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The USS Hispaniola was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2370, the captain of this ship was J. Gump. The starship's point of departure was the Sol system. The starship arrived at Deep Space 9 on stardate 47553.2. The USS Hispaniola was named on the space station's arrival roster. ( production art)
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The novelization of Star Trek Nemesis is an adaptation of , written by J.M. Dillard. Published by Pocket Books, the novel was first released in hardback in .
Summary
From the book jacket
Remus – mysterious sister world to Romulus. A planet where hope surrendered to darkness long ago. A planet whose inhabitants have been without a voice for generations. But that's about to change.
Earth – home to Starfleet, where the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E gathers under the crystal blue skies of an Alaskan day to celebrate the wedding of Will Riker and Deanna Troi. The joy of the day is overshadowed only by the knowledge that this is the last time they will all be together, as soon-to-be Captain Riker and his ship's counselor, Deanna Troi, will shortly be departing for their new ship.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew are suddenly diverted for an unexpected diplomatic mission to the planet Romulus. Longtime enemies of the Federation, the Romulans have expressed their desire to initiate negotiations that will hopefully lead to a long-awaited unity in the galaxy. But upon their arrival on Romulus, the Enterprise crew is faced with a threat that could lead to the destruction of the planet Earth, and Picard comes face to face with a man who may prove to be his most dangerous adversary yet… and a surprisingly personal nemesis.
Background information
This was Dillard's last Star Trek film novelization, although she would later adapt for .
The audiobook version was abridged by George Truett.
According to this novel, the name of Shinzon's Reman Viceroy is Vkruk and the name Shinzon is Reman for liberator.
The mass market paperback version was not released in North America, but was available internationally.
A was also produced.
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Jean-Luc Picard
William T. Riker
Data
B-4
Worf
Geordi La Forge
Beverly Crusher
Deanna Troi
Shinzon
Reman Viceroy
Venora
A Romulan medical officer aboard the who shuttled to the in order to treat the wounded Starfleet officers, and notably for saving the life of Commander Worf.
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USS Hood
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The name USS Hood may refer to:
, a Federation starship destroyed in 2258
, a Constitution-class starship
, an Excelsior-class starship
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The USS John Muir (NCC-1732) was a 23rd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2293, the John Muir was receiving a system upgrade at Starbase 24. The ship was named on a Starship Mission Assignments chart on the bridge. ()
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The Kearsarge was a 24th century Federation starship.
In 2370, this ship was forced to delay a rendezvous with the . ()
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The described this vessel as the USS Kearsarge, a starship, with registry number NCC-57566.
Additionally, according to the Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 407), this ship was named for the American that served as the recovery vessel for Alan Shepard's Freedom Seven Mercury spacecraft.
The name was suggested by Star Trek fan and amateur Civil War historian William F.B. Vodrey, after whom the screenwriters named the Vodrey Nebula which appeared in the same episode.
The name was derived from a in New Hampshire, and various United States ships have been named USS Kearsarge, including a steam during the American Civil War, and the current , amphibious assault ship LHD-3.
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The LaSalle was a 24th century Federation starship.
In 2367, the LaSalle reported unusual radiation anomalies in the Gamma Arigulon system, that were later investigated by the . ()
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The USS Livingston was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. Benjamin Sisko and Curzon Dax served together aboard the Livingston for months in the late 2350s.
During that time, Sisko and Dax witnessed a remarkable stunt by the Livingstons science officer, Kustanovich, who ate eight helpings of Andorian redbat. ()
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The described this vessel as an starship, with the registry number NCC-34099.
According to the and the Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 483), the vessel was named after American statesman , a signer of , or supervising producer and director David Livingston, or (jokingly) for Picard's lionfish.
Apocrypha
The Livingston was later mentioned in the s Deny Thy Father, Hollow Men and Original Sin.
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The Phoenix warp ship was the first man-made, manned spacecraft to achieve light speed using warp drive that was constructed during the mid-21st century. The Phoenix was remembered as the ship that instigated Earth's First Contact with Vulcans.
History
Dr. Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive, built this warp ship inside a missile complex in Bozeman, Montana. The ship was initially a United States Air Force nuclear missile with a titanium casing. It took six months for Lily Sloane to scrounge enough titanium to build the four-meter cockpit of the Phoenix. Dr. Cochrane was the pilot, and Lily Sloane was initially intended to be one of the co-pilots. However, William Riker and Geordi La Forge (both of the from 2373) served as the crew.
On April 4th 2063, less than forty-eight hours away from launch, a group of Borg from the 24th century attempted to destroy the Phoenix. They managed to cause significant damage to various sections of the fuselage and the primary intercooler system. The throttle assembly was damaged, leaking dangerous levels of theta radiation. There were temperature variations in the fuel manifold, the intermix chamber needed to be reconstructed, and there was a damaged warp plasma conduit that needed to be replaced. All damage was repaired in time for the launch, with the help of the crew of the Enterprise, which had pursued the Borg from the future.
On April 5th, around 11 am, the Phoenix was launched. The first stage of the craft used traditional chemical engines. First-stage shutdown and separation was performed in orbit. The nacelles were extended, the warp core and plasma injectors were brought online, and the nacelles were charged. It took several seconds to accelerate to critical velocity. Light speed was then achieved by the craft. (; )
In the mirror universe, the Phoenix was known as the first warp ship. (, opening credits)
Legacy
The first flight of the Phoenix attracted the attention of a passing Vulcan ship, the , causing the Vulcans to decide to make First Contact. First Contact Day was celebrated annually to commemorate this First Contact between Humans and Vulcans. ()
A model of the Phoenix was kept in Travis Mayweather's old quarters aboard the . () Admiral Maxwell Forrest kept a similar model in his office on Earth. ()
Both a photograph and blueprint drawing of the Phoenix were on display in the 602 Club on Earth. Both pictures also graced the wall of Admiral Forrest's office on Earth in 2154. ()
In 2259 of the alternate reality, a model of the Phoenix was included in a historic display of miniature space and aircraft inside Admiral ' office on Earth. ()
By the 24th century, the Phoenix was an exhibit in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Jean-Luc Picard saw the exhibit many times as a boy, but was never allowed to touch it. The blueprints of the Phoenix were available on Federation starships. (; , commemorative plaque)
In 2374, a graphic of the Phoenix, labelled as "Phoenix warp ship", appeared on the 's library computer display. ()
The following year, the same graphic display appeared on the USS Voyagers library computer screen that was viewed by One after Seven of Nine had activated the drone's linguistic database, and allowed him to assimilate information. ()
A model of the Phoenix was on display at a bar on Starbase 25 in 2381. ()
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The Phoenix was "named for the immortal from Egyptian mythology that periodically was consumed in fire, then arose from the ashes reborn." ()
The Phoenix is described in virtually all non-canon reference sources as the prototype of warp drive. Dialogue in and subsequent episodes, however, leave room for the unmanned prototype test of warp drive, prior to the launch of the Phoenix, as described in Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual. If such a test took place, it would have also been in 2063, as this was the year Dr. Cochrane tested his first warp engine. Cochrane described the launch as his "first warp flight" and Kathryn Janeway included Dr. Cochrane in her list of legendary pilots. It is safe to assume this was at least the first manned warp ship of Earth. (; ; )
For the reference book , Michael and Denise Okuda, together with Rick Sternbach, came up with what they thought the Phoenix might look like. A model of this design was even built for the project, constructed by Greg Jein. This was the Bonaventure (C1-21) model. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 64, p. 12)
At one point during the writing of First Contact, the writers of the film considered what might power the matter-antimatter reaction chamber aboard the Phoenix, in lieu of dilithium crystals. Co-writer Ronald D. Moore later recalled, "We had talked about it being from something modified from the thermonuclear warhead – that somehow setting off the fission reaction was what kicked it off." ()
The assignment of designing the Phoenix was given to concept artist John Eaves. The task immediately presented him with several challenges; he had to devise a configuration that could convincingly be portrayed as mankind's first faster-than-light vessel, that looked like it had been designed in the present, but would also suggest the design of Starfleet craft from the future. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 64, p. 10)
Eaves was aware that the Phoenix would additionally have to be adapted from a Titan missile. Since a decommissioned Titan II missile had actually been found by the production staff, Eaves began the design process by studying the missile. The first sketch he produced for the Phoenix was the nose cone, one of several parts of the real missile that had been dismantled. After the film production company filled in the other parts which had been missing from the missile's exterior (so it could be used as the Phoenixs "launch vehicle"), the Phoenixs nose cone was constructed. "We built a cone to go over the existing one, or at least what remained of it," Eaves recalled. "I actually made the new cone longer than the original one and give it an outward curve as well as adding four riblets that ran from the wider base right up to the nose." Eaves wanted the capsule to seem like its creators had initially used existing technology that happened to be available but had also gradually attached extra bits when required. After he consequently added a "bubble" window to enable the crew to look out and around, his design for the nose cone was approved. Eaves also designed the cone's interior, producing a concept sketch of that area which was dated . (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 64, pp. 10, 11-12 & 13)
Once Eaves' design for the nose cone was approved, a model of the cone was built by Clete F. Cetrone, using sketches which demonstrated the top, side and three-quarter view, along with the actual specifications of the original nose cone. It was meanwhile obvious that the Phoenix was essentially to change shape following its launch. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 64, p. 12)
Originally, the First Contact art department began toying with the idea of having the Phoenix, as depicted in the film, match the design from Star Trek Chronology, built years earlier. "But, after some thought," Eaves continued, "(VFX producer) Peter Lauritson decided it would be a struggle to fit that ship into what was obviously a pretty confined place. For me it was a real wrench as the stuff they'd done was beautiful but in the end we agreed it just wasn't going to pan out." (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 64, p. 12)
Returning to the drawing board, John Eaves then specifically focused on determining precisely what size the Phoenix would be, how the vessel, which the script of First Contact described as having nacelles, would fit inside a missile and how, having broken loose of its launch vehicle, it would subsequently convert into a craft capable of warp drive. "I took the [real] plans of the missile and tried to work out what a good length of rocket versus a solid rocket fuel base would be. From there I pulled the Phoenix idea out and tried to figure out the details." Eaves arrived at a design much like the ultimately used one, featuring large thrusters on the bottom of the craft as well as a solid fuselage with an open framework and nacelles that folded out of the sides of the missile during flight. Production Designer Herman Zimmerman was of the opinion that the ship should look as though it had been built from parts which had been salvaged, resulting in areas of the craft looking virtually skeletal. Finally, Eaves worked on both a longer and shorter version of the Phoenix. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 64, pp. 12-13)
John Eaves made a conscious effort to make the Phoenixs nacelles as big as possible. While he was working on the two sizes of the ship, he concentrated specifically on the warp drive. Its design was influenced by him having seen a documentary about the atom bomb which showed that one of the early atom bombs had a ring of triggers which all had to be activated simultaneously in order for the triggering mechanism to work. "I thought wouldn't it be cool if that is the premise behind this unit – that all these triggers needed to fire to make the warp action come into play." The only thing thereafter left to do was to fashion the nacelles so that they appeared similar to those of the , in an attempt to create a visual link between the time periods. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 64, p. 13)
After the designs were submitted to Herman Zimmerman and Producer Rick Berman, the latter member of the production personnel selected the shorter version of the Phoenix. He also moved the nacelles slightly forward to give the craft a more balanced (if mechanically challenging) design. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 64, p. 13)
A method of returning the Phoenix to Earth intact is illustrated by the artist in Star Trek: The Art of John Eaves. Eaves depicts a flight pattern chart that shows the Phoenix landing by way of a feathered reentry configuration and parachutes.
Footage of the Phoenix from First Contact was reused in the opening credits for .
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The "Badlands" was a region of space located in Sector 04-70 of the Alpha Quadrant. A segment of the border between the and the Cardassian Union was located in this region.
Astrometrical information
The Badlands were known for intense plasma storms and gravitational anomalies. Additionally, in the late 2360s, a few ships had disappeared in this region. For these reasons, it was commonly avoided by most interstellar traffic. ()
History
During the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, the Bajoran Resistance frequently used the Badlands as a refuge from Cardassian patrols. Because of the severely limited sensor ranges in the area, the Bajorans used echolocation techniques to navigate and detect other ships. ()
Because of its strategic location inside the Demilitarized Zone between Cardassian and Federation space, the Badlands became a favorite hiding place and staging area for the Maquis during their insurrection against Cardassian control from 2370 to 2373.
In their first major operations, the Maquis took the kidnapped Gul Dukat to a class M asteroid in the Badlands. () When Thomas Riker and a Maquis hijacked the from Deep Space 9 in 2371, they piloted the Defiant to the Badlands to rendezvous with other Maquis attack ships prior to launching an assault on Cardassian space. ()
warships were often ambushed in the Badlands by the Maquis because they had no where to run. ()
Around stardate 48300, the abducted several starships from the Badlands, including a Maquis raider piloted by Chakotay, and the Federation starship , which had been sent to track Chakotay. () The Vetar was also abducted from the Badlands around the same time. ()
In the mirror universe, the Badlands were also used as a staging area by the Terran Rebellion before their capture of in 2371. ()
Bajoran trader Razka Karn also hid out in the Badlands when the Tholians were pursuing him for some unscrupulous "business" practices. () Kasidy Yates's freighter route between Bajor and Dreon VII often took her close to the Badlands as well. ()
After the Maquis learned that he had informed Starfleet of Michael Eddington's location, Cing'ta was marooned on a "particularly nasty" planet in the Badlands. ()
When the Cardassian Union was annexed by the Dominion in 2373, () the remaining Maquis cells that managed to escape the Jem'Hadar took shelter on Athos IV, an abandoned mining colony on the edge of the Badlands. The Maquis sent a disguised distress signal, coded as a confirmation of the launch of a missile strike against Cardassia Prime, to send word to Michael Eddington that the Maquis remnant had survived. Those few survivors were rescued by Starfleet a short time later. ()
The Badlands remained a strategic location during the Dominion War from 2373 to 2375. Fleet movements in the region required additional escorts to guard against ambushes from inside the plasma storms. () In 2375, the was destroyed by the Jem'Hadar near the edge of the Badlands. ()
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Origins
The Badlands were conceived during the development of – to be precise, at some point amid a stretch of two or three days, from 8 or 9 August to . On the 10th, Jeri Taylor noted, "We posit 'Badlands,' a turbulent area of space where some ships have been lost (some of them might crop up during the series). But it's a hiding place for our bad guys [meaning the crew of Chakotay's Maquis raider], who think they're invulnerable." In notes Taylor dated 17 August 1993, the Badlands were likened to the Bermuda Triangle. It was stated, in a beat outline for VOY premiere , that ships traversing the Badlands had to "maneuver through holes." (A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager, pp. 186, 190 & 231) In the first draft script for "Caretaker", the Badlands were described as "a huge flailing plasma storm with electromagnetic flares whipping out dangerously like tentacles."
Design
One of the first visual ideas for the Badlands involved a fiery effect. "There were always supposed to be these whirling fires inside the Badlands," explained Gary Hutzel. However, these elements didn't make it to the screen when the region made its first appearance, in "Caretaker". ()
Since Visual Effects Producer Dan Curry designed the "Caretaker" sequences which were set in the region to involve panning camera moves, the use of nitrogen smoke elements filmed on a soundstage to achieve the look of the Badlands for their initial appearance was deemed too difficult. As a result, a mixture of high-tech and low-tech methods were employed instead, with a computer-generated 3D environment created by Amblin Imaging. "The plasma storm was a combination of CGI and high-speed photography of liquid nitrogen over black velvet," explained Curry. "The CGI vortexes were not working for us as well as we hoped, so we went back in and took liquid nitrogen and mixed it with the CGI elements to give it back some of the organic qualities we were looking for." The elements were painstakingly composited and finessed by editor Don Greenberg at Digital Magic. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, pp. 57-58) Ultimately, the resultant appearance of the Badlands wasn't entirely satisfactory, though. "No one really liked them," noted Gary Hutzel. ()
When the Badlands began appearing on , the visual effects artists didn't know they would be asked to depict the area as frequently as they were. "We didn't think we would be coming so often," Gary Hutzel explained. (Dreamwatch, issue 37, p. 34)
For the reappearance of the Badlands in , the DS9 visual effects team depicted the Badlands with a new look. "They'd been reworked a couple times," remembered Gary Hutzel, "but when it fell upon me to do the Badlands for this episode I decided to throw out everything that had been done and start over." The redesign of the roiling plasma fields involved several steps. First, Hutzel's group of VFX artists layed out a twenty-foot-square piece of black velvet on the floor of Image G. They then climbed up into catwalks at the facility, which were eighteen feet above ground, and pails of liquid nitrogen were poured from the high catwalks down on the velvet. "It splattered real good," commented Hutzel, grinning. "We needed that much force to get the violence of the effect." As the liquid nitrogen landed on the velvet, it was filmed at 120 frames per second. ()
When it came time to create visuals of the Badlands for , Gary Hutzel decided that the effects footage previously used to represent the area could be improved on. He created the swirling clouds and the suddenly appearing plasma tornadoes, bringing two opposing natural elements together for these effects. (Dreamwatch, issue 37, p. 33)
The plasma tornadoes in "Blaze of Glory" were influenced by demands from the DS9 producers. "The producers began asking, 'Where's our pillars of fire?" Gary Hutzel relayed. For the effect, Hutzel called on the help of Gary Monak and requested that he create the illusion. Beginning to do so, Monak crafted a box that, at its bottom, had a powerful fan which could create a vortex. He stated, "The boxes were over eight feet tall and we made a couple different kinds to experiment with." Monak also claimed that the "most effective" box, the one that was selected for the effect, was rectangular. () According to Dreamwatch (issue 37, p. 33), however, the box which was used for the effect measured four feet square. The box was made from , painted black, and coated with fireproof material on three sides, with heat-proof glass on the fourth. (; Dreamwatch, issue 37, p. 33) Noted Monak, "We left one side of the [box] [...] off and filmed through that opening." () To achieve different effects, the team not only left a side of the box open but also subsequently capped the box and a vent was placed on top. Air was sucked in through another vent on the opposite side of the box, which caused the air inside to spiral. (Dreamwatch, issue 37, pp. 33 & 34) "Once we shot some nitrogen in there and got it rotating in a counter-clockwise direction," Monak continued, "we injected fire with a propane burner. The heat made the flame rise so we got this finger of fire going. The hotter we made it, the higher the flame would rise in the box." () Hutzel and his team filmed the blazing propane on Paramount Stage 16, shooting over seven thousand feet of film during one afternoon. The footage was photographed at 250 frames per second. (Dreamwatch, issue 37, p. 33) Once the fiery pillar was filmed, it was an easy task for Hutzel to combine that element with the other Badlands footage he'd already created. () The film was delivered to film-transferrers CIS Hollywood, where it was treated electronically to optimise the highlights, transferred to a digital disc one hundred inches at a time, then shifted onto tape for more post-production work to be done. (Dreamwatch, issue 37, p. 34) The resultant flame effect made its debut in "Blaze of Glory". ()
The cloud layer of the Badlands was once more created with liquid nitrogen. A day was allocated for the filming of the substance, canisters of which were delivered to Image G, treated with great care by all the visual effects artists there, which included Gary Hutzel. To produce the violent cloud swirls required for the Badlands, the liquid nitrogen was again spilled from a gallery above the Image G stage. The stage surface was firstly pre-chilled with a small amount of nitrogen, poured gently over. On the ground level, Hutzel next talked two assistants, who were in his supervision, through the precise maneuvers he wanted: beginning at the back of the gallery, and letting three shots go, then moving to the front and retreating towards the rear, pouring as they went. Concluding his instructions to the pair of assistants, Hutzel reminded them, "Make sure you're not too close to each other." The two men then ascended to the gallery to practice and, following a couple of dry runs to ensure everyone was synchronized, Hutzel called for action. The two crew members did exactly as he had guided them to do and, as they made their way back to the rear of the gallery, Hutzel ordered the camera to roll, beginning to film the nitrogen. Cameraman Paul Maples, shielding his face from the substance as best he could, captured the shots of the liquid nitrogen while small areas of heat on the stage surface attracted it. Little whirlpools formed, though the majority of the substance billowed out harmlessly into the atmosphere. After filming some footage with light falling on the stage from one side, Hutzel took another series of shots with the light directly behind. The liquid nitrogen footage was additionally treated at CIS Hollywood, enabling its use as an element of "Blaze of Glory" in post-production. (Dreamwatch, issue 37, p. 34)
Although new footage of the Badlands was created for "Blaze of Glory", Gary Hutzel opted to standardize the Badlands from then on, using stock footage. This plan was what caused him to shoot a couple different variations of the liquid nitrogen footage, with the light from various sources. As a result, any subsequent installment that included multiple shots of the Badlands could show different views of the area, rather than constantly having to reuse the same effects footage. Hutzel's decision to capture stock footage of the Badlands was due to how often the area was reappearing on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. "Now we have generic stuff to use," he concluded. (Dreamwatch, issue 37, p. 34)
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From a scientific perspective, using the name "Badlands" for a certain region of space was somewhat realistic. Andre Bormanis stated, "I don't know if that term has ever been used specifically with respect to some astronomical phenomenon, but one could imagine regions of space that would be extremely inhospitable to Human exploration. We see things like this in images that come from telescopes, like the Hubble, all the time, regions of space where you have fierce stellar winds [for instance] [....] So, there are some really extraordinary regions in space that one would be a little bit reckless or foolhardy to fly a spaceship through, even something that has the kind of shielding and engine technology that we've proposed on Star Trek. And again, it's easy to imagine that, someday when there's interstellar travel and they're navigating some of these regions of space, that they might call some particular nebula complex or some place where there are these fierce stellar winds a 'Badlands' kind of a region." (Real Science with Andre Bormanis, VOY Season 1 DVD special feature)
There were some early concerns, first voiced by Eric A. Stillwell, that the Badlands were too similar to the later-invented Briar Patch. At the end of the first outline for the Star Trek film that became (in which the Briar Patch was introduced), Michael Piller included a note that informed Rick Berman of this issue. (Fade In: The Making of Star Trek Insurrection)
One of the pillars of fire which Gary Monak created for the Badlands was reused in the Fire Caves in DS9 series finalé . ()
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Dreon VII (or, more simply, Dreon) was the inhabited seventh planet in the Dreon system of the Alpha Quadrant. This was home to one of the outlying colonies of Bajor.
Cargo runs from Bajor to Dreon VII typically took twelve hours. On this run, a freighter could travel around the Rolor Nebula.
In 2372, Captain Kasidy Yates's freighter, the , made regular runs between Bajor and Dreon VII. On these runs, the Xhosa would make a detour to the Badlands for a rendezvous with the Maquis. The Maquis received medical and food supplies from the freighter. This extra run added six hours to her time from Bajor.
The location of Dreon was labeled on a tactical cartography map that was displayed in the wardroom of Deep Space 9. (, okudagram)
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This planet's quadrant of origin is inferred based on the position of its star system as seen in the star chart appearing in the episode .
"DREE-on" was the pronunciation for this planet's name from the script pronunciation guide. In the script, one possible route to Dreon VII could lead through a stellar nursery in the Panak sector.
According to StarTrek.com, Dreon VII was a M-class planet.
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Evek was a Cardassian male of the Cardassian Union who rose to the rank of gul in the Cardassian Military during the late-24th century. He had three sons. ()
History
In 2370, Gul Evek was contacted by Miles O'Brien from Deep Space 9 concerning an infestation of Cardassian voles on the station. Evek offered little help, sardonically suggesting that a Federation withdrawal from Bajor would solve their vole problems. ()
In late 2370, Evek held the position of commanding officer in the Cardassian Fourth Order, assigned as representative and overseer of Cardassian affairs in the Demilitarized Zone. He was also commander of the Vetar, a warship.
One of Evek's first missions as overseer in the Demilitarized Zone was to oversee the transfer of the former Federation colony on Dorvan V to Cardassian control. However, Evek arrived several weeks early while Starfleet was still in the process of evacuating the civilians on the planet. Evek's troops' presence was highly provocative, and precipitated a brief firefight with the Federation colonists.
However, rather than ordering more troops to "pacify" the colony, Evek ordered a withdrawal in the interests of preserving the peace treaty with the Federation. Evek confided in Jean-Luc Picard that he had lost two of his three sons during the Cardassian wars. In order to avoid a renewed war, Evek agreed to the controversial settlement in which Federation colonists on Dorvan V and elsewhere would be permitted to retain their homes under Cardassian rule. ()
At the start of the Maquis uprising against the Cardassian rule of the colonies in the Demilitarized Zone, Evek was responsible for capturing and interrogating William Samuels, a Maquis operative who was responsible for the destruction of the freighter Bok'Nor at Deep Space 9. Using the information acquired from Samuels, including a recorded confession, he confronted Federation colony leaders on Volan III and accused them of participating in an official Starfleet plot to secretly arm the colonists against the Cardassians – while at the same time the Central Command was arming its own citizens in turn. Gul Dukat arrived unannounced to observe, but Samuels had already died, instigating more violence. ()
On stardate 47941.7, The came to the rescue of Evek and his crew when his ship was attacked by several Maquis ships. Evek and Picard exchanged words, each accusing the other of not doing enough to suppress the skirmishes in the Demilitarized Zone. ()
Not much later, Evek arrested Miles O'Brien on charges of sedition against the Cardassian Union by secretly transporting a cargo of photon torpedo warheads aboard his runabout. Evek testified at O'Brien's trial that these warheads were destined for the Maquis, and were evidence of further Federation attempts to arm the rebel colonists against the Cardassians. In reality, the warheads had been planted by Evek's men as part of a Cardassian plot to discredit the Federation's policy in the Demilitarized Zone. ()
In 2371, Evek, while in command of the Vetar, pursued a Maquis raider, the Val Jean, piloted by Chakotay into the Badlands. The Vetar was struck by a plasma storm inside the Badlands and was disabled. He was forced to send a distress call and never found the ship. He ordered the last known position to be given to Starfleet. ()
Memorable quotes
"Complete your mission. But remember, this is Federation territory, Gul Evek, and until that changes, these people are under my jurisdiction and I will protect them."
"Is that a threat?"
"It's a fact. Bear that in mind while you conduct your survey."
- Jean-Luc Picard and Evek ()
"I lost two of three sons in the war, Captain. I don't want to lose the last one."
- Evek, to Jean-Luc Picard ()
"You've got the station, you've got the voles. By the way, their mating season begins in about six weeks."
"Thanks for your help."
- Evek and Miles O'Brien ()
"We want to talk to him ourselves."
"Bring him in. Unfortunately, he committed suicide in his cell."
- Cal Hudson and Evek, about William Patrick Samuels ()
"Maquis ship, this is Gul Evek of the Cardassian Fourth Order. Cut your engines and prepare to surrender or we will dest..."
- Evek, who is then cut off by Chakotay ()
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Background information
Gul Evek was played by actor Richard Poe.
For "Caretaker", Poe filmed his scene on Wednesday on Paramount Stage 9 and is listed as "Gul Evek (Cardassian)" on the call sheet.
Along with Quark, Morn, and Q, Evek is one of only four characters to appear in all of the first three Star Trek series set in the 24th century: , , and . He is also one of five characters to appear in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine prior to appearing in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The others were Julian Bashir, Quark, Morn, and Chekote.
The script for did not originally name Evek, simply referring to his part as "Cardassian Officer". The final script for describes Evek's introduction as, "His attitude is blunt and hardnosed, but he is not arrogant or obnoxious -- he's simply a Cardassian officer sent here to do a job and he means to do it."
The decision to keep bringing back Evek for the Maquis arc was both a reflection on the actor's work and also to provide a sense of continuity for viewers by linking the three pre-Voyager episodes (and thereby reinforcing the backstory). "You want to have the opportunity for crossover and continuity," recalled David Livingston. "It's fun to do that with a character when you find somebody that's good in the part, like Evek and Admiral Nechayev. The audience enjoys it." (; )
Richard Poe's first scene to be shot was the one in which Evek tells Picard of his sons' deaths in the previous Federation-Cardassian war, which Poe considered to be a very emotional one. Of the character, he recalled, "Evek has his shades of grey, moments of understanding, of detente, with the Federation. At other times he's imperious, and in one episode he was a real true killer. But he thinks with purpose, defending his people. They are bureaucratic and very strict... constructionists if you will, but luckily this character had a little bit of humanity at times too. Fun to play." Though Evek's fate was never seen on-screen, Poe was of the opinion that he was killed while chasing Chakotay's raider in . This is an opinion shared by the .
It took three and a half hours for Poe's Cardassian makeup to be applied to him prior to shooting.
Apocrypha
Evek appears in a number of non-canon works.
In Book Two of The Badlands mini-series, Aman Evek is in charge of preparing a trap for a planned Maquis attack on the space station Opek Nor, ordering Seska to frame Starfleet spy Tuvok for the mission's failure. Unfortunately for them both, their attempts fail and the Maquis mission is a success. Evek's status within the Cardassian Military is revoked, causing him to set out on a mission of revenge against the Maquis, culminating in the battle with Chakotay's raider. After his ship is subsequently damaged in plasma storms, he is rescued by the crew of Voyager but commits suicide shortly thereafter. The novel also reveals that he was a skilled poet and is one of the most respected Cardassian military commanders alive; to serve on Evek's ship is considered the high point of any Cardassian's career.
The A Stitch in Time has Evek surviving his battle with Chakotay's raider, eventually taking a prominent role within the Directorate Political Group on Cardassia shortly after the end of the Dominion War. At one point, during a meeting that Garak also attends, Evek calls Dukat a traitor, which elevates Garak's opinion of him.
In the alternate timeline of the Strange New Worlds short story "Gods, Fate and Fractals", Evek rejects further negotiations over Dorvan V and fires upon the Enterprise. This sparks a six-day conflict, dubbed the "Battle of the Border", after which the border is redrawn.
His mirror universe appears in the novel The Mirror-Scaled Serpent.
Evek is also featured in multiple editions of the Star Trek Customizable Card Game, one of which describes him as a "harsh interrogator".
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The Demilitarized Zone, often abbreviated as the DMZ, was a buffer zone in the Alpha Quadrant, established between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union, by the terms of the Federation-Cardassian Treaty of 2370.
According to the treaty, neither side was permitted to deploy armed starships, or establish military bases in the Zone. In addition, the border between the two powers was redrawn, such as that ownership of several colonies was exchanged both ways – some Cardassian colonies were transferred to Federation control, and vice-versa. The colonists on the affected planets were given the option of resettlement, though most refused. Dorvan V was one of the Federation colonies that was turned over to the Cardassians. (, )
However, many civilian colonists on both sides of the border objected to the transfer of control and secretly armed themselves, violating the peace terms that established the DMZ. The Cardassian Central Command began secretly shipping weapons to their colonists in the DMZ so as to oust the Federation colonists, using neutral species such as the Xepolites as intermediaries. In response, the Federation colonists banded together and called themselves the Maquis, dedicated to freeing themselves from Cardassian control. Although the Maquis gained no official support from the Federation, many in the Federation (including Starfleet) were sympathetic to their cause and covertly provided aid. (; )
However, by late 2370, to help reduce illegal shipments, the Federation had established a series of checkpoints and space buoys along their side of the border. Any ship that crossed anywhere other than a checkpoint would be investigated by Starfleet. ()
For the next three years, the DMZ was a hotbed of small-scale warfare as the Cardassian and Federation colonists conducted terrorist operations against each other. Eventually the Cardassian military became directly involved in the Maquis conflict on their side of the DMZ. However, in 2372 the Cardassians were forced to divert the majority of their attention to defending against the Klingon invasion in the Klingon-Cardassian War, leaving the Maquis practically unchecked in the DMZ. () By 2373, the Maquis had been so successful that their colonies were planning to declare themselves an independent state. ()
The Demilitarized Zone was quickly overrun by the Jem'Hadar in 2373, shortly after the Cardassian Union joined the Dominion. As the Dominion moved towards open warfare with the Federation, the Demilitarized Zone ceased to exist and became Cardassian territory. ()
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Ronara Prime
Soltok IV
Salva II
Solosos III
Tracken II
Umoth VIII
Veloz Prime
Volan II
Volan III
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The Bok'Nor was a Cardassian freighter that was in service in 2370.
That year, the Bok'Nor delivered fourteen metric tons of golside ore to the Regulon system prior to its arrival at Deep Space 9, where it was docked at upper pylon 1. Shortly after its departure from the station, the freighter was destroyed by an implosive protomatter device planted on the ship's fusion reactor and impulse engine, killing all 78 crew members aboard.
Although no group claimed responsibility for the attack, investigation revealed that the ship was destroyed by the Maquis, a group of Federation citizens living in the Demilitarized Zone who were attempting to resist Cardassian control of their colonies. The Cardassians interrogated William Samuels, who confessed to this, before supposedly committing suicide, although Starfleet Commander Benjamin Sisko believed he had died during interrogation. The Maquis claimed that the Bok'Nor was transporting weapons to arm Cardassian colonists inside the DMZ – a claim that the Cardassian Central Command never denied. ()
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William "Bill" Patrick Samuels was a male Human colonist and farmer in the 24th century. He became a member of the Maquis in 2370.
Samuels was born in 2327 in Bergen, Norway on Earth. He moved to the Federation colony on Volan II in 2350, where he was a farmer. He married a woman named Louise and had two daughters, born in 2356 and 2358.
After the Federation-Cardassian Treaty in 2370, like the other colonists he was given the choice of relocating or accepting Cardassian rule. He stayed, and risked the treatment of the Cardassian authorities. Samuels joined the Maquis in order to defend his home from Cardassian encroachment. When it was suspected that the Cardassian freighter Bok'Nor was smuggling weapons into the Demilitarized Zone, he joined a plot to destroy the ship. Traveling to Deep Space 9, he disguised himself as a Starfleet crewman and planted a protomatter implosion device on the ship. Following this act, Samuels met with fellow member Sakonna, who arranged for quarters for him. However, he was then captured by a Peliar Zel couple for the Cardassians and subsequently interrogated by Gul Evek. Samuels made a full confession during the interrogation, presumably under duress, and later "committed suicide" in his cell. ()
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The Caretaker was the name given to the Nacene entity who assumed responsibility for protecting the Ocampa. He was sometimes called the "Banjo Man," since he communicated with crewmembers from the through an illusion in the form of an elderly Human playing a banjo. ()
After his people accidentally caused the destruction of the ecosystem of the ca. 500 Ocampan generations ago (see "The Warming"), the Caretaker was selected to remain behind with his mate, Suspiria, while the others continued on their journey. The Caretaker created a series of underground caverns in which the Ocampa could live, and supplied them with sufficient energy to do so. However, the Caretaker did not realize that his actions were also rendering the Ocampa utterly dependent on his assistance. Suspiria did realize this, and left her mate in the late 21st century, taking a small group of Ocampa with her. ()
Some time before early 2371, the Caretaker realized that he was dying, and began an exhaustive search to try to find a compatible biological lifeform with whom he could reproduce. He assumed that only another being like himself would be capable of taking over the incredible burden of caring for the Ocampa. To further his search, he abducted dozens of starships from all across the Milky Way Galaxy, using his array conducting experiments upon the ships' crews to determine whether they were compatible. However, the search did not go well. A few of his subjects showed promise, and he sent these to live with the Ocampa for a time, but all of the subjects eventually died.
