You play games with me, mister, and you're through!" "I am? May I go now?" - FBI Agent and Chekov, during Chekov's interrogation "All right, make nice. Give us the ray gun." "I warn you, I will have to stun you." "Go ahead. Stun me." "I'm very sorry, but..." (Chekov uses the phaser but it doesn't work, making only a weak noise) "Must be the radiation." - FBI Agent, as Chekov' points a phaser at him "They left last night. We didn't want a mob scene with the press; it wouldn't have been good for them. Besides, I thought it would be easier on you this way." "You sent them away without even letting me say goodbye?! You son of a bitch!!" (slaps him hard) - Bob and Gillian, on George and Gracie "Hello, Alice. Welcome to Wonderland." - Kirk, after beaming Gillian aboard the Klingon ship "Is that the logical thing to do, Spock?" "No, but it is the Human thing to do." - Kirk and Spock, on the latter's endorsement of McCoy's recommendation to save Chekov "Well, what's wrong with you?" "Kidney dialysis." ""Dialysis"? What is this, the Dark Ages? (McCoy gives her a pill out of his bag) Now you swallow that. And if you have any more problems, just call me." - McCoy administering medicine to an elderly woman"This woman has immediate post-prandial upper abdominal distension! Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" "What did you say she's got?" "Cramps." - McCoy and Kirk, using a "sick" Gillian to get past the guards "Tearing of the middle meningeal artery." "What's your degree in, dentistry?" "How do you explain slowing pulse, low respiratory rate and coma?" "Fundoscopic examination..." "Fundoscopic examination is unrevealing in these cases!" "A simple evacuation of the expanding epidural hematoma will relieve the pressure." "Good God, man! Drilling holes in his head's not the answer! The artery must be repaired! Now put away your butcher knives and let me save this patient before it's too late!" - McCoy arguing with the doctor operating on Chekov "We're dealing with medievalism here! Chemotherapy! Fundoscopic examinations!" - McCoy, on twentieth century medicine "Pavel, talk to me. Name! Rank!" "Chekov, Pavel. Rank, admiral!" - Kirk and Chekov, as Chekov regains consciousness "He's gonna make it!" "He? You went in with a she!" "One little mistake." - Kirk and Police Officer"Doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney! The doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney!" - The elderly woman McCoy had helped earlier proclaiming his 23rd century medicine worked "Where would the whales be by now?" "At sea. If you have a chart on board, I'll show you." "No, no, no. All I need is the radio frequency to track them." "What are you talking about? I'm coming with you." "You can't. Our next stop is the twenty-third century." "Well, I don't care! I've got nobody here. I have got to help those whales!!" "I have no time to argue with you, or even tell you how much you've meant to us. The radio frequency, please." "The frequency's 401 megahertz." "Thank you, for everything. Scotty, beam me up!" "Surprise!" - Kirk and Gillian debating whether or not she should stay in the 20th century, before she leaps into the transporter beam with him "Spock, where the hell's that power you promised?" "One damn minute, Admiral!" - Kirk and Spock, making use of some colorful metaphors "Guessing is not in my nature, Doctor." "Well, nobody's perfect." - Spock and McCoy"Admiral! There be whales here!" - Scott, after beaming the whales aboard "He means that he feels safer about your guesses than most other people's facts." - McCoy, to Spock "They say the sea is cold but the sea contains the hottest blood of all." - Kirk, quoting D.H. Lawrence's "Whales Weep Not!" "My God, Jim. Where are we? "Out of control and blind as a bat." - McCoy and Kirk, after they return from 1986 "Captain Spock, you do not stand accused." "Mr. President, I stand with my shipmates." - Federation President and Spock "The charges and specifications are: conspiracy, assault on Federation officers, theft of Federation property, namely the starship Enterprise, sabotage of the , willful destruction of Federation property, specifically the aforementioned , and finally, disobeying the direct orders of the Starfleet Commander. Admiral Kirk, how do you plead?" "On behalf of all of us, Mr. President, I'm authorized to plead guilty." "So entered. Because of certain mitigating circumstances, all charges but one are summarily dismissed. The remaining charge, disobeying the orders of a superior officer, is directed solely at Admiral Kirk." - Federation President and James T. Kirk "James T. Kirk, it is the judgment of this council that you be reduced in rank to Captain, and that as a consequence of your new rank, you be given the responsibility for which you have repeatedly demonstrated unswerving ability: the command of a starship." - Federation President, pronouncing "sentence" on Kirk. "I'm so happy for you I can't tell you! Thank you so much." "Wait a minute! Where are you going?" "You're going to your ship, I'm going to mine. Science vessel. I've got 300 years of catch-up learning to do." "You mean, this is goodbye?" "Why does it have to be goodbye?" "Well... like they say in your century, I don't even have your telephone number. (they laugh) How will I find you?" "Don't worry. I'll find you. (kisses Kirk) See you around the galaxy." - Gillian and Kirk "I am returning to Vulcan within the hour. I would like to take my leave of you." "It was most kind of you to make this effort." "It was no effort. You are my son. Besides, I am most impressed with your performance in this crisis." "Most kind." "As I recall, I opposed your enlistment in Starfleet. It is possible that judgment was incorrect. Your associates are people of good character." "They are my friends." "Yes, of course. Do you have a message for your mother?" "Yes. Tell her... I feel fine." - Sarek and Spock "The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe. We'll get a freighter." "With all due respect, Doctor, I'm counting on Excelsior.""Excelsior? Why in God's name would you want that bucket of bolts?"A ship is a ship, Mr. Scott." "Whatever you say, Sir. Thy will be done." - McCoy, Sulu, Scott, and Kirk, speculating what ship they'll be given. "My friends. We've come home." - Kirk, to his crew on seeing the Enterprise-A "All right, Mr. Sulu, let's see what she's got." - Kirk, ready to take the Enterprise-A out on a test flight Background information The film is dedicated "to the men and women of the ", which exploded shortly after liftoff on , almost ten months before the release of Star Trek IV. Prior to the release of the 2009 film (which as of October, 2009, grossed over $384.9 million), The Voyage Home was the highest-grossing Star Trek film, making $109.7 million in the United States. Due to the success of this film, Paramount decided to make the second Star Trek TV series a reality (after the unsuccessful attempt of Star Trek: Phase II). That series eventually became , which premiered the next fall. The first US VHS tape release of the movie contained a small promo clip for The Next Generation, briefly introducing the new Enterprise and characters. Outside of North America, the film's title was changed to The Voyage Home: Star Trek IV (see UK trailer below), and references to the Star Trek brand were consciously avoided. This was done largely because had suffered badly from competition with Ghostbusters outside of North America and only grossed just over ten million dollars. A special prologue (see Trivia section below), in the form of a captain's log was created to detail the events of and to aid newcomers, narrated by William Shatner himself. While the tactic was somewhat successful, the rest-of-the-world gross of around $24 million was still less than a fifth of the film's overall total, and so was marketed as normal worldwide ( was not theatrically released in most countries). Although the early VHS releases also carried the inverted title, when the film was eventually released on DVD, its title reverted to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home worldwide. The Voyage Home was released in the United Kingdom on . It launched at the top of the box office and stayed there for two weeks. It earned £2,697,776 overall. The Voyage Home is ranked #2 out of the #11 Star Trek-based films according to Box Office Mojo, not adjusting for inflation, which makes it the most successful film until the 2009's . Creation and production This film marked the start of Michael Okuda's nineteen year relationship with the Star Trek franchise, both movies and television. For this film, he designed the computer displays as well as introducing the "touch screen" computer consoles, seen in the rest of the Star Trek films and television shows (except for ). According to several issues of the DC Star Trek comics letters page, the film was originally scheduled for release in the summer of 1986, but was delayed due to William Shatner still filming episodes of and they had to wait until its shooting season was completed before Shatner could join the project. The letters page of at least one issue (26) of the DC Star Trek comic also refers to the film by its apparent working title, Star Trek IV: The Adventure Continues. The character of Dr. Taylor was originally a male character who was a wacky college professor who was a "UFO nut," and, for added humor to the lighthearted script, actor Eddie Murphy was offered the role. Mike Okuda's DVD text commentary, as well as William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories, indicate that Murphy, as a fan of Star Trek, had approached Nimoy and Bennett about a role in the film, but later he decided to appear in The Golden Child instead (a decision he admits later was a big mistake), and Catherine Hicks won the rewritten and revised role. Nicholas Meyer later stated that when he came in to write the 20th century section of the film, he realized the earlier drafts were written with Murphy in mind. An early draft of the script had Sulu meeting a young child on the streets of San Francisco who was his distant ancestor. According to William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories, the scene was an idea pitched to Harve Bennett by George Takei, who was delighted when he discovered the scene was to be shot. However, when it came time to film the scene, the child they hired to play the role of Sulu's great-great-great grandfather was not a professional actor, and his mother was on set, causing the child to be extremely nervous. Consequently, they couldn't get anything done with the boy and eventually they had to move on. The scene was scrapped, much to the heartbreak of Takei. The scene survives in Vonda McIntyre's novelization. In the novel, while Sulu, McCoy and Scotty are walking the streets of San Francisco, a young Japanese boy walks up to Sulu, thinking him a relative and begins speaking to Sulu in Japanese and Sulu would find out the boy's name was Akira Sulu. After the boy leaves, McCoy asks who that was and Sulu tells him that the boy was in fact, his great-great-great grandfather. Early drafts of the script had Saavik remaining on Vulcan due to her being pregnant with Spock's child, following the events of the previous movie when young Spock went through pon farr as he aged rapidly, implying that he had sex with Saavik on the . The scene where Kirk says "LDS" instead of "LSD" originally called for Gillian Taylor to ask if he was dyslexic on top of everything else. Most of the shots of the humpback whales were taken using four-foot long animatronics models. Four such models were created, and were so realistic that after release of the film, US fishing authorities publicly criticized the film makers for getting too close to whales in the wild. The filmmakers reportedly said that they enjoyed telling those same authorities that except for the live shots toward the end of the film, the whale scenes weren't real. The scenes involving these whales were shot in a swimming pool in a Los Angeles area high school. A large animatronic tail was also created, for the scene on the sinking Bird-of-Prey, filmed on the Paramount car park, which was flooded for the shoot. The same spot was previously seen as a part of planet Vulcan in . The shot of the whales swimming past the Golden Gate Bridge was filmed on location, and nearly ended in disaster when a cable got snagged on a nuclear submarine and the whales were towed out to sea. In an interview with StarTrek.com about the scene with Koenig and Nichols asking about the location of the naval base, Layla Sarakalo stated that she approached the assistant director about appearing with the other extras and was told not to answer Koenig's and Nichols' questions. To the annoyance of the other extras, she did answer them and had to be inducted into the Screen Actors' Guild as a result, as the production crew found the line too amusing to be cut out. Some of the Bird-of-Prey footage is reused from . A shot of the Bird-of-Prey heading to the Sun at warp speed was reused, with added disruptor fire in . The aircraft carrier sequences were actually filmed aboard the conventionally-powered Forrestal-class carrier USS Ranger (CV 61). Ranger can be distinguished from Enterprise by her longer rectangular superstructure (barely visible behind the hair of Nichelle Nichols) and different arrangement of aircraft elevators. Enterprise was out at sea at the time and unavailable for filming. Even if available, in 1986, the engineering spaces of the nuclear carriers were deeply classified and filming a movie in them would have been impossible. All Enterprise sailors and marines were played by Ranger personnel (in certain scenes, freeze-frame reveals sailors wearing Ranger ball caps rather than Enterprise ones). Dr. Taylor orders Michelob beer over dinner, one of the few instances where an actual product is named in Star Trek. While the beer's label was never shown, another company managed to have a rare Trek moment of product placement. The computer used by Scotty at the Plexicorp factory is clearly a period-appropriate Macintosh Plus, and – as it was then known – receives a credit at the end of the film. advertising is also prominently visible. offers one of the few other instances of product placement in the franchise's history, when Kirk, Spock and McCoy go camping wearing jeans. Another instance of this was in the opening sequence of , when a bottle of Dom Perignon was smashed on the hull of the Enterprise-B at the ship's christening. In , a young Kirk uses an integrated Nokia mobile car phone, while Uhura is seen ordering Budweisers in an Iowa bar. The Voyage Home is the first Star Trek production to be directed by a member of the main cast. While Leonard Nimoy had also directed the previous film, he was not a member of the main cast, only appearing at the end. Continuity This film establishes that Hikaru Sulu was born in San Francisco. This marks Majel Barrett's final performance as Christine Chapel. The slingshot effect used by the Bounty to travel into the past was previously used in and . Kirk directly references these events when he says "We've done it before", referring to the slingshot maneuver. In Assignment: Earth and this movie, the Enterprise travels back exactly three hundred years, a fact perhaps explained by Spock's comment that he had to program some of the variables from memory. The film marks the last on-screen appearance of a Starfleet commodore, seen as a non-speaking extra in the Federation Council chambers, until the episode . It remained the chronologically-latest sighting of the rank in-universe prior to the appearance of Commodore Oh in . The city of San Francisco would be visited by time-traveling Star Trek characters again, in the episodes and , and and . Brock Peters, who plays Admiral Cartwright in this film (and later in ), also played the father of Benjamin Sisko in . This film establishes that Kirk is from Iowa. However, Kirk doesn't specifically say he was born in Iowa but was from there. According to Roberto Orci, one of the writers of , the was headed to Earth where James T. Kirk was eventually going to be born in Iowa and not on the Kelvin or Medical shuttle 37 in the alternate reality created by the Naradas arrival in 2233. Dating A copy of the San Francisco Register seen in the film dates the 20th century part of the film to Thursday, 18 December, 1986. This is consistent with marketing for the film, which used the phrase "Stardate: 1986". Leonard Nimoy, in an interview about the film's release on "Good Morning America" in November 1986, mentions that the crew journeys back in time "300 years to now," which strongly suggests 1986 as the destination year and, perhaps less strongly, suggests the crew's own time is 2286. The headlines and text in the newspaper are fictional, and can't be straightforwardly linked to real events. Notably, however, one headline mentions that a "Geneva summit [is] in doubt". This is in the context of "nuclear arms talks". Two Geneva summits have been held between the US and other nuclear powers; one in 1955 and one in 1985. Kirk states in his Captain's log near the opening of the film that he and his crew are in "our third month of our Vulcan exile", following the final events of Star Trek III. The date of the events of Star Trek III however are not entirely clear. Upon traveling to the 23rd century, Gillian mentions that she has "three hundred years of catch-up learning to do" after being transported to the future, though may have been casually approximating the time difference. StarTrek.com, and use this the line from Gillian to date the film to 2286. Memory Alpha also uses this year. Kirk makes a reference to the HMS Bounty mutiny having occurred five hundred years ago (from his own time). Since that event took place in 1789, it suggests his own time is 2289, though he, too, may have been casually approximating. Notes The lighted table in Starfleet Command eventually became the famous "pool table" located in main engineering of the . The USS Saratoga seen in early scenes was actually a slightly modified shooting model of the USS Reliant from . The bridge set for the aforementioned USS Saratoga was a simple redress set of the bridge of the Grissom from Star Trek III (which itself was a redress of the Enterprise bridge from the first three films). The camera angles used for scenes aboard the Saratoga do not make clear whether modifications seen to the bridge set at the end of the film had yet been made. The shot of the Captain from the Yorktown, which sent a transmission to Starfleet HQ, was also filmed on this set. The Bridge of the HMS Bounty was different from its appearance in . This film has a sense of historical irony regarding ship names. The film depicts the USS Saratoga and mentions the USS Yorktown (which Roddenberry claimed became the Enterprise-A) while featuring the aircraft carrier Enterprise (which was actually portrayed by the real life USS Ranger). During the period before World War II, the aircraft carriers USS Enterprise, USS Saratoga, USS Yorktown, and USS Ranger, were four of the seven fleet carriers in United States Navy service. The other three were Saratogas sister-ship, Lexington, the unique Wasp, and Enterprises sister, USS Hornet. All seven of these ships served in the Pacific. Only Enterprise, Ranger, and Saratoga survived the conflict, and were decommissioned shortly after its conclusion. The clothes worn by Leonard Nimoy as Spock during his swim in the whale tank were auctioned off in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction. During Spock's retraining, an original configuration ship appears on the monitor. The whaling ship used in the film was a World War II minesweeper called Golden Gate. The whale hunters speak Finnish, even though the script called for a crew of famous humpback hunters like the Norwegians, Icelanders or Russians to be used. Finland has never had any sort of whale hunting industry. However, Norway, a prominent whaling country, has a minority of Kvens, who speak a dialect of the Finnish language. Director Nimoy mentioned in the film's DVD commentary that in the scene where Gillian Taylor slaps Bob Briggs for letting the whales leave without letting her say goodbye to them that Catherine Hicks really did slap Scott DeVenney rather hard, and that while DeVenney was neither expecting it nor very happy about it, he took it and was a good sport about it later. Since the producers decided not to use subtitles for the Finnish dialogue or the probe/whale song sequence (although Paramount at one point did want subtitles for the film's climax), this is the only film of the first six Star Trek movies to not have any subtitles – not even to establish location or timeframe. Due to being released direct-to-video in some European and South American territories, a prologue recapping the events of The Search for Spock, narrated by Shatner, was added to release prints of this film in the territories listed above. The UK home video masters were also used for the Australian video release. Some of these releases omitted the Challenger dedication in order to make room for this prologue, but some releases kept both the prologue and the dedication. Though he had been distinctly unimpressed by , US President Ronald Reagan viewed this film, at the White House, on . () Several costumes, props, and items from this movie were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including a puppet which stood in as an alien ambassador. The Voyage Home and are the only two Star Trek films to not feature a starship Enterprise as the primary setting of the film. In both cases, it is due to the destruction of the Enterprise, and its replacement, the Enterprise-A, is seen at the end of the film. The Saratoga is popularly assumed to have been harmlessly disabled by the probe even though it's not seen again. And it is generally surmised that the probe just made a big mess on Earth for everyone to clean up. The overall light, comedic nature of this film tends to lead credence to the widely popularized sentiment of Star Trek IV being the only film in the series in which absolutely no one dies. This is the only film where none of Star Treks signature weapons (phasers, photons, and disruptors) are fired at a ship or individual with the intent to neutralize, kill or destroy. Only two attempts at using a handheld weapon are made; once by Chekov aboard the Enterprise, which fails, and once by Kirk, in which he melts the lock on the door to the room where the surgical staff is confined adjunct to Chekov's operating room at Mercy Hospital. Due to the events of the movie, DC Comics' first set of comics had to change course with their stories to accommodate the events of the movie. To this end, they had Spock's mind ravaged by a virus, forcing Kirk and his crew to take the HMS Bounty, which was docked within the Excelsior, and return to Vulcan. Thus, Kirk and his crew were fugitives again, this time for abandoning the Excelsior. This is the last Star Trek film to use the 1975-1986 Paramount Pictures logo. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Homes network television premiere occurred on the March 4, 1990 edition of The ABC Sunday Night Movie, the fourth consecutive and last such TV broadcast debut of a Star Trek film on the American Broadcasting Company until the 1999 TV premiere of 1996's . Video and DVD releases US Betamax release: Merchandise gallery Awards and honors Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home received the following awards and honors. Apocrypha The novel The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume One established that Chekov's Klingon phaser and communicator, which he threw at the investigators on the Enterprise in order to make his escape attempt, were sent to and then subsequently recovered by Roberta Lincoln (who was sent by Gary Seven) before they could be analyzed and potentially alter history. In the ization of , during the court martial, when the president tells Spock that he's not accused, Spock tells the president "Mr. President, I stand with my shipmates. Their fate shall be mine." The novelization also expands on McCoy and Scotty's discussion on whether or not they should give Dr. Nichols the formula for transparent aluminum. In the novel, Scotty knows for certain that Nichols did indeed invent transparent aluminum and so it is OK for them to give him the formula and it may well be essential that they do so. The unfilmed scene between Sulu and his great-great-great grandfather (see above) was also featured in the novelization. In the novelization Kirk recaps the tragic events of while discussing a possible time travel with Spock and McCoy. After her initial shock, Gillian begins to like the transporter and is actually quite surprised when she finds out Doctor McCoy dislikes and distrusts it. Links and references Credits Uncredited Performers Joe Adamson as Mercy Hospital doctor Cynthia Brian as street passerby Michelle Chateau as nun Ron Cragg as Federation Council guard Jay Crimp as Vulcan electrician Monique DeSart as Madelaine Michael DiMente as Deltan ambassador Paul Giebner as Enterprise (CVN-65) sailor Brooks Gulledge as Enterprise (CVN-65) sailor Christine Hansen as nun Robert Jack as Enterprise (CVN-65) sailor Stephen Liska as Torg (archive footage) Joel Marston as Starfleet Admiral Genevieve Martin as Vulcan noblewoman Mary Mascari as Mercy Hospital patient Nanci Meek as mental patient Ralph Moratz as Mercy Hospital visitor Leonard Nimoy as Mercy Hospital visitor Ken Peacock as Enterprise (CVN-65) sailor Kimberly Ryusaki as Tourist Trainee Enterprise crewmember Layla Sarakalo as street passerby Louise Schulze Melanie Shatner as Female jogger Madge Sinclair as Saratoga captain Teresa E. Victor as Aamaarazan councilor Philip Weyland as tourist Rhoda Williams as alien vocals Unknown performers as Aamaarazan councilor Andorian admiral Andorian commodore Arcadian delegate Arcadian councilors Ariolo councilor Caitian officer (brown) Caitian officer (black) Civilian FBI agent Three Deltan ambassadors Gregory Mercy Hospital nurse 1 Mercy Hospital nurse 2 Mercy Hospital OP nurse 1 Mercy Hospital OP nurse 2 Mercy Hospital PA announcer Eleven Mercy Hospital staffers Nine Mercy Hospital visitors Five street passersby Aquarium tourists Bus passengers Female cafe employee Plexicorp workers Restaurant cooks Restaurant patrons Street passersby Waiters Whale hunters Kasheeta councilor Purple-skinned alien councilor SFPD officer Saratoga navigator Saratoga bridge crewman and woman Tellarite dignitaries Vulcan Federation councilor 1 Vulcan Federation councilor 2 Vulcan female delegate Vulcan delegate Xelatian councilors Animatronic puppet – Bzzit Khaht councilor Stunt performers Vince Cadiente Jim O'Rear R.A. 