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Paul Winfield was an American actor best known to Star Trek fans for playing Captain Clark Terrell in and Captain Dathon in the fifth season episode .
Winfield filmed his scenes for "Darmok" between Tuesday and Friday on Paramount Stage 9, Paramount Stage 16, and on location at Bronson Canyon. For his two day location shooting, he was picked up at home at 2:45 am and 6:45 am and brought to the studio where he received his make up from Michael Westmore, Gerald Quist, and Ed French before he was brought to location.
Winfield appeared in roughly 125 films and television shows. Among the roles for which he is known are his -nominated portrayal of a Depression-era Louisiana sharecropper in the 1973 film Sounder and his -nominated performance as Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1978 mini-series King. He is also known for his supporting roles in such films as The Terminator and Mars Attacks! and for narrating the A&E series City Confidential.
Winfield is one of only four Star Trek alumni to have been nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Actor in a Leading Role category. The others were F. Murray Abraham, Frank Langella, and Benedict Cumberbatch; thus far, Abraham is the only one to win the award.
In his afterword in the ization of , Steven Barnes noted that Winfield's film characters tended not to survive and that they usually died to protect white characters. Barnes commented: "Poor Paul Winfield actually made a career out of dying in SF movies. Wrath of Khan (protecting William Shatner), Terminator (protecting Linda Hamilton), Serpent and the Rainhow (protecting Bill Pullman) and, most insultingly, in Damnation Alley. Oh, I remember watching that movie. In fact, I'll never forget it".
Winfield was reported as saying in relation to his role of Captain Terrell: "I died so the white man could live".
Star Trek appearances
Personal life
Winfield was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended four colleges: the University of Portland, Stanford University, Los Angeles City College, and the University of California at Los Angeles. He was openly gay in his private life, though he remained discreet about this fact in public.
Winfield was the cousin of one-time guest star William Marshall. The two appeared together in the 1977 thriller Twilight's Last Gleaming. Marshall passed away in .
Winfield, who battled obesity and diabetes, died of a heart attack in 2004 at the age of 62 in Los Angeles. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills with his partner of thirty years, architect Charles Gillan, Jr., who died of bone cancer in 2002.
Awards and nominations
Winfield received an Academy Award nomination in 1973 for his leading role in the film Sounder, at the time being only the third African-American to be nominated for the award. One of his final acting appearances was a made-for-television remake of this film in 2003. (Actress Janet MacLachlan, from , also had a role in the original Sounder.)
Winfield earned his first Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1978 mini-series King. Fellow Trek alumni Cliff DeYoung and Roy Jenson also had roles in this series, which earned eight other Emmy nominations, including Best Limited Series.
In 1979, Winfield received a second Emmy nomination for his role as Dr. Horace Huguley in the acclaimed mini-series Roots: The Next Generations. He was a part of an ensemble cast which also included DS9's Brock Peters and Bernie Casey, TOS' Logan Ramsey, Percy Rodriguez, and Jason Wingreen, TNG guest actor Albert Hall, Trek movie actor Bill Quinn, and frequent Trek guests Bruce French and John Rubinstein.
In 1995, Winfield won his first Emmy Award (his third nomination) for his 1994 guest appearance in an episode of Picket Fences, a series which starred actor Ray Walston, also known as Boothby from TNG and .
Other works
Early career
Winfield became known to television audiences for his role as Paul Cameron, 's love interest, in the NBC sitcom Julia. Winfield played Paul from 1968 through 1970; when he left in the latter year, he was replaced by TOS guest actor Fred Williamson as Steve Bruce. Winfield later worked with Williamson in the 1996 film Original Gangsta.
Prior to being cast in Julia, Winfield guest-starred in such programs as Perry Mason (in an episode with Anthony Caruso and Seamon Glass), The F.B.I. (starring Stephen Brooks), and Mission: Impossible (with Sid Haig). During his run on Julia, he was also seen in such shows as The High Chaparral (starring Henry Darrow) and Mannix (in an episode with Susan Oliver). In addition, he made appearances in two episodes of Ironside, one in 1968 with Gene Lyons and another in 1972.
Winfield made his film debut in the 1969 drama The Lost Man. His second film was 1970's R.P.M., in which he co-starred with Gary Lockwood, Graham Jarvis, and John McLiam. Winfield then appeared in the 1971 film Brother John, directed by James Goldstone.
In 1973, nearly ten years before The Wrath of Khan, Winfield appeared alongside his future co-star William Shatner in the TV movie The Horror at 37,000 Feet. Darleen Carr and France Nuyen also appeared in this production.
Following his Oscar nomination for Sounder, Winfield starred in the 1974 film Conrack, in which he co-starred with fellow TNG and Star Trek film guest performer Madge Sinclair (whom he would appear with again in the 1993 mini-series Queen: The Story of an American Family). He then portrayed Jim in the 1974 version of Huckleberry Finn and had a major supporting role in the 1975 film Hustle.
In 1977, he starred in Damnation Alley, which featured TOS guest actor Seamon Glass in a small role. The following year Winfield starred in the film A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, which featured guest star Bill Cobbs.
Winfield worked with Robert Hooks on several projects, beginning with the 1972 "blaxploitation" film Trouble Man (co-starring William Smithers). This was followed by the 1979 TV mini-series Backstairs at the White House, which featured Winfield's Wrath of Khan co-star Bibi Besch, as well other Trek alumni such as Noble Willingham and Bill Quinn. Winfield, Hooks, and Besch also co-starred with each other in the 1981 made-for-television movie The Sophisticated Gents, which featured Bernie Casey and Alfre Woodard. The following year Winfield and Hooks co-starred together in the TV movie Sister, Sister.
Later career
Winfield is well known for his role as Lieutenant Ed Traxler in the 1984 blockbuster science fiction/action film The Terminator, which also featured Earl Boen, Dick Miller, and Brian Thompson. Winfield followed this with roles in such films as The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988, with William Newman), Presumed Innocent (1990, with Tucker Smallwood), Cliffhanger (1993, alongside Bruce McGill), and Mars Attacks! (1996, with Michael Reilly Burke and Jeanne Mori). He also worked with Christopher Lloyd in the 1993 family film Dennis the Menace.
He appeared with Stephen Collins in two TV mini-series. The first was 1982's The Blue and the Gray, which also featured the likes of Robin Gammell, Gregg Henry, William Lucking, Charles Napier, Duncan Regehr, Dan Shor, and Noble Willingham. The second was 1993's Scarlett, the sequel to Gone with the Wind which starred Colm Meaney.
Winfield and fellow TNG guest actor Paul Eiding were regulars on the short-lived comedy series The Charmings, which aired on ABC during the 1987-1988 season. Winfield then appeared in the recurring role of Isaac Twine on the CBS comedy series Wiseguy, working with Jonathan Banks, Mick Fleetwood, Ken Jenkins, Pamela Segall, and Ron Taylor.
Winfield was a regular on the NBC comedy series 227 during the show's fifth and final season (1989-1990), where he played the role of Julian C. Barlow. Afterward, he had a recurring role as Derron Holloway on the NBC drama series L.A. Law, working with series regulars Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake, as well as fellow guest stars James Avery, Paul Eiding, John Hancock, Anne Haney, Jennifer Hetrick, Diana Muldaur, and John Vickery. David Carson and Win Phelps were among the directors Winfield worked with on the show.
In 1995, Winfield guest-starred in the "GROPOS" episode of the science fiction series Babylon 5. Art Chudabala and Marie Marshall also appeared in this episode, along with series regulars Robert Rusler, David L. Crowley, Andreas Katsulas and Bill Mumy. That same year, Winfield co-starred with Neal McDonough, Roy Brocksmith, and Michael McGrady in the TV movie White Dwarf.
Winfield played famed boxing promoter Don King in the 1995 biographical TV movie Tyson, co-starring Lilyan Chauvin and James B. Sikking. Winfield later supplied the voice of boxing manager Lucius Sweet, a parody of Don King, in two episodes of the long-running animated series The Simpsons. The title of Winfield's second episode as Sweet, "The Trouble with Trillions," is an obvious reference to the episode .
Winfield was one of many Star Trek alumni to lend their voice to the animated series Gargoyles. The others include LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, and Brent Spiner from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Avery Brooks from DS9, Colm Meaney from both TNG and DS9, Kate Mulgrew from , Nichelle Nichols from TOS, and notable guest actors David Warner and W. Morgan Sheppard.
He also voiced in two different animated Batman series: the 1990s version, in the episode "The Mechanic", which also featured the voices of Barry Gordon, John de Lancie, Loren Lester and Paul Williams; and Batman Beyond (1999-2001), on which he voiced the character of District Attorney Sam Young in several episodes. Other Star Trek actors he worked with on the latter series include Terri Garr, Larry Cedar, Clyde Kusatsu, and Michael McKean.
From 1995 through 2003, Winfield had a recurring role as senior supervising angel Sam on the CBS drama series Touched by an Angel. He appeared in thirteen episodes of the show, including ones featuring Ivar Brogger, Jim Metzler, Charles Rocket, David Ogden Stiers, Kenneth Tigar, Harley Venton, and Craig Wasson. Winfield's final acting appearance before his death was in the penultimate episode of Touched by an Angel, which aired on 26 April 2003.
Winfield was the narrator of the A&E true crime series City Confidential from the show's premiere in 1999 until his death in 2004. The last episode he narrated aired on 13 March 2004, less than a week after his death.
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Tattoo (episode)
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Chakotay investigates mysterious symbols and visions that are remarkably similar to one of his childhood experiences.
Summary
Teaser
Commander Chakotay and an away team are investigating some polyferranide deposits on an uninhabited moon when Tuvok discovers an unusual symbol in the remains of a long-dead campfire. This symbol sparks a flashback for Chakotay, returning him to a memory of a childhood camping trip in Central America with two local guides and his father, Kolopak. The young Chakotay spots the same symbol carved into a fallen tree trunk that the men have overlooked. His father calls the symbol a CHAH-mooz-ee and explains to him that the local tribe are descendants of the ancient Rubber Tree People, just as they themselves are, and left it as a blessing to the land after cutting down the tree for firewood. Unlike their own tribe, the local tribe never left the jungles, living as the Rubber Tree People did and are the closest thing to the ancient tribe in the modern era. As they discuss their ancestral traditions, Chakotay displays unconcern and dislike for his father's insistence on following traditional beliefs. His father attempts to teach Chakotay about the Sky Spirits and their role in Indian history, but Chakotay remains skeptical. As the scene reverts to the present, Chakotay tells the others that the symbol is "a blessing to the land, for damaging it with the campfire." Tuvok is skeptical, and Chakotay plays down his knowledge of the rituals.
Act One
Back on , Ensign Wildman is in sickbay, complaining of a "shooting" pain in her lower back. The Doctor informs her that the baby is fine, it is just pressing against a nerve in her back. Kes wants to relieve Wildman of duty for a couple of days, but The Doctor refuses, telling her that she'd just have to "learn to live with" the discomforts surrounding pregnancy, and schedules her for a follow-up appointment. After she leaves, Kes lectures The Doctor about showing compassion for his patients, and he replies by stating that Voyager is crewed by adults, and that he would not "coddle them." As Kes leaves, The Doctor refutes her arguments (to himself) by proclaiming that he doesn't have a life, only a program.
In the meantime, Chakotay and Captain Janeway are discussing Chakotay's flashback on the surface of the moon as they walk into his quarters. He reveals that he'd hated the expedition, expressing his dislike for being away from home and friends near the Cardassian border for an expedition in the jungle, seeking the closest descendants of the ancient Rubber Tree People. Chakotay shows the captain a picture of the pattern he found; set against the ceremonial stone from his medicine bundle, the designs are nearly identical. Chakotay can offer only one explanation, citing an ancient myth that claims that a group of "Sky Spirits" created the Rubber Tree People and led them to a "sacred land" where they could live eternal lives. Janeway points out that he doesn't seem to believe the myth, and Chakotay counters by bringing up the story of Adam and Eve, comparing that belief to his. The captain reveals that B'Elanna Torres has detected a warp trail leading away from the moon, and asks Chakotay if he thinks they should follow it. He claims to not want to put his interests ahead of the ship's, while Janeway counters by claiming that the race that left the trail might have the polyferranide the crew needs. Chakotay agrees with her logic.
The crew tracks the warp signature to an M-class planet, but sensors can't find any life signs on the surface. They do, however, discover some unusually elevated EM readings, which are too high to be natural. Chakotay believes it is some sort of cloaking device, and Janeway orders Ensign Kim to transmit a continuous identification message. Lieutenant Torres then calls to inform the captain that they've discovered large deposits of polyferranide some ten kilometers underground. The captain orders an away mission to survey the deposit, and Chakotay, Torres, Tuvok, and Neelix prepare to transport to the surface.
In the transporter room, however, problems arise. Torres and the transporter chief have tried seven sets of beam-down coordinates, but each time they lock on, a mysterious thunderstorm develops which blocks transport. Tuvok speculates that the transporter beam is causing electrostatic discharges in the atmosphere, and the team decides to proceed in a shuttle.
As the shuttle enters the planet's atmosphere, another mysterious storm develops, sparking for Chakotay another flashback of the camping trip. As they were waiting out a downpour in the rainforest, young Chakotay and his father had another disagreement about the nature and intentions of the Sky Spirits, and Chakotay still seems skeptical of their existence. Outside of the shuttle, Chakotay sees a man's face in the flashes of lightning.
Act Two
Arriving for duty in sickbay, Kes activates the Doctor who responds with his standard greeting. Kes is confused as she thought the Doctor had removed it from his programming, only for him to explain that he restored it after he was struggling to find new ways to introduce himself before sneezing. The Doctor has "infected" himself with the symptoms of the 29-hour Levodian flu following Kes's worry he is unable to feel compassion for the patients he treats. He explains that he intends for it to be a learning experience but not for himself; he intends to show the crew that a simple illness doesn't give one an excuse to complain or not go about their usual routine. Meanwhile on the planet, the away team searches a jungle. Chakotay spots a rare flower which appears identical to one he saw during the camping trip with his father. While Torres discovers a possible lead on the mineral, Chakotay is distracted by a . He remembers telling his father his plans to leave the tribe to join Starfleet. His father has mixed emotions: he recognizes his son's desire to explore the universe, but is worried that if young Chakotay leaves the tribe now he will forever be caught between worlds. Amid their conflict, they discover a primitive structure.
Back in the present, Neelix is attacked by the same hawk Chakotay saw, getting clawed in the face by its talons. While trying to fight the hawk off, Chakotay again sees a brief flash of a face. As Neelix beams out, Tuvok discovers an alien structure which amazingly resembles the primitive structure from Chakotay's past; while this structure obviously consists of materials from a high tech society, the way they used them is in nearly the exact same manner.
Act Three
The Doctor treats Neelix, pointing out that he is twenty hours into his sickness and still does not require compassion.
After examining the structure and surrounding area, the Away team reports that while there was a civilization nearby but it left quickly, just before their arrival on the surface. Chakotay believes that with no evidence to the contrary that the beings are hiding nearby and orders the team to lay down their weapons, as his father had on the journey in his past. On that trip, after laying down their weapons to show that they posed no threat, the primitive descendants of the Rubber Tree People from which Chakotay's tribe also descends appeared from the brush to make friendly contact.
A severe storm strikes up very quickly, causing the away team to try to get back to their shuttle. Chakotay sees an alien figure running through the brush and is separated when a tree is blown over, knocking him to the ground and knocking off his combadge. Thus when Tuvok calls for an emergency beam out, Chakotay is left behind.
Act Four
Paris scans the ground and finds no trace of the shuttle. Janeway prepares to return to the surface to find the commander but is interrupted by the EMH – his 29-hour flu has lasted thirty hours, causing him to panic. Kes admits she added two hours to the illness The Doctor programmed, to teach him a lesson.
Chakotay awakens and returns to the structure. He attempts once again to address the aliens, telling them they have nothing to fear from him. He remembers his earlier experience: the Rubber Tree People stripped their clothes off and drew the tattoo symbol on his father's forehead. Chakotay strips down and dons a robe he finds in the structure.
When it becomes clear that weather prevents any attempt to beam down to the surface, Tuvok postulates that someone is controlling the climate to prevent visitors. Left with no other choice, Janeway decides to prepare Voyager to land on the surface to search for the missing commander. However the landing goes wrong and Voyager gets caught in a cyclone when the weather's severity suddenly increases.
Act Five
Paris fights with the controls while Torres down in engineering squeezes out every bit of power she can for the engines, but it's not enough and Voyager is in danger of crashing on the surface.
Chakotay takes shelter from the intense weather in a cave where he once more tries to communicate with the aliens. This time he is apparently successful: several armed humanoid aliens appear, each with a tattoo similar to his own. They however only speak in the tribal language of the Rubber Tree People and Chakotay's tribe, which he admits he never learned; without his combadge he can't understand them. He does however recognize the lead alien saying the same words as the lead tribesman did to his father. Chakotay can only repeat "CHAH-mooz-ee"; the lead alien walks up to him and turns Chakotay's chin to examine his tattoo. The lead alien puts a device in his hands, which turns out to be a universal translator. The alien is shocked to learn that he is Human, and calls him a descendant of "The Inheritors"; they had been taught that Chakotay's more recent ancestors had been annihilated, and Earth ravaged by other Human races. Chakotay states that is no longer true and that while the tribes are no longer as numerous they do survive, but admits that he has no memory of Inheritors. As a descendant, Chakotay is supposed to have the memory as one of their gifts, but the alien accepts that perhaps it has been lost over time; the previous flashes of the man's face in Chakotay's mind is all he has received. Touching Chakotay's collarbone with his fingertips, he shows him the memory…
Forty-five thousand years previously, the alien's people visited Earth and ran across a small group of primitive nomadic hunters in a cold northern climate, who had no spoken language and no culture other than fire and stone tools. Deeply impressed by their respect for the land and other living creatures, the beings gifted the people with an inheritance, a genetic bonding, in the exact same way that the alien is touching Chakotay now, so the hunters might thrive and protect their world.
They monitored Chakotay's ancient ancestors with subsequent visits and found that their genetic gift brought about a spirit of curiosity and adventure, which impelled these Human descendants, whom the Spirits referred to as "the Inheritors," to migrate away from their cold climate to the North and South American continents over the course of nearly a thousand generations. Eventually, they numbered in the hundreds of thousands, but thousands of years later they were decimated by invaders from other lands with weapons and disease. Those who survived scattered, many seeking refuge in other societies. When the Sky Spirits eventually returned twelve generations ago, they found no signs of the Inheritors' existence. They are the Sky Spirits Chakotay's people have worshiped for countless generations.
The Sky Spirit goes on to explain that when they received Voyagers message of peace, they were worried – they were afraid that Voyagers Human crew, like the Human conquerors generations ago, were dishonest and intended to wipe them out. After Chakotay explains that they've tried to change their ways and they mean no harm, the weather suddenly dissipates, freeing Voyager.
Chakotay is given as much polyferranide as the Sky Spirits are willing to part with, and though they apologize that it is not the full amount Voyager needs, Chakotay is grateful for their generosity. Chakotay tells the lead Sky Spirit about how he joined the Maquis and took the tattoo after his father died defending the colony from the Cardassians, and spoke to him on vision quests, but he never answered… until now. The Sky Spirit comments that it sounds like that Kolopak honored the land like their tribe's ancestors did. Chakotay is located by an away team and says goodbye to the Sky Spirit people. As a hawk flies overhead, he hears his father's voice, "Do you hear him, Chakotay?" "Yes father," Chakotay says aloud, "I finally hear him."
Memorable quotes
"I don't have a life, I have a program."
- The Doctor
"Doc? I don't feel so good."
"Neither do I and you don't hear me complaining."
- Kim and The Doctor
"Choose the word that would best describe your pain; burning, throbbing, piercing, pinching, biting, stinging, shooting…"
- The Doctor, to Samantha Wildman
"The logical course isn't always the right course."
- Chakotay, to Tuvok
"Sorry, Sky Spirits. I will never make friends with bugs."
"Maybe that's why they keep biting you."
- Young Chakotay and Kolopak
"Holographic tissue paper for the holographic runny nose. Don't offer them to patients."
- The Doctor, on his symptoms for the Levodian flu he programmed into himself
"You're lucky the bird didn't tear your eye from its socket – we have no spare Talaxian eyeballs."
- The Doctor to Neelix
"She's far more devious than I ever suspected."
- The Doctor, to Harry Kim about Kes after he found out that she increased his simulated illness
"The Sky Spirits must have taken a wrong turn somewhere."
- Chakotay, while hiking with his father in South America
"Warning, approach vector is too steep. Discontinue landing sequence."
"Can somebody turn that off, please?!"
- The Computer and Tom Paris
"Can we go to low warp?"
"The ship might make it without inertial dampers but we'll all be stains on the back wall."
- Kim and Paris
"We need that extra power, B'Elanna."
"Ten minutes. I just need ten minutes."
- Janeway and B'Elanna
"Put those away!"
- Chakotay, to the Voyager away team armed with phasers on the Sky Spirit's planet
"A lot of things have changed since the last time you stopped by."
- Chakotay, to the Sky Spirit
Background information
Story and script
This episode had the working title "First World". The story was originally planned for inclusion during s first season. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages) Co-writer Larry Brody commented, "I came up with the idea and wrote the preliminary treatment for the episode, but because of time problems, I was never able to write the teleplay […] 'Tattoo' was sold after about half a dozen meetings with the Voyager staff." The evolution of the plot was initially problematic. Executive Producer Michael Piller offered, "It was […] a story that had been pitched and we bought but which didn't turn out right. Nobody could figure out how to make it work." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages) Consequently, the story was virtually abandoned. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages; Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 88)
The episode was resurrected by Michael Piller. As such, the outing was the first of four from Star Trek: Voyagers second season that he was involved in writing (apart from an uncredited rewrite on the earlier Season 2 installment ). (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 88) In its final form, the story developed from a series of meetings designed to get the series back on track during its second season. "This is the first story," declared Michael Piller, "that came out of the emergency development meetings that we had." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
Michael Piller was intensely interested in further developing the narrative. "I'd always been attracted to the idea of the pitch," he said, "which was that Indians have these myths about sky spirits, and a natural extension of that myth was that these could have been travelers from space." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages) Piller also reminisced, "I had always had a fondness for [it] […] The idea always appealed to me that it was part of the Native American lore that sky spirits came down and affected them or blessed them in some fashion." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 88) The opportunity to explore the character of Chakotay was another factor that appealed to Piller. He remarked, "For Chakotay to find evidence of these sky spirits seemed to be the beginning of a terrific personal journey." Piller elaborated, "Here's a man who has lost his faith, and he gets it back through this journey. That's a very interesting thing to write […] I looked at this as an opportunity to really delve into his character." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
The notion of including flashbacks to Chakotay's youth came naturally to the writer. "I had the idea of doing flashbacks at this development meeting and I said, 'Let me take a crack at it. I think I can do something about his relationship with his tribe and his father and cut back and forth and maybe go back to the original sky spirits." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
The episode's B-story, concerning The Doctor dealing with Levodian flu, was originally suggested by actor Robert Picardo. "That was the first story idea that I suggested that has actually been used by the writers," Picardo reflected. "I pitched that idea first to Jeri Taylor and then to Michael Piller. Not having any interest in writing myself, I was doing it just because I thought it might be a fun thing to act. In my version, Captain Janeway, in an effort to teach me a lesson, changed my program. But being a much smarter man than I, Michael Piller had the notion to make it my own challenge to myself, and that I altered my program to prove that illness would not in any way affect my job performance." Moments later, a laughing Picardo remembered, "I said to Michael Piller that, of course, the holographic doctor, once he has this [flu], he became an absolutely terrible patient. I suggested simply a common cold, but I think in the world of Star Trek the common cold has long been cured. Michael took that kernel of an idea, and created a great 'B' story, and was very appreciative of my suggestion." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, pp. 96-97)
Another addition that Robert Picardo made to the story was the content of the first scene of the episode's first act. "I […] suggested that the first scene be with Ensign Wildman," Picardo explained. "I thought it would be very funny for the audience if I was showing absolutely no sympathy for a very pregnant woman. I wanted to pick a situation where the audience was most likely to find my lack of sympathy objectionable." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 96)
The act of writing this episode was somewhat of a personal revolution for Michael Piller. He recalled, "This was a beginning for me of rediscovering what was so neat about writing Star Trek. Suddenly I was writing a story about a man who is, during the course of investigating a mystery, reconciling his conflicts with his father, learning to embrace his cultural heritage, learning about Indian lore and even anthropology. So many different elements were working together in the script, it was very, very satisfying." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
The writing of this episode was influenced by the fact that Michael Piller, having recently analyzed the pacing of other contemporary television programs, had come to firmly believe that Star Trek: Voyagers pacing should be considerably faster and tighter than it had been. He related, "Tattoo' was written in sort of a rage, because this was right in the middle of my battle about pace. I set out to prove that there was a way to tell stories without writing long scenes and I turned in a script that had 190 or 200 scenes. Look at all the levels you're dealing with–flashbacks, a mystery, a culture and an issue of history–there are so many things going on." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 83)
The final draft of this episode's script was submitted on .
Cast
This is the second in a triumvirate of Chakotay-centric, second season episodes that Chakotay actor Robert Beltran thought were all "really fine scripts" (the other episodes being and ). (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 99) Beltran felt that this episode's themes were vast but relatable. The actor explained, "That was like a huge epic story condensed into one hour. For me, it was a very personal episode because I related to it on a couple of different levels. For example, in the episode, Chakotay says, 'I don't understand the ancient language of my people,' and my Spanish is passable but I'm always revealing that I'm not yet able to participate fully in conversation with my own people. So a lot of elements of that story resonated very strongly with me." () Beltran thought more highly of this episode upon watching or re-watching it than he had when working on it. At about the end of the second season, he said, "I just saw 'Tattoo' again recently. I found it to be much better than I remembered. It's very rich and complex, and I just liked the many layers of the story […] It was a good strong episode." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 99) Near the end of production of the series in , Beltran commented that he felt this episode was "pretty inspiring, I think because it dealt with issues of ecology and acceptance of one's heritage."
The shot of a nude Chakotay used a body double, instead of Robert Beltran. (, p. 79)
Robert Picardo ultimately held this episode in high esteem. He commented, "I was quite proud of that episode […] and I thought the finished product was pretty funny." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, pp. 96 & 97)
Production and effects
This was the first of ten episodes to be directed by Alexander Singer.
Voyagers production personnel were initially anxious about creating such an ambitious episode as this. Michael Piller remembered, "The call from the production people was 'We can't do this.' I said 'Yes you can. Let's find a way." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 83)
Scenes concerning The Doctor's encounter with Levodian flu were filmed in a single day. Robert Picardo recalled of the episode, "[It] really only required one day's work of me […] That was a fun day's work. We shot the scenes out of sequence, so I kind of had to track the progression of my illness carefully. I had great fun doing that." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, pp. 96 & 97)
Alan Sims was responsible for hiring the trained hawk for this episode that swooped down and attacked Neelix. The fact that the bird was filmed on location became problematic during production, however, as the hawk did not do what was required of it. "Instead," recalled Alan Sims, "the hawk spotted a crow and went off after it in the opposite direction. It took hours to find him. The delay was a nightmare." (Star Trek 30 Years, p. 46)
Michael Piller found the location work involved in the making of this episode to be "quite disappointing". (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
On the other hand, of all the sets designed by production designer Richard James during the first two seasons of Star Trek: Voyager, Tuvok actor Tim Russ' favorite set was the jungle environment from this episode. "The combination high-tech, yet ancient structures, combined with the tropical forest was amazing," Russ enthused. "It was humid, it smelled like dirt. There's never any need to imagine that you are on an alien planet, because the realism is so breathtaking." ()
The scene in which the young Chakotay, Kolopak and their companions disarm utilized stock weapon props. (, p. 79)
The footage of Voyager descending towards the Sky Spirit's planet was evidently reused from .
This is the second Star Trek episode, after , to feature on-screen .
Reception
Michael Piller was extremely proud of this episode's teleplay. "It was an incredibly ambitious script and I was delighted with it," he enthused. "It is full of dark and brooding emotions." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 83) Additionally, Piller was grateful that the episode had been given the go-ahead. He said of the installment, "It represented a commitment by this staff to do challenging, provocative material. The show had a mystery, a personal meaning for Chakotay, and it explored the Human condition through that character. Those to me are the kinds of goals we should have as a writing staff." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 88)
However, Michael Piller ultimately felt that this episode did not achieve the full potential of its script. "The show lost something in translation to film," he said. "I would say it's one of the most disappointing episodes for me, because I know what was on the page." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 88) He also remarked, "Maybe it was too ambitious, because something was lost on the way to film." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 83) Explaining what he believed were some of the episode's weak points, Piller stated, "There was a certain intensity, a certain dark, brooding quality that we wanted to get out of Chakotay that I think we didn't get to […] and I felt that the show was named 'Tattoo', but you could barely see the tattoos on anybody." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
Larry Brody admired Michael Piller's work on the installment, saying, "To his credit, [he] made 'Tattoo' into an episode I really liked."
Executive Producer Rick Berman was also pleased with how this episode turned out, referring to the finished product as "a lovely show". ()
This episode achieved a Nielsen rating of 5.8 million homes, and an 8% share.
Star Trek Monthly gave this episode 3 out of 5 stars, defined as "Warp Speed". ()
Cinefantastique gave the installment 3 out of 4 stars. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 84)
The reference book (p. 81) scored the episode 5 out of 10.
Continuity and trivia
Michael Piller believed this episode dealt more substantially with a character arc than any of the previous episodes in Star Trek: Voyagers second season. "Up until that point," he said, "the shows really weren't about anything. Here was an episode that really went back to basics. It was 'Let's try to make this show not just about a man finding Indians in space, let's make it about Chakotay. Let's talk about character' […] In general I thought it was a show that led the way in terms of being about something." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
This installment, at least in Robert Beltran's opinion, gave more back story to the Chakotay character than any previous episode of the series but still left some questions about him unanswered. Beltran said of the episode, "We [now] know what happened with the tattoo and why he has the tattoo, which was a question that a lot of people had. I think that a lot of questions were answered, and I think we found some more layers opened up about him." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 99) Shortly after working on the episode, Beltran also explained, "We knew Chakotay had a medicine bundle and that he liked to have quiet moments of prayer, which I've always felt were fascinating things to see on a science-fiction show. What we couldn't go ahead with until recently was explaining some of his back story. What is his specific tribe? What does the tattoo mean? Those questions have been pretty much answered in 'Tattoo.' Now we know more about his people; we've narrowed things down, though we still don't know everything, like the exact name of Chakotay's tribe. That will come." () Chakotay's particular tribe is never named in the entire series of Voyager, however.
Although Chakotay's homeworld is left unnamed in this episode (as with the rest of the series), refers to the planet as Dorvan V. This planet, which appears in , was indeed originally intended to have been Chakotay's homeworld. ()
Ensign Wildman's pregnancy continues in this episode, after being introduced in .
Kes claims in this episode that The Doctor has never felt pain. In fact, he did feel pain during a holodeck malfunction in , though Kes would not necessarily have known this.
In a flashback scene, Chakotay mentions having asked a "Captain Sulu" to sponsor him at Starfleet Academy. It's unclear if this is a reference to Hikaru Sulu, who did indeed make the rank of captain, but would have been very advanced in age by this point.
This is the second time Voyager engages in its landing sequence, having first done so in . However the attempt is aborted and Voyager does not touch down on the planet in this episode.
This is the second time the crew of Voyager discover a direct connection to Earth in the Delta Quadrant, having previously encountered descendants of humans abducted from Earth (). It is also the third time they have discovered a connection between the Alpha Quadrant and Delta Quadrant more generally, having previously discovered a wormhole connecting the two quadrants ().
According to the Star Trek: Star Charts, on page 84, the Voyager visited the Sky Spirits' Homeworld on stardate 49070. This places this episode after in that book, which it incorrectly places as stardate 49040.
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.3,
As part of the VOY Season 2 DVD collection
Links and references
Guest Stars
Henry Darrow as Father
Richard Fancy as Alien
Douglas Spain as Young Chakotay
Nancy Hower as Samantha Wildman
Richard Chaves as Chief
Co-Stars
Joseph Palmas as Antonio
Majel Barrett as Computer Voice
Uncredited Co-Stars
Norman Gibbs as Voyager operations officer
Kevin Grover as ancient sky spirit
Louis Ortiz as Culhane
Kaiyoti Pesante as guide
David Reyes as guide
John Tampoya as Kashimuro Nozawa
Stand-ins
David Reyes as body double for Robert Beltran
References
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Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas was the archaeology and anthropology officer on the when it visited Pollux IV in 2267.
Biography
Palamas' expertise in archaeology, anthropology and ancient civilizations made her a useful part of the landing party – the crew was confronted by an alien of unknown name and purpose, but who seemed familiar with the Earth of 5,000 years ago. This alien soon identified himself as Apollo, and claimed to be the being ancient Greeks believed was a god.
Apollo was moved by Palamas' beauty, and quickly became infatuated with her. He transformed her standard uniform into a long peplos, which he felt was more appropriate attire for his future queen. On several occasions, he left the remainder of the landing party alone, taking the young lady elsewhere to entertain her. This created tension between the alien and Scotty, who was also interested in Palamas; on two occasions, this drove Scotty to attack Apollo, with unfortunate results for the ship's chief engineer. And she began to develop feelings for Apollo, in return.
Finally, out of options, Kirk confronted Palamas, and demanded that she reject Apollo. Kirk knew Apollo was desperately lonely, and knew also that Apollo thrived on attention and worship — especially Carolyn Palamas' attention. At first, she refused, claiming she loved the alien. Kirk forced her to confront an ugly truth: although Kirk was fine with Apollo being Carolyn's love interest the lives of everyone, on the planet and on the ship, depended on her remembering her duty. She became uncertain; struggling to balance her view of Apollo as a kind and paternal benefactor with Kirk's view of Apollo as slave-master. Ultimately, Kirk reminded her that she was Human, and renewed her connection — and duty — to the rest of Humanity, in the form of her shipmates and friends aboard the Enterprise. Additionally, the Captain implied that once Apollo achieved his ends (making her the mother of the thousands of gods he wanted), he would have no more need of her and kill her.
Heavy-hearted, Palamas left to meet with Apollo at his call, and on her captain's orders she rejected him, pretending that her entire association with him was part of her study of alien civilizations. Apollo was first confused, hurt, and then enraged. He expended a great deal of power to impress her, summoning a storm and crafting a gigantic image of himself in the sky. Kirk's implications for Carolyn's life and safety prove to be right, as Apollo uses the storm he summons to scar Carolyn's face and dishevel her hair.
About this time, Spock and the crew managed to pierce Apollo's hand in places, and they attacked his power source through these holes. Apollo, having expended much of his energy in his rage, was unable to prevent the destruction of his temple. Without it, he was powerless, and he "spread himself on the winds", joining his old companions in oblivion, an event that left Palamas in tears. ()
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Background information
Palamas was played by actress Leslie Parrish.
The original teleplay, and James Blish's adaptation, contained an additional event that did not make the filmed episode: at the end of the story, Carolyn Palamas is revealed to be pregnant with Apollo's child. According to the , an early draft script contained this revelation, as well. In the novelization the child is a daughter, Carolyn would name Athena. Also, in the original script the character is named Carolyn Bassett. The scene which divulged Palamas' pregnancy was actually filmed, but omitted from the episode as aired. Recently rediscovered, the outtake is featured in the "Inside the Roddenberry Vault (Part 3)" special feature on the 2016 Star Trek: The Original Series - The Roddenberry Vault Blu-ray Disc-set.