Among the ships he abducted in 2370 were a Cardassian warship and the Dreadnought missile, and in early 2371, the Federation starship . ()
Around stardate 48300, the Caretaker abducted a Maquis raider, the Val Jean, from the Badlands in the Alpha Quadrant and transported it over 70,000 light years away to his array. He also abducted the USS Voyager in the same way. These two ships were the last vessels he would transport to the Delta Quadrant.
Shortly after abducting Voyager, and recognizing that his death was imminent, the Caretaker began sending an increased store of energy to the Ocampa reserves, so that they would have enough to last up to five years after his death. However, when confronted by Captain Kathryn Janeway of Voyager, he began to realize that caring for them was not helping them, but making them dependent on him. Captain Janeway made him realize that the "children" (as he considered the Ocampa) had to eventually grow up. To help the Ocampa along, he sent them a record of his knowledge that would hopefully allow them to develop self-sufficiency.
A short time later, before he could send Voyager or the Maquis ship back, the Caretaker died, leaving the two ships stranded over seventy thousand light years from home. Before he did so, he requested to Captain Janeway that the Kazon should not be allowed to use his array, forcing the Starfleet captain to destroy it. ()
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A plasma storm is a type of spatial disturbance that involves energetic particles in a state called plasma. Plasma storms filled with activity were commonly found in places such as the Badlands. (; )
A plasma storm swept through the Denorios Belt on stardate 47182.1. As of then, they were considered extremely rare, according to Jadzia Dax. ()
While trying to figure out what had happened to a group of officers who encountered a type 2 plasma storm on their way back to Deep Space 9, Doctor Julian Bashir did a search in the medical files about such a phenomenon and found 5,021 entries. ()
Professor was working on a transpectral sensor array, a device that might have been able to penetrate the plasma storms, in an effort to find hidden Terran Rebellion bases in 2371 in the mirror universe. Sisko halted work on the device when she defected to the Rebellion after being persuaded to do so by Commander Benjamin Sisko. ()
In 2372, a plasma storm hit the planet New Earth, on which Captain Kathryn Janeway and Commander Chakotay were marooned due to a viral infection. The storm wrecked their scientific equipment and Janeway's insect traps, putting an end to her research to try to find a cure for the infection. ()
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Antares was a star in the Alpha Quadrant.
Antares was mentioned as a distant location, "somewhere, beyond the stars", in the song "Beyond Antares". ()
In 2366, in an alternate timeline, during the , the location of Antares was labeled on a tactical situation monitor in the ready room aboard the . (, okudagram)
In 2367, the location of Antares was labeled on a tactical situation monitor in Captain Benjamin Maxwell's ready room on the . (, okudagram)
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This star's quadrant of origin is inferred based on the position of neighboring locations – the Altair system (Altair III), Andor, Babel, Delta Vega, Eminiar, Janus VI, and Rigel – as seen in the star charts appearing in and in the episode .
According to Star Trek: Star Charts ("United Federation of Planets II"), the Antares (Alpha Scorpii) star system was a binary star system with a M-class star and a B-class star.
Apocrypha
In the Webster episode "Webtrek", the Enterprise-D went to red alert as it struggled to "clear the gravitational pull of Antares" and enter the 'time continuum'.
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Shinzon was a clone of Human Starfleet captain Jean-Luc Picard, initially created by the Romulans for the purpose of replacing Picard with a Romulan agent. Shinzon later became the leader of the Reman people, staging a successful coup d'état against the Romulan Senate, and plotting the annihilation of Earth in the name of Reman freedom. ()
Early life
Created by the Romulan Star Empire after obtaining the DNA of Jean-Luc Picard, Shinzon was a clone intended to conduct espionage within the United Federation of Planets.
Shinzon was meant to replace Picard, one of Starfleet's and the Federation's most decorated and noted starship commanders of the 24th century. As part of this plot, Shinzon's design incorporated temporal RNA sequencing, which could be used to accelerate his physical age to Picard's at any time.
Like his progenitor, Jean-Luc Picard, Shinzon was diagnosed with Shalaft's Syndrome at an early age. Hypersensitive to any kind of sound, young Shinzon suffered until a physician could be found who was capable of treating rare Human illnesses.
Not long after Shinzon was created, though, power within the Romulan Empire shifted and the Romulan Senate abandoned its plan, believing it to be too provocative an act if discovered. With no use for such a clone, the Empire exiled Shinzon from Romulus, sending him, still a child, to work as a slave laborer in the dilithium mines on Remus.
Reviled by the Romulans working there, Shinzon became the target of abuse. In his time in the mines, he was severely beaten, having his nose and jaw broken by brutal Romulan guards, and also being forced to work for eighteen hours a day, being constantly lashed with Romulan whips. One Reman, however, took pity on Shinzon, teaching him strength and compassion and protecting him when he could from the Romulans. This man would become Shinzon's Reman Viceroy in the conflict to follow.
Rise to power
During the Dominion War of 2374 and 2375, the Romulan military drafted Shinzon out of the mines and onto the frontlines, where he distinguished himself in battle and became a capable commanding officer of Reman troops, fighting twelve successful engagements against the Dominion.
Following the end of the Dominion War, Shinzon had both military experience and a capable army at his disposal. Forming an alliance with several Romulan officials, including Senator Tal'aura and Commanders Suran and Donatra, Shinzon vowed to free his Reman "brothers". Setting into motion a plan to overthrow the Romulan government, he and his cohorts constructed a massive warbird, the Scimitar. Operating out of a secret base, Shinzon and his people also developed a weapon, utilizing deadly thalaron radiation. Deploying a small thalaron projector in the Romulan Senate, Shinzon was able to kill all the Senate members.
Shinzon's days, however, were numbered. Abandoned by his Romulan creators, Shinzon's temporal RNA aging program was never activated, and thus it began slowly breaking down his cellular structure. The only way for him to avoid death was to make a complete blood transfusion from the only genetically-compatible donor, Jean-Luc Picard himself.
Towards this end, Shinzon concocted an elaborate plot to lure the (and by extension Picard) to Romulus. He planted the pieces of a Soong-type android, B-4, on Kolarus III, where he knew that the Enterprise would find it. As a result, the Enterprise was the closest starship available when Shinzon offered to open peace negotiations between the Federation and the Romulans, so the Enterprise was subsequently ordered to Romulus by Starfleet.
Meeting with Picard
Upon meeting Picard, Shinzon delayed his plans, having acquired an intense interest in his originator's history and that of the Picard family. He also became smitten with Counselor Deanna Troi, who was the first Human woman (albeit, only half-Human) he had ever seen.
During his first meeting with Picard and members of his crew, Shinzon remained hidden in the shadows (he and his Reman "brothers" were not comfortable in the light) and informed Picard of his intentions to negotiate peace with the Federation. After correctly guessing what Picard thought of such a negotiation, Shinzon revealed himself to his doppelgänger. This revelation shocked Picard, who now realized himself to be facing a younger version of himself. Shinzon then cut his own hand with his knife and gave the knife to Lieutenant Commander Data to have Doctor Beverly Crusher examine his blood. Afterward, he invited Picard to dinner in the Romulan Senate, insisting that they had "much to discuss".
During the dinner, Shinzon explained to Picard how and why he was created and his upbringing in the mines of Remus. Shinzon then asked with great curiosity about the history of the Picard family. Despite their obvious similarities, however, Picard was reluctant to forge a friendship with Shinzon and an alliance with his Romulan government until the Praetor had earned his trust. When Picard left, Shinzon was informed by his viceroy that they were wasting time and reminded the young clone of their mission.
Afterward, Shinzon and the viceroy returned to the Scimitar. Instead of proceeding with their mission, however, Shinzon had the viceroy form a telepathic link between Shinzon's mind and that of Counselor Troi's so that he could make love with the woman he had become fascinated with. This telepathic form of rape was a violation and traumatic experience for Troi.
When further delay became unacceptable because of the accelerating deterioration of his condition, Shinzon ordered B-4 to be beamed aboard the Scimitar, believing the android to have secretly downloaded Starfleet's communication protocols, giving Shinzon the location of all Starfleet vessels. Afterward, Shinzon kidnapped Picard by transporting him from the Enterprises sickbay to the brig aboard the Scimitar. Shinzon then told him that he would always feel to be just an echo or shadow as long as Picard was alive.
As soon as Shinzon left the brig, Picard managed to escape from the Scimitar with the help of Data, who had taken the place of B-4 and given Shinzon inaccurate data about Starfleet, and left the Romulan system aboard the Enterprise at maximum warp.
During the subsequent trip, Data assured Picard that Shinzon would not have been him even if the two had lived the same lives, because Picard had always aspired to better himself and his understanding of the universe around him, while Shinzon sought nothing but death and destruction – both for those who had oppressed him, those he erroneously believed oppressed him, and those who he might harm for personal gain.
The Battle of the Bassen Rift
Desperate, Shinzon ordered the Scimitar to pursue the Enterprise, and launched an attack in the Bassen Rift, a region where subspace communications were unavailable. In the battle that ensued, Picard continued to elude capture with the assistance of Romulan reinforcements – Commander Donatra had betrayed Shinzon, realizing that Shinzon didn't just plan to attack the Federation with the thalaron radiation weapon, but actually planned mass genocide by wiping out Earth's population. She subsequently aided Picard in a battle for some time before her starship, the , was heavily damaged by a disruptor blast from the Scimitar.
For some time, the battle was in Shinzon's favor, due mostly to his ship's ability to fire while cloaked. Things changed, however, when Troi reopened the telepathic link between herself and the viceroy, allowing the Enterprise to pinpoint the Scimitars exact location. With its cloak disabled, the Scimitar began taking damage – but Shinzon was not defeated yet.
After the Enterprises shields took extensive damage, Shinzon ordered the viceroy to lead a boarding party to retrieve Picard. But the boarding party that had beamed to the Enterprise was pinned down, and the viceroy himself was killed by William T. Riker in a maintenance shaft.
On the whole, however, the battle was not going well for the Enterprise. Shinzon had nearly crippled the starship and had even destroyed a section of its bridge, sending at least one Starfleet officer hurtling to his death. Overconfident, Shinzon had the Scimitar turn to face the battle-damaged Enterprise. Picard then turned the tables by ramming the Enterprise into the Scimitar, a move which Shinzon did not expect and which he could not avoid. With both starships heavily damaged, Shinzon ordered a Reman officer to activate the thalaron weapon and to fire at the Enterprise. He then ordered the officer to take the Scimitar into Federation space and complete their mission once every living thing aboard Enterprise was dead.
To stop the thalaron weapon from firing, Picard beamed himself to the Scimitar. On the Scimitar bridge, Picard managed to kill all Reman crewmembers with his phaser rifle. As Shinzon's health worsened, he engaged Picard in a ferocious hand-to-hand combat which moved from the bridge itself to the thalaron radiation generator room. In the end, Shinzon was killed when Picard used a piece of wreckage to impale Shinzon as the clone lunged in for the kill. With his plans collapsing around him, the dying Shinzon used the last of his strength to pull himself down the makeshift spear and grab the captain by the throat. His last words to Picard were: "Our destiny is complete".
As Picard stood in shock, Data arrived and transported the captain back to the Enterprise. Data then fired his phaser at the thalaron generator, destroying himself and the Scimitar and effectively concluding Shinzon's plan for galactic conquest. ()
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Shinzon was played by actor Tom Hardy and by an unknown actor as a boy. Other actors who were considered for the role were Stargate SG-1 actor , movie star (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer star .
In addition to shaving his head, Hardy had to wear a prosthetic nose and chin in order to more closely resemble Patrick Stewart, as he was supposed to be playing a younger version of Stewart's character. Ironically, in the film Shinzon cites his nose and jaw as being different from those of Picard.
A deleted scene which took place early in the film revealed that Shinzon's motives in wiping out the population of Earth were twofold; firstly as an act of revenge against Humanity, and secondly as the first step of a larger plan to invade the United Federation of Planets. By destroying Earth, Shinzon would also have wiped out the Federation Council and Starfleet Command, rendering the Federation unable to mount an adequate defense against the Blitzkrieg-style attack that the Romulans would then deploy. His ultimate aim was to make a name for himself as the man who destroyed the Federation, thereby eclipsing Picard in the history books. While the scene was removed, during a meeting of the senior staff later in the movie, Riker and Picard comment that destroying Humanity would "cripple" the Federation, allowing the Romulans to invade.
It remains uncertain as to when exactly Shinzon was created. He was sent down to the mines on Remus as a child and spent "nearly ten years" there, probably until he left for the Dominion War. Since that conflict took place in 2374/2375, he would have been exiled around 2364/2365, and his creation would have been several years earlier, placing his birth somewhen in the 2350s. A power shift within the Romulan Empire around 2364/2365 would be somewhat consistent with Alidar Jarok's 2366 comments from about "new leaders" and the Romulans increasing their activity in the Romulan Neutral Zone in 2364, as depicted in and .
In an interview given years after this movie came out, Tom Hardy said that he took the role very seriously, as it was intended to be his big break. The commercial failure of the movie, and the response from long-time fans, apparently led to his relationship dissolving, his turning to alcohol, and considering suicide. It was only when he pulled himself together and starred in Bronson that he got over the film.
According to Beverly Crusher, Shinzon was supposed to "skip thirty years" to replace Picard, though it is unclear whether Shinzon's "activation" was imminent or still further in the future at the time of his exile. In any case, since Picard was born in 2305, the age difference between Picard and Shinzon would be closer to 50 years based on the 2350s creation date.
According to Crusher in the ization of , Shinzon was created approximately twenty-five years earlier, in or around 2354.
Depending on the exact date, Picard was either still commanding the or in the (never canonically described) interval between the Stargazer and the when his DNA was taken. It is possible that Picard, already before commanding the Federation flagship, was prominent enough for his DNA to be taken or even that the Romulans learned about Picard's future prominence from the alternate timeline Natasha Yar from .
"Shinzon"
According to the novelization, the name "Shinzon" is Reman for "liberator". This, however, was never referenced in the film.
Also, in the short story "Twilight's Wrath" (see below) it is stated that the name "Shinzon" is Reman for "twilight." This name was given to him by his viceroy, Vkruk, because of his "irrepressible fascination with the fine line that separated light and darkness."
In his foreword to J.M. Dillard's novelization of the film, screenwriter John Logan says that he based the name "Shinzon", as well as all the other Reman and Romulan names in the story on ancient Chinese names, in homage to Gene Roddenberry's creation of the Romulans as an analog to 1960s Communist China.
Apocrypha
The short story "Twilight's Wrath" (in the novel Tales of the Dominion War) is the back story to Star Trek Nemesis as Shinzon and his viceroy begin their plans to takeover the Romulan Star Empire, when he and his regiment of Reman shock troops are ordered on a suicide mission to re-take a secret Tal Shiar research facility from the Dominion. Inside the facility, Shinzon finds the thalaron generator and a powered-down copy of Data, known as B-4. The story implies that B-4 was also intended by the Romulans to infiltrate the Federation, hence Shinzon refers to B-4 as "brother". Shinzon also discovers in the facility's records the truth about his own origins, which he was previously ignorant of.
The story implies that Shinzon and B-4 were created by the Romulans at roughly the same time; if this were true, the most opportune time for them to have "copied" Picard and Data would be in 2368, after the two were captured on Romulus while trying to locate Ambassador Spock. ()
In the prologue to Michael Jan Friedman's novel Death in Winter, Picard's DNA is taken in 2348, along with that of Walker Keel, Leo Blais, and Marielle Kumaretanga, by a Romulan agent masquerading as a waiter at the wedding reception of Jack and Beverly Crusher. This would be while Picard was still in command of the Stargazer.
In the briefing prior to a mission inside the Federation campaign within the game Star Trek: Starfleet Command III, Captain Picard tells the player the following: "Recent intelligence reports suggest that a suspicious person – not a Romulan – is forming a coalition to challenge the Praetor's authority.". This could be a reference to the character.
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Pavel Andreievich Chekov (Russian: Павел Андреевич Чехов) was a Human who served as a Starfleet officer during the latter half of the 23rd century. Although he mainly served as the navigator aboard the and the , he played a more variable role than the other senior staffmembers under Captain James T. Kirk. (; ; ; )
Early life
Pavel Chekov, son of Andrei Chekov, was born in Russia on Earth in 2245. ()
Pavel was an only child. However, he once believed, while under the influence of the Beta XII-A entity, that he had a brother named Piotr who was killed by the Klingons. ()
Career
Starfleet Academy
Around 2263, Chekov entered Starfleet Academy, from which he graduated with the rank of ensign. His Starfleet serial number was 656-5827D. (; )
During the early 2260s, Chekov was romantically involved with Irina Galliulin while they both attended the Academy together. The two had several disagreements before they parted ways: Chekov believed Galliulin to always be too free-spirited, Galliulin believed Chekov to have always been rigid. When Galliulin dropped out of the Academy, each accused the one of leaving the other. Chekov left, but came back to look for Galliulin, who was at the time staying in the city with friends. Galliulin eventually joined the counterculture movement of Dr. Sevrin and his search for the mythical planet Eden. ()
The five-year mission
Chekov's first assignment, at the age of 22, was on the under command of Captain James T. Kirk. He joined the crew sometime prior to stardate 3018.2 (early 2267). () He was serving there when sometime later, around stardate 3141.9, the Enterprise encountered , and he was seen by Khan Noonien Singh onboard the ship. (; )
Chekov served a standard junior officer rotation, eventually earning the post of navigator, although he was also proficient with the science officer station, often serving at the post in Commander Spock's absence. While acting the role of science adviser, Chekov made every attempt to be as thorough as possible. Chekov also became good friends with the slightly older helmsman Lieutenant Sulu who sat next to him on many missions. ()
While investigating a humanoid who could generate and control energy, who referred to himself as Apollo, in 2267, Chekov began to spout off information on similar creatures. After naming the electric eel and giant dry-worm, he was stopped by Dr. Leonard McCoy, who told him "not the whole encyclopedia, Chekov." McCoy later quipping on Chekov's dedicated thoroughness by stating: "Spock's contaminating this boy, Jim." ()
On a mission to deliver supplies to a Federation experimental colony on the planet Gamma Hydra IV, the six member landing party discovered that most of the colonist were either dead or close to death from rapid aging with Chekov becoming frightened upon finding the dead body of Alvin in one of the buildings. On return to the Enterprise, the entire landing party was infected with the rapid aging except for Chekov. Chekov complained to Sulu about how many times Dr. McCoy put him through a series of tests to discover why he wasn't aging, especially emphasizing that if he gave any more blood he wouldn't have any left. Spock soon discovered that the rapid aging was caused by radiation left on Gamma Hydra IV from a rogue comet. McCoy determined that the cure was adrenaline. Chekov had been so shocked upon finding the dead body that his adrenaline provided an immunity to the radiation's effects. ()
In 2268, Chekov, Kirk, and Lieutenant Uhura were captured by alien beings who used them in gladiatorial combat, which the beings wagered on. Such captured beings were known as "thralls". One of the thralls, Tamoon was assigned to train Chekov in gladiatorial combat and developed romantic feelings towards him, leading to many unwelcome advances. ()
Chekov was killed as a member of the landing party that made contact with the xenophobic Melkotians. The Melkotians considered Humans as a disease that must be destroyed, and placed the five member landing party in a frontier setting of the 19th century American West. The away team filled the role of the Clantons, one of the two major gangs involved at the OK Corral gunfight with Chekov playing gang member William Claiborne. Chekov was killed by one of the Earps over a girl named , who was in love with Chekov/Claiborne, and not the Earp that wanted her. Spock realized that this simulation was not real, and thus the four other landing party members could not be hurt as long as they did not believe in the illusion. After successfully escaping the illusory setting, the landing party was transported back to the Enterprise, along with Chekov who was alive once again and the Melkotians were willing to begin talks to join the Federation. ()
When the ship was hijacked by android Norman to an undiscovered planet, the Enterprises crew discovered Harcourt Fenton Mudd who had crashed on the planet. The planet was populated by androids who wished to use the Enterprise to visit other planets, but strand the crew there. The androids tempted Chekov with a planet full of beautiful women to serve him. In the end, the crew banded together and escaped the planet, leaving Mudd with five hundred android replicas of his overbearing wife, Stella. ()
During shore leave on Deep Space station K-7, Chekov, along with Lieutenant Uhura, brought one tribble back to the Enterprise, which reproduced so fast that the ship became overrun with them in three days. Chekov participated in a bar fight with Klingons in the bar on the space station and was temporarily arrested by some redshirts. He had to then participate in an interrogation line on the Enterprise, in front of Kirk, until Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott admitted he started the fight. Scott found a humane way to dispose of all the tribbles on the Enterprise by beaming them over to the Klingon ship just before it went into warp speed. (; )
Chekov was at navigation when he noticed the Enterprise navigation controls were not working, and then tried to assist Lieutenant Hadley, manning the helm, with the helm's stuck controls. The Kelvan Hanar then suddenly transported himself onto the bridge and put Chekov and the rest of the bridge crew into temporary motionless stasis. Two other Kelvans, Tomar and Drea, had already seized control of engineering and environmental engineering in a similar fashion. Thus began the attempted hijacking of the Enterprise by the Kelvan Milky Way Expedition so they could return to the Andromeda Galaxy. After the Enterprise successfully exited the Milky Way galaxy through the galactic barrier, Kelvan leader Rojan neutralized and reduced Chekov into a dehydrated porous cuboctahedron solid the size of a Human fist, composed of Chekov's base minerals which represented the "distilled" essence of Chekov's being, because he was considered along with most of the rest of the crew non-essential personnel. Chekov was reconstituted after Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scott, the only four of the crew who were not neutralized, regained control of the Enterprise. ()
After the Starnes Exploration Party children were brought aboard the Enterprise from the planet Triacus, no one on board knew that the children were under the influence of Gorgan, who had given the children the ability of mind-control. This telekinesis had already caused the deaths of the children's parents and was the way in which Gorgan hoped to achieve galactic dominance by way of other children. The children used their mind-control on Chekov, Sulu, and Uhura to make them believe that the Enterprise was still orbiting Triacus, when in actuality Chekov and Sulu had set course for Marcus XII, the intended next target for Gorgan. This also caused Kirk, unaware of the change of course and the departure from the orbit of Triacus, to have two crewmen have their molecules beamed into and spread throughout space and to their deaths. Then Tommy Starnes manipulated, by telekinesis, Chekov, Security Chief Freeman, and another security guard to attempt to arrest and put in the brig both Kirk and Spock because of false "orders" of Starfleet command. Kirk and Spock fought off Chekov, Freeman, and the other security guard, who were temporarily put in the brig themselves. Chekov was freed from the mind-control once the children were freed from the influence of Gorgan. ()
Chekov was rendered unconscious by the Eymorg when she boarded the Enterprise and used her control bracelet in order to steal Spock's brain. After the crew regained consciousness and found Spock's body without his brain and they found Kara's ship left an ion trail to the Sigma Draconis system, Chekov placed a schematic of the system on the bridge's viewscreen. A debate ensued between Chekov, Sulu, and Uhura as to which of the three class M planets they should look for Spock's brain, with Kirk reminding them that Dr. McCoy said that Spock would have only three hours to live without his brain. None of the three planets seemed capable of supporting interstellar flight, but Kirk's best hunch of where to look came from Uhura, who found large, regular energy pulsations on the otherwise glaciated and pre-industrial Sigma Draconis VI. Chekov was part of a landing party that also consisted of Kirk, Scott, McCoy, and two crewmen who beamed down to the surface of Sigma Draconis VI. There the landing party suffered an ambush by the Morg, primitive humanoid men, until one of them was subdued by a phaser. The Morg that was hit hinted at "the Others" who gave "pain and delight", but seemingly the Morg had no mates and didn't know what a female was. Chekov then ran his tricorder and found evidence of an underground city. Kirk, McCoy, and Scott went underground and found that the Eymorg were the females of the Morg and discovered Spock's brain was being used to power the city, Chekov used his phaser to heat a rock to keep him and the two crewmen warm. McCoy was able to get Spock's brain back in his head, just in the nick of time, and they met back up with Chekov and the two crewmen leaving the Eymorg to have to start living with the Morg. ()
When Spock mind melded with Medusan Ambassador Kollos to guide the Enterprise into normal space after being stranded in an uncharted void of the galaxy by a then-dead Larry Marvick, Spock-Kollos took over, temporarily, the helm console from Sulu and was assisted in the task by Chekov at navigation. Unfortunately Spock-Kollos forgot to put back on the visor, which caused Spock to go temporarily insane while still on the bridge. During this temporary insanity, he pushed very hard backwards both Chekov and Sulu, who were trying to help him, with Chekov landing on top of the navigation console and then to on his back on the floor. Fortunately Chekov recovered quickly and Spock did so, as well, a short time after that. ()
Chekov was part of an away team that beamed aboard the starship , which was adrift in space. They discovered that the ship was dissolving due to the effects of the interphase of that part of space. They also discovered that there had been mass insanity aboard the USS Defiant with its whole crew dead. Kirk unfortunately had to remain behind because the transporter could only beam aboard three of the four away team members. After beaming back to the Enterprise, Chekov attacked Spock on the bridge in a fit of madness. The illness then spread throughout the ship. The interphase was causing mental breakdowns in the crew of the Enterprise. Chekov was cured of his madness the same way the rest of the crew who suffered mental breakdowns did, from Dr. McCoy discovering and then dispensing a diluted theragen derivative. Spock told Chekov that it was great to see Chekov back to his normal self. The crew rescued Kirk and escaped the Tholians. ()
Near the end of 2268, Chekov was very nervous when Kirk, Spock, and Scott were forced to activate the three-part self-destruct sequence in order to force Commissioner Bele to relinquish control of the Enterprise to Kirk. Shortly after in the recreation room, Chekov attended the speech by Lokai regarding how his people had been enslaved and then subjugated by Bele's people on their home planet of Cheron for many centuries. Chekov expressed surprise about this by saying to Lokai, "There was persecution on Earth once. I remember reading about it in history class." Sulu then reminded Chekov that that took place several centuries earlier on Earth and was considered primitive thinking in the 23rd century. Chekov, manning the bridge's main science station for Spock, was later the one to discover that Bele sabotaged the self-destruct program so he and Lokai ended up having their final battle on the already mutually annihilated, by civil war, Cheron. ()
Early in 2269, Chekov's sight was affected when the "lights of Zetar" beings attacked the Enterprise as the ship was trying to reach Memory Alpha. Apparently as navigator, Chekov's sight was considered by the Zetarians to be the most important part of Chekov's brain to render useless in the young man during the attack. Chekov later expressed that he couldn't force himself to look at the navigation controls during the attack. ()
A bit later in 2269, Chekov once again encountered his lost love, Irina Galliulin. Although they were initially happy to see one another, Chekov adamantly disapproved of her new lifestyle and attempted to cast her off. She visited Chekov, who was working in auxiliary control assigned to help Spock locate the planet Eden, to apologize for upsetting Chekov. Her ulterior motive, however, was to subtly use him to gain his knowledge of the systems of the ship, which were later used by Dr. Sevrin and his followers to hijack the Enterprise. The two left each other once again, this time while saying "good-bye" to one another, as well as each with a better understanding of the other. ()
A short time after that unaware that Kirk's body was being inhabited by Dr. Janice Lester after a life-entity transfer, Chekov and Sulu started protesting when the captain extended the mutiny charges against Spock and the doctor to Scott and McCoy and ordered the death penalty for all four of them. Chekov persisted and tried to remind the captain that the death penalty was forbidden except for violation of General Order 4, which had not been violated. But the captain refused to listen. A short time later on the bridge, Chekov and Sulu took their hands off their consoles in defiance of the captain's orders to go to the planet Benecia for the internment of the prisoners. This action by Chekov and Sulu fortunately started the process of returning Kirk back to his own body. ()
Later in 2269, Chekov was no longer the navigator on board the Enterprise, having been replaced as navigator by Arex. ()
Chief of Security of the USS Enterprise
By the early 2270s, Chekov had been promoted to lieutenant and served as the security chief and tactical officer of the refit Enterprise under the command of Captain Will Decker.
Chekov was manning the weapons console when the Enterprise entered a wormhole created by its imbalanced warp engines. Kirk ordered Chekov to fire phasers on an asteroid they were going to collide with in the wormhole, but Decker ordered that he fire photon torpedoes at it instead. Slowly, Chekov fired the weapons due to the wormhole effect but ultimately saved the ship. Later, Chekov's hand was severely burned by a feedback pulse when the ship was probed during its encounter with V'ger. ()
First officer of the USS Reliant
By the 2280s, Chekov was promoted to commander and assigned as first officer to under Captain Clark Terrell.
In 2285, the Reliant was on a mission to find a suitable planet to conduct trials with the Genesis Device. When they explored Ceti Alpha V, Chekov and Captain Terrell encountered Khan Noonien Singh and his Augments.
By putting Ceti eels inside their heads, Khan made them susceptible to his suggestions, his motive being to seek revenge on Admiral Kirk. Using Chekov and Terrell, Khan was able to seize the Reliant and subsequently steal the Genesis Device.
After Captain Terrell's death, and the departure of the Ceti eel from his head, Chekov recovered in time to help Admiral Kirk defeat Khan in the Battle of the Mutara Nebula. Afterward, he assumed the post of Enterprises acting science officer following the death of Captain Spock. (; )
Stealing the Enterprise
Also in 2285, Chekov and his shipmates Kirk, Scott, Sulu, and McCoy stole the Enterprise from (with Uhura's help) in an attempt to recover a regenerated Spock from the .
The Enterprise was disabled by a Klingon Bird-of-Prey in orbit around the Genesis Planet and was then self-destructed by Kirk (with help from Scott and Chekov) to prevent its capture. Kirk and his crew later seized command of the Klingon ship, which they named the .
The crew then transported the regenerated body of Spock to , where the body was reunited with his katra, which had been placed in McCoy. ()
Stopping the Whale Probe
Using the slingshot effect, the Bounty went back in time to 1986 to transport two Humpback whales to the 23rd century. While on Earth, Chekov and Uhura were part of "Team 2," assigned to locating and acquiring photons for recrystallizing the dilithium crystals aboard the Bounty.
Although the mission was a success in acquiring the necessary photons from the nuclear vessel, , Chekov was captured by the ship's security. Accused of being a "Russkie," Chekov made a failed escape attempt from the aircraft carrier, only to become critically injured when he fell over fifty feet from the ship's hangar deck, running through an open hatch that led out to one of the ship's massive aircraft elevators.
Chekov was taken into emergency surgery at Mercy Hospital where he was diagnosed with a tearing of the middle meningeal artery after a fundoscopic examination. He would successfully be healed, narrowly escaping the removal of an epidural hematoma by trepanation, and subsequently evacuated from the hospital by McCoy, Kirk, and Gillian Taylor.
Navigator of the USS Enterprise-A
Upon returning to the 23rd century, Chekov and his shipmates faced court martial for their actions. However, they were eventually cleared of all charges and Chekov was reassigned as navigator on the . ()
In 2287, Chekov took temporary command of the Enterprise-A and posed as "Captain Chekov" as a ruse to negotiate with Sybok for the hostages that the renegade Vulcan took on Nimbus III. While Kirk, Spock, Uhura, and a security team landed on the planet covertly by , Chekov successfully distracted Sybok long enough for the landing party to launch an attack on Paradise City. Sybok later captured the landing party and boarded the Enterprise. Making his way to the bridge, Sybok confronted Chekov and took away his "pain". Afterward, Chekov became one of the Vulcan's followers. ()
In 2293, Chekov undertook his final voyage on the Enterprise-A as part of the mission to escort the Klingon Chancellor to peace negotiations with the Federation. Chekov used his investigative science background to find forensic evidence linked to a Federation-Klingon conspiracy attempting to undermine the peace talks. After the Khitomer Conference, Chekov's last duty on the Enterprise-A was to man navigation and the helm for her decommissioning cruise. ()
Guest of Honor
In the latter part of 2293, Commander Chekov was a guest of honor aboard the new under the command of John Harriman. During the maiden voyage, Captain Kirk went missing (presumably swept into space) during a hull breach caused by a part of the Nexus energy ribbon when it collided with the Enterprise-B. ()
Russian heritage
Chekov was very proud of his heritage. He often noted – mostly erroneously – that most great inventions and events ever noted in history came from his homeland, which both amused and annoyed his crewmates.
He claimed that the old Earth saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me," was invented in Russia. ()
He once sarcastically referred to himself as "the tsar of all the Russias" when meeting Apollo. ()
He claimed that the English story about the Cheshire Cat was actually a Russian story about a disappearing cat from Minsk. ()
He claimed that the Garden of Eden was located just outside Moscow. He claimed that it was "a very nice place" and that "it must've made Adam and Eve very sad to leave," to which Kirk sarcastically responded with "Just... outside Moscow, all right." ()
He once referred to Harry Mudd as an "unprincipled evil-minded lecherous Kulak." He then commented that planet Mudd was "even better than Leningrad." ()
He claimed that the region surrounding Sherman's Planet was first mapped by the famous Russian astronomer Ivan Burkoff, when in fact, it was discovered by John Burke, of the Royal Academy. ()
He claimed that quadrotriticale was a Russian invention, when, in fact, it was invented in Canada. ()
He was also known to have made references to Peter the Great. ()
He claimed that scotch was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad. ()
He was also fond of the Russian beverage vodka and referring to the Klingons, among other individuals, as Cossacks. ()
He claimed Cinderella was a Russian epic. ()
In addition to these, Captain Kirk once stopped Lieutenant Sulu mid-sentence, while Sulu was referencing an incident in Siberia, and told Sulu, "If I wanted a Russian history lesson, I would have brought Mr. Chekov." (, in which Chekov himself did not appear)
Biographical timeline
2245 : Born in Russia, on Earth
ca. 2263 : Enrolls at Starfleet Academy, later graduates with the rank of ensign
ca. 2267 : Assigned to as navigator and relief science officer
2270 : The Enterprises five-year mission ends.