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2047	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	"A Dying Planet. A Fight For Life. The Search For Spock." "All that they loved, all that they fought for, all that they stood for will now be put to the test… Join us on this, the final voyage of the starship Enterprise." Admiral James T. Kirk's defeat of Khan and the creation of the Genesis planet are empty victories. Spock is dead and McCoy is inexplicably being driven insane. An unexpected visit from Sarek, Spock's father, provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence. With one friend alive and one not, but both in pain, Kirk attempts to help his friends by stealing the Enterprise and defying Starfleet's Genesis planet quarantine. But the Klingons have also learned of Genesis and race to meet Kirk in a deadly rendezvous. Summary Act One ", captain's personal log. With most of our battle damage repaired we are almost home. Yet I feel uneasy, and I wonder why… Perhaps it's the emptiness of this vessel. Most of our trainee crew have been reassigned; Lieutenant Saavik and my son, David, are exploring the , which he helped create; and Enterprise feels like a house with all the children gone. No… more empty even than that. The death of Spock is like an open wound. It seems I have left the noblest part of myself back there on that newborn planet." As a result of Khan Noonien Singh's attempt to kill James T. Kirk using the Genesis Device, Spock is dead and has been created from matter within the Mutara Nebula. Dejected over the loss of Spock, the crew returns to port aboard the Enterprise for essential repairs to their ship, which was severely damaged in the fierce battle against Khan. A little over two hours away from the Earth Spacedock, Kirk asks Commander Pavel Chekov to take the science station – Spock's old post – for a pre-approach scan. He asks Uhura about an inquiry he made on Project Genesis: Uhura replies that there was not yet a response from Starfleet Command, which he finds odd. He then gets a status report from Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, who says automation will be ready in time for docking, and states he can have the ship repaired for her next cruise within two weeks, compared to his usual recommended repair time of eight weeks. Kirk observes that Scott always multiplies his repair estimates by a factor of four in order to maintain his reputation as a miracle worker. Before leaving the bridge, handing Hikaru Sulu the command con, , one of the few remaining Starfleet Academy cadets still aboard asks if a reception will greet them when they arrive at Earth. "A hero's welcome, son? Is that what you'd like?" Kirk asks the cadet. He adds in observation, "Well, God knows there should be. This time we paid for the party with our dearest blood." With that, he enters an empty turbolift and becomes emotional about the loss of his old friend as the lift descends towards his quarters. Meanwhile, somewhere off in space, a freighter with a female Klingon, Valkris, awaits somebody. That somebody is her lover, the warrior Kruge, who suddenly decloaks in a Klingon Bird-of-Prey, which dwarfs the freighter. Once there, she transmits data to the Bird-of-Prey, which from brief flashes can be ascertained to relate to Project Genesis. When Valkris reveals that she had seen the data, Kruge reluctantly determines that she must die, and subtly relays this to Valkris, who understands. After conveying their mutual admiration for each other, Kruge destroys the freighter with the Bird-of-Prey's disruptors. This also means he does not need to pay the freighter's crew for their work. After the freighter's destruction, he sets course for the Federation-Klingon neutral zone and orders one of his crew to feed his pet. The Enterprise reaches Earth and approaches the mammoth . During the approach, they see a new ship: , a part of "The Great Experiment", an attempt at transwarp drive. Although Sulu seems to be in awe of the possible capabilities of the ship, Scott is less than impressed, commenting "If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon…" "Come, come, Mr. Scott. Young minds, fresh ideas. Be tolerant," Kirk gently chides him. After the Enterprise is moored at the spacedock, Chekov, who is sitting at the science station, notes to Kirk that someone has entered Spock's quarters. When Uhura adds that the sealed room's door was forced open, Kirk goes down to investigate. After running down a corridor to Spock's quarters flanked by two security guards, he slowly enters through the damaged doors and, inside, he hears Spock's voice. "Jim, help me. You left me… on Genesis. Why did you do that? Help me…" Kirk runs forward and grabs the shadowed figure, finding the individual to be Dr. Leonard McCoy, mumbling about locations on , particularly Mount Seleya, before fainting. Kirk calls Uhura to send medics to Spock's quarters, immediately. Once Enterprise is docked, they are met by Fleet Admiral Morrow, Commander, Starfleet. In the ship's torpedo bay, he states that all crewmembers will be given the highest commendation of the Federation as well as extended shore leave, all except for Commander Scott who is being promoted to Captain and will serve as chief engineer aboard the Excelsior. Scott appreciates the sentiment, but would rather remain and help with the refit of the Enterprise. Morrow explains that the Enterprise is not to be refit, but is to be decommissioned instead. When Kirk protests, Morrow states to him, "Jim, the Enterprise is twenty years old. We feel her day is over." Kirk voices his hope that one day, the Enterprise will be able to return to Genesis, but Morrow says that is out of the question, as, in Kirk's absence, Genesis has become a galactic controversy. Morrow orders the Enterprise crew that they are not to discuss with anyone their knowledge about Genesis. "Consider it a quarantined planet… and a forbidden subject." On the Bird-of-Prey, Kruge and his most trusted officers, Maltz and Torg, view the data on Project Genesis. The Klingons are impressed by the power, but Kruge bristles at the idea of the Federation making new planets for themselves. He resolves to travel to Genesis and seize whatever information he can. Kruge regards what he calls the "Genesis torpedo" as a powerful weapon, not a means of creating life. After he dismisses Maltz, he tells Torg that they will seize the secret of this supposed "weapon" for the preservation of their race. The USS Grissom, with Lieutenant Saavik and Dr. David Marcus aboard, arrives at Genesis and begins using sensors to explore the surface. During the initial scans of the planet's biosphere, its sensor scans discover Spock's photon torpedo casket on the surface harboring a lifeform that they cannot identify. Saavik and David Marcus try to convince Captain J.T. Esteban to allow them to beam down and investigate closer. Due to the sensitive nature of Genesis, Esteban keeps Starfleet in the loop with their every move. However, he reluctantly permits them to beam down and check it out. At Kirk's apartment in San Francisco on Earth, he, Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura toast to "absent friends." Kirk reveals that the Enterprise is to be decommissioned. McCoy is sedated at home, apparently suffering "exhaustion", and promises he will behave himself. A chime at the door is anticipated by Kirk to be Scott, but instead it is Sarek, who demands a word alone with him. After Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura leave, Sarek is upset that Kirk did not follow what would have been Spock's final wishes, but Kirk is unaware of any particular request Spock would have made, and had no physical contact with him in the immediate moment of his death. Sarek believed Kirk would hold Spock's katra, his living spirit, but after conducting a mind meld with Kirk, Sarek does not find it – since they were on opposite sides of a wall, Spock would not have been able to meld with him. Sarek dejectedly says that, since the katra was not passed to Kirk, all of Spock is lost forever and silently turns to leave. Before he reaches the door, Kirk asks him to wait, since he knows that, if the katra is as important as Sarek suggests, one way or another, Spock would have found some way to save it. After reviewing flight recorder tapes from the time of Spock's death, they find out that it was Dr. McCoy that received his katra. Although it will be very difficult, Kirk swears to Sarek he will get Spock's body back and return him and Dr. McCoy to Mount Seleya on Vulcan so they can find peace. Back at Genesis, Saavik and David transport down to the surface to conduct a closer examination of the unidentified lifeform. The duo discovers them to be an evolved form of microbe that had been present on the casket's surface when it was launched from the Enterprise. Opening the casket, they are puzzled to find Spock's body missing entirely, although they recover his burial robe. Before the scientists can speculate further, they are interrupted by what sounds like somebody screaming in the distance, and Saavik and Marcus set off to find the source. Act Two Kirk's attempt to get the Enterprise back runs afoul of Admiral Morrow. In a bar at Starfleet Headquarters, despite Kirk's plea, Morrow does not give him back Enterprise, and explicitly orders him not to return to Genesis, warning him, as a friend, to stop obsessing over this or it will ruin his career and he will destroy himself. Considering Morrow's words for just a moment, Kirk tells the admiral that he hears him and says he had to at least try. Kirk thanks Morrow for the drink and gets up to leave. Upon seeing Sulu and Chekov standing near the bar's exit, Kirk tells them, "The word – is "no". I am therefore going anyway." With the help of his loyal crew, Kirk then begins to put his plan into motion. Meanwhile, Dr. McCoy, influenced by the katra, attempts to charter a black market civilian ship to Genesis, independent of his shipmates' efforts. Upon meeting his nameless alien contact, McCoy attempts to negotiate terms of passage without revealing the exact details of his ultimate destination, but the alien presses harder, and as the conversation escalates, McCoy reveals that the destination is the Genesis planet. The alien refuses very loudly, due to the planet's recent forbidden status, but McCoy persists when he is interrupted by Federation Security and arrested. He tries to nerve pinch the security officer, but is unsuccessful. "You're going to have a nice, long rest doctor," the officer says while McCoy raises an eyebrow. Kirk and Sulu are subsequently forced to rescue the doctor. In the process they assault Federation personnel and the trio barely escape from the brig before the security officers arrive. Despite being reassigned to Excelsior, Scott has been secretly making essential repairs to the Enterprise in addition to slaving the ship's controls to the main bridge. The commanding officer of the Excelsior, Captain Lawrence H. Styles, makes an offhanded remark to Scott about looking forward to breaking the speed records of the Enterprise the next day, which doesn't sit well with Scott at all. After asking the Excelsiors turbolift to take him to the transporter room and the computer thanks him, he responds "Up your shaft." Uhura accepts a post as a transporter operator at Old City Station in San Francisco, with the covert task of beaming Kirk and company aboard the Enterprise at the required moment. Kirk and his crew arrive in the transporter station and Uhura locks the junior officer in the closet while she beams the officers to the Enterprise. Before she energizes she tells her friends that she will meet them at rendezvous point and says to Kirk "all my hopes" and the crew are beamed to Enterprise, which is still docked within spacedock. Scott has set up an automation system to allow control of the Enterprise just from the bridge. "A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her," he assures the admiral. Although Kirk cannot ask his friends to go further, and that only he and McCoy must continue, Sulu, Chekov, and Scott hear none of it and insist on joining the flight. Kirk orders one-quarter impulse and the Enterprise begins its departure from spacedock. Unable to stop the Enterprise from opening the massive bay doors in spacedock, the Excelsior is ordered to pursue. Styles sends a message to Kirk threatening him that if he goes through with this he will never sit in a captain's chair again. Kirk considers this for a brief moment but refuses to give up on Spock. "Warp speed," Kirk orders Sulu. The Enterprise engages warp drive. Styles prepares to send the Excelsior into transwarp to intercept the Enterprise as soon as possible. However, due to sabotage carried out on its transwarp computer drive by Scott, the Excelsiors transwarp drive fails to activate and comes to a rough halt as the Enterprise escapes at warp speed. Meanwhile, aboard the Enterprise, Scott hands McCoy a handful of parts from Excelsiors transwarp drive computer as a souvenir "from one surgeon to another." Commenting on the excellent work, Kirk jokes that he will recommend his crew for promotions… "in whatever fleet we end up serving." The Enterprise goes to its best possible speed, bound for Genesis. Unaware of events back in the Sol system, Saavik and Dr. Marcus locate a young Vulcan boy in the snow among large cactus and conclude that it is Spock, somehow regenerated by the same process that created the Genesis planet. Relaying this surprising information to the Grissom, Captain Esteban is reluctant to permit Spock to be beamed aboard the ship immediately, and would prefer to contact Starfleet Command to receive instructions. This turns out to be fortuitous; shortly afterward, Kruge's Bird-of-Prey decloaks. The USS Grissom is unintentionally destroyed by a "lucky shot" from the ship's gunner. Kruge is furious, as he had desired to take the science ship, and its data, intact, and the crew as prisoners. Kruge summarily executes the gunner, vaporizing him with his disruptor. Torg points out to Kruge that there are life signs on the planet and surmises that it is a landing party, which pleases Kruge. Now marooned on the surface and in danger of being captured, Saavik, Marcus, and Spock flee to more defensible ground. The cruise of Enterprise to the Genesis planet goes well. As Kirk asks for a scan ahead for any vessels pursuing the stolen Federation ship, Dr. McCoy, who is at the science station, gives an impression of Spock while reporting that they have not detected any vessels in pursuit of the Enterprise, to Kirk's amusement. Later on, Chekov reports that Starfleet is transmitting a message to Grissom, warning them of the approach of the stolen Enterprise, but that Grissom is not responding. Kirk wonders aloud what Grissom is up to, having not responded to earlier messages, and wonders how the science vessel will respond when Enterprise arrives at Genesis: whether she'll join Enterprise or fire on her. He orders Chekov to break radio silence and send his compliments to Captain Esteban. Kruge and several members of his crew beam to the surface of the Genesis planet to pursue the surviving crew of the Grissom. Saavik finally finds out why the Genesis planet is changing so rapidly: David had used protomatter in the Genesis matrix, a substance known to be unstable. The Genesis planet is not likely to remain stable for very long, and it is causing the rapid evolution of the lifeforms on the planet as well as making Spock age rapidly. As night falls on the planet, David guards the location where he, Saavik and Spock are hiding. After discussing Spock's difficult adolescence that lies ahead of him, David detects life forms approaching their position from his tricorder. Saavik offers to confront them but David instead insists on intercepting them, asking for her phaser. Later, Spock, now aged to adolescence, begins to experience pon farr. Saavik determines that the only way Spock will make it through this portion of his accelerated growth would be for her to mate with him. As Enterprise approaches the Genesis planet, they briefly detect a ship, but it vanishes. They scan the planet, looking for life on it, and attempt to hail the Grissom. Meanwhile, as day breaks at their hiding place, Saavik and Spock are captured by the Klingons, as well as a beaten David Marcus. Kruge demands to know the secrets of the Genesis Project, but neither Marcus nor Saavik are forthcoming, and tell Kruge that the project was a failure. Shortly after, Kruge returns to his Bird-of-Prey to confront the Enterprise. As they sneak closer, Kirk and Sulu notice spatial distortions caused by the Bird-of-Prey's cloaking device. As soon as the Klingon vessel decloaks, Enterprise reflexively fires two photon torpedoes, both hitting the Bird-of-Prey's hull. The advantage proves short-lived however as, after the initial shock of being hit, the Klingons swiftly regain control of their vessel and bear down on the Enterprise. Chekov tries to raise the Enterprises shields, but finds the system non-responsive, and Scott reports that the automation system is overloading under the strain of the unexpected combat situation. The Bird-of-Prey fires one plasma charge, which strikes the Enterprise near the bridge, causing a series of internal explosions. The crew recovers and Kirk orders emergency power be engaged and to return fire; before Scott can do so though, the helm console sparks and bursts into flames, and Scott grimly informs Kirk that the automation system has been destroyed by the Klingon blast, leaving him having no control over any system, the ship dead in space. "So – we're a sitting duck," Kirk grimly notes. Aboard the Bird-of-Prey, Kruge becomes suspicious that the Enterprise isn't putting up more of a fight, considering it has far heavier armaments than his ship. Kirk then hails the Bird-of-Prey, demanding that the crew surrender within two minutes or face destruction. Kruge determines that Enterprise is less of a threat than Kirk is letting on, and calls Kirk's bluff, ordering him to surrender instead. He reveals that he has prisoners on the surface. Both Marcus and Saavik speak to Kirk by communicator and Saavik reveals that Spock is with them, alive. Marcus says that he can't believe that Kruge would kill them for Genesis, since the project was a failure. Kruge challenges that by ordering his men on the surface to kill any one of the prisoners. One of the men stalks behind the Grissom prisoners with his d'k tahg knife unsheathed. He chooses Saavik. However, as he rears back to sink the blade into the Vulcan's back, Marcus jumps backward and attacks the Klingon. Thoroughly outmatched physically, Marcus is knocked down and stabbed through the heart, while both Spock and Saavik can only watch and do nothing. With the Klingon communicator forced in her face, Saavik simply intones, "Admiral, David is dead." Completely devastated, Kirk stumbles back, and falls to the deck in front of his chair, cursing the Klingons for the needless death of his only son. Kruge is unmoved however, and threatens to have Saavik and Spock killed if Kirk refuses to surrender. The admiral finally gives in, and Kruge gives Kirk two minutes to prepare to be boarded. After taking a moment to quietly grieve David's death, Kirk consults with Sulu as to the crew numbers of a Bird-of-Prey, realizing that their only chance of survival is to eliminate as many of the Klingons as possible in one go. Kirk orders McCoy and Sulu to go to the transporter room and set beam-down coordinates for the planet below, while he, Scott, and Chekov activate the ship's auto-destruct sequence from the science station. With the sixty-second countdown begun, Kirk, Scott, and Chekov make a hasty departure to the transporter room, and then the five crewmembers leave the Enterprise for the last time. Moments later, the Klingons board the ship and begin stalking their way to the bridge. Torg becomes suspicious while storming through the Enterprises corridors with his men, finding no crewmembers to confront them. Arriving on the bridge, Torg signals Kruge and informs him the ship is deserted, the only voice coming from the computer as it counts down to zero. Kruge frantically tries to warn his crew to get off the ship; however, it is too late and the auto-destruct detonates: the bridge is engulfed in explosions that instantly kill the Klingon boarding party. As the great saucer disintegrates in a series of explosions, a final detonation destroys the primary hull and knocks the lifeless hulk that was once the USS Enterprise out of orbit and into the atmosphere of Genesis. Safe on the planet's surface, Kirk, McCoy, Scott, Sulu, and Chekov watch on a plateau as their starship streaks across the atmosphere, burning up when it contacts the planet's atmosphere. Blinking hard to fight back tears, Kirk asks McCoy for guidance. All McCoy can offer is that Kirk did what he had to do and what he always has done: turn death into a fighting chance to live. Act Three Sulu detects lifeforms with his tricorder only a few kilometers away, and more worryingly that the planet's structure is beginning to totally destabilize. In that direction, Spock is going through a series of painful physical changes. He throws one of his two remaining Klingon guards to their death. The Enterprise crew finds them, and Kirk shoots the remaining Klingon. As McCoy examines Spock, who is now physically near his actual age, Kirk tends to David's body, covering him with his jacket. Saavik tells Kirk he gave his life to save her and Spock. McCoy says Spock is rapidly aging, but has no mind; McCoy suspects he possesses all of Spock's mentality. Kirk taunts Kruge, who is mourning his crew, as a way to goad him into beaming them aboard the ship before the planet destroys itself. Kruge himself beams down to the planet instead and holds them all at gunpoint, ordering Maltz to beam up Sulu, Chekov, Scott, McCoy, and Saavik, but leaving Kirk and Spock. Kruge demands Genesis, over Kirk's protests that it is a failure, evidenced by the disintegrating planet they're on. Kruge and Kirk fight; Kruge is prepared to kill himself in the battle. The two eventually end up on a cliff-side overlooking a lava stream, and Kruge nearly falls to his death when part of the cliff breaks off. Kirk offers to save Kruge's life by extending his hand to help, but he tries to drag Kirk into the chasm along with him, and Kirk finally declares that he has had enough of the Klingon and kicks him in the face three times until he falls off the side of the cliff. As he plummets, the Klingon commander disappears in a flash of flame. Kirk retrieves Spock, who is now unconscious, but back to the physical age he was when he died, and tricks Maltz into beaming him on board the Bird-of-Prey by impersonating Kruge. Maltz, the last remaining member of its crew, surrenders, and Kirk gives him the choice of helping the Enterprise crew or dying, and Maltz is content to let the ship be destroyed when the planet below explodes. "Fine, I'll kill you later," Kirk says. Scott, Sulu, and Chekov figure out the Klingon propulsion systems, and they set a course for Vulcan as the Genesis planet finally begins to blow itself apart. Once safely away from the self-destructing planet, Kirk quietly says his farewell to his son. He then orders Chekov to hold Maltz prisoner, but Maltz protests that Kirk stated he would kill him. Kirk intones, "I lied," and stands by his order. In a medical bay aboard the Klingon vessel, McCoy tries to converse with Spock's unconscious body. McCoy tells Spock of the katra that he had put into him in the Enterprises engine room, asking him to remember that. Still getting no response, McCoy tells his old Vulcan rival that he is going to say something that he never thought he'd hear himself say – he has missed Spock since his death and he doesn't know if he could stand to lose him again. The Bird-of-Prey lands near Mount Seleya, where it is greeted by Sarek and Uhura. After Spock's body is taken up telekinetically to Mount Seleya, followed by Sarek, Kirk and company, a ceremony is then officiated by the Vulcan priestess T'Lar, who determines that Spock, indeed, is alive. Sarek, stating that his logic is uncertain as far as his son is concerned, requests that Spock's katra be reintegrated with its body in the fal-tor-pan ceremony. McCoy agrees to this despite being warned that there are risks involved. T'Lar initiates a mind meld with Spock and McCoy, and begins the ritual to restore Spock's soul. The ceremony proceeds through the long night. As day breaks, T'Lar is escorted away in her sedan as McCoy wearily informs Kirk that's he's all right. When Kirk asks Sarek about Spock, the Vulcan can only reply "Only time will answer." As he begins to thank Kirk for his actions, the admiral cuts in saying that he did what he had to do. Sarek, with a hint of sorrow, asks Kirk if the price he paid with the loss of the Enterprise and his son was worth all of the effort. Kirk replies that if he hadn't tried, he would have paid with his own soul. At first, Spock and two Vulcan priests walk past the Enterprise crew without a glance, but, Spock removes his hood, turns back and then regards each of them, trying to remember a fragment of a memory of any of them. As he approaches Kirk, he regards him carefully and states that Sarek has told him that Kirk was his friend, that he came back for him. Kirk replies that Spock would have done the same for him. Spock, puzzled, asks why Kirk would do such a thing. Remembering what Spock had told him as he slowly died in the engine room of the Enterprise about the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few, Kirk turns it back and explains to Spock that in this case, "the needs of the one outweighed the needs of the many." In Spock, the memory begins to surface and he echoes back to Kirk "I have been and ever shall be your friend." Kirk, encouraging, tells Spock that he is correct. He also remembers more from his last meeting with Kirk, asking if the Enterprise is out of the danger that Khan had forced them into. Kirk tries to continue to jog Spock's memory by telling him he saved the ship – he saved them all. Spock, considering Kirk, looks at him guardedly: "Jim. Your name… is Jim…" Kirk smiles and says "Yes!" Spock, almost contented with the success, regards Dr. McCoy who taps his finger to his head knowingly and in a moment of overwhelming joy, the rest of the Enterprise crew welcome Spock back as the sun rises over Vulcan. "…and the Adventure continues…" Log entries ", Captain's personal log. With most of our battle damage repaired, we're almost home. Yet I feel uneasy, and I wonder why. Perhaps it's the emptiness of this vessel. Most of our trainee crew have been reassigned. Lieutenant Saavik and my son, David, are exploring the Genesis planet which he helped create. And Enterprise feels like a house with all the children gone. No, more empty even than that. The death of Spock is like an open wound. It seems I have left the noblest part of myself back there… on that newborn planet." Memorable quotes "And Enterprise feels like a house with all the children gone. No, more empty even than that. The death of Spock is like an open wound." - Kirks personal log "Sir? I was wondering… are they planning a ceremony when we get in? I mean a reception?" "A hero's welcome, son? Is that what you'd like? Well, God knows there should be. This time we paid for the party with our dearest blood." - Foster and Kirk, on receiving a hero's welcome "Until the Federation Council makes policy, you are all under orders not to discuss with anyone your knowledge of Genesis. Consider it a quarantined planet and a forbidden subject." - Morrow "Impressive. They can make planets." "Oh, yes. New cities and homes in the country. Your woman at your side. Children playing at your feet, and overhead, fluttering in the breeze, the flag of the Federation! Charming." - Maltz and Kruge, after watching the Genesis briefing "Regulations specifically state nothing shall be beamed aboard until danger of contamination has been eliminated." - Esteban "Beaming down to the surface is permitted." "If the Captain decides that the mission is vital and reasonably free of danger." - Saavik and Esteban "To absent friends." - Kirk, toasting "The Council has ordered that no one but the science team goes to Genesis!" - Morrow, to Kirk "What'll it be?" "Altair water." (giggles) "That's not your usual poison." "To expect one to order poison in a bar is not logical." - The waitress taking McCoys order "All right, dammit! It's Genesis! The name of the place we're going is Genesis!" "GENESIS!?" "Yes! Genesis!! How can you be deaf with ears like that!?" "Genesis allowed, is not! It's planet forbidden!" - McCoy and the black market pilot "Sir, I'm sorry, but your voice is carrying. I don't think you want to be discussing this subject in public." "I'll discuss what I like! And who in the hell are you?" "Could I offer you a ride home, Dr. McCoy?" "Where's the logic in offering me a ride home, you idiot? If I wanted a ride home, would I be trying to charter a space flight?" - Federation security officer and McCoy, after the latter's failed attempt to obtain a black market civilian flight to the "Make it quick, Admiral. They're moving him to the Federation funny farm." "Yes, poor friend. I hear he's nutty as a fruitcake." - Federation security officer and Kirk, about McCoy "How many fingers do I have up?" (Makes a Vulcan hand salute) "That's not very damn funny." "Your sense of humor's returned." "The hell it has!" - Kirk and McCoy, in McCoy's cell "You're suffering from a Vulcan mind meld, doctor." "That green-blooded son of a bitch! It's his revenge for all the arguments he lost." - Kirk and McCoy "Keeping you busy?" "Don't get smart, Tiny." - Sulu and security guard "That's Admiral Kirk, my God!" "Very good for you, Lieutenant." "But it's damned irregular. No destination orders. No encoded IDs." "All true." "Well, what are we going to do about it?" "I'm not going to do anything about it. You're going to sit in the closet." "The closet? What, have you lost all your sense of reality?" "This isn't reality." (turns and points a phaser at him) "This is fantasy! You wanted adventure, how's this? The old adrenaline going, huh? Good boy. Now get in the closet!" "Okay, um…" "Go on, go on." "I'll just get in the closet." - "Mr. Adventure" and Uhura "I'm glad you're on our side." - McCoy, to Uhura "Ah, Mr. Scott! Calling it a night?" "Uh, yes sir." "Turning in myself, looking forward to breaking the Enterprises speed records tomorrow." "Ah, yes sir. Good night." - Styles and Scott "Level, please." "Transporter room." "Thank you." "Up your shaft." - Excelsior turbolift and Scott "A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her." "Thank you, Mister Scott. I'll try not to take that personally." - Scott and Kirk, on the Enterprise bridge "And… now, Mr. Scott." "Sir?" "The doors, Mr. Scott!" "Aye, sir, I'm working on it!" - Kirk and Scott, both hoping to avoid a collision with the still closed spacedock doors "Kirk! If you do this, you'll never sit in the captain's chair again." - Styles, to Kirk "Scotty… as good as your word." "Aye, sir. The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain! (to McCoy) Here, doctor. Souvenirs… from one surgeon to another. I took them out of her main transwarp computer drive." - Kirk and Scott, on how the removal of four small parts can cripple the Excelsior "Gentlemen, your work today has been outstanding. I intend to recommend you all for promotion… in whatever fleet we end up serving." - Kirk "Sir, may I suggest…" (points his weapon at Torg) "Say the wrong thing, Torg!!" "That if it's prisoners you want, there are life signs on the planet, perhaps the very scientists you seek." (lowers his weapon) "Very good." - Torg and Kruge "How are we doing?" "How are we doing? Funny you should put it that way, Jim. We are doing fine. But I'd feel a lot safer giving him one of my kidneys than what's scrambled in my brain!" - Kirk and McCoy "Hello, sir. It's David." "I'm sorry I'm late." "It's OK; I should've known you'd come. But Saavik's right. This planet is unstable; it's going to destroy itself in a matter of hours." "David, what went wrong? "I went wrong." "I don't understand." "I'm sorry, sir. Just don't surrender. Genesis doesn't work. I can't believe they'd kill us for it." - David and Kirk "You Klingon bastard! You've killed my son!" - Kirk, after Saavik delivers the bad news "There are two more prisoners, Admiral. You want them killed, too? Surrender your vessel." - Kruge to Kirk, after Saavik's bad news about David "Bones, you and Sulu to the transporter room. The rest of you with me, we have a job to do." - Kirk, giving the order to abandon ship "Destruct sequence completed and engaged. Awaiting final code for one minute countdown." "Code zero, zero, zero...destruct...zero." "Destruct sequence is activated." - Computer and Kirk, initiating self-destruct sequence "Nine, eight, seven, six, five..." "GET OUT! GET OUT OF THERE! GET OUT!" "...One..." - Computer and Kurge, just before the Enterprise self-destructs "My God, Bones. What have I done?" "What you had to do. What you always do. Turn death into a fighting chance to live." - Kirk and McCoy, as the fiery Enterprise plummets "Klingon Commander! This is Admiral James T. Kirk! I'm alive and well on the planet surface! I know this will come as a pleasant surprise for you, but our ship was a victim of an unfortunate accident! Sorry about your crew, but as we say on Earth, c'est la vie. I have what you want. I have the secret of Genesis. But you're gonna have to bring us up there to get it. You hear me? I'm waiting for you! What is your answer?" - Kirk, to Kruge "You fool, look around you! The planet's destroying itself." "Yes! Exhilarating, isn't it?" "If we don't help each other, we'll die here." "Perfect. Then that's the way it shall be!" - Kirk and Kruge, on the imploding Genesis Planet "You – help us or die." "I do not deserve to live." "Fine, I'll kill you later." - Kirk and Maltz "Where's the damn antimatter inducer?" "This? No, this." "That, or nothing!" - Scott and Chekov, trying to figure out how to fly the Bird-of-Prey "Wait! You said you would kill me!" "I lied." - Maltz and Kirk "I'm going to tell you something that I never thought I'd hear myself say. But it seems that I've missed you. And I don't know if I could stand to lose you again." - McCoy, to Spock "What you seek has not been done since ages past, and then only in legend. Your request is not logical." "Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain where my son is concerned." - T'Lar and Sarek, on the request of fal-tor-pan for Spock "McCoy, son of David, since thou art Human, we cannot expect thee to understand fully what Sarek has requested. Spock's body lives. With your approval, we shall use all our powers to return to his body that which you possess." - T'Lar to McCoy, about Spock's katra "The danger to thyself is as grave as the danger to Spock. You must make the choice." "I choose the danger!" (muttered) "Hell of a time to ask…" - T'Lar and McCoy, on fal-tor-pan "Kirk, I thank you. What you've done is – " "What I've done, I had to do." "But at what cost? Your ship. Your son." "If I hadn't tried, the cost would have been my soul." - Sarek and Kirk "My father says that you have been my friend. You came back for me." "You would have done the same for me." "Why would you do this?" "Because the needs of the one outweighed the needs of the many." - Spock and Kirk "Jim. Your name is Jim." - Spock, as his memory begins to return Appendices Background information Harve Bennett's twenty-page outline for this film was entitled Return To Genesis and is dated . Bennett has said in various interviews and the Star Trek III DVD that the script was the easiest he had ever written, starting at the end of the movie with Spock alive again and working backwards from that point. Bennett also said that Paramount green-lighted this film faster than any film he ever worked on, having been told to "Start writing Star Trek III" within days of the release of . According to an article on io9.com, Harve Bennett's original outline for Star Trek III would have involved Romulans coming to Genesis instead of Klingons and them finding the world very rich in dilithium. The Romulans then begin to mine the planet until the miners begin being killed by a feral Spock, whose aging was still tied to the aging of the planet. At the same time, Vulcan, upon hearing of the Genesis Device, is so horrified to discover that the Federation created such a potential weapon they want to secede from the Federation. This would have sent Kirk to Vulcan, with the crew of the Enterprise, to face the angry Vulcans. In the article, Robert Meyer Burnett argues that this would have been a more serious, "perilous" and above all epic story than the actual produced and released film – and it would have featured a Romulan commander along the lines of the thoughtful antagonist from the original Romulan story, . In an early draft of the script, the Klingon Bird-of-Prey was originally to be a stolen Romulan vessel (the red "feather design" of the wings' underside was designed with the original Romulan Bird-of-Prey in mind), but that detail was dropped from the final draft. A copy of Bennett's original storyline was leaked to fans in , forcing him to rewrite the script, changing many of the film's original details and events. This forced the original release date to change from the Christmas of 1983, when production was delayed until , partially due to the rewrite. ( #77, , p. 15) Actor and director Leonard Nimoy also worked on the film's story, but his contribution went uncredited. "The only time there was any conflict about the movie's content happened during pre-production, when I said I was satisfied with the final script, and was ready to start shooting. The executives had some reservations about ending the picture on Vulcan. I felt, very, very strongly about that final sequence. I wanted to end the film by bringing Spock to Vulcan, and going through the ritual. I believed it would work, and that the audience would enjoy it." Nimoy explained, "Not being so familiar with Star Trek, the executives didn't understand what that sequence would mean to the audience. They were worried about it, and tried to convince me to substitute a different ending. They wanted to end with the dramatic escape from the Genesis planet, getting Kirk and Spock on board the Klingon Bird of Prey, reviving Spock in the sick bay, doing a little tag scene and going home." To that end, Nimoy said he "argue vehemently that we had to have the sequence on Vulcan. Showing Spock on his planet, among his people, trying to remember his friends, would be a moving scene. I managed to convince them that I wanted to do it my way, and they agreed. I didn't discuss the film with them again until I showed them my first cut." ( #106, , p. 52) There is an extra long pause between William Shatner's name and DeForest Kelley's during the opening credits where Leonard Nimoy's name would have been. To keep secret Leonard Nimoy's participation in this movie as an actor, official daily call sheets mentioned the adult Spock character only as "Nacluv" ("Vulcan" spelled backwards), played by "Frank Force". Nimoy continued the joke by using the pseudonym in the end credits for his cameo role as the (Excelsior) elevator voice. According to director/producer commentary for the two-disc DVD release, the destruction of the Enterprise was to be a secret (like Luke Skywalker's father in the Star Wars franchise), but the Paramount promotional department made this the biggest point of the initial trailers, calling it "The Death of the Enterprise"; Harve Bennett had objected to this and tried to have the trailers changed so as to not spoil the surprise, but lost out. Despite the heightened security precautions implemented during filming, word of the ship's destruction was leaked during production, in an incident that some have attributed to Gene Roddenberry himself. In a 1987 interview with the Official Star Trek Fan Club magazine, Harve Bennett said that the destruction of the Enterprise was not in the original drafts of the script and was added later in writing when he and Leonard Nimoy realized they needed a dramatic life or death decision. After the film was finished, Bennett said he quietly vowed to restore the Enterprise at the proper time. The Enterprise was restored in with the introduction of the . The Enterprise destruct sequence was previously used in with Spock's command codes used by Scott, and Scott's codes used by Chekov this time out. Further, Scott refers to himself as "commander" when he was, in fact, recently promoted to captain (and is also wearing the captain insignia in the scene), although it is possible that the Enterprise computers were not updated to Scott's new rank given that he was promoted to "captain of engineering" on Excelsior, and Enterprise had been scheduled for decommissioning. Filming on Star Trek III began on Monday, . The opening scene on the Enterprise bridge was the first to be filmed. The last shot was taken at Thursday, on the Excelsior bridge. When the film was released, the box office receipts were strong. The film grossed US$16.7 million in its opening weekend, approximately US$2.4 million more than Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan made when it first opened. In the long run, however, Star Trek III grossed a total of US$76.5 million domestically, falling just short of Star Trek IIs US$78.9 million gross. In Britain, the film was released on . It reached no.2 in the box office charts, but eventually rose to no.1 late in its run. It was however the lowest performing Star Trek film at the UK box office overall with only £1,096,042. During production, a fire broke out behind the Paramount lot which caused minor damage to the Genesis Planet set. Among those who assisted in putting out the fire was actor William Shatner. According to William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories, he was in full Kirk costume and makeup when he helped with the fire. Shatner also accounted in his book that he was terrified the fire was going to hold up filming and thereby make him late for reporting back to start filming the new season of TJ Hooker, the police drama that Shatner was starring in at the time that Star Trek III (and later ) was filmed. The climactic fight between Kirk and Kruge was originally supposed to feature huge boulders that would "burst" up from the ground. On the day of shooting, however, the boulders failed to work properly and the scene was shot without them (however, one of them worked correctly and was used to propel Kruge into the air to attack Kirk at the onset of their fight). After the Enterprise escapes from spacedock, when Kirk orders a scan "for vessels in pursuit," an off-screen McCoy responds "scanning: indications negative at this time." However, it is in actuality the voice of Leonard Nimoy that the audience hears. This is left as an open-ended question to whether Kirk is imagining it, or if it is McCoy performing an impersonation, or more likely, another manifestation of Spock's katra (spirit), as witnessed in the scene in Spock's quarters, in which McCoy sits in the shadows, but speaks in Spock's voice. Sulu and Scott clearly react with shock/surprise, so evidently they heard the voice as well. The Star Trek Compendium compares Kirk risking his career and even his life to save Spock to what Spock did for Captain Christopher Pike in the two part episodes and . This movie marks the first live-action appearance of Ambassador Sarek (Mark Lenard) since his introduction seventeen years earlier in . In the interim, he appeared in . The , the , the station, and the Klingon Bird-of-Prey all make their first appearances here. They continued to be used in , , and . The Bird-of-Prey appeared in four subsequent films until , its last film appearance. Judi Durand voices her first computer in this movie. She can be heard announcing that the space doors are closed. She went on to play the Cardassian computer voice in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Paramount continued its practice of seeking design patents for designs from the Star Trek movies with this film as well. It obtained patents for several props, the Excelsior, and the Klingon Bird-of-Prey. The toast made in Kirk's apartment, "Absent friends," is one of the traditional toasts of the Royal Navy. Jean-Luc Picard makes the same toast, in memory of one of his fallen crewmates, in . Kor adapted this toast, "to absent comrades" in memory of Jadzia Dax in . Admiral Morrow states that the Enterprise is over twenty years old, but this is commonly misinterpreted as exactly twenty years old, which would coincide with ; however the ship was in service for at least eleven years prior to that, as Spock has stated himself. During the scene where Kirk asks Admiral Morrow for permission to return to the Genesis Planet, part of the Epsilon IX station from can be seen as a wall decoration hanging in the background, and when they reach the turbo shaft, the other half can be seen. This film featured the first appearance of tribbles since . They can be seen briefly in the first moments of the bar scene, before Dr. McCoy sits down. Although this film takes place immediately after The Wrath of Khan, Khan is never mentioned once. This movie is the first time that Chekov is heard to speak in Russian. He says "Я не сумасшедший. Ну, вот!", ("Ja ne sumasšedšij. Nu, vot!") which roughly translates to "I'm not crazy. Well, look!" It is unclear why Chekov would speak Russian to Scotty. According to the script, Kruge was described as a "Battle Commander" and was "a Klingon War Lord of handsome but frightening presence, and relative youth." This explains why Saavik, Valkris, and his crew refer to him as "my Lord." Leonard Nimoy originally wanted Edward James Olmos as Kruge, but Paramount Pictures nixed the casting. Olmos went on to play William Adama in Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica revival in 2003. This is the only Star Trek film with a main cast character's name in the title. In the TV shows, few episodes had this privilege, and never the actual captain. The most present in titles is Data in , and . The second one, with two titles, is Julian Bashir from and . The others had just one occasion each: Spock himself in , Deanna Troi (who shared it with her mother Lwaxana) in , Quark in , and Brad Boimler in . In , Tuvok and Neelix had to share the same character in . Among the recurrent characters, Q has had the lion's share with eight titles: and , , and and . The exchange in which Uhura tells "Mr. Adventure" "This isn't reality, this is fantasy" may be an homage or nod to the movie E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, in which which Star Trek is established to be fiction, with the exchange: Elliot: "He's a man from outer space and we're taking him to his spaceship." / Greg: "Well, can't he just beam up?" / Elliot: "This is REALITY, Greg." This film failed to impress Ronald Reagan, when he viewed it at the White House on . Reagan mentioned the film in his diaries, commenting, "After dinner we ran Star Trek III. It wasn't too good." Despite this, he watched two years later. () Several costumes, props, and set dressing from this film were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including a pair of Vulcan gloves, a lot of Genesis microbes, Scott McGinnis' undershirt, and one of Robin Curtis' costumes. The battle between the Enterprise and Kruge's Bird-of-Prey, as well as the subsequent self-destruction of the Enterprise, are revisited in . Star Trek III: The Search For Spock had its broadcast network television premiere on ABC on September 28, 1987 (coinciding with the syndicated debut of ), to compensate for the loss of that evening's Monday Night Football (due to the 1987 NFL strike). Dating The film itself does not clearly identify the year it is set on, other than that it is nearly directly after , as the crew is still repairing the ship from the damage caused by Khan's attacks in the last film. In , in the Nexus, Kirk imagines himself nine years into the past, to the year 2284, to the day he told Antonia that he was returning to Starfleet. That suggests that the earliest this film could have taken place was some time later on that year. Admiral Morrow makes a statement in The Search for Spock that the Enterprise is twenty years old. While the ship has been established to be much older, it did go through a refit after the second pilot episode , set in 2265. The subsequent film, , continued the story of this film, beginning at some point during the third month of the exile of the crew on Vulcan, after the end of Star Trek III. In Star Trek IV, the dating is also not that precise. Gillian Taylor from 1986 however does mention that she has three hundred years of catching up to do, suggesting that Star Trek IV in turn takes place in 2286. According to StarTrek.com, , and the events of both Star Trek II and Star Trek III take place in 2285. This date was finally canonized in on a for the Excelsior which appeared in . Set design The bar in San Francisco, in which McCoy meets the alien, is a reused part from the sickbay of the Enterprise. For the bridge of the Grissom, the regular Enterprise bridge was used, with the captain's chair and the helm console twisted around. The covers of the seats were changed from white to pink. For the transporter complex, where Uhura beamed Kirk, McCoy, and Sulu to the Enterprise, the interiors from the Regula I space station were used. Apocrypha The ization of shows that from her transporter station, Uhura was monitoring Starfleet channels and helping to jam and distort channels in order to aid in Kirk and company's escape attempt. Also, after Excelsior was disabled, it issued a distress call, and Uhura intercepted and dumped it, thinking that as Styles had usurped what was supposed to be Sulu's command, that he could sit out there and stew for a while. After the escape of Enterprise, Uhura quickly ran to the Vulcan Embassy and asked for asylum from Sarek, which he granted to her despite the protestations of Starfleet security who had followed Uhura there. In the novelization, after their escape from Genesis, Saavik speculates to Kirk that billions of years in the future, the matter that formed the Genesis system may again coalesce into another star system, this time lacking the protomatter that doomed it and this time, the system should be stable and may well turn out in the way that David and Carol and their friends all intended. The novelization and the children's read-along storybook also referenced the intended fate for the Genesis planet in the shooting script: it was to fall into its sun (parts of this are seen in the finished film: as the Bird-of-Prey begins to make its escape, the planet is clearly shown to be very close to the sun, as well as the fact that Kirk's face seems to get yellower as he calls for beam-out). In the novel, the planet falls into its sun, and the sun itself expands and is reduced to a cloud of plasma. The novelization also includes several scenes that were not in the film or script at all, such as a wake aboard the Enterprise for Spock (and by extension, everyone who died in The Wrath of Khan) that goes badly; a debriefing with Captain Esteban that ends with a rift forming between Kirk and David; the recovery of bodies from the Regula One laboratory; the escape of two survivors from the merchant ship that was destroyed by the Bird of Prey; Sulu being informed that, because he was aboard the Enterprise during events that were going to be classified by Starfleet, command of the Excelsior was being given to Styles; a relationship forming between David and Saavik; and the discovery that the plants in the Genesis Cave had mutated and secreted a substance that was a powerful narcotic. Merchandise gallery Video and DVD releases US Betamax release: US VHS release: Awards and honors Star Trek III: The Search for Spock received the following awards and honors. Links and references Credits Uncredited cast Shirley Anthony as Vulcan priestess as Vulcan apprentice Benjie Bancroft as Vulcan attendant Bibi Besch as Carol Marcus (archive footage) Jessie Biscardi as a Vulcan maiden Suzy Born as a Vulcan maiden Barney Burman as a bar alien (deleted scene) Charles Correll as a Spacedock worker Debra Dilley as a Vulcan maiden Claudia Lowndes as an Officer's wife Danny Nero as Vulcan guard Paulette as a Vulcan maiden Nanci Rogers as a bar waitress Teresa Sloan as a bar patron Rebecca Soladay as a Vulcan maiden John Staible as Enterprise crewman Cheryl Wallack as Vulcan priestess Unknown performers as Bar alien with bald tattooed head Bar alien with metallic faceplates Bar couple Bar dart player Bartender Female bar patron Female Starfleet officer in bar Male Human bar patron Enterprise security officer 1 Enterprise Security officer 2 Alien Enterprise crewmember Deltan Excelsior officer Excelsior helmsman Excelsior engineer Excelsior bridge crewmembers Grissom navigator Morrow's personal aide Spacedock controllers 1 and 2 Vulcan at ritual 1 and 2 Vulcan apprentices 1 – 4 Vulcan attendant 1 Vulcan maiden Vulcan musician Vulcan priests 1 and 2 Uncredited stunt performers Lightning Bear Jean Coulter as stunt double for Sharon Thomas (deleted scene) Eric Mansker as bartender (deleted scene) Uncredited stand-ins Joel Marston Uncredited production staff Bari Burman – Special Makeup Effects Artist Thomas R. Burman – Special Makeup Effects Artist Edward Goehring – Creative Consultant: Stray Frames Ltd. Steve LaPorte – Special Makeup Effects Artist Kenneth A. 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2051	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Carleton Eastlake	Carleton Eastlake wrote the teleplay for the seventh season episode . Eastlake also wrote for and produced the science fiction television series seaQuest DSV, The New Outer Limits, and Gene Roddenberry's Final Conflict. He also wrote several episodes of the sci-fi series Farscape. He is sometimes credited as Carl Eastlake. Other series he has written for include Murder, She Wrote (featuring William Windom in the cast) and A Man Called Hawk, starring actor Avery Brooks. Eastlake has been a director at the Writers Guild of America, West, Inc. since 2015. External links Carleton Eastlake on Farscape wiki Profile on Bloomberg es:Carleton Eastlake Writers