Apocrypha
Peter David's New Frontier character Mark McHenry was a descendant of this child (Athena Palamas), and possessed at least some of these beings' powers. According to the novel Gods Above, Carolyn Palamas died on Camus II in 2269 from celebium poisoning. Palamas also has a major role in the Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens novel .
The John Byrne Star Trek: New Visions comic "Of Woman Born" also gives Carolyn a baby by Apollo, but in this version, the child is male. Palamas also appears in the comic An Unexpected Yesterday, serving aboard Science Station 187, which orbits the Guardian of Forever's planet.
Palamas and Scotty's first meeting is detailed in Dave Galanter's novel Crisis of Consciousness. After Scott breaks his wrist and is unable to work, she keeps him company while Kirk fetches a medkit. Trained as a field medic, she is able to heal him enough to allow him to return to his duties, much to Scott's relief. The novel also shows her in her role as archaeology and anthropology officer when dealing with the .
According to the video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, her parents are named Leslie and Robert Palamas. She also has a brother named Mark and a sister named Ellen.
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The Children of Tama, also known as Tamarians, were a species from the planet Sigma Tama IV. They were first encountered by the Federation in the mid-23rd century.
Physiology
Tamarians general appearance resembled many humanoid species common to the Milky Way Galaxy, apart from some minor differences.
The Tamarian head possessed two long slitted nostrils and had no visible auricles, but instead had two small holes located on the sides of the head, a little higher than humanoid ear. A large ridge ran from the top of their nose to the back of the head and several more bony ridges or flaps of skin could be observed on the sides of the skull. Apart from typical sexual dimorphisms observed in many humanoid species, female Tamarians featured the same characteristics.
Tamarian hands varied in that their thumbs were elongated and had a sucker-like tip at the end.
Tamarian skin was colored light brown with several darker red markings, especially on the head. The species seemed to be completely hairless and their blood was white, which shined through in some small arteries of the head.
History and politics
Although the species was encountered a total of seven times in the hundred years after first contact, formal relations were unable to be established, due to the complexity and provincial nature of the Tamarian language – which was entirely composed of metaphors derived from their collective experience and mythology.
In 2368, a Tamarian ship sent a general hail towards Federation space, a standard mathematical progression interpreted as a request for communication. The was dispatched to El-Adrel IV to establish contact. While there, the Tamarian captain Dathon beamed himself and Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard to the planet's surface, in an attempt to establish a dialogue through the idea of " and Jalad at " – the idea of cooperation against an enemy leading to mutual understanding and friendship. To prevent any interference, the Tamarian ship established a particle scattering field in El-Adrel's ionosphere, preventing transporters on either ship from functioning, and fired attenuated energy weapons on an Enterprise shuttlecraft dispatched to retrieve Picard. Unfortunately, Dathon was killed by the creature inhabiting the planet, but not before Picard was able to gain an understanding of the Tamarian language, and communicate with the Tamarian ship, which was engaged in combat with the Enterprise as a result of the misunderstanding over Picard's "capture." Dathon's sacrifice and Picard's experiences were remembered as a new "word" in the Tamarian language: "Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel." ()
After this event, Picard was given an award from the Children of Tama. The award was inscribed with these words, "He who was my companion through adventure and hardship is gone forever." This award was stored in Picard's section of the quantum archive at the Starfleet Archive Museum. ()
By 2381, one Tamarian, Kayshon, had entered Starfleet and reached the rank of lieutenant junior grade. By this time, the Federation's universal translator was able to translate the Tamarian language, though imperfectly. ()
Culture
Apart from their unique language, Tamarians followed several rituals and some characteristic gestures were observed.
Before sleeping, Dathon performed a ritual on El-Adrel IV. He removed five ceremonial objects from the right side of his uniform. He then threw those objects to the ground gazing at the pattern the objects formed on the ground and repeated the ritual. After each new pattern, he touched his forehead.
After finishing the ritual, he took the five objects and placed them on the ground forming a circle around his sleeping spot. Again, he touched his forehead after placing each of them on the ground. The next morning, when Captain Picard explored his camp, he found two of the objects still on the ground, Dathon had reattached the other three to his uniform.
After hearing the news of their captain's death, the two Tamarian bridge officers took their dagger out of the sheath, touched the blade and then touched their forehead in mourning or remembrance of their captain. Captain Picard did the same with the knife that was given to him by Dathon after he had returned to the Enterprise and found a quiet moment in his ready room to remember Dathon.
The Tamarian written language consisted of thin horizontal and vertical lines with small letters written in the spaces between the lines. The lines met at right angles in the handwritten form of the language but at an angle of roughly seventy degrees on control interfaces. Tamarians used paper, colored bright green, to write down notes. Dathon took a small book, perhaps a captain's log, down to El-Adrel IV in a leather pouch. His other officers didn't carry such a book. ()
Tamarian spiritual beliefs included a form of ascension. Florkas were an essential part of their ascension process. ()
See also
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Military
The dominant colors used by the Tamarians as evidenced by their starships, uniforms, and interfaces were shades of green and red. The engines of their starship glowed red and their weapon's beam was green. Consoles on the bridge of their ships were colored mostly red and walls were green. Tamarian computer interfaces were transparent but the writing was blue and green.
Tamarian uniforms did not show much variety. All uniforms consisted of several layers of olive green fabric and dark green leather. Several small colorful applications and stripes were only visible when viewing the uniform from a close distance. The full uniform consisted of the trousers and tunic, long dark green leather boots, and a double shoulder-strap connected to a belt, both made from leather as well. A sheath for a dagger was fastened to the front of the two leather straps and a small pouch for a book, possibly the captain's log, was attached to the left side of the belt.
A decorative pattern could be seen on the sides of the sleeves. Several small ornaments made from thin metal pieces and small colorful stones were attached to the front right side of the uniform. Dathon carried five such pieces; his first officer wore three.
Every Tamarian carried a dagger. The weapon had a green handle with a smaller yellow inset and the silver blade had one smooth and one serrated edge. Kayshon wore a teal sash across his chest that held the sheath his dagger was kept in, as part of the cultural allowances for Starfleet uniforms. (; )
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Background information
According to the Star Trek: Star Charts, on page 35, the Children of Tama were from the M class planet Tamar. This planet was located in the Alpha Quadrant. In 2368, a cultural exchange with the UFP was established in this year. Tamarians were warp-capable circa 2050.
Apocrypha
In the novel , the progress the Federation made in relations with the Tamarians following the events of "Darmok" was considered one of the noteworthy accomplishments of Federation President Jaresh-Inyo and his administration.
The Voyager relaunch novels Full Circle and Protectors introduce the Tamarian doctor Sharak who is assigned as the chief medical officer of the following the death of its previous CMO Jarem Kaz and Voyagers return mission to the Delta Quadrant to further explore it with an expeditionary fleet in 2381.
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The USS Reliant (NCC-1864) was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In 2285, the Reliant was commanded by Captain Clark Terrell. While under his command, the ship's prefix code was 16309.
Service history
The Reliant was launched in 2264. ( commemorative plaque )
In 2267, the Reliant underwent a layover at Starbase 11. The ship's registry number was seen on a chart indicating the repair status of several vessels. ()
Project Genesis
In 2285, the Reliant served at the disposal of Drs. Carol and David Marcus during their research for Project Genesis. While Marcus and her team worked from the Regula I space station, Reliant searched for a lifeless planet to serve as a suitable test site to satisfy the stringent requirements necessary for stage three of the Genesis Experiment.
Ceti Alpha VI and Khan's revenge
On Stardate 8130, the Reliant approached the planet Ceti Alpha VI. During the scan of the planet, one of the Reliants dynoscanners detected a "minor energy flux" on the surface on what seemed to otherwise be a prime location for the experiment. Hurried by the growing impatience their unsuccessful mission bore upon them, Captain Terrell and his first officer Pavel Chekov transported to the surface to investigate the energy flux, hoping that it was something they could "transplant" in advance of testing.
The landing party, however, instead discovered a group of exiles, led by Khan Noonien Singh. Khan and his followers quickly captured the two Starfleet officers and informed them that the planet Reliant was orbiting was not Ceti Alpha VI but actually Ceti Alpha V. Khan then took control of Terrell and Chekov through the use of Ceti eels and successfully hijacked the Reliant, marooning her crew on the planet's surface. Having learned of the Genesis Device, Khan pursued acquiring the secrets of the device that the Reliant was contracted to work for and took the Reliant to the Regula I space station.
Unable to get what he desired from the station crew, Khan used the Reliant to intercept Admiral Kirk and the . ()
The encounter between the Reliant and the Enterprise was witnessed by the "Ephraim" as she pursued the Enterprise, on which she had laid her eggs, many years previous. ()
In an ambush, the Reliant caused severe damage to the engineering section of the Enterprise, but Khan was unable to revel in his victory because the Reliant itself fell victim to a counter-ambush from the Enterprise after its crew managed to partially disable its defenses by accessing them through the Reliants prefix code.
The attack caused moderate damage to the Reliant, including the loss of photon torpedo control and the ship's warp drive. Despite the damage the Reliant escaped, and returned to Regula where it hid behind the planetoid while making repairs and awaiting the next opportunity to engage Enterprise. Khan took up the pursuit shortly afterwards when hailed and taunted by Kirk into the Mutara Nebula.
The final engagement
See main article: Battle of the Mutara Nebula
After completing repairs, Khan discovered that the Enterprise was not as crippled as he was led to believe and gave chase when he discovered the Enterprise making a run for the nearby Mutara Nebula. Despite having the tactical advantage over the Enterprise, Khan ultimately lost the battle due to his lack of strategic experience operating a starship. The Enterprise was able to take advantage of this weakness by outmaneuvering the Reliant and critically disabling it with phaser bursts and photon torpedoes, destroying much of its upper weapons pylon and finally its port nacelle.
The Reliant was ultimately destroyed inside the nebula by Khan's detonation of the Genesis Device. The crew was rescued from Ceti Alpha V shortly afterward by the Enterprise. ()
Legacy
In 2401, a commemorative plaque at Starfleet Academy depicted the Reliant alongside other historically significant ships. ()
USS Reliant personnel
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Background information
The Reliant was originally intended to be a starship; the script describes her as "an older, somewhat battered starship of the Enterprise class, with a slightly different configuration." The cumbersomeness of the studio model from (vehemently expressed by Special Visual Effects Supervisor Kenneth Ralston at the time) was part of the reason why the class of the Reliant was redesigned from a Constitution-class to the , the other reason being that the producers were afraid that audiences would not be able to tell the two ships apart during the battle sequences. "In the dogfight you had to instantly recognize which ship you were looking at, so they had to look different. At the same time, you had to make them look like they came from the same culture and had the same technology", Joe Jennings elaborated. ()
Her name meaning "dependent", the Reliant was designed by Joe Jennings and Mike Minor and was the first distinct Federation starship design other than the NCC-1701 to appear in a filmed, live-action Star Trek production.
The Reliant bridge was simply a redress of the bridge of the Enterprise.
One of the Miranda-class starships seen in the episode bore the registry number NCC-1864. The ship in question was one of the two ships described by David Stipes as being either the (NCC-31910) or (NCC-21382).
In , Hallmark issued a USS Reliant Christmas ornament.
Apocrypha
In the 2012 calendar, for the month of July, the Reliant appeared in an alternate timeline approaching a space station named . In the 2015 , for the month of August, Reliant appeared opposite the Enterprise-A, in a spread titled 'Joint Operations'. In the 2018 , for the month of May, Reliant appeared again, this time being depicted as undergoing repairs (ostensibly from the battle of the Mutara Nebula) with the Enterprise nearby.
According to the Lost Era The Sundered, the Reliant visited the Halkan homeworld in 2281 to respond to an attack by Orion pirates. While leading an away team on the surface, Pavel Chekov met a young Halkan named Lojur, who had been exiled by his village elders for using deadly force against the attackers, which violated the Halkans' strict pacifism. Chekov took the young exile with him back to the Reliant; Lojur later joined Starfleet and served on board the .
Both the s and the To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh indicate that in addition to Captain Terrell and Commander Chekov, Khan also used Ceti eels to take control of the ship's engineering crew. To Reign in Hell also states that Khan killed or maimed several members of Reliants crew in a fit of pent-up rage (described as "a vicious prelude to the massacre at Regula I"), with ten dead before they were rescued.
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Captain Clark Terrell was a Starfleet commanding officer who lived during the 23rd century.
In 2285, Captain Terrell commanded the starship , having been assigned to support the Genesis Project by searching for a suitable planet on which to test the Genesis Device. He had never met Admiral James T. Kirk, but knew of him, in part through his first officer, Commander Pavel Chekov.
During a surface survey of what they believed to be Ceti Alpha VI, Terrell and Chekov were captured by Khan Noonien Singh and his followers, who had been exiled there some 15 years previously. () Terrell and Chekov discovered that they were in fact on Ceti Alpha V, and that Ceti Alpha VI had actually exploded only six months after Khan was marooned.
In order to force Terrell to reveal their purpose on the surface, Khan infested him and Chekov with parasitic Ceti eels, which affected the cerebral cortex and allowed Khan to control them by suggestion. Using Terrell, Khan took control of the Reliant, stranded the Starfleet crew on the surface, and attacked spacelab Regula I, the location of the research for the Genesis Project. When Khan failed to find Genesis, he abandoned Terrell and Chekov on the station as a trap for Admiral Kirk.
The pair were rescued a short time later by a boarding party from the , and subsequently discovered where the Genesis materials had been hidden – underground on Regula I itself. With the Genesis materials uncovered, Terrell held everyone at phaser-point and contacted Khan with the coordinates, allowing Khan to steal the powerful Genesis torpedo.
Believing that Terrell was the one who 'killed everyone they left behind' and intended to take possession of Genesis, David Marcus rushed Terrell in a fit of anger. Terrell fired his phaser, with Saavik tackling David to the ground, knocking him clear of the blast, which instead hit Jedda, who was vaporized. Khan then ordered Terrell to kill Admiral Kirk. However, Terrell resisted this last deadly order. Under immense pain from the Ceti eel, Terrell turned his phaser on himself, choosing to commit suicide rather than murder another Starfleet officer. ()
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Captain Terrell was played by actor Paul Winfield.
According to the script, Terrell's first name was "Clark", which later appeared on a appearing in ) The script further described him as "about 45, soft spoken and in good shape, but somewhat laconic."
In the shooting script for Star Trek II, it was revealed that Terrell and Doctor McCoy were old friends. However, the dialogue that established this was cut from the final film.
Director Nicholas Meyer cast Paul Winfield as Terrell purely because, after being impressed by the performer's acting, he wanted to work with the actor. "There was no real reason for him to be the captain of the Reliant, other than my great desire to direct him in scenes!" said Meyer. "I knew he could do it, without any question." (; )
Apocrypha
Despite being omitted from the film, the concept of Terrell being old friends with Doctor McCoy was incorporated in the .
Terrell is a recurring character in the Star Trek: Vanguard novel series, in which he serves as first officer of the USS Sagittarius, later becoming its captain. His mirror universe counterpart appears in The Sorrows of Empire.
According to the video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, Terrell was married to a woman named "June". He had two sons, named "Richard" and "Clark Jr.", and a daughter named "Kim".
The alternate reality version of Terrell appears in the IDW comic series Star Trek: Boldly Go, as captain of the USS Concord, and his first name was "Craig" (changed to "Clark" in the trade paperback). Commander served as his first officer.
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Silaran Prin was a Cardassian servant, who cleaned uniforms for Gul Pirak during the Occupation of Bajor. He was disfigured when Pirak's house was bombed by members of the Shakaar resistance cell.
As Prin was not a member of the Cardassian military, he believed himself an innocent victim of the Bajoran Resistance's attack. He harbored a desire for revenge for a number of years, until in 2373 he began systematically murdering the members of the Shakaar cell responsible for his injury, using hunter probes he directed from his home on a planet near the Demilitarized Zone.
Quest for Revenge
His first victims were Latha Mabrin, whom he killed with a hunter probe hidden inside a candle holder during prayers at the Calash Monastery, and Mobara, whom Prin killed by planting a micro-explosive behind his ear as he slept. Prin then planted a Romulan remat detonator on Trentin Fala, which killed her when she was transported aboard a Starfleet runabout. After each murder he sent a message announcing it to Kira Nerys – using old recordings of her voice after heavily modifying them – whom he was saving for last because she had been the one to actually plant the bomb.
Another of Prin's hunter probes then traveled to Deep Space 9 by attaching itself to a Talavian freighter. It began scanning the station for Prin's next intended victims, Furel and Lupaza. When it detected them in Kira's quarters, it attached itself to the window and exploded, causing an explosive decompression.
Using a list of suspects gathered by Odo, Kira arrived at Prin's residence but was captured. Prin explained to her his actions, partially using a bizarre narrative, his purpose being to claim moral superiority over Kira by his careful choice of victims versus her "indiscriminate killing". Referring to Kira as a "creature", Prin spoke in a monologue, only addressing Kira directly after she accused him of being a murderer.
Due to Prin's convictions, he intended to remove the unborn Kirayoshi O'Brien from Kira's womb before he killed her. Prin agreed to sedate Kira for the procedure, not knowing that she was taking makara herbs for her pregnancy that would neutralize the sedative. Thus, Kira was able to surprise and shoot him after he released her from the restraints. ()
Prin's narrative to Kira
The creature born within the comforting anonymity of darkness, awakens in the harsh truth of daylight.
It squirms in the glare, afraid of the light that pins it to the chair like a needle through its heart.
Its heart beats faster. Panic starts to creep into its soul, does it understand?
Or is it so blinded by the light, that it can think only of returning to the velvet cloak of darkness.
No matter. Perhaps it is better that it doesn't realize how close death has come.
But, make no mistake. There is no escape, it has reached the end. And soon, it will die.It bears its tiny fangs, hoping for a chance to strike. To sink its teeth deep into the flesh of its tormentor.
But, that chance will never come. And somewhere beneath the gleam of hatred
in those eyes lurks the certain knowledge of its impending death. And it begins to know fear.The creature's diseased mind cannot understand its plight. Its imagination is too limited to perceive the truth.It cannot be saved, but there is still hope for the child. It can be taken from the womb and raised in the light.The creature's cries grow louder, but no one can hear them!All that remains is to bring the child into the light.And discard the diseased carcass of the mother, before it can infect its offspring.The creature slept. Dreaming its dark dreams and happy to be out of the light. The innocent life it heldwill awaken in brilliance. And never know darkness again. Appendices
Background information
Silaran Prin was played by Randy Oglesby.
According to the , Silaran Prin was pronounced as "SILL-ah-ra PRIN".
"The interior set for Silaran's house was dressed with consoles seen years earlier on space station Regula I in .''" ()
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Pirak was a Cardassian gul who commanded a weapons depot outside the Bajoran city of Hathon during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. He committed many acts of brutality, including the execution of fifteen Bajoran farmers for failing to display a Cardassian banner.
As a result, Pirak became the target of an assassination by the Shakaar resistance cell. Trentin Fala told the resistance fighters how to bypass the security systems, Latha Mabrin built the plasma charge to be placed outside Pirak's residence, and Kira Nerys planted the bomb while Furel and Lupaza stood guard. The resulting explosion vaporized the east wing and killed twelve Cardassians, including Pirak's entire family. Twenty-three others were crippled, including Silaran Prin, who years later sought revenge against all the Bajorans involved. ()
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Disruptor was the designation of several types of weapons in common use among many races in the galaxy including the Borg, Breen, Cardassians, Cravic, Dominion, Eminians, Federation, Ferengi, Gorn, Hirogen, Klingons, Lokirrim, Lysians, Pralor, Remans, Rigelians, Romulans, Son'a, and Vidiians.
In the experience of Delta Quadrant weapons dealer Kovin, most hand-held disruptors were thoron-based. ()
Lysian destroyer starships were armed with a disruptor weapon system that had a capacity of 2.1 megajoules. () This was an extremely weak ship-mounted weapon system, as even the Cardassian phase-disruptor rifles, also known as phase disruptors, had an output rating of 4.7 megajoules. () Cardassian rifles did not normally emit nadion pulses, but could be modified to do so. () The high-energy disruptor weaponry used by Cardassian warships in 2367 had an estimated coherent output of 700 MW and a 340 kHz rapid nadion effect. ( display graphics)
The people of Eminiar VII employed sonic disruptor weapons based on projecting high intensity sound vibrations. () The lethal disruptor bursts from Jem'Hadar plasma rifles left anti-coagulants in the systems of those attacked by such a weapon, usually causing their victims to suffer and die from the loss of blood. () Romulan disruptors left behind residual antiprotons when fired that remained for several hours, () whereas Klingon disruptors left behind distinctive residual hadrons and ions as their weapon signature. () Klingon disruptors were also known as phase disruptors. () The Son'a disruptors in turn fired plasma charges. ()
The Cardassian outpost on Korma used system-5 disruptors for its planetary defense weapons. Although never designed to operate aboard a moving spacecraft, one was modified to be used aboard the Cardassian military freighter Groumall in 2372. ()
The Varon-T disruptors were banned in the Federation due to their vicious nature, as the disruptor effect produced by the weapon literally tore the body apart from inside out, resulting in an excruciating death. ()
The Starfleet type 2 phasers also had a disruptor effect setting. The setting was one of the weapons' maximum settings, also known as the disruptor-b setting. () By the 29th century, Federation Starfleet had began to use subatomic disruptors on timeships and temporal disruptor bombs as explosives. ()
Types of disruptor weapons
Disruptor array
Disruptor bank
Disruptor bomb
Disruptor cannon
Disruptor pistol
Disruptor rifle
Disruptor snare
Neural disruptor
Photonic disruptor
Polaron disruptor
Sonic disruptor
Subatomic disruptor
System-5 disruptor
Temporal disruptor
Type 3 disruptor
Varon-T disruptor
See also
Disruptor beam
Background information
In dialogue that was scripted for , but not included in that episode's final version, Gorn disruptors fired on Cestus III are said to be a variation of very efficient sonic disruptors.
The similarities between Eminian sidearms and Klingon weapons of the same period can be explained as a result of the expedient modification and reuse of existing props to accommodate the limitations of television production budgets.
A Romulan disruptor was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay as well as a rare metal Kazon disruptor rifle.
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Slug-o-Cola was a brand of Ferengi beverage which contains 43% live algae in every bottle. It is an opaque mint green-colored drink, usually served without ice. The primary slogan of Slug-o-Cola had remained unchanged since 2074:
"Drink Slug-o-Cola! The slimiest cola in the galaxy!"
In 2374, the chairman of Slug-o-Cola was Ferengi Commerce Authority Commissioner Nilva. That year, Slug-o-Cola had been losing ground to its primary competitor, Eelwasser. Quark, while disguised as Zek's female financial advisor, "Lumba", suggested to Nilva that he might improve his sales by advertising to females, with a new slogan:
"Drink Slug-o-Cola, and keep your teeth that lovely shade of green." ()
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SD-103 (NAR-25820) was a Federation SD-103 type transport that was in service with Starfleet in the late 23rd century, attached to Starfleet Command.
The SD-103 ferried the command crew of the to their vessel moored in in 2293. ()
Background information
The registry number of the shuttle has never been legible in the movie, but was derived from a behind-the-scenes picture of the model that was later published in the reference book, Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 171.
The model was designed and built by Bill George and John Goodson at ILM and was later modified and reused as the in the sixth season episode in . (Michael Okuda, "Departmental Briefing Year Six - Production", TNG Season 6 DVD special feature)
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Paramount could mean refer to:
Paramount (element), an element on the Table of Elements in TNG: "Rascals"
Production
Paramount Global, formerly known as ViacomCBS, the company which currently holds the rights to the Star Trek franchise as a whole
Paramount+, formerly known as CBS All Access, the video streaming service streams exclusive new content
Paramount Pictures, the company which currently holds the rights to the Star Trek movie franchise
Paramount Home Entertainment, the video distribution arm of Paramount Pictures
Paramount Interactive, a division of Paramount dealing with video game production in the early 1990s
Paramount Digital Entertainment, the new division of Paramount dealing with video game production
CBS Studios Inc., formerly Paramount Television, the group which currently own the Star Trek franchise
Paramount Parks, theme park operation that runs Star Trek: The Experience
Filming locations:
Paramount Wood Mill
Paramount Theater
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In stellar cartography, a quadrant is a major region of space encompassing a portion of a galaxy.
Major quadrants
The Milky Way Galaxy was commonly divided into four equally sized, cubic quadrants, defined by one meridian passing through the galactic core and a second one perpendicular to the first, that also passes through the galactic core. These four quadrants are referred to as the Alpha Quadrant, Beta Quadrant, Gamma Quadrant and Delta Quadrant. The United Federation of Planets and its neighboring powers, including the Klingon and Romulan Empires, were located in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, whereas the Borg Collective was located in the Delta Quadrant, and the Dominion in the Gamma Quadrant. (; ; )
The division into four quadrants was used by United Earth and the Vulcans as early as the mid-22nd century. () In 2152, after less than a year into the mission of , it was remarked by Vulcan Ambassador Soval, that he considered the ship to be a danger to the quadrant. By that time, Enterprise had involved itself in several armed conflicts and escalated conflict between the Vulcans and the Andorians. () In 2153, a subspace message sent by the Borg was determined to have a destination deep inside the Delta Quadrant. ()
In 2267, when Lazarus and began changing places between each other, the universe ceased to exist for a brief moment. Captain Kirk noted in his log that the effects were felt throughout the entire quadrant of space. According to Commodore Barstow of Starfleet Command, the effect occurred in every quadrant of the Galaxy and far beyond. ()
Minor quadrants
Smaller areas of space in the Galaxy were also referred to as quadrants during the 23rd and 24th centuries. These included: Quadrant 9, Quadrant 448, Quadrant 904, the Morgana Quadrant, and the Drema Quadrant. (; )
In 2266, the Federation starship conducted a survey of a quadrant in which the ship was located. According to Spock, there were no disturbances in this region. ()
In 2267, following the loss of the Federation shuttlecraft in Murasaki 312, the Enterprise shuttlecraft Columbus conducted a search of quadrant 779X by 534M. After reporting negative results, the shuttle was ordered by Captain Kirk to proceed to the next quadrant. () Later that year, negotiations to build a treaty port on Vendikar for the quadrant where the planet was located were conducted by Federation Ambassador Robert Fox. () During the same year, unit XY-75847 reported a fleet of Klingon ships in their sector, which was located in the same quadrant as the planet Organia. () Also during the same year, the planet Argelius II was of strategic importance as a space port to the Federation. At the time, it was the only port in that quadrant. ()
By 2268, a particular quadrant of space, which included such notables as Deep Space Station K-7, Donatu V, and Sherman's Planet, had been under dispute between the Federation and Klingon Empire since initial contact. In that year, Nilz Baris served as the Federation Undersecretary in Charge of Agricultural Affairs in said quadrant. ()
Also in 2268, during a transport mission to Babel, the Enterprise encountered an unidentified vessel that was shadowing the Enterprises route. Following contact with Starfleet, the Enterprise received acknowledgment which confirmed that there were no other authorized Federation vessels in the quadrant. () During the same year, the Enterprise was exploring an outer quadrant of the Galaxy when it received a distress call from the planet Scalos. ()
In 2269, the Enterprise was ordered to respond to a botanical plague that was devastating a planet in the quadrant of the Galaxy where the ship was operating at the time. () In 2270, the was attacked by an Orion vessel in a particular quadrant. The Federation freighters dilithium shipment and the drug Strobolin were seized by the Orions. () Later that year, when the Enterprise encountered Kukulkan's ship, it was noted that Starfleet listed no other authorized vessels in that particular quadrant. ()
In 2284, when the Enterprise was ordered to Regula I by Starfleet Command, Admiral Kirk informed Starfleet Command that "all we had was a boatload of children," but the craft was nevertheless diverted because it was the only ship in the quadrant. While en route to Regula, the Enterprise encountered the , under the command of Khan Noonien Singh. Once the two ships were in visual range of each other, it was noted that the Reliant had entered the same section of the quadrant as the Enterprise was currently in. ()
In 2364, there was potential for Angel I having strategic importance to the Federation in its quadrant. () During that year, there were several events in other quadrants. For example, the planet Aldea was discovered in quadrant 1, mark 9-0, in the Epsilon Mynos system, by the . () In another event, the Enterprise-D received a communique from Starfleet reporting a battle in Quadrant 9, coordinates 070-mark-3, in the Klingon Neutral Zone. () In a third event, the Enterprise-D picked up an unusual disturbance in a nearby quadrant, more specifically in Sector 63. The disturbance was caused by the destruction of the . ()
As of 2365, the Morgana Quadrant was a section of the Galaxy that had not yet been visited by a manned Federation vessel. () Talos IV was located in the third quadrant of Vernal Galaxy. ()
Background information
Quadrants and sectors have been used inconsistently in various Star Trek episodes and films. The term "quadrant" was first mentioned in . In the script of , internal sections of a starship were referred to in dialogue as "quadrants".
During The Original Series, the term "quadrant" was used rather freely, as was the term "sector". In some cases, a quadrant was an area outside the ship in visual range, such as in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and "When The Bough Breaks", or an area that could still be quickly explored with sublight shuttlecraft, such as those mentioned in "The Galileo Seven". In other cases, quadrants were composed of multiple sectors, such as the ones mentioned in "Errand of Mercy" and "Conspiracy". In "Heart of Glory", "Quadrant 9, coordinates 070-mark-3" was also shortened as "Quadrant 907-mark-3".
Additionally, Bjo Trimble explained, in the Star Trek Concordance, that a quadrant was "an area of space (a misnomer, as it should be called an octant)."
In the third season edition of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Writers' Technical Manual (p. 16), the authors wrote that a sector "was composed of four quadrants."
According to Larry Nemecek, it was not until the episode that Mike Okuda and Rick Sternbach established the system of Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Gamma quadrants dividing the galaxy. A graphic depicting the galaxy, marking Federation, Klingon, Romulan, and Borg space was later included in the Fourth Season Star Trek: The Next Generation Writers' Technical Manual (p. 20.) In productions moving forward the four quadrant system was used, including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and .
The explained the reason for splitting the Federation between Alpha and Beta Quadrants was to rationalize Kirk's line in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan that the Enterprise was the only starship in the quadrant.
Furthermore, according to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, Earth marks the border between the Alpha Quadrant and the Beta Quadrant. The display graphic on a PADD in would seem to confirm this. Dialogue in and , however, firmly establish that Earth is located on the Alpha Quadrant side of the border.
It is unclear how the names for each of the four major quadrants were assigned, as they do not seem to follow any discernible pattern, instead of in clockwise or counterclockwise order. Viewing the galaxy from a top-down map with the "Alpha" quadrant in the lower left, and going around clockwise, the order is Alpha, Gamma, Delta, Beta.
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The Milky Way Galaxy was one of two trillion galaxies believed to exist. The number of stars it contained was variously estimated to be over three billion to over four hundred billion stars. It generated its own magnetic field, which experienced dips and peaks. The galaxy was 100,000 light years wide. (; ; ; )
Characteristics
The Milky Way Galaxy was theorized to have been created following a great explosion, and it was further theorized that its center might still be creating new matter. This theory was proved correct with the finding of the creation point in 2269. The core was surrounded by the Great Barrier, containing a planet thought to be Sha Ka Ree by Sybok. (; )
The rim of the Milky Way's disc was surrounded by a massive energy field of negative energy called the galactic barrier, which makes travel into and out of the galaxy difficult. () By 2369, the extragalactic space was being charted by starships. ()
In the science of stellar cartography, the Milky Way was divided into four major areas called quadrants: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta (the first four letters of the Greek alphabet), each of which composed one-quarter of the galaxy. Each quadrant was divided into thousands of sectors. The Galactic Core was the intersection of all four quadrants. (; ; )
In the mid-22nd century, scientists estimated that one out of every 43,000 planets in the galaxy supported intelligent lifeforms. () Thus, in the galaxy there were millions of planets that could support intelligent life. ()
According to Dr. Leonard McCoy, there was a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets in the galaxy. ()
History
In the 12th century, the Sphere-Builders built a network of spheres in the Milky Way, which created trans-dimensional disturbances as a prelude to invading the Milky Way. (, )
By 2267, there were Humans on a thousand planets in the galaxy. () Between 2064 and 2364, Humans had charted 11% of the galaxy. () Within a year, the Federation had charted an additional 8% of the galaxy. ()
By 2268, research expeditions of the Federation had catalogued hundreds of uninhabited planets suitable for colonization. ()
An expedition sent by the Kelvan Empire, from the radiation-imperiled Andromeda Galaxy, scouted the Milky Way for possible invasion in 2268. ()
In a potential alternate timeline, by the 26th century the Sphere-Builders had transformed 50,000 light-years of space in the Milky Way, wiping out thousands of planets, before finally being defeated and expelled from the galaxy by the Federation at the Battle of Procyon V. ()
In a possible 3186 experienced by Gabrielle Burnham, she found every world in the galaxy rendered lifeless by Control. She noted that this represented the loss of tens of trillions of lives. ()
Depictions
A map of the Milky Way Galaxy was on display in the security station aboard the in 2365. This map depicted the lines of longitude. ()
A map of the Milky Way Galaxy was on display in astrometrics aboard the from 2377 through 2378. (, et al.)
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The Trivas system was a star system located in Cardassian space until 2372, but abandoned by the Cardassians in that year. It was no more than three light years from the Bajoran system. The system was the location of the station Empok Nor.
The system did not feature prominently in the Dominion's plans for the Cardassian Union. ()
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The Battle of Procyon V, fought in what was potentially the 26th century, was the final confrontation between the United Federation of Planets and the Sphere-Builders. At least some of the battle took place amid a trans-dimensional disturbance that extended 50,000 light years in all directions. The battle was a decisive victory for the Federation, resulting in its forces successfully driving the Builders back into their trans-dimensional realm. If the Sphere-Builders had won, they would have spread throughout the galaxy and annihilated everything along the way. When the Federation won the battle, Humans protected the Xindi from the Sphere-Builders.
The outcome of the battle was witnessed by the Sphere-Builders, as they had technology that enabled them to study alternate timelines. They contacted the Xindi in the past and fooled them into believing Humanity was a threat that needed to be wiped out, which the Sphere-Builders actually did in an attempt to prevent the Federation from ever being founded.
In 2154, as Captain Jonathan Archer was preparing to undertake a suicide mission to destroy the Xindi weapon in the Delphic Expanse, Temporal Agent transported Archer through time to witness the historic battle. They viewed the conflict from the observation deck of the , which was participating in the battle from inside the trans-dimensional disturbance. It was Daniels' hope that Archer could be convinced to abandon his suicide mission and instead endeavor to make peace with the Xindi, informing Archer that, without him, the Federation would never come into existence and the Sphere-Builders would remain unopposed. Archer was unconvinced, however, and demanded that Daniels return him to his own time. ()
Negation
This timeline may have been negated when Enterprise destroyed the network of Delphic Expanse spheres in 2154. ()
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This lists all Federation outposts.