Early 2270s : Joins the refit Enterprise crew as lieutenant, assigned as security chief
2285 : Assigned to as commander, first officer. Assignment ends when the vessel is stolen and destroyed by Khan Noonien Singh. Chekov participates in the theft and destruction of Enterprise, and flees with Admiral Kirk's party to
2286 : Charges against the crew and Chekov are dropped, Chekov becomes navigator of
2287 : Temporarily in command of the Enterprise-A, acts as captain to negotiate with Sybok at Nimbus III
2293 : After helping to solve the Khitomer conspiracy, Chekov's assignment to the Enterprise-A ends when the vessel is scheduled for retirement. Chekov is a guest on board the new Enterprise-B.
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Background information
Chekov was played by Walter Koenig, who joined the cast of Star Trek at the beginning of TOS Season 2, and filled in what were originally intended to be roles for Hikaru Sulu while George Takei spent much of this time involved in filming The Green Berets during Season 2. ("To Boldly Go...": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features)
According to Gene L. Coon in his The Making of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry wanted to add in a young Englishman to appeal to younger demographics. However, he received a written complaint from Russian sources, who complained that Star Trek – though trying to fashion a future where the world was united – was ignoring the USSR, which, at the time, was the leader in the space race. Roddenberry soon after altered his English youth into Chekov.
On the video release of William Shatner's Star Trek Memories, Walter Koenig himself said that the Russians didn't say anything about there being no Russians on the Enterprise and the article that Roddenberry and Coon referred to likely didn't exist because at the height of the Cold War, no American programming was airing in Russia. (Allan Asherman's The Star Trek Compendium says that the Pravda journalist "[had] seen a Star Trek episode televised in Germany", but Star Trek didn't air in Germany until .) According to Koenig, the character was created to add -like appeal to the show and the Russian heritage was added by Roddenberry because he wanted to honor the fact that the Russians were the first people in space. In his first couple of episodes, Koenig indeed wore a -style wig to look more like Davy Jones. ("To Boldly Go...": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features) Ironically, during the time of TOS in the late 1960s, Soviet teens sporting this look, derisively called "hairies" and viewed as dangerously rebellious by their elders, were often arrested and had their hair cut off by the police.
Chekov was the only main character from Star Trek not to appear in , due to budgetary constraints. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 422) He was briefly written into the series, appearing as an ensign in the first draft script of , though his role in that story was rewritten for a newly created character, Ensign Bates. Despite Chekov's exclusion, StarTrek.com has a TAS Chekov biography page explaining what he was up to away from the Enterprise in the years of The Animated Series. Koenig, however, was not entirely absent from the series; he did provide the script for .
Chekov was referenced in the first draft script of the sixth season episode . Moments after Scott was rematerialized on the in the 24th century, he started to suggest to Geordi La Forge that perhaps he (i.e. Scott) and Chekov could do something related to salvaging the Jenolan. However, Scott trailed off, not finishing his sentence, upon first seeing Worf. The reference to Chekov was completely dropped by the final draft of the script.
A 24th century version of Pavel Chekov was briefly planned to feature in an episode that was conceived but not filmed for the seventh season of TNG. Writer Naren Shankar recalled how Chekov was portrayed in the story; "He returns as a prisoner-of-war from a planet where he was imprisoned for many years and finally released. Now he has come back as an ambassador to help the Federation open up diplomatic relations, like Vietnam, essentially." Chekov would have also, in the same story, formed a friendship with Worf, who had likewise been brought up in Russia. Shankar concluded, "Throughout the course of the negotiations with these people, it appears as though Chekov is sabotaging them. It turns out he is plotting to use the Enterprise to lay waste to their capital for revenge and to screw things up for the Federation because he feels they abandoned him and let these people torture him." (Sci Fi Universe, September 1994 issue)
In the first draft script of , Chekov had a total of three lines. He was aboard the Enterprise-B when it encountered El-Aurian vessels caught in the Nexus, though he didn't have any dialogue on the Enterprises bridge. After being recruited as a nurse by Dr. McCoy and accompanying him to the Enterprise-B's sickbay with the intention of treating the El-Aurian survivors, Chekov reported to McCoy, while scanning the El-Aurians with a tricorder, that he had found "only minor injuries so far...." One of the people Chekov scanned was Dr. Tolian Soran, who roughly grabbed him. Chekov tried to assure Soran, who was desperate to return to the Nexus, that he was safe on the Enterprise. However, Chekov began to be attacked by Soran, so McCoy rendered Soran unconscious with a hypospray before he could seriously wound Chekov. Puzzled, Chekov asked McCoy what Soran had been talking about, though McCoy didn't know. Chekov returned to the bridge of the Enterprise-B and remained there until the setting of the script changed.
In Star Trek Generations, Chekov is briefly referred to as "Captain Chekov" by one of the reporters on the Enterprise-B. Chekov was referred to in the final draft script (but not in the first draft) as "Commander". He is also shown wearing a commander's pin on screen.
By the time Star Trek Generations came about, Walter Koenig felt it was finally time to say goodbye to the character of Chekov, having believed Star Trek VI would be Chekov's last appearance. As it turned out, the amount of content which was ultimately given to Chekov to say and do in Generations also pleased Koenig. "I found this attractive and appealing because there is a couple of personal moments that Chekov has in this story that were absent in what was supposedly our last appearance," he stated, "and although the story certainly isn't about Chekov, nor is any one page about Chekov, still I feel that I have been given the opportunity to invest some character into the dialogue and to leave an impression of Chekov's personality on the screen." ("Uniting Two Legends", DVD/)
One of Chekov's costumes was added to the ScienceFictionArchives.com collection and was showcased at Paris science museum during 2010-2011 exhibition "Science (and) Fiction: Imagination Meets Reality".
Walter Koenig's portrayal of Chekov, especially in TOS Season 3, heavily influenced Anton Yelchin's depiction of the alternate reality version of the character. "There's a lot more Chekov in season three, so I wanted to focus on [that] season [....] I'm indebted to [Walter Koenig] for setting me up in this great way," Yelchin remarked. "He crafted such a fun character, so I try and embrace that energy every time, and be respectful of that." (Star Trek Magazine Movie Special 2016, p. 84)
Heather Kadin remarked, "I don't think I realized as a kid when I was watching what it meant that Chekov was on the bridge in the middle of the Cold War. That's amazing that Gene Roddenberry thought to do that and actually was able to do that." ("A Woman's Journey", DIS Season 1 DVD & Blu-ray special features)
Apocrypha
According to Star Trek II: Biographies, Chekov was born on 6 March 2245 in Moscow to parents Aleksei Mikhailovich Chekov and Catherine Rykova. While his biography in the video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, written by Mike Okuda, stated that his parents were named Andrei Dimitrievich Chekov and Larisa Irinova Chekov. He also had a daughter named Kim.
In the Eleventh UK Annual Story, Chekov says that he took the same radio courses as Uhura, presumably at Starfleet Academy.
In the game, Chekov claims that prior to joining the Enterprise , he was stationed on the planet Benderi IV, where he had a commanding officer who believed getting angry was unprofessional and bottled up her rage until it exploded. He also authored several simulator missions used at the Academy.
In the novel To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh, Chekov led the security team that delivered Khan and his followers to Ceti Alpha V's surface. Khan remembers Chekov as having led a courageous but failed attempt to retake the engine room during Khan's brief takeover of the Enterprise. This coincides with both Khan's recognition of Chekov, as well as Chekov's comment in the that he had seen the world Khan had been left on.
According to The Sundered, the first book in the Star Trek: The Lost Era series, Chekov served as executive officer of the from 2293 through at least part of 2298. Chekov is mentioned in TNG-era novels from Pocket Books, such as Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens's Federation. That novel mentioned him becoming an admiral after commanding both the and USS Cydonia. The Reeves-Stevenses collaborated with William Shatner on The Return, which had Chekov becoming a fleet admiral. In Exodus, a novel in the Star Trek: Vulcan's Soul series by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, one plot thread had Chekov still be alive by the time of the Dominion War, along with Admiral Uhura.
The Face of the Unknown briefly depicts Chekov's longing for a new direction in his life following the events of , and ends with him deciding to transfer for additional security training, to be replaced on the Enterprise by Arex Na Eth. The beginning of the novel The Latter Fire depicts his leaving the Enterprise for training at Starfleet Academy's Reed Annex in London (presumably a tip of the hat to Malcolm Reed), and his subsequent replacement by a newly transferred Arex.
Chekov returns in the Agents of Yesterday expansion for Star Trek Online, again voiced by Walter Koenig. After the events of The Undiscovered Country, he eventually became a captain, and even later in his life he became a temporal agent, sometimes working alongside . Chekov – aided by the player character – removes a Na'kuhl bomb from the Enterprise and places it aboard the Orion scout ship that attacked during the trip to the Babel Conference (). He later leads Starfleet and allied forces against the Temporal Liberation Front in the Battle of Procyon V, joining with the player and unwitting temporal agent Montgomery Scott to use the Tox Uthat against the Sphere-Builders.
In Star Trek Cats, Chekov is depicted as a Russian Blue cat.
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The termination implant was a device attached to the brain stem of Vorta operatives of the Dominion. It was triggered by hand with a gesture that applied pressure with the index finger behind the right earlobe and the thumb under the jaw. When the device was activated (voluntarily) by the owner, it caused near-instant, painful death (though the Founders told the Vorta that death would be painless, this was proven not entirely true). Its purpose was to prevent Vorta – and the strategic information they possessed – from falling into enemy hands.
During his attempt to defect to the Federation in 2375, Weyoun 6 activated his termination implant in order to force the Jem'Hadar away from the , the runabout he was aboard with Odo. ()
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The cellular regeneration and entertainment chamber was a medical treatment device based on the theories of Doctor Bathkin of Andros III and built by Doctor Elias Giger in the 2370s. According to its designer, the chamber was designed to keep s energized by "teaching" them "new mitochondrial tricks". The chamber functioned by transmitting biogenic energy on a chromoelectric wavelength, to send "uplifting and entertaining" messages to cellular nuclei. Giger predicted that, by spending eight hours a day in the machine, one's life span could be extended indefinitely – effectively bestowing immortality on the user.
Necessary supplies required for its operation included an ion-transtator, anaerobic metabolites suspended in a hydrosaline solution and a neodymium power cell. The device emitted highly charged polaric particles when in operation.
Though Federation scientists were extremely doubtful about the practicality of Giger's theory, Weyoun 5 became interested in the chamber during a visit to Deep Space 9 in 2373. ()
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Doctor Elias Giger was a Human research scientist during the late-24th century. He spent his life studying death and ways to avoid it.
Giger proposed that death followed from cellular boredom, the body literally being bored to death at the cellular level due to the monotonous routine of metabolizing and dividing. By his own account, he was laughed at and hounded out of the halls of the scientific establishment, and had to scrounge and beg for materials for his research.
After Dr. Bathkin's untimely death in a shuttlecraft – an incident which Giger blamed on the "soulless minions of orthodoxy" – Giger heard the clarion call of destiny and began pursuing Bathkin's work on "energizing" cells. After fifteen years of tireless effort, by 2373 he had nearly completed work on his cellular regeneration and entertainment chamber, a device that would effectively grant immortality by reenergizing the s of a person's body. According to Giger, the secret to immortality lay in keeping the cells "entertained".
While at Deep Space 9 in late 2373, Giger purchased a selection of antique objects that included a 23rd century ion-transtator, which he used for his entertainment chamber. Among the other objects in the lot was a 20th century baseball card, which he traded to Jake Sisko and Nog in exchange for a selection of special equipment and materials.
Around the same time, Weyoun, also on DS9 and happened to have quarters directly above him on the station, observed that Giger was running experiments with highly charged polaric particles. He abducted him as well as Jake and Nog to understand if there was some larger motive. Seeing Jake and Nog were innocent, he let them go, but Giger stayed as Weyoun was interested in his work, thanks to his own background in "creative genetics". ()
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Doctor Giger was played by recurring Star Trek guest actor Brian Markinson. His costume comprising a long-sleeved tunic, light-brown vest, dark-gray woollen jacket with multi-colored flecks and matching overall-style trousers was later sold off in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction for $255.00.
During his introduction scene, the final script for describes Giger as, "...a Human male in his early forties sitting at the edge of the crowd. He gives his closest neighbor a worried look and moves his chair a little further away from the crowd. Giger doesn't like being the center of attention and wishes they'd all just stop looking at him." This would place his year of birth somewhere between roughly 2328 and 2333.
Although no practical diagnosis was made, Giger seemed to be a classic "mad scientist," suffering from acute obsession and paranoia.
In the original script, the character had a different name. It was only when writer Ronald D. Moore got to the exchange between Nog and Jake in Act IV, that he decided to change it to Giger to rhyme with the word "tiger". "When I wrote that line, 'We're going to beard a lion in its den,'''" he explained, "I wanted a joke to follow. From 'lion', my mind went to the bear, the teddy bear that I'd already established in the script and then I realized that I needed to find something that rhymed with tiger...tiger, miger, giger - Doctor Giger!" ()
Doctor Giger's Cellular Regeneration and Entertainment Chamber was a rented personal sauna. "I saw it three or four years ago at Modern Props," explained Set Decorator Laura Richarz. "Just this big egg-shaped thing. It was so weird, I took a picture of it and it was one of those things I kept in my head because it was so unique. I knew that someday we'd find the perfect use for it." ()
The inspiration behind the machine came from Ronald D. Moore. "I had to figure out what the insane obsession of the mad scientist was. Ira [Steven Behr] had come up with the idea that perhaps he was trying to bring his wife back to life, and all he had was her nose or her ear and he was going to recreate her from that." Moore tried to incorporate this idea into the script but quickly found it wasn't working. "As René [Echevarria] later pointed out, if this guy really was trying to bring his wife back to life, the audience would start to sympathize with him on some level. You'd want him to succeed, and that would make this a different story." It was Echevarria who suggested having Giger searching for a way to become immortal but Moore wasn't so sure that idea would work either. After discussing the issue with Behr, Moore hit upon the idea of "cellular ennui", the concept that one literally can be bored to death. "And that worked!" exclaimed Moore. " He starts talking and you buy into it for a little while, and as you're listening it begins to sound kind of wacky, but you hear a lot of wacky stuff on Star Trek, but then eventually you start to think, 'Wow, this is really twisted.'" ()
Similarly, in their review of "In the Cards", authors Mark Jones and Lance Parkin wrote, "The preposterous concepts work simply because they stick with it so persistently. The concept of cellular ennui - where you are literally bored to death - is so ludicrous it's worth an award." (Beyond the Final Frontier, p.243)
When asked by a fan if Doctor Giger's device would ever expose a weakness in the Vorta or Jem'Hadar, Ronald D. Moore jokingly replied, "Dr. Geiger's Cellular Regeneration and Entertainment Chamber has much higher aspirations than helping the Federation against the Dominion - he's after immortality itself!!" A biography of Giger was included in the for the DS9 Season 5 UK VHS release of "In the Cards".
Apocrypha
The Star Trek Adventures - Gamma Quadrant'' sourcebook strongly implies that Dr. Giger was killed by the Jem'Hadar after becoming disillusioned with the realities of working for the Dominion and desiring to return to the Federation.
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Scotty was a nickname both for Montgomery Scott and in the alternate reality.
In the alternate reality, regularly used the nickname and even used it to introduce Scott to in 2259. () In 2263 of the alternate reality, after Scott had met Jaylah on Altamid, she called him "Montgomery Scotty." ()
The nickname Scotty was used by various shipmates of Scott during his service aboard the and the from the 2260s to the 2290s, including James T. Kirk, Leonard McCoy, Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Carolyn Palamas, Christine Chapel, Mira Romaine, Will Decker, and Pavel Chekov. It was even used in the official captain's log. (; )
Scott also occasionally used the nickname himself. (, , ; )
It was similarly used by his junior engineers in Scott's absence. ()
He was later called "Mister Scotty" by the Pandronian Honorary Commander Ari bn Bem in 2269. ()
In 2369, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard called Montgomery Scott "Captain Scott," Scott told Picard instead to call him Scotty. Scott later made the same remark to Geordi La Forge, reminding him that they were in Engineering at the time and formality was not needed. Only La Forge and William T. Riker ultimately called Scott by this nickname. ()
In 2380 on the USS Cerritos, Commander Jack Ransom was telling Captain Carol Freeman about people that lived during the TOS era, and one of them he mentioned was Scotty. ()
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During the Dominion War, the Cardassians developed powerful orbital weapon platforms that functioned as an automated planetary defense system.
History
Designed and developed under the tutelage of Gul Damar in late 2374 as a means of defending their home territories, most notably the binary planets on the Chin'toka system, allowing fleet resources to be deployed on the offensive.
Starfleet Intelligence became aware of the defensive grid created by the deployment of hundreds of weapon platforms, knowing they were days away from final activation, prepared for an invasion of the otherwise lightly defended system.
In the subsequent allied attack, the platforms demonstrated their superior firepower against the allied fleet, scoring numerous kills against larger starships. Their regenerative deflector shielding also protected the platforms from return fire, rendering them nearly invulnerable. However, the network of platforms possessed a crucial design flaw that the Cardassians had not expected the allies to be able to exploit, their remote power generator, located on a nearby moon.
Although a frontal attack against the power generator proved futile due to the Federation's inability to penetrate the moon's own defensive grid, the allies developed a means of tricking the weapon platforms' targeting systems into firing on their own power source by imprinting an enemy warp signature on the generator's energy matrix. The gamble was successful, and with their power source destroyed, the weapon platforms deactivated, and picked off by passing ships as they approached the binary planets. ()
Orbital weapon platforms were also deployed around Cardassia Prime. Starfleet was to engage the platforms during the Federation Alliance's siege of the planet in late 2375, but fortunately the Female Changeling surrendered before that became necessary. ()
Specifications
The hulls of these weapon platforms were protected by regenerative force fields, and equipped with three disruptor arrays, and a thousand plasma torpedoes.
Individual weapon platforms were not equipped with their own power generator, but instead received energy from a large, central generator. In the case of the platforms used in the Chin'toka system, the generator was placed on an asteroid orbiting one of the planets in the system.
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According to the script, these were described as "a deadly-looking orbital battle station."
During the making of "Tears of the Prophets", Terri Potts commented to the sound editors about the orbital weapon platforms that "you'll have fun with them. They're Cardassian, but different from anything that we've ever done before." Ruth Adelman added, "they're state of the art." (Star Trek: Action!, p. 166)
A model of an orbital weapon platform was released as a special issue of the Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection.
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Events
John F. Kennedy begins his term as the 35th President of the United States. ()
Twenty-five years later, the magazine OMNI released a "Special Souvenir Edition" of celebrating the anniversary of "American Manned Spaceflight". ()
In 2372, Jake Sisko received a holosuite program from Nog featuring this season's New York Yankees baseball team against the 1978 Boston Red Sox. The outcome of the game was Yankees 7, Red Sox 3. ()
In 2375, Nog assumed the role of Vic Fontaine's accountant and went over the receipts of 1961. ()
April – The Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first Human in space. ()
May 5 – The American astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the second Human in space. ()
May 25 – President Kennedy gives his famous "Decision to Go to The Moon" speech to the United States Congress. (; )
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Carl Jung dies. ()
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Gul Macet was a Cardassian officer in the Cardassian military, and commanding officer of the warship Trager.
Macet responded to the attack of a Cardassian outpost by the in 2367. He found the outpost incinerated, and determined the attacker be a Starfleet ship, but lost track of it. He used the event as an excuse to attack the which was near their border at the time. He claimed they were at war, now, due to the attack on an unarmed science station. In reality, it was a military facility. However, his ship proved no match for the Enterprise-D, and he agreed to a truce after his ship was disabled.
Due to a high-level diplomatic exchange, Macet was brought on board the Enterprise-D as an observer along with Glinns Daro and Telle as it tracked down the Phoenix. Captain Jean-Luc Picard brought him in on the information, seeing that the Phoenix was believed to have gone rogue under orders from Captain Benjamin Maxwell. Macet immediately believed that Maxwell was seeking revenge for the death of his family in the Setlik III massacre. He asked that Cardassian ships be given an advantage to disable the Phoenix before it destroyed more of their people. Picard relented, but the ship continued its rampage.
In the interests of peaceful cooperation following the recently signed treaty ending the Federation-Cardassian War, Macet punished Telle when the latter was caught attempting to access secured systems aboard the Enterprise-D. Picard didn't press the issue, which seemed to please him. Macet said he was not a man who wanted war, and thought Picard wasn't, either.
Ultimately, the Phoenix was located and returned to Federation space. However, Picard relayed Maxwell's allegations of a renewed Cardassian buildup to Macet, warning him, "we'll be watching." ()
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Macet was played by Star Trek veteran Marc Alaimo, who would later play a much more famous Cardassian, Gul Dukat.
Macet was the first Cardassian seen in the Star Trek saga and the only Cardassian to ever appear with facial hair. His onscreen reveal was described in the episode's script as "A Cardassian Gul (Captain) appears. These are humanoid aliens -- sleek, handsome, intense."
Apocrypha
Macet appeared in several of the novels, including the Gateways Deep Space Nine entry Demons of Air and Darkness, , and the Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novella The Lotus Flower. The similarities between Macet and Dukat were explained as being due to the fact that they were cousins. However, Macet was a much more honorable man than Dukat. The Pocket DS9 story Fearful Symmetry implies that he grew facial hair as a conscious effort to lessen this resemblance. Macet joined Damar's Cardassian Rebellion and fought against the Dominion – in Demons of Air and Darkness, it was established that he commanded the fleet which attacked Rondac III in .
In Unity, the parasitic being from tried to bond with him, but was unable to, because of a Cardassian immunity to such parasites.
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Mission Gamma novels, his first name was established as Akellen.
His mirror universe appears in the novel Warpath and the short story "Family Matters" contained in the anthology Shards and Shadows. He was the commanding officer of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance vessel Trager during the 2370s.
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Professor Galen was the most renowned Federation archaeologist of the 24th century. Among Galen's best works were his studies of the Kurlan civilization.
Galen was Jean-Luc Picard's archaeology instructor at Starfleet Academy; he saw great potential in Picard and was very close to him, but ultimately Picard refused Galen's offer of becoming an archaeologist, which heavily disappointed Galen. Until 2369, the two hadn't met for thirty years, but Picard kept track of the professor's work and Galen of Picard's. Just before Galen's death, Picard stated that he had been the father who had understood him, in stark contrast to his real father. Galen, himself, had children of his own, however, none chose to follow in his footsteps, which reinforced his close relationship with Picard.
Galen spent the 2360s in micropaleontology and discovered a 4.5 billion year old code programmed in the DNA of dozens of species by ancient humanoids.
In 2369, Galen was close to deciphering the code and paid a surprise visit to Picard on the , collaborating with Commander William T. Riker to surprise Picard with the gift of a Kurlan artifact he had recently discovered, the Kurlan naiskos. Although surprised to see his old teacher, Picard assured him that no one could be more welcome aboard the Enterprise-D, and was particularly touched at the gift given the rarity of the piece. However, when Galen asked Picard to come with him for the rest of his journey, Picard again disappointed Galen by refusing in favor of his responsibilities on the Enterprise, and Galen left the ship immediately, off to rendezvous with a Vulcan transport destined for Deep Space 4.
Shortly thereafter, Galen died as a result of injuries suffered when his shuttle was attacked by the Yridians working for the Cardassians. Before he died, Galen admitted to Picard that he had been too harsh with him. Picard was later able to complete the late-Galen's discovery. ()
When Picard was working undercover in the service of Arctus Baran, he used the alias to hide his identity. ()
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Galen was played by actor Norman Lloyd.
According to the , the pronunciation for Galen was "GAY-lin", and as well, his given name was Richard. His first name is also used in the .
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His mirror universe was mentioned in the novella "". He was a self-educated archaeologist and the mentor of Luc Picard. Many years prior to 2371, he was executed by the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance because of his "seditious" theory that Terrans shared a common ancestry with Klingons and Cardassians.
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Sem'hal stew was a common Cardassian meal. Aamin Marritza liked his sem'hal stew with yamok sauce although in his opinion the stew made by the replicator aboard Deep Space 9 was very good. ()
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Two members of the Xindi Council offer to stop the launch of the weapon if Archer can prove that the Xindi have been manipulated; the crew holds a memorial for their dead shipmates.
Summary
Teaser
While on the way to rendezvous with Degra and the Xindi Council, the crew of the gathers for a memorial service in honor of the eighteen dead after the Xindi attack. Captain Jonathan Archer speaks of their resilience and the ship's in the face of all that has happened. He thanks them for their service, and regrets not being able to thank the eighteen. He promises they will succeed in their mission for everyone on Earth, and the eighteen.
Act One
In the ready room, Commander Tucker reports that the last unaccounted for crewmembers have been found, Jane Taylor and , and Sub-commander T'Pol reports Lieutenant Malcolm Reed has weapons back online and the hull plating is at 80%. Archer says it'll have to do and T'Pol leaves to continue supervising. Afterward, Archer assigns Tucker to write a letter to the parents of Crewman Taylor, since she was a member of his engineering team. Tucker is initially reluctant with his workload, suggesting another crewmember under him, however, Archer insists, saying her parents deserve to know what happened.
T'Pol visits sickbay for further treatment for her trellium addiction. Doctor Phlox happily says he hardly finds a trace of it in her system, but she isn't glad to hear it. She tells him that she is concerned that the new emotions will overwhelm her. Phlox counsels her that it will take time to learn to control the emotions, but she will get used to it. He tells her of the Earth cautionary tale of the genie who, once let out of the bottle, is difficult to control.
The Enterprise arrives at the rendezvous on schedule, but no ships are to be found. Then, a spatial anomaly hits the ship. They ride it out for a bit, but Archer soon thinks no one is meeting them. Just as he orders them out, however, Degra's ship arrives, leading them to a Delphic Expanse sphere. There, Degra invites Archer aboard his ship to discuss. Degra and Jannar reveal that they arranged for Archer to be returned to his ship and away from the Reptilians. Archer acknowledges the risk they're taking, and Jannar asks Archer to provide more proof. Archer cannot time travel himself, but promises to show him some proof on his ship as long as the weapon won't be launched in the meantime. Degra promises that.
In what's left of the mess hall, T'Pol finds Tucker trying to write his letter and doubtful anything he can say will matter to Taylor's parents. T'Pol notes he has not slept since the Xindi attack in nearly two days and almost orders him to do so. Moments later, their meal is interrupted by a nearby explosion. T'Pol and Tucker respond to the emergency and assist in shutting down the damaged systems and summoning Phlox. A power relay exploded and, although further damage inside the ship was prevented, the hull is now leaking atmosphere, unbeknownst to the crew.
Act Two
Archer attempts to convince Degra and Jannar that what he is saying is true; that the Xindi are being misled by the Sphere-Builders. Archer first shows them the bodies of the Reptilians he stopped from releasing a bio-weapon in 2004. Degra recognizes one of them, noting that they disappeared soon after their plan was rejected. Jannar doesn't see evidence of time travel, however, as they could have been captured in the present. Archer then shows them the bio-weapon itself and invites the Xindi crew to test it for traces of time travel and confirm it's Xindi. Jannar still doesn't see evidence of time travel. Archer leads them elsewhere.
Meanwhile, Tucker is continuing to work on little sleep. While angrily ordering crewman Rivers, Phlox walks by and says he learned about Tucker's lack of sleep. He orders the extremely resistant commander to get some rest just as Archer calls Phlox to sickbay. While sleeping, Tucker has a dream where he is confronted by Crewman Taylor in her quarters, who demands to know why he has not written that letter yet. She wants to know why it is so much that Tucker simply remember her. Tucker tries to run from Taylor, but finds the exit blocked. He awakes in a cold sweat, alone in his quarters.
Archer and Phlox then show Degra and Jannar the scans of the Sphere-Builder test subject they rescued several months ago. The cellular degeneration is stated to be a product of evolution in a different dimension with different physical laws. Further, that the Spheres' purpose is to restructure space to suit them and, in the process, unsuitable to any of them. Archer says they're destined to form an alliance to stop them.
On Degra's ship, Jannar and Degra discuss the evidence. Jannar can still only see conclusive evidence of Reptilian deception. Despite chronometric distortions detected, he states they could have been fabricated. Jannar stays on the ship for the rest of Archer's evidence, but warns Degra not to let his judgement waver due to his original doubts about building the weapon.
In the command center, Tucker tries to fix the equipment while T'Pol explains to Degra their data reconstruction. Tucker pauses and starts to compliment Degra on his weapon, with subtle provocation, and gets further provocative as he names Florida as one of the places the weapon hit. He gets in his face and mentions his sister when T'Pol orders him silent. Archer enters and, seeing the situation, takes Degra away while Tucker and T'Pol finish the repairs.
Also meanwhile, the crack in the hull has been growing. One of the warp plasma EPS conduits ruptures out of the ship's hull, and making itself known. The crew must reach the manual cutoffs of the flow regulators from the outside. Degra briefly offers to help, but Tucker dismisses him. Reed accompanies him to fix it in environmental suits.
Act Three
With Archer overhearing the communications, and Degra observing, Tucker and Reed each go to a panel, Reed's being extremely close to the venting plasma. Tucker's opens without a problem, but Reed's requires a torch, as the heat must have warped the metal. The temperature in Reed's suit soon rises to near-lethal levels, but Reed ignores orders to stop his task, and nearly dies of overheating. Tucker hurries up and rushes Reed back into the ship, where the lieutenant is hurried off to sickbay. Degra follows Archer to the airlock, and, after he expresses his hope that Reed survives, Tucker cannot help but verbally lash out. Tucker accuses Degra of hypocrisy and asks if "seven million and one" is too many deaths for the Xindi to take. Archer orders Tucker to stop and escorts Degra from the room, but not without Degra pausing mournfully before he exits.
Archer takes Degra back to the command center to show him the information they have acquired on the spheres. Degra says there are more spheres than Archer has determined. Archer pauses to apologize for Tucker, and Degra admits he never expected to meet someone who would be harmed by what he had done. He understands. He also says the Reptilians were right about Archer's ability for deception, as they've had this conversation before, "escaping" from prison. Degra turns to the Sphere's insides, which they have limited data on. Archer then shows their data, surpassing that of the Xindi. Degra comments that he is surprised by the detailed nature of the scan, considering that Enterprise is a warship, to which Archer responds that Enterprise was originally a ship of exploration. Degra replies that if their mission succeeds, it will be again.
As Tucker finally starts recording the message for Taylor's parents in his quarters, a tactical alert sounds. On the bridge, the crew detects a Xindi-Reptilian ship arriving at the sphere, having followed Degra, despite his attempt to mask his warp trail. He promises Archer it was not intended.
Act Four
Moments later, a Reptilian captain contacts Jannar and demands that they undock with the Enterprise so that appropriate action can be taken against it. Degra, from the Enterprise bridge, asks Jannar to hold on while he talks to Archer. Archer begs Degra for some piece of information about the Reptilian ship that would give the still-weakened Enterprise an advantage in the imminent firefight, but Degra is very hesitant to fire on his own people. Degra and Jannar are conflicted. They know that Archer has provided them with compelling evidence of the Reptilians' deceit, but to aid in an attack upon another Xindi ship would be treasonous. Degra's ship leaves Enterprise, but instead of docking with the Reptilian ship, it attacks in conjunction with Enterprise, quickly targeting key systems of the Reptilian ship. Once the ship is disabled, Enterprise stands down, but Degra continues his attack, destroying the Reptilian vessel. Degra tells Archer that to leave the Reptilians alive would only make matters worse for them, as the Reptilians would have reported to the council immediately.
T'Pol finds Tucker and provides him with some portable power cells from Degra. Tucker knocks it over, refusing to accept help from them. As he expresses his frustration, he reveals that it is not Jane's death that's bothering him; it is his sister, Elizabeth. He wants to know how someone so young and full of promise could just die. He has been repressing his emotions for months now, but finally lets go and cries for his sister. Tucker says that he envies the Vulcans, and how they do not feel any emotion. T'Pol tells Tucker that Vulcans feel sadness at the loss of family and colleagues, just as Humans do, but Vulcan emotions can be so strong that they would be overwhelming if they were not suppressed. As such, it is she who envies him.
Degra convinces Archer that he must provide the evidence he's shown them to the Council. The biggest hurdle is actually the Aquatics, he says, not the Reptilians. He provides Archer with coordinates for a subspace corridor that can take him to the Xindi Council planet a lot faster than with warp, however, there is a hostile species which preys on ships in the area.
Having finally accepted the loss of his sister, Tucker finally writes the letter to Crewman Taylor's parents.
Memorable quotes
"We're in bad shape – I can't deny that, but we're still in one piece. Enterprise is a tough ship. She took more than anyone could ask her to and then some. And so have all of you. I wanted to say thank you. I only wish I could thank the eighteen crewmen who were lost. Like you, they understood how important our mission is, and they accepted the risks. We came into the Expanse not knowing what we'd find, with no one to rely on but ourselves. We're going to succeed – to accomplish our mission – for everyone on Earth who's relying on us, and for the eighteen."
- Captain Archer, to the assembled crew of Enterprise
"Perhaps you can demonstrate your ability to time travel."
"That might be a bit – difficult."
- Jannar and Archer
"I'm relieving you of duty. You will go to your quarters and not return to your post before 0500 tomorrow."
"Six hours?"
"Please don't make me involve Security."
- Phlox and Tucker, as the doctor orders Trip to take his first rest break in two days
"Well, Commander?"
"I could give you two hours."
"I believe the number was six."
"If I'm gone longer than three there may not be a ship here when I get back."
"Four. Not a minute less."
"Done. And remind me never to buy a car from you."
- Phlox and Tucker, as Trip attempts to negotiate for less time away from his duties
"I assume you were watching the attack – calculating the blast yields. Boy, you must have been pretty damned excited. I mean, that beam cut one hell of a swath through Florida. That's the name of one of the places you destroyed, Florida. Did you actually see the cities burning, the houses, the people being vaporized? You know, I had a sister there…"
- Tucker, to Degra, before he is cut off by Captain Archer entering the room
"I hope he'll be all right."
"What's one more dead Human to you? You had no problem killing seven million of us, but seven million and one is more than you can stomach?"
- Degra and Trip, as Reed is taken away to sickbay after returning from their EVA
"I apologize for Mister Tucker."
"I never expected to meet anyone who'd suffered because of what I'd done. At the time, I thought the attack was necessary to save my people."
"I know. Believe it or not, we've had this conversation before."
- Captain Archer and Degra
"The Reptilians are correct about one thing, captain – you have an impressive facility for deception!"