2054	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Nausicaan	The Nausicaans were a humanoid species from the Beta Quadrant. Their homeworld was Nausicaa. (; ) They occupied a region of space located in the Alpha Quadrant. () Physiology Nausicaans were typically observed to have a large and muscular physique, generally surpassing two meters in height, with great physical strength. Their faces were commonly ashen in color and were distinguished by a prominent bone structure, with sharp tusks protruding at either side of their mouths. Some Nausicaans also had a line of four small horns that ran vertically down the forehead. (; , et al.) At least some individuals had eyes with black sclera and yellow irises, the latter of which glowed red when they were angered. () According to Doctor Phlox in 2151, the Nausicaan adrenal gland gave off a fragrance not unlike the scent of some female Humans' sweat after performing exercise. () The Nausicaan speaking voice could be both comparable to Human voices or be much deeper, with a distinct Nausicaan accent. (; ) History During the 22nd century, the Nausicaans were well-known pirates, attacking freighters in various sectors for years. The had a run-in once with some Nausicaan pirates. In the year 2151, Starfleet made first official contact with the Nausicaans when the Earth starship intervened in a conflict involving the and a force of Nausicaan pirates. () In the mid-2320s during his sophomore year, Cadet Jean-Luc Picard was assigned to training on Morikin VII where he had his first encounter with Nausicaans, who had an outpost on a nearby asteroid. () In 2327, the newly graduated Picard and two of his friends, Cortan Zweller and Marta Batanides, became involved in a fight at the Bonestell Recreation Facility on Starbase Earhart after a trio of Nausicaans cheated during a game of dom-jot. During a melee, one of the Nausicaans stabbed Picard through the heart with a Nausicaan sword, severely injuring him and necessitating the implanting of an artificial heart. () A Nausicaan was seen in a bar on Dessica II in 2370 while the senior staff of the was searching for clues about the whereabouts of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in that establishment. () In 2371, a group of Nausicaan raiders used an ultrasonic generator to break in and rob the Central Museum of Remmil VI by breaking down one of the walls. () Nausicaans were a common choice as bodyguards or mercenaries – FCA liquidator Brunt used two Nausicaans as bodyguards in 2372, when he investigated a labor union set up by employees of Quark. The Nausicaans severely beat Quark in an unsuccessful attempt to force Rom to shut down the union. () In 2374, Quark proposed using Nausicaans to break his brother out of his holding cell on Terok Nor. For five bars of gold-pressed latinum, Quark could hire five Nausicaans, a fast ship, and very few questions. Breaking Rom out of the holding cell would have been child's play compared to the things Nausicaans are used to doing. () When discussing how to rescue Ishka from the Dominion, Rom suggested to gather the toughest mercenaries available, including Nausicaans, Breen and Klingons. () Later that year, Quark made 200 bars of gold-pressed latinum by selling Denevan crystals to a Nausicaan entrepreneur. () The Orion Syndicate was also known to hire Nausicaans. Miles O'Brien was attacked by several of them on New Sydney in 2375. () A Nausicaan representative was part of the holographic diplomacy scenario 12-alpha aboard the , in which was to act as a mediator. Here, amongst other species, Nausicaans and Bolians were fighting over the mining rights to a dilithium-rich planetoid. The holographic Nausicaan claimed that the planetoid was within Nausicaan space and warned that they would attack anyone who came near it. () When he was attending Starfleet Academy, Bradward Boimler had a run-in with a group of Nausicaans who wanted to eat his heart. His friend was able to talk them down to spitting in Boimler's face instead. () Technology and culture During the mid-22nd century, Nausicaans committed acts of piracy against freighters in the same sector for several years. Hunting parties of several warp-capable starships, armed with plasma cannons and protected by shields, worked out of Nausicaan cargo stations. The pirate crews were armed with hand-held directed energy weapons. () In the 23rd century, Nausicaan disruptor pistols were items which were readily traded by arms dealers. () A Nausicaan game, played by Brunt's bodyguards, involved tossing darts at each other's chests', as causing pain was a theme present in most Nausicaan games. () People Appendices Appearances (hologram) Background information There were at least two pronunciations of this species' name. One pronunciation, from the script for "Samaritan Snare", was "NAW-sik-can". The other pronunciation, from the script for "Bar Association", was "NAW-si-can". According to the , this species was "named for the Greek of the wind, as well as for the 1984 animated fantasy film ." Coincidentally, Patrick Stewart later lent his voice talent to an English redubbing of that film in 2005. In the final draft script of , this species was introduced with the description, "The Nausicaans are large, burly with hideous features." The Nausicaan makeup consisted of a facial mask which was painted virtually the same color as bones. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 120) In the audio commentary for "Tapestry", Denise Okuda erroneously told Ronald D. Moore that a Nausicaan appeared before that episode, in the installment ; she was likely thinking of the Chalnoth instead, due to the similarities in their physical appearance. As the commentary proceeded, Okuda referred to the Nausicaans as "great" and agreed with Moore that the Nausicaan mouth appliance looks especially good. The depictions of Nausicaans as thugs and enforcers on was partly due to their introduction in "Tapestry", as it was considered effective, and because they had considerably striking makeup. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 120) In , the Nausicaans were originally to have captured Grand Nagus Zek and held him prisoner. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, Nos. 6/7, p. 55) Ira Steven Behr commented, months before that, "We'll do a show about [the Nausicaans] being an enemy for an episode." () Zek's captor was instead ultimately changed to being the Dominion. In the stage directions from the script of , the Nausicaans were described as "tall with crab-like mandibles and a bad attitude." In an ultimately unused line of dialogue from the first draft of that script, Travis Mayweather commented Nausicaans were "the last people you want to meet out here." They were referred to as "a nasty-looking species" in the script of , which also noted they had last been depicted in "Fortunate Son". A Nausicaan knife from "Tapestry" was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. Apocrypha Nausicaans appear as enemies in the video game Star Trek: The Next Generation - Klingon Honor Guard, where they are called "Nausicans". The DS9 novel Warpath established that the Nausicaans believe in gods known as the Four Winds and when a Nausicaan dies, their soul, or tegol is brought to an afterlife called the Heart of the Sky where the Four Winds dwell, as well as the Nausicaan's friends and family. Author David Mack stated this was a tribute to the Greek myth of and to the 1984 anime film of which the Nausicaans are named after. In Star Trek Online, Nausicaans are a playable species for the Klingon faction. The Nausicaans were mercenaries allied with the Gorn during the Klingon-Gorn War and when the Gorn surrendered, the Naussicaans did too, becoming formal allies with the Klingon Empire. A few episodes in the game feature the Nausicaans as the player's opponents. External link de:Nausikaaner es:Nausicaanos fr:Nausicaan Species
2057	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Delphic Expanse sphere	The Delphic Expanse spheres were a series of artificially-created spherical objects that were scattered around the Delphic Expanse. The spheres, each one nineteen kilometers in diameter, generated massive amounts of gravimetric energy and were collectively responsible for the web of spatial anomalies which constituted the Expanse. Each sphere was surrounded by a cloaking barrier which kept it hidden from outside observers. According to the Xindi-Primate Degra, the Xindi knew of seventy-eight spheres, at last count. () History United Earth Starfleet first encountered the spheres in 2153, when entered the Expanse in search of the Xindi. The first sphere they came across was being used as a base for Osaarian pirates. Enterprise engaged in battle with an Osaarian vessel within the cloaking barrier of the sphere, and was able to take a series of detailed scans. Quantum scans of the sphere indicated it was nearly one thousand years old. () Upon further investigation, the Enterprise crew was able to determine that the spatial anomalies which riddled the Expanse occurred at points where the waves of gravimetric energy were being emitted from the intersected spheres. This led T'Pol to hypothesize that the spheres were created for the express purpose of creating the Expanse. Enterprise later encountered the Triannons, who held that supernatural beings whom they referred to as "the Makers" had created the spheres to reconfigure space in preparation for their eventual return. The Enterprise crew later discovered that the Triannon myth was based in fact and that the spheres had been created by a race of trans-dimensional beings who were attempting to make the Expanse habitable for their species as a prelude to invasion. () Captain Archer learned from , a temporal agent from the 31st century, that, in the 26th century, the Expanse would grow to encompass fifty thousand light years of the Milky Way Galaxy, and that the Sphere-Builders were trying to manipulate the Xindi into destroying Humanity in an attempt to prevent the founding of the United Federation of Planets, which would ultimately defeat the Sphere-Builders. With this information, Archer was able to form an alliance with some of the Xindi against the Sphere-Builders. () The crew learned from Degra that the spheres were controlled by an artificial intelligence network, and that each sphere held a redundant memory core. A team from Enterprise was able to gain access to the interior of a sphere through an exhaust port which was holographically disguised. The team was successful in retrieving the memory core, but not before Corporal Hawkins was killed by an automated defense system. () With the information retrieved from the memory core, T'Pol was able to determine that each sphere was connected by an interspatial manifold on its surface, and that four of the spheres were integral to the connection. Enterprise was able to disable the manifold of the sphere designated "Sphere 41" with a deflector pulse, causing a chain reaction resulting in the destruction of the entire sphere network, and eliminating the spatial anomalies in the Expanse. () Spheres encountered by Enterprise Appendices Appearances Background information Scripting the spheres In the first draft script of , a Delphic Expanse sphere was said to be ninety kilometers in diameter rather than nineteen. In the first draft and final draft of the same script, the first description of a Delphic Expanse sphere's exterior referred to it as "a large, gleaming, METALLIC SPHERE the size of a small moon." In the final draft script of , the exterior of another sphere was initially described in much the same way as that of the first sphere, except it was referred to as "giant" rather than "large". The same script additionally described the exterior as "sleek" and "a vast, gleaming, metallic landscape with a mild but noticeable curvature." In the final draft script of (which was initially called "Untitled Sphere Story"), another of the spheres was described as "vast, metallic, mysterious, hanging in space." The interior of the sphere, in the final draft script of "Anomaly", was described as a "dark, cavernous interior" which was absolutely enormous and "easily spans a major metropolis." The script continued, "At the CENTER of the Sphere, we see an assembly of SEVEN exotic, high-tech STRUCTURES that tower outward in various directions. Only three of the towers are ACTIVE, PULSING with POWER like some kind of skyscraper-sized nuclear reactors; the other four are dark, inactive. A deep, percussive RUMBLING sound echoes through the interior." Illustrating the spheres The usual appearance of a Delphic Expanse sphere's exterior was designed by production illustrator John Eaves. He drew a total of six concept sketches before the fourth one was approved. The first of these proposed designs was heavily influenced by the look of an unapproved initial design for the Suliban helix, illustrated earlier in the series run of Enterprise. "The first drawing of the sulibon [sic] helix ship had this sphere drawn in as the core of the ship," recalled Eaves. "When it came time for the xindi sphere's to go in for approval I borrowed the sulie core and offered it as a choice." The sketch for the sphere even had a massive opening that, in the original Helix design, had been intended to allow access for s. The sphere's interior was designed by Doug Drexler. He later explained that an early digital concept painting for the sphere's innards had "a more linear and 'constructed' looking central core" than the final design, which instead looked as if it had been grown. Not only was the accepted design generally approved but Drexler himself preferred it. "Frankly, I really wanted to do the organic looking one because it reminded me of Vgr," he reminisced. After being given the go-ahead, the digital artwork was delivered from the art department to Eden FX, by whom it was then adapted for television usage. Drexler also created a cutaway view of a sphere, showing the seemingly organic interior beneath a portion of the sphere's outer skin. Visualizing the spheres The Delphic Expanse spheres were visualized almost entirely with CGI. Green-screen was used for some shots of environmental suited Enterprise crew members walking on one of the spheres. "Their entire environment is created by us. There's nothing practical," explained Director Roxann Dawson, during production. "It's all created by visual effects. So, in order to do that, it has to be planned with everyone in mind, so that we all know what we're doing on shots like that." ("A Day In The Life Of A Director – Roxann Dawson ", ENT Season 3 DVD special features) For foreground portions of a sphere's interior in the episode , large metallic-looking set pieces were reused, having been created for the earlier season three installment to represent parts of Enterprises hull. The pieces were re-detailed for their inner-sphere usage and later went on to be included in the interior set for the Xindi weapon. () de:Delphische Sphäre ru:Сферы Дельфийского пространства Delphic Expanse Architecture
2072	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	USS Odyssey	The USS Odyssey (NCC-71832) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. History In late 2370, the Odyssey, under the command of Captain Keogh, was assigned to a patrol mission along the Cardassian border. The Odyssey arrived at Deep Space 9 shortly after it was announced by the Jem'Hadar that they had taken Commander Benjamin Sisko prisoner in the Gamma Quadrant. With news of this, Starfleet suspended all wormhole traffic, and ordered the Odyssey to proceed into the Gamma Quadrant to investigate the Jem'Hadar's threat. During the operation, the Odyssey, along with the and , engaged three Jem'Hadar attack ships. It was quickly discovered that the Odysseys shields were ineffective against the Jem'Hadar's phased polaron beams, and she took significant damage from multiple direct hits. Realizing this, Captain Keogh ordered power from the shields be diverted to the phasers in order to inflict more damage on the enemy. The Jem'Hadar took advantage of this opportunity and made a suicide run at the Odyssey as she tried to retreat. The attack ship collided with the Odysseys secondary hull and the ship exploded seconds later with all hands lost. Fortunately, most non-essential crewmembers and all civilians had been offloaded at DS9 prior to departure, saving hundreds of lives. () The destruction of the Odyssey, which became the cornerstone for the Dominion cold war, showed the Federation that the Dominion was a potent and dangerous threat. In response to this provocation, the was brought out of the warehouse and put on active duty. () USS Odyssey personnel See: List of USS Odyssey personnel Appendices Background information According to the , the Odyssey was named for the command module of the ill-fated Apollo 13 moon mission. The Odysseys dedication plaque bore a quote from 's : "Its origin and purpose, still a total mystery." This plaque was located on the rear wall of the bridge. In August 2020, DS9's writer and producer Ira Steven Behr shared on his Twitter account a picture of the Odysseys dedication plaque, showing the commissioning on stardate 41263.5 (around 2364) which corresponds to the first season of TNG. The bridge shown in the episode was a completely different set than the one used for the . The hollow model of the USS Enterprise-D which was blown up for was again used to blow up the USS Odyssey. () The destruction of the Odyssey marked the second visualized loss of a Galaxy-class starship since their introduction in The Next Generation, following the loss of the in . According to the , the writers intentionally made the Odyssey a Galaxy-class ship to emphasize that the Dominion was a much more threatening force than anything the Enterprise-D had encountered, with Robert Hewitt Wolfe noting even Jean-Luc Picard wouldn't have stood a chance in the same situation. A starship Odyssey was the setting of Greg Strangis and Gene Roddenberry's first pitch to Paramount. Apocrypha The Odyssey is mentioned several times in the ization of . In the Lost Era novel The Buried Age, by Christopher L. Bennett, Starfleet briefly considered giving command of the Odyssey to Captain Jean-Luc Picard before naming him the commanding officer of the Enterprise following the early retirement of the Enterprises original intended captain, Thomas Halloway. In the The Next Generation Relaunch novel, Greater Than the Sum, also by Bennett, it is revealed that all non-essential personnel from the Odyssey were evacuated off-ship prior to entering the wormhole. This included the fifteen-year old , who would later serve on the from 2381. In the video game Star Trek: Armada, a Galaxy-class ship named USS Odyssey appeared in the mission "Once and Again", transporting Ambassador Spock to a peace conference between the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire to help defend against a Borg invasion shortly after the Dominion War. External links : a reconstruction of the Odyssey bridge bg:USS Одисея cs:USS Odyssey de:USS Odyssey es:USS Odyssey fr:USS Odyssey (NCC-71832) ja:USSオデッセイ nl:USS Odyssey pl:U.S.S. "Odyssey" NCC-71832 Odyssey
2073	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	World War II	World War II (also known as the Second World War and abbreviated as WWII) was the second major global conflict of the 20th century that involved various countries of Earth from the years 1939 – 1945. History The main combatants included the Allies (a number of nations, including the United States of America, the British Empire and Commonwealth, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Netherlands and Poland) and the Axis Powers (the Nazi-controlled state of Germany, Italy, and the Empire of Japan). The evacuation of Dunkirk was a key event during World War II, one that Jean-Luc Picard would later compare the evacuation of the Romulan Empire to. () After Jonathan Archer restored a damaged timeline, several scenes from World War II, including German Heinkel He 111s and parachutists, could be seen in the time stream as the timeline realigned itself. () German chancellor Adolf Hitler, the primary aggressor in World War II, was quoted as saying, in 1938, "We need breathing room." () Initially assuming an official position of neutrality, the United States fully entered the conflict after a Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. (; ; ) According to Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the role of Dixon Hill, the Second World War, although disastrous, did end with the United States taking its place as a dominant world power, culturally influencing the second half of the 20th century. Additionally, the war was a catalyst of technological advancements; developments in rocketry and fission resonated on into the 24th century. () Impact & Legacy According to Commander Spock in 2268, almost six million were killed during the war. () While Hirogen under Alpha Karr were in control of the , one of the ship's holodecks was programmed with a holographic simulation of this timeframe, set in 1944, during an Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled territory in France. () At the conclusion of the war, American General Douglas MacArthur spoke the following words: "Today, the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we've won in war." Those words were repeated four hundred and thirty years later by Admiral William Ross at the end of the Dominion War. () The Second World War was immediately followed by the Cold War. () Alternate timelines and realities Temporal Cold War Main article: World War II (Temporal War) In one alternate timeline, the Na'kuhl assisted Nazi Germany in its war effort. In this timeline, Vladimir Lenin had been assassinated in 1916 which allowed Germany to focus on its Western opponents, conquering Belgium, France and the Netherlands. The Nazis subsequently sent troops and conquered Britain, the Northeastern United States, and a part of Russia extending past Moscow as well as parts of Africa. The Nazis took over New York City after the US military ordered a hasty retreat to the Midwest, causing refugees to flood over the Brooklyn Bridge. (The Germans subsequently rolled over Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn and took over Washington, DC.) However, by 1944 this was described as Germany "stretching too far, too quickly." Resistance fighters constantly attacked German supply lines and the front lines were too thin. An American counterattack could – and later tried to – break through the front lines, when Captain Archer and showed up in New York City. The Germans also faced problems in their stronghold in Africa, while Russian forces attempted to retake Moscow. Following the destruction of the Xindi weapon by the crew of Enterprise in 2154, Commander Tucker and Ensign Mayweather found themselves over San Francisco, being attacked by P-51 Mustangs, while Captain Archer was seen lying unconscious in a field hospital – under the observation of a Na'kuhl officer in a Nazi captain's uniform. Near the Brooklyn Bridge, Enterprise destroyed a temporal conduit whose construction had been overseen by Na'kuhl leader Vosk, thus closing this timeline and apparently preventing the Temporal War. This was one of the major campaigns of the Temporal Cold War. () World War II and the Guardian of Forever An alternate timeline also existed in which Germany won the Second World War, partly due to the delayed entry into the war by the United States. Another contributing factor to the German victory was the prevention of Edith Keeler's death by Doctor Leonard McCoy, who had traveled to the past from the 23rd century. Keeler was an anti-war activist whose activism, in the altered timeline, had persuaded the United States to stay out of the war long enough to ensure a Nazi victory. In the altered reality, Edith Keeler eventually met with President Roosevelt, effectively organizing pacifist movements to ensure the United States did not join the Allies and contribute to the escalation of war. Without the US contributing to the efforts to fight the Axis Powers, Germany completed its heavy water molecular experiments, created an atomic bomb first in the new history, and used German V-2 rockets to launch numerous atomic bombs, effectively capturing the world. This timeline was averted when McCoy was followed through the Guardian of Forever time portal, by James T. Kirk and Spock, who prevented him from interfering in Keeler's death, restoring the "correct" version of history. () Mirror Universe A very similar conflict, sharing the same weaponry such as the Stuka dive bomber, has been fought in the mirror universe. However, the exact details, nature or even outcome of that conflict remain unknown. (, opening credits) Appendices See also Twelve Months That Changed the World Background information A large number of TOS writers, actors, producers and other production staff members served as veterans of the Second World War. Among these were Gene Roddenberry, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Mark Lenard, Matt Jefferies, Robert Justman, Joseph Pevney and Ralph Senensky. The exploits of the US Navy Aircraft carrier inspired the name of Kirk's ship. In , Spock states that eleven million people died in World War II. This, however, severely contradicts current data, which places the death toll anywhere from a low of twenty million (if only military is counted) to a high of over seventy million (if military and civilians are counted). Most counts settle on around fifty million or so. Spock may have been referring solely to civilian casualties as a result of "slavery" and "despotism" rather than the total war itself. Eleven million is a number frequently given for civilian deaths solely from Nazi policies. This might explain a figure of six million that he gave for World War I, too, as that is about an average (slightly on the low side) estimate of civilian deaths out of a World War I total of about sixteen million. World War II was mentioned in the shooting script of . In the scene, Miles O'Brien talks to Kira Nerys about his new holoprogram based on the Battle of Britain. Major Kira was not familiar with the war. Apocrypha According to the novella Age of the Empress, the Second World War also occurred in the mirror universe, with Japan as one as its participants. One of the results appears to have been a lessening of the power of Japan's emperor, as the Kyoto Imperial Palace was turned into a tourist attraction. 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2074	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	1939	Events Ralph Offenhouse is born on Earth. () World War II begins. () Notes Sigmund Freud dies in this year. () The Wizard of Oz, an MGM film, is released. () Ted Williams begins playing for the Boston Red Sox as an outfielder. () External link de:1939 fr:1939 it:1939 nl:1939 sv:1939