Numbered outposts
Deep Space Outposts
Deep Space Outpost 36
Deep Space Outpost 72
Delta Outpost
Delta Outpost 6
Delta Outpost 7
Delta Outpost 8
Delta Outpost 9
Delta Outpost 10
Delta Outpost 11
Earth Outpost Stations
Outpost 1
Outpost 2
Outpost 3
Outpost 4
Outpost 5
Outpost 6
Outpost 7
Outpost 8
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
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Caleb IV
Cestus III
Drexler outpost
Epsilon IX station
Gamma 7 outpost
Norkan outposts
Outpost 23
Outpost Delta-05
Science Station 0812
Seran T-1
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The USS Yorktown was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
History
In 2268, the Yorktown was scheduled to rendezvous with and transfer vaccines for the Theta VII colony to the . ()
In 2286, the Yorktown was under the command of Captain Joel Randolph. While deployed near the Sol system, the Yorktown was one of the many vessels disabled by the Whale Probe near Earth.
In Randolph's distress call to Starfleet Command, he noted that the ship had lost all power and that all non-essential crew were given hiber-sedatives to slow down consumption of life support reserves. Meanwhile, the chief engineer attempted to deploy a makeshift solar sail so as to focus and absorb radiation from a nearby sun they were orbiting, with the hopes of generating power to keep the crew alive. ()
In 2293, Tuvok's father was serving in an unknown capacity aboard the Yorktown. ()
Yorktown personnel
USS Yorktown personnel
Appendices
Background information
The "United Space Ship Yorktown" (identified as SS Yorktown) was the name of the central starship in Gene Roddenberry's first Star Trek proposal to NBC in 1964. The ship was named for the (CV-5), a World War II American aircraft carrier, which in turn was named after the last major battle of the American Revolution, won in 1781 by a combined Franco-American army commanded by Gen. George Washington. () Coincidentally, the historical World War II Yorktown was a class sister of the historical , after which Roddenberry ultimately named his starship. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 164)
According to the , "Roddenberry reportedly suggested the second , launched at the end of Star Trek IV, had previously been named USS Yorktown since it seemed unlikely that Starfleet could have built a new Enterprise so quickly. If this was the case, the Yorktown may have made it safely back to Earth and been repaired and renamed, or perhaps there was a newer, replacement Yorktown already under construction at the time of the probe crisis." The latter scenario could be supported by dialogue from Star Trek V where the Enterprise is described as a "new ship" by Scotty, whereas the former scenario serves as a convenient rationale for the difficulties Scotty had of getting the apparently recently refitted ship (therefore also fitting his "new ship" remark, akin to a similar remark Will Decker had already made on the refit-Enterprise in ) back in operational order after the debilitating effects the Whale Probe had inflicted on it.
The season four internal studio document, Star Trek: The Next Generation Writers' Technical Manual (2nd ed. p. 6), co-written by Star Trek Encyclopedia Co-Author Michael Okuda, emphatically stated the renaming scenario as being the case, reiterated in its one year later released Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual spinoff publication and reaffirmed in the even later officially licensed Star Trek Fact Files and the 2010 reference book USS Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual. This was further validated when, in later Star Trek Encyclopedias, Okuda described the 2293 Yorktown – the one Tuvok's father served on – as the second ship to bear the name. The Starfleet practice of renaming a vessel for a very deserving other vessel was later canonically established in episodes and , when the was rechristened as the , when the original Defiant was destroyed in the Dominion War. The Star Trek Encyclopedia and all other subsequent official reference works confirm the Yorktown being a heavy cruiser. The producers of had the name included on their final fourteen ship list at the start of its second season, belonging to the Constitution-class, then still referred to as "" by them. (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 164-165)
Incidentally, renaming vessels that were either under construction or recently constructed for by then lost in action counterparts had a real world basis, as it became established practice in the United States Navy to do so for its aircraft carriers in World War II, these having become the most valuable assets in the war against Japan. Aside from honoring these lost ships, it also served to confuse Japanese intelligence at the time. However, it is otherwise very rare to rename a serving ship; it is considered "unlucky."
NCC-1717 was the registry number given to the Yorktown by Gregory Jein in his influential "The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship" article, published in the April 1973 issue 27 of the T-Negative fanzine. Okuda took his cue from Jein's article and further propagated the registry in his reference work writings, most notably the Star Trek Encyclopedias.
Its non-canon status notwithstanding, , the official franchise, and the above mentioned production staffers have all alike firmly embraced the 23rd century ship as being the "[U]SS Yorktown (NCC-1717), Constitution-class", as was amply demonstrated when the British, officially licensed, partwork publication Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection from Eaglemoss Collections, released a convention-exclusive model of the ship as such in 2016. Incidentally, in the wake of the franchise's 2002 re-evalution of the older reference books written from an in-universe perspective, only The Next Generation Technical Manual, and the Encyclopedia were retained as "official" – as in compliance with established (onscreen) canon. () All subsequent licensed in-universe reference works, such as the above-mentioned ones, needed henceforth to be in concordance with the information contained within these three works, which played a major part in the growing acceptance – even by the franchise itself, as stated – that it was indeed the USS Yorktown NCC-1717 that became the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A, even though a formal onscreen canon confirmation has as of 2019 yet to materialize.
Apocrypha
NCC-1704 was the registry number assigned to the Yorktown by Franz Joseph in the unofficial reference work Star Fleet Technical Manual. Joseph's Manual, once considered "official" in the above mentioned sense, did not make the cut in 2002.
The book series Star Trek: Romulans - Schism featured the Constitution-class Yorktown, endowed with Jein's registry number NCC-1717.
The FASA sourcebook Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual listed a (NCC-2033) of this era which belonged to the . Like Joseph's works, the FASA print materials were once considered "official" and occasionally used as production use sources, which would mean that FASA's Yorktown could have been considered the replacement for the Enterprise rechristened Yorktown – and thus a candidate as the ship Tuvok's father served on. However, and again like Joseph's work, the FASA print materials did not make the cut in 2002 either.
In the , the Yorktown was revealed to have become a museum exhibit on a starbase, but its bridge has been replaced with the original bridge of the first . In the story in question, Captain Montgomery Scott stole the Yorktown to rescue Spock, recently captured by the Romulans, and fitted it with an ancient Romulan cloaking device (the one acquired in ). The mission proved successful, but aid was still required from the for Spock, Scotty and the Unification movement to escape.
In the first issue of the Marvel Comics series Star Trek: Early Voyages, "Flesh of My Flesh," it was stated that Christopher Pike captained the Yorktown before assuming command of the Enterprise, with Number One serving as his first officer there as well.
In Star Trek Online, the Yorktown serves as Admiral Isaac Garrett's flagship during the Battle of Caleb IV and is one of the only Starfleet ships to survive the battle after being ambushed by Kor's battle group. The vessel's alternate reality counterpart, also , makes a brief appearance in the mission "Terminal Expanse", attempting to disable a Delphic Expanse sphere in the Beta Quadrant.
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USS Zapata
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The USS Zapata (NCC-33184) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2366, the Zapata was scheduled to rendezvous with the at Xanthras III. () The ship later fought in the Dominion War during the 2370s. ()
The following personnel were reported as casualties:
Matata L. Kimya (KIA)
Alan M. Kobayashi (KIA)
Beverly C. Kurts (KIA)
Jay T. Laprade (MIA)
Paul F. Lawrence (KIA)
Kathy S. Leprich (KIA)
Lester P. LeVesconte (MIA)
Faith LeVesconte (MIA)
Rose E. Limli (KIA)
Mindy C. Long (KIA)
Tom P. Mahoney (KIA)
Marian A. McAllum (KIA)
Kathy McCammon (KIA)
Jon S. Monson (KIA)
David P. Nemzek (MIA)
Donna W. Nemzek (KIA)
Dorit J. Oberman (WIA)
Lori B. Oberscheven (KIA)
Larry A. Ohlson (KIA)
Nancy B. Ohlson (KIA)
Leslie Wong (KIA)
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USS Yeager (NCC-65674)
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The USS Yeager (NCC-65674) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
The Yeager served during the Dominion War, starting in 2373, where it was often stationed near Deep Space 9. (, etc.)
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This ship was seen in background scenes in several episodes. For detailed information on this design and model, see Yeager-type model.
The origin of the name was a result of reusing the existing decals created for the , which were rearranged (and given an extra "E") to get USS Yeager. Likewise, the Voyagers registry, NCC-74656, was transposed into NCC-65674. The same procedure had been previously performed on the model of the , which was made from a model kit, and the , which was made from a model kit.
The Yeager was presumably named in honor of Chuck Yeager, the American test pilot who first broke the sound barrier.
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USS Venture (NCC-71854)
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The USS Venture (NCC-71854) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. Its captain was a friend of Benjamin Sisko.
In 2372, the Venture led a task force under the command of Admiral Hastur to reinforce Deep Space 9 when it was threatened by a Klingon attack. Sisko offered to talk to the captain of the Venture to secure Worf a position aboard, although Worf preferred to stay on Deep Space 9. ()
The Venture visited DS9 again in 2373. ()
In 2374, the Venture participated in Operation Return, protecting the flank of the . The Venture was one of the first ships to arrive at Deep Space 9 after the Dominion retreat. ()
The Venture saw action again later that year when it fought as part of the Federation Alliance fleet that invaded the Chin'toka system. ()
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Background information
The Venture in "The Way of the Warrior" (and episodes which reused that footage) was the four-foot model built for the third season of . Although it was mostly unchanged from the Enterprise-D, the Venture retained the phaser arrays on the dorsal sides of its nacelles from when the model was modified into the future Enterprise from , but they were turned around for the Venture. This was the last use of a physical model to represent the Galaxy-class, and the computer generated versions do not have the extra phasers.
The Ventures appearance in "Tears of the Prophets" was confirmed by John Gross and Karen Sickles of Digital Muse in a post, by DS9 Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes, on the newsgroup alt.tv.star-trek.ds9.
The Venture was also the first Galaxy-class ship to have its full name emblazoned below the registry number on the ventral side of its saucer section, which was carried over to other Galaxy-class ships such as the from .
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In the strategy game, Star Trek: Bridge Commander, the USS Venture was one of the ships the player has to rescue from a Cardassian attack.
In Star Trek Online, the Venture has been destroyed or decommissioned by 2409 and replaced by a starship, ; this ship was subsequently lost attempting to halt a Borg incursion into fluidic space.
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USS Tian An Men
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The USS Tian An Men (NCC-21382) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In early 2368, the Tian An Men was docked at Starbase 234's spacedock for repairs. The ship joined Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fleet that blockaded the Klingon-Romulan border during the Klingon Civil War. It was prematurely deployed, despite the yard superintendent's belief the ship was not ready for launch. Experienced officers from the augmented the crew of this ship. 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 Enterprise-D.
Picard devised a plan that 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 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 Tian An Men 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 would attempt to reestablish the net before the Romulans got there. ()
In late 2373, the Tian An Men was assigned to patrol along the Federation's border with the Cardassian Union. It was reported missing, possibly due to action by the Jem'Hadar. ()
The ship later fought in the Dominion War at the First Battle of Chin'toka in late 2374. It was in this battle where it, the , and the assisted the in destroying the moon that supplied power to the Cardassian orbital weapon platforms protecting the Chin'toka system. ()
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The Tian An Men was incorrectly spelled "Tian Nan Men" in the okudagram in "Redemption II." It was also on this okudagram that the registry of this vessel was revealed. This mistake was corrected for the remastered episode.
The Tian An Mens appearance in "Tears of the Prophets" was confirmed by John Gross and Karen Sickles of Digital Muse in a post, by DS9 Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes, on the newsgroup alt.tv.star-trek.ds9.
One of the Miranda-class ships that appeared in this sequence quite clearly bore the registry of NCC-1864.
According to the , the Tian An Men was named in honor of those who lost their lives during the Tiananmen Square , a glimpse of which fleetingly was seen in the resetting time stream in the season four episode . It compares Starfleet's choice of name to the United States Navy naming the after the first battle in the American struggle for freedom.
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The Raging Queen (NCC-42284) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. It fought in the early part of the Dominion War.
In early 2374, the Raging Queen, along with other ships of the Second Fleet, retreated into Federation territory after suffering a major defeat against the Dominion. ()
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The name Raging Queen was an in-joke that came from a sketch; the lettering was never seen on screen and was only discovered when photos of the original shooting model surfaced.
The miniature was composed of a saucer section and engineering hull from the AMT/Ertl and warp nacelles from the AMT/Ertl . The design of the ship was similar to that of the .
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There have been two Federation starships known to bear the name USS Prometheus:
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The USS Magellan was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In the 2360s, the Magellan was under the command of Captain Conklin. ()
In 2369, the Magellan stopped at the Remmler Array for a baryon sweep. During the ship's visit, the crew performed a talent show. ()
In 2374, the Magellan was a part of the Starfleet attack force that fought in Operation Return. ()
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The USS Magellan was named for Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan mentioned in . ()
According to the , the Magellan was described as a star cruiser, with the registry number NCC-3069.
According to USS Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual, the Magellan was a sister ship of the , with a registry of NCC-71820. Dialogue and footage in "Sacrifice of Angels" also supports this, as the was previously established as a Galaxy-class ship:
Sisko: "Ensign, have Galaxy-wings 91 and 93 engage those destroyers. All other ships, head for that opening. Anyone who makes it through doesn't stop until they reach Deep Space 9."
The subsequent shot was of two Galaxy-class starships attacking a Cardassian destroyer at close range.
Elim Garak: "Congratulations, captain. You wanted them angry. They're angry."
Sisko: "The Magellan and the Venture are supposed to be protecting our starboard flank. They're in too tight..."
According to a PADD prop which was only seen from the back in , titled Bartisi Social Protocol, the Magellan was the ship that had initiated contact with the Evora, in 2372, upon it being determined that the Evora homeworld was on the brink of warp capability.
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USS Hornet
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USS Hornet (NCC-45231) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2368, the Hornet joined Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fleet that 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 would fall back with feigned engine troubles, taking the and the Hornet. 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 would attempt to reestablish the net before the Romulans got there. ()
In 2375, during the Dominion War, Hornet put in for repairs at Deep Space 9. However, in order to bring forward repairs of the Romulan warbirds Dividices and Genorex, Hornet, as well as the , had to stand by. ()
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The ship's registry appeared in the okudagram depicting the tachyon detection network in "Redemption II". According to the , the Hornet was a starship. In the first edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia (p. 320), it was mistakenly stated that the registry number of this ship was NCC-10523.
According to the Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 348), the ship was "named for an American that fought at the in World War II. Years later, another with that name was the recovery vessel for the Apollo 11 moon landing mission."
Purposely, the producers had Starfleet's Hornet serve alongside USS Akagi (named after a Japanese carrier that fought against the real life Hornet at Midway) in "Redemption II" – episode Writer Ronald D. Moore thought it fitting that, in a future where Humanity had become united by its own accord, ships whose namesakes had fought one another would now fight side-by-side. (Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 14))
Hornet was a starship name considered by producers D.C. Fontana and Robert Justman at the start of second season of for inclusion in the definitive fourteen ship list belonging to the , at the time still referred to as by them. It was mentioned in the first two, 8 and 9 August 1967 proposals, but ultimately did not make the cut. Hornets historical class-sisters, USS Yorktown and (both having fought alongside their sister at Midway), after whom Gene Roddenberry had named his original Star Trek starship in succession, had made the cut however. (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 164-165) "Redemption II" marked the occasion that Hornet too was finally inducted into canon.
Apocrypha
According to the Star Fleet Technical Manual, there was a Constitution-class USS Hornet in service in the 23rd century with the registry NCC-1714 (although the game supplement Federation Ship Recognition Manual gives its as registry NCC-1778). This would seem to be the same Hornet that was mentioned as a combatant in the Dreadnought!.
According to the DC "", she was captained by the sister of Edward Hagler.
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Moby Dick was a novel by American author Herman Melville. The story describes Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to hunt down the eponymous white sperm whale that had maimed him years earlier. In the end, Ahab's thirst for vengeance destroyed both him and his ship.
In 1986, a tour goer in one of Doctor Gillian Taylor's tours at the Cetacean Institute asked her if whales attacked people like in Moby Dick, leading Dr. Taylor to explain that they did not, because most whales didn't have teeth. ()
Khan Noonien Singh had access to a copy of Moby Dick published by Signet during his exile on Ceti Alpha V. During his search and battle with James T. Kirk, he quoted lines from the novel. While some were direct quotes (such as the line above), Khan changed others to reference space. For example, Khan stated "I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares maelstrom and round perdition's flames before I give him up!" ()
In 2024, Kore Soong possessed a copy of the novel and it was seen frequently on her table in her quarters at Dr. Adam Soong's residence. ()
Its cultural significance was such that the story was well-known to most people on Earth regardless of their literary knowledge. In 2063, Lily Sloane compared Jean-Luc Picard's hatred for the Borg to Ahab's desire to destroy the white whale when he insisted on fighting them rather than destroying the Enterprise and the Borg along with it, sending Picard into such a rage that he destroyed the display of Enterprises past in the ship's observation lounge – but when the captain, realizing she was absolutely right, paraphrased a verse from the forty-first chapter, ("And he piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.") Sloane, clearly unfamiliar with the words, admitted she had never actually read the book. ()
When Qatai invited The Doctor to join him on his quest to destroy the telepathic pitcher plant in 2375, The Doctor replied, "My Ishmael to your Ahab?" ()
Tom Paris was fond of Moby Dick when he was a child. ()
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According to the , Moby Dick was first published in 1851.
In addition to First Contact, the episodes and were also loosely based on the story of Moby Dick.
Moby Dick was at one point to have featured in , as evidenced by an early revision of the episode's final draft script (submitted when the installment was titled "Night Tremors"). In that script, Miles O'Brien referred to the story as a "tough book" and explained that he believed this because "I remember him spending pages and pages talking about the different kinds of harpoons," though Julian Bashir replied, "I actually like the level of detail." In the final version of the episode, Moby Dick was replaced with A Tale of Two Cities.
Patrick Stewart played Captain Ahab in a 1998 of the novel.
The comic book story "Behemoth, Part 1" and Part 2" are based on Moby Dick.
Nicholas Meyer decided that while Khan had been waiting for a chance to avenge himself upon Kirk, he would have been reading. "I started thinking, 'What books does a superman take with him into exile?' At one point, Khan says, 'On Earth I was a prince', and certainly he's a fallen angel, so I picked all the books that were Lucifer-related – fallen angel – whether it was 'Moby Dick' or 'Paradise Lost' or 'King Lear', and began to build from there. I thought, 'He's probably been obsessively reading these books again and again until every word out of his mouth has been written by Shakespeare or Milton'. Actually, Melville was the one who finally took over; he just becomes completely Ahab."
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Enterprise is damaged by spatial anomalies and boarded by interstellar pirates who rob the ship of critical resources.
Summary
Teaser
Porthos is lying down in Captain Jonathan Archer's ready room when suddenly he begins barking. As Archer wonders what's up, a book falls down from the shelf. Confused, Archer looks around. In engineering, and his staff are also confused. In sickbay, Doctor Phlox is worried as his animals are much more active than usual. In the mess hall, a strange sound is heard as everyone's plates, cutlery and cups are lifted onto the ceiling, where they stick, leaving everyone covered in their food. In a corridor, a distortion is followed as it bumps into two crewmen, knocking them flat on their backs. Back in the ready room, a distortion passes through Archer's desk, knocking the cup into the air, and leaving the contents hanging there as well, as if there were no gravity. T'Pol calls him to the bridge. There, she reports that there are anomalies all over the ship. The warp field is fluctuating, and purple sparks are seen flying from the warp reactor. Tucker is forced to shut down the reactor, as main power gives out.
Act One
Malcolm Reed restores emergency power, but primary systems are off-line, including weapons, says a concerned Reed. Tucker asks Archer for time to deduce what went wrong. Travis Mayweather detects a ship, but as the transceiver is off-line as well, Archer sets a course to intercept it. Unfortunately, their best speed is one-quarter impulse power. Arriving at the vessel, T'Pol discerns there are no bio-signs and no gravity. Archer prepares to take a team aboard in EV suits. The MACOs consist of N. Kemper, J. McKenzie and F. Hawkins and as they have only been in simulations of weightlessness, Archer briefs them on what to expect. He also tells them to set their weapons to stun.
The docks with the alien vessel. When inside, they find various tools floating around. Reed detects evidence of weapons fire. One of the MACOs opens a door to find a corpse hovering in midair. Arriving on the bridge, the team finds more bodies drifting silently. Archer asks Reed to download whatever information he can.
Back aboard Enterprise, Archer informs T'Pol that they found seventeen bodies. Most were killed when life support ran out, and the others by particle weapons. The only repair that has been made is to the transceiver. Archer tells Mayweather to continue on their previous course. T'Pol thinks that Enterprise should stay and try to make more repairs, but Archer comments that the aliens have only been dead for two days, and if so – staying there might get them attacked as well.
In engineering, Tucker is trying to restart the engines, but to no avail. Archer asks for a report, and Tucker tells him that the Cochrane Equation isn't constant, so they can't create a stable warp field. He says that he'd probably have to rewrite the book on warp theory – which would take a long time. Archer tells him to get weapons online.
Going back to his ready room, Archer finds his cup still hanging in midair. After ignoring it for a few seconds, he angrily grabs hold of it and slams it onto his desk.
An alien ship approaches Enterprise. They charge weapons, as Archer orders hull plating to be brought online, but it is still inoperable. He tries the diplomatic solution, hailing them, but gets no response.
Suddenly, four aliens beam into engineering. One of the engineering crew is shot, while another one runs for safety. They begin stealing antimatter injectors. In a cargo bay, a crewman is hit on the back by another alien, who, with his accomplice, places transporter tags onto equipment, before they are beamed away. In the armory, three aliens are pinned down by a security team led by Archer. One of them is shot, leaving the remaining two cornered behind an armed warhead. Archer tells a MACO to use a stun grenade, but the intruders beam out with their injured comrade before it explodes. Reed and Archer find more intruders in the cargo bays and engineering, and split up to find them. One of the aliens tries to download the computer. Tucker, having taken refuge on top of the warp reactor, picks up a hyperspanner and attacks one of them, knocking him out cold. He then activates the reactor, using the resulting sparks to pin the rest of the aliens into one corner, as Reed bursts in. The aliens are forced to beam out, leaving one of them behind. Archer arrives at the cargo bay to find it completely stripped to the bulkheads. The alien ship then leaves.
Act Two
Doctor Phlox is tending to many injured patients in sickbay, who have suffered extensive disruptor burns. Archer walks over to a biobed with a curtain around it. Inside lies the body of Crewman Fuller, who has become the first fatality of the Xindi mission. Archer then walks over to another biobed, where the injured alien is lying, under sedation. Archer orders his movement to the brig, where Phlox can treat him. Phlox also says he recognizes the alien's species – the Osaarians – a species not originally from the Expanse. Tucker tells Archer what has been taken – and it's not good. Most notably, all the antimatter storage pods are gone, and if they aren't retrieved within a month Enterprise will be stranded, and unable to move.
T'Pol meets with Archer to discuss the Osaarians. Unfortunately, the Vulcan High Command has had only had limited contact with them. They are a race of merchants, and have never been pirates. Archer asks T'Pol to keep looking for the Osaarians' ship, but T'Pol is worried that the Osaarians are too well prepared for Enterprise.
Archer goes to meet the Osaarian prisoner, Orgoth. He tells the Osaarian that he's going to help look for their ship, and when the supplies have been returned, he and they will be free to go. Orgoth thinks that Archer is "far too civilized to torture him", and knows that Enterprise is new to the Expanse. He shows Archer his distorted face caused by the anomalies, and tells him that when the Osaarians first entered the Expanse they were just trade ships. When hit by distortions they tried to leave the Expanse, but couldn't get beyond the thermobaric clouds. One of their ships was destroyed. But now that they know to how to protect their ship from the anomalies using trellium-D, the area of space where they operate has become a hunting ground, as ships that "run aground" there are easy targets. At first they didn't kill anyone, but that changed, and Orgoth reveals that they kill without remorse. Archer tells him to consider his offer – but if it ends up giving him remorse, it's something he can live with.
T'Pol tells Archer about the other alien ship they found. It appears they went looking for the Osaarians as well, but their life support ran out before they could start. T'Pol also informs Archer that hull plating is back on-line and phase cannons will be ready within an hour. Archer heads off to the armory to help Reed with the torpedoes.
Tucker is in the mess hall, attempting to rewrite the book on warp theory. There he is joined by Reed. They reminisce about Fuller, who knew a lot about the torpedo systems. Tucker doubts that Fuller won't be the last one to be killed on the mission. The Osaarian's ion trail comes to an abrupt halt, and Enterprise can't find the ship at all. T'Pol finds that the trail continues a few thousand kilometers away. They must be close by, so Archer orders weapons brought online. As Enterprise approaches the end of the first trail, the ship starts shaking. They then pass through a cloaking barrier and exit to see a huge sphere. It is nineteen kilometers in diameter and constructed of a single alloy. Archer orders them in closer.
Act Three
They cannot scan the interior, however. Moving the ship into a lower orbit, T'Pol detects a portal, but it is too small for the actual Enterprise to get into. Archer, Reed, Mayweather, and three MACOs take a shuttlepod into the sphere. When inside, Mayweather notes that there is enough energy to power a dozen cities. Reed notices a module with a breathable atmosphere, and sets a course. Breaking into it, the team looks around, finding most of their equipment. Mayweather finds a cargo manifest, but it's in Osaarian. Archer tells him to send it to Hoshi Sato. As she works on it, the crew still on board Enterprise put their equipment back in place. Tucker goes to sickbay with a wrist injury caused by a deuterium injector. He and Phlox discuss the Vulcan neuro-pressure treatments, but Tucker has only been to see T'Pol once for them. Phlox says he understands that it requires a certain level of intimacy, but Tucker wants to switch back to injections. Phlox gives him a third alternative: Aldebaran mud leeches. Tucker declines, saying that an hour with T'Pol "isn't so bad".
The salvage teams on the sphere have found around 80% of the antimatter that was stolen. Archer surmises that the rest "is running through the reactor of that Osaarian ship". Warp drive will be online in thirty minutes. Archer wants the teams to speed up, so they can go after the Osaarians. T'Pol says that the sphere is nearly 1,000 years old. It is run by seven enormous fusion reactors, of which only three are still operational. T'Pol guesses that the gravimetric energy that it produces may have something to do with the spatial anomalies. Sato calls them to the situation room, where she reveals that the Osaarians attacked a Xindi vessel.
Archer confronts Orgoth, who claims not to know about the Xindi vessel. However, he gives in, saying that it was a small vessel. When they resisted, their ship was destroyed. Archer enters the brig and, holding a phase-pistol to Orgoth's neck, escorts him to the airlock, startling some of the crewmembers on the way. Shoved him into the airlock, Orgoth refuses to respond, still thinking Archer is too civilized. But Archer starts to decompress the airlock, saying that if Orgoth doesn't talk, he has less than forty seconds to live. Reed arrives on the scene, but Archer says that he's got everything under control. Realizing that Archer wasn't bluffing, Orgoth says he'll give Archer the information he needs. As Archer opens the airlock, Orgoth stumbles out, panting heavily. Archer tells Reed to take Orgoth back to the brig.
Act Four
Archer briefs the senior staff on Orgoth's information. Not only did the Osaarians take the fuel and supplies of a Xindi ship, they downloaded its database, which Archer now wants. Unfortunately, to do so, they would need to be within a kilometer of the ship to be able to get it. Mayweather says that the ship is probably too far off, but Archer is confident that they'll return, and then the Enterprise will attack.
Mayweather detects a ship passing through the cloaking field – it's the Osaarians. Moving into position, Enterprise opens fire on their ship. After firing a few torpedoes, Archer contacts the Osaarians, telling them to stand down. Their response is to fire back. Enterprise pursues them into the cloaking barrier, as Sato tries to tap into their computer. Mayweather struggles to keep up with them. The Osaarians open fire, just as Sato finds the Xindi database. She starts the download. Losing the forward hull plating and impulse drive, Archer orders them out of the cloaking barrier and back to the sphere. As the Osaarians are not returning, and Sato only has a third of the Xindi database, Archer tells Reed to fire at the portal on the sphere, hoping to lure them back in. It works. Emerging from the cloaking field, the Osaarian ship runs at Enterprise, all weapons firing. Sato gets 90% of the database, as Enterprise loses hull plating. Archer tells Reed to target the Osaarians' engines. He scores a direct hit, disabling them.
Archer releases Orgoth to the Osaarians (to Orgoth's scorn for being "too civilized"), and the Enterprise leaves. Archer then goes to the command center and looks at the Xindi database, looking for answers to unsolved questions.
Memorable quotes
"Where's Isaac Newton when you need him?"
- Trip Tucker
"When you're forced to resort to desperate measures in order to survive you have to be clever. You need to know how to hide."
- Orgoth
"Creating a stable warp field isn't easy when the laws of physics won't cooperate."
- Tucker
"Every species we run into seems to be gunning for us. We might as well paint a giant bull's eye on the hull!"
"What do you suggest we do, turn around and go back to Earth?"
"All I'm saying is that this mission, whether it succeeds or not, is looking like a one-way ticket all the time."
- Tucker and Reed
"Place one on your chest and one on your abdomen an hour before going to bed. Their secretions act as a natural sedative. Please, be careful to sleep on your back. If you roll over, you might anger them."
"Maybe an hour a night with T'Pol isn't so bad."
- Phlox and Tucker, discussing Aldebaran mud leeches
"Your threats aren't very convincing. I told you, you're too civilized."
"We'll see about that."
- Orgoth and Archer
"Mercy is not a quality that will serve you well in the Expanse, captain."
- Orgoth, to Archer
Background information
Changing the series title
This was the last episode of the series to air before it was renamed . The scripts for the remaining two seasons continued to refer to the series by its original name – perhaps a thumbing of the nose by the producers at the UPN network, which had insisted on the addition of the words "Star Trek" to help boost ratings.
Story and script
In a first draft script of this episode, the Osaarians were initially to have been Orion pirates. Episode writer Mike Sussman had intended to show how the events in the Expanse could have led some Orions from the pre-Kirk era to turn to piracy. The name was changed during rewrites of the episode's script. The Orions and their culture were finally explored in the season four episodes and . (Information provided by Mike Sussman; )
Mike Sussman freely credited many of the ideas in this episode to the other writers in the ENT writing staff. He noted that the concept of the Spheres was from André Bormanis, who had first thought of the idea a year or two prior. He also noted that the memorable scene with Orgoth in the airlock was written by Brannon Braga.
While writing this episode, Mike Sussman placed importance on jeopardizing the Enterprise crew. He commented, "It was really important to kill somebody, and get the ship into really dire circumstances – and show the audience that this arc this season is really going to be different."
The final draft of this episode's script was issued on .
Production
The rifles used by the Osaarian pirates were evidently repainted Starfleet phaser rifles from .
The crates full of stem bolts that Reed looks at are the same props that were called warp injector casings in the episode .
Continuity
The Enterprises brig makes its first appearance in this episode, established as one of several upgrades installed during the ship's retrofit in .
This episode was later mirrored in , in which the crew of Enterprise is forced into piracy.
This episode refers to stem bolts, a possible homage to numerous self-sealing stem bolt references made in .
This is the first episode where a crewman dies on board the ship due to hostile action, underscoring for Archer – and the audience – just how dangerous the Xindi mission would be. (Information provided by Mike Sussman) Mike Sussman had made this development a personal goal, to respond to criticisms that the series to that point had been unrealistic by having no casualties. He noted, "It was never intentional. It's just that whenever we tried to kill someone, it never quite seemed the right way to do it, so it never happened."
This episode mirrors and , where Captain Janeway and her crew have their supplies stolen by raiders. They retrieve them later, like Archer's crew do in this episode.
The numbers "8675309" appear as an in-joke in the sensor data shown on the viewscreen while the crew track the ion trail of the Osaarian merchant ship. "" was a popular song, performed by , during the 1980s, and has since made several appearances in popular culture since its release.
Aftermath
Several props and costumes from this episode were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including Aaron Pedrin's costume.
Links and references
Guest Stars
Robert Rusler as Orgoth
Nathan Anderson as N. Kemper
Julia Rose as J. McKenzie
Co-Stars
Sean McGowan as Hawkins
Kenneth A. White as Engineering Crewman
Ryan Honey as Guard
Ken Lally as Security Guard
Uncredited Co-Stars
Richard Bai as command division crewman
J.J. Bennett as operations division crewman
Breezy as Porthos
Derek Bulger as Osaarian
Jason Collins as R. Ryan
Mark Correy as Alex
Paul Eliopoulos as operations division crewman
Nikki Flux as command division crewman
Duncan K. Fraser as Walsh
Robert Garcon as command division crewman
Peter Godoy as operations division crewman
Glen Hambly as operations division ensign
Aldric Horton as operations division crewman
Lisa Hoyle as science division crewman
Amina Islam as command division ensign
Roy Joaquin as operations division crewman
John Jurgens as operations division crewman
Lalita Lauren as science division ensign
Ricky Lomax as W. Woods
Kortney Manns as command division crewman
Marnie Martin as operations division crewman
Dan McCann as Osaarian
Tom Morga as Osaarian
Lin Oeding as command division crewman
Aaron Pedrin as Osaarian
Cesar Rodriguez as sciences division lieutenant
Mark Rogerson as operations division crewman
Aric Rogokos as science division crewman
Lidia Sabljic as command division crewman
Jessica Vash as command division ensign
Mike Watson as Osaarian
Webster Whinery as Osaarian
Cricket Yee as science division crewman
Unknown performers as
Four alien corpses
Stunt Doubles
Shawn Crowder as stunt double for Connor Trinneer
Vince Deadrick, Jr. as stunt double for Robert Rusler
References
abdomen; access code; Aldebaran mud leech; alien starship; alloy; anger; antimatter; antimatter storage pod; back; backpack; bed; black tea; boarding party; boot; burn; cargo manifest; case; ; ; cloaking field; ; Cochrane Equation; coffee; com-link; corporal; cotton bud; cycle; decompression; Delphic Expanse; Delphic Expanse sphere; dementia puglistica; deuterium injector (deuterium); disruptor; distortion wave; dozen; Earth; emergency power; external injury; fusion reactor; grav-plating; gravity boots; frequency; ; fusion reactor; gasoline; hour; hull fracture; hyperspanner; ideography; imaging chamber; inaprovaline; insulation; intermix ratio; ion trail; Jupiter Station; life support; meatloaf; meter; micro-fracture; morality; neural node; neuro-pressure; ; Nobel Prize; one-way trip; Osaarian; Osaarian language; Osaarian merchant fleet; Osaarian merchant ship; particle decay rate; particle weapon; phase cannon; photonic torpedo; polarity; physics; pirate; plasma relay; plasma rifle; polyduranium; punchy; quantum scan; quantum variable; ration pack; regeneration therapy; "run aground"; search team; secretion; sedative; situation room; spatial gradient; Sphere 1; stellar wind; stem bolt; stun grenade; tactical alert; thermobaric cloud; torpedo system; tour; transceiver; transporter; Vulcan; Vulcan High Command; warp field; warp theory; wrist; Xindi database; Xindi starship
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The Antares (NCC-501) was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2266, Captain Ramart was the commanding officer of this ship. His first officer-navigator was Tom Nellis. There were an additional eighteen male crewmembers aboard the Antares.