- Degra, to Archer
"These scans are remarkably detailed for a military vessel."
"Enterprise was designed to be a ship of exploration."
"If we're successful, it will be again."
- Degra and Archer
"We found Taylor over there, outside her quarters. She was probably trying to get to her station. If she'd made it a few more meters I wouldn't be trying to write this damn letter. 'Cause every time I start, I hear myself saying what a fine young woman she was — how smart and full of potential. And I realize, I'm not thinking about Taylor at all, I'm thinking about Elizabeth. There's so many people dead. I tried not to see her any differently than the other seven million, so I've spent the last nine months trying to pretend she was just another victim. But she's my sister, T'Pol. My baby sister." (Crying) "I envy you Vulcans."
"You think that the loss of a colleague or friend doesn't affect us? It does. But if we give in to those emotions, they overwhelm us. You're the ones to be envied."
- Tucker, to T'Pol, finally realizing why he is having so much trouble writing a letter to Crewman Taylor's parents
"Goodbye, Elizabeth."
- Tucker, as he touches a picture of his sister, Elizabeth (last line of the episode)
Background information
The final draft script of this episode was issued on .
The writing of this episode was a collaborative effort. Co-writer David A. Goodman said about the outing, "I know that I'm not given credit for writing one of the best [episodes of Star Trek ever] […] It was a real collaboration [with Chris Black]. We split up the script and we helped each other […] Writing that script with him elevated that episode for me […] That was a true one-on-one collaboration with a very gifted writer who was also very confident and understanding of what the rules were for writing for Star Trek: Enterprise."
The photograph of Tucker's sister was a photo of the actress portraying her standing on a terrace on the Paramount Pictures lot.
At the beginning, Archer holds a memorial speech for eighteen lost comrades, but in the previous battle, only seventeen are lost (fourteen counted dead and three unaccounted for), though one more could have died from injuries sustained. The eighteenth could also refer to Crewman Fuller, who was killed in .
Archer's address to the crew is reminiscent of Kirk's address to the crew of the in .
The attack on the Reptilian ship is referenced in , when Dolim confronts Degra.
Links and references
Guest Stars
Randy Oglesby as Degra
Rick Worthy as Jannar
Bob Morrisey as Xindi-Reptilian Captain
Seth MacFarlane as Rivers
Co-Star
Kipleigh Brown as Taylor
Uncredited Co-Stars
Adam Anello as operations division crewman
Jorge Benevides as R. Azar
Solomon Burke, Jr. as
Jason Collins as R. Ryan
Henry Farnam as Damron
James Groh as Mr. Taylor (still pic)
Glen Hambly as operations division ensign
Amina Islam as command division ensign
Chase Kim as R. Azar
Thomas Kopache as The Alien (photograph)
Ricky Lomax as W. Woods
Andrew MacBeth as E. Hamboyan
Erin Price as Elizabeth Tucker (photograph)
Unknown actor as Xindi-Reptilian Guard (corpse)
Unknown actress as Mrs. Taylor (still pic)
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An accident during an attempt to use a Xindi subspace corridor places the Enterprise in a bizarre confrontation… with itself.
Summary
Teaser
An elderly Vulcan woman is seated in her chambers meditating. Her son Lorian enters and grimly announces that they were unable to prevent the Xindi weapon probe from entering the vortex and that it is now on its way to Earth. Lorian notes that everything is happening as before. The elder woman is T'Pol, and replies that he now has no choice. He must find Jonathan Archer.
Act One
On board the , Tucker enters T'Pol's quarters and requests neuro-pressure due to his stress and insomnia. A stricken look crosses T'Pol's face and she turns away asking that they break off the sessions. Tucker confesses he is not there for neuropressure and that he was worried about T'Pol's withdrawn behavior. T'Pol asserts that she is fine – and Tucker's resigned expression reveals he knows this is false but that she doesn't want to open up to him.
Enterprise is approaching the Kovaalan nebula containing a subspace corridor that will take it to its rendezvous with Degra near the Xindi Council planet. Degra warned that there were 1 or 2 Kovaalan ships in the nebula and that they were hostile. However, upon arriving, sensors indicate his information was out of date, as there are at least a half a dozen ships in the nebula. Archer orders measures to avoid detection for as long as possible, including using a Metreon cloud to hide their signature. Reed is optimistic that with luck they may be able to reach the corridor before they are confronted.
Degra's ship is docked with a Xindi-Primate starship for a meeting between three councilors. Degra's Xindi-Primate colleague on the Xindi Council is furious that he has told the Humans the location of the council's meeting place. Degra responds that the Enterprise was heavily damaged and could easily be destroyed by a single Xindi ship. He brushes aside rumors of other Earth vessels in the expanse. The three Xindi councilors debate the wisdom of allowing Archer to address the council. Jannar admits that Archer's evidence is difficult to explain. Degra asserts that the meeting is worth the risks, since if what Archer is saying is true, then all the council's work will have been for nothing. They will have to defend the Enterprise from the reptilians when they arrive for the meeting.
Enterprise drops out of warp near the nebula and T'Pol announces that an starship is on an intercept course. Reed surmises the ship is , however the ship has the same markings as Enterprise and its commander is a man named Lorian who promptly requests that Archer reverse his course. A startled Archer complies and meets with the captain and his executive officer.
Lorian recounts the history of his crew. After entering the nebula, Enterprise was immediately ambushed. Enterprise escaped the Kovaalan ships by reaching the subspace corridor. However, her impulse manifold created a particle wake that destabilized the corridor and created a shift in time, causing them to emerge in 2037. Archer decided that Enterprise couldn't return to Earth, or they would contaminate their own history. T'Pol determined that return via the corridor was not possible. Archer resolved to wait until the time that they could either warn Earth or prevent the launching of the probe. To do this, Enterprise became a generational ship forming alliances with other species and gaining fuel, provisions and technology to survive. Lorian addresses a startled T'Pol as "mother".
Lorian advises Archer that he can avoid the disaster by not entering the corridor and instead enhance the plasma injectors using technology gained from Haradin traders. Lorian could not perform the modifications on his Enterprise because of the deterioration of his injectors. However with new injectors and structural modifications to Archer's ship, Lorian's calculations are that Archer's Enterprise will be able to achieve warp 6.9 for short periods – long enough for it to make the rendezvous with Degra in time.
Archer decides to trust Lorian after Phlox confirms via DNA matches that the executive officer, Karyn Archer, is Archer's great granddaughter, and that Lorian is in fact the son of Tucker and T'Pol. Phlox had discovered a way to combine the Vulcan and Human genomes.
Act Two
Tucker sees features of his father in Lorian, as well as a Human sense of humor. The two quickly develop a bond of respect and when Tucker learns that he will die when Lorian is 14, he expresses his regret for not being around for him. Lorian confides to Tucker that he was a good father and is sure that he would have given him hands-on engineering experience, as opposed to having to read his logs to acquire the technical knowledge.
Karyn Archer gives her great-grandfather a tour of her ship, and he takes note of the doubling of efficiency of the atmospheric processors, the aliens aboard ship, old women, Denobulan children playing. Karyn explains that many of their crew are descendants of Phlox, who fathered nine children with Amanda Cole. She tells the captain her own great-grandmother was an Ikaaran named Esilia whose ship Enterprise rescued from an anomaly, and who Archer married. Archer observes that the existence of the future Enterprise would explain why the Xindi kept asking during his interrogation for the number of Earth ships in the expanse. Karyn confirms that they were likely scanned multiple times by Xindi ships.
Archer is taken to the elder T'Pol's quarters where it is evident from her warm embrace that she has learned to express her emotions. At an age of around 182 years, she is the only remaining original crew member. She inquires about Trip but declines Archer's offer to send him for a visit, knowing that such a meeting with her husband would be awkward. She regrets that there is no time to become reacquainted and hands to Archer a PADD that will prove that Lorian's plan could result in the destruction of Enterprise.
Discussing their future relationships in the mess hall, Hoshi tells Mayweather she had two children, Toru and a girl named Yoshiko, but has declined to discover who would be her husband. Mayweather says he married Corporal McKenzie, who he's only spoken with once so far. Reed joins them and Hoshi asks him who he ended up with on the other Enterprise. Reed uncomfortably mentions that he never married, while Hoshi notes there were bound to be some bachelors as women comprise only a third of the crew. Sensing Reed's uneasiness, Mayweather and Hoshi excuse themselves. After they leave, Reed sees a female crewmember looking for a seat. Fearing he might one day end up alone as he did in the alternate timeline, and he quickly invites her to take a seat.
T'Pol advises Archer that she and Tucker agree with the elder T'Pol's assessment that Lorian's modifications could overload the injectors and destroy the ship. Elder T'Pol has an alternate plan to modify the impulse manifolds so the corridor will not be displaced. Archer confronts Lorian about the risk of injector overload who claims the risk is only 22%. Archer is infuriated that Lorian withheld critical information regarding the risks and alternatives. Lorian is emphatic that Enterprise will be thrown back in time again but Archer retorts that he has two T'Pols who disagree, and flatly states the matter is not open for debate. It is his mission and his decision – Archer will proceed into the subspace corridor with modified impulse manifolds, and requests the assistance of Lorian's engineers to speed the work.
Lorian enters the quarters of elder T'Pol and berates her for warning Archer, believing that he is doomed to repeat the same mistake. T'Pol suggests to Lorian that his judgment is being clouded by the strong motivation of Human guilt he feels after failing to stop the Xindi probe. Lorian accuses T'Pol of not feeling the kind of urgency she would feel if Vulcan were threatened.
Lorian next meets with Karyn Archer and his tactical officer Greer to outline his plan to steal the plasma injectors, proceed at warp 6.9 so that he can meet Degra and the council in Archer's place. In response to his first officer's complaint that Archer's ship will be unable to go to warp, Lorian claims that his father will be able to fabricate new plasma injectors.
Act Three
Tucker is working with the younger T'Pol on the modifications, states that their hundred-year old son is a "good kid," and relates to her the romantic events that would transpire between the two of them. T'Pol responds with apparent disinterest to the story of how Tucker would fill cargo bay 3 with sand and manufacture them a palm tree for their honeymoon. She puts up a good front as she rationalizes that acts of their counterparts don't necessarily imply they will do the same. Yet she is visibly irritated when he points out that she simply doesn't want to admit that under the right circumstances that she could have feelings for him. She states ruefully that she should never have experimented sexually with Tucker because she should have known that he would be unable to participate without also developing an emotional attachment. Tucker doesn't buy her evasion, and sarcastically insinuates that she is not truly in as much control as she wants him to believe.
Lorian takes over engineering, and is preparing to remove the plasma injectors from the injector assembly. Before Greer can reroute the plasma, Tucker discovers them. He incredulously asks if Lorian realizes they will be helpless without the injectors and attempts to assert his influence as his father. Lorian listens, but then apologizes and fires a phase-pistol burst, stunning Tucker.
On the bridge, Archer is informed that the warp engines are disabled and that the plasma injectors are disengaged. Engineering doesn't respond and Lorian's Enterprise undocks, refusing responses to hails. As the ship prepare to go to warp, Archer orders Reed to disable their engines. The starboard nacelle is damaged preventing warp, and Lorian orders retreat at full impulse and for Greer to return fire. Archer orders T'Pol to the transporter room. Enterprise is hit again, losing hull plating and weapons, but Mayweather brings Enterprise close enough for T'Pol to transport an EPS manifold off of Lorian's ship. Archer orders T'Pol to next take the primary relays from C-Deck, after which Lorian's ship loses all power. Archer hails Lorian suggesting that each has some things that belong to the other.
Reed warns Archer that Lorian has a torpedo locked onto their starboard engine, and Archer emphasizes to Lorian how many people would be hurt if he pulls the trigger. Karyn Archer persuades her captain that the action is over with, emphasizing that these people are family and that she won't let him continue. Lorian reluctantly orders a stand down of weapons.
Act Four
Later in the brig, Lorian is informed by Archer that he was lucky and that all injuries on both ships were minor. Archer's ship was almost crippled, and his mission would have been over. Lorian is unrepentant, repeating his assertion that Archer's mission is already over and that his course is the only logical one that has a chance of success. Lorian then reveals the guilt that has been driving him. He feels he is responsible for the death of the 7 million because he did not exhaust all options to stop the probe. He believes he could have rammed the probe but hesitated because it would mean the death of his crew. He blamed himself for allowing his emotions take over and prevent him from giving the order. Archer sees Lorian's determination and dedication to the mission and tells Lorian that with or without him, he is taking his ship into the corridor. Archer tells Lorian that the mission has a stronger chance of success if he agrees to work together with him, and decides to free Lorian and allow him to make the choice.
The two T'Pols meet in the elder's quarters. Elder T'Pol offers some advice about both isomagnetic collectors and emotions. Young T'Pol was unable to achieve more than 86% reduction of the particle wake with the impulse manifold modifications. The elder shows where to place an isomagnetic collector (a piece of Ikaaran technology the younger T'Pol was unfamiliar with) to reduce any residual particles, and gives T'Pol the schematics for it. While looking for the schematics, the elder T'Pol inquires whether she is feeling better after the effects of her Trellium withdrawal, warning that she will never fully recover from the effects and that the emotions she accessed will be with her the rest of her life. Young T'Pol looks stricken and wanders across the room to her tea. The elder advises her that there is someone on board Enterprise who can assist her. In a dazed manner, the young T'Pol responds that Phlox has already given her a neural suppressant. The elder shakes her head that she must reach out to Trip. Young T'Pol is at once revolted, fearful and relieved to hear confirmation of what she has suspected about her emotions for Tucker. The elder assures her that she cannot imagine what life would have been like without Tucker and that she should follow her heart.
Enterprise approaches the nebula. Upon entering, Reed detects three Kovaalan ships on an intercept course that immediately begin firing. The nebula interferes with targeting scanners and Reed is unable to return fire. After achieving a lock, Archer hails Lorian. Lorian's ship that had been hiding under Enterprise emerges from what appeared to the Kovaalans to be a sensor reflection. Both Enterprises attack and disable the lead ship. The other two retreat. But Enterprise cannot move having lost one of her primary drive coils in the attack. Before the Kovaalans can regroup, Lorian uses his tractor beams to take Archer's Enterprise in tow. But the Kovaalans return with four ships and target the towed Enterprises aft plating. Aft plating fails and weapons go offline. Lorian releases the damaged Enterprise to coast into the corridor while he turns his ship to protect Archer's. He promises to follow shortly. As Archer's Enterprise reaches the safety of the corridor, Lorian's ship suffers multiple hits as its phase cannons and torpedoes blaze against the attacking ships.
Enterprise emerges from the corridor in the correct location in the correct century with no sign of pursuit. They wait five hours for Lorian, but his ship never emerges. T'Pol states that it is unlikely they survived. Archer theorizes that perhaps by going through the corridor they fixed the mistake of the original Enterprise going back in time, therefore causing it to be removed from the timeline. T'Pol points out that if that were true, then they would not remember the other Enterprise.
A ship drops out of warp near Enterprise and interrupts further consideration of the fate of the other Enterprise. It's Degra's ship, ready to escort Archer to meet with the Xindi Council. Degra remarks that Archer is early.
Memorable quotes
"The probe?"
"We couldn't stop it from entering the vortex. It's on its way to Earth."
"Seven million people."
"Everything is happening as it did before."
"Then you have no choice – you must find Jonathan Archer."
- old T'Pol and Lorian
"Would you tell me what the hell is going on?"
- Captain Archer, to Lorian
"You've hardly changed, Mother."
- Lorian, to young T'Pol
"It's the strangest thing. I, uh… I look at you, and I see my father – right here, around the eyes. Now, the ears, those… those are your mother's."
- Tucker, to Lorian
"You were a good father… strange, being able to tell you that."
- Lorian, to Tucker
"Hello, Jonathan."
- old T'Pol, to Captain Archer
"Who's the father?"
"I don't know. It was probably in their database, but I didn't look it up."
"Why not? You've got to be curious."
"Some things are better left a mystery."
- Mayweather and Sato, discussing the identity of the father of her future children, Toru and Yoshiko
"There's no alternative. You'll be thrown into the past if you try to use the corridor."
"I've got two T'Pol's who disagree with you."
- Lorian and Archer
"Only in the Expanse could I have a son who's nearly three times my age."
- Tucker, to young T'Pol
"You're obviously unable to have a physical relationship without developing an emotional attachment."
"You know, all the other women on board must've been taken, 'cause I can't imagine any other reason why I would've married someone as stubborn as you. I'll go help Rostov with the port manifold. [Sarcastically] You seem to have everything under control."
- T'Pol and Tucker
"I'm sorry."
- Lorian, to Tucker, just before he shoots his father
"We can't do this."
"There's too much at stake."
"These people are family. I'm not going to let you kill them. Captain, it's over."
- Karyn Archer and Lorian
"Attacking your ancestors doesn't sound very logical to me."
- Archer, to Lorian
"Years ago, I… I swore to my captain on his deathbed… I'd save those seven million lives. You were the man I made that promise to."
- Lorian, to Archer
"You'll never fully recover. The emotions you've accessed will be with you the rest of your life."
- T'Pol, to her younger self
"If Enterprise hadn't been stranded in the past, it's possible I never would have married Trip. But I can't imagine what my life would have been like without him."
- T'Pol, to her younger self
"They must've been surprised when your reflection turned and attacked them."
- Lorian, to Archer
"Are you suggesting that the other Enterprise never existed? If you're right… then why would we remember them?"
- young T'Pol, to Archer
"Captain, you're early."
- Degra, to Archer at the rendezvous point (last line of the episode)
Log entries
"Captain's Starlog, supplemental. I've decided to proceed with Lorian's plan to modify our warp engines. Both ships have moved a safe distance from the nebula to avoid conflict with the Kovaalans."
"Captain's Starlog, supplemental. It's been five hours, and the other Enterprise still hasn't arrived. Repairs to our impulse drive are underway."
Deleted scenes
Scene 22
An expanded scene about the first talk between Tucker and Lorian about his paternity. Right after Lorian said that is strange being able to tell Tucker that he was a good father, the commander asks more about his mother, how he and T'Pol got together. Lorian says that she never told it to him, actually, and that she rarely talked about her husband, probably because it was too painful to her, as she cared for him a great deal. Tucker doesn't believe that they are talking about the same woman. Lorian tells that their relationship was somewhat contentious, but they were always affectionate towards each other. Tucker laughs and still can't see himself married with T'Pol, and starts to talk about if he and she were marooned on a desert island, perhaps it would be possible. Lorian interrupts him and suggests they finish up with these injectors.
Scene B33
Captain Archer enters his Enterprises sickbay and encounters Phlox packing some things. The doctor says that sickbay in the alternate Enterprise is in poor shape and they are short on critical medical supplies, and asks the captain's permission to help them, to which Archer agrees. Phlox can't believe that his Rigelian parrot is still alive; he knew they had long lifespans but not that long. The captain interrupts to ask about some inoculations that he mentioned; the doctor says that eight members of the alternate Enterprise crew are suffering from low-grade Neubilean fever, and he would like to vaccinate everyone on both ships. The alternate Enterprises physician is very inexperienced and he also would like some time to give him a refresher course in viral propagation. Archer agrees to that as well.
Dr. Phlox mentions how this situation is remarkable, discovering an extended family that they never knew existed. He is saying that because he learned that he has nearly thirty living descendants on the alternate Enterprise, and he is anxious to introduce them to his wives on Denobula. Archer supposes that when the Xindi Mission is over most of their crew will want to return to Earth. Phlox says that from what he has gathered his great-granddaughter would be more at home on a starship bridge. Archer says that it seems both he and his descendant are cut from the same cloth. Phlox wonders if perhaps Starfleet will consider allowing children on board starships one day, since Admiral Forrest did let him bring Porthos. Archer laughs and says that he can imagine the look on the admiral's face when he sees two Enterprises pulling into space dock, and asks Phlox to keep him updated, leaving the sickbay.
Background information
The squared representation in the episode's name (²) can be visually considered as half a character, making "E²" visually shorter than by only half a character and the shortest episode title in Star Trek.
The original story pitched by writer/producer Mike Sussman was somewhat different from the aired episode. In Sussman's pitch, the starship would have used Xindi subspace vortex technology to travel from Earth to the Delphic Expanse in order to aid Enterprise in its mission. But because of an incompatibility in respective technologies, Columbia would have arrived in the Expanse more than a century in the past and been marooned there. Archer and his crew would've thus encountered a one-hundred year old Columbia, operated by the descendants of its original crew. Sussman was asked to revise the story, making Enterprise travel into the past and thus having the crew meet themselves and their own descendants, much as the Defiant crew had done in . Sussman, a long-time Trekkie himself, pointed out the similarity in the stories to the show's executive producers but was overruled. Those in charge felt that the story for "E²" was sufficiently different, and that enough years had passed between the airing of the two shows to explore this theme again. (This information was provided by Mike Sussman)
According to episode writer Mike Sussman, the name "Lorian" was an homage to the Elvish forest Lórien found in J.R.R. Tolkien's novel Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
The final draft of this episode's script was issued on .
The vest worn by Lorian in this episode is a reuse of the same vest often worn by Jake Sisko in the final seasons of .
T'Pol mentions "Humans and Vulcans have never been able to reproduce", implying there have been Human-Vulcan-couples in the past 90 years who've tried but not been able to produce offspring. Here, the Doctor Phlox in the past found a way of combining Vulcan and Human genomes, leading to the conception of a Human-Vulcan hybrid, Lorian. Phlox, or other physicians, will find a way to repeat this in the future, ultimately resulting in the birth of hybrids like Spock.
T'Pol and Tucker, who were married, albeit in an alternate timeline, have the first Human-Vulcan hybrid, Lorian. His ultimate fate remains unknown, be it dead, alive, or erased from history. Doctor Phlox' accomplishment foreshadows the events in , where the DNA from T'Pol and Tucker is used to create another or the actual "first" Human-Vulcan hybrid, Elizabeth.
Links and references
Guest Stars
Randy Oglesby as Degra
Tucker Smallwood as Xindi-Primate Councilor
Rick Worthy as Jannar
Tess Lina as Karyn Archer
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David Andrews as "Lorian"
Co-Stars
Tom Schanley as Greer
Steve Truitt as Crewman #1
Uncredited Co-Stars
David Moore as Denobulan boy
Unknown performers as:
Crewman #2
Crewman #3
Crewman #4
Xindi-Primate officers
Girl with Denobulan boy
Stand-ins
Tiffany Turner as body double for Jolene Blalock
References
2037; 2063; access tube; addiction; ancestor; asteroid; atmosphere processors; bachelor; chamomile tea; ; chromosome; ; coil spanner; ; collision course; ; command; ; council chamber; cripple; debate; Degra; Degra's ship; Denobulan; descendant; dozen; Earth; emotion; engineering log; EPS manifold; Esilia; Esilia's ship; expression; extended family; family line; first officer; flux coupler; "follow your heart"; generational ship; genetic marker; genetic profile; genome; great-granddaughter; great-grandmother; hands-on training; Haradin; heart; honeymoon; hull plating; hull plating relay; Ikaaran; impulse drive; impulse manifold; impulse wake; injector assembly; insomnia; intercept course; intimate relationship; ionize; isomagnetic collector; joke; kilometer; Kovaalan; Kovaalan starship; lead ship; logic; marriage vows; ; mess hall; meter; metreon gas; nebula; neural suppressant; neuro-pressure; NX class; palm tree; phase cannon; Phlox's descendants; Phlox's nine children; plasma injector; power coupling; primary drive coil; primary relay; Reed family; reserve power; ; sand; schematics; science officer; security team; sensor ghost; sensor log; sexual relations; sexuality; specs; Starfleet; subspace corridor; start-up routine; structural integrity; subspace corridor; tactical alert; targeting scanner; time travel; torpedo tube; Toru; Toru and Yoshiko's father; tractor beam; tractor emitter; trader; transporter; trellium; trespasser; ; vortex; Vulcans; Vulcan (planet); Vulcan language; warp engine; warp reactor assembly; Xindi Council; Xindi cruiser; Xindi launch platform; Xindi probe; Xindi weapon; Xindi-Primate starship; Yoshiko
Unreferenced materials
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Archer confronts the Xindi Council.
Summary
Teaser
The Sphere-Builders convene and discuss the timelines. The female Sphere-Builder is confident that the Xindi weapon will be deployed soon, but the others see a diminished number of timelines which favor that. They decide to take more effort.
Act One
The and Degra's ship are still on their way to the Xindi Council planet. Sub-Commander T'Pol visits Doctor Phlox for another check-up on the trellium. Phlox doesn't find a trace, though T'Pol still is having trouble and meditation isn't helping. Commander Charles Tucker interrupts them with a physical ailment, having worked especially hard in engineering. T'Pol feigns a headache and slips out, not wanting to attract attention.
Degra views the data on the Delphic Expanse spheres with T'Pol and Captain Jonathan Archer in the command center. T'Pol finds there is a network of artificial intelligence controlling the spheres, and believes they can access the redundant memory core to acquire some data on the Sphere-Builders. Degra notes that would be helpful with the Council. They plan to download the data, and ask Degra's help with information on the outer shell of the spheres.
While an away team of T'Pol, Lieutenant Malcolm Reed, Ensign Travis Mayweather, and Corporal F. Hawkins prepare, Degra goes to gather his information when the Woman Sphere-Builder appears to him, pleading to stop what he's doing. She appeals to Degra's legacy in history, but Degra says he knows what he's doing, and history will judge him, not her. She leaves, and Degra then finds Archer. Degra briefs Archer on what they're facing: the Builders are practically worshiped, including by Degra's own children, having helped them when their homeworld was destroyed. He's worried the evidence may not be enough, but it could be. He promises to be on Archer's side the whole time, and, as Archer gets word that the other Xindi have arrived, briefs him on the various members of the Xindi Council he will soon meet.
While a containing the Enterprise away team heads off to investigate the sphere, a fleet of Primate and Arboreal vessels escorts Enterprise into the security zone surrounding the Council planet. When they meet Commander Dolim's flagship, Dolim hails them and refuses to let Enterprise into a security zone, but Degra orders him to power down his weapons, firing warning shots at him to make it clear. Due to being outnumbered, Dolim relents.
Archer brings Ensign Hoshi Sato to translate. On the way, Degra notes more about the Council members, like the fact that the Aquatics respect boldness and the Insectoids view loudness as hostile. Soon, Archer and Sato see the location of the Council chamber, a hidden mountain which was the former dwelling of the extinct Xindi-Avian race. When they get to the Council chamber, Dolim speaks first, threatening the Humans.
Act Two
The introductory session does not go well. Archer starts off by acknowledging that the Earth attack was done under a certain belief, which is a lie. The Insectoid immediately objects, saying that they've never lied to them. Archer states that the Sphere Builders are actually preparing the Expanse for colonization for themselves. Dolim attempts to end it immediately, claiming Archer's just desperate, the data is manufactured, and that Degra's judgement is clouded. Kiaphet Amman'sor calls to end the irrelevant bickering. Archer admits he's trying to save his world, and further states that they are in danger, too. Archer promises an attack against the Sphere-Builders, and they know this, giving them the motivation for manipulating the Xindi. Dolim objects again, and states that the Council isn't necessary if it won't defend themselves. Degra tries to prevent him from leaving, but is struck by Dolim. This prompts Archer to defend him, receiving a blow by the Insectoid councilor.
Meanwhile, the away team finds an opening into the Sphere through T'Pol's identification of a holographic camouflaged exhaust port. They make their way through several corridors and eventually reach the center of the sphere.
Degra's colleague sees failure immediately, as the Reptilians will never be convinced, but Degra expected a tough beginning. They must convince the Aquatics, who notoriously weigh every argument with excruciating detail. Degra explains they were reluctant to believe the Guardians as well at first, when visual evidence was shown of Humans destroying their civilization in the future. He then gets an idea, and heads to sickbay where Phlox shows him the data on the test subject they encountered a few weeks ago. He says that the Aquatics respond to visual stimuli very strongly. Tucker is called to sickbay, and is forced to help Degra again modify the pod the test subject was in. Sensing Tucker's anger again, Degra stops him on the way and directly says he can't change what happened, but he is now risking his life to prevent further tragedies. Tucker doesn't respond.
Mayweather monitors the environment as the team walks to the memory core in environmental suits. Reed leads the way and, without any trouble, find the core, "practically gift-wrapped." However, Mayweather detects a subtle movement as a gigantic claw emerges from the walls of the sphere. He can't pinpoint the location, so Reed orders them to move fast.
Act Three
Degra comes to Archer in his ready room to report completion of the modifications. He compliments Tucker on working efficiently despite the discomfort of working with him. When he goes to leave, Archer tells him he knows there are Humans and Xindi working together on the future ship; they're destined to work together.
Back in the Council, Archer is allowed to present more evidence. He restates that the being they found was in a pod of the same material as the Spheres. However, now Archer wants to prove the pilot was a Guardian. An apparatus is transported to the chamber, showing what looks to be a Guardian. Despite the real one being disintegrated, using Degra's technology they built a biometric hologram, a training tool for Xindi surgeons, of the being from the medical data they collected. To the Insectoid's objection that the data is falsified, Degra insists the Humans don't have the technology to do so. Jannar cannot deny the physical resemblance, and Kiaphet Amman'sor believes it is a Guardian. Amazingly, even though the Insectoid demands Archer be expelled, Dolim agrees to hear more.
In the Sphere, T'Pol starts working on the memory core while Hawkins and Reed stay sharp, but they don't see anything. Mayweather soon is able to pinpoint the movement when it makes a rapid beeline for the team, and at 15 meters Hawkins spots it approaching first, a large mechanical arm with a grasping claw on the end. He takes a higher position and fires at the claw, but his particle rifle is largely ineffective, and Reed's plasma rifle only marginally more so. To Reed's alarm, the armature painfully grabs Hawkins, his rifle falling from his grasp. Reed repeatedly fires at the arm section in hopes of freeing the struggling MACO but it doesn't even react and, with another protrusion, uses an electrical-like attack to vaporize the soldier. Reed and T'Pol dart back toward the shuttle, making their way on the catwalk with Reed covering, only keeping the armature back by firing at the center of the claw. The armature comes around another way, but Mayweather pilots the shuttle over and blows off the claw after several hits from the more powerful plasma cannons. With five more armatures quickly bearing down on them, they have to move fast.
In engineering, Tucker is disappointed to inform Archer they are far from 100% as it's difficult to pinpoint a certain energy drain. They're interrupted by Degra and the Primate councilor, who are excited to inform him that Dolim has joined the majority in postponing the launch of the Xindi weapon. It's a significant step toward the future Archer described. Tucker then asks for Degra's help with their power cells, and Degra agrees. Before they get to it, Tucker admits he knows Degra went out on a limb. Degra responds he would feel the same way in Tucker's position.
Dolim visits Degra, who is surprised to see him. He starts by expressing his dislike for the Council chambers, as he prefers to be near the ground and dislikes the failure to survive that the Avians represent. His real purpose for being there is revealed when he says he found a sensor with proof that Degra destroyed the Reptilian ship. Degra exclaims they gave him no choice, but Dolim quickly stabs him, accusing him of being a traitor and promising to kill all the Humans and his own family.
Act Four
Tucker goes to get Phlox for a snack in the mess hall. He admits he's held onto his anger for a long time, and finds it odd to let it go. Phlox says he has friends to help. He also notices Phlox has lost weight, which Phlox is happy to hear. His secret – a Danaxian tapeworm.
Archer gets a communication from the Primate councilor. He learns Degra was killed, and that the Reptilians have called an emergency session. The councilor warns Archer his ship is in danger. After the call, Archer orders a tactical alert.
Meanwhile, the away team has trouble and needs to slow down to make repairs. During, Reed expresses frustration at losing yet another crewmember, tired of feeling "all right" continually while people die. T'Pol offers the Vulcan saying: "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few," but it's a cold comfort to him.
Dolim freely admits killing Degra for his betrayal, but the Council is furious at him for acting alone. Dolim and the Insectoids reveal they have secured the weapon and intend to use it. The others can either join or be against them, despite the unification the Council represented for decades. The Primate councilor states they only have two of the necessary three codes to arm it, but Dolim says he knows that, and isn't concerned.
The Enterprise detects the launch of the weapon with five Insectoid ships surrounding it. A firefight ensues as Enterprise, the Arboreals, and the Primates try to stop the weapon, but they are not fast enough; it and its escorts enter a subspace vortex. Just before the Reptilians leave, they transport Sato onto their ship.
Memorable quotes
"You've brought Humans into this chamber, Degra. Explain yourself, if you expect them to leave here alive."
- Commander Dolim, to Degra, as Captain Archer and Hoshi Sato are brought before the Xindi Council
"Do me a favor. Don't try to get on my good side."
- Tucker, to Degra
"I can't change what happened to your sister or any of the seven million. But I'm risking my life, I'm risking the lives of my family, I've killed members of my own species, all because I'm trying to save both our worlds."
- Degra, to Tucker
"When I was on the future Enterprise, four hundred years from now, there were Xindi aboard. Humans and Xindi were serving together in the Federation. That's a future worth fighting for."
- Captain Archer, to Degra
"The crew of that ship are the last Xindi you'll ever betray. When the Humans have been eliminated, when the Council has been replaced by Reptilian rule, I am going to find your wife and children and do the same to them. Your traitorous bloodline will end at the tip of my blade."
- Dolim, to Degra
"Ever since the attack on Earth, all I've thought about is getting back at whoever was responsible."
"And now we are making peace with them."
"I've gotten used to the anger. It's going to be like, I don't know, losing an old friend."
"You have other friends."
- Tucker and Phlox
"Maybe we're getting a bit too comfortable with losing people. 23 men and women. On any given mission, the limits of acceptable casualties is 20%. So says traditional military doctrine. Well, we've crossed that margin."
"There's a Vulcan axiom: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Corporal Hawkins understood that."
"That doesn't make his death any more acceptable."
"No, but it makes it honorable."
- Reed and T'Pol
"The weapon cannot be launched without three of the codes. You only have two."
"Do you really believe we haven't considered that?"
- Xindi-Primate councilor and Commander Dolim
"I can't believe I actually feel bad about Degra. 24 hours ago I would have been celebrating."
"A lot can happen in a day."
- Tucker and Archer
Background information
The final draft script of this episode was issued on .
This episode marks the deaths of Degra (Randy Oglesby) and Corporal F. Hawkins (Sean McGowan). Lieutenant Reed angrily notes that Corporal Hawkins is the twenty-third crew member to die in the Expanse.
Dolim, Jannar, and Kiaphet Amman'sor's names are revealed in this episode.