2075	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	The Expanse (episode)	After a devastating attack on Earth by an alien probe of unknown origin, Enterprise is recalled and sent into a strange expanse on a new, more vital mission. (Season finale) Summary Teaser High above the planet Earth, an alien probe seemingly appears out of nowhere. The probe descends toward the planet below and comes to a stop above Earth's atmosphere. It fires an energy blast at the western continents from Florida, North America, to Venezuela, South America, that cuts a swath of destruction across the planet's surface. When its task is complete, the probe self-destructs, with one component falling towards Earth. Act One On the Klingon homeworld, Qo'noS, in an organized gathering inside the Klingon High Council Chamber, the Council meets with Duras, son of Toral. The Klingon Chancellor is infuriated that Duras allowed Starfleet Captain Jonathan Archer to escape from imprisonment on two occasions. As a result of his failure to permanently secure Archer, Duras was dishonored by the Klingon Empire. When the Chancellor informs Duras that the High Council is providing him with a chance to regain both his command and his honor, Duras assures the Council he will succeed. In the briefing room aboard , Archer solemnly tells his senior staff the news that a probe has attacked Earth and cut a swath 4,000 kilometers long between Florida and Venezuela. Enterprise has been recalled by Starfleet Command. Although the journey back to Earth will be long, Helmsman Travis Mayweather sets a course for home at maximum warp. Worried about his younger sister, Elizabeth, an architect who lives in Florida, Chief Engineer Charles "Trip" Tucker enters the Captain's ready room. Unfortunately, Archer has not been told the specific areas of the American state the probe attacked. Sub-Commander T'Pol enters the room and reports that a Vulcan transport found a pod from the alien probe in central Asia. The transport brought the pod to Starfleet Headquarters, where it was studied. Starfleet has discovered that the probe was operated by an unidentified pilot, who was killed on impact. While the officers continue to discuss the situation, eight Suliban vessels approach Enterprise at high warp and surround the ship. On the bridge, Lieutenant Reed activates the tactical alert, but three Suliban soldiers board Enterprise and swiftly kidnap the Captain. They take him to one of their ships, where Archer meets with his arch-nemesis, Silik. Archer accuses him of the attack on Earth, but the Suliban agent claims he was not involved and has no knowledge of the incident. Instead, Silik takes the Captain to his leader – a man from the future who can only project his image through time and not participate in events directly. In a temporal chamber, the figure claims that the alien probe was launched by a race known as the Xindi, who were told that their homeworld would be destroyed by Humans four hundred years in the future. The figure explains that the Xindi were informed of their planet's annihilation by another faction in the Temporal Cold War that can communicate through time. According to the mysterious figure, the probe was only a prototype for a much bigger and more powerful weapon that the Xindi are currently building. They plan to use the weapon to destroy Earth and eradicate the Humans before they can cause the destruction of the Xindi planet. The figure implies that, in his time period, history does not record Earth's destruction in the 22nd century. However, if the planet is destroyed, the disaster will contaminate the timeline. The Captain is soon returned to his ship, where he tells T'Pol of the figure's story. The Vulcan doubts the recounted explanation but Archer asks for her support. He fears that her skepticism could lead him to mistrust the man, who might be telling him the truth. He was contacted after the attack occurred because it was more likely that he would not have believed the man otherwise. "Captain's starlog – April 24, 2153. The journey home has been very difficult. We've now learned that over seven million people were lost." On Enterprises bridge, Ensign Mayweather sees Earth's sun, Sol, on the main viewscreen. He shows Archer the spectacle shortly before Lieutenant Reed notes that a ship has dropped out of warp nearby. T'Pol begins working to identify the craft, which opens fire on Enterprise. In space, a continues its attack as it swoops over the Starfleet vessel's hull. Act Two As the battle proceeds, T'Pol finally identifies the attacking ship. Since Enterprise loses both forward phase cannons, Archer orders the deployment of spatial torpedoes but the weapons cause insignificant damage. The Klingon ship retaliates with a destructive volley of torpedoes that detonate on contact with Enterprises starboard nacelle, causing plasma to leak out into space. When the Klingon ship sends a message to Enterprise demanding Archer's personal surrender so that honor may be regained, the captain realizes that Duras is commanding the Bird-of-Prey. Suddenly, a series of explosions erupt on the Starfleet vessel's bridge as the ship's nacelles are crippled. Seizing his opportunity to secure Archer, Duras issues orders to stop the attack and to prepare a boarding party. However, three Earth vessels, including the starship Intrepid, suddenly appear and destroy the Klingon ship's third and fourth disruptor banks. In furious frustration, Duras reluctantly withdraws from the battle. The Intrepids commanding officer, Captain , contacts Enterprise and welcomes the crew home, implying that he feels sorry the situation is so bleak. As Enterprise orbits Earth, T'Pol, Hoshi Sato, Mayweather, Archer, and Reed contemplate the devastation that the alien probe caused. The officers gaze dishearteningly at the burned zone on the main viewscreen. Commander Tucker, wracked with worry, diverts his attention away from the image. In Starfleet Headquarters on Earth, Admiral Forrest and Vulcan Ambassador Soval notify Archer that both Starfleet and the Vulcan High Command doubt the mysterious figure's story. The Captain urges Forrest to assign Enterprise the mission of searching for the Xindi. However, Soval reveals that the Xindi's homeworld is in the Delphic Expanse, a dangerous region of space where many Vulcan ships have gone missing, and fewer have returned. Archer likens the area to Earth's Bermuda Triangle, but Soval adds that the region is also rumored to hold several hostile alien species and inexplicable phenomena, and that in some areas of the expanse, even the laws of physics do not apply. He relates that 20 years earlier, a Klingon ship emerged from the Expanse, her crew anatomically inverted with their bodies splayed open... but they were still alive. The Vulcan is definite in his belief that for the safety of Enterprise and her crew, the mission should not be authorized. When Forrest suggests that sufficient evidence may persuade Starfleet to authorize Archer's plan, the captain admits that the mysterious figure provided him with proof. The three men enter another room, where the wreckage of the alien probe remains. The captain uncovers a particular component from the rubble through the use of the quantum dating function of a scanner and confirms the reading of -420 years with a second scanner to demonstrate that the component is from the future. Although Soval is unwilling to acknowledge the evidence, as Vulcans do not believe time travel is possible, Forrest states that he plans to talk with Starfleet Command, apparently believing the captain's proof. With Forrest's authorization, Archer walks over to a secured freezer unit and looks inside once Forrest opens it for him. The unit contains a frozen alien corpse that the captain analyzes with a scanner. When Soval asks Archer if he believes the alien is a Xindi, the captain replies that he intends to find out. While Enterprise is docked in the Orbital Drydock Facility where she was built, Archer enters sickbay. There, Dr. Phlox introduces the captain to a male Vulcan doctor named Fer'at. The Vulcan is apparently present to analyze Archer's exposure to traces of pyritic radiation found in the alien probe. As Fer'at questions the captain, oddly focused on his input on time travel and the friction he was receiving regarding its existence, Phlox becomes suspicious and uses a nearby console to access the Vulcan database. He immediately ends the examination, enraged to learn that Fer'at is not a pathologist as he had falsely claimed but actually a psychiatric analyst sent to examine Archer's mental state, in hopes of discrediting his theory. Following Archer's instruction, Phlox gladly escorts Fer'at off the ship to the airlock. Meanwhile, Reed and Tucker visit Florida where the alien attack cut through Tucker's hometown. The two officers look out across the narrow valley gouged out of the earth where "the house" once stood. Tucker points out to Reed the nearby wreckage of what was a movie theater and recalls that he used to take Elizabeth there when she was a little girl. Reed asks if he's sure she was in the beam's path: Tucker quietly states that Elizabeth would have contacted someone if she were still alive, believing that the fact she hasn't is proof that she died in the attack. Act Three "Captain's starlog, supplemental. After days of debate, Starfleet's finally informed me that we're to proceed with our new mission." Inside an inspection pod, Archer and Forrest survey the starship Columbia, the second spacecraft to be built. Incomplete, the vessel is under construction in another orbital drydock. Forrest hopes that Enterprise will have returned long before Columbias launch in fourteen months. The Admiral notifies Archer that the new vessel will have the same armament as Enterprise, once the prototype NX-class starship is completely retrofitted. Archer reveals that he notified his crew of their new mission that morning, and although several haven't yet decided, he doesn't expect any more than eight or nine to leave the ship. When the Captain states that he spoke to General several hours ago, Forrest confirms that the general's team will arrive at 18:00 hours, the admiral remarking his own surprise at Archer's request for military personnel. The Captain responds that he doesn't have a problem with non-Starfleet officers and that security will be of vital importance in the Delphic Expanse. Although Forrest worries that the mysterious figure did not reveal where to look in the Delphic Expanse, or when the alien weapon will be ready, Archer believes that the figure warned him because Enterprise still has enough time to stop the aliens from destroying Earth. Aboard Enterprise, T'Pol enters sickbay and finds Doctor Phlox. She asks whether he is sure of his decision to remain aboard the ship. According to the Vulcan, Crewman just informed her that a shuttle carrying two hundred snow beetles is on its way. Although Phlox suggests that the beetles might be for his replacement, T'Pol is certain that any doctor in Starfleet would be completely unsure of how to use them. The Denobulan smiles and asks T'Pol if she will also be staying on the ship. She replies that the Vulcan High Command has forbidden her from entering the Delphic Expanse. When Phlox asks T'Pol what she wants to do, the Vulcan states that she must obey the High Command. However, the Doctor reminds her that she has not always acted in accordance with the High Command's orders. Phlox contemplates their decision of whether to leave the ship, revealing that he found the choice an easy one to make. He believes that T'Pol will have greater difficulty in deciding whether to leave, as her choice will indicate her allegiance to Archer or to the Vulcan High Command. A female ensign enters sickbay, moving a large white case into the room. T'Pol thanks Phlox for his help and follows the ensign out of sickbay. In the starship's armory, Reed shows Commander Tucker a stack of photonic torpedoes, advanced weaponry installed for the vessel's change of mission. The torpedoes have a variable yield and a range fifty times greater than spatial torpedoes. Reed tells Trip that three teams of officers are working on adapting the torpedo tubes and have promised that they will have completed the task by the time Enterprise leaves spacedock. The lieutenant adds that he has to start integrating the weapons into the vessel's power grid. He then leaves the armory with Tucker. Back in San Francisco, Soval shows Forest, Archer and T'Pol disturbing imagery from a previous Vulcan mission to the Delphic Expanse. Grainy imagery from the Vaankara shows how the Vulcan crew lost control of their emotions. They are savagely attacking and killing each other with their bare hands. Soval says that they had been in the Expanse for less than two days when they sent a distress call, and the images were received six hours later. Less than an hour after that transmission was recorded, the ship was destroyed, without "indication of malfunction or an attack". Despite Starfleet's acquiescence to Archer's new mission, Soval remains firm in his opposition. Outside fleet headquarters, Soval has a private conversation with T'Pol. He discusses her imminent assignment at the Ministry of Information on . He assumes that because the Vulcan High Command has opposed Starfleet in this matter, she has been de facto recalled. T'Pol, however, reacts strongly against being pulled from Enterprise. She argues that there is still a need for Vulcan assistance. As her words fail to sway Soval, she flirts with insubordination, saying that it should be up to her whether or not to stay on Enterprise. Concerned, Soval points out that it's not a matter of choice and that she's fully aware that defying High Command would mean immediate dismissal. After returning to Enterprise, Archer has one last conversation with Forrest. He informs the Admiral that Soval has given him permission to take T'Pol back to Vulcan on the way to the Delphic Expanse. Forrest wishes Archer luck on his mission and takes his leave through the airlock. A few hours later, Enterprise departs spacedock with her repairs and upgrades complete. Meanwhile, Duras detects Enterprise heading for Vulcan and tells his weapons officer to "charge weapons, and prepare to bring them online". Act Four As Enterprise hurtles towards Vulcan, Tucker and his Captain are sleepless in the middle of the night. They are sharing a drink to the past and future. They toast Henry Archer and his warp engine, which is now the major technology standing between the Xindi weapon and Earth's future. As they imbibe more, though, the conversation turns increasingly dark. They briefly touch on how much they're going to miss T'Pol, but Tucker quickly sees the virtue of her absence. No longer will they be tied to "that non-interference crap T'Pol's always shoving down our throats". Tucker and Archer agree that they'll do "whatever we have to" to spare Earth from annihilation by the Xindi. Duras interrupts their discussion with a second attack. As Archer reaches the bridge, he gives Reed the green light to use the new photonic torpedoes. An initial, low-yield hit fails to shake their pursuers, so Archer has Reed increase the yield to 50%. Duras had already ordered for Enterprises weapon ports to be targeted, but they discover the Earth ship's hull plating has been improved. The second torpedo volley damages their warp drive and to Duras' frustration, forces the Klingons to impulse. With T'Pol estimating that Duras' engine repairs will take three hours or more, Archer believes that by increasing warp speed from three to 4.5, Enterprise can make it to Vulcan space before the Klingons can catch up. He hopes that the threat of Vulcan reinforcements will be enough to make Duras break off his attack. As Enterprise continues on course to Vulcan, T'Pol has a conversation with Archer in his ready room. He tries to remind her of all the problems she's had adjusting to life onboard a Human vessel, but she dismisses his attempts to cheer her about the virtues of returning home. Ultimately, she announces that she intends to resign her Vulcan commission, and asks to remain aboard Enterprise. Archer is surprised, and wonders why she would be willing to throw away her career for Enterprise. She insists that he needs her at the science station. Archer considers her statement silently, then exits to the bridge. There, he moves to his command chair and states that keeping the Klingons at bay will not be as easy as they had thought as they're no longer heading for Vulcan. He orders Mayweather to alter course for the Delphic Expanse; the bridge officers understand that T'Pol will remain a part of the Enterprise crew. "Captain's starlog – supplemental. We've been traveling at Warp 5 for seven weeks. The crew is anxious to begin our mission." The Enterprise is now close to the border of the Expanse, which is marked by thick thermobaric clouds. The size of the Expanse, however, makes the area seem much closer than it really is. Archer notes that the last Vulcan ship sent reported that it took nearly six hours to get through it. At a million kilometers distance (only seconds away at warp speed), Archer orders Mayweather to enter the border at 0.2 impulse speed. After traveling inside the clouds for six hours, the crew begins to express impatience at not making contact with anything on the scanners. Suddenly, they pick up three distinct signals, belonging to Duras reinforced by two more Birds-of-Prey. They open fire on Enterprise, but have difficulty hitting the ship due to interference from the clouds. Duras orders his ship to get closer to Enterprise to give his targeting scanners a better chance of success. As the shots now begin to hit Enterprise, Tucker notes that Archer had said the Klingons wouldn't enter the Expanse. Archer points out that they aren't actually in the Expanse yet. Although Tucker doesn't recommend speeding up to full impulse to evade their pursuers, citing the stress the clouds are putting on the intake manifolds, Archer does so. Duras hails and orders Enterprise to come about and prepare to be boarded. Archer cuts the communication. T'Pol announces that she detects clear space up ahead. Realizing that Duras wanted Enterprise to come about to avoid entering the Expanse, Archer repeats his order to increase speed. Archer wonders why the photonic torpedoes aren't having the same effect they did in the earlier battle. Reed notes that Duras has changed the configuration of his deflector shields such that the aft shields are concentrated on the forward section of his ship, which the torpedoes now can't penetrate. Another disruptor hit takes out three antimatter injectors, of which Tucker reports they can't afford to lose more. To Tucker's confusion, Archer has T'Pol confirm that Duras' stern is thus minimally shielded. Archer then asks Mayweather about performing an L-4 maneuver at full impulse, so that they can orient Enterprise behind Duras' ship: Mayweather states he can try, and Archer has him keep an eye out for a dense mass of clouds they can disappear into from the Klingons' sensors. In the meantime, out of fear of entering the Expanse, the other two Klingon vessels inform Duras that they're breaking off their attack. Now with just one Bird-of-Prey in pursuit, once inside the clouds Mayweather is able to do a hard vertical loop, which neatly places Enterprise aft of Duras. Taken completely by surprise, two photonic torpedoes devastate the Bird-of-Prey and is easily destroyed by a third, its sections breaking apart. Enterprise flies through the debris and emerges from the thermobaric clouds at about the same time, whereupon Archer gives a final order: "Straight and steady, Mr. Mayweather. Let's see what's in there." Memorable quotes "Twice! Twice he's been captured, and twice he's escaped! Our Magistrate should never have shown him mercy. He should've been executed for his crimes!" "You had a simple mission, Duras. Locate the rebels that Archer was harboring and return them to the Empire. But you failed, and Archer made a fool of you." "We are offering you a chance to regain your command, and your honor." "I will not fail." - Klingon Chancellor, Klingon Councillor and Duras, referring to Jonathan Archer "Our Science Directorate has determined that time travel is impossible." - Vulcan Ambassador Soval, to Captain Archer and Admiral Forrest "To Henry Archer. I wonder what he would have thought if he knew his engine was going to help save the Human race?" - Tucker, toasting Captain Archer's father "When I got this job, commanding the first warp five ship was about as big a responsibility as I could have imagined. Then we began running into so many... bad guys, and I had to start thinking more about the safety of 83 people." "And now the stakes have gotten a lot bigger." "Weight of the world, Trip." "Literally." - Archer and Tucker "It's not my place to disobey the High Command." "Nonsense. You've done it before." - T'Pol and Phlox "It's interesting, you and I, the only aliens on board this vessel. To go or to stay. For me it was a simple question of loyalty towards the captain, and the sad realization that he will need me now more than ever on such crucial mission. But for you, it's a more difficult decision. Does your allegiance lie with the High Command or with Captain Archer?" - Phlox, advising T'Pol on what to do "I'm gonna need all the muscle I can get when we cross into the Expanse." - Archer on the MACOs being assigned to Enterprise "You need me, Captain." - T'Pol "It would seem we're not going to Vulcan." - Archer "Sure you still want to tag along?" "It's only logical." - Archer and T'Pol "Surrender or be destroyed." "Go to hell!" "You're outnumbered and outgunned, Archer. Come about and prepare to be boarded. If you don't obey my orders, I'll–" - Duras and Jonathan Archer "Straight and steady, Mr. Mayweather. Let's see what's in there." - Archer when Enterprise enters the Delphic Expanse (last lines) Log entries "Captain's Starlog, April 24, 2153. The journey home has been very difficult. We've now learned that over seven million people were lost." "Captain's Starlog, supplemental. We've been traveling at warp 5 for seven weeks. The crew is anxious to begin our mission." Deleted scenes Scenes 43 - 44 Archer walks the streets of San Francisco and enters a Chinese Restaurant. Talking with the maitre d', Tommy, he notices that the place is a little empty because people are preferring to stay home since the Xindi Attack. Archer then asks about a woman, Tommy says that she is here but he is late. Archer apologizes to her about his delay and she asks if he is on Earth because of the attack. Archer says nothing but she understands that the attack is the reason he's on Earth, and asks how long he will be home. He replies that he wishes the time was longer because he was hoping to spend some time with her. She asks if Starfleet knows the identity and the reasons of the attacker. Archer says that little is known but not enough, and because of the attack, he will probably be gone for a long time – and reveals the name of the lady: Becky. Becky says that he has been gone for a long time before, and what she will do if she finds out that he has a girl in every spaceport – but before she can finish, Archer strokes her cheek and they share a kiss. She says that he supposes that she will invite him to her apartment. Archer asks how his chances are. She opens a fortune cookie and says that he is lucky. Scene 44A Archer enters Sato's quarters and notices that she is dressed in civilian clothes and packing up some things. He asks how the talk with her folks went. Sato says she thinks that she needs to brush up on her Japanese. Archer doubts that and notes that Enterprise got new upgrades for the universal translator. Sato replies that it can make things a lot easier. Archer says that the universal translator will never replace a linguist with a magical ear, but Sato replies that her ear is not so magical. Archer, feeling embarrassed, says that is a matter of opinion. Sato puts a book on the shelf, Languages of the Sub-Sahara, and Archer is surprised that she will leave that one here. Sato says she has not read it yet, and Archer asks why she's not taking it with her. Sato replies that she's sending the packed books to her mother to give her more shelf space because a lot has been written about alien languages since they left Earth, and the clothes are also going back to her mother because she thought it was time to upgrade her civvies. Archer laughs and reveals that he was thinking that she was leaving Enterprise before the Xindi Mission. Sato asks why, and Archer replies how she is more of an academic teacher. She interrupts and asks if that means that she is not capable of handling herself during the new mission. Archer tells her that was not was what he meant. Sato replies that she does not know what is inside the Delphic Expanse, but she thinks to have proven that she can handle herself in difficult situations and that she can provide some help along the way, if Archer wants her. He smiles and tells her he wouldn't want it any other way. Background information The final draft script of this episode was issued on . When completed, the episode came in ten minutes too long, resulting in the editing out of several scenes. A subplot featuring Archer's previously unmentioned love interest was removed entirely, while a scene dealing with Hoshi Sato's decision to remain aboard ship despite the risks was also cut. The episode marked the end of the second season of , and the beginning of the Xindi arc in which the crew search for the Xindi weapon. This marks the first time photonic torpedoes are used on a Starfleet ship. This episode marks the final appearance of the Humanoid Figure a.k.a. Future Guy (James Horan) and the death of Duras (Daniel Riordan). Bruce Wright previously played Sarish Rez in the episode . While Archer is digging through the wreckage of the Xindi probe, he picks up an item and determines that it's from the future. It truly is, as it is the reuse of Quark's cloaking device in the episode . The stasis tube in which the Xindi-Reptillian corpse is stored is a re-use of the lower half of one of the growing racks from 's Airponics bay, specifically, the one with the drawer in which future-Kes hid the younger Kes in . This episode marks the last appearance of Admiral Maxwell Forrest (Vaughn Armstrong) until the fourth season episode . This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series. Dennis McCarthy's music composition also received an Emmy nomination. When Enterprise is battling the Klingons in the thermobarric clouds, Archer wants to go to full impulse – but Tucker says that the manifolds are having a tough time as it is. This mirrors a similar scene in when Riker wants to go to full impulse in the Briar Patch, but La Forge tells him that the manifolds can't handle it. The scene where leaves the drydock reused the footage from , when the ship first launched. The book Star Trek 101 (p. 260), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, lists this episode as one of the "Ten Essential Episodes" from Star Trek: Enterprise. The distance from Florida to Venezuela is only 2700 kilometers, and no part of Venezuela is directly south of Florida. Moreover, one shot shows a line that extends south from Florida across the Isthmus of Panama, implying either an oversight on the part of the show's creators or differences in region names between the real-world Earth and Enterprise's 2153. Releases As part of the ENT Season 2 DVD collection As part of the ENT Season 2 Blu-ray collection Links and references Guest Stars John Fleck as Silik Vaughn Armstrong as Maxwell Forrest Gary Graham as Soval Daniel Riordan as Duras James Horan as Humanoid Figure Bruce Wright as Fer'at Co-Stars Dan Desmond as Klingon Chancellor Josh Cruze as Captain David Figlioli as Klingon Crewman L. Sidney as Klingon Crewman #2 Gary Bullock as Klingon Council Member Uncredited Co-Stars David Keith Anderson as Suliban soldier Jef Ayres as Haynem J.J. Bennett as operations division crewman Joshua Brown as Vulcan officer Dominic Calandra as command division lieutenant Vince Deadrick, Jr. as Klingon officer Kevin Derr as operations division crewman Nikki Flux as command division crewman Duncan K. Fraser as Walsh Hilde Garcia as Rossi Glen Hambly as operations division ensign Scott Hill as Hutchison Dieter Hornemann as Vulcan officer Clynell Jackson III as Klingon councilor John Jurgens as Vulcan officer Jim Lau as Tommy (deleted scene) Lalita Lauren as sciences division ensign Aouri Makhlouf as sciences division crewman Marnie Martin as operations division crewman Louis Ortiz as Vulcan officer Jan Shiva as sciences division crewman Michael Stang as Vulcan officer Serena Scott Thomas as Becky (deleted scene) Unknown performers as Enterprise bridge crewman (voice) Intrepid crewman Klingon officer Operations division crewman Sixteen Chinatown inhabitants (deleted scene) Three Starfleet officers Three Vulcan officers Two Klingon councilors Two Starfleet guards Two Suliban soldiers CGI as drydock workers Stand-ins David Anderson – stand-in for Anthony Montgomery Evan English – stand-in for Dominic Keating J.R. Quinonez – stand-in for John Billingsley Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Scott Bakula Jessica Vash – stand-in for Jolene Blalock Mark Watson – stand-in for Connor Trinneer Susan Yee – stand-in for Linda Park Unknown performers as Stand-in for Vaughn Armstrong Stand-in for Gary Bullock Stand-in for Josh Cruze Stand-in for Dan Desmond Stand-in for David Figlioli Stand-in for John Fleck Stand-in for Gary Graham Stand-in for James Horan Stand-in for Jim Lau (deleted scene) Stand-in for Serena Scott Thomas (deleted scene) Stand-in for L. Sidney Stand-in for Bruce Wright References academic; alloy; ; asteroid; Bermuda Triangle; boarding party; ; ; ; communications array; communications buoy; cripple; day of remembrance; debris; dismissal; dizziness; Duras' Bird-of-Prey; Earth; Fleet Operations Center; Florida; ; high warp; hull; inspection pod (Spacedock inspection pods 001); Intrepid; ; Japanese language; kilometer; Klingons; Klingon Bird-of-Prey (22nd century) (Duras' sister ships); Klingon vessel; linguist; logic; medical ethics; Ministry of Information; movie theater; nausea; Orbital Drydock Facility; photonic torpedo; psychiatric analyst; Qo'noS capital; rebel; shuttlepod; snow beetles; Suliban; tactical alert; teacher; time traveler; toast; tube; ; Xindi; Xindi-Reptilian; Xindi weapon; Vaankara; Venezuela; Vulcan; Vulcan (planet); Vulcan cuisine (aka Vulcan food); Vulcan database; Vulcan High Command; Vulcan Science Directorate; Vulcan space; Vulcan transport; "Warp Delta"-type ("Warp Delta" ships) Unreferenced material apartment; automobile; Becky; Chinatown; Chinese; civvies; ear; earring; folks; fortune cookie; Languages of the Sub-Sahara; linguist; Long Life; maitre d'; menu; San Francisco; Sato's mother; scotch; spaceport; Starfleet Language Conference; teacher; teapot; Tommy; tree External links cs:The Expanse de:Die Ausdehnung es:The Expanse fr:The Expanse (épisode) ja:ENT:帰還なき旅 nl:The Expanse ENT episodes
2082	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	First contact	The term first contact described the first official encounter between representatives of two races or governments. () {{bginfo\|In the scripts, the term "first contact" is only capitalized as "First Contact" when referring to the historically significant first contact between Humans and Vulcans that occurred in 2063. Otherwise first contact is spelled simply as "first contact". }} The first contact protocols of the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet are based on procedures long used by the Vulcans. (ENT: "Civilization"; SNW: "Strange New Worlds") Occasionally, the official first contact took place years or even decades after members of the species involved first met. Typically, first contact was only initiated by the Federation if a civilization was sufficiently advanced or had developed interstellar travel (via warp drive, for example). Contact with more primitive civilizations was prohibited by the Prime Directive. It was stated that the preferred method was to privately approach scientists and intellectual leaders to make the initial contact, on the assumption that they would more easily grasp the concept of alien life. Also, the population was typically observed covertly for some time before making first contact, a decision made after the Klingon first contact. () Starfleet Command Directive 010 stated that "Before engaging alien species in battle, any and all attempts to make first contact and achieve non-military resolution must be made." () First contact procedures were a part of the Bridge Officer's Test. () These Starfleet first contact principles were revised over the years, including by Captain McCoullough. () One who specialized in making first contacts was known as a first contact specialist. () Several Starfleet captains became known in part for the number of species with which they had initiated contact. As of 2378, Kathryn Janeway had made first contact with more species than any captain since James T. Kirk. () By 2379, Jean-Luc Picard had represented the Federation during first contacts with twenty-seven different alien races. () Other cultures also recognized first contact as a momentous occasion. According to Marla Gilmore, the Ponea considered every first contact to be a reason for celebration. () Seven of Nine once expressed to Kathryn Janeway that her practice of following Starfleet protocol regarding first contact was incompatible with the objective of getting the home. Janeway respectfully disagreed, noting that she and her crew sought out new races because they wanted to as part of an insatiable Human curiosity about the universe, not simply because they were following protocol. () Angry about the situation during the "first contact" with the Novans, Captain Jonathan Archer stated, "If I can't make first contact with other Humans I don't have any business being out here." () In 2151, a drawing "" and created by the fourth grade student was sent to . It depicted a first contact between a one-eyed alien with ten tentacles and a Human in an environmental suit from the USA. () Human-Vulcan first contact The capitalized term First Contact, in Human context, was used to specifically refer to the first official publicly and globally known contact between Humans and extraterrestrials. The First Contact took place on the evening of April 5, 2063, when a Vulcan survey ship, the , having detected the warp signature of the Phoenix, touched down in Bozeman, central Montana, where the crew met with the Phoenixs designer and pilot, Zefram Cochrane. This event was generally referred to as the defining moment in Human history, eventually paving the way for a unified world government and, later, the United Federation of Planets. The event also became an annual holiday called First Contact Day. (; ; ; ; ; ) An unofficial first encounter between Humans and a Vulcan occurred during the Depression era in New York City. In 1930, James Kirk and Spock, a Vulcan from the 23rd century, traveled through time and walked on the streets of New York being witnessed by many. When the two were caught stealing clothes by the police, Kirk attempted to explain to the officer that Spock was Chinese and his ears the result of a childhood accident. After they avoided being taken into custody, Spock disguised his Vulcan appearance. () Well documented at the Vulcan Science Directorate and Space Council, but not in common Human knowledge, was also the incident of a small Vulcan survey ship crash landing in Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania, a mining town, in 1957. The survey ship was sent to investigate the launch of Earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik. An impulse manifold malfunction forced the crew to attempt crash-landing. The commander of the vessel perished in the crash, leaving command to T'Mir, T'Pol's second foremother. Having exhausted their emergency rations, the crew entered Carbon Creek in disguise as Humans. As the weeks and months wore on, the crew took up various employment in the town and managed to keep their identity as aliens a secret. T'Mir and Stron were rescued by the D'Vahl in 1958. Mestral chose to stay behind and live on Earth among Humans, which the other two kept covered up. () Roswell UFO incident The Roswell Incident was the actual first contact between modern Humans and extraterrestrials that was not considered by Humans to be a supernatural event. The incident was however covered up by the United States Air Force and never made public knowledge. In July 1947, the Ferengi shuttle Quark's Treasure crash-landed near the town of Roswell, New Mexico. The event was initially reported in the newspapers, but was quickly retracted by the military, claimed to be a misidentification of weather balloon debris. The three aliens, thought to be Martians at the time, were found unconscious on board the damaged ship and taken into custody by the United States Army Air Forces. President Harry Truman wanted the aliens to be examined and interrogated, tortured if necessary. The shuttle was stored in Hangar 18 of the Air Force Base and was examined by the military; however, they couldn't figure out how it worked. Quark introduced himself as a Ferengi, the chief financial officer of the Ferengi Alliance, and wanted to sell advanced technology to the United States in exchange for gold. He claimed the Ferengi had conducted surveillance of Earth for years and knew everything there was to know about Humans. He threatened to sell the technology to the Soviet Union if the Americans wouldn't buy it from him. Rom attempted to tell the interrogators the truth, that they were accidental time travelers from the future. Nog in turn attempted to tell the interrogators what they wanted to hear, that they were scouts of a massive alien invasion force that was orbiting the Earth and about to invade the planet. The three Ferengi managed to escape on their ship with the help from Garland and Jeff. Odo was seen shape-shifting by the two 20th century Humans. The Americans did not learn where the aliens really came from or what their true mission was or where they went after they escaped. The incident however proved the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life to the United States government, and gave them information on alien physiology from the thorough medical examinations of the three Ferengi. () Other notable first contacts During the history of Earth, the planet was in fact contacted several times by aliens. These contacts before the 21st century were not well known, went unnoticed, faded away into mythology or were interpreted as supernatural encounters. Even so, many of them had a lasting impact on the evolution of Human culture through the ages. On several occasions extraterrestrial visitors on Earth who interacted with Humans appeared to be or were disguised as Humans themselves and were not identified as aliens. These included the Sahndaran refugees who lived among the Greeks during the 1st millennium BC, the El-Aurian Guinan, the half-Betazoid Deanna Troi and a group of Devidian shapeshifters who visited San Francisco in the 1890s, the Bajoran Kira Nerys in San Francisco in 1930 and the Trill Jadzia Dax in San Francisco in 2024. In some cases when aliens were identified by Humans, the encounters didn't become public knowledge, such as when the half-Klingon B'Elanna Torres was discovered by Humans in Arizona in 1996 and the group of Xindi-Reptilians who were seen in Detroit in 2004. (; ; ; ; ) Human-Sky Spirit first contact The earliest known notable Human - extraterrestrial first contact was with the Sky Spirits, a race of humanoid explorers, with warp-capable starships, from the Delta Quadrant of the Milky Way Galaxy. They first visited Earth in the Paleolithic age around 42,600 BC and saw that most Humans were barbaric in nature. They did however find a nomadic tribe of hunters who had no culture or language, but who had respect for all life and land. The Sky Spirits initiated first contact and gave the nomads a genetic bond that made them a race of Human-Sky People hybrids called the Inheritors. The genetic bond gave them the appearance of the Sky Spirit race and the Sky Spirit mentality for curiosity and adventure that eventually became part of all Human culture. The Inheritors were also the first people to migrate to the American continent. When the Europeans invaded the lands around the 16th century most of the Inheritors were killed by war and disease. One tribe of Inheritors, who had the Sky Spirit physical appearance, survived in hiding in the Central American rain forest, while at least one other tribe modernized and moved away from Earth. () Human-Kukulkan first contact Kukulkan, an immensely old alien being and the last of its race, saw humanoids in the galaxy as violent beings, always eventually destroying themselves. Kukulkan visited Earth as an experiment and had contact with all the civilizations on the planet. With a plan of turning Humans to a path of peace, it gave them advanced knowledge, such as the Mayan calendar, hieroglyphic writing, and architectural plans to a city with designs of obelisks, s, temples and gateways. The ancient Egyptians, Chinese and the Native Americans attempted to build the city but only finished parts of it. Kukulkan's visit was remembered in Comanche, Mayan and Aztec legend. In Toltec legend he was called Quetzalcoatl. Kukulkan was the basis of the Chinese dragon, and all the other similar winged serpent gods in the various cultures on Earth. () Human-Greek gods first contact In the early 3rd millennium BC, a group of powerful immortal beings from Pollux IV landed on Earth in the Mediterranean region. These aliens considered themselves to be gods and presented themselves as such to the primitive Humans. They had the power to control and transform the environment, to change physical shape, the power of teleportation, as well as control over the life and death of other beings. The worship of these aliens was the beginning of the Ancient Greek civilization and their deeds on Earth became the Greek classic myths. Eventually, Humans became less interested in the worship of these gods. Instead of punishing Humans and demanding worship, the aliens left Earth around 2700 BC for their home planet. Many of the Greek gods eventually decided to end their own existence. In 2267, James Kirk and his crew made contact with Apollo, the last of the Greek gods, who had waited for his worshipers to develop space travel and seek him out. The encounter resulted in the death of Apollo and the extinction of his species. () Human-Megan first contact During the 13th century, a group of Megans settled on Earth. They were an ageless species from a parallel universe where magic was part of the natural laws. They assisted Humans as sorcerer-contractors using their natural ability to change reality with the power of thought. The Megans were responsible for the medieval legends of magic and love potions, witches, wizards, evil sorcerers, demons, and warlocks. By the 17th century, it had become clear to the Megans, that Humans were only manipulating them to gain power for themselves and to serve their own greed and lust. When Megans refused to serve, Humans turned against them and taught others to fear and hate them. Lucien, a Megan, known on Earth by the name Lucifer, became synonymous with the mythological Devil of Christianity. Asmodeus, became known as a demon. The Megans who had survived the centuries of persecution eventually settled in Salem, Massachusetts, to live out their lives there in the guise of normal Humans. After several Megans made the mistake of using their powers again, they were burned as witches during the Salem witch trials. The last surviving Megans left Earth and returned to their universe, where they remained bitter and fearful of Humans. In 2269, the made contact with the Megans and Captain Kirk managed to prove them that Humans had changed. Asmodeus welcomed Humans to visit Megas-Tu in the future. () Human-Non-corporeal first contact In the late 17th century, a symbiotic non-corporeal anaphasic lifeform took the appearance of a Human male, claiming to be the ghost of a man called Ronin, who was born in 1647 in Glasgow, Scotland. It did this to fool Jessel Howard into a symbiotic relationship. Jessel was one of Beverly Crusher's distant ancestors and one of the rare Humans who had biochemistry compatible with the lifeform's energy matrix. The symbiotic relationship was passed down to each of her daughters and was the source of many ghost stories surrounding the family. () In 1888, Redjac a non-corporeal parasitic lifeform began to gain fame on Earth when he used host-Humans to become a serial killer of women in London, England. The entity fed on the emotions produced by the fear and terror in its victims. Newspapers dubbed him "Jack the Ripper". () Human-Klingon first contact Unofficially, the first known encounter between a Human and a Klingon took place when Samuel Clemens traveled forward in time from the year 1893. He was beamed aboard the and met Lieutenant Worf in the year 2369. Clemens returned to his own time and did not reveal his knowledge of the existence of Klingons or other extraterrestrials to the public. () Lily Sloane also met Worf in 2063 and remained silent about the encounter. () In April of 2151, a Klingon scoutship piloted by the courier Klaang was returning to Qo'noS with evidence that the was responsible for recent internal strife within the Klingon Empire. Klaang was pursued by members of the cabal and crash-landed on Earth in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Though Klaang managed to dispatch his pursuers, he was shot by a Human farmer named . Against the urgings of the Vulcans, Starfleet launched its first warp five vessel to return the wounded Klaang to Qo'noS. () This first contact with the Empire was considered a disastrous event that led to decades of war. Based on this bad experience, it was decided to conduct surveillance on new races before making contact. () Human-Andorian first contact The first contact between Humans and Andorians occurred in June of 2151 at the Vulcan monastery at P'Jem. The Andorian Empire had at the time sent a commando of the Andorian Imperial Guard to the monastery. They suspected that the Vulcan High Command had constructed a secret listening post at the monastery to spy on the Andorians, in violation of a treaty between the two powers. The Andorians, led by Commander Thy'lek Shran, believed Enterprise was a supply ship for the listening post and took the landing party hostage. After the listening post deep below the monastery in the catacombs was , Captain Archer allowed the Andorians to leave with proof of the listening post. The incident caused a temporary strain on Earth-Vulcan relations, particularly after the Andorians later destroyed the monastery and listening post. It was however, the beginning of a long-standing alliance between Earth and Andoria and a personal friendship between Archer and Commander Shran. () Human-Akaali first contact First contact with the Akaali was made by Enterprise NX-01 in 2151. It was significant in that it was the first Human-initiated first contact. Despite the Vulcan advice not to contact the primitive Akaali homeworld, Captain Archer took a landing party to the surface. In doing so, the Enterprise uncovered a covert mining operation by the Malurians. () Federation-Gorn first contact First contact between the Federation and the Gorn occurred in phases. The first known encounter with the Gorn took place in the 2230s when the was captured by the Gorn. The entire crew save one, La'an Noonien-Singh, were killed and La'an launched in a Mark IV liferaft, where she was rescued by the () In 2259, the USS Enterprise, responding to a request from a colony on Finibus III, were attacked by Gorn hunters and a Gorn destroyer as the colony had been attacked by them prior to their arrival and used the survivors as a trap. The Enterprise was heavily damaged by the attack, but were able to drive away their attackers. () Later that same year, the Enterprise was called to investigate the disappearance of the near Valeo Beta V. Captain Christopher Pike lead an away team to the planet and discovered the ship crash landed due to survivors being implanted with Gorn eggs, the only survivor being a young human girl named Oriana. The infestation was culled by the away team, but not before Cadet Chia and Lieutenant Duke were murdered and Lieutenant Hemmer comittted suicide to prevent the eggs inside him from hatching () First contact with the Gorn occurred in 2267, when they attacked the Federation colony on Cestus III. The Gorn saw the strike as a preemptive move, since they regarded the Cestus system as part of their territory. () James Kirk was the first Federation officer to physically confront a Gorn following his pursuit of their vessel in response to the attack on Cestus III. This pursuit attracted the attention of the Metrons, a highly advanced race who opposed conflict within their territory. They transported Kirk and the Gorn captain to a prepared planet and forced them to battle there. This deed was meant as a punishment, but ultimately, Kirk spared the Gorn captain; the mercy displayed by Kirk's refusal caused the observing Metron to think of the conflict as a test, which Humans had passed. () Federation-Ferengi Alliance first contact First contact with the Ferengi took place in multiple phases. The very first contact between Humans and Ferengi actually occurred in 1947 in the Roswell Incident. Although the aliens were identified as Ferengi and their physiology was examined, knowledge of the incident was suppressed and never became public knowledge. () In 2151, the Enterprise NX-01 was boarded by a single Ferengi ship, sedating the entire crew, except for Commander Tucker. The Ferengi never identified themselves as such. () In 2355, the encountered a vessel of unknown origin in the Maxia Zeta system, a system the Ferengi had claimed as part of their territory. The Federation was unaware of the claim at the time. Combat between the two vessels ensued, and it was here that Captain Jean-Luc Picard employed the Picard Maneuver to confuse and destroy the Ferengi ship. The Stargazer also took heavy damage and had to be abandoned by its crew following the incident, and the enemy ship was not officially identified as a Ferengi vessel until 2364. () Determinate first contact between the Ferengi Alliance and the United Federation of Planets occurred in 2364 in the Delphi Ardu system, where a Ferengi starship and the were trapped in orbit by a derelict outpost of the ancient Tkon Empire. Prior to this, only conflicting hearsay and third hand reports were known by Federation scholars regarding the Ferengi. It was known for sure only that the Ferengi were ruthless traders. () Contact between the Ferengi Alliance and the Federation steadily increased to a level of significance, and only minor conflicts ensued from then on. (, etc.) Federation-Borg first contact The first contact between Humans and the Borg occurred in 2063 during the Borg temporal incursion to prevent the Human-Vulcan first contact. Lily Sloane was the only Human of that era to witness the Borg, though many saw the Borg sphere in orbit in the night sky over Bozeman, Montana attempting to bomb the Phoenix missile silo. Borg drones from the sphere were found in a debris field in 2153, where they were revived by a survey crew who weren't aware of the danger the drones posed. These drones assimilated the survey crew, along with their research vessel, Arctic One, and escaped into space, where they immediately attempted to contact the Collective. These Borg were later intercepted and destroyed by the crew of , but not before they were able to send a subspace communication deep into the Delta Quadrant. They didn't identify themselves during the later encounter, and it is unknown if Starfleet was aware of their true identity. (; ) Formal first contact with the Borg was forced upon the Federation by the entity known as Q, a member of the Q Continuum in 2365 in System J-25. () (See also: Borg first contact) Federation-Wadi first contact A Vulcan ship traveling through the Gamma Quadrant encountered a Wadi ship, initiating contact. An official meeting was developed in 2369 between the Wadi and the United Federation of Planets, with the meeting to occur on Deep Space 9. The Wadi ship with their representative Falow arrived at the station, marking the first Gamma Quadrant delegation to arrive in the Alpha Quadrant. Commander Benjamin Sisko led the contact, however, Falow and his crew were more interested in the gaming available in the Alpha Quadrant rather than an official meeting. () Federation-Dominion first contact The Ferengi were the first Alpha Quadrant species to learn of the existence of the Dominion, which was achieved through business dealings with a Gamma Quadrant race called the Dosi. The Federation then heard more about the Dominion when Skrreean refugees came through the Bajoran wormhole, having escaped when the Dominion had conquered the Skreeans' oppressors, the T-Rogorans. Following the Skreeans' exodus, Odo and Jadzia Dax later learned that the Dominion had conquered the Yaderans in 2340. The first official contact between the Federation and the Dominion came in late 2370, when Benjamin Sisko and Quark were taken prisoner on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant by the Jem'Hadar. Starfleet tasked the under the command of Captain Keogh, with going through to the Gamma Quadrant, and locating Commander Sisko. During this rescue attempt, the Odyssey was rammed and destroyed by the Jem'Hadar, as they were retreating back through the wormhole to the Alpha Quadrant, marking an end to one of most disastrous first contacts in Starfleet history. () Bajor-Cardassia first contact Ancient Bajorans first established contact between Bajor and Cardassia through the use of a Bajoran lightship. Although traveling at sublight speeds, the ship was eventually propelled by a tachyon eddy to speeds equivalent to warp, enabling the ship to bypass the hazards of the Denorios belt. Cardassian archaeologists claim that the vessel's remnants were discovered on Cardassia Prime in 2371, coinciding with the arrival of Benjamin and Jake Sisko on a replica lightship, though apparently Cardassia had been unofficially aware of them for some time by that point. Cardassians had previously dismissed Bajoran claims of first contact as a "fairy tale", disputing that Bajorans achieved interstellar flight first. () Vulcan-Klingon first contact A disastrous first contact between the Vulcans and the Klingons was made at the planet H'atoria in the year 2016, which resulted in the destruction of a Vulcan ship. The Vulcan starship's attempt to peacefully hail the Klingons was seen as a sign of weakness and an invitation to attack, and the Klingons made no attempt to contact the Vulcans. Yet the Vulcans were not to make the same mistake twice: in subsequent encounters with Klingon vessels, Vulcan starships adopted a shoot-on-sight policy. Eventually, this policy worked: the Klingons were a warrior race who respected strength, and were only willing to communicate with the Vulcans on even terms once they had proven themselves. Nonetheless, relations between the Vulcans and Klingons remained tense afterwards. () Federation-Lapeerian first contact In 2381, the Federation starships and were assigned a first contact mission to Lapeeria. Due to an unexpected incident that disabled the Archimedes, Captain Carol Freeman of the Cerritos'', who normally specialized in second contacts, conducted the first in-person contact with the Lapeerian leader. The Lapeerians revealed themselves to be a very casual people who were fond of alcohol. () Federations-Species 10-C first contact In 3190, the Federation starship was assigned a mission to find and initiate first contact with Species 10-C in order to stop the rampaging Dark Matter Anomaly that threatened the galaxy. The mission was threatened by renegade allies Cleveland Booker and Ruon Tarka, who sought to find and obtain the power source that could transport them to another universe. The mission was further threatened by United Earth General Diatta Ndoye, whose fear of the diplomats safety caused her to briefly ally with the two. Species 10-C were revealed to be giant creatures whose bonds of unity lead to no concept of individualism.() Appendices See also Alien abduction List of first contacts Related topics Drayan II Gamma Trianguli VI Gorn Malcorians Mirasta Yale Romulan Tholian Vhnori Vidiian External link de:Erstkontakt ja:ファースト・コンタクト nl:Eerste contact sv:Första kontakt Communication Events Legal procedures