In that year, the crew of the Antares transferred a young man, Charles Evans, who had been stranded on the planet Thasus for fourteen years and possessed psychokinetic powers, to the , so he could be transported to Colony Alpha 5 to be reunited with his closest living relatives.
On stardate 1535.8, the Antares was destroyed when young Charlie used his psychokinetic powers to make a baffle plate on the shield of the ship's energy pile "go away." Charlie did not seem to understand the seriousness of his actions, saying simply that the baffle plate had been warped, and that the Antares would have blown up anyway. ()
Appendices
Background information
According to the , the Antares was named after , a star in the constellation (the Scorpion) and one of the brightest stars as seen from Earth.
In the episode, the ship was given four different descriptions: 1) cargo vessel, 2) transport ship, 3) science-probe vessel, and 4) survey ship. The fourth edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia described the Antares as a science vessel (vol. 1, p. 31) or as a transport (vol. 1, p. 367).
At first, however, the Antares was a trading ship. In a memo (dated ) from Robert Justman to Gene Roddenberry regarding the initial story outline of "Charlie X" (then called "Charlie Is God"), Justman advised, "I would suggest we eliminate the trading vessel in the story." He later referred to the Antares as a "trading vessel" twice in a memo he wrote John D.F. Black about the episode's revised story outline (the memo was dated , by which time the installment had been renamed "Charlie X"). In the same memo, Justman asked, "Is it necessary that we see this vessel?"
The final draft script of "Charlie X" (dated ) made it clear that the Antares was indeed intended to be depicted on screen. When first established in the stage directions from that script, the craft was described, in comparison to the Enterprise, as a "much smaller survey ship." However, the scripted stage directions also referred to it as a transport. Additionally, in an ultimately unused line of dialogue from the same draft of the script, the Antares was said to have been on "a geological probe" of Thasus when it discovered Charles Evans.
In the original final edit of "Charlie X" (which was first aired on ), the Antares is not depicted on screen, leaving its appearance open to imagination.
The Star Trek Concordance (3rd ed. p. 278), by Bjo Trimble, had an original design illustration from Brian Pimenta of the Antares, with registry number NCC-717. In the Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed., p. 470), though, a registry number of NCC-501 was given to the Antares, based on conjecture by Michael Okuda.
The Antares was one of the ships that the team who worked on the remastered version of wanted to feature, if doing so would be possible. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection issue 63, p. 12) For that project, Mike Okuda used his earlier-conceived registry number of NCC-501 in the remastered edition of "Charlie X". In this remastering, the Antares is essentially depicted as a CG model of a type of robot grain ship visible in , with an addition of a "crew module." Commented Okuda, "I can't recall whose idea it was to use the grain ship from The Animated Series. It might have been mine, or it might have been Dave Rossi's." (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection issue 63, p. 12)
The process of adapting the robot grain ship as the design of the Antares began with Mike Okuda spending "a couple of days" on examining the layout of the grain ship. He then looked online for any blueprints of the vessel. Though Okuda found some blueprints he regarded as "very fine," none of them seemed to match how he imagined the craft's appearance. "So I did a 3D drawing of what my interpretation of that ship looked like," he continued, "and turned it over to Niel Wray (visual effects supervisor for Remastered TOS). The key to making it happen was that the blueprints had to be ready if Neil decided there was time to do it." (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection issue 63, pp. 12-13)
Building the actual CG model of the Antares was a case of trial and error, but the creative staff of Remastered TOS knew there wasn't a lot of time to perfect the model. "The Antares ship was really a last minute add, even though it was planned ahead, so I simply said to Neil to use the same basic textures as the Enterprise," Mike Okuda remembered. "It has a little more relief to the surface texture, but unless somebody was very dissatisfied with it, we were pretty much going with Neil's first guess. I gave them the markings, but Neil used the same basic textures that were used to create subtle relief on the Enterprises hull, but exaggerated them a bit." Despite the Antares being added late in the process, everyone involved was happy with the results. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection issue 63, p. 13)
The prefix "USS" was never applied to the Antares in on-screen dialogue nor appeared on the ship's hull. Nonetheless, both StarTrek.com and the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., Vol. 1 A-L, p. 31) listed this ship as USS Antares.
Additionally, in all editions of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the Antares was referred to, in a list of Federation starships, as the prototype ship of the Antares-class starship, with the also stated to be of this class.
According to an article at StarTrek.com, the Antares insignia was the Spacecraft Duty insignia. This insignia was worn by personnel assigned to an auxiliary spacecraft in Starfleet's Merchant Marine Corps.
Apocrypha
An science vessel, also named USS Antares, was part of the Star Trek: Orion Rendezvous planetarium show, produced in and authorized by Paramount Pictures in conjunction with the Star Trek: Federation Science exhibit. The ship was commanded by Captain Katryana DiChario, and left Neptune Station on a mission to explore a recently discovered, artificially constructed wormhole interstellar transit system that had "jump points" throughout the Milky Way Galaxy at real-life scientific phenomena, such as the Orion Nebula, the Crab Nebula, a flare star, etc. Geordi La Forge was a temporary crewmember during the expedition, along with a group of Starfleet cadets (the audience).
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The quantum slipstream drive (also informally called quantum drive or slipstream drive) was an advanced form of propulsion technology, first encountered by the in the Delta Quadrant, which had the capability of exceeding a starship's maximum warp factor by an unprecedented degree. Similar in principle to the transwarp technology utilized by the Borg, it was originally developed by a Delta Quadrant race designated by the Borg as "Species 116." ()
Technical data
The quantum slipstream drive operated by routing energy through the vessel's main deflector, which then focused a quantum field, allowing the vessel to penetrate the quantum barrier. In order to maintain the slipstream, the phase variance of the quantum field had to be constantly adjusted, or the slipstream would collapse, violently throwing the ship back into normal space. No antimatter was involved. ()
History
The Voyager crew first encountered slipstream technology in 2374, when they discovered the , a vessel ostensibly sent by Starfleet to transport them back to the Alpha Quadrant. It was subsequently discovered, however, that the vessel was an elaborate ruse by an alien named Arturis, who was seeking revenge on Captain Janeway for what he saw as her complicity in the assimilation of his species by the Borg. Planning to use the Dauntless to transport the Voyager crew back to his Borg-conquered homeworld for assimilation, Arturis settled for Janeway and Seven of Nine when his plot was discovered. Arturis was pursued in the slipstream by Voyager, which had been outfitted with the same technology. Lieutenant Commander Tuvok managed to breach the Dauntless shields with a photon torpedo, allowing them to rescue Janeway and Seven. Commander Chakotay subsequently ordered their slipstream altered in order to avoid Borg space, leaving Arturis to be assimilated. Voyager remained in the slipstream for an hour before it collapsed, traversing three hundred light years, although their diagnostics concluded that they could not risk using the technology again. ()
The next year, the Voyager crew constructed their own quantum slipstream drive using benamite crystals, overcoming some difficulties in their first attempt. Despite promising potential results, Tom Paris discovered a phase variance in the slipstream threshold, threatening to overload the drive's quantum matrix and destroy the ship. Harry Kim realized that the smaller size of a piloted shuttle leading Voyager could allow early phase variance detection of the complex, dynamic slipstream threshold for the larger ship. These advanced data and corrections would help Voyager safely navigate the quantum slipstream.
During the test flight, with Chakotay piloting the , Kim sent wrong correction values to Voyager, causing the slipstream to unexpectedly collapse ten light years from the Alpha Quadrant. Voyager crashed on an class L planet in the Takara sector, killing all hands – however, ahead of Voyager in the stable Delta Flyer slipstream, Kim and Chakotay survived the disastrous test and returned to Earth, filled with guilt.
Fifteen years later, the pair acquired a stolen Borg temporal transmitter and recovered The Doctor's program from Voyagers debris, and attempted to change history by allowing Voyager to stay in the slipstream. With The Doctor's expertise of Seven of Nine's physiology, Kim and Chakotay used the Borg technology to transmit a time index and new phase corrections back in time to Seven of Nine's interplexing beacon.
The initial corrections did not work – with no chance to correct their mistake, The Doctor convinced Kim to give up on the Alpha Quadrant and at least avert the disaster by transmitting information which would end the flight rather than prolong it. As Seven implemented these new corrections, the slipstream dispersed and returned Voyager safely to normal space – eliminating approximately ten years from their journey to the Alpha Quadrant. ()
In 2375, the Think Tank requested quantum slipstream technology as part of the payment for solving the "Hazari paradox." Captain Janeway warned Kurros that they never managed to get the technology to work reliably. Kurros commented that it was still intriguing, "theoretically." ()
By 2384, Starfleet had successfully recreated their own version of the , captained by Vice Admiral Janeway. ()
In 3188, Book implies his ship is capable of slipstream travel, if he had benamite. ()
Appendices
See also
Subspace vortex
Transwarp
Transwarp drive
Background information
The quantum slipstream core prop is made up of a novelty and "bubble tubes", available from most joke/gadget shops. (, p. 248)
The drive was discussed in detail in the "Briefing: Propulsion Systems" article in .
The slipstream drive became a more prominently featured method of FTL propulsion in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda sci-fi series that premiered in .
Based on the three hundred light year trip in "Hope and Fear", the average speed of a quantum slipstream drive calculates out to 2.63 times the speed of light. At that speed, Voyager could traverse its original stranding of 75,000 light years in as little as 10.4 days, assuming it didn't require significant shutdown time for maintenance or refueling.
Apocrypha
The Star Trek: Destiny trilogy introduced the Vesta-class starships, a test-bed for a Federation quantum slipstream drive, along with numerous other technologies.
In A Singular Destiny, Starfleet began to install quantum slipstream drives on its vessels in 2381. Due to the nature of the technology, not all ships were compatible with the upgrade. An upgraded version of the technology proved to be successful, and in the novel Full Circle, Starfleet mounted an expedition to the Delta Quadrant by outfitting Voyager and several other starships with a fully-functional version of the drive.
In the Star Trek: Typhon Pact novel Zero Sum Game, set in 2382, the Breen sent an operative to Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards to capture data pertaining to the Federation quantum slipstream drive, regarding it as a potential Federation weapon that would allow them to deliver a decisive first strike in any war between the Breen and their new allies in the , including the Romulans, the Gorn, the Tzenkethi, the , and the Tholians.
The Breen were then contracted to build the first Typhon Pact prototype slipstream vessel. The lead researcher of the project, Thot Keer, intentionally withheld information from the other members relating to the drives development, in order to promote the Breen to a level of Pact authority equal to the Romulans. Shortly before the initial trials, the prototype, its designer, and all information relating to the project were destroyed.
In Plagues of Night, set in 2383, various members of the Pact, led by Sela, attempted to travel to the Gamma Quadrant to obtain Jem'Hadar technology to perfect the drive. They believed that Jem'Hadar ships possessed the right structure to cope with the stresses of slipstream. The attempt resulted in the destruction of Deep Space 9, when bombs planted to cause a diversion while they used the Bajoran wormhole caused more damage than was intended. Further attempts to develop the drive came to an end in Raise the Dawn, when the Romulan Praetor officially denounced the Pact's attempt to build a drive, noting that attempts to do so have caused more problems with the Federation than the original existence of the drive, ending their attempts for the time being.
In Star Trek Online, players are also able to use slipstream drives for brief periods after reaching Vice Admiral rank in order to travel faster between star systems. Two ships use advanced slipstream drives: The Odyssey-class allows for extended usage while the Multi-Mission Explorer series of ships, when two special devices are used, grants this the fastest warp drive level, reaching a theoretical Warp 25 without modifications and a maximum of Warp 67.56 utilizing bonuses and special items. The 2014 Risian Summer Event added in the Risian Luxury Cruiser, which gave it the Solar Sail Quantum Slipstream Drive, which made it faster than a ship's natural Quantum Slipstream, but was slower than the special slipstreams used by the Odyssey and Multi-Mission Explorer series. The newer Miracle Worker cruisers feature a Cyclical Quantum Slipstream Drive, which allows the ships to stay in the slipstream longer, and recharge in only 30 seconds, but maneuverability is significantly reduced while in slipstream drive.
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The speed of light, also referred to as light speed, or the warp threshold is the velocity that light travels in a vacuum. This constant, usually denoted , is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second or 186,282 miles per second. The speed of light was equivalent to the speed of warp factor 1. (, display graphic) Outside of subspace, no known natural phenomena can move faster than the speed of light. (; )
Superluminal, an alternative and rare name for faster than light, was one of the vocabulary words listed on the chart "A Tunnel in the Sky". This chart was seen in the schoolroom aboard Deep Space 9 in 2369. ()
History
The Phoenix, piloted by Zefram Cochrane, was Earth's first ship to be successfully equipped with a faster-than-light propulsion system. ()
The ability to travel faster than light was considered to be a major technological milestone in a species' development. The typically subdivided civilizations and cultures on whether they had developed technology to exceed the speed of light. The species that had not yet achieved the level of technology required were placed in the pre-warp civilization category. The Vulcan custom of not making first contact with pre-warp civilizations was later on adopted by the Federation as well. (; )
In 2254, the encountered a faked distress call from created by the Talosians. The signal was keyed to register on sensors as an unknown object on a collision course which traveled with the speed of light. ()
Technologies
Subspace communications
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According to Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, (pp. 54 & 55) in the context of a warp drive, under the conditions where the total amount of subspace distortion in all the energy layers put together, that form a warp field around a ship, equal one and this accelerates the ship to the speed of warp factor 1, or the speed of light, approximately twenty gigajoules of energy are required to create the warp field, and only two hundred megajoules to maintain it. Depending on a multitude of spatial conditions, the level of cochranes required for any given warp factor varies.
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The chief engineering officer, also known as the chief engineer or the engineering officer, was the officer in charge of all engineers and engineering-related duties aboard a vessel.
The chief engineer's duties ranged from making the duty shift roster for engineering personnel to advising the captain on possible solutions for certain technical problems.
In general, the chief engineer was an officer with enough experience in his or her own field of expertise and with seniority over the rest of the engineers. A chief engineer was also a member of the senior staff and was accountable for the overall performance of the vessel.
In the context of engineering, the chief engineer could be seen giving orders to persons who would ordinarily outrank him, such as the second officer. For example, Data regularly took orders from Geordi La Forge in engineering contexts, even though as the second officer Data outranked La Forge in absolute terms. ( )
The captain of a Starfleet starship had the prerogative to appoint someone to the post of chief engineer even if he or she did not have the seniority which normally would apply to this function. Persons with vast experience and engineering knowledge but no appropriate Starfleet rank could be appointed as chief engineer in this manner. ()
Some noted chief engineers in Starfleet history were:
Commander Charles Tucker III of
Commander and Captain Montgomery Scott of the and
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge of the and the
Senior Chief Petty Officer Miles O'Brien of the , also chief of operations of Deep Space 9
Lieutenant junior grade B'Elanna Torres of the
The Starfleet of the alternate reality established in 2233 by the temporal incursion of the Romulan Nero had one note worthy chief engineer:
Lieutenant Commander of the (NCC-1701)
List of chief engineers
Named
Argyle
(2364)
Bjorn Bensen
Velara Base (2364)
(2259)
Joseph
(2360)
Donald Kaplan
(2370)
Kelby
(2154)
Joshua Kelly
(2369)
Geordi La Forge
(2365-2371)
(2372~2380)
(2364)
Louvier
(2257)
Leland T. Lynch
(2364)
MacDougal
(2364)
Nog
(2374)
Miles O'Brien
(2371-2375)
(2375)
Olson
(2258)
Reginod
Mondor (2365)
Jett Reno
(2257)
Jacques Romaine
Starfleet, retired (2269)
Montgomery Scott
(2265-2285)
(2285, Captain of engineering)
(2286-2293)
Montgomery Scott (alternate reality)
(2258-2263)
(ca. 2260s)
Solin
Seleya (2153)
Tavana
(2373)
B'Elanna Torres
Val Jean (2371)
(2371-2378)
Charles Tucker III
(2151-2161)
(2154)
Vanderberg
Janus VI colony (2267)
Unnamed
Hera chief engineer
(2370)
Ki'tang chief engineer
(2375)
Pegasus chief engineer
(2358)
Voyager chief engineer
(2371)
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Argyle appeared to have replaced MacDougal as chief engineer and was apparently replaced himself by Lieutenant prior to , who was in turn seemingly replaced by Leland Lynch by . However, Commander William T. Riker's line in that engineering matters were overseen by "one of our chief engineers, in this case, [Mr.] Argyle" seems to imply that the ship had more than one chief engineering officer at the time. Therefore, it is possible that MacDougal and Argyle both served as chief engineer simultaneously. This practice of having more than one chief engineer seems to have come to an end by 2365, when Geordi La Forge became the sole chief engineer of the Enterprise. It is also however possible that the term chief engineers actually applied to the most senior engineers (possibly the three most senior, as typically three shifts would be run in a day so there would have to be at least three engineers who would run the department during their own shifts), however, chief engineer was still an individual position in its own regard. This multiple application of titles has been seen before with regard to the title of commanding officer, which could be used to apply to the single position of the highest-ranking officer in command of a starship or starbase or also to the person whom one directly reported to in the chain of command or in a department.
Apocryphal chief engineers
(Vulcan's Glory; The Rift; Desperate Hours)
(Star Trek: Titan)
(Voyager relaunch)
USS Enterprise-F (Star Trek Online)
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Benamite was a rare and unstable form of crystal which was extremely difficult to synthesize.
In 2375, the crew of the constructed a quantum slipstream drive, at the heart of which were benamite crystals. Although it was eventually discovered that constant phase variances in the quantum threshold could make the journey extremely hazardous, the crew elected to risk implementing the slipstream drive anyway, as the crystals had already started to decay, and synthesizing more could have taken years. ()
In 3188, Cleveland Booker described obstacles to interstellar travel to newly arrived time traveler Michael Burnham, including the widespread lack of dilithium or benamite. ()
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The USS Appalachia (NCC-52136) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2373, the Appalachia defended Earth against the second Borg invasion at the Battle of Sector 001. ()
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The Arcos was a 24th century Federation freighter. Tan Tsu served aboard the Arcos in the 2360s.
In 2367, the Arcos was destroyed by a warp core breach over Turkana IV. The ship's two-man crew survived in an escape pod, but landed on the war-torn planet where they were captured by the Alliance. They were later rescued by an away team from the . ()
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Arcos personnel
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Background information
The Arcos was seen very briefly before it exploded in "Legacy", but the studio model used to represent the ship was not identifiable until 2013. In that year the remastered version of the episode was released, and there it could be discerned that it was a reuse of the Batris model, first seen in . However, as the Turkana IV background was recreated as a digital element by Max Gabl, the CGI counterpart of the ship, created by Douglas E. Graves for , had to be used.
According to the , this freighter was a starship, with the registry NCC-6237.
According to Issue #173 of the Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, the Arcos was approximately 290 meters in length, had a maximum speed of warp factor 6.5, and had a crew complement of 2.
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USS Berlin
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The USS Berlin (NCC-14232) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
On stardate 20843, in the 2340s, the Berlin completed a long range cometary survey of the Minos Korva system. The survey revealed an anomalous population of rocky methane ice bodies. It was nearly 12% greater than results predicted by the Tezber Planetary Evolution Models. ()
In 2364, the Berlin answered a distress call from a border outpost along the Romulan Neutral Zone. The outpost had reported a contingent of seven Romulan battle cruisers within sensor range. ()
In early 2367, the Berlin was patrolling the Romulan Neutral Zone. The ship was named on the chart "Starfleet Operations-Sectors 21166-23079" on the bridge. ( okudagram)
In 2369, the Berlin was patrolling the Romulan Neutral Zone. The ship was named on the chart "Starfleet Operations-Sectors 21538-23079" in the Enterprise-D observation lounge. (, okudagram)
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Background information
The class and registry were derived from the chart in "Brothers". The Berlin was presumably named after the German city of Berlin.
In a scene cut from , in which the Cardassians threatened to invade Minos Korva, the , , and Berlin were all dispatched to the sector to assist the Enterprise-D. However, because the ships were three days away, the Enterprise was forced to find an alternative means of preventing the invasion.
Apocrypha
In the Deny Thy Father, the Berlin was the starship which rescued Kyle Riker as the sole survivor of a Tholian attack on a starbase in 2353. The ship is also mentioned in the novel .
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The IKS Rotarran was a Klingon Bird-of-Prey that was in service with the Klingon Defense Force in the late 24th century. The Rotarran served with distinction during the Dominion War, with General Martok using the vessel as his flagship.
Service on the Cardassian border
During the Klingon-Cardassian War that began in 2372, the Rotarran spent two years as part of the occupation force patrolling against the Cardassian fleet. ()
In mid-2373, the Rotarran was forced to retreat along with the rest of the Klingon fleet when the Cardassian Union joined the Dominion. ()
Following that event, the Rotarran suffered half a dozen defeats in combat with the Jem'Hadar. Heavy casualties mounted as this continued over a period of seven months. In one instance, a Cardassian ship was trapped between the Rotarran and an asteroid field. The Cardassians' power was failing, they had no other reinforcements nearby, and the Rotarrans weapons were fully charged. Suddenly, three Jem'Hadar ships appeared out of the asteroid field, and the Rotarran was denied the kill. Because of this and many other similar encounters, the crew came to believe that the Rotarran was a cursed ship, and all aboard were dishonored. ()
Martok's captaincy of the Rotarran
In late-2373, General Martok was assigned command of the Rotarran by the Klingon High Council and dispatched to locate the missing . Joining him as his first officer was Lieutenant Commander Worf and Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax as science officer. Both were serving on detached duty from Starfleet at the time.
Plotting course for the last known position of the B'Moth, the Rotarran was forced to circumnavigate the Tong Beak Nebula in order to avoid the Jem'Hadar. Martok's wish to avoid a fight struck a sour chord with his weary crew.
On the way, Martok reviewed his crew's personnel reports, which included remarks such as: "Dishonorable conduct," "lack of respect," "dereliction of duty," "inattention to orders," "unmotivated," and "insufficiently aggressive." This did not go over well with Martok nor Worf, Martok likening the report to a prison record. Together they vowed to restore honor to the Rotarran and make it a ship worthy of the Empire.
Mid-route, the Rotarran detected a Jem'Hadar attack ship on a reconnaissance mission outside of Cardassian space, performing active polaron scans of the sector. Despite the tactical advantage the cloaked and armed Rotarran had over the attack ship, Martok opted to avoid a conflict and continue to pursue their mission of locating the B'Moth. Frustration from this missed opportunity, combined with three barrels of bloodwine, finally made things come to a head on the Rotarran.
Upon reaching the Cardassian border, the B'Moth was discovered 500,000 kellicams inside Cardassian territory. Martok, who had explicit orders from the High Council not to enter Cardassian territory, was unwilling to cross the border to rescue a crew that may or may not be alive at all. This struck a major chord with Martok's crew, which nearly led to mutiny.
Moments later, a Jem'Hadar warship entered sensor range, which the Rotarran defeated. Afterward, the Rotarran successfully rescued thirty-five survivors from the B'Moth.
Upon their return, the High Council issued a commendation to the entire crew of the Rotarran. Despite crossing the border against orders, the Council viewed the destruction of a Jem'Hadar ship and the rescue of thirty-five warriors as ample justification for crossing the Cardassian border. ()
Martok continued to maintain the Rotarran as his flagship, and also continued using it for patrolling the Cardassian border. ()
Prior to the Second Battle of Deep Space 9, the Rotarran served as a lookout for the incoming Dominion-Cardassian fleet. Upon its return to Deep Space 9, the Rotarran took up a defensive position near the , which was mining the entrance to the Bajoran wormhole, and engaged several Jem'Hadar warships. Following the battle, Worf was once again assigned to the Rotarran. ()
Service during the Dominion War
Duty with the Second Fleet
Following the Second Battle of Deep Space 9, the Rotarran and the Defiant joined the Second Fleet. After three months of defeat by the Dominion, the Rotarran, with the remains of the Second Fleet, was forced to return back behind Federation lines in early-2374. ()
The Rotarran later rescued Captain Benjamin Sisko and his crew from a planet in an uncharted dark matter nebula, and returned them to Starbase 375. The Rotarran docked at the starbase briefly before rendezvousing with the to receive reinforcements. Although Martok requested fifteen replacements, he only received five from General Tanas.
After the completion of the personnel transfer, Martok received orders to escort a convoy of Klingon cargo vessels to Donatu V, a two-day journey. En route, Martok conducted battle drills to train the reflexes of his new crew.
Following the simulation, the crew was recalled to the bridge because the ship's sensors detected a Jem'Hadar attack ship. After a frantic yet fruitless "encounter", it was realized that Bekk Alexander Rozhenko had forgotten to erase the battle simulation program from the sensor display.
The next day the convoy came under attack from two Jem'Hadar attack ships. During the attack, the Rotarran lost internal communications, and experienced a plasma leak on Deck 5 after suffering damage to the primary plasma injector. Ultimately the Rotarran destroyed the two attacking warships, and successfully delivered the convoy to Donatu. ()
The Rotarran later undertook another mission. Benjamin Sisko spoke to Worf while he was aboard, telling him there had been no news of the Defiant, which was on a mission to destroy a sensor array in the Argolis Cluster. ()
The Rotarran later assisted the Defiant in destroying two Dominion ships. With the Defiant acting like a decoy, two Dominion ships were lured in to attack it. Just as the Dominion ships began their attack, the Rotarran decloaked and immediately destroyed one of the ships. The Defiant simultaneously powered up, and successfully destroyed the second ship. Following their successful ploy, the two ships were recalled to Starbase 375.
Following the recall to Starbase 375, Martok and Worf returned to Qo'noS aboard the Rotarran to make a plea to Chancellor Gowron, on behalf of Captain Sisko. It was their intention to convince Gowron that he must commit the Klingon Defense Forces to join the combined Federation fleet in their attempt to retake Deep Space 9. ()
After some convincing, Martok and Worf were able to persuade Gowron to spare some ships for Operation Return. Mid-battle, the Klingon fleet, led by the Rotarran, joined the fray and effectively opened a hole in the Dominion lines. ()
Duty with the Ninth Fleet
On stardate 51247.5, one week after the Rotarrans return to Deep Space 9, General Martok was promoted to Supreme Commander of the Ninth Fleet. Despite his promotion and the offer to have quarters aboard the station, Martok chose to keep his flag aboard the Rotarran. He noted that despite the ship's cramped quarters, he would still feel like he was in the war.
By the end of that same week, most of the Rotarrans crew was transferred to the battle cruiser , which had taken heavy losses in its previous engagement. ()
In late-2374, Martok lead an attack wing of Klingon warships from aboard the Rotarran during the First Battle of Chin'toka. Although fifteen ships were lost or severely damaged by Jem'Hadar fighters during the initial stages of the battle, the Rotarran made it through unscathed.
Upon the fleet's successful defeat of the Cardassian orbital weapon platforms, located around the orbit of Chin'toka, the Rotarran began transporting ground troops to the planet's surface. ()
In early-2375, Martok re-enlisted Worf to once again serve as his first officer for a dangerous mission, where they intended to use the Rotarran to destroy the Monac shipyard in the name of Worf's late wife, Jadzia Dax. To do this, Chief Miles O'Brien devised a plan that used the Rotarrans deflector dish to fire an electromagnetic pulse at a magnetic instability near the equator of the Monac sun, to trigger a solar plasma ejection. When the Rotarran reached the system, the ship decloaked and fired the EM pulse at the sun's corona. Their first attempt was unsuccessful, but upon their second attempt, while under fire by the Jem'Hadar, they successfully triggered a solar flare, which destroyed the shipyards. ()
Later that year, the Rotarrans cloaking device was stolen by Quark and Rom to be delivered to , a Trill mercenary in the mirror universe in exchange for the release of Grand Nagus Zek. Rom later installed the cloaking device aboard the Regent's flagship but also conveniently sabotaged it, disabling the ship. ()
Several weeks later, repairs to the Rotarran, as well as the , were delayed to repair the Romulan warbirds Dividices and the Genorex. ()
Near the end of the war, the Rotarran and the , commanded by Worf, were ambushed by a Dominion patrol near the Badlands. The Koraga was destroyed, but the Rotarran was able to recover six of its starboard escape pods. ()
Not long after that incident, the Rotarran was involved in a failed attack on a Cardassian world, Avenal VII. Martok himself was seriously injured in the attack. The Rotarran returned to Deep Space 9 three days after the news of the defeat had reached the station. ()
Crew of the Rotarran
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Background information
According to the script for the "Soldiers of the Empire", "Sons and Daughters", and "Behind the Lines", the pronunciation for Rotarran was "row-TAR-an". Later the pronunciation was changed to "ROW-tar-an" in the scripts for "You Are Cordially Invited" and "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges".
Martok seems to have not used the Rotarran at the Second Battle of Chin'toka, for if he had, it was likely it would have been disabled by the Breen energy dissipaters and destroyed. We know he was present at the battle as his voice was heard over the communications system. () It is possible he may have commanded another ship, such as the , which he had also briefly commanded that same year.
It was unclear if Martok continued to use the Rotarran through the end of the war, if it was the vessel he used during the final Battle of Cardassia in , or if he had taken command of the (later unseen) , being that he had since risen to chancellor.
The Rotarran was the most frequently seen Klingon Bird-of-Prey in Star Trek, with thirteen appearances.
The scenes in the Rotarran mess hall in the episode were filmed on Paramount Stage 18, with the mess hall and ready room being redresses of the aft and the fore of the bridge set respectively.
The Klingon Bird of Prey Owners' Workshop Manual stated that the Rotarran was classified as a ship. It also says that the ship was launched in 2358 by the House of Gowron and served in the Klingon Civil War. Additionally, Martok used the Rotarran at the Battle of Cardassia, considering the Vor'cha class sluggish and the Negh'var too slow and unwieldy for his tactics (evading rather than absorbing attacks to minimise collateral damage).
The RPG sourcebook gives its registry as IKC-62127.
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The Battle of Deep Space 9 may refer to the following four engagements:
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USS Biko
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The USS Biko was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2369, the supply ship rendezvoused with the at Deinonychus VII after an initial delay of forty-eight hours. ()
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USS Billings
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The USS Billings was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
Kathryn Janeway served on the Billings as a commander. During her first year, Janeway sent an away mission to survey a volcanic moon. The shuttle was damaged by a magma eruption, and three of the Billings crew were severely injured. The next day, out of remorse, Janeway returned to the moon to complete the mission herself. Tuvok was also on the ship during this period, and observed the action. ()
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USS Budapest
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The USS Budapest (NCC-64923) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In 2373, the Budapest fought against the second Borg invasion at the Battle of Sector 001. ()
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Background information
The stated the ship was "named for the European ."
A CGI rendering of this ship appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation Sketchbook: The Movies.
Apocrypha
The Budapest had been mentioned in several relaunch novels (especially Lesser Evil) as the former posting of . The novel also mentioned that the Budapest was equipped with TR-116 rifles.
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USS Cairo
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The USS Cairo was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2369, it was under the command of Captain Edward Jellico, who was temporarily transferred to command the for a special diplomatic mission to the Cardassian border. ()
Shortly thereafter, the Cairo was deployed to defend the Federation system Minos Korva when it was threatened by a potential Cardassian attack. Following the peaceful conclusion of the crisis, Captain Jellico returned to his command on the Cairo. ()
During the Dominion War, the Cairo was commanded by Captain Leslie Wong, and assigned to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone in 2374. The ship was believed to have been ambushed and destroyed by Dominion forces who had crossed Romulan space to attack the Cairo. ()
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Background information
The listed the Cairo with the registry NCC-42136. In the , the Cairo was identified as the Excelsior class starship that later appeared in .
For the fourth edition, this was changed to where the ship in "Preemptive Strike" was not identified as the Cairo.
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USS Charleston
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The USS Charleston (NCC-42285) was a Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2364, the Charleston was en route to Earth and planned to make an extended stop at Arloff IX. The left the Romulan Neutral Zone and planned to meet with the Charleston, which would then transport three Humans from a 20th century space module to Earth. ()
In 2367, the Charleston was on a deep space exploration mission in Sector 22055. The ship was named on the chart "Starfleet Operations-Sectors 21166-23079" on the Enterprise-D bridge. ( okudagram)
In 2368, the Charleston joined Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fleet that 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 Enterprise-D.
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 would attempt to reestablish the net before the Romulans got there. ( okudagram)
In 2369, the Charleston was on a deep space exploration mission in Sector 22853. The ship was named on the chart "Starfleet Operations-Sectors 21538-23079" in the Enterprise-D observation lounge. ( okudagram)
Later that year, the Charleston was named on the chart "Sector Ipai Relay Log – Relay Message Flow 1293" in Relay Station 47 Ops. This ship sent a message from Sector 89102 on Starfleet Commnet Seven via secure channel. The ship's next assignment was a deep space exploration mission of Sector 22855. ( production art)
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Background information
The class and registry were derived from the chart in "Brothers".
The name Charleston may be derived from any one of several sources. For more information, see for a list of possible origins.
Apocrypha
The has an old crewmate of Picard on the , , assigned as the Charlestons first officer by 2361.
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USS Clement
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The USS Clement (NCC-12537) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2370 the was supposed to meet with the Clement, but the rendezvous was delayed when the Enterprise was ordered to the Argaya system. ()
The Clement later fought in the Dominion War. In 2374, the starship reported numerous casualties to Starfleet Command. The name of the reporting ship and its registry and the casualties were named on the "Personnel Status Update" chart in the Deep Space 9 wardroom. ( okudagram)
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The USS Elkins (NCC-74121) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. Elkins fought in the Dominion War. ()
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The USS Denver was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. The transport ship had a standard crew complement of 23.
On stardate 45587.9, the Denver was stricken by a Cardassian gravitic mine while transporting 517 colonists to the Beloti sector. The ship was forced to crash land on a planet in the Mericor system. The responded to the disaster and provided medical assistance to the survivors. ()
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USS Crockett
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The USS Crockett was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2370, the Crockett transported Admiral Mitsuya to Deep Space 9. ()
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Background information
The described this vessel as an starship, with the registry NCC-38995.
The Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 168) stated the starship was "named after Davey Crockett, American frontiersman and politician."
Apocrypha
The Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph featured a listing of an earlier starship, the Crockett with the registry NCC-600. The ship was a MK-VII scout authorized for appropriation on stardate 0965.
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USS Copernicus (NCC-640)
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The USS Copernicus (NCC-640) was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2286, she was docked in the Earth Spacedock after the Whale Probe had departed from the Sol system.
The former crew of the traveled past the Copernicus in spacedock, while aboard a travel pod, en route to their new assignment on the . ()
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Background information
The Copernicus was presumably named for Nicolaus Copernicus, who developed the of the solar system.
The Copernicus was not identified by name on screen, but was identified by production sources. ILM's Model Shop Supervisor Jeff Mann has stated, "We had an incident in the beginning of the film, where we needed a Reliant-class [sic.], so we put a new paint job on the old Reliant model, changed a small shuttle called the Grissom to the Copernicus and we added a back half to the shuttlecraft that Scotty flew around in ." (The Making of the Trek Films, 3rd ed., p. 68)
According to the , which confirms the above information, the registry of the Copernicus was "NCC-623". However, a screen cap from the next use of the model as the in TNG Remastered's clearly showed the registry to be "NCC-640", being illegible in the original airing, and still visible in a couple shots that were not corrected in the episode's remastering.