T'Pol's words echo those of Spock in when she tells Reed about the Vulcan saying "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series but lost out to the episode .
Links and references
Guest stars
Randy Oglesby as Degra
Tucker Smallwood as Xindi-Primate Councilor
Rick Worthy as Jannar
Scott MacDonald as Dolim
Josette Di Carlo as Sphere-Builder Woman
Sean McGowan as F. Hawkins
Bruce Thomas as Xindi-Reptilian Soldier
Andrew Borba as Xindi-Reptilian Lieutenant
Mary Mara as Sphere-Builder Presage
Ruth Williamson as Sphere-Builder Primary
Co-Star
Eric Lemler as Helm Crewman
Uncredited Co-Stars
Solomon Burke, Jr. as
Hilde Garcia as Rossi
Unknown actor as Xindi Reptilian Aide
CGI co-stars
Kiaphet Amman'sor
Xindi-Aquatic councilor
Xindi-Insectoid councilor
Xindi-Insectoid aide
References
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With help from some Xindi factions, the Enterprise crew attempts to stop the arming of the Xindi weapon.
Summary
Teaser
Ensign Hoshi Sato awakes on the Xindi-Reptilian warship after having been beamed off the while it was engaging the Xindi-Reptilian and Xindi-Insectoid ships guarding the Xindi weapon. She realizes she is in the clutches of Commander Dolim, who compliments her linguistic abilities in translating the Xindi-Aquatic language. He wants her to translate the encoded Aquatic launch codes, having her forced into a chair for some procedure.
Act One
The with the away team returns to the Enterprise with data from the Delphic Expanse sphere and are met by and Major Hayes. Sub-commander T'Pol immediately orders Tucker to incorporate the data into the ship and meet her in the command center. Ensign Travis Mayweather asks what happened in their absence, and the team learns the bad news. When the others leave the launch bay, Hayes learns from Lieutenant Malcolm Reed what happened to Corporal Hawkins. Reed agrees to make a full report for Hayes later.
On the planet, Captain Jonathan Archer meets with Jannar and the Xindi-Primate councilor, who inform him they are trying to locate the weapon. With three sets of codes needed for activation, and the Aquatics apparently not taking sides, the Reptilians and Insectoids are likely going to try bypassing the command sequences, which will take time. Archer now sees why they abducted Sato.
While T'Pol and Tucker work on the sphere data, T'Pol needs to remind Tucker to focus on the task at hand, rather than letting Sato's fate be a distraction. Archer arrives, and the two report that they believe four of the spheres are control spheres for a common energy grid to all spheres. It's so far unclear if they are a single point of failure, which, if so, they can disrupt the entire grid with a single strike.
Dolim has Sato injected with neural parasites to ensure her cooperation, while "thanking" her for it. Meanwhile, Archer, Jannar, and the Primate councilor have located the weapon, but also find more ships have joined them and, despite equal numbers, they are armed better than their force, so they are no match. Archer proposes to convince Kiaphet Amman'sor that the Aquatics should help. They agree to meet and, after a bit of waiting on their ship, Amman'sor and her assistant councilor arrive to hear Archer. He asks them to intervene, as his officer was abducted to help translate their launch code. The Primate councilor reinforces that they could succeed. Amman'sor responds that they will not act rashly just because the Reptilians decide to, but Archer points out the decision will be made for them. He asks if the Guardians have told them where their new homeworld, the one supposedly destined to be destroyed by Humanity, will be: if it is in the Delphic Expanse, the spheres will eventually make it a trans-dimensional wasteland, uninhabitable for anyone. The Aquatics end the conversation and begin to leave, but Archer makes a final plea, revealing that he knows of a way to disable the spheres, something he points out that the Guardians have never attempted to do. This stops the Aquatics from leaving.
Act Two
Sato, working under the influence of the parasites in the core of the weapon, is supervised. Dolim arrives for a progress report, and the guard says she's been working toward her goal. Dolim takes her head and asks to confirm if she understands what she is to do. She replies that she understands, but Dolim doesn't believe her. When he orders her prepared for another injection, she runs and tries to jump over the railing in order to sacrifice herself, but she is caught by a Reptilian. As she's taken away, the guard sits down and realizes she hasn't actually made progress, rather, she's added another layer of encryption. After the injection, Sato succumbs to the influence of the parasites and eventually unlocks the third code, giving the Reptilians full access to the weapon.
With Archer's promise to disable the spheres, the pressure is on Tucker and T'Pol. It's taken its toll, though, as Tucker dismisses each of T'Pol's suggestions, as they present too much risk to the ship. T'Pol, uncharacteristically, exhibits frustration and takes it out on him. He confronts her about it and decides to leave to engineering to work, but T'Pol stops him, admitting she's been emotional and has had difficulty keeping a lid on it on her own. Tucker understands and promises to be there to talk to her when it's all over.
The female Sphere-Builder contacts Dolim on his ship, and is happy to hear they have the weapon, but disappointed to hear the difficulties in activating it. Dolim subtly confronts her by asking if she could get the activation codes herself, due to her apparent ability to look back in time. She says it's impossible, as they only see large changes in the timeline. Dolim is skeptical of her abilities, but relents when she is emphatic about hurrying up, as many timelines favor the other Xindi species and Humans.
T'Pol and Tucker inform Archer on their initial plan to use the deflector dish to disrupt part of the control sphere, but they don't have the details worked out. Archer leaves them to it, and invites the Primate councilor on board. He relates that the Aquatics' excessive deliberateness usually kept the Council together, and is part of the reason why Degra had them build the weapon. Archer brings up the topic of a future weapon, even in their current success, but the councilor promises that there's a future where they cooperate together. Soon, Archer learns the Aquatics have sent six ships, to the Primate councilor's pleasant surprise, remarking on the relative speediness of their response. Amman'sor hails them, promising help in exchange for Archer's.
The crew continues in high gear to prepare for the assault en route. Hayes prepares a rescue mission for Sato in the armory when Reed arrives to give his report on Hawkins' death. During the discussion, Reed asks if they have a problem, as Hayes seems to dismiss him. Hayes admits he doesn't like putting his people in someone else's command, but Reed insists he felt his responsibility for Hawkins. Hayes also notes they no longer feel like outsiders on the ship, and this puts the two in agreement. At dinner, T'Pol, Tucker and Archer talk about what they'll do after the mission is over. Archer wants to get back to their mission while T'Pol, surprisingly, considers formalizing her service with Starfleet. Tucker chuckles and wants to be there to see Soval's expression at seeing her in a Starfleet uniform as Archer is informed they've arrived at the coordinates of the weapon and its force.
Act Three
As the weapon begins to arm, Dolim is informed of a massive fleet consisting of Enterprise, the Aquatics, Arboreals, and Primates that has arrived to intercept them. Dolim orders Kolo to stay there while sending a patrol to engage them. When the Aquatic ship releases the Enterprise, Dolim orders them to target it, but the Aquatics protect it. Reed happily targets the weapon's primary generators, getting several shots off. Soon, T'Pol finds Sato on one of the Reptilian ships and Archer orders Hayes' team to be beamed there. They arrive and, with , Money, and Richards, Hayes leads the way with a scanner to pinpoint Sato's location. They quietly stun one Reptilian and blow open the door to Sato's cell. Sato is unconscious, and they can't get a hold of Enterprise, so Hayes carries her back to the beam-in point.
The Sphere-Builders, meanwhile, see that the weapon is about to be destroyed and decide to act: they instruct at least one sphere to emit intense bursts of gravimetric energy, causing massive spatial anomalies to form near the weapon, forming a barrier and destroying several Aquatic and Arboreal ships. Enterprise, inside the barrier, gets a little leeway but the ship is rocked, disabling the transporter. Possibly alerted when the cell was blown, Hayes' team is discovered en route but forced to hold their ground in a hallway as Tucker works on it. He gets it back up soon, but can only transport two at a time before resetting the pattern buffer. Hayes has Sato and the others transported back first, Money getting hit in the shoulder, but while he's being beamed out, he is shot through the torso. He painfully collapses on the transporter pad and Tucker rushes over to him.
The arming sequence soon completes, forcing Archer to order the ship closer, despite the anomalies. However, it departs into a subspace vortex with one Reptilian and one Insectoid ship, heading for Earth.
Act Four
Reed goes to see Hayes in sickbay to thank him for bringing Sato home. Hayes, seeing his eventual death, tells Reed to use McKenzie for the MACO team's lead. Reed doesn't want him to give up, but he then starts convulsing: despite Phlox's attempt to stablize his heart, he flatlines moments later.
Jannar and the Primate councilor inform Archer that the weapon will reach Earth in ten hours and they can't reach the weapon in time. The Aquatic ships have powerful weapons but are too slow, and conversely, though Degra's ship is the fastest it is not well-armed. Archer intends to use its speed to board the weapon and destroy it from the inside, but the councilors emphasize the Aquatics decided to help them on the condition of dealing with the spheres. Archer orders T'Pol to execute their plan with Enterprise to disable the control sphere while he and the MACOs go for the weapon.
Taking a moment to steel himself with the bad news, Reed enters the armory to meet with the MACOs on duty and regretfully informs them Hayes didn't survive, giving his condolences. He goes on to explain the situation with the weapon and the captain's intent to board and destroy it. The Reptilians will not make it easy, but that's why they're present as Hayes handpicked each of them for Enterprises mission as he knew they "could get the job done." He then asks for three volunteers to join the captain: they all step forward. Giving a nod of approval, Reed picks Woods, and Forbes. He orders them to assemble their gear and meet him at the starboard airlock in ten minutes.
Archer gets Sato's status. Phlox says she's stable but has undergone severe neural trauma. Archer needs her with him on Degra's ship for information, but Phlox points out the potential harm to her. Archer has no choice, and orders her there in 20 minutes and for him to teach Reed how to perform her next cortical treatment to be done in Degra's medical bay. Phlox protests that Reed is not a doctor and asks that he be allowed to go instead, but Archer gently points out that he's needed on Enterprise.
While in the vortex, the Insectoid captain contacts Dolim, angry as he realizes that the anomalies appearing just when they needed them was more than good luck, and starts to realize that Captain Archer may have been correct about the Guardians building the spheres. The Insectoid captain is startled when Dolim points out that it's good for him then that the Insectoids already provided their launch codes and cuts communication. Dolim has the Insectoid ship immediately fired upon; disabled, the ship falters, falls into the path of one of the weapon's relentlessly rotating arms and is destroyed.
As Reed makes his way to join the captain at the airlock, Tucker catches up to him with a request: bring him back a piece of the weapon as a souvenir, which Reed says would be a pleasure. The MACOs take Sato through the airlock on a stretcher. Confirming that Enterprise will rendezvous with them at prearranged coordinates afterwards, Archer boards Degra's ship last as T'Pol and Tucker look on, wishing him good luck.
Memorable quotes
"She's surprisingly strong-willed… for a primate."
"We'll see how defiant she is after our surgeons have finished with her. We'll have the launch codes soon enough."
- The Xindi-Reptilian lieutenant and Commander Dolim
"Before your primate brain is too badly damaged to understand, I want to thank you for helping us destroy your world."
- Dolim, to Hoshi Sato just before she spits in his face
"Have these Guardians told you where you'll establish your new home world? The one Humans are destined to destroy? Is it here, in the Expanse? In case you haven't noticed, the Spheres are turning it into a trans-dimensional wasteland. None of you will be able to survive. You say the Guardians have helped you. Have they ever tried to disable the Spheres? Because we've found a way. Help me save my people, and I can help you save yours."
- Captain Archer, to the Xindi-Aquatic Councilors
"When this is all over, if you want to talk… I'm all ears."
- Tucker, to T'Pol
"Commander, I can't access the arming matrix. She's added a layer of encryption!"
- The Xindi-Reptilian Lieutenant, to Dolim
"You've seen more than enough detail to learn how to meddle in our affairs – to turn the Xindi species against each other."
"Everything we've done has been to protect the Xindi."
"Then finish what you've started, if… it's within your power."
- Dolim and the Sphere-Builder Woman
"I knew Degra for many years. He could be difficult… uncompromising. We argued often, for instance, when he insisted that we meet with you. But when Degra spoke, only a fool would ignore him. He believed that there was a future between your people and ours. When this is over, I intend to see if he was right."
- The Xindi-Primate Councilor, to Captain Archer
"When we first came aboard Enterprise, we definitely felt like outsiders."
"If I contributed to that, I apologize."
"My point is, none of us feel that way anymore. We're all part of the same crew, no matter which uniform we wear. Don't worry about Ensign Sato, we'll bring her home."
- Major Hayes and Malcolm Reed
"I've considered formalizing my service with Starfleet."
"I may be able to pull some strings… get you out of basic training."
"Can you imagine the look on Soval's face when he sees her in a Starfleet uniform? Please, let me be there!"
"I said I was considering it."
- T'Pol, Archer, and Tucker, discussing T'Pol's plans once their mission has been completed
"The Guardians will not let us fail."
- Commander Dolim
"Doctor?"
"I told him I was ready for duty."
"I'm afraid he's a bit of a mother hen."
"Heh. How's Ensign Sato?"
"Her bio-signs are stable."
"Thank you. For bringing her home."
"All in a day's work."
- Malcolm, a dying Major Hayes, and Phlox
"We've got less than ten hours before this weapon reaches Earth. The captain wants to take a team aboard to destroy it. I don't imagine the Reptilians will make this easy for us, but that's why you're here. That's why Major Hayes picked each one of you for this mission: because he knew you'd get the job done. I need three volunteers."
- Reed, to the assembled MACOs, after which all of them step forward
"The anomalies worked to our advantage."
"We were fortunate."
"It was more than good fortune. The Human claims the Guardians control the Spheres."
"He also started a civil war between our species."
"He didn't kill Degra, you did!"
"Degra was a traitor."
"I'm no longer certain of that."
"Then it's a good thing we already have your launch codes."
- The Xindi-Insectoid Councilor and Dolim
"Bring me back a piece of that weapon - a souvenir."
"With pleasure."
- Tucker and Reed
"Open the vortex… Set a course for Earth!"
- Commander Dolim
"I expect you to keep him in line."
"I'll do my best."
- Archer and T'Pol, referring to Commander Tucker (last line of the episode)
Background information
This episode marks the deaths of Major Hayes (Steven Culp) and the Xindi-Insectoid councilor.
The parasites used on Hoshi were similar in effect to the Ceti eels put into Chekov's ear in , which also made their victims more compliant.
T'Pol calls Charles Tucker III "Trip" for the first time in the series in this episode.
The subspace vortex effect is a recycle of the Borg transwarp hub effect from (which, in turn, was a reuse of the quantum slipstream effect from and ).
This is the final episode of the series that was directed by Robert Duncan McNeill.
The reactor aboard the Xindi weapon is a combination of two props seen previously in the series: the core formerly used as the Romulan mine from , and the outer rings formerly used in the ship's gymnasium in . ("Countdown" text commentary)
This episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series, beating out the episode .
Soval seeing T'Pol in a Starfleet uniform, when it eventually occurred in , was not the shocking event Archer and Trip hoped for, as it would come when during a solemn meeting aboard Enterprise'' in the wake of the bombing of the United Earth Embassy on Vulcan – and the second time was as the ambassador, not believing a word of his government's "official" account of the tragedy, was clandestinely aiding the Starfleet crew in their own investigation, one he himself advised Archer to conduct.
Links and references
Guest Stars
Scott MacDonald as Dolim
Rick Worthy as Jannar
Tucker Smallwood as a Xindi-Primate Councilor
Josette Di Carlo as a Sphere-Builder Woman
Bruce Thomas as a Xindi-Reptilian Soldier
Andrew Borba as a Xindi-Reptilian Lieutenant
Mary Mara as a Sphere-Builder Presage
Ruth Williamson as a Sphere-Builder Primary
And
Steven Culp as "Major Hayes"
Co-Star
Paul Dean as a Reptilian Technician
Uncredited Co-Stars
Joey Anaya as Xindi Reptilian
Jorge Benevides as R. Azar
Solomon Burke, Jr. as
Jacob Chambers
Jason Collins as R. Ryan
Daphney Dameraux as operations division ensign
Kevin Derr as
Yuri Elvin as
Ian Eyre
Ricky Lomax as W. Woods
Andrew MacBeth as E. Hamboyan
Dorenda Moore as S. Money
Michael J. O'Laskey as M. Forbes
Lidia Sabljic as command division crewman
Paul Sklar as R. Richards
Ator Tamras as A. Tamras
Unknown actor as C. Black
CGI Co-Stars
Kiaphet Amman'sor
Xindi-Aquatic Councilor
Xindi-Aquatic crewmember
Xindi-Insectoid captain
Xindi-Insectoid Councilor
Stunt Doubles
Alex Chansky as stunt double for Steven Culp
Diana Lee Inosanto as stunt double for Linda Park
References
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With the weapon on its way to Earth, Archer leads a small team to intercept it before it can strike; T'Pol leads Enterprise on a mission to destroy one of the spheres in the Expanse. (Season finale)
Summary
Teaser
The Xindi weapon is inside a vortex with a Xindi-Reptilian starship. Aboard the vessel, Commander Dolim stands with two other Xindi-Reptilian officers, one of whom joins Dolim in imagining how the Xindi would have benefited if the Guardians had made the Reptilians the dominant Xindi species before their civil wars. Dolim remarks that, thanks to the fact that the Guardians have finally come to their senses, the Reptilians will take their place at the head of a new Xindi empire once Earth is destroyed. They toast to their success by devouring live mice whole.
Act One
Aboard Degra's ship, the Xindi-Primate councilor informs Captain Archer that the weapon is almost three hours ahead of them but notes that they are closing the gap. Malcolm Reed states that their vessel may be faster but is not well-armed and asks how many ships are escorting the weapon, something they do not know. Archer concludes that the only way to destroy the weapon is from the inside, but all of Degra's schematics are encrypted, making it impossible to destroy the weapon. Archer decides that they need Hoshi Sato to help them and, despite Reed's initial objections that she is too weak, he eventually agrees.
In the Guardians' realm, they discuss the fact that their favorable timelines continue to diminish, even though the weapon has almost reached Earth. They note that is on course for a primary Sphere and decide to increase the transformation of space around it.
In engineering aboard the Enterprise, reports to T'Pol that the main power grid has been realigned to increase the deflector pulse but it will fry almost every system on board. T'Pol orders him to be prepared to initiate the pulse in two hours but Tucker repeats that, if they do, it will almost certainly destroy the ship. T'Pol gives the order again but Tucker states that the captain told the Xindi they would try to destroy the Spheres and did not say anything about destroying the ship in the process. T'Pol asks Tucker if he realizes what will happen if Earth is destroyed and states that, without Humanity, no one will combat the Sphere-Builders and the Delphic Expanse will continue to grow and will encompass many systems, including . She states that Earth is no longer the only world in jeopardy.
On the bridge, Travis Mayweather discovers a problem with the Sphere's cloaking barrier; nothing should be on the sensors, yet they can see spatial anomalies clustered much tighter than ever before.
In sickbay, Phlox tells T'Pol that the space around the Sphere is being transformed, not unlike the disturbance where the ship found the trans-dimensional being. T'Pol notes that, if they are to disable the Spheres, they will need to get within one kilometer of the surface of Sphere 41, but Phlox points out that if they enter the disturbance, the crew will be dead within minutes. He says that he can synthesize a neuroleptic compound which could keep the crew conscious for about twelve minutes, but suggests that they find a way to shorten the plan to destroy the spheres.
Aboard Degra's ship, Archer asks Sato if she's had any luck decrypting the schematics. She responds that she isn't feeling very well. She asks for Phlox to come and see her but the Captain reminds her that Phlox isn't there and tells her that she has a job to do. Sato becomes emotional and starts to blame herself for giving the Reptilians the third launch code for the weapon. When Archer says that she had no choice, she blurts out that she should have fought harder to jump off a platform while she was in the weapon. Archer tells her that everything hinges on her decrypting the schematics for the weapon and she returns to work.
On board the weapon, Dolim is told that when they exit the vortex, they will need to be two million kilometers from Earth to allow the firing sequence to start.
In engineering, Tucker tells Mayweather that he has found a way to destroy the sphere without tearing the ship apart but they will need to take power from the impulse engines and travel on thrusters when they reach the anomaly. Mayweather notes that it would be hard with the time limit but Tucker encourages him.
Reed tells Archer that they will not be able to transport directly onto the weapon's control platform due to deflector shielding. Despite Reed's objections, Archer decides to take Sato with him to the weapon because she has been on the weapon before. When asked what will happen if they cannot escape in time, Archer announces that he will give everyone plenty of time to get to the beam out point. Reed asks what Archer intends to do and receives the reply that Archer has no intention of dying on the weapon.
As he exits the room, Archer finds himself on a balcony overlooking a large hall. is there and tells him that it is a very important day. Daniels points out a man in a blue jacket, saying that it is Archer a little more than seven years in the future. He reveals that the elder Archer is about to make history, and that he must not risk his life or the United Federation of Planets may never come to be.
Act Two
Enterprise drops out of warp as it arrives at Sphere 41. Mayweather states that the anomaly is growing and it is one hundred thousand kilometers larger than the first time they encountered it. Phlox informs the bridge crew that he has enhanced the neuroleptic compound as much as he can and that they should stay in the disturbance no more than fifteen minutes. The compound is released and the Enterprise makes its final approach toward Sphere 41.
Back on Degra's ship, Archer tells Sato that they need to disable the reactor at a specific point during the inversion sequence but he does not know the sequence and if this is not done correctly, the internal safeguards will kick in and it will be impossible to overload. Sato tells him that she has the sequence but decrypting it is another problem.
One of the Xindi tells Archer that they have gotten close enough to isolate the weapon's signature. Archer is informed that the Insectoid ship is no longer with Dolim's fleet and that the weapon is being escorted by a single craft, Dolim's ship.
On that vessel, one of Dolim's crew informs him that Degra's ship is less than twenty minutes behind them. Dolim instructs the weapon crew to prepare to initiate the firing sequence as soon as they exit the vortex. It is then reported that there are no Earth vessels in the vicinity and only one orbital station nearby. Much to the Reptilian's delight, the station is unarmed. When Earth is shown on the viewscreen, Dolim comments that the Aquatics would feel at home here, due to the large amount of water present.
Meanwhile, Enterprise has entered the disturbance and Phlox starts the countdown. Mayweather states that he has the sphere on sensors and that it is only twenty thousand kilometers away. T'Pol instructs the crew to use thrusters as soon as they are in visual range. Tucker informs T'Pol that the deflector is standing by and, as he places his hand on the console, he notices that his skin is slowly starting to show the effects of being in the disturbance.
Back by the Weapon, Dolim's vessel exits the portal only 800,000 kilometers ahead, on a direct course for Earth. Just as Archer instructs Reed's team to prepare to beam to the weapon, one of the Xindi at the bridge console notes that Dolim's ship is changing course for a space station. When it comes on screen, Archer identifies it as Yosemite 3, a research station having at least thirty to forty civilians on board. Archer instructs the crew to hail them on the frequency provided, only to be told that they can't get anything through due to the weapon's disruption wave.
Enterprise reaches the sphere and T'Pol instructs them to drop to two thousand meters. Tucker tells Phlox that something is happening to his skin and Mayweather also admits to seeing the same on his own. Phlox responds and informs them that it was expected, that they shouldn't scratch it and that there is only eleven minutes remaining.
Meanwhile, Dolim quotes the Guardian's orders that, once Earth is destroyed, they are to destroy all remaining Human colonies. The ship begins to fire their weapon, and Yosemite 3 is destroyed.
T'Pol gives Tucker the firing coordinates and the deflector pulse is fired at the sphere. Phlox informs them that there is less than ten minutes to go. In engineering, as the crew continue to check the systems, three Sphere-Builders appear out of thin air and begin to attack with balls of charged particles launched from their palms.
Act Three
The Sphere-Builders begin to use their trans-dimensional abilities to disrupt Enterprises power systems in hopes of shutting down the deflector pulse. The power drain is immediately felt on the bridge. In response, T'Pol hails engineering and Tucker states he is losing power for the pulse. Phlox points out that there are nine alien lifeforms, likely the trans-dimensional beings. The environment has been altered enough to sustain their presence.
As Dolim prepares to intercept Degra's ship, calling them pathetic due to their weaker weapons, the Arboreal informs Archer that the intercepting vessel is arming their torpedoes and that there is another vessel approaching at high warp asking for Archer; it is the Andorian, Commander Shran. Shran tells them that their ship is no match for the Reptilian vessel and that he anticipated that they would need assistance.
On Enterprise, the deflector pulse is disappearing and the MACO weapons are not affecting the Sphere-Builders as the pulses pass right through them. Tucker reports that the Sphere-Builders have to be stopped or the process will take additional time, which they no longer have. Corporal Kelly orders his men to reset their weapons to a modulating frequency, as per Phlox' instructions. This has an effect and forces the Sphere-Builders to retreat, as they use their abilities to pass through walls to find a new console, where they continue to disrupt the power systems.
Shran's vessel, the Kumari, proceeds to escort Degra's ship and takes weapons fire from the enemy vessels while they approach the weapon. Deciding to fight back to buy Archer time, Shran fires back, and then declares that he and Archer are no longer even – now Archer owes him. Archer and his boarding party then beam over to the weapon, surprising the Reptilians and killing them all. Archer switches some power cells to begin the overload process. At this time, Dolim discovers that the boarding party has left the ship and that the Kumari is attempting to distract him. Aboard the weapon, more Reptilians engage the MACOs, one forcing Sato to lose her data pad. Archer attacks the creature, and Reed forces the Reptilian off the platform into a shaft, to the depths of the vessel.
On Enterprise, Phlox informs the crew that their time is up, and T'Pol orders an evacuation. Tucker intervenes by letting them know that he needs a minute to finish his task. Seconds later, when Phlox repeats that they have no time, he concurs and presses a button. The pulse intensifies and the Sphere begins to collapse. A pulse-like signal is emitted and the next Sphere in the network also starts collapsing. The Sphere-Builders aboard Enterprise scream as they dematerialize back to their home realm, allowing the ship's power to return. The crew then discover that the entire Sphere network has been destroyed.
Meanwhile, Shran discovers that a Reptilian, Dolim, has transported to the weapon. Shran orders all weapons targeted on Dolim's ship's starboard engines, destroying the ship in the process as the shields in that area were knocked out in the battle leaving that particular spot vulnerable.
On board the weapon, Archer orders Reed to hand him the charges and return to Degra's ship. Reed argues but Archer overrules him, assuring him that he will be right behind him. Archer set the charges on the reactor and detonates them. He climbs back down the shaft to reset the final switch and start an overload. At this time, he is attacked by Dolim. Losing the fight, Archer attaches a final charge to Dolim's back and sets it off, killing Dolim. Archer runs across the platform as explosions go off around him. High above Earth, the Superweapon explodes in a shower of flames and debris with seconds to spare.
Act Four
Enterprise is holding position to rendezvous with Degra's ship. T'Pol notes that the long-range sensors are detecting no Spheres, that all spatial anomalies within their scanning range have vanished and that the thermobaric clouds they detected earlier are starting to dissipate. While the crew tries to establish communication with Archer, T'Pol shares her age (65) with Tucker, informing him that some Vulcans believe that this information is intimate.
When the ships finally meet, Reed tells the crew that the weapon has been destroyed, but explains that Archer was not able to beam out in time. Enterprise docks with the Xindi-Aquatic cruiser shortly thereafter and T'Pol is told by the Primate that they will be returned to Earth within a day.
He also notes that the Xindi-Insectoids have been unable to ignore recent events and that the Reptilians will soon also be forced to accept that the Sphere-Builders were just using them for their own end. Finally, he tells her that Archer's sacrifice will not be forgotten and wishes them a safe journey.
In sickbay, Phlox mentions that the animals can sense that they are traveling within another ship and are upset by it. Phlox asks T'pol how is crew morale holding up. T'Pol tells him that losing a captain is not easy for any crew. Phlox agrees and states that they are all going to need time to heal. When T'Pol inquires about the well being of Porthos, Archer's dog, Phlox said he will be fine in time. In an uncharacteristic gesture, T'Pol then comforts and pets Porthos for the loss of his best friend.
When the ships near Earth, Enterprise leaves the Xindi vessel and sets a course for home. Hoshi – despite Phlox's medical objections, insists on taking her station as they head home. Earth is soon within visual range, and the entire bridge crew stares in awe at the planet that they fought so hard for and that some of their shipmates gave their lives to save. Reed states that the captain would have been proud at this moment, as Tucker notes that Earth is the prettiest sight he has ever seen, and more importantly, it's in one piece. However things begin to take a strange turn when Hoshi is unable to raise Starfleet Command despite everyone expecting them to be waiting anxiously for news. Scans show that all the orbital platforms are missing and there is no communication with the Lunar One Colony either, despite all of their attempts. T'Pol sends Tucker and Mayweather in a to San Francisco to find out what is going on and at first everything looks fine. However, Mayweather detects three vessels approaching but, as they try to hail them, they hear metallic noises coming from their hull. Three World War II era airplanes, P-51 Mustangs, are flying toward them and firing at them.
Meanwhile, in a Nazi medical camp, a Nazi officer requests to see a patient. A doctor takes the officer to the patient, a man that turns out to be Archer, badly burned. When the doctor asks if they recognize his uniform, an alien in Nazi uniform steps out of the shadows.
Log entries
"Captain's starlog, supplemental. We've begun to formulate a plan, thanks to Hoshi, who's made some progress in decrypting the schematics."
"Acting Captain's starlog, February 14, 2154. We're holding position at the coordinates where we were told to meet Degra's vessel. So far there's been no word from them."
Memorable quotes
"If they had made us the dominant species before the wars, our homeworld would still exist."
"And our avian brothers would still fill the skies."
"We should be grateful that the Guardians have finally come to their senses. Once Earth is destroyed, the Reptilians will take their rightful place at the head of a new Xindi Empire."
- Commander Dolim and one of his Xindi-Reptilian comrades, as they enjoy a tiny mammalian snack
"Has it occurred to you what's going to happen if Captain Archer fails – if Earth is destroyed?"
"Every day!"
"Good. Then you've already come to the conclusion that, without Humanity, there's no one to combat these sphere builders. Their Expanse will continue to grow, encompassing one system after another, including Vulcan. Your world is no longer the only one in jeopardy."
- T'Pol and Tucker
"My mission is to save Earth, not your Federation."
- Archer, to Daniels
"I have no plans of dying on that weapon, Malcolm."
- Archer, to Reed
"It's a shame – all that water. The Aquatics would feel at home here."
- Dolim, after his first view of Earth
"You're not using your head, pink skin. That ship you're on is no match for the Reptilian."
- Shran, to Captain Archer
"Tell Archer... we're not even anymore. He owes me!"
- Shran, as his ship is rocked by weapons fire
"It's time for you to work your magic, Mr. Tucker. Within five minutes, everyone on this ship is going to start dying!"
"No pressure."
- Phlox and Tucker
"Wait a minute, I'm almost there."
"You don't have a minute, Commander."
"Then give me ten seconds. I'm telling you, I got it!"
"That's it, time's up!"
"It sure is."
- Tucker and Phlox, as Sphere 41 finally begins to buckle under fire from Enterprise
"We didn't come here to disable this weapon. We're here to destroy it."
- Archer, to Malcolm
"What have you done?!"
- Dolim, to Archer, after the captain completes the sequence to overload the weapon's reactor
"One Reptilian transported to the weapon..."
"Let's make sure he has nowhere to go back to."
- Kumari bridge officer and Shran, ordering the destruction of Dolim's ship
"You look nice like this – kinda like an old oil painting."
- Tucker, to T'Pol, after she had been worried about her skin
"I am not old. I will only be 66 years old on my next birthday."
- T'Pol, reacting to to the implication she is elderly
"Captain Archer destroyed the weapon."
"Where is he? Is he okay?"
"Captain didn't make it, Trip."
"What do you mean, he didn't make it?"
"The weapon exploded before he could transport to Degra's ship."
- Reed and Tucker"Your captain's sacrifice will not be forgotten."
- The Xindi-Primate Councilor, to T'Pol
"You should be in your quarters."
"With all due respect to Phlox, I wouldn't miss this for the world."
- T'Pol and Hoshi, as the ensign enters the bridge for the final approach to Earth
"Prettiest sight I ever saw... and it's all in one piece!"
- Tucker''', with a look of awe at the sight of Earth
Background information
Behind the scenes
This episode marked the end of both the third season of and the Xindi Arc.
In a special feature on the Season 4 DVD, Connor Trinneer says he believes that the producers deliberately created an ending so ambiguous that, had the series been canceled, the reaction to it ending that way would've been so negative as to make the network execs miserable – calling it a "wily move" on their part.
Rick Berman has compared this episode to s Final Chapter arc. He said it "was kind of like the end of Deep Space Nine, in a way. We had a lot of threads that needed to be tied up. We didn't have as many threads as we did with Deep Space Nine because we had so many characters on that show, and was also a series finale. But here it was a question of how to end the Xindi arc."
The window behind and Jonathan Archer in the signing ceremony scene was a reuse of a port that prominently featured on the in , which was also a scene where Daniels brought Archer into the future.
This episode received an Emmy Award nomination for Michael Westmore's Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special.
Continuity and trivia
This is the only Star Trek episode whose name begins with the letter "Z".
This episode marks the death of Dolim (Scott MacDonald).
This episode reveals the founding members of the United Federation of Planets are Humans, Vulcans, Andorians and Tellarites.
T'Pol finally reveals her age (65 – nearly 66) to Tucker, who initially wondered about it all the way back to .
This episode marks the final appearance of the Sphere-Builders as well as the Xindi (though a few stray Reptilians pop up in a nightmare Archer has in the fourth season episode ).
This is also the first time T'Pol speaks directly to and touches Porthos.
Following the destruction of the Xindi weapon, T'Pol makes a log entry as acting captain that incorrectly identifies the date as February 14, 2152 (rather than 2154).
Whether intentionally or not, the day that the Xindi weapon is destroyed over Earth is Valentine's Day, the 45th day of the year, 2154.
No explanation is given why there are no Starfleet vessels in the vicinity to defend Earth (a fact explicitly mentioned in the episode by the Xindi). Although this is common in Star Trek, leaving it to the heroes' ship to save Earth, it's especially noteworthy because Starfleet came to Enterprise aid when they were attacked by Duras in the Sol System in "The Expanse" and many of them will be there to welcome her home at the end of "Storm Front, Part II".