2087	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Sarda	Miss Sarda was a female humanoid alien who was empoloyed as a dabo girl table at Quark's. Having recently arrived at Deep Space 9 in 2369, she complained to Commander Benjamin Sisko of a clause in her work contract concerning sexual favors she had to perform for her employer, Quark. Upon hearing this, Commander Sisko invalidated the clause and informed Quark that he was not to include such provisions in his employment contracts again. () Appendices Background information Sarda was played by actress Kelly Curtis. The script for "Captive Pursuit" describes Sarda as "an alien woman in casual clothes… she has a terrific body… but is intelligent, not a ditz, though a little nervous here…" The original story for "Captive Pursuit" implied Sarda was attracted to Sisko and included the line "come by and see me sometime"; however, after lengthy conversations between the writing staff, it was ultimately removed from the final scene. () External links de:Sarda nl:Sarda Sarda's species Dabo girls
2092	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Slingshot effect	The slingshot effect, also known as the light-speed breakaway factor, was a method of time travel through the use of an artificially-created time warp. This maneuver was performed by traveling at an extremely high warp factor towards a massive body with a high gravitational attraction, such as a star. After allowing the gravitational pull to accelerate the vessel to even faster speeds, the vessel would then break away from the stellar body, creating a whiplash effect which could transport the vessel through time. Performing this maneuver required extremely precise calculations to be made, such as availability of fuel components, acceleration, and mass of a vessel through a time continuum. (; ) Uses In 2267, the starship accidentally traveled through time to the late 1960s, when an encounter with a previously-uncharted black star required the crew to utilize all warp power in reverse to break away from the star's powerful gravitational attraction, creating a whiplash effect. In order to return to their own time, the crew of the Enterprise recreated the accident, using the gravitational pull of Earth's sun to perform the slingshot. () In 2268, the Enterprise utilized this method again to travel back in time three hundred years in order to conduct historical research on planet Earth. () In 2286, Admiral Kirk and his command crew were forced to use the maneuver again, this time in the stolen Klingon Bird-of-Prey , when an extremely powerful probe threatened to destroy Earth while attempting to contact by then-extinct humpback whales. To appease the probe, Kirk and crew used the slingshot effect to travel back in time to the late 20th century to retrieve two humpback whales. () In 2365, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Commander William T. Riker speculated on what phenomenon could have thrown the El-Baz back in time. While Riker knew the shuttlepod didn't have warp drive, he still suggested the theory that it could have somehow accelerated beyond warp 10. Picard suggested this could have been achieved by a warp-powered slingshot using the gravitational pull of a star. () In 2401, Picard and his friends, displaced into an alternate timeline, planned to use the slingshot effect to travel back in time with the help of the Borg Queen in order to correct the timeline. () During an attack on the CSS La Sirena, the Borg Queen took control of the ship and successfully used the slingshot effect to send them back to 2024. () Appendices Related topics Gravitational slingshot Background information Based on Star Trek IV The Voyage Home and "Tomorrow is Yesterday", going beyond warp 10 and creating a time warp are two stages in the slingshot effect. In Star Trek IV the time warp was generated after the ship had passed warp 9.8. While in "Tomorrow is Yesterday" going reverse through time already begins when the ship is approaching the stellar body at over the speed of warp 8. In the episode it is stated by Sulu, that the speed of the Enterprise goes "off the dial" for a moment after the ship has broken away from the star and reverses its direction in time to travel forward again, suggesting the ship does go "beyond infinite" at that point. Ronald D. Moore commented: "I would assume that the precise calculations involved in using the slingshot method are something of a closely-guarded secret." According to Star Trek Maps (p. 6), the speed increase that dislodges the ship from the space-time continuum in a slingshot effect is caused by a mathematical factor called the Cochrane's factor. It is added as a multiplier to the basic warp formula based on the amount of curvature of space the ship is traveling through. While the factor within the normal interstellar medium of Federation space is an average of 1292.7238 and in the intergalactic void only 1, in the close proximity of stars and other massive objects it is so high that these disproportionately high speeds are created. Apocrypha In the novel The Ashes of Eden, renegade admiral Andovar Drake attempts to use the slingshot effect to go back in time to ambush Kirk the day he arrived in the Chal system after the Enterprise-A and the Excelsior destroy Drake's supporting ships, requiring Sulu to beam over to the Enterprise to take the ship after Drake's bird-of-prey as an Excelsior-class ship hasn't attempted such a maneuver before. Although the Enterprise is able to damage Drake's engines before he can complete the slingshot, both ships are destroyed when they remain in the star's corona for too long, although Kirk's crew are beamed to safety by the Excelsior and Drake dies only because he refuses to accept his loss. In the novel Engines of Destiny, Montgomery Scott acquires another Bird-of-Prey and attempts to use the slingshot effect to travel back in time and prevent Kirk's death on the , believing that he can travel back to the day of Kirk's death and beam Kirk to safety just before the ship is struck by the energy ribbon, thereby not actually changing history as Kirk would still vanish and be presumed dead. The maneuver itself is successful, but as a result, a timeline is created where Kirk never enters the Nexus, Jean-Luc Picard never returns from it, and the Borg have assimilated Earth without Picard to stop them in . It requires the intervention of the , which fortunately followed Scott's ship closely enough to avoid being caught up in the changes to history, to undo Scott's mistake and return Kirk to the Nexus. In the tenth anniversary special trilogy Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Millennium, the accidentally slingshots around the Bajoran wormhole after a second wormhole opens within Deep Space 9 itself, and is sent twenty-five years into the future. Although unable to return by repeating the procedure – something that is apparently vital due to the time-travelers being "out of sync" with the rest of the universe and therefore unable to use other time-travel methods to return home – before the Bajoran wormhole is merged with a red wormhole that was created as they departed, by entering a realm of non-linear time inside the merged wormholes, the crew are able to avert the creation of the red wormhole and erase the future they witnessed while returning to their time just before the destruction of Deep Space 9 in the past. In the novel The Rings of Time, it is all but explicitly stated that the slingshot maneuver is used when the Enterprise has to travel back to Saturn in 2020 when Kirk's mind is swapped with Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher after an encounter with an alien probe in 2270. In the novel Forgotten History, it is revealed that, initially, the Enterprise was the only ship capable of performing a slingshot maneuver, due to its engines being exposed to a unique set of conditions during their jump back in time after a cold start in , resulting in the newly-formed Department of Temporal Investigations claiming the engines during the ship's refit to create a timeship of their own. However, the knowledge of how to make any ship capable of performing a slingshot maneuver was revealed to Kirk by Agent Lucsly of the DTI when he was forced to work with Kirk during a malfunction of Timeship Two, when an attempt to blend the slingshot effect and dimension-shifting technology to let the ship travel into the future of alternate universes trapped the ship between 2273 and 2383 and risked altering the future. In the novel Elusive Salvation, the Enterprise is able to send a small probe back to 1971 via the slingshot effect, the probe containing a recorded message to Kirk's 20th century contact Roberta Lincoln asking for her help in finding out anything about an alien ship that crash-landed on Earth in 1845, the recording also noting that the probe is programmed to destroy itself in Earth's sun after delivering the message to limit potential temporal contamination. External link de:Fliehkrafteffekt fr:Effet de fronde Maneuvers Time travel
2096	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Second Battle of Deep Space 9	The Second Battle of Deep Space 9 was the opening engagement of the Dominion War between the United Federation of Planets and Klingon Empire against the combined forces of the Dominion, under the nominal command of Gul Dukat, were able to capture Federation starbase Deep Space 9. Fought in 2373, the assault was launched by the Dominion to prevent the mining of the Bajoran wormhole, which would effectively sever supply lines from the Gamma Quadrant. Two days after Captain Benjamin Sisko rejected Weyoun's ultimatum to remove the minefield, a large fleet of Jem'Hadar and Cardassian warships launched an assault on the station, intending to capture it before the could complete the minefield. Although the Dominion successfully captured the station from the Federation and drove Federation-Klingon forces from Bajoran space, the losses they incurred were severe; fifty ships were destroyed in the battle, and the Dominion was unable to prevent the activation of the minefield. Prelude Following their annexation of the Cardassian Union around Stardate 50560, the Dominion began fortifying their foothold in the Alpha Quadrant with weekly convoys of warships and troops through the wormhole. As time went on, Cardassian space became a veritable fortress, teeming with Jem'Hadar soldiers and their Vorta overseers. () Although a technical state of war did not exist, and neither side had fully committed to immediate combat, numerous skirmishes took place along the border during this period. Aside from the Dominion's attempt to destroy the Bajoran system using a trilithium bomb, the Jem'Hadar and the Cardassians attacked and destroyed numerous Federation and Klingon patrol ships in a sustained campaign across the border sectors. Casualties of these attacks included the and the . () In addition to the military advances, the Dominion made major inroads into the Alpha Quadrant politically as well, signing nonaggression pacts with several regional powers, including the Miradorn and the Tholian Assembly, and offering similar pacts to Bajor and other independent worlds in the area. The Dominion's greatest diplomatic achievement, however, was the signing of a nonaggression pact with the Romulan Star Empire, the third major power in the region. The Dominion's goal seemed clear: to isolate the Federation politically and militarily. Its classic strategy of divide-and-conquer seemed to be succeeding admirably. Only the Klingon Empire stood with the Federation against the Dominion. With peaceful means failing to slow the Dominion's advance, Benjamin Sisko observed, "...a war may be our only hope." () Provocation With its strategic position rapidly deteriorating, the Federation resolved to prevent the Dominion from sending further reinforcements into the Alpha Quadrant by mining the entrance to the Bajoran wormhole. Maintenance engineer Rom suggested using self-replicating mines equipped with cloaking devices for the blockade; not only would such a minefield be undetectable to approaching ships, but it would also be virtually indestructible, as each mine destroyed would be replaced by another mine in the vicinity. Chief Miles O'Brien and Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax quickly developed a working model, and the Defiant began laying down the minefield. This action could be seen as nothing less than a major provocation, however, and the Dominion's primary representative Weyoun arrived at Deep Space 9 and promptly demanded that the mining of the wormhole be halted immediately. Captain Sisko flatly refused. An intricate dance of lies and intimations began: Weyoun claimed that the Cardassians, having suffered terrible damage during the Klingon-Cardassian War, required massive assistance in rebuilding their infrastructure and defenses following the Klingon invasion. Sisko played along, claiming to have had no idea of the Cardassians' dire humanitarian situation. The two representatives arranged a deal, in which the Federation would remove the minefield, and the Dominion would restrict further convoys to nonmilitary personnel and materials. However, both sides recognized this repartee as nothing more than a ruse to buy time and lull the other side into a false sense of security – Weyoun to prepare the Dominion fleet for the attack, and Sisko to complete the minefield. With war imminent, Sisko, speaking both as a Starfleet captain and the Emissary of the Prophets, advised that the Bajoran government sign the nonaggression pact offered to them by the Dominion, thus ensuring that the planet and its people were kept out of the now-inevitable conflict. The pact was signed, and First Minister Shakaar Edon ordered the evacuation of all Bajoran personnel from the station. () The Battle Intent on preventing its lifeline to the Gamma Quadrant from being blocked, the Dominion and Cardassian Union launched a massive assault fleet towards Deep Space 9, with Gul Dukat himself in command. For reasons not yet publicly known, the Federation had not reinforced its position at Deep Space 9, leaving only the USS Defiant and the to supplement the station's defenses. Anticipating the enemy attack, Sisko ordered the Rotarran to patrol the border and provide advance warning when the Dominion fleet approached. Captain Sisko confidently rejected Dukat's offer to surrender, and both sides prepared for the onslaught. Dukat ordered five Jem'Hadar attack wings to intercept the Defiant, while his remaining ships targeted the station. As the Dominion fleet opened fire, Weyoun and Dukat were unpleasantly surprised to find Deep Space 9's shields holding up under the barrage – Federation deflector shields had previously been impotent in defending against the Jem'Hadar's phased polaron beam weaponry. Dukat ordered more ships to open fire on the station. Meanwhile, the Defiant herself was coming under fire as she was laying the minefield. The Rotarran provided interference and covering fire, giving the Defiant enough time to complete and activate the minefield, sealing off the wormhole. Using his knowledge as the station's former commanding officer, Dukat was able to cut main power to Deep Space 9's shields by directing all Dominion and Cardassian firepower into Section 17 of the outer docking ring. With the wormhole now blocked, and the station becoming an impossible position to hold, Captain Sisko ordered all Starfleet personnel to evacuate Deep Space 9. As Dukat ordered his reserve units to enter the battle, the station's Starfleet crew boarded the Defiant and the Rotarran, taking all sensitive equipment with them and leaving the station in the hands of the Bajoran Militia. As the evacuation neared completion, Sisko addressed the remaining station residents on the Promenade, promising, "I will not rest until I stand with you again, here, in this place where I belong." Once the Defiant and the Rotarran had safely departed the station, Major Kira Nerys, now the Bajorans' representative to the Dominion, activated Program Sisko 197. The program completely sabotaged the station's computer and power systems, leaving the station a nearly lifeless hulk. The Dominion and Cardassian troops boarded the station without resistance, officially reclaiming Terok Nor, the station they had abandoned in orbit of Bajor five years before. () Aftermath Dukat and the Dominion captured Deep Space 9 from the Federation, but the more than fifty Dominion ships destroyed were a major price to be paid for that victory. The minefield operated independently from the station and proved resistant to all initial attempts to dismantle it. Likewise, the sabotage of the station itself meant that in the short term it would serve little function other than as a command and supply outpost behind the front lines. In addition, while the Dominion and Cardassian Union had thrown its full force towards capturing the station, a combined Starfleet-Klingon task force had crossed the border into Cardassian territory and destroyed the shipyards at Torros III, which in the eyes of Starfleet Command outweighed the loss of DS9. () bg:Втора битка за Дълбок космос 9 cs:Druhá bitva o Deep Space 9 de:Schlacht von Deep Space 9 (2373) fr:Seconde Bataille de Deep Space Nine ja:第二次ディープ・スペース・９の戦い nl:Tweede slag om Deep Space 9 Deep Space 9, Second Battle of
2097	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Battle of Cardassia	The Battle of Cardassia (also known as the Invasion of Cardassia) was the final battle of the Dominion War, fought in late 2375. The Federation Alliance, the forces of the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, and the Romulan Star Empire, as well as the Cardassian Union launched an invasion with the goal of capturing the Dominion's Alpha Quadrant headquarters on occupied Cardassia Prime. The battle would ultimately lead to the Dominion's unconditional surrender of all forces in the Alpha Quadrant. The events of the battle were related to concurrent events on Cardassia Prime in the final stages of the Cardassian Rebellion, led by Legate Damar. The sabotage committed by the Cardassian insurgents played an important role in disrupting Dominion communications and support behind the front lines. In reprisal, the Dominion smashed the rebellion before the battle and began systematically punishing the population by launching attacks against civilians, which ultimately led to the Cardassian Union switching sides. Before the battle was over, however, more than 800 million Cardassian civilians would be killed by Dominion genocide, leaving the once-proud capital planet in ruins. Prelude By late 2375, the Dominion's offensives in the Alpha Quadrant had stalled, leaving its forces embroiled in a war of attrition along several fronts. Reinforcements through the Bajoran wormhole had been blocked since the beginning of the war, and the existing industrial infrastructure in Cardassian territory was insufficient to maintain an offensive posture for a prolonged period of time. In addition, the Chin'toka system had been lost to the Federation Alliance in 2374 and more recently Septimus III had been taken by the Klingons, so even Cardassian territory didn't provide a completely secure base of operations. () The Dominion's last hope for a quick victory was its alliance with the Breen Confederacy and their energy-dampening weapon, against which the allies initially had no defense. Although the Breen's weapon had a major effect in its first uses, particularly at the Second Battle of Chin'toka, a chance tritium intermix modification on the , intended to compensate for a containment problem, had rendered the ship immune to the weapon prior to the battle at Chin'toka, making it the only Allied ship to survive. However, this modification only worked on Klingon ships, requiring the Klingon Defense Force to hold the line until countermeasures could be developed. This nearly failed when Chancellor Gowron attempted to take the initiative and place General Martok in losing almost impossible to-win battles in order to eliminate him as a political rival. However, after Gowron was killed by Worf and Martok became chancellor, the Klingon forces again held the line. The Dominion's chance at a quick offensive during this time was lost by the start of Legate Damar's rebellion, which caused massive disruptions behind the lines and forced the Dominion to devote considerable resources to quelling the uprising. By the time Damar's resistance cells were eradicated, the Federation and the Romulans had already developed countermeasures to the Breen weapon, after acquiring an example of the weapon stolen by Damar, with the help of Odo, Elim Garak and former resistance fighter Kira Nerys, effectively negating the biggest tactical advantage that the Dominion had in the war. () Apparently becoming disillusioned with the war, and at death's door due to the effects of the morphogenic virus, the Female Changeling ordered Dominion forces to effect a complete withdrawal from all territories held outside Cardassian space. It was hoped that by reverting to pre-war territories, the Dominion would solidify its defense perimeter in which it could rebuild its forces quickly, shorten its supply lines, and survive longer than it would in its current position, which was severely overstretched with the Romulan, Federation, and Klingon fronts to maintain. With less territory to defend, the Dominion could repel any attack and build up its forces for a renewed invasion several years later. This move could have signaled an end to the war; the withdrawal of all enemy forces from conquered territories was one of the major aims of the war for all allies. However, the Founders seriously miscalculated the allies' resolve to win the war at any cost, assuming that the Federation leadership was too timid to mount an offense, and believing the Alliance would simply try to contain the Dominion in their borders. In addition, Captain Benjamin Sisko and Admiral William Ross recognized the threat of allowing the Dominion to remain in Cardassian space uncontested. Fearing the Dominion would simply rebuild their forces and attack all out once and for all the Alliance came to one conclusion. Therefore, the allies agreed to launch an invasion of Cardassia Prime itself, with the aim of decapitating the Dominion leadership and throwing its hierarchy into chaos. () The battle Phase one: invasion Launching their attack fleet from Deep Space 9, the Alliance made a beeline for Cardassia, crossing the distance in approximately one and a half days. The Female Changeling ordered as many ships as possible to meet them, perceiving that the coming battle would be the final, decisive engagement of the war. On the allied side, Chancellor Martok prophetically spoke of the allied victory, having brought a barrel of bloodwine, vintage 2309 – the finest, in preparation of the celebration. As the two enemy fleets made their final approach, the Female Changeling, the Vorta Weyoun, and Breen Thot Pran were inside Dominion Headquarters making final plans for the attack. Noticing that the Dominion Fleet was spread too thin, particularly in the middle of their lines, Weyoun prepared to order the Jem'Hadar to reinforce their position. But suddenly, nearly every Dominion installation on the surface of Cardassia lost power – the Cardassian Liberation Front, led by Legate Damar, had inspired the Cardassian populace