Michael Okuda remarked years later in this respect, "I seem to recall that Grissom may have been relabeled to serve as another ship (the Copernicus?) in Star Trek III or IV. I didn't try to relabel the model for 'The Naked Now,' partly because we realized that the existing registry would not be legible in standard-def video, but also because we were all so insanely busy at the time that no one could take on an additional project that wasn't likely to be seen on the screen."
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USS Crazy Horse
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The USS Crazy Horse was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In late 2369, Vice Admiral Nechayev mobilized a fleet consisting of Crazy Horse and fourteen other ships with the stated aim of patrolling and defending Federation colonies from an anticipated second Borg invasion. The ships were divided into five task forces with the as her flagship. Crazy Horse was assigned to task force three under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. For the duration of the task force's existence, the Crazy Horse served alongside the and the . ()
A year later, the Crazy Horse transported Admiral Erik Pressman to a rendezvous with the Enterprise. ()
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StarTrek.com and the stated this starship was "named for the , who was one of the most important Native American leaders at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876."
The listed the starship as a member of the with the registry NCC-50446. After the ship's appearance in "The Pegasus", the later editions of the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 328) changed the class, but retained the registry number.
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USS Cochrane
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The USS Cochrane (NCC-59318) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
History
In 2367, the Cochrane served as a transport for retired Admiral Norah Satie during her visit to the in order to investigate a case of possible Romulan espionage. ()
In 2368, the Cochrane served as a transport for Cadet Wesley Crusher during his visit to the Enterprise-D while he was on vacation from Starfleet Academy. ()
In 2369, the Cochrane transported a group of Starfleet officers, including Julian Bashir and Jadzia Dax, to the newly-established Federation outpost on Deep Space 9. ()
The Cochrane later fought in the Dominion War. In 2374, the starship reported numerous casualties to Starfleet Command. The name of the reporting ship and its registry and the casualties were named on the "Personnel status Update" chart in the Deep Space 9 wardroom. ( okudagram)
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Background information
The stated the ship was "named for the inventor of warp drive" (Zefram Cochrane).
The name USS Cochrane had never been legible on screen on the model. The first revealed that the ship was named USS Cochrane. According to the , it was the Cochrane that transported Dax and Bashir to Deep Space 9 in "Emissary"; however, the Oberth-class model still bore the markings from its last appearance as the in the . In the script of "The Drumhead", the Cochrane was only called a smaller ship and a Federation craft. With the following appearance in "The Game", the unscripted vessel, was only referred to as a shuttle, and represented by stock footage from "The Drumhead".
The registry was clearly visible in the remastered version of "The Drumhead". The name and registry were finally officially connected in the casualty report screens seen in season 6 episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Apocrypha
According to the Survivors, in 2352, it was the Cochrane that discovered the failed Earth colony on Turkana IV. An away team from the ship rescued the teenage Tasha Yar from a rape gang on the planet. According to the novel The Romulan Stratagem, in 2366, the Cochrane performed an unmanned probe survey of the planet , a 20th century level world severely damaged by an ongoing military conflict.
Another Cochrane (albeit of a different class) was also mentioned in the backstory of Star Trek Online, which established that in 2396 the vessel's captain and two senior officers were found to be Species 8472 spies and placed under arrest.
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The USS Concord was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2370, the Concord was stationed near the Romulan Neutral Zone. In the anti-time present, the Concord and the joined the near the Neutral Zone to investigate increased Romulan activity. ()
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USS Constantinople
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The USS Constantinople (NCC-43622) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet as a transport ship.
In 2365, Captain was the commanding officer. ( okudagram')
Later that year, the Constantinople underwent a colonization mission transporting 2,012 colonists. During the mission, the ship suffered a major hull breach compromising their environmental system. Fortunately, their distress call was received by the nearby , which was on its way to the nearby planet Gravesworld. The ship was repaired and the 46 minor injuries treated. The Enterprise also left medical supplies before continuing to Gravesworld. ()
Later that year, the Constantinople was on special assignment for Terraform Command. The ship was named on the Starship Deploy Status chart in the Starbase 173 courtroom. (, okudagram)
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard, in his log, described the Constantinople as a liner.
The registry was derived from the Starship Deploy Status chart seen in "The Measure of a Man".
The registry of the Constantinople was changed to NCC-34852 for an internal list of starships, in which the ship was identified as an transport.
This association between the Constantinople and the class and registry were picked up later by the , where it was said that the starship was "named for the Turkish city also known as Istanbul."
In the revision of the of the script of The Schizoid Man, the ship was identified as the Mary Rogers''.
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USS Gander
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The USS Gander was a 24th century Federation runabout operated by Starfleet. This ship was assigned to Deep Space 9.
In 2375, the Gander was piloted by Ezri Dax in her search for Worf, who had been reported missing in action from the near the Badlands. She directed the ship to where his escape pod's last known position likely was, and shut off engines to allow the plasma storms to drift the Gander to the same place the escape pod was. Her plan worked, although the ship took minor damage from the plasma field. She was able to lock a tractor beam on to the escape pod and transport Worf aboard.
On the return trip to Deep Space 9, the Gander was attacked by two Jem'Hadar attack ships near the Goralis system. Their engines damaged, they entered Goralis III's atmosphere, beaming down shortly before the Gander exploded in the night sky above them. ()
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According to the , writer René Echevarria had originally used "the Ganges, and his script reflects that decision. "Then some smartass said, 'That one was destroyed [].' And I said, 'Oh, yeah? Well, this is a new one.' And the discussion got all the way up to Rick, who said, 'It was destroyed. We need a new one.'" Clearly, it would have been simple for Echevarria to come up with the name of a previously untapped river, but he was feeling feisty. "My feeling was, 'So what if it was destroyed?'" he says. "That was five years ago. This is a new one. How many s have there been?" Ultimately, the majority ruled and the runabout was christened Gander, after ."
The line was dubbed in post-production, but still appears as Ganges in closed captioning. Even then, on the DVD subtitles, it was mistakenly spelled Ganda, and Ganda was, according to the , the name of the runabout. Furthermore, the runabout model was labeled with this name. The authors noted that Ezri's pronunciation might sound like "Gander", which was the name of a river in Canada, and conclude by saying, "It could go either way."
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According to the RPG sourcebook, the Ganders registry was NCC-72311.
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USS Fearless
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The USS Fearless (NCC-14598) was a Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
The Fearless was one of the ships that received Kosinski's experimental warp drive upgrades in 2364. The engineering staff reported a measurable increase in performance and engine efficiency following the upgrade. It was later suggested that these enhancements in performance may have been attributed to straightening out simple engine inefficiencies experienced by the older ship.
Following the upgrades, the Fearless transferred Kosinski, and his assistant The Traveler, to the to make similar upgrades. ()
In 2367, the Fearless was on a planetary mapping mission in the Beta Mahoga system. The ship was named on the chart "Starfleet Operations-Sectors 21166-23079" on the Enterprise-D's bridge. ( okudagram)
In 2369, the Fearless was on a planetary mapping mission in the Beta Cygni system. The ship was named on the chart "Starfleet Operations-Sectors 21538-23079" in the Enterprise-D observation lounge. ( okudagram)
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The registry was derived from a chart in "Brothers".
The mistakenly stated that the registry number of the Fearless was NCC-4598.
Script notes regarding the side by side with the Enterprise-D describe: "The two Federation starships come slowly together. Here, next to the smaller vessel, the size of the new Enterprise is breathtaking."
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USS Gallico
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The USS Gallico was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2370, the captain of this ship was J. Priestly. The starship's point of departure was Starbase 58. The starship arrived at Deep Space 9 on stardate 47544.5. The USS Gallico was named on the space station's arrival roster. (, production art)
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Darwin Genetic Research Station
One week before stardate 42494.8, Kingsley celebrates her 35th birthday on Gagarin IV. ()
Guinan comes aboard the at Captain Jean-Luc Picard's personal request. She takes the position of bartender in Ten Forward. ()
Dr. Beverly Crusher leaves the Enterprise-D to become head of Starfleet Medical. She is replaced by Dr. Katherine Pulaski. ()
Geordi La Forge transfers to the Operations division, is promoted to full lieutenant and made the Enterprise chief engineer. ()
Worf transfers to the Operations division and is permanently made Enterprise security chief. ()
Commander William T. Riker becomes the first Starfleet officer to serve on a Klingon vessel when he participates in the Officer Exchange Program. ()
Captain Jean-Luc Picard helps to define the rights of artificial life after Commander Bruce Maddox attempts to disassemble Data in order to construct more androids like him. Data is granted the full rights appropriate to all sentient lifeforms. ()
Riker is offered command of the , but declines the offer to remain with the Enterprise. ()
A 328-year-old mystery is solved when the Enterprise crew finds the remains of Colonel Stephen G. Richey, a NASA astronaut whose spacecraft, Charybdis, disappeared in 2037. ()
The Enterprise-D reunites the descendants of the colony ship on the planet Mariposa. ()
Chu'lak begins to serve aboard the . ()
Eight weeks before stardate 42494.8: The twenty-six crew members of the supply ship are examined by a medical staff. They are judged as fit for duty. The USS Lantree begins its tour of duty in Gamma 7 sector. ()
Five days before – The first officer is treated for Thelusian flu. ()
Three days before – The Lantree visits the Darwin Genetic Research Station on Gagarin IV. ()
Stardate 42493.1– Captain L. Isao Telaka records his last log. ()
Terok Nor
Dukat brings Odo to Terok Nor to investigate the murder of Vaatrik, a Bajoran chemist. Odo meets Kira Nerys and Quark for the first time, but does not solve the case. ()
The is destroyed after discovering the homeworld of the ancient Iconians. ()
Other events
The United Federation of Planets makes first contact with the Borg after Q hurls the Enterprise-D seven thousand light years to System J-25. ()
Starfleet initiates a series of tactical training and development programs designed to ready the fleet for the Borg invasion. ()
Morn, Hain, Larell, Krit, and Nahsk take part in the Mother's Day Heist on Lissepia. ()
A Talaxian ship with a crew of twenty-three is taken prisoner by the Vidiians and sent to Avery III. ()
A month before stardate 42823.2, Starbase 73 receives a distress call from the Earth colony of Bringloid V. ()
In a winter flood on Mintaka III, six Mintakans drown. Counted among the dead, there are four children and two adults. One of the adults is the wife of Liko and mother to their daughter Oji. ()
Tuvok and Kathryn Janeway begin to form a bond as Janeway learns to rely on Tuvok's advice. ()
In a two hour lecture course in astral physics, Wesley Crusher first learns of the Elway Theorem. ()
Benjamin Sisko and meet for what will be the last time for ten years. ()
Calvin Hutchinson meets Beverly Crusher for the last time before they are see each again four years later on Arkaria. ()
Two Ferengi try to break into Fort Knox around this year. ()
Odo begins trying to prove Quark is a thief. ()
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Starfleet begins development of the . ()
Crewmember Sandoval meets her end. ()
Dr. Beverly Crusher returns to the . Geordi La Forge is promoted to lieutenant commander, while Worf is promoted to full lieutenant. ()
Data creates another Soong-type android, known as Lal. Unfortunately, Lal's positronic net destabilizes and Data is forced to deactivate her. ()
William T. Riker is offered command of the . ()
Terok Nor
The Bajorans Ishan Chaye, Jillur Gueta, and Timor Landi are executed on Terok Nor after an assassination attempt on Gul Dukat. Three days later, another bombing leads Odo, who had been in charge of the investigation, to realize the three Bajorans were innocent. ()
Other events
Starfleet updates the uniform design, becoming a two-piece uniform, but keeping the same black shoulders/leggings and colored midriff/sleeves from the previous uniform design. ()
Alexander Rozhenko, son of Worf, is born to K'Ehleyr. ()
Three days before stardate 43152, the Husnock attack and destroy the Federation colony on Rana IV. Among the dead is Rishon Uxbridge. In an act of revenge, her husband Kevin, who is actually an immortal and all-powerful Douwd, annihilates all fifty billion Husnock. ()
The Romulan scout ship crashes on Galorndon Core. It is suspected the ship was conducting covert operations in Federation space before it crashed. The Federation and the Romulans nearly go to war over the incident. ()
Four months before stardate 43462, for openly criticizing the policies of the government of the Romulan Star Empire, Admiral Alidar Jarok is censured and reassigned to a remote sector. ()
The Romulan Admiral Alidar Jarok defects to the Federation, with faulty information about a new outpost on Nelvana III, designed to lure the Enterprise-D into the Neutral Zone. ()
On Rutia IV, these events occurred prior to stardate 43510:
Six months before, Alexana Devos is promoted to director of security. She replaces the former director who was murdered by the Ansata. Within a few days of her assuming command, Director Devos is confronted by the brutality of the separatist group with the terrific bombing of a shuttlebus carrying sixty children. There are no survivors of the attack.
Two months before, a cell of the Ansata first use the inverter for their attacks on civilian centers. These attacks precipitate the need for the Rutian government to request medical supplies from the Federation. ()
A Romulan ship, which participated in the Khitomer Massacre of 2346, is captured by warriors of the Klingon Empire. Her logs identify the traitor at Khitomer as Ja'rod, the father of Klingon High Council member Duras. ()
The Klingon High Council gives Worf a discommendation when his father, Mogh, is accused of aiding the Romulans at the Khitomer Massacre. However, the Enterprise crew discovers data which indicates that Duras' father, Ja'rod, was the traitor, and Worf accepts discommendation in order to keep the Klingon Empire from disintegrating into civil war. ()
Ambassador Sarek is diagnosed with Bendii Syndrome, shortly before he conducts final negotiations with the Legarans. ()
Harry Kim enters Starfleet Academy. ()
The United Federation of Planets is attacked by a Borg cube, which annihilates the New Providence colony on Jouret IV, as well as the freighter . The Enterprise-D intercepts the Borg near the Paulson Nebula, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard is abducted and assimilated. The Enterprise prepares an energy weapon based on its deflector dish, but Picard, as Locutus of Borg, gives the Borg knowledge which renders the deflector weapon useless. The Borg continue on a course to Earth. ()
Starfleet issues new type 2 phaser and tricorder designs. Starfleet uniforms are redesigned, now in two-piece versions with a higher collar and no striping on the shoulders. ()
Anjohl Tennan dies in the Batal labor camp. ()
The soccer player Golanga has his knee replaced by a bio-implant. ()
B'Elanna Torres enters Starfleet Academy. () This is also the last time she talks to her mother, Miral, before being stranded in the Delta Quadrant. ()
Odo is designated an officer of the Cardassian court in order to testify in criminal cases. ()
D'Ghor begins to systematically attack the House of Kozak in order to financially weaken it. ()
The Cardassian ship Ravinok is attacked by the Breen and forced to crash land on Dozaria. ()
Nikolai Rozhenko and Worf see each other for the last time until 2370. ()
Benjamin Sisko wears a Starfleet dress uniform for the last time until 2369. ()
Six months before stardate 43997, Commander Shelby takes over the Borg tactical analysis at Starfleet Tactical. ()
Lore is rescued by a Pakled trade ship. ()
A peace treaty ends the Federation-Cardassian War. ()
Rabal is convinced by his sister Serovas research that warp drive was harming their homeworld Hekaras II. ()
Gwyndala is born. ()
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Alternate timeline
The emerges from a temporal rift. It temporarily remains in this year, causing an alternate timeline in which the Federation is fighting a losing war with the Klingon Empire. Captain Rachel Garrett is killed in a Klingon attack, and Lieutenant Richard Castillo is forced to take command. The ship returns to the year 2344 and the changes to the timeline are averted, although an alternate version of Natasha Yar returns to the past with the Enterprise-C. ()
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In a holoprogram created by Barash, a research station was set up on Miridian VI. ()
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According to his personnel file in the non-canon video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, Barnaby was promoted to the rank of lieutenant junior grade in the year 2366.
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The emerges from a temporal causality loop in which it was trapped for ninety years. In the process, it collides with the Enterprise-D and causes a temporal loop to form at the time of the collision. The loop repeats for seventeen days until the Enterprise crew discovers how to avoid the collision. ()
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge develops a tachyon detection grid in order to detect cloaked ships and reveal the Romulan involvement. They are forced to withdraw, leaving the Duras without support and Gowron victorious. ()
Captain Picard is able to open communication with the enigmatic Tamarians. ()
The Enterprise attempts to communicate with the Crystalline Entity, but it is destroyed by Dr. Kila Marr. ()
The Enterprise is struck by a quantum filament and experiences heavy damage including a near-loss of antimatter containment. Molly O'Brien, daughter of Miles and Keiko O'Brien, is born in the ship's Ten Forward lounge during the crisis. ()
The Ktarians attempt to take control of the Federation, but are thwarted by Enterprise-D personnel. ()
A peace treaty is established ending the centuries-long war between Krios Prime and Valt Minor. Despite Ambassador Briam's being incapacitated by injury, this treaty is made possible by the diplomatic assistance of Jean-Luc Picard and the dutiful self-sacrifice of the metamorph Kamala. ()
A Borg scout ship crashes in the Argolis Cluster. The Enterprise retrieves a drone, Third of Five, from the crash site and intends to return it to the Borg Collective with a software weapon. The drone later develops a personality and is named Hugh. Picard does not implement the weapon, but allows Hugh to return to the Borg. ()
A probe from the long-dead planet Kataan telepathically transmits information about its culture, in the form of memories of a man named Kamin, into the brain of Captain Picard. Picard recovers a Ressikan flute from the probe, a relic from the entire lifetime he experienced while unconscious for merely twenty-five minutes. ()
In another quantum reality, Commander Worf, the first officer of the Enterprise-D, and his wife Deanna Troi had their second child, a girl named Shannara. ()
In a second quantum reality, Worf and Troi began a romantic relationship while he was recovering from his spinal injury on Stardate 45587. Six months later, Worf formally asked Riker's permission to court Troi as he felt that not doing so would be dishonorable. The two eventually married. ()
Other Events
The Klingon Civil War between the Duras family and Gowron continues. Although Gowron's forces are outnumbered and on the verge of defeat, a Starfleet armada led by Jean-Luc Picard and the blockades Romulan support of Duras. ()
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge develops a tachyon detection grid in order to detect cloaked ships and reveal the Romulan involvement. They are forced to withdraw, leaving the Duras without support and Gowron victorious. ()
Gowron secludes himself and begins to rewrite Klingon history, excising any mention of the Enterprises help. ()
Ambassador Spock is sighted on Romulus and the Federation Council worries that he has possibly defected. He is actually working with an underground movement which has the goal of unifying the Vulcan and Romulan peoples. Romulan officials, led by Sela, try to exploit the underground in order to send an invasion fleet to , but Captain Picard, Lieutenant Commander Data, and Spock uncover the plot and the invasion forces are destroyed. (
The celebrated ambassador Sarek of Vulcan dies at the age of 203 of complications from Bendii Syndrome. ()
The first test of the soliton wave is conducted near Bilana III. ()
Nova Squadron, including Cadet Wesley Crusher, is involved in a deadly accident at the Saturn flight range. The members of the team were attempting a Kolvoord Starburst, a maneuver banned by Starfleet Academy because of its danger. The team covers up the accident, but evidence uncovered by Captain Picard convinces Wesley to come forward with the truth. ()
Unknown at the time, Hugh's return causes widespread systems problems in the Borg, resulting in many drones simply being cut off from the Collective. ()
The Romulans experiment with interphase cloaking technology, but fail to perfect it. ()
Hector Ilario enters Starfleet Academy. ()
Mezoti is born. ()
Starfleet introduces the runabout. ()
Julian Bashir, Elizabeth Lense, and Erit graduate from the Starfleet Medical Academy. Lense was valedictorian and Bashir was salutatorian. ()
Sometime this year, in order to cope with the stress of living aboard Bajoran space station Deep Space 9, Elim Garak activates the Obsidian Order cranial implant designed to help him resist torture and leaves it running continuously for the next two years. ()
Bok buys himself out of Rog Prison. ()
Tuvok receives his meditation lamp from a Vulcan master, paying twice the normal price. ()
Fesek's son is born on Malon Prime. ()
: Commander Chakotay visits Starfleet Command for the last time before being marooned in the Delta Quadrant, and resigns his commission to Admiral Nimembeh. ()
B'Elanna Torres drops out of Starfleet Academy. ()
Enabran Tain retires as head of the Obsidian Order and settles on the Arawath Colony. ()
A Borg vessel carrying Seven of Nine and several other Borg drones crashes on a planet on the Delta Quadrant. The drones are separated from the Borg Collective and start to regain their identities, but are relinked into a temporary collective established by Seven of Nine. ()
Neelix visits a planetoid with rich dilithium signatures that will later be visited by the in 2371. ()
The is destroyed in the black cluster. Its remains are towed back to Starbase 514 to be scrapped. ()
Doctor April Wade is nominated for the Carrington Award. ()
Kira Nerys is fighting the Cardassians in a nameless swamp on Bajor. ()
Lieutenant Aquiel Uhnari is assigned to Relay Station 47. ()
Notes
A bottle of Kandora champagne from this year, described as a very good vintage, was presented to Kira Nerys by Quark in 2371. ()
Apocrypha
A mission of the video game Star Trek: Legacy involving the and the takes place in this year, according to the stardate: 45252.6.
According to his personnel file in the non-canon video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, Barnaby was promoted to the rank of lieutenant this year following completion of his tactical field training. also graduated from Starfleet Academy this year, his first assignment being the USS Lancaster.
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The pursues the and negotiates a cease fire with the nucleogenic lifeforms. The Equinox is later destroyed with only five crewmembers surviving; they are stripped of rank and ordered to serve as crewmen on Voyager, with extensive supervision and limited privileges. ()
After a near death experience, B'Elanna Torres travels to Klingon Hell to rescue her mother Miral from the Barge of the Dead. ()
Research begins on expanding The Doctor's program into an Emergency Command Hologram, which will allow him to function as acting captain of Voyager in an emergency. ()
Voyager helps revive the Vaadwaur species. They later turn out to be hostile but their subspace corridors propel Voyager two hundred light years closer to the Alpha Quadrant. ()
Voyager encounters a graviton ellipse and retrieves data about the phenomenon from the command module of the Ares IV spacecraft, which had been trapped in the ellipse since 2032. ()
Captain Kathryn Janeway is abducted by the Kellidians, but is rescued by Lieutenant Commander Tuvok. ()
Voyager uses a catapult designed by an alien called Tash to travel thirty sectors closer to Earth. ()
The Voyager crew rescues four adolescent Borg drones from a derelict cube: Icheb, Mezoti, Azan, and Rebi. ()
Other events
After five years, the Pathfinder Project of Starfleet's Communications Research Center manages to establish contact with Voyager, thanks to the efforts of Reginald Barclay. Eventually, Voyager is able to transmit and receive monthly data streams from the Alpha Quadrant. ()
The Ocampan city is presumed to have run out of the surplus of power that the sent to them before he died. ()
Benjamin Sisko's child with Kasidy Yates was to have been born in this year. ()
During this year, Kes returns to Voyager. She attempts to travel five years back in time, but stops and decides to return to . ()
In an alternate timeline, Kes returns to Voyager and destroys her ship in a collision with Voyager. She then damages Voyager, kills B'Elanna Torres, and uses Voyagers warp core to travel back to 2371. ()
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According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 70), in this year, after being re-settled, New Bajor is admitted to the Federation.
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The events of the begin in this year.
The video games Star Trek: Armada, Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force, and Star Trek: Hidden Evil also take place in this year.
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A music festival is held at Bewlay Island, Stardust City. ()
The events of the anti-time future are assumed, by Jean-Luc Picard, to have taken place in this year. ()
Notes
According to the imager at the Velara Base, this year is when Velara III would have become a class M planet suitable for colonization. However, the project was discontinued with the discovery of the microbrain in 2364. ()
The documentary What We Left Behind revisits the characters of DS9 in 2395.
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Ensign D'Vana Tendi begins serving on the USS Cerritos following her transfer from Outpost 79. ()
The Cerritos departs from Douglas Station to make second contact with the Galardonian High Council. Most of the crew is briefly overcome by a rage virus before Commander T'Ana, MD finds a cure. ()
Ensigns Bradward "Brad" Boimler and Beckett Mariner escort the Klingon General K'orin to Tulgana IV. Mariner and K'orin get drunk on the shuttle. The ensigns go in search of the General after he steals the shuttle. Eventually K'orin arrives at the embassy for the meeting. ()
Ensign Samanthan "Sam" Rutherford transfers to different departments on the Cerritos before realizing that Engineering is his true calling. He agrees to watch Trivoli pulsar with Ensign Tendi on her PADD while he works. ()
Captain Carol Freeman puts a new directive into effect on USS Cerritos that all crew must have their assignments completed within a strict amount of time, after learning that some of the crew are using "buffer time" to get away with not doing as much work as they should, and feeling that she was removed from the peace conference with Cardassians, making her think that Starfleet does not take her and her ship seriously. On the planet Gelrak V, Commander Jack Ransom and Ensign Mariner are imprisoned for giving the wrong idol to the natives. Ransom fights their champion and secures their freedom. ()
The Cerritos assists the with the relocation of an ancient generation ship. During the mission, Beckett Mariner disrespects Captain Carol Freeman, who as an act of revenge, temporarily promotes her to Lieutenant and assigns her to her senior staff as an operations officer. ()
Captain is at odds with Captain Freeman and orders his ship to take the lead in moving the generation ship, which causes to his ship to be destroyed, and the Cerritos to experience terraformation by the generation ship's molecular fluid. Captain Freeman and Lieutenant Mariner are able to stop the fluid from completely overtaking the Cerritos, and manage to beam the Merced crew to safety. ()
The Cerritos assists the in imploding the moon of Mixtus III before its decaying orbit can damage the planet. ()
The Cerritos is engaged by a Drookmani ship while attempting to prevent the Drookmani from salvaging Starfleet wreckage. The Cerritos is damaged in the encounter, but does not open fire on the Drookmani for risk of prompting a war. The Drookmani ship is eventually destroyed by a corrupted isolinear core. ()
The Cerritos undergoes a temporary change in command, and later rescues the crew of the from an unidentified spaceborne creature that had been growing within their ship's hull. ()
On K'Tuevon Prime, the crew of the Cerritos is seemingly put on trial for the supposed crimes of its senior officers. Ensigns Boimler, Mariner, Tendi, and Rutherford testify on behalf of the senior staff about prior events, up to and including a hostile encounter with the Clicket ship Tweerk, the theft of a Romulan Bird-of-Prey from a Vulcan museum, a mission to Romulus, and a surprise Gorn wedding. However, the "trial" turns out to be a party thrown by Imperium Magistrate Clar, in honor of the crew who had rescued him from the Romulans. ()
Ensign Mariner violates the Prime Directive to liberate a species of sentient lizard-like beings from enslavement under rat-like humanoids, and is later beamed back aboard the Cerritos and ordered to attend therapy from the ship's counselor, Doctor Migleemo. ()
The Cerritos checks in on the civilization on Beta III, and finds that has regained control over the population after being left alone for over two hundred years. The crew of the Cerritos reaffirms the population's belief in the Federation and departs. ()
Upon arriving in the Kalla system, the Cerritos discovers the wreckage of the USS Solvang and is subsequently engaged by the mysterious ship as well, discovering it to be crewed by Pakleds. The Cerritos is boarded by a Pakled attack force and captain Carol Freeman is severely injured, giving command of the ship to ensign Mariner. Rutherford and Shaxs undergo a dangerous mission to destroy the Pakled ship, which is successful but costs Shaxs his life and Rutherford his memories, only for three more Pakled ships to appear and greatly damage the Cerritos. Acting captain Mariner was on the verge of ordering the crew to abandon ship when the USS Titan arrives, and greatly damages all three Pakled warships, forcing them to flee. The Cerritos undergoes major repairs at Starbase 77 before resuming service. ()
Sam Rutherford and D'Vana Tendi are seen attending a New Year's Eve party. ()
Captain Dayton is assigned to the Solvang following the destruction of the Rubidoux. ()
The Solvang encounters a mysterious ship in the Kalla system and is quickly destroyed, sending off a partial distress signal, which the Cerritos receives. ()
Brad Boimler is promoted to Lieutenant junior grade and transferred to the Titan. ()
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Some Starfleet vessels and facilities begin to use a new uniform design, with the department color moving back to prominence and indicated by the jacket and the trim on the boots. The jacket shoulder area returned to black, now trimmed in white. ()
Captain Jean-Luc Picard receives the Dignified Person award from the government of . ()
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If the Moneans did not stop extracting oxygen from the Waters, their planet would have lost cohesion by this year. ()
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Captain Lawrence H. Styles was a Starfleet officer and commander of the prototype vessel , in 2285.
History
Styles was a somewhat arrogant man, coming off with an attitude of superiority. He took extreme pride in his assignment as master of the Excelsior, which had been outfitted with an experimental transwarp drive. The night before the Excelsior was to be launched from spacedock, Styles encountered Montgomery Scott, his newly assigned captain of engineering, telling him that he was "looking forward to breaking some of the 's speed records."
That same evening, Styles was informed that Admiral James Kirk was attempting to steal the Enterprise, and immediately mobilized the Excelsior crew to stop him. Upon the Enterprises emergence from spacedock, Styles contacted Kirk, reminding him that, if he followed through with the illegal action, his career in Starfleet would be over. Kirk ignored him, however, and took the Enterprise to warp. Styles expected to quickly catch up to the Enterprise utilizing the Excelsiors transwarp system, but was unpleasantly surprised to find that Scott, who was Kirk's former chief engineer, had sabotaged the transwarp drive. ()
Under his command in 2285, there were initial performance tests of the transwarp drive. These tests were a failure, and by 2287, Styles had been replaced as commanding officer of the Excelsior by Hikaru Sulu. (; )
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Styles was played by actor James B. Sikking. According to the film's script, "Styles is an officer about Kirk's age. If he's a little stuffy, it's pardonable; he does, after all, have the plum assignment in all of Starfleet."
Styles' full name was revealed in a for the USS Excelsior in the episode "The Star Gazer".
Apocrypha
Styles was called "Lawrence Stiles" in FASA's Star Trek III Sourcebook Update RPG supplement. Other sources have called him "Edward Styles" (Who's Who in Star Trek 1), "James Styles" (Starship Creator), "Lawrence H. Styles" (Forged in Fire) and "Robert Styles" ().
According to the video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, Styles has a wife named Carolyn, a son named Eric and a daughter named Paula.
In the Pocket TOS novel , a younger Lieutenant Styles was the annoying nemesis to Lieutenant Commander Scott (and a discharged Kirk) when he was given temporary command of the damaged USS Enterprise during its refit. He regarded himself as superior to Kirk, stating that, with him in charge, Enterprise would have a "real" captain. However, he lost his position after Kirk was allowed to take the Enterprise to investigate the possibility of foul play; Styles, outraged at this, told a superior officer that he could not do that. The novel also revealed that Kirk and Styles once served together on the , and developed a keen dislike for each other. He picked up his swagger stick from a Klingon that he beat in personal combat. In the novel, Scott, mightily annoyed by the behavior of Styles, broke the stick over his knee.
Styles also made a brief appearance in the Pocket TOS novelization of by Vonda N. McIntyre. Here, still in command of Excelsior, he was ordered by Starfleet Command to intercept and destroy the Whale Probe before it reached Earth. However, he never even made it out of Spacedock before the probe's transmissions rendered his ship and the massive space station around it completely useless.
In the original comic "Tomorrow Never Knows!" by DC, Styles was humiliated by Kirk and Scott's sabotage. Around the Fleet, he was given the nickname "Drydock Styles" along with "Styles without Substance". As such, he sought to embarrass Kirk at any opportunity as revenge for humiliating him.
According to the novel Forged in Fire, Styles was killed in late 2289 at an early peace talk on the planet Korvat between the Klingons and the Federation when a bomb set by a Klingon pirate named Qagh – who became known simply as "the Albino" – detonated in the main chamber. It was at that point that Sulu, Styles' first officer, became captain of the Excelsior.
Styles made an appearance in the comic book series titled The Mirror Universe Saga created by DC Comics. At this point, he was still captain of the Excelsior. At the start of the story, he was trying to retrieve Kirk to answer for disobeying orders, and is captured by of the mirror universe and placed in a stasis chamber.
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Krem was a Ferengi pirate in the 22nd century and the cousin of Ulis, who looked down on him and often ordered him about.
In 2151, Krem and his gang of thieves, led by Ulis, rendered the entire crew of unconscious with a "Trojan Horse" device disguised as an ancient artifact. With the crew no longer a threat, Krem and the other Ferengi boarded the vessel and began looting Enterprise. Unknown to them, however, was not affected by their device and was able to revive T'Pol.
After Captain Archer was awakened and questioned for the location of a vault which the ship did not have, Ulis ordered Krem to guard him while continuing to load heavy items off the Enterprise and onto his ship. Krem, tired of always being ordered to do menial labor, forced the captain to do his work. As the two conversed, Archer was able to convince Krem that Ulis was not treating him fairly. When Ulis ordered Krem to continue guarding Archer while Tucker, who had been caught by the pirates, lead them to the captain's vault, Krem attempted to stand up to his cousin, but could not follow through.
After being incapacitated by T'Pol with a Vulcan nerve pinch and having the rest of his compatriots captured, Krem was allowed to leave, commanding the ship once captained by Ulis. Before departing, he was warned by Archer that Starfleet Command and the Vulcan High Command would have his ship's design in their database, so they would know if he and his crew decided to start more trouble. Krem assured the captain that they would not return. He then piloted the ship away from Enterprise, ignoring the demands and pleas made by his restrained cousin and cohorts. ()
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The Q Continuum was an extra-dimensional plane of existence inhabited by a race of beings known as the . The term could also refer to the Q society itself.
As a race, the Q were immortal, but not absolutely omniscient or omnipotent (according to Quinn). They possessed the ability to alter, create, or destroy virtually any form of matter or energy, and to affect time in essentially any way they chose. Their apparent abilities included moving entire asteroid belts and stars, creating alternate timelines, and affecting universal states of nature such as the gravitational constant. Q, when discussing the dangers of allowing Amanda Rogers to develop her abilities without supervision, offhandedly remarked that she would be capable of destroying the entire Milky Way Galaxy by accident. In fact, the only time a Q was seen as unable to do something was during a period where their powers were reduced or revoked by the Continuum. ()
The Q claimed to have always existed, and their origins (if they had any), are unknown. ()
Based on descriptions by numerous Q, including the Q later known as Quinn, as well as Amanda Rogers (the child of two Q in Human form), the Q Continuum was a very highly ordered society, though it was also a virtually stagnant one.
In the beginnings of what Quinn called the "new era", the Q engaged in constant dialogues of discovery and other universal issues. However, eventually, the Q came to realize that they had experienced, observed, or discussed literally everything imaginable. This resulted in the virtual shutdown of the Continuum as a society, as the immortal beings simply saw no point in even conversing with one another anymore. This resulted in one of the Q, Q, deciding to simply use his powers to stir up trouble and cause chaos, simply because there was nothing else to do. As a result of Q's rebellious behavior, Quinn, a respected philosopher in the Continuum, decided that he wanted to shake things up even further by committing suicide, as he not only saw no purpose in continuing to exist, but wanted to break the monotonous stagnation afflicting the Continuum. The Continuum, however, stopped him from doing so because they were unable to predict what sort of societal chaos might result in the Continuum as a result of a Q committing suicide.