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Guest Stars
Scott MacDonald as Dolim
Rick Worthy as Jannar
Tucker Smallwood as Xindi-Primate Councilor
Josette Di Carlo as Sphere-Builder Woman
Bruce Thomas as Xindi-Reptilian Soldier
Andrew Borba as Xindi-Reptilian Lieutenant
Matt Winston as
Mary Mara as Sphere-Builder Presage
Ruth Williamson as Sphere-Builder Primary
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Jeffrey Combs as "Shran"
Co-Stars
Gunter Ziegler as Doctor
J. Paul Boehmer as Officer
Zachary Krebs as Andorian N.D.
Uncredited Co-Stars
Alina Andrei as Sphere-Builder
Jacob Chambers
Jason Collins as R. Ryan
Shawn Crowder as Xindi-Reptilian
Daphney Dameraux as operations ensign
Brian D'Arcy as engineer
Kevin Derr as
Paul Eliopoulos as engineer
Yuri Elvin as
Ian Eyre
Glen Hambly as Andorian officer
Dieter Hornemann as Na'kuhl SS-hauptsturmführer
John Jurgens
Ricky Lomax as W. Woods
Andrew MacBeth as E. Hamboyan
Dorenda Moore as S. Money
Michael J. O'Laskey as M. Forbes
Bob Rivers as engineer
Paul Sklar as R. Richards
Amy Ulen as engineer
Unknown performers as
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Starbase 6 was a Federation starbase administered by Starfleet from the 2260s to the 2360s. It was commanded by Commodore Enwright in 2268. () The planet Gravesworld was located near the base. ()
History
In 2268, the worked in conjunction with Starbase 6 in conducting a mission to investigate the loss of contact with star system Gamma 7A in Sector 39J.
On stardate 4307.1, Starbase 6 lost contact with the Intrepid and a rescue priority was issued to the , which was already en route to the starbase. Following their investigation, the Enterprise returned to the base for a scheduled layover and shore leave. ()
Later that year, the Enterprise traveled to this base, where it rendezvoused with the , and was ordered to be refitted with the M-5 multitronic unit. All but twenty of the Enterprises crew was offloaded to this base, where they were kept in a security holding area, while the ship proceeded to participate in a series of M-5 drills. ()
In the 2270s, Starbase 6's Class F shuttlecraft Conrad was departing from the San Francisco air tram station just as Admiral James T. Kirk's air tram was arriving. ( Director's Edition)
In 2365, the traveled to Starbase 6 from Gravesworld, following the death of Doctor Ira Graves, to drop off Kareen Brianon so she could arrange transport back to Earth. ()
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In the original version of this episode, Commodore Enwright's starbase was simply a reuse of the Deep Space Station K-7 studio model from , and was never identified by name.
In the remastered version of this episode, the station was given a new design, and a formal designation printed on the base which read "Starbase 6." Information pertaining to the update was obtained from Michael Okuda.
For further information on the studio model, see Starbase 6 model.
In "The Ultimate Computer", Starbase 6 was a space station, but in "The Schizoid Man" it was located on a planet.
Based on the station's seemingly close proximity to Alpha Carinae II, it would seem that this starbase is in, or is relatively near the Beta Quadrant.
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Lieutenant Commander Nella Daren sciences division Starfleet officer who lived during the mid-24th century.
In 2369, Daren came aboard the from Starbase 218 to become the head of stellar sciences. In her new role, she was very forthright in her requests for ship resources to support her department's studies.
Soon after coming aboard the Enterprise-D, she met Captain Jean-Luc Picard. A friendship quickly formed, based on their love of music. Daren was a skilled piano player who accompanied Picard on a portable piano, while he played the Ressikan flute. Their friendship soon blossomed into a romantic relationship. The crew reacted differently to Picard and Daren's romance: Deanna Troi was happy for Picard and gave her blessing; and Will Riker felt that Daren was asking for special treatment because she was the captain's "girlfriend."
When a fire storm threatened the Bersallis III Federation outpost, Daren suggested cross-connecting several thermal deflector units to create a protective shield against the heat while the Enterprise-D evacuated the colonists. Eight crewmen lost their lives, but Daren survived. Afterward, it became obvious to Picard and Daren that it would be extremely difficult to continue their relationship while serving on the same ship. Daren requested a transfer. As they said goodbye, they promised to keep seeing each other. ()
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Background information
Nella Daren was played by Wendy Hughes.
According to the and the , Daren's first name was spelled "Neela"; the script and the , nevertheless, spell it "Nella", as it is found here.
Ronald D. Moore commented "I liked the relationship with Nella and wanted it to continue aboard the Enterprise-D, but that view was in the minority. I thought that she matched up well with Picard and that we should've just played it out over several episodes."
According to the video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, Nella Daren was born on Evadne IV. She is the daughter of Aura Daren and Vernis Daren. Nella previously served aboard the USS Constellation and the USS Bellerophon. After leaving the Enterprise, she transferred to the USS Yosemite.
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Red Squadron was the designation given to Cadet Training Squadron 47 (CTS-47), an elite group of cadets at Starfleet Academy. Red Squad members received special classes and advanced field training.
In 2372, the program was a relatively new idea. A group of Red Squad cadets, including Riley Shepard, disabled the global power distribution center in Lisbon, allowing Admiral Leyton to launch his coup attempt. ()
Shortly before the outbreak of the Dominion War, Red Squad was assigned to crew the , on a training mission to circumnavigate the Federation. Following the outbreak of war, the Valiant found itself trapped behind enemy lines. When the ranking officers were killed, Cadet Tim Watters was given command of the Valiant by the late Captain , and kept the ship behind enemy lines. For eight months, Red Squad carried out the missions assigned to the Valiant, until, on Stardate 51825, the Valiant engaged a Dominion battleship prototype. The ship was lost, with only three survivors – one Red Squad cadet among them, Dorian Collins. ()
Red Squad members
Named
Dorian Collins
Karen Farris
Parton
Riley Aldrin Shepard
Tim Watters
Unnamed
USS Valiant personnel
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See also
Nova Squadron
Background information
The Red Squad insignia was an altered version of the USS Enterprise TOS command division assignment patch, the arrowhead changed from gold to red, the "star" division logo made gold and extended outside the arrowhead, and the bordering of the arrowhead also changed from black to gold.
Apocrypha
The Activision video game Star Trek: Invasion was originally developed with the working title Star Trek: Red Squad. In the final game, the Valkyrie pilots of the USS Typhon, including the main character Ryan Cooper, were Red Squad members. ()
In the TNG novel The Best and the Brightest, a cadet named Johnny Madden became a member of Red Squad in 2372, a fact that annoyed fellow cadet Jayme Miranda as she felt the group was elitist.
The short story "Dorian's Diary" in Strange New Worlds III establishes that in 2374, sole Red Squad survivor Dorian Collins was awarded the Drakon Cluster of Courage, and the rest of the deceased Red Squad members were also awarded posthumously. Internal Affairs also launched an investigation into the actions of the cadets and criticized the decisions they made, but the public perception of them as heroes of the Dominion War made them overlook the actions of Red Squad.
In the IDW Publishing Star Trek: Ongoing comic "Red Level Down" set in the alternate reality, it is revealed that was offered the chance to be a member of Red Squad, which he declined.
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The word Valiant could mean:
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, a space ship launched from Earth in 2065
, the name of several Federation starships:
, a starship that was lost at Eminiar VII
, a Defiant-class starship manned by Red Squad
, a vessel assigned to Starfleet Battle Group Omega
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The Kepla sector was a region of space in the Alpha Quadrant. Located in Federation space, this sector was near the Cardassian border.
In 2373, Dominion forces swept through this sector on the first day of the Dominion War, trapping the behind enemy lines. ()
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Starbase 257 was a Federation starbase that was in service with Starfleet in the late 24th century. The outpost was located in the Alpha Quadrant.
While within its defense perimeter, ships had to remain at one-half impulse until they cleared the outer markers.
In 2374, the starbase was attacked by an attack wing of Jem'Hadar fighters, shortly after the runabout had left the station en route to Ferenginar. ()
In 2399, the location of Starbase 257 labeled on a Federation star chart in Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy's office at Starfleet Headquarters. The outpost was in or near to Federation space. ()
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The USS Shenandoah (NCC-73024) was a Federation runabout operated by Starfleet. This ship was assigned to Deep Space 9.
Around stardate 51597, Worf and Jadzia Dax took the Shenandoah to the Badlands to intercept a message from a Cardassian defector named Lasaran. At the rendezvous point, they were instructed to travel to the Soukara system to transport Lasaran from the Dominion base on Soukara back to the Federation. ()
The Shenandoah, along with the and , evacuated Deep Space 9 at the time of the Reckoning aboard the station in late 2374. ()
Several months later, Nog and Jake Sisko traveled to Starbase 257 aboard the Shenandoah to pick up a message for Grand Nagus Zek from the Federation Council. The Shenandoah was to then travel to Ferenginar, but it was attacked by a Jem'Hadar warship soon after. Nog and Jake were beamed off the runabout by the . ()
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"Hello, Seattle. I'm listening."
Allen Kelsey Grammer is the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor who appeared in the role of Captain Morgan Bateson in the fifth season episode . He filmed his scenes for this episode on Thursday on Paramount Stage 9. Grammer is most widely known for playing the character Dr. on NBC's television comedy series and Frasier over a span of twenty years. Like the Star Trek series, Cheers and Frasier were produced by Paramount Television.
Early life
Grammer was born on Saint Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, and partly raised in New Jersey. He attended where he was a roommate and classmate of future and guest star Leigh J. McCloskey. In the late 1970s, after leaving Julliard, Grammer had a three-year internship at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, California.
Grammer's life has been marked by tragedy, including the 1968 murder of his father Francis Allen Grammer and in 1975, the murder of his sister. Grammer's sister Karen was an 18 year old server at the Red Lobster in Fort Carson, Colorado. Upon closing, Karen Grammer was kidnapped by Freddie Glenn and Winfred Proffit, after which both men proceeded to rape her until finally, after repeatedly assaulting and drugging her, Glenn slit her throat. Her body remained unidentified until her brother arrived on scene to confirm that the victim was his sister. Glenn later murdered Proffit but was soon after arrested. Kelsey Grammer has appeared at almost every parole hearing that Glenn has had, leaving Glenn to be denied every time. For the times Grammer was unable to be present at a hearing, he sent a written statement to the Colorado Parole Board describing Glenn as a butcher and a monster. In a letter sent to the board in 2009, Grammer wrote of his murdered sibling, "She was so smart and good and decent. She wrote poetry... We could laugh for hours together." Grammer also wrote "I was supposed to protect her – I could not. It very nearly destroyed me... When we heard this man might be paroled, the suffering began anew". Glenn was denied as he was in every instance, and the same was true at his last hearing in 2014. At that hearing Grammer testified via teleconference.
Career
Early stage work
In 1981, he made his Broadway debut in a revival of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, with Grammer playing Lennox and DS9 guest star Philip Anglim playing the title role. Ivar Brogger and John Vickery were part of the cast, as well. Grammer later assumed the role of Ross in the same production. He also understudied for the role of Macbeth and ultimately took over that role when Anglim abruptly withdrew from the show due to negative criticism. (Grammer again played Macbeth on Broadway in 2000.)
While both Grammer (as Ross) and Anglim (as Macbeth) were working on Macbeth, one of the show's performances was filmed for broadcast on television in 1982, marking Grammer's first appearance in that medium. Grammer returned to Broadway that same year, playing Cassio in a revival of Shakespeare's Othello. actor Christopher Plummer starred as Iago in the same production.
In 1985, Grammer acted alongside Star Trek: Voyagers Kate Mulgrew in a production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Early television work
Grammer's first actual television production was the 1983 mini-series Kennedy, in which he co-starred with John Glover. The following year, Grammer and Glover appeared in another mini-series based on a former US President, George Washington. This production also featured Ron Canada, Megan Gallagher, Harry Groener, Richard Kiley, Stephen Macht, Clive Revill, and Anthony Zerbe.
In 1984, Grammer began portraying his most famous role, Dr. Frasier Crane, on the soon-to-be-hit sitcom Cheers. At around the same time, he became a regular on the NBC soap opera Another World, playing the role of Dr. Canard, but he left this series after one year.
Cheers and Frasier
Grammer played psychiatrist Frasier Crane on Cheers for nine years (1984-1993), during which time he worked alongside actress Kirstie Alley, who starred as Rebecca Howe. During the course of the show, Grammer's character married fellow psychiatrist Lilith Sternin, played by Bebe Neuwirth, who, like Grammer, would later make an appearance on TNG. Paul Willson was another actor who appeared frequently on the show.
After Cheers ended its run, Kelsey reprised his role as Dr. Crane in his own hit spin-off series, Frasier, which ran from 1993 through 2004, ultimately equaling the length of Cheers run. Bebe Neuwirth made several recurring appearances on this show as Lilith, who was now divorced from Frasier. Other actors with recurring guest roles on Frasier included Dan Butler, Patrick Kerr, and Saul Rubinek. Paul Willson also reprised his Cheers role in one episode. The stars of Frasier also did a spoof sketch of Star Trek: Voyager alongside Kate Mulgrew for the television special Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond. Grammer himself was ironically not available at the time, but (Niles Crane), (Martin Crane), (Daphne Moon) and (Roz Doyle) all featured as their characters.
Star Trek regulars who made appearances on Frasier include Rene Auberjonois (as Frasier's mentor from Harvard), Robert Picardo, Brent Spiner, Patrick Stewart and Nana Visitor. Other Trek actors who have appeared on the show include Vaughn Armstrong, Kevin Brief, William O. Campbell, Timothy Carhart, Shannon Cochran, Brian Cousins, Daniel Davis, Robertson Dean, Victor Garber, John Glover, Wayne Grace, James Harper, Rachael Harris, Penny Johnson, Kay E. Kuter, Scott MacDonald, Ann Magnuson, Virginia Madsen, Anthony Montgomery, Morgan Nagler, Natalia Nogulich, Jim Norton, Richard Poe, Harve Presnell, John Rubinstein, David Ogden Stiers, Musetta Vander, John Vickery, Neil C. Vipond, Fritz Weaver, Michael Welch, Jane Wiedlin, Harris Yulin, and Anthony Zerbe.
Grammer was also executive producer on Frasier and directed a number of episodes for the show. He even sang the show's theme song. Outside of Cheers and Frasier, Grammer guest-starred as Frasier Crane in episodes of Wings (starring Steven Weber) and The John Larroquette Show.
In 2008, Kelsey Grammer starred as Dr. Frasier Crane in a commercial for Dr. Pepper with Bebe Neuwirth as the voice of Lilith.
Grammer's portrayal of Dr. Crane has earned him numerous awards, including three Emmys and two Golden Globes. He has the distinction of winning Emmys for the same character on three different series (Cheers, Frasier, and a guest appearance on , starring Steven Weber). Along with actor , Grammer is one of only two actors to portray the same live-action prime-time series character for twenty years (albeit on two different shows in Grammer's case).
The set of Cheers and later Frasier were next to the sets of Star Trek: The Next Generation on the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood.
A running subplot on Frasier dealt with Frasier's loathing for his blue-collar father, Martin's () vintage recliner. In the eighth season episode "Bla-Z-Boy," Frasier accidentally destroys the chair and commissions an identical replacement. The upholstery of the chair was in fact taken from an interior design used on .
Other television projects
In 1986, Grammer appeared in the mini-series Crossings, which co-starred Christopher Plummer, Zach Galligan, and Herta Ware.
In 1990, Grammer appeared as Dr. Frasier Crane in The Earth Day Special, which included Christopher Lloyd in the role of Emmett L. Brown, and Robin Williams as Everyman.
Grammer has starred in such TV movies as Dance 'Til Dawn (1988, with Cliff DeYoung), Beyond Suspicion (1993, with Corbin Bernsen and John Putch), The Innocent (1994, with Jeff Kober), The Pentagon Wars (1998, with Sam Anderson, Bruce French, Randy Oglesby, Richard Riehle, and Tom Wright), The Sports Pages (2001, with Brian Markinson), and Mr. St. Nick (with Wallace Shawn). He also played Ebenezer Scrooge opposite Jason Alexander's Jacob Marley in the 2004 TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
Grammer is an executive producer on the Paramount Television Network/CBS drama series Medium and made a guest appearance on the show as the "Angel of Death". Another show Grammer executive produced for Paramount Television was the short-lived sitcom Fired Up (1997-98), which starred Jonathan Banks and Sharon Lawrence; Grammer had a brief recurring role on this series, as well. He also produced UPN's Girlfriends, which starred Golden Brooks.
The success of Frasier netted Grammer two appearances as host of Saturday Night Live, with the first, in April 1994, coming when Michael McKean and Sarah Silverman were part of the cast. He had previously made a cameo appearance, along with Cheers co-stars Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, and George Wendt, when Alley hosted in 1991.
Grammer recently worked alongside Everybody Loves Raymond star in the FOX series Back to You, which ran from September 2007 through May 2008. He more recently starred in a pilot called Roman's Empire.
Film work
In addition to his television work, Grammer has acted in a number of films. His first was the 1992 independent comedy Galaxies Are Colliding. In 1996 he starred as the brash and cocky Lt. Commander Tom Dodge in the submarine comedy Down Periscope. He later co-starred with Avery Brooks and Kim Cattrall in the 2001 movie 15 Minutes (also featuring an appearance by Anton Yelchin).
In 2006 Grammer played (aka Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy) in X-Men: The Last Stand alongside his TNG co-star Patrick Stewart and fellow TNG guest star Famke Janssen. He more recently played US President Andrew Boone in the 2008 comic drama Swing Vote, which also featured Charles Esten, Mark Moses, and Nana Visitor.
Recently, he worked with Christopher McDonald in the comic drama Middle Men. He also had a role as an orchestra maestro in the 2009 remake of the 1980 musical Fame, along with his Cheers co-star and fellow TNG guest performer Bebe Neuwirth.
Voice-overs
Grammer is also a prolific voice actor, with perhaps his most recognizable voice role being Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons. He voiced Sideshow Bob for 2007's The Simpsons Movie, but his scenes were cut from the final film. In the fifth season episode "Cape Feare", Bob is lured into a trap by Bart who buys himself time by asking Bob to perform the HMS Pinafore as a last request before his latest attempt to murder the subject of his failed repeated acts of revenge.
He has supplied voices for such animated films as Anastasia (along with Christopher Lloyd, Kirsten Dunst, and Andrea Martin), Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 2 (with Wallace Shawn), and Teacher's Pet (also with Shawn, as well as David Ogden Stiers). In the 1999 TV movie version of George Orwell's Animal Farm, Grammer supplied the voice of Snowball the Pig, while Patrick Stewart voiced the hog Napoleon. Additionally, Grammer voiced the title character of the short-lived Spike TV series Gary the Rat. He also provided the voice of Dr. Frankenollie in the 1995 Mickey Mouse short "Runaway Brain". In 1999, he narrated Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas.
Later stage work
In June of 2000, Grammer portrayed the title role in a one-week Broadway production of Macbeth. In April of 2010, he began performances as Georges in La Cage aux Folles at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway.
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The Breen attack on Earth was a surprise attack against Earth launched by the forces of the Breen Confederacy in late 2375. Although most of the attacking Breen ships were destroyed by Starfleet defenses, the raid caused massive damage to its intended target of Starfleet Headquarters, and the greater city of San Francisco including the Golden Gate Bridge.
The attack was a major blow to Federation morale and an equally major boost to the power of the Dominion. This bold military strike marked the Breen's entry into the Dominion War. Klingon General Martok remarked on the daring of the act, saying "even my people never attempted that." ()
Several days later, Chief Miles O'Brien cited the attack as being responsible for Commander Hilliard's odd behavior towards Doctor Julian Bashir. () The damage caused by this attack was repaired by 2376. ()
Appendices
Background information
This attack may be the first successful attack on Earth to occur in nearly two centuries at that point. Dialogue in and suggests that the last such occasion was during either the Xindi incident or the Earth-Romulan War.
The damage caused by the Breen attack was limited in comparison to the massive planetary damage depicted in previous examples of orbital bombardment, such as in . This suggests that perhaps Starfleet was able to mitigate the damage somehow or that Breen were reluctant to inflict massive civilian casualties, fearing retaliation.
In the first draft script of , the Breen were established as having used highly effective cloaking devices to carry out this attack. Weyoun speculated that the Federation would be finding bodies in the rubble for days after the incident.
Apocrypha
The non-canon short story "Eleven Hours Out" from the anthology Tales of the Dominion War tells of major involvement of Jean-Luc Picard and the in stopping the raiding Breen ships. It also states that an orbital defense platform was taken over by an agent of the Dominion and used to destroy any incoming vessels. "Safe Harbors" in the same anthology mentions that New York was attacked as well, But as Scotty and McCoy are piloting a runabout, they are relieved to see the Statue of Liberty survived intact. After the attack, the Breen officially announced that they were breaking off diplomatic relations with the Federation and entering into an alliance with the Dominion.
The non-canon Dominion War supplement for the Last Unicorn game goes further in-depth on the attack, stating that Beijing, Paris, and New York City were also attacked by Breen fighters, and a total of 22 million people were killed. Star Trek Online, however, claims that the attack only killed 2,147 people.
In the Star Trek Online Agents of Yesterday mission "Vorgon Conclusions", the player character is dropped off at this timeframe in pursuit of the Vorgon Ajur and Boratus. They are able to defeat a number of Breen ships and drive off an invasion of Starfleet Headquarters before confronting the two. Several "News Reports" that can be accessed during the mission reveal the state of the ongoing battle, including that the Cairo and the Enterprise participated in the battle, the latter would reinforce the Tales of the Dominion War short story.
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The Raptor-class scout vessel was a small battle cruiser utilized by the Klingon Empire during the mid-22nd century.
History
The Klingon Raptor was a type of scout vessel first encountered by the Vulcans sometime prior to 2151. As such, the vessel was listed in the Vulcan database, however, much of the information on the class remained classified.
The first Earth encounter with a Raptor came in 2151, when the Starfleet ship stumbled across the disabled within the atmosphere of a class 9 gas giant, where it was being crushed by the planet's brutal atmospheric pressure.
With the crew apparently incapacitated, an Enterprise boarding party worked to restore the ship's propulsion systems and regain altitude. Though eventually successful, the boarding party became trapped on the ship, allowing them time to explore the interior of a Klingon vessel – the first Humans to ever do so. ()
Schematics for the Raptor-class also appeared in ' 31st century database. () Upon viewing the Raptor, among other Klingon vessel classes, Malcolm Reed noted that there were "schematics on half a dozen different Klingon ships," but was reminded by Jonathan Archer that acquiring information on those ships was not the reason why they were accessing the database. ()
Technical data
According to the Vulcan database, this vessel was identified as a "scout vessel", but was later recalled by Jonathan Archer to be a "battle cruiser". ()
Physical arrangement
The outboard plan of the Raptor utilized the same basic bird design that would be further incorporated into a classic and noble warship lineage. It was similar in design lineage as the battle cruiser and Bird-of-Prey variant.
The bridge module is separated from the main body by a thin neck that flares out into the up-swept wings, which contain the warp nacelles. ()
Hull
The Raptors outer hull was reinforced with a type of coherent molecular alloy made it capable of withstanding atmospheric pressure of 15,000 GSC, or that found in a class 9 gas giant, at an approximate depth of two kilometers. Overall, the Raptors hull was twice as thick as that of Starfleet's . ()
Propulsion systems
The impulse engine was located, like most Klingon starship classes, at the extreme aft section of the main structure. The various components of the propulsion system included a fusion manifold as well as port and starboard fusion injectors. ()
Tactical systems
The Raptor-class was equipped with shields. The tactical systems included tactical sensors, disruptor arrays and at least six automated photon torpedo ports that could be loaded simultaneously. These including at least one torpedo port on the ship's ventral side. () The primary weapon array was located on the dorsal side of the ship. ( display graphic)
Like its D5-class counterpart of the same era, the Raptor was outfitted with standard multi-spectral sensors similar to those used on Starfleet's NX-class. ()
Auxiliary craft
The Raptor class was not equipped with any form of escape pod. ()
Interior design
The Raptor-class was comprised of at least four decks; it had at least one docking hatch located on the port side, deck 2, red sector. ()
Main bridge
The main bridge was located in the "head" of the forward section of the vessel. The configuration of the darkened main bridge design of the Raptor-class scout vessel was shared with many contemporary Klingon bridge layouts, including the D5-class and .
Located in the front of the bridge, against the forward bulkhead, was the ship's main viewscreen. Located near the center of the bridge was an access console, separating the viewscreen from the command chair. Directly behind the command chair were two manned consoles, with a corridor access point located to the immediate rear.
Along the port side of the bridge were several stations, each assigned to a specific task, including an engineering console and a tactical console. Additional stations were also located on the starboard side, including a station that displayed structural integrity and helm. ()
Reactor pit
The "reactor pit" was located one deck below the bridge, in the ship's "neck". It had at least two entryways and two free-standing work consoles. ()
Galley
The galley was located on deck 4, blue sector; a targ pit and cold storage unit were located opposite of the entryway. ()
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Name
The word "raptor" means "bird of prey". However, in , the vessels which were referred to as the Bird-of-Prey were of a distinctly different design. It is of note that the original reference to the term "bird of prey" was also mentioned in the dialogue from the same episode in which the Raptor appeared.
Model
The Raptor-class was the first new Klingon ship to be established in Star Trek in roughly a decade. The exclusive use of the 22nd century as the predominant setting of allowed the show's producers opportunity to introduce a new Klingon craft. Due to the relative earliness of the era in which the ship was to be portrayed as active, it had to seem more primitive than the battle cruisers and Birds-of-Prey depicted previously, even though it meanwhile had to be recognizably Klingon. ()
Several designs were considered when first establishing the Raptor, which was originally scripted to be a small scout ship. According to John Eaves, the designing of the ship went through "quite a gamut of shapes." These were done as a series of quick sketches by Eaves himself, for Herman Zimmerman to show the producers. He explained, "Originally, it was supposed to be a shuttle, then it got a little bigger as it went on. My thumbnails go from little two-man sized things to four-guy ships, up to the one they chose, which I figure is like a 12-guy ship. It is lightly based on the Bird-of-Prey, but more on the D-7." ()
The concept design chosen by the producers was a fairly detailed sketch that clearly showed the Raptor as a 22nd century ship. () Despite this, John Eaves had, by now, a relatively clear idea of how he could continue making it look more primitive than the usual variety of Klingon vessels. () Because the Raptor was clearly based on the D7 class, Eaves was able to work backward from a familiar design. Since his 22nd century design ethic involved him often wanting to show wings as being state-of-the-art at that time (even if occasionally aerodynamic), Eaves instantly had a sense of how to modify the architecture of the Raptor without interfering with the basic shapes. He consequently accentuated the wings more than they are on the D7 class, which had more body than wings. ()
After the chosen concept sketch was selected by the producers, John Eaves passed the appropriate drawing to Doug Drexler. He produced only a single view of the craft, constructing it as a CG model with . () Drexler continued refining the design as he built it. He proceeded on the basis that his job wasn't to make any changes to the shape, but to reinforce the general impression which the producers were interested in creating. Drexler felt the Raptor had "a - quality to it." He added, "John's sketches suggested a trussed and cabled quality that I was sure to include in the model. Those distinctive touches helped to date it. The coloration is metallic, but suggests the gray tones of Matt Jefferies' original battle cruiser. We are still a way off from the murky rusty-green of later years," which could have also been the color of . ()
John Eaves was thrilled with Doug Drexler's CGI modeling of the Raptor, thinking it "compliments" his design in every possible way. After Drexler completed his work on the CGI design, the model was sent to Foundation Imaging, where it was completed in minute detail by modeler Pierre Drolet and his supervisor, Rob Bonchune. They added damage to the ship, which was called for by the script of . () The length established for the CGI model, as scaled in relation to the other models created for the series, was 145 meters.
"Sleeping Dogs" was the only time that the CGI model of this class appeared on-screen. However, it was also seen in the title menu of the Star Trek: Enterprise Season Two DVD.
Apocrypha
In the 25th century timeline of Star Trek Online, the Raptor-class was one of three core ship types used by the Klingon Defense Force and its allies, the other two being the Bird-of-Prey (also known as the Raider) and the Battle Cruiser. Raptors were less maneuverable than Raiders, but more durable.
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The Antares sector was a region of Federation space in the Beta Quadrant. It bordered the Yadalla, Orion, Vulcan, and Terran sectors.
In 2373, the was launched from the Beta Antares Ship Yards, a shipyard located in the Antares sector. (, dedication plaque)
In the 2380s, a section of the holographic map of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, displayed to the former prisoners of Tars Lamora aboard the , was labeled as this sector. ()
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The following is a list of planets and star systems in the Cardassian Union. All planets listed are or were inhabited at some point of time unless marked otherwise.
Planets
NOTE: Planets claimed by Cardassia but located in the Demilitarized Zone are listed here.
Adarak Prime
Amleth Prime (Amleth system)
AR-558 (Chin'toka system)
Arawath Colony
Aschelan V
Atbar Prime
Avenal VII
Bajor (occupied 2319-2369)
Cardassia I (Cardassian system)
Cardassia Prime (Cardassian system)
Cardassia III (Cardassian system)
Cardassia IV (Cardassian system)
Cardassia V (Cardassian system)
Celtris III
Chin'toka II (Chin'toka system)
Chin'toka III (Chin'toka system)
Dopa
Felton Prime
Goralis III (Goralis system, possibly uninhabited)
Kelvas Prime (Kelvas system)
Kelvas V (Kelvas system)
Kora II
Korma
Lazon II
Loval (Loval system)
Matiovsky IV
Monac IV (possibly uninhabited, likely affected by solar flare in 2375)
Omekla III
Orias III (Orias system, likely inhabited, officially claimed uninhabited)
Pentath III (Pentath system)
Pullock V
Quinor VII
Rakal (planet itself likely uninhabited)
Regulak IV
Rondac III
Sarpedion V
Septimus III
Sheva II
Simperia
Soukara
Torros III
Trelka V
Unefra III (Unefra system)
Vanden Prime
Velos VII
Further star systems
Chin'toka system
Cuellar system
Dopa system
Kelrabi system
Pelosa system
Olmerak system
See also
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AR-558 was a small barren planet in the Chin'toka system. This system was located in the Alpha Quadrant. According to "Tactical Map 4364W", this planet was located approximately twenty-five light years from Ferenginar, thirty-five light years from Starbase 375, forty light years from the Badlands, forty-five light years from Bajor, and fifty light years from Cardassia. The terrain of AR-558 consisted primarily of rocky surfaces and caverns, and was generally inhospitable to humanoid species for any extended period of time. ()
History
During the Dominion War, the Dominion established a communication relay station into a rock face on a steep mountain on this planet. It was the largest communications array in the sector. Following a victory in the Chin'toka system, (See: First Battle of Chin'toka) the Dominion was driven from the array by Starfleet troops who hoped to use the captured array to tap into Dominion communications. The array was held by these troops for five months without replacements.
The planet proved very difficult to defend. The Chin'toka system was the site of repeated confrontation, making re-supply to the planet impractical for extended periods. The Federation troops guarding the array selected a suitably defensible position at the closed end of a subterranean cavern, but were besieged almost from the start. Repeated Dominion attacks sapped both force strength and morale. Even though the location of their strong point forced the Dominion to advance through a narrow canyon, the casualties suffered by the Federation rendered it impractical to take full advantage of the terrain and forced them to wait for each successive assault while hoping for re-supply.
Although there were initially one hundred and fifty personnel posted there, by the time the made a supply run to the planet in mid-2375 that number had been reduced to only forty-three surviving troops from repeated Jem'Hadar attacks and the prevalence of subspace anti-personnel mines, nicknamed "Houdinis". It was only when the crew of the Defiant, working with the troops, were able to disarm the mines and re-purpose them to attack advancing Jem'Hadar that the Federation gained some semblance of advantage in the situation. The casualties were heavy, however, and included Captain , Commander , Lieutenant Larkin, Crewman , McGreevey, and Vargas.
Relief troops and engineers were later sent aboard the to replace the surviving troops. ()
Nog experienced flashbacks to the time he defended AR-558 several weeks later. ()
After the Federation was defeated at the Second Battle of Chin'toka, AR-558 was retaken by the Dominion. ()
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The name AR-558 was an in-joke, as the production number of "The Siege of AR-558" was 558. ()
AR-558's orbital position in the Chin'toka system is unclear. A map of Chin'toka, seen in , depicts at least four planets, two of which are clearly the two binary planets contested in that episode. This planet may be either of the two remaining planets or the moons of any of the planets.
The planet model for AR-558 was first used for the Karemma homeworld in . This model was used for Cardassia Prime, as well, in .
This planet's quadrant of origin is inferred based on the position of its star system as seen in the star chart appearing in the episode .
The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual identified the sector as the Bajor sector.
According to Star Trek: Star Charts ("United Federation of Planets I"), AR-558 was treated by the author, Geoffrey Mandel, as two separate locations. Both locations were in the Alpha Quadrant. The first was an antenna/communications relay. The second was a planet in a binary star system of two F-type stars. This planet was the site of a battle.
For Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), AR-558 was located close to the Chin'toka system in the Alpha Quadrant.
The locates AR-558 in the Chin'toka system.
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The ancient humanoids were one of the oldest sentient species and possibly the first humanoid species to evolve in the Milky Way Galaxy on an ancient planet. They flourished some 4.5 billion years ago and explored the galaxy, but found no other lifeforms like themselves.
Believing that the life span of a single species was finite, the ancient humanoids seeded the primordial environments of many planets with a DNA code that would direct the evolution of life on that planet towards a form similar to their own. At least Earth, Indri VIII, Loren III, Ruah IV, and Vilmor II were directly seeded by the ancient race. Other species that likely originated from seeded primordial seas included Klingons, Romulans/Vulcans, and Cardassians. Some of the fragments of DNA also contained parts of a computer program designed to display a holographic message from an ancient humanoid explaining her race and their actions. It was hoped that their descendant species would come together in the spirit of cooperation in order to assemble the program.
In the 2360s, the noted Federation archaeologist Professor discovered the existence of the program and began collecting the genetic samples. However, the Klingons and Cardassians also learned of the program and sent expeditions of their own to assemble it, each believing it to contain a great technological advance, while the Romulans observed all of them under cloak. After Galen's death in 2369, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the was able to convince the Klingons and the Cardassians to cooperate with them to finish the program.
The last part of the program was obtained on Vilmor II, and the message was played to the assembled members of each present party. The Klingons and Cardassians rejected the message due to their own prejudices, but the Romulan captain later expressed to Picard in confidence that perhaps their races were not as different as they had previously believed. ()
Background information
The ancient humanoid in the recorded message was played by Salome Jens, who later played the Female Changeling on . In the final draft of the script, she was described as "a humanoid – in fact, one of the coolest humanoids we've ever seen, with a face wise and tragic and light-hearted all at once."