to rise up and overthrow their Dominion occupiers. The Dominion fleet was completely cut off from any support or instructions from the surface of Cardassia. As the Dominion attempted to regain access to their long range communications, they launched hard and swift punishment for the Cardassians' betrayal. The Female Changeling ordered Jem'Hadar forces to bombard Lakarian City, destroying it utterly and killing two million men, women, and children in a matter of seconds. Weyoun announced to the public that another Cardassian city would be destroyed for each further act of sabotage. However, rather than cowing the Cardassian people back into submission, the opposite effect was achieved and the people began to revolt against their oppressors. In space, the two fleets bore into each other with abandon, with the battle degenerating into a melee of close-quarters combat. Although the Dominion's lines were spread relatively thinly in the center of their formation, the Dominion forces were able to destroy the Romulan flagship. Captain Sisko marshaled several attack wings to reinforce the Romulan lines, while Ross and Chancellor Martok's forces targeted the Dominion center. With the battle still raging, the Cardassian fleet – with knowledge of the Dominion's vindictiveness – ultimately switched sides, turning on their Dominion allies in response to the destruction of Lakarian City, much to the benefit of the crew of the . Taking advantage of the sudden chaos amid the enemy forces, and with the help of the Cardassians, the allies were able to punch through the core of the defending Dominion fleet. Back at Dominion Headquarters, the Dominion command staff finally reestablished communications with their fleet, only to discover that the Cardassian forces had completely turned against them. Furious, the Female Changeling ordered the Dominion and Breen forces to disengage and retreat to Cardassia Prime, proclaiming "there will be no more running." The defending forces withdrew from the battle, leaving the allies victorious. () Phase two: final resolution The battle was not yet over, however. Captain Sisko and Chancellor Martok convinced Admiral Ross to press their advantage, despite having already lost a third of their forces during the battle. Even with the Dominion's influence restricted to Cardassia Prime itself, its "impressive" ability to rebuild its forces would only prolong the inevitable. Recognizing this, and with the Cardassian ships on their side, the allies chose to press onwards. On Cardassia, the Female Changeling, suffering from the final stages of the debilitating morphogenic virus, seemed to grow completely frustrated with the Dominion's allies. Angered by the sudden betrayal of the Cardassian fleet, she took to a final solution and ordered the Jem'Hadar to begin exterminating the entire Cardassian population. The Jem'Hadar summarily began executing every civilian they came across, and destroying residences building by building. Among the Cardassians killed was Legate Broca, who tried to reaffirm his loyalty to the Dominion to no effect. Damar, along with Kira Nerys and Elim Garak, had at one point been captured, but as they stood in the firing line a Cardassian unit gunned down their Jem'Hadar executioners, with the leader, Ekoor, proclaiming "That's for Lakarian City" as the last one fell. Bolstered by the Cardassian volunteers, the three mounted an assault against the Dominion headquarters compound, seeking to capture the Founder alive and force an end to hostilities. With so many of the Jem'Hadar guards sent to destroy the Cardassians, there were only a few left to guard the Founder. Although Damar was tragically killed during the short but sharp fight, the remaining rebels fought their way to the headquarters' briefing room, capturing the Female Changeling and killing the last Weyoun. In orbit, the allies found thousands of Jem'Hadar and Breen warships, plus thousands of the Cardassian orbital weapon platforms, notably encountered at the first Battle of Chin'toka a year before, waiting for them. Unwilling to turn back, they prepared to launch a three-prong attack on the Dominion's defenses. Federation vessels would attack the platforms and the Romulans and Cardassians would hit the Jem'Hadar forces, while the Klingons would take on the Breen – an attack that was projected to cost up to 40% of their remaining forces, without even accounting for the following ground assault. As the rebels on the surface tried to convince the Founder to surrender, her chilling plan became clear – by ordering the Jem'Hadar and the Breen to fight to the very last man, she sought to make the allies' victory so costly that it "would taste as bitter as defeat." She hoped to ensure that the Alpha Quadrant powers would never again threaten the Dominion, believing that the Alliance would attack the Gamma Quadrant despite claims that they would not. Before the final assault began, however, Odo, recently cured of the disease affecting the rest of his race, volunteered to try to convince the Female Changeling to surrender to the allies. By linking with her, Odo managed to cure her of the disease and persuade her to call for an end to the fighting. The Dominion forces in orbit and on the surface stood down and surrendered. The battle – and the war – was suddenly and finally over. () Aftermath The instrument of surrender, the Treaty of Bajor, was signed at Deep Space 9 only days later. In it, the Dominion agreed to withdraw all of its forces to the Gamma Quadrant. All borders and territorial sovereignty would be returned to their pre-war states. The Female Changeling agreed to stand trial for war crimes committed by the Dominion in exchange for Odo returning to the Great Link to cure the rest of their race of the morphogenic virus. Had the Founder not chosen to surrender, the Jem'Hadar and Breen were expected to have fought to the last man. This would have resulted in a costly fleet engagement with a projected loss of an estimated 40% of the Alliance fleet, along with a ground invasion expected to result in many casualties itself. As it was, the battle, and the war itself, was nothing short of a disaster for Cardassia and its people, devastating a huge portion of its surface and killing over 800 million civilians. It was only in avoiding the final assault that more bloodshed was averted. () External link de:Schlacht um Cardassia fr:Bataille de Cardassia ja:カーデシアの戦い nl:Slag om Cardassia Cardassia, Battle of
2098	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Second Battle of Chin'toka	The Second Battle of Chin'toka was a major battle between the Federation Alliance and the Breen-Dominion Alliance during the Dominion War in late-2375, in a counter-attack against the Chin'toka system, a territory of the Cardassian Union held by the forces of the United Federation of Planets, Klingon Empire and Romulan Star Empire. Aided by the energy-dampening weapon of the Breen warships, the Dominion inflicted the worst major tactical defeat upon the Federation Alliance; all but one of the 312 allied ships were destroyed in a rapid, but vicious engagement. Though the defeat stunned the Federation Alliance and left only the Klingon able to counter the Dominion, the Dominion could not follow up on their victory, as the Cardassian Rebellion occurred shortly thereafter, diverting vital Dominion resources from the front-lines. This proved catastrophic when it caused a Jem'Hadar fighter equipped with an energy-dampening weapon to fall into Alliance hands, allowing Federation and Romulan ships to counter the weapon. Prelude The Federation had made contact with the Breen in the mid-2360s, though very little solid information was known about them even a decade hence. Isolated behind their full-body refrigeration suits, they remained shrouded in mystery, a mystery that was only enhanced by their isolationist policies. As a result, the governments of the Alpha Quadrant considered the Breen to be little more than a minor regional power. By the second half of 2375, the Dominion was faced with the prospect of the war dragging on for several more years – with their original plans having projected the invasion of the Federation and the Klingon Empire to only take six months at most. The Female Changeling, suffering the degenerative effects of the morphogenic virus, sought additional allies to swell the Dominion's numbers and bring about a quicker end to the conflict. After their initial contact, the Breen eagerly agreed to join the war on the side of the Dominion. () The Chin'toka system was the chief allied foothold in Dominion territory at the time, taken during a previous battle against the Cardassian and Jem'Hadar forces. But the Alliance's weakened supply line and its fragile war machine meant its hold on the system was problematic at best; Jem'Hadar forces were constantly attacking the Alliance's positions, and with the Alliance's inferior numbers, its hold on the system was tenuous. () Within days of their alliance with the Dominion, the Breen launched a massive offensive against Federation territories, including a bold attack against Starfleet Headquarters on Earth – the first time open combat had taken place on the planet in over two hundred years. The Dominion was resolved to re-take Chin'toka with a combined assault of Breen, Jem'Hadar, and Cardassian forces. With the bulk of the Dominion's forces already engaged on the Romulan front, the Breen would play the most important part in re-taking the system. () The Battle The Dominion forces managed to break through the Allied lines in two places at Chin'toka, outflanking allied defenses. The Dominion fleet re-took the planets in the system, as the allied fleet withdrew. The Jem'Hadar, Cardassian, and Breen ships consolidated their position while Starfleet and its allies rallied their starships for a counterattack to drive the enemy fleet from the system, under the command of General Martok of the Klingon Defense Forces. A total of 312 allied warships were rallied to take on the Dominion fleet. The Allied fleet charged into the system, resolved to destroy the enemy with brute force. As the Allied fleet entered the system, they destroyed several Breen warships. The Breen retaliated by firing a volley of a new kind of energy weapon, which, to the Allies' shock, completely disabled all of their ships' primary systems. The allies were now adrift and easy targets with their deflector shields inactive, primary computer systems offline, and their weapons disabled. The Breen ships switched to conventional weapons, and targeted the now defenseless Alliance fleet with their torpedoes. The entire allied fleet was totally vulnerable, unable to even take evasive action or fire back. Ship after ship was destroyed or rendered uninhabitable after volleys of destructive torpedo fire. Unable to retaliate, the survivors aboard the heavily damaged allied ships launched their escape pods in a desperate bid to flee the carnage. The Dominion leadership allowed the pods to escape, believing that the survivors would spread fear throughout the Alliance with tales of the destruction at Chin'toka. With the Allied warships destroyed, the Dominion re-took the system. () Aftermath The Second Battle of Chin'toka was arguably the worst defeat suffered by the Allies throughout the war. In terms of starships lost to ships engaged, it was the worst defeat since the Federation's reversal in the Tyra system, in which 98 ships were destroyed out of 112. The battle ended all allied offensives against the Dominion for the next month, while allied engineers scrambled to develop a countermeasure. The , a Klingon Bird-of-Prey, was the only allied ship impervious to the Breen's energy dampening weapons, thanks to a chance modification made by its chief engineer. The entire Klingon fleet made the same enhancements, making them the only allied ships resistant to the Breen's weapons. The Federation and Romulan fleets, however, were left vulnerable, leading to them being temporarily withdrawn from the front lines. General Martok brought 1,500 Klingon ships up to the front to fight the war while the Allies found a countermeasure; however they were pitted against no less than 30,000 Jem'Hadar, Cardassian, and Breen warships, outnumbered twenty to one. () The Alliance was given precious time to develop a countermeasure due to the formation of the Cardassian Liberation Front, led by Legate Damar. Its first assault on the Dominion's Vorta cloning facility on Rondac III caused the Dominion to re-focus its offensive energies to defeating the rebellion, costing them the opportunity of launching an offensive into Allied territory. This bought the allies enough time to develop a countermeasure with help from Damar's resistance cell, though the rebellion was all but annihilated when the Dominion destroyed eighteen Cardassian bases. The Allied fleets, now resistant to the main advantage the Dominion had, were able to organize their forces for a single, destructive blow to the Dominion at the Battle of Cardassia two months later. () External link bg:Втора битка за Чин'тока de:Dritte Schlacht von Chin'toka ja:第二次チントカ星系の戦い nl:Tweede slag om Chin'toka Chin'toka, Second Battle of
2099	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	First Battle of Chin'toka	The First Battle of Chin'toka was the first offensive launched by the Federation Alliance into Cardassian territory during the Dominion War. The battle, fought in late 2374, was a tactical and psychological victory for the Allies, but failed to lead to a general invasion of Cardassian space. () The star system remained under almost constant siege by Dominion forces until it was retaken following the Dominion's alliance with the Breen in 2375. () Prelude Apart from the short and successful campaign to retake starbase Deep Space 9 during Operation Return about eight months previously, the Federation and Klingon Empire were fighting a defensive war. Key Federation planets such as Betazed and Benzar fell to the Jem'Hadar, while core worlds like , Alpha Centauri, and Earth were coming into range of the Dominion war machine. However, with the sudden entry of the Romulan Star Empire into the war (), the allies had enough combined firepower to launch a full offensive on Dominion-held territory. Starfleet Command, in conjunction with the Klingon and Romulan high commands, agreed that the war could be won only by taking the war into enemy territory. The Chin'toka system, located on the Cardassian border, was chosen because the Dominion had drastically weakened the complement of warships defending the system – only five squadrons of Jem'Hadar attack ships were left to defend Chin'toka, while the rest were sent to fight on the Romulan border. Admiral Ross, General Martok, and Senator Letant ordered an immediate buildup of warships at Deep Space 9 for an attack on Chin'toka. However, the Chin'toka System was not left as undefended as the allies believed. The Cardassians had developed a new type of Cardassian orbital weapon platform that compressed a huge amount of weaponry into an independently deployable hull. The platforms were protected by regenerative force fields, and armed with three heavy disruptor cannons and one thousand plasma torpedoes. Hundreds of the platforms were placed around the two inhabited planets in the Chin'toka system. The allies' intelligence detected the deployment of these weapons barely three days before they were scheduled to go online. However, because of the lack of other vulnerable targets, the decision was made to take the small window of opportunity and attempt to destroy the platforms before they became operational. The battle As the combined fleet entered the Chin'toka System, it seemed as if the allies' projections had been true – Chin'toka was practically undefended and the automated defenses were off-line. Quick victory appeared within reach, with the odds overwhelmingly in the allies' favor. The small contingent of Jem'Hadar attack ships defending the system had little care for the odds, though, and brazenly attacked the fleet's flank. In the space of just two minutes, the Jem'Hadar ships managed to cripple or destroy at least 15 Klingon warships – many by ramming the Klingons directly. Undaunted, the fleet advanced into the midst of the deactivated platforms and proceeded to demolish them without resistance. However, the Cardassians were able to get the weapon platforms on-line before the allied fleet had a chance to destroy too many of them. The orbital weapons platforms' effect proved devastating – protected by their powerful regenerative shields, the Cardassians could pour heavy fire upon the attacking fleet while suffering practically no losses themselves. Several starships were disabled or destroyed by the platforms' furious barrage. Rather than retreat, however, Captain Sisko chose to continue the fight, correctly believing that if the defense platforms could be defeated, then the system would fall to the allies. In the chaos of the battle, an unusual anomaly was detected by Elim Garak – none of the weapons platforms carried their own power source, but were instead powered by a single central generator. This generator was located on a small asteroidal moon in a low orbit around one of the two inhabited Chin'toka planets. If it could be destroyed, the platforms would be powerless. The allies attempted a frontal assault, but proved unable to penetrate the asteroid's defensive shields even with the sustained fire from multiple starships. Chief Miles O'Brien of the proposed tricking the automated platforms to fire on their own power source. Using the ship's deflector array, O'Brien imprinted a Federation warp signature on the generator, making it appear as if it were an enemy vessel. The orbiting platforms immediately locked onto this large new signal, pouring fire into the asteroid and quickly destroying it. Without more incoming power, the orbital platforms quickly fell silent and were once again easy targets for the allied fleet. Once the grid was shut down and thus posed no more threat, General Martok began transporting ground troops to the surface of both planets. () Starships present The following is a partial list of Federation Alliance starships present at the battle. Aftermath Although the hoped-for grand offensive into Dominion territory failed to develop after Chin'toka, the battle nevertheless had major consequences for the conduct of the remainder of the war. The Dominion faced their first major defeat since Operation Return, as well as the spectacular failure of the orbital weapons platforms, which had been a key plan for the Cardassians to upgrade their defensive capabilities. Although the system was lost to the Dominion in the Second Battle of Chin'toka approximately eight months later, Chin'toka had played an important role in the course of the war. The allies also had the opportunity to examine Dominion technology like Relay Station AR-558, which boosted the Allies' knowledge of enemy capabilities. However, although the Chin'toka system was nominally in Federation control, it was constantly under attack by Dominion forces. () External link bg:Първа битка за Чин'тока cs:První bitva u Chin'toky de:Erste Schlacht von Chin'toka ja:第一次チントカ星系の戦い nl:Eerste slag om Chin'toka Chin'toka, First Battle of
2110	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	USS Enterprise (CVN-65)	The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was an American aircraft carrier that was in service with the United States Navy. History The Enterprise was the successor to the previous carrier named Enterprise. This new Enterprise was one of the most powerful ships of its time and was the first aircraft carrier to be powered by nuclear fission reactors. In 1986, Enterprise was docked at the Alameda Naval Base in Alameda, California when it was breached by an apparent Soviet spy. The "spy" was Starfleet Commander Pavel Chekov, who had been collecting high energy photons from one of the ship's nuclear fission reactors to recrystallize dilithium for a captured Klingon Bird-of-Prey that had traveled back in time. () In 2364, a model of this carrier appeared in Admiral Gregory Quinn's guest quarters on the . () Personnel USS Enterprise (CVN-65) personnel Legacy Over a century later, the ready room of featured a drawing of the carrier as well as other early vessels named Enterprise. () The portrait of her World War II predecessor was on the famous 's recreation deck. () A sculpture of the carrier adorned the wall of the observation lounge on the during the first few years of that vessel's service. The sculpture, like the older pencil sketch, depicted the ship in her pre-1975 configuration. () Appendices Background information In Star Trek IV, the "part" of USS Enterprise was actually filled by the conventionally-powered (CV-61, Forrestal-class), because Enterprise was on deployment at the time of the movie's filming. () At the time of the filming, the reactor arrangement of all American nuclear aircraft carriers was tightly classified. Ranger also stood in for Enterprise in the 1986 aviation thriller Top Gun. Ranger differed from Enterprise in the shape of the ship's command "island" superstructure (which was longer, rectangular and possessed smokestacks for the ship's oil-fired boilers) and the placement of the side elevators, with two abaft of the island instead of two before it. Both differences were visible in Star Trek IV. In the real world, and being the sole member of the Enterprise-class aircraft carrier, Enterprise was nicknamed "the Starship," after her fictional namesake. She was in commission from to . In April 1983, the Enterprise, half a mile from shore after a 14-month, 46,000-mile cruise, ran aground in San Francisco Bay; George Takei was aboard the ship during this incident. In 1993 and 1994, the Star Trek Association of Towson, a fan club in Towson, Maryland, sponsored "The Big E Con," a convention held while the ship was at its home port of Norfolk, Virginia. The events featured tours of the ship and appearances by Star Trek notables. The fan club also donated Star Trek memorabilia for display in the ship's recreation room. Daniel Davis played her captain in . Her radio call sign in the film was "Starbase". During the run of , Paramount Pictures sent copies of the episodes to the sailors of the Enterprise when it was on patrol in the Mediterranean. (Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 245)) The Enerprise was retired in 2012 after 50 years of service. US announced at the time of the retiring that the aircraft carrier , scheduled for operation by 2025, would be the next American ship named Enterprise. (Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 245)) The emblem of the Enterprise is displayed, along with other symbols, in the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 350). Sailors of the Year Two times the "Sailors of the Year" of the Enterprise were given walk-on roles in episodes of . In three sailors of the year portrayed Enterprise NX-01 engineers in the first season episode for which they filmed their scenes on . Later they presented a dedication plaque to Rick Berman and Brannon Braga and thanked them for their support. three sailors of the year appeared as NX Project spectators in the second season episode . They also presented an American flag from the Enterprise CVN-65 to the show's stars Scott Bakula and Connor Trinneer and director LeVar Burton. Apocrypha In the novel Debtors' Planet, this Enterprise was a casualty of the Eugenics Wars, lost with all hands in the Sea of Japan in 1995 during the pivotal battle of the wars (the book was published in 1994, seven years before Greg Cox' novel trilogy retconned them as a collection of shadow conflicts rather than open warfare), from which Khan and his forces never recovered. Ralph Offenhouse's son Peter was one of the sailors killed in the sinking - ironically, in Cox' works, his father was an early financial backer of the Chrysalis Project, from which the Augments were created. External links USS Enterprise (CVN-65) – official site de:USS Enterprise (CVN-65) es:USS Enterprise (CVN-65) fr:USS Enterprise (CVN-65) ja:USSエンタープライズ(CVN-65) Earth vehicles Military
2123	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Program Sisko 197	Program Sisko 197 was a special computer command designed to sabotage and disable all major systems on Deep Space 9. In late 2373, shortly before the Dominion War began, Captain Benjamin Sisko prepared this program when it appeared likely that the station would be captured by Dominion forces. The program manifested its function as numerous visible large electrical discharges surging across equipment. Major Kira Nerys activated the program after Starfleet was forced to abandon the station following the Second Battle of Deep Space 9. The program rendered the station a lifeless hulk and made it almost useless to the Dominion until repairs were made. () cs:Program Sisko 197 Computer programming
2125	http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z	Macintosh	The Macintosh was a type of personal computer in use on Earth, a form of turn-of-the-millenium technology. While visiting Plexicorp in 1986, Montgomery Scott had the opportunity to use a Macintosh. Although initially baffled by the lack of a voice interface – he mistook the computer for a microphone – Scott proved himself quite proficient in operating its "quaint" keyboard interface. () Background information Apple Computer Inc. – the official name of Apple in 1986 – is one of the few manufacturers to be the beneficiary of product placement in a Trek production. Kirk Thatcher suggested that the computer be a Macintosh. The production team originally wanted to use an for the scene, but that company was only willing to sell and not lend a computer for the film. Earlier versions of the story stated that there was a long wait list for the new Amiga 2000 computer and the Commodore employee fielding the request simply stated they'd have to wait in line to get one just like anyone else. In 1991-94, Apple launched a project to port the Mac OS to run on PowerPC processors. A previous attempt to port to the 80486 processor was known as the . The production staff of the modern Star Trek series, including Denise Okuda, have frequently used Macintosh computers for both writing and artwork projects, including the and the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual. On the sets of , sixteen Power Mac G4 Cubes administrated by Michael Okuda were used to power the many computer display screens on the bridge, engineering, and sickbay sets, among others. External links – stats and info page about the Macintosh Plus, the model seen in The Voyage Home Star Trek at the Apple Wiki – history of Star Trek at Apple Computer – a guided tour of the Enterprise set, mentioning the behind-the-scenes computers and software setup de:Macintosh fr:Macintosh Computer technology

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