Quinn was imprisoned on a rogue comet for eternity to prevent him from ending his own life, until he was accidentally released by the crew of the in 2372. In a courtroom hearing to determine his right to political asylum, Quinn described the Continuum as a lazy, old way station along a deserted desert road – he argued that the road could take them to anywhere in the universe, but the Q had already been everywhere. In addition, everything both old and new had already been discussed, and so the roadhouse was silent – there was nothing left to say. Therefore, Quinn argued that being forced to remain alive was a continued burden to him, a burden that he did not want to continue to bear. Q argued that the death of a Q would create chaos in the Continuum. Voyager captain Kathryn Janeway ruled in Quinn's favor, granting him asylum. A day later, Quinn committed suicide. ()
As a result of Quinn's action, the Continuum was plunged into a massively destructive civil war that set the "Freedom Faction" against the traditional Q. The two factions were able to construct weapons that could even compromise the immortality of a Q. When these weapons were fired in the Continuum, this resulted in massive damage to subspace, causing some stars in normal space to go supernova. Eventually, it damaged subspace to such an extent that Q outside of the Continuum lost their powers and immortality.
Q had the idea of mating with Janeway to produce a being with the powers of a Q, and to put the morals of a Human to use in order to end the war. The crew of Voyager flew through a supernova into the Continuum with help from a female , who had lost her powers and could not return without Voyagers help. Voyagers crew quickly overpowered the Q by using Q weapons. A ceasefire was called. Q mated with the female Q instead of Janeway and the damage to subspace was restored. ()
Later on, the new Q became an intergalactic troublemaker. He started wars between innocent races, knocked planets out of orbit, detonated Omega molecules, and created havoc in every way he could. His mother disowned him, humiliated by his actions. Q, however, followed him, cleaning up all the damage.
Under advice from Janeway, Q implemented punishment on the boy. Q dumped him on Voyager, and, with the help of the "Q government", took away his powers. , as he was called by his father, had one week to become a good citizen, or he would be sentenced to eternity as an Oprelian amoeba. Junior did well for the first few days, until he stole the . After his friend Icheb was injured, however, he returned to Voyager. Janeway made him apologize to the ship he attacked, which was in fact Q, who masqueraded as a likely target to test his son's attitude.
When Judgment Day came, Junior was still found unworthy of being a Q, but was good enough to be a Human. After this sentence, Q threatened to leave the Continuum unless his son was allowed to stay. After further pleading, the Continuum agreed to grant the young Q's powers back to him on the condition that his father act as his guardian and supervisor in perpetuity, or at least until he could prove himself worthy. ()
By 2399, Christóbal Rios and one of his ship's holograms knew of the Q. The hologram described Jean-Luc Picard as the "Chief Contact" with the Continuum. ()
The last known contact between the Federation and the Q Continuum was in approximately 2590. In 3190, Federation Security considered the Continuum as a possible candidate for Unknown Species 10-C, the creators of the Dark Matter Anomaly; however, they were not considered likely candidates, as there had been no contact with them for 600 years and the DMA was unlike anything the Q had done before. ()
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The history of the Q Continuum is explored in the Q Continuum series, which features flashbacks to Q's "youth", including him being sentenced to safeguard Earth as punishment after his actions released a powerful entity known as "0" into the universe when Earth was damaged in the last stage of the war with 0 and his allies, which included Gorgan and the Beta XII-A entity. The conclusion of the trilogy sees 0 briefly return to this universe, achieving a level of power temporarily beyond even Q himself as his insanity from millennia of solitude allows him to warp reality at a fundamental level that Q would never be able to do without risking damage to himself. The series revealed that the Continuum was responsible for the creation of the Galactic barrier and for the imprisonment of the entity they knew as on the planet dubbed "" by Sybok. This barrier was weakened as a result of the civil war in the Continuum, which was what allowed 0 to make his return, but later repaired after 0 was exiled yet again.
In The Eternal Tide, it is revealed that the Q Continuum manifested as a creative force to "oppose" the destructive potential of the Omega Continuum after it was disrupted and the decay of the universe accelerated. Voyager is later able to slow down the decay to a more tolerable level – shortening the universe's lifespan by a few million years rather than by trillions – as the only way to completely halt and undo the disruption would have erased the Q Continuum from existence as their creative force was no longer "needed". Eternal Tide also reveals that there are at least six rules that the Q must obey, with number six being "Don't bring the dead back to life", as the consequences of such an action can be problematic as not even the Q fully know what happens after death.
In the Star Trek: Ongoing story arc The Q Gambit, it is revealed that the higher species are at war and the Q Continuum is on the verge of defeat. Galvanized by their victory over the Prophets, the Pah-wraiths have turned on their other neighbors. Not even the Q cannot stop their onslaught because in spite of all the power the Q wield in the three-dimensional universe, they are as powerless and clueless as humans in their own realm. Unable to find a path to victory, Q left to seek the counsel of Picard on what action to take. But when he couldn't get an answer, Q left for the alternate reality, intended to instead seek the counsel of for his experience in triumphing over no-win scenarios.
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USS Carolina (23rd century)
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The USS Carolina was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2267, the Carolina was registered as being in the same sector as Capella IV. A distress signal was ostensibly transmitted by the Carolina to the . However, as the Enterprise had previously been diverted by a fake distress call from the , acting captain Montgomery Scott decided to ignore the "Carolina", observing, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." ()
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The first draft of the script (dated ) described this vessel as the freighter "UES Larkin", under the command of Captain Robinson.
According to the second and third editions of the , the Carolina was identified as an old starship with either the registry number NCC-235 on page 66 or NCC-160 in the ship list on page 417. This was despite the fact that Daedalus-class had been retired from service seventy-one years earlier, as stated in . On the other hand, as evidenced in the episode , Daedalus-class starships were used well into the late 24th century. The Carolina might have been retired and put back into service. In the latest , NCC-160 was changed in the ship list to NCC-235 and the class was not mentioned. However, on page 122 of the first volume, there was a picture of the Daedalus-class Carolina.
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The Beneath the Raptor's Wing referred to a 22nd century Daedalus-class , while the Decipher role playing game supplements described a 23rd century .
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USS Essex
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The USS Essex (NCC-173) was a 22nd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2167, the Essex was commanded by Captain Bryce Shumar. The Essex operated out of Starbase 12, under the sector command of Admiral Uttan Narsu. It carried a crew of 229.
That year, the Essex visited the class M moon of Mab-Bu VI. There, it was overtaken by non-corporeal criminals from the Ux-Mal star system, who had been imprisoned on the moon centuries before, attempted to escape by possessing the Essex crew. The criminals nearly escaped their imprisonment on board the Essex, but the ship was incapable of eluding this moon's electromagnetic storms and it was destroyed with all hands. The ship's distress call continued to signal. ()
In 2259, there was a depiction of the Essex in the entrance area of the ready room. ()
In 2368, the detected the distress signal of the Essex, over two hundred years old, and investigated the moon. The criminals impersonated the crew of the Essex and attempted to take over the Enterprise, but were unsuccessful. ()
Personnel
This crew was active in 2167.
Captain Bryce Shumar
Commander Steven Mullen (first officer)
Lieutenant Morgan Kelly (security officer)
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Before the appearance of the Essex had been established in canon, production staff fans, most notably Doug Drexler, Greg Jein, and Michael Okuda (in his and reference works in particular) vigorously championed the appearance of the Daedalus-class – to which Essex was established to belong in "Power Play" – as derived from a 1964 early design concept by Art Director Matt Jefferies. ()
Jein, on his own volition, constructed an Essex reference model for Okuda to photograph and photoshop, and who had it prominently featured in his works. As the official franchise has as of 2002 deemed the contents of Okuda's two works as "quasi-canon" (thereby becoming the only ones they consider as such from then on), it follows that the Daedalus-class appearance has attained this status as well. ()
Okuda had the model, upon delivery by Jein, originally labeled (NCC-176) for its entry in the Chronology, before relabeling it as USS Essex, but felt no need to change its registry as he was aware that it would not be discernible in the small black and white pictures. Therefore the model was incorrectly labeled in the first 1994 edition of the Encyclopedia, though he had the ship endowed with the intended "NCC-173" registry, in both the individual entry (p. 94), as well as in his starship list (p. 320). Okuda did not correct this for the Chronology and second and third editions of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, when he took new color photographs of the model, but by careful angling and lighting, the registry for Essex remained obscured. For the fourth edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, new illustrations of the Daedalus-class starships were created.
For further information on the model, see Daedalus-class model.
The name Essex might be derived from any one of several sources, though the reference book The Making of Star Trek, pages 164-165, made it very clear that Original Series producers D.C. Fontana and Robert Justman had the World War II aircraft carrier , in mind when they came up with their name list in the summer of 1967 as possible candidates for what they, at the time, still called the Starship-class. In effect, a USS Essex nearly made the cut initially, as it was already referenced to in first script draft dialogue treatment, dated 30 September 1967, page 64, for the second season episode , which contained a line having Lieutenant Uhura state,
"Star Fleet Command confirms alien attack on the other starships, Sir. The enemy was defeated. Starships Essex and Eagle suffered heavy damage, but will make base."
The reference, though, was dropped from the episode as aired. See also in this respect NCC-1697.
For more information, see for a list of additional possible name origins.
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The Essex received a mention in the Pocket ENT , as being one of the starships sent to help repair after its encounter with three Romulan-controlled Klingon warships over Draylax.
The Essex was also featured in Starfleet: Year One, Beneath the Raptor's Wing, and A Choice of Futures, as well as in the reference work Star Trek: Federation - The First 150 Years.
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, a 23rd century Constitution-class starship
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The Fleming was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. This medical transport was constructed of such materials as duranium and polycomposites.
In 2370, the Fleming was transporting a cargo of bio-mimetic gel through the Hekaras Corridor when it was disabled by Hekaran scientists who were attempting to gain the attention of Starfleet.
The Fleming was later caught in a subspace rupture that had formed in the Corridor, where it had to be abandoned. Its crew was rescued by the . ()
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The named this vessel USS Fleming and classified it as a starship, with the registry number NCC-20316.
The authors of this reference work stated the starship was "named for Sir , the British bacteriologist who discovered ."
The first draft script named the ship the Theresa, this was changed by the final draft to Fleming.
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The USS Gandhi was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2369, the Gandhi was assigned to the Lagana sector on a terraforming mission. Thomas Riker was transferred to the Gandhi in that year following his rescue from Nervala IV. ()
Riker later began to express certain "political opinions" that supported the Maquis and their goals while serving aboard the Gandhi. He later deserted the ship to join them in 2371. ()
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According to the , the Gandhi was classified as an starship with the registry NCC-26632. The authors of this reference work stated that the ship was "named for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), leader of the , an influential philosopher who advocated nonviolent confrontation and civil disobedience as a means of fostering political changes on Earth."
Apocrypha
The Gandhi was stated as being a starship in John Vornholt's Double Helix .
According to the Star Trek Customizable Card Game Necessary Evil series card, Tamal was serving aboard the Gandhi as a technician and former petty officer.
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The USS Gettysburg was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. This starship was the last command of Mark Jameson and the last location of space travel for him before 2364. ()
The Gettysburg later docked for maintenance at Deep Space 9 during the Dominion War in 2375. ()
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The described the Gettysburg as a star cruiser, with the registry number NCC-3890.
In an internal list of starships, from 26 September 1990, the Gettysburgs (spelled in the list as Gettysberg) registry number was NCC-38902.
In a scene cut from the final episode, the other ships that Jameson was the commanding officer of were named the and the . According to this scene, by 2364, the Gettysburg was renowned for its explorations.
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The USS Goddard (NCC-59621) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2366, Goddard was scheduled to rendezvous with the , but the Enterprise was delayed by Starfleet to transport medical supplies to the Alpha Leonis system. ()
In 2367, the Goddard was at Starbase 414 for resupply. The ship was named on the chart "Starfleet Operations-Sectors 21166-23079" on the Enterprise-D's bridge. ( okudagram)
In 2368, the Goddard joined Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fleet that 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 Enterprise-D.
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 would attempt to reestablish the net before the Romulans got there. ( okudagram)
In 2369, the Goddard was at Starbase 434 for resupply. The ship was named on the chart "Starfleet Operations-Sectors 21538-23079" in the Enterprise-D's observation lounge. ( okudagram)
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The USS Gorkon was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In late 2369, the Gorkon was Admiral Alynna Nechayev's flagship for the armada she assembled to patrol Federation space for a possible renewed Borg invasion that year. ()
In late-2370, the ship again transported Fleet Admiral Alynna Nechayev to rendezvous with the , where Nechayev discussed the Maquis situation with Captain Jean-Luc Picard. ()
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According to the , the registry number for the Gorkon was NCC-40512. Decipher's sourcebook gave its registry number as NCC-40521.
The Gorkon was named for the Klingon chancellor Gorkon. (; ) In early drafts of "Descent," this ship was named . It was Rick Berman who asked for a first-ever alien namesake for a Starfleet ship. ()
For the sake of continuity, this article assumes that this ship remained Nechayev's flagship following the Borg incursion. It is of note, however, that in the , the was identified as the Excelsior-class starship in "Preemptive Strike", but for the fourth edition, this was changed to where the ship in "Preemptive Strike" was not identified at all.
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, an alternate reality starship
, a 24th century starship that saw action in the Dominion War
, a 25th century starship
, an Oberth-class starship
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The USS Hathaway (NCC-2593) was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. This ship was launched in 2285 from the Copernicus Ship Yards on Luna, and was equipped with Avidyne impulse engines.
In preparation for Operation Lovely Angel in 2365, the Hathaway had been stripped down and was towed to the planet Braslota II in the Braslota system. While in orbit, the ship was temporarily reactivated for a Starfleet battle simulation, in which first officer William T. Riker commanded the obsolete cruiser against the state-of-the-art starship. Although the Hathaway was running on minimum power, had only a few shards of dilithium, and no antimatter fuel, Riker's away team managed to reactivate the ship and place it in sufficient condition for simulated combat in only 48 hours.
However, the battle simulation was interrupted by the sudden arrival of Ferengi Marauder Kreechta, whose DaiMon believed he had stumbled into a Starfleet internal conflict. Thinking that the Hathaway must be of great value to be fighting against a modern starship (and not realizing the battle was simulated), the Ferengi demanded the Hathaways surrender. The two Starfleet crews coordinated a ruse, however, in which it was made to appear as if the Enterprise destroyed the Hathaway to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. In reality, the Hathaway had merely made a split-second warp jump the instant before the photon torpedoes detonated. Its potential prize destroyed, the Ferengi retreated. Following the exercise, the Hathaway was towed to the nearest starbase. ()
By 2368, the Hathaway had been restored to working order, and was recalled to active duty. That year, it joined Captain Picard's fleet that blockaded the Klingon-Romulan border during the Klingon Civil War. The ship was one of twenty-three assembled for the fleet; however, it was not selected for the tachyon network. 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 would attempt to reestablish the net before the Romulans got there. ()
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Commanding officer
William T. Riker (2365)
First officer
Worf (2365)
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Geordi La Forge (2365)
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According to the , the Hathaway may have been named for , 's wife.
The Constellation-class model labeled USS Hathaway was re-used to represent one of the ships in the task force sent to blockade the Klingon-Romulan border during the Klingon Civil War, in early 2368, in the episode "Redemption II". However, the Hathaway was not among the ships in the grid. Considering that there were at least twenty ships in the fleet (from the script), and there were seventeen ships in the grid, it was probable that the Hathaway and two other unnamed ships might be assigned to other duties within the fleet.
The Hathaway was the final appearance of the Constellation-class studio model.
Apocrypha
The Hathaway appeared as one of four playable Constellation-class vessels in the video game Star Trek: Legacy.
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The Havana was a 24th century Federation starship.
In 2369, the Havana was scheduled to rendezvous with the following the latter ship's study of the fire storms on Bersallis III. ()
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The USS Helin (NCC-1692) was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2293, the Helin was assigned a Neutral Zone patrol mission in Sector 21290. The ship was named on a Starship Mission Assignments chart on the bridge. ()
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This ship was not mentioned in the movie's dialogue, but was listed in several starship status charts seen on the sets of the film.
In an issue of Bjo Trimble's Space-Time Continuum, it was mentioned that American astronomer was given a model of an ship which bore this name. The website has a picture of a dedication plaque for the ship, also stating that it was given to Helin "by the Star Trek franchise". It is unclear if a ship model was indeed given as well, or if the reference to a model in Space-Time Continuum is erroneous.
According to a ship list included in the plans, and not seen in the extended cut of the movie, this ship was commanded by R. Brookshire, and the ship was located in Sector 21290.
The ship's captain was named after Rebeca Brookshire, an assistant to the sixth movie's producer Ralph Winter.
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The USS Hera was a Federation starship operated by Starfleet during the late 24th century.
Prior to the ship's disappearance in 2370, the Hera was under the command of Captain Silva La Forge. This starship had a crew of over three hundred that consisted mainly of Vulcans. The Heras warp coils used trionic initiators.
In late 2369, seven months before the ship's disappearance, Silva La Forge assumed command of the starship. To celebrate, Captain La Forge hosted a party for her crew. Her son Geordi La Forge attended the party; however, he did not come over and speak with his mother.
The following year, three weeks before her disappearance, the Hera received several new transfers including a chief engineer who liked to "juice" the engines. She was considered by her captain as one of the best technicians in the fleet. A week later, the Hera was in the same sector as the . At this point, the chief engineer was experimenting with the warp drive.
Ten days before the ship's disappearance, the Hera traveled close to the planet Marijne VII before arriving at Deep Space 3. A day later, after receiving her orders, the ship departed DS3 on a routine courier mission, and was in communication with the space station for five days. Shortly afterwards, the station failed to establish a connection with the ship, and three days later, the Hera was declared missing. The ship's last reported position was over 300 light years from Marijne VII.
A massive search mounted by the and the failed to discover any trace of the ship. The ship was believed lost and a memorial service was later held for the crew on . ()
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Background information
According to the , the Hera was a starship with the registry number NCC-62006. The reference work further noted that the Hera was "named for the Greek goddess Hera, wife of Zeus and queen of the gods."
Like the and , the Hera had a predominantly Vulcan crew.
Apocrypha
The fate of the Hera was revealed in the novel Indistinguishable from Magic, in which it was located, along with survivors (including Silva), and sent to be repaired. According to Star Trek Online, it was destroyed by Orion pirates in 2409.
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USS Madison
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The USS Madison was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2373, the Madison was part of the fleet commanded by Vice Admiral that first intercepted the Borg cube in the Typhon sector and then followed the cube to Earth before the Battle of Sector 001. A commander named Ludwig served aboard the Madison during this battle. ()
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Background information
The name Madison was overheard among the radio chatter at the beginning of the battle.
Apocrypha
According to the s The Big Game and The Long Night, the Madison was a starship.
In the Star Trek Online mission "Beyond the Nexus", the Madison was a Galaxy-class starship with the registry number NCC-71808.
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USS Musashi
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The USS Musashi was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. The Musashi fought in the Dominion War.
In 2375, the Musashi was involved in a series of complicated trades for engineering equipment orchestrated by Ensign Nog of Deep Space 9. Nog traded an induction modulator to the Musashi in exchange for a phaser emitter. ()
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Background information
According to the , the Musashi was "named for the Japanese that sunk in the on October 25, 1944 during the ."
Apocrypha
According to War Stories, Book 1, the Musashi was destroyed during the Dominion War, at a point after "Treachery, Faith and the Great River".
Star Trek Online depicted the Musashi as a starship with registry NCC-71809. The vessel was still in service in 2409, and was destroyed as part of the Klingon Empire player tutorial.
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USS Nautilus
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The USS Nautilus (NCC-31910) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
The Nautilus fought in the Dominion War. In late 2374 she saw action at the First Battle of Chin'toka where she, along with the and , assisted the in destroying the Cardassian orbital weapon platforms' shared power generator. ()
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The Nautilus appearance in "Tears of the Prophets" was confirmed by John Gross and Karen Sickles of Digital Muse in a post, by DS9 Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes, on the newsgroup alt.tv.star-trek.ds9. One of the Miranda-class ships that appeared in this sequence quite clearly bore the registry of NCC-1864.
According to the , the Nautilus was "named for the first to reach the North Pole, as well as Captain Nemo's in Jules Verne's classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.''"
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USS Philadelphia
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The USS Philadelphia was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
Alfonse Pacelli was assigned on stardate 40127.8 to this ship, which was named in his personnel file. ()
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The USS Pueblo was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
Daniel Kwan was assigned on stardate 44987.6 to this ship, which was named in his personnel file, prior to his assignments on the and the . (, okudagram)
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The USS Seaview was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
Daniel Kwan was assigned on stardate 45983.6 to this ship, which was named on his personnel file. (, okudagram)
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USS Silversides
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The USS Silversides was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
Ensign Marla E. Finn was assigned to this starship on stardate 40632.7. This ship was named in her personnel file. ()
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USS Syracuse
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The USS Syracuse was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
After serving on the , Alfonse Pacelli was assigned to the Syracuse on stardate 40276.2. This ship was named in his personnel file. (, okudagram)
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USS Veracruz
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The USS Veracruz was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2375, the Veracruz beamed down troop replacements and engineering crew for the besieged forces defending a captured Dominion communication array on AR-558 in the Chin'toka system. The ship later transported the wounded troops from AR-558, including Nog and Julian Bashir, to Starbase 371. ()
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The USS Whorfin (NCC-1024) was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2293, the Whorfin was assigned a deep space exploration mission. The ship was named on a Starship Mission Assignments chart on the bridge. ()
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This ship was not specifically mentioned, but was listed in several starship status charts seen on the sets in the movie.
This ship may be the prototype of the .
The name of the ship may have come from Lord John Whorfin, a character in . The in-universe explanation might be that this ship was named after the 22nd century Captain John Whorfin.
According to a ship listing included in the plans, and not seen in the extended cut of the movie, the Whorfin was commanded by H. Narita, and the ship was located in Sector 21399.
The ship's captain was named after the sixth movie's director of photography Hiro Narita.
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Doctor Zefram Cochrane was a Human scientist in the 21st century and a pivotal figure in Human history. An eccentric genius, he was the inventor of warp drive on Earth and became the first recorded Human to travel faster than light, prompting official first contact with the Vulcans. (; ; ; ; )
Biography
Early life
Cochrane was born in the 2030s. (; library computer file) His place of birth was Montana, North America, Earth. ()
Cochrane's circumstances were somewhat affected by World War III, gaining him at least minimal knowledge of ECON, one of the aggressors in that conflict. ()
Developing warp drive
During the 2060s, Cochrane and his team of engineers began developing the warp drive. () The challenge of inventing warp theory took Cochrane an extremely long time. () In 2061, he was responsible for Earth's first successful demonstration of light speed propulsion, though his work was far from complete. (; library computer file) His primary motivation for commencing warp technology was financial gain in the devastated, poverty-stricken America that existed in the wake of the Third World War.
He finally built Earth's first warp ship, the Phoenix, in the hope its success would prove profitable and allow him to retire to a tropical island filled with naked women. A historical irony was that, contrary to the fact he went on to use the Phoenix to inaugurate an era of peace, Cochrane incorporated a weapon of mass destruction into its design; he constructed the Phoenix in a silo on a missile complex and used a Titan II missile as his launch vehicle.
By 4 April 2063, Doctor Cochrane had made plans to pilot the Phoenix on a test warp flight that was scheduled to launch the next morning. That night, he was witness to an attack from a Borg sphere that fired on the missile complex from above; Borg photon torpedoes exploded extremely close to him, as he desperately struggled to escape. Cochrane was thereafter sought by the crew of the Federation starship , who had recently come back in time from the year 2373 to stop the Borg sphere from preventing first contact. He was temporarily considered by the Enterprise crew to have been killed in the Borg attack.
By the time Dr. Cochrane was located by the Enterprise crew, he had abandoned hope for the continuation of the Phoenix, wishing that the prototype craft would "rest in peace." Cochrane was convinced to half-heartedly persist in his endeavors by the Enterprise-E crew, who treated him like a historical figure, which he was to them. When they confronted him with some particulars of his future image as herald of a better world, Cochrane refused to accept this new role. He initially attempted to literally flee from his destiny, pretending that his departure was merely temporary so he could urinate. He was subsequently pursued by a squad of officers and shot down with a phaser – which he thought of as a laser – set to a minimal power output and wielded by an impatient Commander Will Riker.
Cochrane then became more cooperative; by 10:00 a.m. on 5 April, he had mentally prepared himself to make history (despite a distinctly uncomfortable hangover) and had begun readying the Phoenix for liftoff, even though he still disputed the notion of being idolized. An hour later he was aboard the Phoenix as it launched, with Commander Riker and Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge accompanying him. Cochrane was not only instrumental in the flight of the Phoenix – at one point giving the instruction to activate warp drive with the command, "Engage" – but was also amazed to view the Earth and the Enterprise-E from space and was shocked to experience the sensation of traveling at warp. He broke the warp barrier just after 11:00 a.m., enough to draw the attention of the , a type of Vulcan survey ship which was passing near Earth.
That evening, Cochrane was among many Human spectators who watched the Vulcan ship land in Bozeman, Montana, thereby making first contact with Humans and opening a new era for the whole of mankind. Finding difficulty in returning a Vulcan salute, he welcomed the arrival of the ship's Vulcan captain by engaging him in a handshake, for which Cochrane was thankful. ()
In an alternate timeline, the Borg succeeded in stopping Cochrane from breaking the warp barrier. His failure to execute that achievement eventually resulted in Earth's being inhabited by an entirely Borg population of approximately nine billion. (; )
In 2064, Cochrane acknowledged details about the first contact in Bozeman, in a commencement address at Princeton University. He claimed it had involved "a group of cybernetic creatures from the future" which had been repelled by a group of Humans who had come from the same era. However, Cochrane's remarks were largely shrugged off by his audience as a result of his tendency toward imaginative stories and intoxication. ()
In time, Cochrane resigned himself to the role history had apparently written for him, rather than maintaining the more fantastical truth of what had happened. (; ) He recanted his own statements regarding first contact and the two warring groups involved in the event a few years after making the claims. () In 2073 he was recorded as proclaiming, "Don't try to be a great man; just be a man, and let history make its own judgments." ()
In the early 22nd century, Cochrane designed a style of warp reactor that was fitted aboard freighters. It was rumored that he personally signed the inside of each reactor casing. () He also collaborated with Henry Archer on the warp five engine around this time, working hard to develop it and help make it a reality. In 2119, Cochrane officially opened the Warp Five Complex on Earth, making a at the opening ceremony. () Cochrane met Henry's son, Jonathan Archer, the future captain of , while the elder Archer was giving his son a tour of the facility. () In a historic holoprogram, Cochrane was said to have given Henry Archer a bottle of whiskey in celebration on the day they broke ground at the Warp Five Complex. ()
Later life
At the age of eighty-seven, Cochrane left his new home on Alpha Centauri colony for an interstellar expedition. (; library computer file) In a state of tiredness and dying from old age, he chose to die in space. () His body was never recovered and he was presumed dead. (; library computer file)
Cochrane ended up on an asteroid in the Gamma Canaris region. He was brought there, while in a disabled spaceship and virtually dead from old age, by a cloud-like entity which he called the Companion. Cochrane was rejuvenated by this entity, which went on to keep him young and alive for 150 years. At one point he cannibalized his ship, using left-over tools and supplies to construct a building where he could live. Necessities including food and water were provided for him by the Companion, with whom he could telepathically communicate. However, Cochrane eventually wished to be released from the entity's supervision, finding immortality boring. In an attempt to obtain freedom from the Companion he explained that he was lonely, so it decided to bring him other Humans for company.
In 2267, Captain James T. Kirk, Commander Spock, and Dr. Leonard McCoy of the were ferrying Federation Commissioner Nancy Hedford, who was terminally ill, aboard the shuttlecraft when they were mysteriously brought to the asteroid by the Companion. Cochrane was delighted to meet the newcomers there, exchanging handshakes with each of the other men, and was impressed by the configuration of their shuttlecraft. Nevertheless, he originally kept the truth from the visitors, saying he had crashed on the asteroid an indeterminate time ago and feigning ignorance of the Companion. Under duress from Kirk, he conceded the facts, such as confessing the actual specifics of his arrival. Cochrane repeatedly talked with the Starfleet officers about the differences in the galaxy since his disappearance, remaining tempted to leave the asteroid. The Federation and universal translator were both new concepts to Cochrane. His knowledge of modern propulsion was also updated thanks to Spock and Kirk, the latter of whom observed that Cochrane didn't "look a day over thirty-five."
Faced with the quandary of either escaping the Companion and helping Commissioner Hedford to a hospital or risking the death of the Companion, Cochrane reluctantly opted to endanger the entity, despite being exceedingly grateful for its guardianship; this choice led to his being struck down and momentarily rendered unconscious. In a conversation that Kirk had with the entity, the Companion repeatedly called Cochrane "the man". Once it was discovered that the Companion was actually feminine with romantic feelings toward Cochrane and the female entity entered the body of Hedford, Cochrane was finally allowed to leave with his guests, though the merged entity was unable to accompany him. Feeling greatly indebted to the Companion for having rescued and cared for him, Cochrane began a new life on the asteroid with the newly integrated being, both of them now with a typical Human life span. Cochrane had Kirk swear never to reveal his fate to the authorities. ()
Legacy
Though Zefram Cochrane (at the time of First Contact) did not have a grand vision of ushering in a new era for mankind or of endowing Earth with the gift of warp technology, these qualities came to be commonly ascribed to him by later generations; as with many of history's icons, the man's legend was less multifaceted than he himself had been. ()
Abundant hearsay circulated in the aftermath of Cochrane's disappearance. One supposition was that he had been testing an experimental warp ship. He was also reputed to have been flying a one-man craft at the time he was lost. () Another rumor regarding Cochrane was that he had personally signed the inside of each reactor casing aboard the series of J-class freighters. ()
Numerous phrases that Cochrane had used in the speech he gave at the dedication ceremony for the Warp Five Complex were repeated by Starfleet for generations to come, such as talk of exploring "strange new worlds," seeking out "new life and new civilizations," and going boldly "where no man has gone before." (, et al.) The latter line in particular later adorned the dedication plaques of various starships named Enterprise (albeit somewhat paraphrased, as "...to boldly go where no man has gone before" or "...to boldly go where no one has gone before"), for centuries to come. (; ; ; set artwork) In 2151, a recording of the speech was displayed at the launch ceremony for Enterprise, Jonathan Archer's command. At the same ceremony, the showing of the recording was prefaced by Admiral Forrest giving a speech of his own in which he repeatedly alluded to Cochrane, describing his warp flight as "legendary." ()
A statuette of Cochrane was kept by Captain Archer in his quarters aboard Enterprise during that vessel's time in service. (, et al.)
While teasing American Starfleet officer Charles Tucker III about his nationality in November 2151, Lieutenant Malcolm Reed posited that, if Cochrane had been European rather than from Montana, the Vulcans would have been far less reluctant to help the Humans progress with space travel than they ultimately had been. Reed also reckoned that, as an American, Cochrane likely spent his boyhood nights reading about cowboys and Native American Indians. ()
After Tucker and Captain Archer became inadvertently entangled in a symbiotic lifeform, Tucker rhetorically asked Archer whether, by speaking about new life and new civilizations, Cochrane had meant aliens such as the one that was currently trapping them. ()
By 2152, Cochrane's involvement in First Contact was well known among school children and a statue of him had been built in Bozeman. () In 2152, Cochrane still had surviving family and Admiral Forrest characterized his disappearance as "the greatest missing person case of the century." When Enterprise came across a adrift in space in October, 2152, manned by one dead occupant, Captain Archer wondered if it could be the long-lost Cochrane. In the interest of determining the deceased pilot's identity, Dr. Phlox submitted a request to the Cochrane family for them to release Cochrane's genetic profile. However, it was soon learned that the pilot was a Human from the 31st century whose had suffered a critical disaster, in which he had been killed, while visiting the 22nd century. ()
By 2153, the Cochrane Equation had been named in Zefram Cochrane's honor; it described a fundamental mathematical expression in warp theory. () Cochrane distortion, a fluctuation in the subspace field that all warp engines generate, also took its name from him. () A unit of measure of subspace distortion known as the was named in his honor too. (, et al.) The Cochrane deceleration, a well-known battle maneuver in the 23rd century, was also named in his honor. () The first chapter of Basic Warp Design, a required course in Starfleet Academy's curriculum, was titled "Zefram Cochrane". ()
Numerous schools were named after Cochrane by 2154. () One academic institution was called Zefram Cochrane High School () and a scientific research organization was called the Zefram Cochrane Science Institute. () In 2154, Hernandez guessed that these schools were fewer than those named after Jonathan Archer following the Xindi incident, which Hernandez estimated were two or three dozen in North America alone. () In 2267, Spock remarked that Zefram Cochrane's name was "revered throughout the known galaxy," but Cochrane himself considered spending the remainder of his life with the feminine combination of the Companion and Nancy Hedford to be "honors enough." By that point, planets, great universities, and cities had been named after him. () A starship bearing his name, the , was launched in or by 2367. (; , et al.)
In a holodeck program set in 2161, Hoshi Sato noted that Archer's avoiding credit for the Coalition of Planets would be similar to Cochrane's taking no credit for warp drive. It was also this holoprogram that cited Cochrane as having given a whiskey bottle to Henry Archer, a recollection mentioned by the holographic Jonathan Archer. ()
In 2256, Captain of the cited Cochrane, along with Orville and Wilbur Wright and Elon Musk to get Lieutenant Paul Stamets to continue his work on the spore drive and asked if he wanted his own name to stand alongside those other inventors or if he wanted to go down in history as a failed scientist. ()
In 2368, an excited Geordi La Forge voiced an expectation that participating in one of the first tests in soliton wave propulsion would be akin to witnessing Cochrane engage the first warp drive. () This is ironic considering that La Forge went on to do precisely that. ()
When the command staff of the was contemplating whether to allow Tom Paris to venture on a test flight of transwarp drive in 2372, Captain Janeway remarked that, if the flight was successful, Paris would join an elite group of historic pilots whose names already included Cochrane's. () Two of Voyagers complement of shuttlecraft were eventually named Cochrane: , and its replacement. (; )
Zefram Cochrane was so memorable that – when quizzed by Harry Kim, during the Year of Hell version of 2374, about the name of the famous ship that had been involved in making Earth's first contact with Vulcans in Montana – B'Elanna Torres could remember only that it had been Cochrane's vessel. ()
By 2375, a Starfleet award called the Cochrane Medal of Honor was named to commemorate Cochrane. () In an alternate timeline, a similar award with the same namesake was the Cochrane Medal of Excellence. ()
In 2378, the crew of Voyager paid respects to Cochrane, celebrating the 315th anniversary of First Contact by throwing a party on the traditional holiday of First Contact Day; in the ship's mess hall, rock and roll music was played from a jukebox and cheese pierogi were served, since they had been Cochrane's favorite music and food respectively. ()
In the early 2380s, the Phoenix replica featured a hologram of Cochrane that piloted the ship on a recreation of his First Contact Day flight.()
Relationships
Lily Sloane
One of Cochrane's good friends was Lily Sloane, whom he had known since the Third World War. She nicknamed him "Z". ()
Eddy
He was also on first-name terms with several residents of Bozeman, including a bartender called Eddy.