Ronald D. Moore has stated that he considered, but intentionally did not specify, that this species was the Preservers from . He noted, "but this could be them and be internally consistent." () It should be noted that the ancient humanoids seeded worlds 4.5 billion years ago, while American Indian cultures like the one saved by the Preservers only emerged in the last 10,000 years. Regardless, Star Trek Online has a storyline that confirms that the two races are the same within the canon of the game.
According to the Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 72) and the Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), the First Humanoids came from the Gamma Quadrant.
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The Bynars were a race of cybernetically enhanced humanoids native to the planet Bynaus in the Beta Magellan system.
Physiology
The Bynars were shorter in height than most humanoids and were genderless. They had lilac skin and enlarged skulls. Each Bynar had a patch of dark purple hair on both sides of their neck and asymmetrical ears. Their most definitive characteristic was that they were interconnected with a master computer on Bynaus. () When a Bynar was born, a surgeon removed the child's parietal lobe and replaced it with a synaptic processor. ()
Bynars always worked and lived in pairs. There was a great degree of physical symmetry between each Bynar couple. For instance, each Bynar's pair of ears matched those of their partner, but were on the opposite sides of the head. Their typical clothing was also consistent in such a way. Because the Bynars were so interconnected with the master computer, their language and thought patterns became as close to binary code as possible. They could speak English, usually finishing each other's sentences. For example:
One Zero: "It is a great pleasure…"
Zero One: "…to work on such a large mobile computer."
The Bynars' primary language was a high-frequency sound, unintelligible to Humans, though the Bynars used it when they spoke to each other. Every Bynar was equipped with a buffer, which they carried at their waist, to manage this rate of information transfer and had a small metallic component on one side of their head. Each of these mechanisms had a red light which blinked on and off when the Bynars were communicating between one another. Each of the Bynars had the component on the opposite side of the head from their partner, yet another aspect of their symmetry when grouped.
History
The development of the Bynar ability to constantly receive information but to store it, via their buffers, until it was necessary happened over a long period of time. () By 2153, the Bynars had adopted their practice of replacing each of their newborns' parietal lobes with a synaptic processor. Doctor Phlox saw the procedure performed when he encountered the Bynars in the Beta Magellan system. In 2153, he remarked that the procedure had been "very impressive" and indirectly likened the Bynar way of life to, unknown at the time, a benign form of the Borg Collective. ()
In the 24th century, Starfleet employed Bynars to perform computer upgrades on its starships. A team of four Bynars was assigned to Starbase 74, under the supervision of Commander Quinteros. He appreciated the swiftness with which they carried out tasks.
The Bynars discovered that, although the extreme integration of technology into their society had tremendous benefits, it also had a few disadvantages. Due to the fact that an electromagnetic pulse from a supernova in their star system was due to knock out their planetary computer in 2364, the Bynars were left with only one choice: to temporarily deactivate the computer and transfer all the stored information, until after the pulse had passed.
The Bynars opted not to request that Starfleet assist in resolving the situation. This was because they thought in binary code, ones and zeroes, yes or no. Their need was so great they could not risk their appeal being rejected. Instead, since the had the only mobile computer large enough to handle all the information from the planetary computer, the team of four Bynars stationed at Starbase 74 commandeered the vessel, during a computer refit. ()
A photograph of two Bynars were on Beckett Mariner's conspiracy board in 2380. ()
Beckett Mariner mentioned "bad Bynars" among the "types" she had dated. ()
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Robert Lewin, who co-wrote with Maurice Hurley, devised the concept of the Bynars while contemplating binary numbers in computers, thinking, "Maybe there are individuals who are binary, composed of binary cells and work as a pair." He later recalled, "Their strange way of finishing each other's thoughts, their whole unique attitude, the planet they came from, all that had to be worked out." ( #191) As originally conceived, the Bynars were a race of creatures which did not talk but had another means of communicating amongst themselves. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Makeup FX Journal, p. 58)
The physical "look" of the Bynars also had to be given much thought. They were imagined, even from their inception, as small. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Makeup FX Journal, p. 58) They were scripted as "pale, frail people with translucent skin." The Bynars were thereafter collaboratively designed by Michael Westmore and Andrew Probert. The coloration of their skin was influenced by Westmore. "At that time we had painted everything [alien] every color we could think, but we hadn't used purple yet," Westmore explained, "and they became my lavender alien race for the week." () Probert illustrated concept artwork for the Bynars, which he dated , and later recollected, "I think I was asked to do the Bynars; I was certainly asked to do their equipment. The concept was that they were co-dependent. I think Michael suggested that their bodies would actually develop toward each other, which would give them a real asymmetrical look to their heads, which was something we hadn't seen before. He liked the ears that I put on them, but he did something different with the hair." ()
Even though the creative staff wanted the Bynars to be small, the use of children would have required bringing teachers in and raised concerns about the number of hours the children could work each day. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Makeup FX Journal, pp. 58-59) Like the Talosians from episodes as well as and , women were cast to play the supposedly unisex aliens. They were petite and very young. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 108) One condition for casting the women who played Bynars was that they seem to have an appealing, childlike aura. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Makeup FX Journal, p. 59) The women were all dancers whose voice track was mechanically lowered in pitch. ()
The makeup for the Bynars consisted of a large appliance for the head, which was similar to a bald cap or a bathing cap. As well as covering the head, the prosthetic came over the bridge of the wearer's nose, cheekbones and the back of their neck. All the head appliances were cast from the same mold. Each piece consequently had to be trimmed to fit whichever actress it was meant for. Because of this, the join line to the skin had to be hidden, which is why the purple hair on the sides of their necks was added. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, pp. 108 & 110)
The small mechanisms on the sides of the Bynars' heads were illustrated by Andrew Probert, in his concept art for the species, and went on to be made by Michael Westmore's son, Michael Westmore, Jr.. () The devices were essentially simple flashing lights. They were wired to a battery pack mounted on the actresses' waists and were controlled by the performers themselves. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 108)
The Bynar speech was originally designed to be subtitled. ()
The depiction of the Bynars in "11001001" was considered to have been very successfully executed. Maurice Hurley commented, "[They] were just wonderful science fiction creations; that they dealt in this binary language and had their little buffers. [Michael] Westmore did some wonderful work on that." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 163) Westmore himself agreed the aliens "turned out very well," believing the light purplish color of Bynar skin "blended nicely with the neutral look of the costumes." (Star Trek: The Next Generation Makeup FX Journal, p. 59) Director Paul Lynch remarked, "[They] were great. Nobody seemed to know they were four very small girls we found. It was also interesting that they all talked in that kind of connective fashion." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 163) Likewise, Robert Lewin cited the way the Bynars talked "together at the same time" as a highlight of the episode. ( #191) Patrick Stewart opined, "I was very fond of the Bynars – maybe it was their pretty dancers' bodies – and wished that we had met them more than once." (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 9) Jonathan Frakes wondered, "Why haven't they returned?" and went to say, "That was a very well conceived idea. They should have them as a regular on the ship to fix the engines or whatever the hell they do." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 163) While beginning work on TNG Season 6, Westmore offered, "I think we can do more with them if they ever return." (Star Trek: The Next Generation Makeup FX Journal, p. 59)
Though the Bynars are referenced in , the episode's final-draft script included no mention of them. This was due to the fact that the scene involving the dialogue about the Bynars (a scene with Phlox and Malcolm Reed in the armory aboard ), was written in after the episode was filmed. ("Regeneration" audio commentary, ENT Season 2 Blu-ray)
On the set of , married writing partners Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens had the collective nickname "the Bynars." ( audio commentary, ENT Season 4 Blu-ray)
Apocrypha
Outside of the canon of Star Trek, a team of Bynars (110 and 111) was assigned to the USS da Vinci in the Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers series. When 111 was killed, the remaining solo Bynar, 110, became known as Soloman, a regular in that series. The eBook 10 Is Better Than 01 established that the Bynars were genetically engineered by a species of AIs who needed slaves to perform manual labor roughly one million years ago. After thousands of millennia, the Bynars' ancestors became more sophisticated and the AIs more complacent, with some of them seeing the primitive Bynars as more than slaves. The pacific revolution quickly became violent, and the organics prevailed. Since the AIs had engineered the planet's environment, the Bynars were forced to create groups to study the technology that maintained their environment and with understanding, the size of their groups became smaller and smaller from about a dozen of individuals, the group became a pair. Despite not really needing to work in tandem, the Bynars kept their pairs as they believed that if a catastrophe should strike, the species would have more chances of survival working in groups.
In the novel , two Bynar children were on a shuttlecraft of the , commanded by Lieutenant Thomas Riker and piloted by Ensign Shelzane, when the shuttle was hijacked by Maquis posing as DMZ refugees.
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Thot Gor was a high-ranking Breen officer in the 24th century Breen Confederacy. He became known for beginning the relationship between the Confederacy and the Dominion, signing the Breen-Dominion Alliance.
History
Gor became a thot by 2375. He was approached in mid-2375 by the Female Changeling for an alliance between the Dominion and the Breen, as the Dominion War, fought between the Dominion and the Federation Alliance in the Alpha Quadrant, grew to a stalemate. After several subspace communications, Gor agreed to the proposed alliance and served as the Confederacy's first representative to the Dominion, foreseeing an opportunity for conquest as a share of the defeated Federation Alliance. Gor traveled to Cardassia Prime to sign the treaty between their governments. En route, his ship captured Lieutenant Commander Worf and Ezri Dax, who had been stranded on a planet in the Goralis system. Gor decided to bring them as a gift to the Dominion when he boarded Weyoun 7's attack ship to meet Weyoun, Damar, and the Female Changeling. ()
With the addition of the Breen forces, the balance of power in the war was shifted to the Dominion's benefit, and, for that, Thot Gor was given a lot of favor. He negotiated a secret protocol in the treaty for territorial concessions from Cardassia as well as access to all Cardassian databases, each over Damar's protest. He oversaw the Breen forces, and also was given authority on all military recommendations, including from Damar. This incensed Damar greatly.
Gor went to work right away, recommending taking advantage of several weak points on the Romulan border, including the Unroth system. He also ordered a daring Breen attack on Earth. He later oversaw the Second Battle of Chin'toka, which was a remarkable victory for the Dominion. ()
Through these successes, Gor had an even closer relationship with Weyoun and subtly insulted Damar. Damar warned Gor that the Breen would be blamed, just as Cardassia currently was, for any failures. Gor defiantly did not expect any failures to happen. He also intrigued Weyoun – for example, by saying that was not particularly cold but then not revealing to him the real reason for refrigeration suits which the Breen soldiers wore at all times.
Gor watched, along with Weyoun and the Female Changeling, as Damar sent out a transmission calling for the beginning of the Cardassian Liberation Front. Gor was subsequently tasked with finding Damar, no matter the cost. ()
Following the retaking of Chin'toka, Gor was succeeded by Thot Pran as commander of the Breen forces. ()
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Thot Gor was played by Todd Slayton.
In the first draft script of , Gor communicated that he didn't care if Weyoun 8 was the last of the Weyoun clones, though this doesn't happen in the final version of the episode.
According to the final draft script for "The Changing Face of Evil", the pronunciation for Thot Gor's title and name was "THOUGHT GORE (like )".
Gor was present in the first draft script of "Tacking Into the Wind", though Pran had replaced him in that part by the time the final draft of the teleplay was written. However, Gor's name remained in the script's cast list.
It is unknown exactly what happened to Gor and why Pran succeeded him. According to Todd Slayton, Gor's abrupt exit was because he appeared "too skinny to be a supreme leader." According to StarTrek.com, Pran was simply "an associate of Thot Gor".
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Gor's mirror universe appeared in the Rise Like Lions.
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The Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force expansion pack is an add-on to the earlier of the two Elite Force games, Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force. It was created by Raven Software and published by Activision in .
The pack added three main features to the game. The first was a voice pack that added Jeri Ryan to the main game as Seven of Nine - the original featured a replacement voice artist, Joan Buddenhagen.
The second feature was a "Virtual Voyager" sub-game, accessed separately from the main game, but taking place shortly before the game's final level. It allowed players to explore various decks of the starship, in great detail – accurately portraying areas of the ship seen on the televised series, but also expanding on the Elite Force universe as well. Areas that could be explored included main engineering, bridge, mess hall, sickbay, astrometrics, and the cargo bay. The "aim" of the sub-game was to find various hidden objects and achieve objectives, while giving the player an opportunity to interact with characters – including the main cast – and use certain ship functions, such as the landing struts, the holodeck (where you could use a new weapon, the Captain Proton ray gun), transporters and others. It also provided a sort of "history" (in the form of log entries) as to what happened during the formation of the Hazard Team.
The layout of Voyager shown in the sub-game differs slightly from that established in the series. For example, Harry Kim's quarters are established as being on Deck 6 in , while in the sub-game they are on Deck 2 (together with the quarters of Neelix and Alexander Munro). In addition, some decks are only partially accessible, with others completely inaccessible.
The final feature added more multiplayer maps and playing modes.
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Septimus III was the inhabited third planet in the Septimus system, in the Alpha Quadrant. The headquarters of the Cardassian Eleventh Order was located on this planet.
The planet was attacked by the Klingon Empire in late 2375, near the end of the Dominion War. The Klingons landed fifteen divisions, wiping out the Eleventh Order. According to Weyoun, this meant the Klingons had expended valuable resources to capture a strategically worthless planet. However, the Klingon victory ended up costing the Dominion heavily nonetheless because the nonchalance of Weyoun sacrificing the 500,000 men strong Eleventh Order was the final indignity that caused Legate Damar to instigate the Cardassian Rebellion. ()
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Monac IV was the fourth planet in the Monac star system, in Cardassian space. It was where the Dominion's Monac shipyards were located.
In 2375, the shipyards were a crucial production facility for the Dominion effort to retake the Chin'toka system. An entire Klingon fleet attempted to advance on Monac IV, but was repelled with casualties estimated at thirty percent. ()
Shortly after, the Klingon Bird-of-Prey , under the command of General Martok, destroyed the shipyards by triggering a solar flare that engulfed the installation. ()
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The Groumall was a freighter that was in service with the Cardassian military in the late 24th century. Gul Dukat was assigned command of the Groumall after he was demoted for bringing his illegitimate daughter, Tora Ziyal, back to Cardassia Prime. Glinn Damar also served on board as the first officer.
In 2372, the Groumall transported Major Kira Nerys from Deep Space 9 to Korma. Upon arriving at Korma, they found the outpost destroyed, and were thereafter confronted by the Klingon Bird-of-Prey, commanded by K'Temang, that was responsible for the attack. Dukat attempted to confront the Bird-of-Prey, but the Klingons declined to attack such a helpless vessel.
After the encounter, Dukat and Kira mounted a system-5 disruptor from Korma's planetary defense system inside the Groumalls cargo hold and followed K'Temang to Loval. The disruptor fired effectively on the Bird-of-Prey, but the freighter was itself severely damaged when the Klingons returned fire. After beaming aboard the Bird-of-Prey, Kira managed to switch the crews of the two ships via transporter, and Dukat then used the Bird-of-Prey's weapons to destroy the Groumall with the Klingons aboard. ()
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According to the script for this episode, the pronunciation for Groumall was "gru-MAL".
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The RPG sourcebook gives its registry as CUF-2700.
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Iloja of Prim was a Cardassian serialist poet who lived during the around the first half of the 23rd century. Jadzia Dax regarded Iloja of Prim as her favorite Cardassian author.
One of the previous hosts, Tobin, met Iloja when the author was in exile on . He noted that Iloja had "quite a temper". ()
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According to the , Iloja was pronounced as "ILL-oh-zha".
Although we do not know why or when Iloja was exiled, it must have occurred sometime during the lifetime of Tobin Dax, i.e., after the death of Lela Dax in 2226, but before Emony Dax would encounter Leonard McCoy sometime in the 2240s.
According to The Autobiography of Mr. Spock his full name was Ghett Iloja and he was a friend of Spock's family during his time on Vulcan.
The novel Uncertain Logic claims that Prim is a district on Cardassia, while The Autobiography of Mr. Spock says it is an artist's community on Vulcan.
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Nanpart Malor was a Cardassian artist who the Valonnan School art movement.
Tora Ziyal's drawings bore elements of his style, according to both the director of the Cardassian Institute of Art and her father, Gul Dukat. ()
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Preloc was a Cardassian author who wrote the classic novel Meditations on a Crimson Shadow. ()
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Shoggoth was a Cardassian novelist who wrote many noted enigma tale mysteries.
In 2371, Elim Garak gave Julian Bashir a holosuite program featuring an of one of Shoggoth's enigma tales as an early birthday . ()
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Danar was a Cardassian military officer serving during the late-24th century.
By the year 2369, he had achieved the rank of gul and served as commander of the warship Aldara.
Later that year, Danar was ordered to apprehend the Bajoran Kohn-Ma terrorist Tahna Los, who he pursued to Deep Space 9. Danar demanded that Commander Sisko hand over Tahna to him, but Sisko denied his request to consider Tahna's application for political asylum.
In order to speak with Tahna in private, Sisko ordered Operations Chief Miles O'Brien to put Danar and his ship through lengthy "docking regulations", much to Danar's frustration.
After Sisko had granted Tahna's request for asylum, an angry Danar left Deep Space 9 for Cardassian space, however, he was later contacted by Sisko for help in apprehending the , which Tahna had hijacked and equipped with a bilitrium-based explosive device hoping it would destroy the Bajoran wormhole. Danar ordered his ship to intercept the runabout but not before trying to tell Sisko he was right about Tahna. ()
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Danar was played by veteran Star Trek actor Vaughn Armstrong in his second of many appearances. Armstrong later went on to play another Cardassian, Seskal, in the seventh season episodes and .
Armstrong recalled playing his Cardassian roles in a 2002 interview; ""One of the nice things is that you get to put on all that makeup, and suddenly you have a Cardassian neck, for instance, that looks like it's been straining with tension for fifty million years. [...] That gives you some idea where they're coming from. I tend to start with the Human behind the mask, then allow the mask to take its effect."
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In the Pocket DS9 Fearful Symmetry, the Obsidian Order discovers that Danar bears a resemblance to several Humans, Klingons, and Romulans and considers him a candidate to undergo surgical operations with the aim of making him an operative. Danar refuses, but Entek considers him, and other Guls, to lack the subtlety required for Obsidian Order operations anyway. This is likely an in-joke, referring to the many roles played by Vaughn Armstrong.
He also appears in the novel The Big Game, set in 2370, when he returns to the station after it is believed some Bajoran factions have been attacking Cardassian ships.
Danar is also mentioned in the video game Dominion Wars, in which he can be selected as a Cardassian ship commander. The game also notes that after the incident with Tahna Los, Danar was reported by Doctor Julian Bashir as a typical xenophobic member of the Cardassian military. It also makes reference to a Klingon Imperial Intelligence record that states he served with distinction during the Klingon-Cardassian War and it is also known that he was a strong supporter of Cardassia's alliance with the Dominion. Despite his xenophobia, the game states he works well with the Jem'Hadar and during the Dominion War it was believed he was assigned to one of the reactivated Tonga-class blockade runners.
The Star Trek Customizable Card Game refers to Danar as an "irascible gul". It also notes he was a fan of vole fighting and had engineering, navigation and astrophysics experience.
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Gul Ranor was a Cardassian officer, commander of the warship Kraxon in the 2370s.
In 2371, Ranor's warship was the closest in pursuit of the after it was stolen by the Maquis. After Maquis leader Thomas Riker agreed to surrender, Ranor was ordered to protect the Defiant by extending his ship's shields against two warships fielded by the Obsidian Order. ()
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Lemec was a Cardassian gul and commanding officer of the warship Reklar. In 2369, Lemec was the Cardassian representative in negotiations with the Federation, represented by Captain Edward Jellico. The Federation suspected that the Cardassians were planning on seizing some disputed planets in Federation territory along their mutual border. When Jellico pointed out the Cardassians were building up ships along the border, Lemec retorted that they were simply conducting training exercises.
Lemec was involved in the plot to kidnap Captain Jean-Luc Picard in order to obtain information on Starfleet ship deployments for the defense of Minos Korva. During later negotiations, Lemec informed Starfleet that Picard had been captured on Celtris III. Lemec offered to release Picard into Federation custody and forget about the incident in exchange for an immediate withdrawal of all Federation ships from the sector surrounding Minos Korva; a proposal which was rejected by Starfleet. Jellico subsequently discovered that Lemec and his fleet were hiding in the McAllister C-5 Nebula, from where they were preparing an attack on the disputed territories. Lemec's ship and the rest of the Cardassian fleet were mined by a shuttlecraft piloted by William T. Riker. After laying the mines, Captain Jellico ordered Gul Lemec to retreat after ejecting their phaser coils and have Picard returned. With no other choice, Lemec agreed; his fleet left the nebula and he personally retrieved Picard from the custody of Gul Madred. ()
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In the The Battle of Betazed, Lemec was the commander of the Cardassian forces that helped the Jem'Hadar conquer the planet. They were building a Cardassian space station similar to Terok Nor and Lemec hoped to be the Prefect of Betazed, as Dukat had been of Bajor. Lemec was captured during the liberation of the planet. Lemec was also in the Tales of the Dominion War story "The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned". Lwaxana Troi and other Betazoids sensed Lemec's elation over Cardassia's penetration that far into Federation Territory.
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Quark's Bar, Grill, Gaming House and Holosuite Arcade, or Quark's Bar and Holding Company (commonly known simply as Quark's), was a popular recreational facility located on the space station Deep Space 9.
Overview
"Come to Quark's, Quark's is fun, come right now, don't walk – run!"
- advertising jingle, 2372 ()
Quark's was the multi-level, vibrant and popular central attraction of Deep Space 9's Promenade, drawing crowds of travelers and station inhabitants with its offerings of drink, food, gossip, gaming and fantasy fulfillment. The proprietor of the establishment was Quark, a Ferengi entrepreneur and sometimes petty criminal who was the eternal thorn in the side of the station's Chief of Security, Odo. Despite his alliances on the wrong side of the law, Quark was a capable and amiable host, and the bar was usually one of the most popular places for recreation on the station.
Business in Quark's was conducted in gold pressed latinum. The bar sometimes featured live music, () and occasionally offered cut-price drinks during happy hour. () The ambient noise level was typically 65 decibels; when Klingons were in the room, it could go as high as 85 decibels. () According to a very small sign above the main entrance, the establishment was not responsible for the loss of any personal items. () When Rom offered to buy the bar from Quark in 2375, Quark admitted that 5,000 bars of latinum (and not one slip more) was a fair price for it. () As proprietor of the bar, Quark was a member of the Promenade Merchants' Association. ()
When Quark and Rom left the station to visit Ferenginar in 2371, the main entrance to the bar was locked using a tripartite microsealing mechanism devised by Rom, the most convoluted locking device Odo had ever seen. ()
Layout
The establishment occupied a central position on the Promenade, extending over three stories with entrances on at least two. Spiral staircases provided pedestrian access between the different levels, and the central portion of flooring of the second and third levels was cut out with railed balconies overlooking the levels below. According to the station's computer, Quark's was located on Level 7, Section 5. ()
Level 1 – The main entrance to Quark's was on Level 1, together with the bar, various gambling tables and a number of tables and chairs where customers could sit and enjoy their beverages. The main entrance, bar and gambling area were brightly lit, while lighting in the periphery was more subdued so as to provide a degree of privacy for the business deals and covert exchanges that occurred there.
Levels 2 and 3 – The upper levels provided more tables and seating and housed the holosuite arcade. There was also a second-level entrance from the Promenade.
The inside of Quark's was dominated by a large distinctive yellow and red mural and decorative brass poles that extended up through the cut-out section of all three levels. Part of the mural also served as the bar's logo and was sometimes displayed on information screens embedded into the walls of two large open windows looking out over the Promenade on Level 1.
If necessary, a large viewscreen could be placed in front of the mural so sporting events, like racquetball, could be observed by patrons in the bar. ()
Quark's had a store room where stocks of drink and food for the bar were kept. The door was secured with a pulsatel lockseal, and although staff were not supposed to enter without Quark's permission, Rom admitted in 2370 that he had managed to open the door without using the desealer on a number of occasions. There was also a latinum floor vault, in which takings from the day's business were secured; Rom admitted having also broken into the floor vault while Quark was away, by using magnasite drops to dissolve through the duranium plating. ()
Behind the bar
A large number of drinks and brightly colored drinking glasses were stored behind the bar, along with two replicators, a computer access terminal, and a selection of isolinear rods containing programs for use in the holosuites upstairs.
Quark also kept a number of (presumably stolen) security rods behind the bar, which he used to tap into secure information in the station's computer; he had managed to acquire even higher clearance level access than Odo. ()
Occasionally, a computer display located behind the bar and directly above the drinks replicator would display the English word "QUARK'S". The word would scroll from left to right across the screen. A similar screen was sometimes seen on the wall to the left of the main entrance on Level 1. ()
Food and drink
A range of foods and beverages was served at Quark's. Most of the food was replicated, while the drinks were either replicated or came fresh from bottles kept behind the bar. Quark also kept a private stock of drinks, which included Maraltian Seev-ale and Aldebaran whiskey. ()
When the replicators broke down in 2369, Quark managed to sustain his business by breaking into a crew quarters and using the replicator there to produce food and drink for his customers. Unfortunately, the replicator had been booby-trapped to spread the Aphasia virus, and his efforts inadvertently lead to the spread of the virus through the station's population. ()
Quark was often hired to cater events and meetings on the station, particularly in the wardroom, where he provided food and drinks together with a waiter service; he charged by the head for such events. () He also indulged in culinary experimentation from time to time, resulting in creations of varying success: Chief Miles O'Brien branded the short-lived "Quarktajino" (a decaffeinated version of famous Klingon coffee, raktajino) "poison", while the "Kai Winn" chocolate soufflé was very popular. ()
Known foods and beverages available at Quark's
Foods:
Altair sandwich
Alterian chowder
Azna
Bacon
Bajoran shrimp
'Kai Winn' chocolate soufflé
Corned beef hash
Couscous
Eggs
Fondue
Gramilian sand peas
Groatcakes
Haligian tongue sauce
Hasperat
I'danian spice pudding
Jumbo Romulan mollusks
Jumbo Vulcan mollusks
Kohlanese stew
Linguine
Lokar beans
Lorvan crackers
Mapa bread
Puree of beetle
Rhombolian butter
Steak
Syrup of squill
Tube grubs
Uttaberry crêpes
Vak clover soup
Yamok sauce
Beverages:
Aldebaran whiskey
Alvanian brandy
Andolian brandy
Andorian ale
Bajoran ale
Beer
Bloodwine
Brandy
Breshtanti ale
Cardassian ale
Deka tea
Eelwasser
Enyak's milk
Fanalian toddy
Gamzian wine
Kanar
Kandora champagne
Karvino juice
Kava juice
Langour
Maparian ale
Maraltian Seev-ale
Modela aperitif
Prosecco
Prune juice
Quarktajino (discontinued)
Raktajino
Romulan ale
Root beer
Samarian sunset
Saurian brandy
Silken sunrise
Silven surprise
Slug-o-Cola
Snail juice
Springwine
Stardrifter
Starduster
Synthale
Synthehol
Takarian mead
Til'amin froth
Tranya
Trixian bubble juice
Voodai
Vulcan port
Whelan Bitters
Yridian ale
Gaming
Quark's also operated as a casino, which accepted both gold-pressed latinum and gambling tokens as gaming tender; in rare occasions, Quark was known to issue credit vouchers. (; )
A number of gaming tables were located on Level 1, the most prominent of which was dabo. The spinning of the dabo wheel and cries of "Dabo!" were familiar background noises in Quark's. In 2373, an alien visitor was caught manipulating the dabo wheel using a graviton emitter hidden in a ring on his hand to allow his associate to win the game. ()
Games of tongo were occasionally played, () and a dartboard was installed at the insistence of Miles O'Brien. () Other alien games were also brought to the bar from time to time, like chula (), and Quark was warned on several occasions against attempting to stage illegal Cardassian vole fights. () Dabo girl Leeta suggested in 2373 that if she was in charge, Quark's would have three dom-jot tables and two Prayko alleys. ()
Quark regularly ran betting pools, including taking bets on a fight between Benjamin Sisko and Q, () springball and darts matches between Julian Bashir and Miles O'Brien, () the outcomes of Odo's security investigations, () the time of return of Worf and Ezri Dax to the station after they were kidnapped by the Breen, () and Bajoran elections for the new Kai. When she took command of the station in 2375, Colonel Kira Nerys made all betting pools illegal. ()
Holosuites
The upper levels of Quark's housed an arcade of at least six holosuites since 2363. () Credit for use of the holosuites could be purchased at the bar, as could a number of enticing holographic programs.
The holosuites were often used by visitors to Quark's for programs of an adult (sensual, and even sexual) nature, while residents of the station and members of its crew used them for more benign recreations. Chief Miles O'Brien regularly went kayaking in the holosuites (sometimes accompanied by Odo), ( et al.) while Doctor Julian Bashir enjoyed playing the lead in a series of holonovels about a British secret agent. (, et al.) O'Brien and Bashir eventually combined their love of holoprograms and spent hours together in the holosuites recreating old Earth battles such as the Battle of Britain and the Battle of the Alamo. (, et al.)
In an effort to exercise Major Kira's under-developed imagination, Jadzia Dax took her to the holosuites several times, where they recreated the Hoobishan Baths on and Camelot from Earth mythology. Worf and Jadzia shared a number of Klingon exercise programs and historical recreations. (, et al.) Program Bashir 62, Vic's lounge featuring Vic Fontaine, was very popular with the station's command crew throughout late 2374 and 2375. (, et al.) In 2369, a murder took place in Holosuite 4, the murder of Ibudan. () Kor often visited the holosuite to play the Battle of Klach D'kel Brakt, a battle in which he had been victorious over the Romulans in 2271. One time, Kor was playing this battle but Odo arrested him for being drunk in public, and he and Quark sent him off to the drunk tank to sleep it off. ()
Quark claimed that the only person on the station who could keep his holosuites in working order was his brother Rom. Because Quark did not allow him to buy new components, Rom found it necessary to patch the holosuites' circuitry using components salvaged from all over the station, including such diverse items as cooking utensils and Starfleet LCARS interface panels. Rom's expertise with the holosuites turned out to be instrumental in the rescue of the senior crew in 2372, after their transporter patterns were dumped into one of Bashir's secret agent programs. () After Rom left Quark's employ and started to work on the station's engineering crew, maintenance of the holosuites suffered due to Rom's busy schedule. Captain Sisko was injured by a plasma burst in one of the holosuites in 2373, due to its poor state of repair. ()
Staff
The staff of Quark's fell into two groups: waiters and dabo girls. The waiters were mostly Ferengi, while the dabo girls were hired mainly for their alluring physical appearance, useful in distracting punters at the dabo wheel.
Quark believed in Rule of Acquisition #211 – "Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them". The staff of Quark's were strictly forbidden to leave the premises during working hours, and were given no sick days, no vacations, and no paid overtime. () The dabo girls were required to give Quark twenty percent of their tips, and he also expected sexual favors from them. ()
The staff became so disgruntled with the way they were treated that in 2372, under the leadership of Rom, they broke Ferengi law and formed a union to demand better employment terms. The union, known as the Guild of Restaurant and Casino Employees, staged a strike, forcing Quark to replace the staff with temperamental holographic waiters. The union was disbanded after Quark eventually agreed to meet their demands. ()
Employees of Quark's
Rom worked as a waiter and also occasionally as a pit boss on the gambling tables. He was promoted to the position of Assistant Manager of Policy and Clientele in mid-2369, and later left Quark's to join the station's engineering crew following the strike action of 2372. He returned to this position in 2373 after the Dominion took control of the station following the Second Battle of Deep Space 9. () Nog worked as a waiter but left in early 2372 to attend Starfleet Academy, determined to make a better life for himself. () Rom and dabo girl Leeta grew attracted to one another and eventually married. ()
Patrons
Morn
"When Morn leaves, it's all over."
- unofficial Rule of Acquisition #286, suggested by Quark in 2371 ()
Of all the visitors and customers ever to patronize Quark's, one stood (or rather, sat) proudly as the most loyal, most popular, and biggest spender of them all – resident barfly Morn. He was almost always to be found perched at the bar and became such a mascot of Quark's that when he left on business in 2374, Quark was forced to install a holographic version of him to keep the other customers happy. Morn paid his bar bill at the end of every month, which – according to Quark – was a substantial amount of money. ()
Morn faked his own death in 2374 as part of a scam to rid himself of a number of unsavory claimants to his estate, namely his accomplices from the Lissepian Mother's Day Heist. Quark was unwittingly drawn into the ruse, and a memorial service was held in Quark's to which many of the station's inhabitants brought gifts for the departed, a Lurian tradition. In an attempt to compensate for the loss of the bar's mascot, Quark started the tradition of "keeping Morn's seat warm", in which customers were urged to ensure that Morn's favorite bar stool was never unoccupied. Morn later returned to the bar after Quark, at considerable peril, managed to escape the clutches of Morn's associates and they were arrested. ()
Notable visitors
Notable visitors to Quark's included:
Harry Kim and Tom Paris – crew members of the visited Quark's in 2371 while the starship was docked at the station shortly before its disappearance in the Badlands. Kim almost fell victim to Quark's persuasive sales technique but was rescued by Paris. ()
Kor, Koloth and Kang – three of the Klingon Empire's most notable warriors came to Quark's in 2370 to rendezvous with their old friend Dax and carry out a sworn blood oath. () Kor returned on two further occasions and liked to recreate legendary Klingon battles in the holosuites. ()
Lewis Zimmerman – the famed holo-programmer visited Deep Space 9 in 2373 in order to use Doctor Julian Bashir as the template for a Long-term Medical Holographic program. While visiting Quark's, he became enamored with Leeta and later asked her to return with him to Jupiter Station. ()
Lwaxana Troi – the Betazoid ambassador first visited Quark's as part of a delegation of Federation Ambassadors in 2369. While there, her latinum hair brooch was stolen by a Dopterian; Odo intervened, and Lwaxana became infatuated with him. The pair later became close friends, and in 2372 they married as part of a plan to free Lwaxana's unborn child from the clutches of its Tavnian father; Quark threw a party in the bar for the happy couple and their wedding guests. ()
Natima Lang – the noted professor, old flame of Quark's and member of the Cardassian Underground visited the bar in 2370 with several of her students while on the run from the Central Command. ()
Nilva – the Ferengi Commerce Authority commissioner and Slug-o-Cola chairman dined with Quark in the bar in 2374. Quark was posing as a female, Lumba, at the time, part of a plan to help temporarily deposed Grand Nagus Zek regain his position. ()
Rionoj – a Boslic freighter captain and notorious smuggler, whose feminine wiles and questionable goods got Quark into trouble on several occasions. ()
Tosk – Deep Space 9's first visitor from the Gamma Quadrant spent some time in Quark's with Miles O'Brien, where he found Alpha Quadrant species' behavior puzzling. ()
Vash and Q – the dubious archaeologist partnered with Quark to auction a collection of exotic artifacts brought back from her travels in the Gamma Quadrant when she returned through the wormhole in 2369. She was trailed by Q, who staged some of his usual tricks in the bar and then outbid Quark's clients at the auction. ()
William and Thomas Riker – Will Riker visited Quark's in 2370. He spent a couple of hours there and was loaned three strips of latinum by Jadzia Dax when his winning streak at the dabo wheel ended; by the time he left he had all of Quark's latinum and a date with one of the dabo girls. Unable to pay Riker's dabo winnings, Quark gave him instead credit vouchers redeemable only at his establishment. This event was recalled by Thomas Riker, posing as Will, when he visited Deep Space 9 in 2371. Thomas met Kira Nerys in Quark's during his visit. (, )
Zek – the Ferengi Grand Nagus visited Quark's on a number of occasions, most notably in 2369 when he pretended to name Quark as his successor, again in 2374 during his temporary disposition as Nagus, and in 2375 when he returned to the bar once again to name his successor (this time for real, and this time it was Rom). ()
History
Terok Nor
Although a vibrant, happy and colorful place during Starfleet's tenure on the station, the atmosphere in Quark's wasn't always so affable and lighthearted. Quark opened (or assumed ownership of) the bar some time prior to 2363, during the latter years of the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor, when the station was under Cardassian control and was known as "Terok Nor". Under the command of Gul Dukat, the station operated as a refinery for uridium ore and was populated by Bajorans enslaved in the ore processing center and their arrogant Cardassian overseers. While the Bajorans existed in squalor in a ghetto zone on the Promenade, the Cardassian soldiers laughed, gambled, drank and lauded it up in the bar and holosuites at Quark's.