Deanna Troi
Cochrane was physically attracted to Deanna Troi for a brief time after first meeting her, though he had difficulty remembering her first name. He made several sexual advances on her, though these were spurned, Troi drunkenly concluding he was "nuts." Even with these rejections, he was not disheartened to the extent that he stopped socializing with her – at one point voicing satisfaction to learn Riker was not her husband – and Troi was later among Cochrane's collaborators during the test flight of the Phoenix, as she announced the final countdown before liftoff from outside the craft. ()
Henry Archer
During their time working together, Cochrane would gift Henry Archer a special bottle of whiskey the day they broke ground at the Warp Five Complex. Archer would later give that bottle to his son Jonathan Archer. ()
Nancy Hedford
Similarly, Cochrane immediately found Nancy Hedford attractive, referring to her as "beautiful." Thinking of the Companion as a lover initially disgusted Cochrane, however, and he at first found the binding of Hedford and the Companion to be frightening. Realizing that his intolerance of the alien's feelings for him was motivated by prejudice, he ultimately fell in love with the female combination, even sacrificing the opportunity to explore the galaxy so he could stay with her. One final confession that he offered to Kirk was that his love for her – convinced they would have many happy years together – was the motivating factor for his staying on the asteroid, rather than simply gratitude to the entity. ()
Personality
Often wearing civilian clothing that incorporated a thin neck-scarf and a backwards cap on his head, Cochrane had a cynical streak. For example, he skeptically questioned Lily Sloane's theorizing that the attacking Borg sphere was an ECON craft, and he took considerable persuading before he finally came to realize the truth about the Borg and the officers from the Enterprise-E. ()
Cochrane also had an alcohol abuse problem. He commonly drank whiskey but was also known to imbibe shots of tequila. () The inventor of the transporter, Emory Erickson, adopted Cochrane's practice of celebrating scientific breakthroughs by consuming large amounts of alcohol and once recalled of Cochrane, "Now there was a man who knew the benefits of a little liquid courage." ()
Cochrane was well acquainted with the stars in Earth's proximity, owning a telescope and being able to identify the constellation on sight. () His favorite food was cheese pierogi. () He had an intense dislike for air- and space-travel and preferred taking trains.
Cochrane was a fan of late-20th century rock and roll music. His favorite songs included "Ooby Dooby" by Roy Orbison and "Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf. He often became stressed if he couldn't listen to recordings of such music when he wanted to, and introducing the Vulcans to rock and roll was one of his first priorities during their encounter. ()
Cochrane was also somewhat interested in agriculture. In his initial deception of the Starfleet officers who visited him on the asteroid where he eventually resided, he alleged that he grew vegetables in fields near his house. Cochrane later admitted that the Companion provided gardens for him, and, moments before his visitors from Starfleet departed, he supported his determination to remain on the asteroid by saying its surface conditions were optimal for growing things and by suggesting that he might try planting a fig tree. ()
After Lily Sloane advised him that he would regret drinking alcohol to the point of having a hangover while piloting the Phoenix on its maiden voyage into space, Cochrane claimed to her that he never had regrets. This was not entirely true, however. () For instance, he regretted his early prejudice regarding the Companion's love for him. ()
Memorable quotes
"Who is this jerk? (slurring) And who told him he could turn off my music?"
- Zefram Cochrane, after Will Riker unplugs his jukebox ()
"And you people, you're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek?"
- Zefram Cochrane, checking his understanding of the Enterprise crew members ()
"You people got some pretty funny ideas about me! You all look at me as if I'm some kind of... saint, or visionary or something!"
"I don't think you're a saint, Doc. But you did have a vision. And now we're sitting in it."
"You wanna know what my vision is? Dollar signs, money! I didn't build this ship to usher in a new era for Humanity. You think I wanna go to the stars? I don't even like to fly! I take trains! I built this ship so I could retire to some tropical island... filled with naked women. That's Zefram Cochrane. That's his vision. This other guy you keep talking about, this historical figure? I never met him. I can't imagine I ever will."
- Zefram Cochrane and Will Riker, discussing who Cochrane is ()
"Someone once said, 'Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgments."
"That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?"
"You did. Ten years from now."
- Will Riker and Zefram Cochrane ()
"Let's rock'n'roll!"
- Zefram Cochrane, before Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" ()
"Sweet Jesus!"
- Zefram Cochrane on seeing the Enterprise-E ()
"Live long and prosper."
"Thanks."
- Vulcan Captain and Zefram Cochrane, greeting each other after the T'Plana-Hath lands ()
"On this site, a powerful engine will be built. An engine that will someday help us to travel a hundred times faster than we can today. Imagine it – thousands of inhabited planets at our fingertips... and we'll be able to explore those strange new worlds, and seek out new life and new civilizations. This engine will let us go boldly... where no man has gone before."
- Zefram Cochrane, at the dedication ceremony for the Warp Five Complex, in 2119 ()
"You're food to a starving man."
- Zefram Cochrane to Nancy Hedford, as they are formally introduced ()
"I could even offer you a hot bath."
"How perceptive of you to notice that I needed one."
- Zefram Cochrane and Nancy Hedford, as she ridicules his hospitality ()
"Immortality consists largely of boredom."
- Zefram Cochrane, after Kirk asks him if he wants to leave the asteroid ()
"What was it they used to call it? The Judas goat?"
- Zefram Cochrane, before he baits the Companion ()
"I can't leave her. I love her. Is that surprising?"
"Not coming from a Human being. You are, after all, essentially irrational."
- Zefram Cochrane and Spock, on Cochrane's decision to stay with the Companion ()
Appendices
Appearances
Background information
Performers
In , Zefram Cochrane was played by Glenn Corbett. Veteran actor James Cromwell portrayed the character in the film and pilot episode . For the latter appearance, he received no credit.
Introduction
In both the first draft and the revised final draft of the script for "Metamorphosis", Cochrane was described thus: "He is a young, sturdy, tall, handsome man in his mid-thirties, dressed in a one piece set of coveralls." In the first draft of the "Metamorphosis" teleplay, Cochrane encountered not only Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, but also Montgomery Scott, who was delighted to meet the noted inventor and discuss some with him. (The Star Trek Compendium, UK 4th ed., p. 71) Cochrane also reacted much more frustratedly to the revelation of the Companion's female gender and love for him than he does in the episode's final version; enraged, he called the Companion an emotional vampire, repeatedly yelled, "Nasty," raved and screamed, threw rocks, grabbed a , and even tried to physically attack her. The conclusion to the same draft of the script involved Spock wondering – in the company of the three other Enterprise crewmen – if the fact that Nancy and the Companion shared the same body might result in Cochrane's being a bigamist, an idea Kirk dismissed as nonsense.
Cochrane's introduction in the final version of "Metamorphosis" was partly filmed with a fish-eye camera lens, though its use at first caused him to appear strange. "When Cochrane entered the foreground and ran toward the group at the [shuttle]craft, it seemed as if he had on seven league boots; he was covering what seemed like a football field distance in about five paces," explained the episode's director, Ralph Senensky. "I solved this by filming his approach from several angles, which were then joined together in the editing room."
Film re-creation
Rewriting the character
The decision to include Zefram Cochrane in the film Star Trek: First Contact was preceded by the movie's writers choosing to set the story at a time when they could also feature Humans and Vulcans making first contact with one another. "Lo and behold, we looked around and found Zefram Cochrane sitting around the same time period," recollected co-writer Ronald D. Moore. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 171) Rick Berman, who worked on the film as producer and story co-writer, concurred, "We realized where our story was going and that we could marry those elements [Cochrane and Humanity's first warp flights] into the story." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 6, p. 21)
How to depict Cochrane in the movie was a subject of much debate among the writers, including Ronald D. Moore, who later recalled, "We had very long discussions about who Cochrane was and who he should be in this film. And what we decided was you wanted to see a transition. You wanna see an arc for the character." (audio commentary, /) The writers also chose to significantly vary the film's depiction of Cochrane from how he had been established in "Metamorphosis". "We decided to take a lot of liberty with the Original Series character, and we created a new character," declared co-writer Brannon Braga, "because the character we meet in this film is very different [....] We kind of ignored, to some degree, the Cochrane from the original series." ("The Legacy of Zefram Cochrane" documentary featurette, /) Rick Berman revealed that the writers did a lot of research into the "very vague history" that had been established about Cochrane and the initial warp flights. He went on to clarify, "We attempted to stay close to what we perceived as being the way Gene [Roddenberry] had wanted to set it in motion, but we took some liberties too." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 6, p. 21)
Even though it had been established in "Metamorphosis" that Cochrane was somewhat familiar with Vulcans, that episode makes no mention of Cochrane's involvement in Earth's first contact with the species. The idea that the event took place immediately after Cochrane's first warp flight – a sequence of incidents first established in the film First Contact – followed from the episode ; that installment presented the Federation as customarily initiating first contact only with species that were evidently on the cusp of warp drive technology. The movie First Contact also established, for the first time, Cochrane's qualification as a doctor (having been addressed by Kirk as "Mister Cochrane" in "Metamorphosis").
In the first draft script for First Contact, Dr. Cochrane was wounded in the Borg attack. An introductory description of him read, "He has a youthful, dynamic appearance marred by recent radiation burns." Much of the plot also dealt with Cochrane receiving urgent medical treatment in a hospital, comatose throughout much of the script. Out of action even for a while after he regained consciousness, he let Captain Picard secretly pilot the Phoenix rather than himself, wishing he could make the flight too. It was also said he was "touched" by Geordi La Forge paying him "obvious respect." Cochrane went on to make first contact with the Vulcans, much as he does in the film's final version.
Although the writers thought Cochrane was one of the elements that worked successfully in the first script draft, they decided to adjust the character. "Let's get simple. Bring Cochrane into the story," stated Ronald D. Moore. "Let's make him an interesting fellow, and it could say something about the birth of the Federation. The future that Gene Roddenberry envisioned is born out of this very flawed man, who is not larger than life but an ordinary flawed Human being." () Brannon Braga concurred, "We realized in subsequent drafts that this is an interesting character. You kind of want to meet the guy. He's such a critical part of history. One of the things that we thought was an interesting idea was that if you went back in history [...] to meet one of your heroes [...] you might find meeting them in person, smelling the environment they lived in, and really just being there, very different from reading about it. We thought it would be cool if the man who basically ushered in a new era of humanity was motivated by things that were antithetical to Star Trek." (The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, p. 16)
Having discarded the concept of Cochrane changing by being revived, the writers now dealt with their impulse to have Cochrane undergo a character arc, in the course of the movie, by attempting to imply that he becomes the man whom the Enterprise-E crew expects him to be. (The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, p. 16) Ronald D. Moore noted, "In that man, by the end of the picture you see the transition of humanity from petty and small-minded to reaching out to the stars and actually bridging the gap between us and 24th-century man." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 6, p. 21) As such, both Moore and Brannon Braga described Cochrane, by the end of the movie, as having become "a Roddenberry person." (audio commentary, /) Alternatively, Rick Berman once stated that, at the end of the film, Cochrane "was far from a Gene Roddenberry human." Berman backed up this statement by pointing out that "when we last saw Zefram Cochrane [...] he was drinking whiskey with some Vulcans." ()
Not only has the degree to which Cochrane fitted into the character mold of a near-perfect future Human envisioned by Gene Roddenberry been questioned, but the character's similarities to the Star Trek creator himself have also come under occasional discussion. For instance, Anthony Pascale said, "I always felt that the way they treated Cochrane is kind of like Roddenberry. Roddenberry's revered as this god-like visionary, but Gene Roddenberry was a Human being with flaws, you know, but that doesn't mean he isn't also a great man and a great visionary." Damon Lindelof similarly likened Cochrane, in a scene where Lieutenant Reginald Barclay is overjoyed to meet him, to Gene Roddenberry being met by an enthusiastic fan. (audio commentary, /)
Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga were highly pleased with how they ultimately wrote Cochrane. Said Moore, "Cochrane became a really cool character who I think the audience can identify with a little bit." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 6, p. 21) Braga perceived that writing Cochrane as such a flawed character "made for more interesting drama in the film." ("The Legacy of Zefram Cochrane" documentary featurette, /)
Both Brannon Braga and Picard actor Patrick Stewart likened Cochrane to the Wright brothers. Commented Stewart, "He represents, to the post-21st century, what perhaps the Wright brothers, the aviators, represent to us in the 20th century." (The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, p. 16; ) Stewart also felt Cochrane, as presented in First Contact, was imbued with "gritty reality and humor." Another strength of the character, in Stewart's opinion, was that Cochrane challenged the actions, beliefs, and virtue of the regular TNG characters who were in the film. (Fade In - The Writing of Star Trek: Insurrection)
Damon Lindelof opined that showing the highly esteemed Cochrane as actually alcoholic and eccentric is an example of "one great convention of time-travel movies" and "sort of a touchstone of what Moore and Braga did on the series and are doing in the movie, which is, you know, character first, character first, character first." Lindelof also noticed that, in common with the character of Lily Sloane, Cochrane serves as "a conduit for the audience," as he is at first unfamiliar with the Enterprise-E crew and their indigenous time period of the 24th century. (audio commentary, /)
Recasting the role
Even though James Cromwell didn't match the look of the Original Series Cochrane, casting a performer with a likeness to that representation was not a priority for the production staff. "That didn't interest us," Rick Berman admitted. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 6, p. 29) In fact, the role in the movie was written for Cromwell to play. Rick Berman stated, "When we were creating the character, we always had Jamie in our heads." () Berman told Cromwell the writers had written the part specifically for him, because he was in their minds from the Star Trek guest appearances he had done. () Due to the actor gaining celebrity for his presence in the film , the production personnel were at one point somewhat worried that Cromwell might not be available. "We were afraid he was going to be out of our price range," explained Berman. "But it all worked out." () Additionally, Berman said, "Because we had worked with him on a number of occasions, we were delighted when he did, in fact, take the role." ()
Even though the part had been written for him, James Cromwell auditioned for the role. Upon doing so, he was asked to perform a later-excised scene wherein Cochrane attempted to commit suicide by jumping off the edge of a cliff, only for his descent to be stopped in midair by a force field Geordi La Forge had rigged up. The actor cast his memory back to his performance; "I stood on the edge of a chair, and when it came time to fall, I lay down across the chair which got a real hoot out of everybody!" () Cromwell's audition was indeed highly successful. "He nailed it," Director Jonathan Frakes raved. "He left Berman and me with our jaws in our laps." ()
Academy Award-winning actor was briefly considered to play Cochrane in First Contact (requested by then-Chairwoman of Paramount Pictures Sherry Lansing), but James Cromwell was ultimately confirmed for the role – much to the relief of both he and Rick Berman – after it was determined that the film's production wouldn't fit into Hanks' scheduling. According to Berman, the role would have needed to be considerably rewritten if Hanks had been able to accomplish it. ()
Having an interest and belief in the existence of extraterrestrials, James Cromwell was thrilled to be cast as Cochrane. (The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, p. 41) The actor later emphasized, "I thought it was so serendipitous and extraordinary that I should have this interest and make this film. I'm looking forward to seeing whether this is all part of a plan. I think it's intriguing." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 6, p. 30) Cromwell also enthused, "The character was very well-written, and he had wonderful things to do. What intrigued me was the first contact idea [....] So that was a lot of fun." Cromwell's participation was also valued by Rick Berman, who explained, "He seemed to be the perfect character to play Cochrane because we were looking for somebody who was exactly opposite what people would think [....] Jamie was perfect, and he was available and interested in doing it, and we were lucky from day one." ("The Legacy of Zefram Cochrane" documentary featurette, /)
Costuming for movie
Of all the costumes in First Contact, Costume Designer Deborah Everton felt she was given the most freedom to design Cochrane's clothing. "Even though he's so established in the lore of Star Trek, he's not a character with which we're really familiar," she mused. "I could really go to town on him and take his character pretty far out." () Given that Cochrane had been written as an eccentric genius famed for being a pivotal figure in Human history, Everton wanted to represent the character's kookiness in his costuming, without making him too repulsive to the film's audience. "I wanted to bring out a lovable, quirky quality about him," she noted. (The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, p. 80) Cochrane's clothing ended up as a reflection of his personality, a mix of practicality and flamboyance, and encompassed a large sheepskin coat for outdoor scenes. One alternative costume layout for the character was designed by Everton, illustrated in a concept sketch, but not used. Yet another sketch of Cochrane demonstrated a blue-colored spacesuit, worn, in the movie, by not only him but also Riker and La Forge. ()
The inclusion of a distinctive-looking hat was at the request of Rick Berman, after Deborah Everton had incorporated the headgear in her original sketch for Cochrane's costume. (The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, p. 81) Further sketches focusing just on the cap were carefully completed, but the headpiece eventually received more decoration around its rim. The cap, featuring more decorative studs around the outer edge, was also illustrated in the sketch of Cochrane wearing a spacesuit. () Everton reflected, "Rick Berman kept liking this hat – every time he would see it on one of the illustrations, it was 'God, I really like that hat!' So when I made it for Cochrane, I wanted to make it sort of funkier, as a character thing." (The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, p. 81)
James Cromwell was grateful that Cochrane's costumes included a heavy wool coat that he was able to wear while filming on location in frosty cold night conditions. () He was especially pleased that the costuming did not cover him up as much as he had been, by prosthetics, in his previous Star Trek roles, later remarking, "It was really nice to play someone where you can use what physicality you have and your expressiveness to give him life. When you're in a costume that covers every part of you, that's really a matter of somebody else's imagination dictating what your outer form is. I loved Cochrane's costume because it let me be me, or let me play Cochrane." ( issue #234, p. 41) Jonathan Frakes was also pleased with the clothes Cochrane wears in the film, characterizing them as "great costumes." (audio commentary, /)
On the other hand, the costuming for Cochrane proved baffling to others. For example, Brannon Braga once admitted, "I always meant to ask Deborah Everton, 'What was that hat that he was wearing?" (audio commentary, /) Cochrane's neck-scarf likewise puzzled Damon Lindelof and Anthony Pascale, though the latter hypothesized that Cochrane wearing it might be an attempt to hide a scar. (audio commentary, /)
Second portrayal
James Cromwell purposely did not watch Glenn Corbett's presentment of Cochrane prior to playing the character himself. "I didn't feel as if I were dealing with a historical character," Cromwell expressed. "I suppose that I am to some degree, at least in the eyes of some Trekkies, because Corbett played the role before I did. I just felt that what I wanted to do was to give my interpretation of what the writers of First Contact wrote as a character. I didn't need or want any outside assistance as to what somebody else had done with the same fellow." ( issue #234, p. 40)
James Cromwell found it easy to appear in the movie role. "They just let me play it as it was written," he said. "And I looked at him as just me. A guy who is overwhelmed, horny, fun-loving and self-deprecating, which is me." With a laugh, Cromwell added, "Except that he happens to be an alcoholic." () Cromwell also characterized the somewhat "maverick" Cromwell as "a throwback to the 1960s" and "actually the guy who starts Star Trek." () The actor related, "The character came alive for me. Instead of having to play a legend, what I had to play was someone who was reluctant to become a legend. That's immanently playable. It's very hard to play a legend, but it's not so hard to play when you have an action. He had a very strong action, which was that it frightened, confused, confounded and disturbed him." ()
Jonathan Frakes postulated that James Cromwell's stability with playing the part added to the characterization, as did him having great physical ease, especially considering his extreme height. "I think it made him... or made the character more Human and more attractive, because of the way Cromwell tackled the part," Frakes commented. "Instead of playing it with this sort of straitlaced respect, it was played with a wonderful casualness." (audio commentary, /)
One particular element of the story in which Cromwell found difficulty with portraying Cochrane is when the character is finally involved in the actual first contact with the Vulcans. Noted the actor, "All I had to do was say, 'It's real, it's real, it's real.' And I kept on saying to myself, 'What would it look like? What would I do? Would I perspire? Would I shake?' and I thought, 'God, the real thing is that you don't know what you'll do when it actually happens." (The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, p. 110)
Even though Cochrane was instrumental in the construction of the Phoenix, James Cromwell never saw the missile that, in the movie, supposedly delivers the prototype warp ship into space. ()
Ultimately, Jonathan Frakes deemed James Cromwell as having been "brilliant in this role." (audio commentary, /) Patrick Stewart concurred that Cromwell was "perfect" as Cochrane. (Fade In: The Writing of Star Trek: Insurrection) Ronald D. Moore likewise concluded that Cochrane's transformation into "a really cool character," slightly identifiable to the audience, was "once we married [the metamorphosis which the character is implied as going through, during the course of the film] [...] with James Cromwell." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 6, p. 21)
Later references and appearances
In the first draft script of , Jadzia Dax referenced Zefram Cochrane, excitedly remarking that an experimental technique to create artificial wormholes "could be the most important advance in space travel since Zefram Cochrane invented the warp drive."
Cochrane was additionally mentioned in the series bible for . That document noted that he was idolized by Jonathan Archer.
The only physical description of Cochrane in the final revised draft script for the pilot episode of Enterprise, , was the word "elderly." In that episode, Cochrane was once again played by James Cromwell. As he had become a relatively big movie star by then, Star Treks production personnel had to pull in a favor for him to reprise the role. This task was facilitated by Junie Lowry-Johnson, a big fan of Cromwell's who helped cast both First Contact and "Broken Bow". Rick Berman said of Cromwell's return as Cochrane, "It was interesting to get [him] [....] He was very gracious and did it." ("Broken Bow" audio commentary, ENT Season 1 DVD special features) Elaborated Berman, "We just needed him for a day [...] and he was sweet enough to come and do it for us in our pilot." ("The Legacy of Zefram Cochrane" documentary featurette, /) Cochrane's scene in "Broken Bow" was scheduled to be filmed on , on Paramount Stage 16, but actually ended up being shot there two days later, on 22 June. That morning, Cromwell reported to the makeup department at 7:30 a.m. Makeup and hair-styling were applied to give him an old-age look. He was due on set at 10:30 a.m., though he actually arrived on set sometime between 10:15 and 10:30 a.m. He had no meals during his visit to Paramount and was dismissed from the set at 11:30 a.m. Removal of his makeup then took fifteen minutes. ("Broken Bow" shooting schedule, call sheets & production reports) The suit that Cromwell wore to appear as Cochrane in "Broken Bow" was ultimately sold in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction.
In the final draft script of ENT Season 2 outing , Cochrane was referred to in a scene description, in connection with a similarity between the cockpits of the Phoenix and NX-Alpha.
At one stage, Rick Berman was noncommittal about continuing to feature Zefram Cochrane's history in Enterprise, addressing such details as his involvement in the Warp 5 project, his association with Henry Archer, and his eventual disappearance. Shortly after Berman finished work on the making of the second season, he said, "We have not ruled out telling more stories that further Cochrane's story, but we also don't have anything planned in the immediate future." ()
Footage of James Cromwell (as Zefram Cochrane greeting the Vulcans) was reused, with Cromwell's consent, at the beginning of . ("In a Mirror, Darkly" audio commentary, ENT Season 4 DVD special features) While the final draft script for that episode made it clear the footage was to be reused (dictating Cochrane's physical appearance), the teleplay didn't make any outright statement that seen in that episode was actually from the mirror universe.
Age and physical appearance
↑ According to "Metamorphosis", Cochrane was eighty-seven years old when he arrived on Gamma Canaris N, 150 years before 2267, suggesting he was born in the year 2030 and disappeared in 2117. A library computer file in uses these years, and this correlates with information provided in the and the . However, according to the recording of the dedication of the Warp Five Complex in , Cochrane was still on Earth in 2119, establishing that the "hundred and fifty years" proposed in "Metamorphosis" was not given as an exact figure and making his earliest possible year of birth 2032. () According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 61), Zefram Cochrane left Earth in 2120, suggesting a year of birth in 2033.
The first draft script of , set in 2063, described Cochrane as "a man in his mid-forties." However, James Cromwell was fifty-six years old during the production of the film, the final version of which is also set in 2063, meaning that the character is supposedly in his early thirties during the events of the film. The Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed., p. 81) accounted for this discrepancy by speculating that Cochrane's aged appearance in the movie was the result of radiation poisoning.
Theories
At one stage, Star Trek writer and science consultant André Bormanis supposed that Cochrane may have discovered a source of dilithium crystals deep in the Earth's crust and might have invented the formula for verterium cortenide from which the Phoenixs warp coils were then fashioned. () In contrast, according to the earlier Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual (p. 17), dilithium was first discovered in 2049, from the fifth moon of Jupiter.
Brannon Braga once speculated that Cochrane "probably is instrumental in the formation of Starfleet." ("The Legacy of Zefram Cochrane" documentary featurette, /)
James Cromwell has theorized that, prior to the first flight of the Phoenix, Cochrane had not planned to take the prototype warp craft into space himself, being merely a scientist and having never flown in space before. Proposing that the version of events demonstrated in First Contact constitute an alternate timeline, Cromwell went on to say, "Obviously, he does take it up himself, so something was supposed to happen, and in reality he would have made the choice anyway. Since they [the Enterprise-E crew] come back a little earlier than he had made that choice, he is frightened." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 29-30)
Likewise, in an audio commentary for First Contact available on the film's and releases, Anthony Pascale supposed that, prior to encountering the Enterprise-E crew, Cochrane "must have read a journal about time travel in , maybe before the Third World War, or something."
Trivia
In , an illustration of Zefram Cochrane can be seen when Data is assimilating the Dixon Hill novels. This illustration was from the FASA RPG module The Federation.
Cochrane's first name was consistently spelled "Zephram" in the first draft script of as well as the call sheets from the production of , and the final draft scripts of , , , and . Similarly, in the film's credits, the character's surname is misspelled "Cochran". The final draft scripts of and spelled the character's full name "Zefram Cochrane".
Cochrane was mentioned in a scene deleted from , in which Picard quoted Cochrane as having said, "To seek out new life and new civilizations."
Cochrane is the only character to utter the phrase "star trek" in the franchise, which he does in First Contact, although Q does use the phrase "trek through the stars" in the series finale, . The prospect of somehow working the phrase "star trek" into the franchise had been a secret fantasy of Rick Berman's for about the past eight years, but had proven challenging to carry out due to the oddness of the phrase. Brannon Braga offered, "We went round and round about that, [contemplating] whether it should just be 'trek,' 'star journey' [or something else]." (audio commentary, /) James Cromwell was conscious of whether the line sounded like a natural or intentional reference, stating, "Hopefully it came out [...] as, you know, searching for an idea." Cromwell believed that Cochrane saying the line while in a forested area helped make the reference sound natural, interesting, and somewhat fitting. ("The Legacy of Zefram Cochrane" documentary featurette, /) However, audience response to the line, when the film was exhibited in movie theaters, was not only sometimes laughter but also occasionally groans. (audio commentary, /)
The first season South Park episode "Damien" references a line spoken by Cochrane in First Contact: "Don't try to be a great man, just be a man."
Apocrypha
In the ization of "Metamorphosis" (as adapted by James Blish in Star Trek 7), Cochrane made mention of having been on and professed, "I was always pretty much of a loner. Spent years in space by myself." After Spock outlined that he had concluded the Companion's homeworld was once a moon of some now-destroyed larger celestial body and was colonized by a highly advanced civilization, Cochrane agreed and attested that he had found some artifacts that corroborated these theories.
In the novelization of , it was suggested that Cochrane's alcoholism was not his only issue. He also suffered from bipolar disorder, a condition that had been treated with a cerebral implant that delivered the necessary medications. After World War III, however, Cochrane was unable to find either a way to refill the implant, nor a suitable replacement, so he took to self-medicating with alcohol. The crew of the Enterprise-E was able to stabilize his condition enough for him to complete his work on the Phoenix, and Beverly Crusher cured the disorder permanently, shortly before returning to the Enterprise. In addition, this novelization specified that Cochrane was born in the year 2013, as opposed to 2030 or 2032, which would be more consistent with actor James Cromwell's real-life age and countenance in the film.
The reasoning for Cochrane having a far more weathered and older appearance than his natural age had often been given in non-canon literature (most notably the Pocket Books novel ) as being a result of him suffering from radiation poisoning. In the comics story "A Warp in Space" (printed as the forty-ninth issue of Gold Key TOS), Cochrane was shown as an elderly-looking man, even in flashback events from "Metamorphosis", with no explanation given for the change in his appearance.
The novel First Frontier divulged that Cochrane accidentally stumbled on the secrets of the warp drive and that he had originally been looking for something else, though it was never indicated what he had been looking for, exactly.
A lot of the Star Trek literature of the 1980s describes Cochrane as a native of Alpha Centauri, which is inhabited by Preserver-transplanted Humans. The novel Memory Prime explains that "Zefram Cochrane" is an anglicized version of his true name: "Zeyafram Co'akran". FASA's RPG sourcebook The Federation gives his full name as "Zephram Edark Cochrane" and claims he was born in Lurivala, Alpha Centauri.
Cochrane appeared via flashback in the second issue of the comic crossover mini-series Star Trek vs. Transformers where he and Lily Sloane are shown witnessing the Autobots leaving Earth aboard the Titan Fortress Maximus during the beginning of World War III.
In the reference book Star Trek: Federation - The First 150 Years, Cochrane grew up with a love for science, as his parents, Jesse and Hilde Cochrane, were academics. He had a rough adolescence because of the fallout from various wars and conflicts and learned to internalize his love of science. As interest in science went down around the country, Cochrane got a job with a military contractor, at one of the last places with an active science lab. There, he began designing antimatter weapons, as he was fascinated with matter/antimatter reactions and it was the only way to access the latest research.
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Dr. Henry Archer was the primary developer of the first warp engine capable of reaching warp five, and was one of the principal designers of . He was the father of Jonathan Archer and a good friend of Emory Erickson, the inventor of the transporter on Earth. ()
Henry worked closely with Dr. Zefram Cochrane to develop the warp five engine at the Warp Five Complex in Bozeman, Montana as part of the NX Program. Archer was also responsible for a derivation of the flux paradox more accurate than the one used by his Vulcan mentors. This breakthrough was the culmination of years of frustration with the Vulcans. ()
Prior to Cochrane's disappearance in 2119, Henry took his son Jonathan on a tour of the Warp Five Complex, and introduced the boy to Cochrane, Tasaki, and other scientists working at the facility. Jonathan later revealed he did not know the significance of his father's work at the time. (; )
In 2121, Henry helped his son build and fly a remote-controlled starship model. During this time, the elder Archer admonished his son's disrespect for the Vulcans, whom Jonathan believed were responsible for holding back Humanity's advancement into space. Although Henry insisted that Vulcan Ambassador Soval (whom Jonathan referred to as "Ambassador Pointy") had been very helpful, he also expressed confusion and disappointment at the Vulcans' refusal to share their technology, lamenting, "They have their reasons. God knows what they are."
Henry assisted Jonathan in flying his model starship on a , but the youth found keeping the craft in the air to be difficult. When the toy crashed, Henry advised his son that he "can't be afraid of the wind. Learn to trust it." The younger Archer took this advice to heart thirty years later, when he made the decision to abandon his prejudices against Vulcans and start trusting Sub-Commander T'Pol. ()
On the day before he entered flight training, Jonathan asked his father what would happen if he failed. The elder Archer's response was, "Don't fail." ()
Henry spent the last two years of his life experiencing frequent pain and hallucinations, talking to people who weren't there, and often not even recognizing his son or wife due to advanced Clarke's Disease. He died in 2124 before his warp five engine could be constructed, since the Vulcans had held back the engine's development program. As a result, Jonathan Archer's resentment towards Vulcans grew into a grudge which held until the 2150s. ()
In 2152, a biography on the life of Henry Archer was in the works. Jonathan Archer was asked to write a one-page preface for his father's biography, a task he put off for weeks as he found it difficult to sum up his father's life in one page. He ultimately completed it with feedback from T'Pol. One draft of the preface included the following:
"How does one measure a man's legacy? Is it defined [by] the works he's created....the technological advances that will forever alter the course of Human history? If so, then no man since Zefram Cochrane himself has made a more lasting contribution to the future of Humankind than my father, Doctor Henry Archer. When I was about eight years old, my father took me on a tour of the Warp Five facility outside Bozeman, Montana. He introduced me to the people he worked with... scientists with names like Tasaki... and Cochrane. At the time, I didn't realize the significance of those names... or the significance of my father's work."
A further excerpt mentions "Soval's passive aggression" and that "the Vulcans would continue to obstruct Archer's work as they always had". They "never imagined that Archer's elegant mathematics might have been even more accurate than those of his mentors from ." It also says that "months — years — of frustration" prevented the "paradox of the Vulcans' ego-driven blindness" from being as funny as it might otherwise have been to him. ()
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Background information
Henry Archer was played by actor Mark Moses in his second of two Star Trek appearances. The shirt Moses wore in the final scene of "Broken Bow" was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.
As evidenced by the second draft of the script for (dated ) as well as by the episode's shooting schedule, this character's first name was originally to have been "William". The change from that to "Henry" was listed as one of six revisions of character names in a one-page "script note" at the start of the final draft script of ENT pilot (the page was dated ). The revised final draft script of "Broken Bow" (dated 11 May 2001) simply described Henry Archer, when he appears in the teaser of that installment, as "in his 40's [...] wearing 22nd century civilian clothing." When he is thereafter shown with Zefram Cochrane, the script pointed out, "[He] is only a few years younger than when we saw him in the opening scene."
In the first draft script of (dated , it was established that Henry Archer often took his son Jonathan on camping trips to Yosemite National Park.
There appears to be some contradiction as to when Henry Archer died. "Cold Station 12" stated that he passed away when Jonathan Archer was twelve years old, or roughly 2124; dialogue in "Daedalus", however suggested that he was still alive when Jonathan entered flight school. Relating back to a reference stated in , it was established that Jonathan graduated from flight school when he was twenty-four years old, or roughly 2136, suggesting Henry was still alive in the early 2130s.
Inconsequently, the latter timeframe was supported by a scripted but ultimately omitted scene from an early draft of , where Jonathan was to have visited his father's grave on Earth. According to Henry's grave marker, he was born in 2077 and died in 2133. (ENT Season 4 Blu-ray special features)
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Henry Archer also appears in the ization of .
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A tachyon detection grid was a technique developed by Starfleet as a means of detecting cloaked Romulan warships. The grid used active tachyon beams transmitted between different starships or sentry posts to create a tachyon field; any cloaked ship entering this field would be exposed. The technique was developed by chief engineer Geordi La Forge in early 2368, although it resembled and was probably derived from crude sensor grid techniques used to detect cloaked ships that had been used as far back as 2154 in the buildup to the Earth-Romulan War. ()
The tachyon detection was first seen in practical use during the Starfleet blockade of the Klingon-Romulan border during the Klingon Civil War. Twenty-three starships successfully prevented a convoy of Romulan supply ships from sending further aid to the forces loyal to the House of Duras, tilting the balance in favor of Gowron, the legally-appointed leader of the Klingon High Council. During this operation, Sub-Commander Sela attempted to disrupt the grid by bombarding the with tachyons, creating a blind spot. Temporarily in command of the Sutherland, Lieutenant Commander Data recognized her tactic and used the residual tachyons to detect the ships trying to pass through. ()
Following this success, the Romulans suspected that the Federation had a tachyon detection grid to supplement its gravitic sensor net along the border of the Romulan Neutral Zone. ()
By 2373, the Klingons had deployed a tachyon detection grid around the perimeter of their military command base on Ty'Gokor. ()
In the Delta Quadrant, the Swarm used a similar technique to monitor the borders of their own territory, consisting of a series of interlaced tachyon beams. The crew devised a way to elude this grid by modifying their shields to refract the beams around the ship uninterrupted. ()
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The Tal Shiar was a Romulan intelligence agency, described by the Federation as the Romulan secret police. They were a ruthless and efficient organization, whose purpose was to ensure loyalty; to defy them is to invite imprisonment, forced disappearance, or death. It was comparable to the Cardassian Obsidian Order and Section 31. (; ; )
A Tal Shiar myth claimed that the organization was merely a mask worn by a far older cabal called the Zhat Vash. ()
Organization
It was common practice for the chairman of the Tal Shiar to be a member of the Continuing Committee. This was initially not the case for Chairman Koval, who was kept off the Committee, as he had often displayed anti-Federation sentiment and was opposed to the Federation Alliance against the Dominion. ()
Senator Vreenak was the vice-chairman of the Tal Shiar during the 2370s, up until his untimely death in 2374. ()
The Tal Shiar reported only to the highest levels of the Romulan government, and even so they undertook many missions without the direct knowledge of the Romulan Senate, conducting operations with virtual impunity throughout the Empire. Their authority superseded that of most Romulan military commanders, resulting in a mutual distrust and hatred between the two organizations. The Tal Shiar operated their own fleet, often to their own aims. (; )
History
At some point prior to 2369, the father of Commander Toreth, an old man and devoted citizen, was dragged from his home and arrested in the middle of the night by the Tal Shiar for being an idealist and speaking his mind about the Empire. He was never to be heard from again. ()
In 2369, the Romulan underground movement forced Counselor Deanna Troi of the to pose as Major of the Tal Shiar in order to facilitate the defection of Vice-Proconsul M'ret and his aides to the Federation. The real Major Rakal was killed prior to the operation. ()
In 2371, the Tal Shiar formed a secret coalition with the Cardassian Obsidian Order, to carry out a preemptive strike against the in the Dominion. As part of this operation, they carried out the assassinations of several former Obsidian Order operatives, including (unsuccessfully) Elim Garak. However, the Tal Shiar itself had been infiltrated by the Founders, and their combined fleet of twenty ships was ambushed and annihilated at the Battle of the Omarion Nebula. ()
Unlike the Obsidian Order, the Tal Shiar was able to be rebuilt after the attack on the Founders' homeworld. In 2374, operatives of the Romulan Military hijacked the prototype starship and attempted to bring it to the Star Empire. They were supposed to bring it to the Military but received orders during the operation to deliver it to the Tal Shiar's fleet instead. ()
In late 2374, the Tal Shiar investigated the destruction of Senator Vreenak's shuttle. Their preliminary report pointed towards Dominion sabotage. ()
The chairman of the Tal Shiar during the Dominion War, Koval, was in fact a Federation collaborator who was planted in preparation for feared hostilities following the end of the war. Following covert maneuvering orchestrated by Section 31, Koval became a member of the Continuing Committee from which he had been previously excluded. ()
In 2375, the Tal Shiar was responsible for the security arrangements of the Romulan Conference. ()
After the supernova of the Romulan sun in 2387 and the creation of the Romulan Free State, the Tal Shiar/Zhat Vash had agents operating on Earth and at the Romulan Reclamation Site. In 2399, these agents carried out multiple attacks on retired Starfleet admiral Jean-Luc Picard on Earth before a fleet of nearly attacked the Federation protectorate world of Coppelius. ()
Assessment
While the Dominion considered the Tal Shiar a ruthless and efficient organization, and a definite threat, Obsidian Order head Enabran Tain always used to say that they were sloppy. Indeed according to Odo, not even the Tal Shiar could compete with the Obsidian Order when it came to intelligence gathering and covert operations. ()
Commander Konsab of the Romulan Intelligence Academy had strong opinions on the difference between the Romulan military and the Tal Shiar. He believed that in order to function, military officers have to trust each other. The Tal Shiar, on the other hand, trusted no one. They expected deception, and so they always found it. ()
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Background information
The Tal Shiar was first mentioned in the form of the Federation impostor Major Rakal in the episode . "Face of the Enemy" writer Naren Shankar named the organization as a homage to the tal-shaya, a Vulcan martial arts technique from . ()
The Tal Shiar insignia was designed by Ricardo Delgado. (Star Trek Sticker Book, pg. 18)
In a line in the script but not the final version of the second season episode , Benjamin Sisko mentioned Stolpan, a Romulan friend of his, being arrested by the Tal Shiar and taken to their headquarters.
Apocrypha
In Star Trek: Countdown, in 2387 the Tal Shiar had been experimenting with Borg nanoprobe technology, and chose the miner Narada as a test-bed for the system – explaining how Nero's "simple mining vessel" could become the all-but-invincible force seen in .
In The Way of D'era, the Tal Shiar has a military counterpart, the Tal Diann. The Tal Diann was set up by the Romulan Navy to keep tabs on both the Tal Shiar and several fleets directed by Senators, reporting the former's actions to Star Command, and the latter's to the Praetor.
In Star Trek Online, set in the year 2409, the Tal Shiar are the main rivals of Empress Sela for control of the dying Romulan Empire, which has become engulfed by internal conflict since the destruction of Romulus in 2387. The Tal Shiar have aligned with the Iconians against the Federation, the Klingon Empire, and the dissident colony of "New Romulus", seeing the Iconians as their best bet of regaining their former glory. In the feature episode series "Cloaked Intentions", players from both the Federation and the Klingon Empire join the Reman resistance against the Tal Shiar and their commander, Colonel Hakeev, culminating in a showdown at a secret Romulan base that incorporates active Iconian gateways. In STO's expansion pack, Legacy of Romulus, the Tal Shiar is the principal antagonist of the Romulan Republic's story line, which ends with the five missions of "Cloaked Intentions".
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An antiproton beam was a confined beam of antiprotons.
Encountered in 2267, the "planet killer" used a beam of "pure" antiprotons (an incredible scientific concept, at the time) as its primary weapon, capable of destroying whole planets. ()
When she was undercover with the Maquis, Seska developed a tactic by which she disabled the computer core of a Cardassian frigate above Bajor with a modified antiproton beam that penetrated its shields and hull. In 2372, Chakotay attempted to use the same tactic against Maje Culluh's Kazon raider, but Seska anticipated his plans and captured him. ()
In 2371, two Jem'hadar fighters used a type of antiproton beam to detect the through its Romulan cloaking device. () The Cardassians later used this technique when the Defiant was hijacked by the Maquis in 2371. However, Thomas Riker, commanding the captured starship, was able to negate the beam by adjusting the resonance frequency of the cloaking device. () Later, when Enabran Tain led a fleet of twenty Tal Shiar and Obsidian Order ships into the Gamma Quadrant to attack the , they modified their cloaks so the Jem'Hadar couldn't detect their approach. In order for this to succeed, the ships had to limit their speed to warp six, so that their warp signatures wouldn't be detected through their cloaking devices. ()
A Federation starship could increase its shields by a factor of ten by taking the warp drive offline, remodulating its shields to emit a beta-tachyon pulse, and then emitting a series of focused antiproton beams to the shield bubble. According to B'Elanna Torres, though, this procedure entailed significant risk of the shield bubble igniting and "burning [them] all to a crisp". ()
In an alternate timeline, Doctor Phlox developed a medical procedure using a focused antiproton beam to eliminate interspatial parasites in Jonathan Archer's brain. ()
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A cloaking device, also known as a cloaking system, cloaking shield or invisibility screen, was a form of stealth technology that used selective bending of light (and other forms of energy) to render a starship or other object completely invisible to the electromagnetic spectrum and most sensors. It was encountered in varying forms over the centuries. For a period of time, the Federation considered it the most strategically important Romulan technology. (; )
History
Early cloaking technology
Humanity's earliest-known encounter with cloaking technology came in the year 1986 in the Bering Sea. Admiral James T. Kirk, having traveled back in time, decloaked the Klingon Bird-of-Prey he was commanding to waylay and frighten some whale hunters from killing two humpback whales. ()
One of Humanity's earliest exposures to cloaking technology was in April of 2151, when agents of the approached the starship undetected and kidnapped a Klingon national named Klaang from the ship's sickbay. The Suliban used cloaking devices on many of their ships, including the , stealth cruisers and salvage ships. The Suliban's cloaking technology had been given to them by their mysterious benefactor from the 28th century. ()
During a battle near a Suliban helix in a class seven gas giant, Enterprise managed to capture a cell ship. Chief Engineer Charles Tucker III studied the device in his spare time, and in 2152 the ship was used to mount a rescue mission. Unfortunately, Tucker's experience with cloaking technology was somewhat limited and he accidentally doused his hand with the particles the ship used to generate the cloaking effect, temporarily rendering it invisible. ()
Enterprise learned how to penetrate a Suliban cloaking device in March 2152, when the temporal agent explained how to construct a quantum beacon so that Enterprise could reveal the location of the cloaked stealth-cruiser responsible for the destruction of Paraagan II. ()
Enterprise was also responsible for an encounter with another organization that used stealth technology, the Romulan Star Empire. In April 2152, the ship accidentally entered a cloaked minefield protecting a Romulan-claimed planet. The quantum beacons proved effective against the minefield, but when two Birds-of-Prey suddenly arrived, Enterprise was not able to penetrate their more advanced cloaks. ()
Federation encounters with cloaking technology
In 2256, the encountered a cloaked Klingon vessel. Another cloaked Klingon vessel rammed the to demonstrate the technology to the High Council during the Battle of the Binary Stars. () The Klingon cloak used gravitational bending to conceal the ship from sensors and was a key tactical advantage for the Klingons during the . At the Battle near Pahvo, the devised a method of penetrating the Klingon cloak, destroying the Sarcophagus. This put the two sides on a more even footing once again. () Klingon cloaking devices required chimerium to function. ()
By the 2260s, despite the fact that Romulans and Klingons had demonstrated such technology within their own respective empires, this wasn't the case within the Federation; although the idea of practical invisibility was considered theoretically possible with selective bending of light, but at an enormous cost of power. ()
In 2266, the encountered a Romulan Bird-of-Prey that used a cloaking device to cross the Romulan Neutral Zone and wipe out several Earth Outpost Stations. The Enterprise was able to defeat the Bird-of-Prey in battle, partially because the cloaked ship was still visible to tracking sensors, but there was no doubt that the Romulans possessed a practical invisibility screen. ()
In 2268, the Federation learned that the Romulans had developed a new and improved cloaking device; one that even tracking sensors could not pick up and that posed a threat to the security of the Federation. On stardate 5027.3, Starfleet Intelligence sent the Enterprise on a covert mission across the Neutral Zone to acquire the new cloak. The mission was a success, and Starfleet was able to procure an intact, modern Romulan cloaking device for study. The Federation also acquired a cloaking device from a captured Klingon Bird-of-Prey, dubbed the "", in 2286. (; )
By 2266, the Klingons had stopped using cloaking tech for a time, but by 2269, cloaking devices had made a resurgence within the Klingon Empire. One of the first Klingon vessels to be equipped was the , whose Commander, Kor, used it to great effect at the Battle of Caleb IV. The device was soon used aboard many other Klingon vessels, such as the Bird-of-Prey. At the time Kor acquired the cloaking device, only a handful of engineers in the Imperial Fleet knew how to operate them. (; ; )
In 2311, with the signing of the Treaty of Algeron, the Federation explicitly agreed not to develop or use cloaking technology. The Bajoran Provisional Government also outlawed cloaking devices, stating that the possession of such a device was highly illegal. (; )
In 2370, Quark illegally acquired a small cloaking device that was, as he put it, "not in the best of condition", but it "will work for about fifteen minutes." Initially intending to sell it, Quark instead installed it in the central engine core of a Cardassian shuttle, piloted by Natima Lang, to help the ship escape Deep Space 9 undetected. ()
Following the outbreak of hostilities with the Dominion in late 2370, the Romulan Empire allowed the use of one of their own cloaks aboard the . Although this was originally limited to usage within the Gamma Quadrant, Captain Benjamin Sisko chose to ignore this limitation whenever it was convenient. In order to ensure that the cloak was used correctly, Sub-Commander T'Rul was assigned to the Defiant initially, during the ship's first mission with the cloak. In exchange, Starfleet had to provide all the intelligence it received on the Dominion. ()
Prior to the Cardassians joining the Dominion in 2373 and flushing the Klingons and Maquis out of their territory, the Klingon High Council decided to aid the Maquis in their fight against Cardassia. They provided the Maquis with thirty class-4 cloaking devices with the Klingons' understanding that they were to be used on Maquis ships. ()
In 2373, Miles O'Brien, Jadzia Dax, and Rom employed cloaking technology to hide the self-replicating minefield blocking the Bajoran wormhole. Also, the Federation equipped one of their holoships with a cloak in 2375. (; )
Although quite heavy, according to Rom, Klingon cloaking devices weigh less than Romulan cloaking devices, and while it took both himself and Quark to carry such a device (). Jankom Pog, a young Tellarite was able to carry one himself. ()
It was even possible for an entire planetary body to be rendered invisible. The planet Aldea was equipped with a powerful cloaking device that allowed itself to fully cloak. ()
In 2399, Romulan Zhat Vash operatives decloaked and attacked Jean-Luc Picard and Dahj Asha. Later, Laris and Zhaban examined the security feed of the incident and it showed Picard was alone. They deduced the others had access to a personal cloaking device capable of rendering individuals invisible. ()
By the late 32nd century, vessels such as the Emerald Chain's Viridian and Booker's ship were equipped with cloaking technology. The ability to cloak was also part of the refit to the Discovery in 3189. () Starfleet vessels including the were subsequently refitted with cloaking technology (as the Treaty of Algeron was nullified with Vulcan/Romulan reunification and subsequent resignation from the Federation)
Alternate reality
In the alternate reality caused by the temporal incursion of the Narada, the Federation was already bound to treaties banning cloaked weapons as early as 2259. ( display graphic)
Mechanics of a cloak
In order to function, most cloaking devices needed to be tied into a ship's deflector shield grid. () When activated, the cloaking device projects a cloaking field, also known as cloaking shields, around the vessel which selectively bend the path of light and sensors to render the vessel invisible and undetectable. () The shield can be expanded to cloak multiple vessels. (; ) However, some models of cloaking device could work without being tied into anything, even having a limited power supply of their own. ()
Most vessels could not use their weapons and deflector shields when cloaked. Ships of the Klingon , for example, were vulnerable to attack for two seconds when their shields automatically dropped as the cloaking field formed. (; ) Ships like the Scimitar with more advanced cloaking technology however did not have this problem, as it had primary and secondary shields and weapon systems that could remain online while the ship was cloaked. ()
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Penetrating the cloak
Ever since the initial introduction of the cloaking device, there was an ongoing race between the development of new cloaking technologies and the development of new detection systems that could defeat them.
Starfleet's earliest method of penetrating cloaks was developed in 2152, when Daniels provided Enterprise with 31st century quantum beacons so they could locate a Suliban stealth-cruiser. These devices also proved effective against the Romulan cloaking devices used on mines but were ineffective against the Bird-of-Prey cloaking devices. ()
The cloak used by the Sarcophagus in 2256 used a massive gravitational field to bend light and electromagnetic radiation around the ship, rendering it invisible to sensors. However, imperfections in the field led to near-imperceptible shifts in the background electromagnetic field. Using portable sensor devices surreptitiously planted on the Sarcophagus, Discovery made 133 micro-jumps with the aid of its spore drive, taking readings from multiple vectors in a matter of minutes. Using these readings, Discovery analyzed the correlation between the cloak's field and the background electromagnetic field, allowing the formulation of an algorithm that exposed the enemy ship's position. This ultimately led to the Sarcophagus destruction when Discovery fired at the cloaked vessel which was unable to return fire or raise shields while under cloak. ()
The cloak used by the Romulan Bird-of-Prey that crossed the Neutral Zone in 2266 was less than perfect, allowing a starship to pick up a blip on its motion tracking sensors. This blip was not accurate enough for targeting of weapons and only appeared when the vessel moved, but it was enough to help the Enterprise locate the enemy vessel. By 2268, advances in Romulan technology had removed the problem, forcing Starfleet to steal a model of the new cloak. ()
Versions of the cloak used by the Klingons in the late 23rd century also had their flaws. Cloaked battle cruisers could be detected using a metaphasic sweep. () Energy "distortions", manifesting themselves most often as refracting visible light energy from surrounding stellar objects very near the cloaked ship's outline, appearing as a "shimmering" effect, while cloaked and prior to decloaking, could give away a cloaked ship when observed. () In 2293, the developed a method of using a photon torpedo to track the plasma exhaust of a cloaked ship. ()
In the 24th century, the Federation protected its borders from cloaked Romulan incursion by a gravitic sensor net. In 2368, Geordi La Forge developed a technique called the tachyon detection grid that used tachyon beams transmitted between different points to expose cloaked objects. Soon, this had been implemented on the Federation's border outposts as well as in Klingon space. (; )
In 2371, it was not commonly understood by Starfleet personnel that cloaked ships radiate a slight subspace variance at warp speeds. These variances typically vanished once the vessel drops out of warp. () If a cloaked ship exceeded its maximum propulsion capacity, it would not be able to fully cloak, and would appear on navigational sensors as a sensor echo. ()
Using modified cloaks, a combined fleet of Romulan and Cardassian warships attempted to conduct a sneak attack on in 2371. They determined that as long as their fleet traveled under the speed of warp 6 their warp signatures would remain undetected, even while under cloak. This modification, however, did not prevent the fleet from being detected by the sensors aboard Deep Space 9. In this case, the cloaked fleet appeared as high concentrations of tetryon particles. ()
Decloaking ships also created a buildup of tachyon particles. ()
Sensors aboard Deep Space 9 were also able to detect an entire nearby fleet of cloaked Klingon vessels jumping to warp as "a huge distortion wave in subspace", and Miles O'Brien was able to deduce their heading from the vector of the subspace disturbance. ()
The Dominion, as well as the Cardassians, also possessed many methods of breaking through cloaking fields, including a long-range tachyon scanner and an antiproton beam. () However, these methods were not always effective as Thomas Riker was able to partially counteract the antiproton beam scanning method by adjusting the cloak's resonance frequency. ()
The Dominion's array in the Argolis Cluster could detect cloaked ships up to two light years away and required approaching the array by navigating the cluster's Gravimetric shear and Gravimetric distortion. ()
The Tachyon scan, also known as a tachyon sweep or tachyon signal, was another method of detecting cloaked ships. (; ; ; )
Improvements in cloaking technology
Firing when cloaked
Due to the enormous amount of power required to generate a cloaking field, there was, by and large, not enough power available to also power the weapons and shields. () When the Romulan cloaking device was first installed on the , the ship even had to decloak to use the transporter. () However, there were several times when advances in cloaking technology rendered these tactical inefficiencies untrue.
For example, in 2293, the Klingons developed a prototype Bird-of-Prey capable of firing photon torpedoes when cloaked. This ship, commanded by General , was used to secretly attack Kronos One in such a way that it appeared the USS Enterprise-A was responsible, implicating Enterprise commanding officer James T. Kirk in the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon. Fortunately for galactic peace, the Enterprise-A was able to deduce the existence of Chang's ship and devise a way to penetrate its cloak by tracking its plasma exhaust with new sensors for analyzing gaseous anomalies. Using a photon torpedo modified to home in on and target that plasma exhaust, the prototype ship was destroyed by the Enterprise-A and the over Khitomer. ()
Another advanced cloak was encountered in 2379. The Reman warbird Scimitar employed a new type of "perfect" cloaking device that did not give off any tachyon emissions or residual antiprotons, making the Scimitar completely undetectable while cloaked. It allowed the ship to fire weapons and use shields while cloaked, as well as allow the ship to drop the cloak protecting certain quadrants of the ship without de-cloaking the entire ship at once. The effectiveness of this technology was demonstrated when the Scimitar engaged the , the , and another warbird in the Bassen Rift, where it was able to cripple both warbirds without suffering any significant damage. Only through repeated blind targeting, barrages of phasers and torpedoes, and the use of telepathic triangulation by Commander Deanna Troi, was the Enterprise-E able to overcome the Scimitars cloak. ()
In addition, the mirror universe was able to fire weapons while cloaked using a Suliban cloaking device. However, the cloak did appear to momentarily fail a few seconds after Enterprise launched torpedoes, perhaps indicating that the Imperial ship had insufficient power for simultaneous use of weapons and cloak. ()
In an alternate future, Klingon attack cruisers apparently had the ability to fire while cloaked, as they were able to damage the before decloaking. ()
The interphase cloak
The Treaty of Algeron did not stop Starfleet Intelligence from secretly and illegally developing the phasing cloaking device, a device which not only rendered a starship invisible, but also allowed it to pass through solid matter unimpeded. The device was lost in 2358 when the test bed vessel, the , was presumed destroyed by a warp core breach in a mutiny by members of the crew concerned about the legality of the test. In 2370, the Pegasus was found not to have been destroyed and the existence of the illegal device was made public to the Romulans. ()
In the early 2360s, the Klingon Empire experimented with interphase cloaking technology but the research was abandoned due to several accidents.
In 2368 the Romulans also unsuccessfully experimented with interphase cloaking technology, developing an interphase generator combined with a molecular phase inverter. The had received a distress signal from the test bed vessel and Captain Picard ordered an away team sent over to assist. During the mission, due to a malfunction in the device, Ensign Ro Laren and Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge were phase-cloaked during beam-out and rematerialized on different parts of the Enterprise. After attempting to bring them back, the crew gave up, believing them dead. Eventually, Ro and La Forge succeeded in revealing what had happened to them to the crew and Lieutenant Commander Data managed to reverse the effects of the cloak, bringing them back into phase. ()
Other cloaking device effects
The use of cloaking devices occasionally led to unintended effects. The cloaking device of Aldea caused significant damage to the planet's ionosphere and ozone layer, leading to increased radiation on the surface and sterility among the Aldeans. ()
In 2371, chroniton particles generated by the Romulan cloaking device aboard the USS Defiant became lodged in the ship's ablative armor matrix. These particles interacted with the ship's transporter systems, resulting in the accidental transport of several officers backwards through time to early 21st century Earth. ()
In 2372, a computer character manifesting itself as fear was offered a cloaking device as a means of keeping its program hidden from future intrusion. To the request, it replied "I already have a cloaking device, thank you anyway." The character's "cloaking device" immediately wrapped the character in a wool cloak. ()
Ships utilizing cloaking devices
Classes
(Klingon Defense Force)
Bird-of-Prey (22nd century) (Romulan Star Empire)
Bird-of-Prey (23rd century) (Romulan Star Empire)
Cell ship (Suliban )
Cylindrical type
Spherical type
(Romulan Star Empire)
(Romulan Star Empire)
(Klingon Defense Force)
Kaplan F17 Patrol Frigate (Confederation of Earth)
(Klingon Defense Force)
(Klingon Defense Force)
Romulan shuttle (Romulan Star Empire)
Stealth cruiser (Suliban Cabal)
(Romulan Star Empire)
(Klingon Defense Force)
Individual ships
Booker's ship (Kwejian courier)
(Federation Starfleet)
(Federation Starfleet)
(Terran Empire)
Federation holoship (Federation Starfleet)
(Klingon Defense Force)
Koranak (Cardassian Obsidian Order)
(Kraylor)
(Federation Starfleet)
Regent's flagship (Klingon-Cardassian Alliance)
Sarcophagus (Klingon House of Kor)
Scimitar (Reman)
Viridian (Emerald Chain)
Voth city ship (Voth)
Voth research vessel (Voth)
Krenim weapon ship (Krenim Imperium)
Other
Aldea (Aldeans)
Delphic Expanse spheres (Sphere-Builders)
Echo Papa 607 (Minosian)
Hierarchy ships (Hierarchy)
Isolation suits (Federation Starfleet)
Self-replicating mines (Federation Starfleet)
Srivani vessels (Srivani)
Tars Lamora
Voth city ship (Voth)
Xyrillian starship (Xyrillians)
Appendices
Background information
The first time that the effect of a cloaked ship was shown was in . In that episode's revised final draft script, the effect was described as "a nebulous, undefined shimmer."
There is a running discrepancy as to whether or not the mirror universe has cloaking devices. While they have been seen in early mirror episodes of DS9, the last "mirror" episode featured a plot revolving around the "fact" that the technology didn't exist in the mirror universe.
There has been some controversy over the appearance of the cloaking device in . Though "Balance of Terror" seems to make it reasonably clear that that was the first time such a device had been encountered, early Enterprise episodes skirted very close to violating this by referring to the invisibility technology seen in and as stealth technology; presumably, this was intended to be a primitive precursor to cloaking, utilizing some method other than the selective bending of light.
Unfortunately, the episode features several explicit references to the Suliban stealth technology as cloaking. further complicated the problem by showing that the Romulans had cloaking technology in the 22nd century, making some possible justifications no longer workable. Unfortunately, there is no obvious way to reconcile the discrepancies, except to force an interpretation of Spock's words ("Invisibility is theoretically possible, Captain – with selective bending of light. But the power cost is enormous. They may have solved that problem.") to mean that the Federation thought invisibility was impossible because all previous forms of cloaking had been penetrated. Then again, Spock's notions regarding this particular matter may not represent the totality of Starfleet's expertise, as even he admits, in , that he is not as qualified as Mr. Scott is when it comes to engineering.
Several staff writers on Star Trek: Enterprise – among them Producer Mike Sussman – believed it was a mistake to give cloaking technology to 22nd century Romulans. Season Four showrunner and Co-Executive Producer Manny Coto decided that Romulan ships would not have cloaks in any subsequent encounters. (Information provided by Mike Sussman)
In a deleted scene from , after the Narada is disabled by the 's attack in 2233, ten Klingon warbirds decloak and surround Nero's ship.
According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Journal, the Romulan cloaking device was acquired by the Klingons as an exchange for several battle cruisers given to the Romulans during the Romulan-Klingon Alliance. According to Worlds of the Federation, the Romulans developed the first cloaking technology and traded it to the Klingons in exchange for warp drive technology – an exchange which both sides bitterly regretted in the following years, when they became deadly enemies.
According to the Klingon Bird-of-Prey Owner' Workshop Manual, the Romulans gave the Klingons four cloaking devices as part of the alliance deal. These devices needed extensive reengineering and soon diverged after the breaking of the alliance. The source also says that the cloaking device works by generating a quantum phase bubble that teleports EM radiation to the other side of the cloaking field and that ships cannot normally fire when cloaked due to the field interfering with weapon accuracy (with the risk that the weapons may even reflect back onto the firing ship). The Romulans preferred to experiment with phasing cloaks while the Klingons focused on firing while cloaked.
Apocrypha
Several apocryphal sources, including Diane Duane's novel The Romulan Way, also credit Romulans with the development of the first cloaking technology, and state that the Klingons acquired it in trade with the Romulans, during their tenuous alliance.
In apocrypha, the discrepancy is explained in the ENT novel The Good That Men Do. The 22nd century Birds-of-Prey were only used as testbeds for early prototype cloaking-devices. After an antimatter containment failure in one test systems, their use was abandoned, and it took decades for the Romulans to develop a successful cloaking system. In contrast, the video game Star Trek: Legacy depicts the use of cloaking devices amongst the Romulan fleet as being commonplace during the Earth-Romulan War.
The 2017 comic book series The Light of Kahless establishes in its second issue that scientists from the House of T'Kuvma successfully created cloaking technology approximately one hundred years prior to the 2250s. This prototype device was then installed aboard the house flagship Sarcophagus, and successfully deployed against Starfleet in 2256 during the Battle of the Binary Stars. This series was co-written by TV series story editor (and Star Trek novelist) Kirsten Beyer.
Star Trek Online contains a statement, made by Tiaru Jarok, that Klingons stole cloaking technology from the Romulans. "First the Klingons, now the Borg," she comments. "Does everyone steal cloaking technology from us?"
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A tachyon was a subatomic particle that naturally exists at faster-than-light velocities, and can often be associated with time travel or produced as a byproduct of a temporal distortion. Tachyons exist both naturally, as in the tachyon eddies, such as those found in the Bajoran system, or can be produced artificially, such as in tachyon detection grids and temporal transponders. They can also exist as the byproducts of the use of many technologies, such as cloaking devices and transporters. (; ; )
Tachyons could be utilized in a number of ways, including as scans, offensive weapons, and even as a means of communication. (; )
Overview
Some of the 31st century temporal agent ' equipment produced tachyon radiation. In 2151, Silik detected this radiation aboard , and deduced that Daniels was on the ship, as Enterprise did not have any technology which emitted tachyons. ()
In 2366, the non-corporeal species, the Calamarain, used a tachyon field to attack Q, who had been stripped of all of his powers by the Q Continuum and deposited on board the . ()
In 2367, Captain Jean-Luc Picard instituted a tachyon detection grid on the Klingon-Romulan border, in order to prevent any cloaked Romulan ships from crossing the border undetected while cloaked. This effectively stopped the Romulan Empire's covert support for the House of Duras's attempts to take control of the Klingon Empire. Six years later, Lieutenant Tuvok suggested initiating a tachyon scan of a nebula that the had encountered in the Delta Quadrant, in an attempt to reveal the presence of any cloaked ships which could be hiding inside. As of 2375, the Dominion began employing long-range tachyon scanners to detect cloaked vessels. They were first observed being used by the crew of the Klingon vessel Ch'Tang, after conducting a cavalry raid behind enemy lines. (; ; )
In addition, cloaked ships were known to produce detectable tachyon emissions. In 2372, the produced a tachyon surge when decloaking in front of the , and in 2373, when a fleet of Romulan warbirds decloaked near station Deep Space 9, they produced a large buildup of tachyons. As of 2379, the Remans were able to equip the Reman Warbird Scimitar with a cloak which did not have this limitation. (; )
The Borg utilized tachyon pulses of alternating frequencies to open their transwarp conduits. In 2369, Geordi La Forge, chief engineer of the Enterprise-D, was able to set up a temporary tachyon matrix in the ship's main deflector to simulate the pulses that the Borg used, and gain access to a transwarp conduit. Five years later, Seven of Nine attempted to utilize the same procedure to create a transwarp conduit in an effort to facilitate Voyagers return to the Alpha Quadrant, but the tachyons flooded the warp core, threatening a breach. This forced Torres to eject the core. (; )
In an alternate timeline, Captain Picard ordered the use of an inverse tachyon pulse in three different time periods, to scan the interior of an anti-time eruption which existed in each period. It was later discovered that the tachyon pulses themselves were what ruptured the subspace barrier between time and anti-time, creating the eruption in the first place. The timeline in which these events occurred was negated when Picard was able to stop the initial formation of the eruption.' ()
In 2371, Ensign Harry Kim, operations officer aboard Voyager, attempted to utilize a tachyon scan to inspect a type 4 quantum singularity which they had encountered in the Delta Quadrant, but the attempt proved unsuccessful due to the high levels of interference produced by the singularity. ()
Later that year, temporal distortions, which existed as a result of Kes having traveled back in time from five years in the future, resulted in the presence of tachyon particles throughout Voyager. These particles caused Lieutenant Tuvok to experience a series of premonitions about the future, allowing the crew to prepare for Kes's arrival in five years time, and subsequently prevent her from traveling back in time in the first place. ()
The naturally-existing tachyon eddies in the Bajoran system helped propel ancient Bajoran lightships to warp velocities, and facilitated Bajoran arrival in the Cardassian system as early as the 16th century. Although claims of this so-called "ancient contact" were long disputed by the Cardassians, Starfleet Commander Benjamin Sisko and his son Jake finally proved it in 2371, duplicating the voyage to Cardassian space in a lightship which Sisko had constructed. ()
In 2372, Lieutenant Torres attempted to use a sustained tachyon beam to penetrate and destroy the core of the "Dreadnought," a Cardassian missile which had been transported to the Delta Quadrant. The plan failed, however, when Dreadnought, which was equipped with a sophisticated artificial intelligence system, sent a plasma burst along the tachyon beam into Voyagers main power systems. ()
In 1996, having traveled back in time from the year 2373, Tom Paris detected tachyon emissions from a truck, leading him to believe that Henry Starling, a 20th century industrialist who had stolen the 29th century timeship Aeon, was moving the vessel to another location. It was soon discovered, however, that Starling was only using a temporal transponder to divert Paris's attention. ()
Later in 2373, while trapped in an illusion created by an alien, Captain Janeway came to believe that she was being affected by a temporal anomaly, and attempted to use a tachyon burst to disperse it. ()
In 2375, When Colonel Kira was kidnapped by Dukat from Deep Space 9, a scan of her quarters revealed traces of tachyon energy, leading the crew to realize that she had been beamed away. ()
The same year, Captain Picard and Lieutenant Commander Worf were able to use a tachyon pulse to force Data, who was malfunctioning at the time, to remodulate the shield harmonics of the vessel he had stolen, so they could beam him aboard. Commander Data was later able to use the same tactic on a Son'a battle cruiser to make it possible for Worf to beam the crew to another ship. ()
In 2376, Reginald Barclay came up with the idea of using the MIDAS array to direct a tachyon beam at a class-B itinerant pulsar, creating an artificial microwormhole through which two-way communication could be established with Voyager, on the other side of the galaxy. Although his superiors were initially skeptical that the plan would work, Barclay took the initiative to implement his plan, and was able to establish communication. Two years later, Harry Kim and Seven of Nine developed a method whereby Voyager could communicate with Starfleet in the Alpha Quadrant, by bouncing a phased tachyon beam off of a quantum singularity. This method of communication was limited by the fact that the singularity was only in alignment for eleven minutes every day. ()
That same year, Voyager encountered a unique planet in the Delta Quadrant, which had a tachyon core. The core created a spacetime differential between the planet and the surrounding space, the planet experiencing the passage of one day every 1.03 seconds as measured on Voyager. Voyager became trapped in orbit briefly due to the tachyon field generated by the planet, and remained in orbit for approximately one thousand years of the planet's time. ()In the year 2404, Kathryn Janeway, who by this time had returned with Voyager to the Alpha Quadrant and been promoted to admiral, appropriated a time travel device called a "chrono deflector," invented by a Klingon scientist named Korath. The device operated by generating a powerful tachyon pulse to form a temporal rift, which could then be directed to a specific time and place. Janeway used this device to travel to the Delta Quadrant, the year 2378, where she instructed her counterpart to initiate an antitachyon pulse in order to seal the rift. Due to the fact that the chrono deflector produced levels of tachyon radiation which would be toxic to her, before she left she instructed The Doctor to treat her with chronexaline, an experimental drug at the time which protected biomatter from tachyons. Admiral Janeway subsequently collaborated with the Voyager crew to change history and return the ship to the Alpha Quadrant sixteen years before it would have without her intervention. ()
In the year 2383, the crew of the encountered a tachyon storm. When they passed through it, it severely effected systems around the ship, including the proto-drive. This resulted in a time anomaly where the crew, while still on the same ship, were trapped and divided in their own temporal phases. The crew was also caught in oscillating time, where for some time was moving faster while moving slower for others. ()
Appendices
See also
Antitachyon
Beta-tachyon
Long-range tachyon scanner
Tachyokinetic energy
Tachyon detection grid
Tachyon eddy
Tachyon scan
Tachyon sweep
Apocrypha
The game Star Trek Online'' features many applications for tachyons including tachyon beams to drain a starship's shields and tachyon harmonics to disrupt personal shields in ground combat.
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