When another bar and gaming facility, Club Martus, opened in 2370, Quark claimed to have had an agreement with the Cardassians stating that all gambling on the station was to take place at Quark's. Commander Sisko, station commander, did not recognize such a monopolistic agreement, stating that a few bribes to the Cardassians did not constitute an agreement. ()
While the station was under Cardassian supervision, Quark did what he could to earn a profit, but was not blind to the plight of those around him. He sometimes hired Bajorans to perform menial tasks for a few slips of latinum, and sold black market goods to those who could pay. He was known to put a little extra into food parcels and was even described by Vaatrik Pallra (a Bajoran woman who lived on Terok Nor) as kind.
Old adversaries Quark and Odo first met in Quark's in 2365. () Odo questioned Quark about an alibi that he had been paid to provide by Kira Nerys, who was at that time part of the Bajoran Resistance. After failing to tempt Odo into buying a drink or spending some time in the holosuites, Quark – realizing that this was the shapeshifter he had heard about from the Cardassians – tried to convince the Constable to perform the Cardassian neck trick for the entertainment of the bar's patrons. ()
Following an accident in 2373, Sisko, Odo, Garak and Dax were drawn into a telepathically mediated version of the Great Link, in which they relived events from Odo's memory of life on Terok Nor in 2366. In the shared vision, Sisko, Odo and Garak spent a day working as low-paid Bajoran cleaners in Quark's. ()
In 2369, the Cardassians withdrew from Bajor and Terok Nor was ransacked, stripped of anything valuable, and then abandoned. Four Promenade merchants were killed during the carnage and, fearful that the change in government on the planet below would put them in danger, Quark and his staff packed up their belongings and prepared to leave. ()
Federation control
In the aftermath of the Cardassian withdrawal, the Bajoran Provisional Government invited Starfleet to take over administration of the station. Desperately in need of a way to bind the station's remaining inhabitants together and transform it from a place of suffering and slavery into one of peace and prosperity, new station commander Benjamin Sisko persuaded Quark to stay and re-open the bar, effectively becoming a community leader. Sisko had Nog in custody at the time for looting on the damaged Promenade and used the Ferengi tradition of plea bargaining to negotiate co-operation from Quark in exchange for Nog's release. Quark's duly re-opened and soon filled the Promenade with the sound of laughter and music; the newly christened "Deep Space 9" had found its heart. ()
The bar and its proprietor soon became accustomed to life under Starfleet governance, though Quark did sometimes try to bend the rules. In 2372, he used an encryption program to bypass the access protocols on the station's computer monitors so that he could use them to display animated advertisements for the bar. However, the program also spilled to the , causing its replicators to produce beverages in "Quark's"-themed mugs (which also sounded out the animated advertisements), much to Lieutenant Commander Worf's vexation. ()
The lease on Quark's was held by the Federation, but they did not charge Quark any rent, nor did they ask him to reimburse them for the cost of maintenance or the drain on the station's power supply. During the strike organized by Rom's Guild of Restaurant and Casino Employees in 2372, Captain Sisko threatened to bill Quark for five years' worth of these outstanding charges unless he agreed to talk to his brother and hammer out an agreement. ()
Despite the occasional run-ins with authority, Quark's was an integral and successful part of Deep Space 9. Quark himself even celebrated when Bajor's petition to join the Federation was accepted in 2373, and a celebration was held in the bar. Quark expected Bajor's admittance to the Federation to be good for business, predicting sales of root beer to increase fivefold and the bar to be "busier than an Alvanian beehive." ()
Troubled waters
"First it was the Cardassians. Then it was the Dominion. Now it's the Klingons! How's a Ferengi supposed to make an honest living in a place like this?!"
- Quark, 2372 ()
Navigating the waters of the Great Material Continuum can be difficult, and Quark's went through its share of turbulent times.
Business was disrupted by occasional infestations of voles and tribbles, and by the need for the station's engineering crew to make repairs. () More serious disruptions were experienced in 2370 during mass evacuations triggered by a siege by the Bajoran Alliance for Global Unity and later a violent plasma storm (), and in 2372 when the station was attacked by Klingon forces. ()
A rival gambling establishment, Club Martus, was opened by El-Aurian Martus Mazur in 2370, causing Quark's to lose a good number of its customers; Rom even defected to work in the new club. However, the club was shut down when alien gambling devices being used there wreaked havoc on the station. After Mazur was arrested for swindling an elderly couple, Quark agreed to pay his bail on condition that he leave the station and never return. ()
The Bajoran Time of Cleansing, a month-long ritual of abstention from worldly pleasures practiced by the Bajoran people, was a particularly difficult time at Quark's. In 2372, the strain on the bar's profits was so great that Quark decided to cut the staff's pay. This act triggered the formation of the Guild of Restaurant and Casino Employees, and the ensuing strike caused havoc for Quark (for more information see Staff, above).
In late 2372, Quark broke a contract with Liquidator Brunt and in the process violated Ferengi law. In response, the Ferengi Commerce Authority revoked Quark's Ferengi business license, seized all of his assets, and stripped the bar bare. On the brink of ruin, Quark was rescued by the one thing the FCA couldn't take away from him – his friends on the station. Dax, Bashir, Sisko, Morn and even Odo donated and loaned glasses, drinks and furniture so that the bar could be reopened. ()
Business continued, though Quark was banned from trading or working with any other Ferengi. The waiters were replaced by members of other species including Bolians and Yridians, and FCA notices were displayed by the main entrance to inform all visitors of the ban. (, et al.) After months of difficult trading under the ban, and when almost every asset he possessed had been wiped out, Quark began to work with a weapons dealer named Hagath at the suggestion of his cousin . Quark displayed holographic recreations of weapons in the bar's holosuites and entertained Hagath's clients, earning enough latinum to repay all of his debts. However, business in the bar suffered terribly as Quark's customers learnt of what he was doing. Swayed by his conscience, Quark eventually betrayed Hagath and stepped out of the arms business, after which custom at the bar began to return to normal. () Quark's Ferengi business license was eventually reinstated in late 2373, after he assisted Brunt in a scheme to keep his mother, Ishka, away from Grand Nagus Zek. ()
During the Second Battle of Deep Space 9 at the end of 2373, Starfleet withdrew from the station, and it was abandoned to the Dominion. () The station reverted to its Cardassian designation of Terok Nor and remained under Cardassian-Dominion occupation for around five months. Although Quark's was stripped of root beer and stocked up with yamok sauce and kanar, it remained open and was relatively unaffected by the change in administration. Rom returned to his role of Assistant Manager of Policy and Clientele as a cover while he committed acts of sabotage against the Dominion. Damar became a regular customer at the bar, and Quark plied him with kanar and then passed information, which he let slip while drunk, to a resistance movement formed by Kira Nerys. The bar was heavily damaged during a massive brawl between Cardassian and Jem'Hadar soldiers, triggered by the machinations of the resistance. Starfleet eventually took back the station in 2374, and old regulars Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir booked a holosuite almost the minute they set foot back on the station. (–)
Gatherings and celebrations
"We are not getting married in this bar!"
- Worf, overruled, 2374 ()
Quark's hosted a number of gatherings over the years. In 2369, the bar was closed temporarily while it played host to an extradition hearing for Jadzia Dax after the symbiont was accused of murder; Quark was coerced into surrendering the bar by Odo, who threatened to enforce Bajoran regulations that would mean moving a wall by five meters, closing the holosuites and moving the bar counter unless Quark complied. () Later the same year, a funeral service was held for Zek in the bar after the Nagus faked his own death; similarly, a memorial service was also held in the bar after Morn faked his own death in 2374. () Several auctions were held in Quark's, () and Nog sold his boyhood treasures there prior to his departure for Starfleet Academy in 2372. ()
Quark threw a party in the bar for Odo and Lwaxana Troi following their marriage of convenience in 2372, () and a celebratory gathering following the acceptance of Bajor's petition to join the Federation in 2373. () Worf's bachelor party was staged in the holosuites over four days in 2374, followed by the wedding ceremony of Worf and Jadzia in the bar below. () Impromptu baseball team the Niners celebrated in Quark's following their match against the Logicians in 2375, () and later that year a party to mark the end of the war and bid farewell to several of the senior staff was held in Vic's lounge in the holosuites. ()
The last outpost
"The line has to be drawn here. This far, and no further!"
- Quark, 2375 ()
During the time that Quark spent tending the bar, change was rife on Ferenginar. Under the direction of Ishka, Grand Nagus Zek instituted a raft of reforms that changed Ferengi society, including progressive income tax, wage subsidies for the poor, retirement benefits for the aged, labor rights, health care, rights for females, the outlawing of monopolies, tough environmental regulations, and a Congress of Economic Advisors with almost equal power to the Nagus. Quark was horrified to learn of the changes, and when he mistakenly believed that Zek planned to name him the next Nagus in 2375 he decided to turn down the job. When it turned out that Zek would actually be succeeded by Rom, Quark declared that his brother was the perfect Nagus for this new Ferenginar.
Although it was his own family that had instigated (and presided over) the death of the Ferenginar Quark had known and loved, he refused to play any part in it. Ordering M'Pella to rig the Dabo table and Broik to water down the drinks, Quark proclaimed that his bar would be the last outpost of what made Ferenginar great – the unrelenting lust for profit. ()
By 2381, Quark's had become a franchise, with bars on Qualor II and Starbase 25. Another Quark's franchise was located in Stardust City in 2399. (; )
Appendices
Background information
Set
Quark's was the multi-level centerpiece of the massive Promenade set on Paramount Stage 17, a permanent set that occupied the entire sound stage for all seven years of filming for . In the series production "bible" written by executive producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller during development of the series in 1992, Quark's was described as follows: "The interstellar place to meet and drink. A dramatic three-story set featuring exotic beverages from around the galaxy, "honest" gambling, and the infamous sexual holosuites upstairs." The holosuites became so "infamous", in fact, that publicists for the show – concerned about Star Treks reputation – clamped down on the practice of referring to them as "sexual", instructing writers for the series not to do so. (The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
David Livingston explained that the set for Quark's was very different to the Ten Forward set. "It's a lot more complicated and difficult to shoot in," he said. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 23, No. 6, p. 25)
The second-level entrance to Quark's was not seen during the show's first season, as it had yet to be built. That side of the Promenade set's upper level was not finished until the hiatus between the first and second seasons, during which the production team added extra width to the upper-level walkways and created the second level entrance to Quark's where previously there had been only a blank gray wall. () The change was first apparent in the second season episode , in a scene in which Grand Nagus Zek sat at a table near the second level entrance in a position where, in the first season, there had not even been a floor. The blank unfinished wall can be seen on screen in several first season episodes, most prominently in and .
The replicators behind the bar were not present in the first few episodes of Season 1, making their first appearance in "Babel" – an episode whose storyline specifically required them. They remained in place for the rest of the series' run, except for when the set was redressed for the Terok Nor flashback sequences of when the replicators were removed and the characteristic mural was replaced with a black banner bearing the symbol of the Cardassian Union. For the Terok Nor sequences of , the mural was again replaced with the black banner and Cardassian Union symbol but the replicators were left in place.
The set was redressed for its appearances in the mirror universe episodes and . On these occasions, the shelves behind the bar were backlit in green and red instead of the usual white and the mural was replaced with a black banner bearing the symbol of the mirror universe Klingon-Cardassian Alliance.
Star Trek archivist Penny Juday examined some of the props used in Quark's in a special feature entitled "Secrets of Quark's Bar" on the DS9 Season 1 DVD, including the regularly seen square glasses, which were actually candle holders turned upside-down.
The final dialogue of the series, in finale , was spoken by Quark to Morn at the bar, before the closing sequence panning out from the upper level of the Promenade through one of the windows into space.
Name
Quark's was referred to as "Quark's Place" in early development and pre-production material, including in the internal series production "bible". (The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) On the Promenade directory set decoration, it was listed as "Quark's Bar". () However, it was referred to consistently in the scripts simply as "Quark's", (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion - A Series Guide and Script Library) and this practice was maintained in spoken dialogue on screen. The full title was originally "Quark's Bar and Holding Company", referred to as such in , but by the full title was, as spoken by Quark, "Quark's Bar, Grill, Gaming House and Holosuite Arcade".
A scene in the script but not in the final episode of had a frustrated Quark musing that he should rename the bar "Cursed Quark's".
Outside Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
As well as regular appearances in Deep Space Nine novels and fan fiction, the bar was seen in the pilot episode of , , along with cameo appearances by Armin Shimerman as Quark, Mark Allen Shepherd as Morn, and David B. Levinson as the waiter Broik.
The Promenade and Quark's were rendered as a detailed, fully three-dimensional environment for the video game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen, with the player free to run around the first and second levels of Quark's and the rest of the Promenade as seen on the TV series. Quark was present and could be interacted with (voiced by Armin Shimerman himself), and Rom (in his Bajoran engineering crew uniform) and Morn could also be seen (both non-interactive).
Quark's also provided a natural template for the bar and restaurant at Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. The restaurant was known as "Quark's Bar and Restaurant" and served several dishes and drinks named after those mentioned on the series before it closed in September of 2008, including the steaming fishbowl-like "".
Apocrypha
In the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels, Quark faced ruin and the loss of the bar as Bajor prepared to join the Federation and its moneyless society. Rom, as Grand Nagus, opened diplomatic relations between Ferenginar and Bajor and made Quark's the Ferengi embassy. Since this made Quark's technically Ferengi – rather than Federation – territory, Quark was able to keep his bar running and continue to charge latinum for the services it provided (although Rom naturally avoided giving Quark diplomatic immunity to ensure that he wouldn't go too far). After the station is destroyed in Plagues of Night, Quark briefly opens a new establishment on Bajor until the new station is constructed, leaving the Bajoran bar in the hands of a former Dabo girl while relocating to the new DS9, the new bar opening a few days before the official opening of the station.
The Deep Space Nine novel trilogy Millennium revealed that the large mural in Quark's was installed by Gul Dukat during his time as prefect of Terok Nor during the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor. Dukat was under the impression that it was a painting of a Tholian admiral, but according to Rom it actually depicted a Tellarite phallus. Quark and Rom jokingly toasted the mural and addressed it as "admiral".
Quark's can be visited in the game Star Trek Online, complete with a Dabo table (with a holographic Leeta as the Dabo girl, a product of Quark Enterprises) where players can earn latinum to buy cosmetic holographic emitters for both themselves and their ships. The bar was run by a Ferengi named Hadron until the "Victory is Life" expansion released in June 2018, at which point Quark himself returns to the bar. By this time incredibly wealthy and owning his own moon (much like his cousin had), Quark mentions possibly opening a franchise, with "a Quark's in every quadrant." The advertising jingle from occasionally plays on a monitor on the outside-facing counter behind the bar.
According to the Star Trek: Terok Nor novel Dawn of the Eagles, Quark used the latinum left to him by his father Keldar to open the bar in 2360.
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The Sacred Chalice of Rixx was a Betazoid artifact.
In the 24th century, Lwaxana Troi, daughter of the Fifth House of Betazed, was holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx – something she never failed to mention in formal introductions. (; )
However, in a private conversation between Deanna Troi and Lwaxana in 2366, Deanna stated dismissively that the Sacred Chalice of Rixx was merely "an old clay pot with mold growing inside it." ()
Apocrypha
In the novel Q-in-Law by Peter David, Lwaxana admits, in private conversation with Q, that the Sacred Chalice is a "pointless clay pot," and that caring for it is one of several routines she undertakes to sublimate her anxiety over Deanna serving in deep space with Starfleet.
In the The Sky's the Limit short story "Thinking of You", Lwaxana uses this chalice to clobber attacking s. Reginald Barclay notices the mold prior to that.
According to the short story "The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned" by Keith R.A. DeCandido, collected in the anthology Tales of the Dominion War, the Sacred Chalice of Rixx was destroyed, along with the Holy Rings of Betazed, when Lwaxana Troi's home was leveled during the Dominion invasion of Betazed.
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The Bolians were a humanoid species who were native to the planet Bolarus IX.
Physiology
Bolians were distinctively known for a bifurcating (cartilaginous) ridge running vertically along the center of the head and face, and partway down the chest. Skin color ranged from light green-blue to blue-gray to vivid blue and was occasionally accented with dark blue bands on the head.
Bolian males were completely bald, on average as tall as the average Human male, and were not known for their physical prowess. () Male Bolians have been known to wear toupées on occasion. () Bolian females were predominantly bald. However, there were the occasional few who had hair. (; )
In addition to the ridge on their heads, they were also noted for having cartilaginous lining on their tongues that allowed them to consume foods not normally palatable by other races, including strong acids. () One such example of traditional Bolian cuisine was the consumption of meat that had been allowed to partially decay. ()
The Doctor was particularly interested in the topic of the Bolian digestive system, and put together a piece on the topic in Hints for Healthful Living – a part of the daily morning show, A Briefing with Neelix. ()
Bolian hearts were on the right side of their body. This was where petty officer Zim Brott was shot by the serial killer Chu'lak in 2375. () A Bolian heart could be hooked up to an injured Betelgeusian's heart, a procedure Jett Reno used to keep "Valentine" alive in 2256. ()
When removed from the body, Bolian blood was blue in color. The chemistry of their blood was very different from Vulcans. If a blood transfusion was given from a Vulcan to a Bolian it would result in the death of the Bolian. (; )
Intimate relations between Bolians and Humans typically caused adverse effects to the latter, which might include fatigue, nausea, and joint inflammation. ()
History and politics
The Bolians underwent a period of history known as the Middle Ages. ()
As of 2151, Bolians had encountered Ferengi. ()
By the 23rd century some Bolians served in Starfleet. A Bolian was among the casualties in the crash of the Federation medical frigate in 2256. () Another Bolian, Zier, served on the in 2259. {)
By 2366, the Bolians were maintaining an uneasy truce with the Moropa. ()
By the 24th century, the Bolians were associated with the Federation, with several officers serving in Starfleet in the 2360s and 2370s, including as Academy commandant in 2372, as well as an active Federation ambassador by 2369. (; ) Bolians were among the hundreds of different humanoid species living on Earth as of the 2370s. (; )
Bolian territory was a hotbed between the Federation and the Dominion during the Dominion War. A front was established by the Sixth Fleet in 2374 to prevent Dominion forces from taking the Bolian border and outlying colonies. Starfleet developed a new strategy during the war on the Bolian front which was known as the Bolian Operation. ()
Society and culture
A Bolian medical philosophy on euthanasia was developed during their Middle Ages known as the "double effect" principle. This form of assisted suicide stated that "an action that has the principal effect of relieving suffering may be ethically justified even though the same action has the secondary effect of possibly causing death." ()
Bolian courtship initiation consisted of a male and female Bolian pressing foreheads with eyes closed, while both participants touched the neck of their partner with both hands, placing the fingers where one would check the pulse of a species with a circulatory system similar to that of Humans. () Bolian marriages were sometimes polyamorous. Any additional spouse was referred to as a "co-husband" or "co-wife", respectively. () During a pregnancy, they believed that if one gave birth near a warp core, the experience improved the baby's disposition. ()
Bolian individuals tended to be highly outspoken, even when it was not requested. (, et. al.) Due to the "good nature" personality types often perceived in Bolians, they were often accustomed to working in various service professions. Bolian barbers and waiters were employed aboard the during its mission. (, et al.) Captain Janeway once encountered the personality of an assimilated Bolian manicurist during a discussion with Seven of Nine. () Bolian shop owners and restaurateurs maintained a presence on the Promenade of Deep Space 9. ()
A form of greeting involved extending the hand as if for a Human handshake, but with the palm down and the fingers curved part way. ()
Bolian-written histories of 21st century Earth took special notice of the allegedly poor state of Human plumbing during that time period. ()
Language
The Human name Frederick bore a close resemblance to an impolite Bolian term. ()
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Cuisine
Bolian food, to non-Bolians, sounded very unappetizing (although it was tasty), as in some dishes, preparation involved the use of aged meat. ()
List of foods and beverages
Bolian soufflé
Bolian tomato soup
Bolian tonic water
People
List of Bolians
Alandra (hologram)
Economy and trade
The Bank of Bolias was the primary financial institution of the Bolians and many off-worlders.
Fluctuations in Bolian currency played an important role in Alpha Quadrant trade. In 2371, Quark, the Ferengi trade intermediary between the Karemma and the Federation, discussed Bolian currency fluctuations with Hanok. ()
The Bolians were among many Federation races that took advantage of the starbase Deep Space 9 and the Bajoran wormhole. Bolian vessels frequently conducted trade through the station during the 2370s, often falling victim to nearby Maquis raids. () In 2371, a Maquis ship disabled two Bolian freighters near the Demilitarized Zone and stole its shipment of photon launchers. () The Maquis would again attack two Bolian freighters in 2373, stealing several thousand tons of rhodium nitrite and selenium. ()
In 2373, the Bolians authorized the Ferengi Gaming Commission to manage their gambling emporiums. ()
Bolian crystalsteel was a type of Bolian commodity. ()
An establishment curiously called The Red Bolian was located on Freecloud. ()
Technology
Bolian freighter
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Background information
Bolians are named after Cliff Bole, who directed the first episode to feature the species, . () Bolians were first identified by name in . The Cliffs of Bole, mentioned in are a further play on his name.
According to an internal reference document, listing all the aliens seen in , which was circulated around the time of the production of TNG Season 5, the Bolians were given the description of "A Federation race of humanoids – paleish blue skin, longer ears tha[n] human[s], and are bald."
Rene Auberjonois commented: "I always thought The Bolians were great looking and fascinating. I wish they’d done more with them".
Apocrypha
According to the Gallery DIS novel Desperate Hours by David Mack, a blue-skinned humanoid serving on the bridge of the was Lieutenant Troke, a Tulian. The Tulians are a cousin species to Bolians who eagerly embraced cybernetic technology.
The Bolians also shared a common ancestor with a race called the Bolastre of Myrmidon, as mentioned in The Genesis Wave''.
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Section 31 was an organization which claimed to protect the security interests of United Earth and, later, the United Federation of Planets. During the mid-23rd century, they were considered a critical division of Starfleet Intelligence, while by the 24th century, they were believed to be a rogue organization not considered part of the Federation. (; )
The organization claimed to be sanctioned by the original Starfleet Charter, Article 14, Section 31 of which allowed for extraordinary measures to be taken in times of extreme threat. (; )
Section 31 was also somewhat comparable to the Romulan Tal Shiar or Cardassian Obsidian Order except, unlike the latter two, it operated on its own without Starfleet's knowledge or consent, given that the mainstream general public of the Federation would not approve of the existence of such an agency. () In the 2250s, it was mentioned in rumors and even had its own insignia that was recognized, a black Starfleet badge. (, et al.) By the 2370s, Section 31's very existence was a deeply buried secret, known only to a handful of people beyond its own membership. ()
Perhaps Section 31's darkest aspect was that, while it had existed since the beginning of Starfleet, it was an autonomous department, having operated for over two centuries with no oversight or accountability whatsoever, even free to kill those it deemed a threat to Federation interests at its own discretion. () By the time of the Dominion War, at least some of Starfleet Command's top officers knew for certain of Section 31's existence, and on occasion even worked with them to serve the interests of the Federation. However, for the sake of propriety, they tended to keep as much distance from the organization as possible. () As far as Section 31 itself was concerned, it seemed to have well-placed agents in nearly every level of both the civilian Federation government and Starfleet's command structure, allowing it to carry out operations without risk of being publicly exposed. ()
History
22nd century
The organization's title came from the original Starfleet Charter, Article 14, Section 31, which allowed for extraordinary measures to be taken in times of extreme threat. () At some point before 2151, a young Ensign Malcolm Reed was recruited by Section 31 through former Starfleet Security officer . By the time Reed was posted to , he was no longer actively involved in covert operations.
Klingon Augments
However, in late 2154, when Reed was investigating the kidnapping of Doctor Phlox, he was contacted by Harris again. Harris' organization had entered into a secret agreement with Klingon Fleet Admiral , in which Harris facilitated Phlox's forcible transportation to a Klingon colony to help in finding a cure for the Klingon augment virus in exchange for a mutually beneficial alliance.
Harris ordered Reed to slow down Enterprises investigation until Phlox could develop a cure. Reed complied, but his tampering was discovered by Captain Jonathan Archer and Commander T'Pol, and Reed was thrown in Enterprises brig. ()
T'Pol reconstructed Reed's communication logs and discovered that he had been in contact with Harris. When confronted with this information, Reed confessed that he had been following Harris' orders. Captain Archer was very hurt by this revelation at first. Archer told Malcolm that he knew how loyal Malcolm was to the ship and to the captain personally and empathized with him about the extreme difficulty of the quandary he had faced by having his loyalties divided. Later, Archer had Reed put him in contact with Harris, and Harris told Archer that if Phlox was successful, the Klingon Empire would stabilize, an outcome that would be quite favorable for Starfleet. Archer remained suspicious of Harris' motives. After the plague was cured, Harris contacted Reed again, but Reed rebuffed him, declaring that he only answered to one commanding officer: Jonathan Archer. ()
Terra Prime
In 2155, Harris agreed to provide intelligence on the Earth-based Human terrorist group Terra Prime to the Enterprise crew when it was discovered that Terra Prime was attempting to disrupt the creation of the Coalition of Planets and to drive all non-Humans out of the Sol system. Harris implied to Reed that this information would come at a price, to be exacted at a later time. ()
23rd century
Around the 2230s, Section 31 discovered that the Klingons were researching time travel. Believing itself to be in a temporal arms race, the Daedalus Project was developed in the hopes of gaining a strategic advantage. Involved in this project were Leland, and Mike and Gabrielle Burnham. The Burnhams were on the verge of testing a time suit on Doctari Alpha, when it was believed destroyed in a Klingon terror raid. During this period, Section 31 also had at least one operative on Qo'noS. ()
By the mid-23rd century, Section 31 operated with some level of oversight from Starfleet. All admirals uploaded reports to Control, an artificial intelligence threat assessment system. They were known to use a black version of the Starfleet insignia which functioned as combadges. ()
During this period, Section 31 was using an abandoned penal colony as its headquarters. The facility also hosted the data center housing Control. ()
Federation-Klingon War
Personnel wearing black badges operated aboard during the first . ()
Although the Federation did not permit the use of mines, in response to the Klingon use of cloaking devices Section 31 acquired mines built by an outside actor to defend its headquarters. ()
Red Bursts and Control malfunction
After the war, Section 31 operated multiple ships. Their leadership included Admiral Patar (a Vulcan and a logic extremist), an Andorian, a Human and a Tellarite admiral. Their operatives included Leland and former Terran emperor . ()
In order to ensure stability within the Klingon Empire, Georgiou was sent, on Qo'noS, to protect High Chancellor L'Rell; Georgiou helped her kill Kol-Sha and also fake the deaths of and their unnamed baby son. Onboard the NCIA-93, Leland and Georgiou recruited Tyler. ()
At some point following the appearance of a series of red bursts, Section 31 took an interest in finding Spock after he escaped from Starbase 5. ()
Eventually, Control took control of Section 31 and killed many of its leaders, including Patar and the other admirals. After the destruction of Section 31 Headquarters, Starfleet ordered all Section 31 ships to search their systems for any evidence of Control. Soon after and NCIA-93 arrived at Essof IV, Leland was captured by Control in order to hijack his body. ()
Burnham and Spock explored a Section 31 vessel that had delayed a transmission and had been found adrift, with all of its crew except one killed by Control. This was a trap designed to infect Burnham to provide Control access to data. However, Burnham and Spock managed to kill the remaining crewmember, who had been infected with nanotechnology, and retake the vessel.
Soon after, the Discovery was surrounded by thirty-two Section 31 ships, almost all of its fleet, commanded by Control. ()
After the Discovery was apparently destroyed, Christopher Pike blamed Section 31 for the whole catastrophe. Starfleet Command promised to reform Section 31 to make it more transparent; they named Ash Tyler as its new commander, as both his unique dual existence as Tyler and Voq as well as his rational thinking made him ideal for the job. ()
24th century
Attempted recruitment of Bashir
In 2374, Section 31 attempted to recruit the chief medical officer of space station Deep Space 9, Doctor Julian Bashir, after putting him through psychological testing on the holodeck of a ship to which he had been abducted. Subjecting Bashir to an elaborate deception designed to test his loyalty to the Federation, Section 31 operative Luther Sloan presented himself to Bashir as the Deputy Director of Starfleet Internal Affairs, and placed Bashir in a scenario wherein it appeared that he had defected to the Dominion. Eventually, Sloan became convinced of Bashir's loyalty and, citing his genetically-engineered background and fascination with spy stories, offered him a position within Section 31.
Bashir, appalled at the thought of an organization that was not accountable to anyone and regularly violated the very principles and core values upon which the Federation had been founded, declined Sloan's offer, although Section 31 continued to regard him as a potential asset. After the agency returned him to Deep Space 9, Bashir alerted the station's senior staff – including his commanding officer, Captain Benjamin Sisko, and Bajoran Militia officers Major Kira Nerys and Constable Odo – of Section 31's existence and its attempt to recruit him. Sisko advised Bashir to accept Section 31's offer to join them, should they ask again, so that Bashir could spy on the organization for Sisko. ()
Conference on Romulus
In mid-2375, Sloan resurfaced and assigned Bashir to diagnose the health of Koval, Chairman of the Tal Shiar, during an upcoming conference on Romulus. In the course of his efforts to expose Section 31, Bashir discovered that he had actually been manipulated by Sloan into convincing Romulan Senator Kimara Cretak to access Koval's personal database, on suspicions that Section 31 planned to assassinate Koval. This gave Koval sufficient evidence to have Cretak arrested and charged with treason, which assured his own seat on the powerful Continuing Committee. Bashir learned that Koval was an agent of Section 31 after discovering Starfleet Admiral William Ross' complicity in the scheme.
It seemed Section 31 had been planning for what it regarded as a likely war with the Romulan Star Empire following the Dominion War. The agency projected that the Dominion was likely to end up confined to the Gamma Quadrant with the Cardassian Union occupied and left in shambles, and the Klingon Empire left to spend at least ten years rebuilding from the damage left by the Klingon-Cardassian War, the , and the Dominion War itself. Section 31 regarded Cretak as a potential threat to the Federation in the post-war Alpha Quadrant, as her primary loyalties were to the Star Empire's interests, while Koval could be counted on to influence Romulus in the Federation's favor.
Admiral Ross attempted to defend his actions to Bashir by stating that the high cost of the war justified the extreme measures being taken, but Bashir refused to concede that the ends justified the means. Ross responded by dismissing Bashir from his office and forbidding him from repeating and otherwise acknowledging their conversation. ()
The morphogenic virus
Later that year, while researching the morphogenic virus that was ravaging the Great Link and Odo, Bashir discovered that Section 31 had actually engineered the disease and deliberately infected Odo during a visit to Starfleet Medical three years previously, in a preemptive attempt to neutralize the threat posed by the Founders and the Dominion. Despite the risk that a cure for the disease might reach the Changelings and thus not only strengthen them but also continue the genocidal war they had initiated, Bashir decided to still pursue the matter and find a cure to help Odo. He lured Sloan to Deep Space 9 with false claims of having developed a cure. Sloan, who was committed to the cause of protecting Federation and Starfleet interests at all costs, committed suicide in an attempt to prevent the cure from being discovered. Unable to revive him, Bashir and Chief Miles O'Brien used a multitronic engrammatic interpreter to link their minds to Sloan's, in order to finally retrieve the information before Sloan's brain injuries rendered him brain dead. In his mindscape, Sloan attempted to distract Bashir with Section 31's secrets in order to take them with him, but O'Brien got the doctor refocused on their task, and they unlinked their minds from Sloan in time. ()
After the cure was discovered, the Federation Council decided against sharing it with the Founders, an act that Odo likened to abetting genocide. The cure was later given to the Female Changeling by Odo as a condition for surrendering her forces and ending the war. These events ruined the organization's plan to eradicate the Founders. The Changeling's surrender ended the war and allowed the Founders to live. Odo eventually returned to the Great Link to distribute the cure to the rest of the Founders, saving his people. ()
Later legacy
By 2380, the existence of Section 31 was no longer a closely held secret. It was sufficiently widely known that Ensign Brad Boimler could claim in a passing remark to Beckett Mariner that Section 31 members speed-walked to conserve energy. ()
Alternate reality
In the alternate reality, Section 31 was headed by Admiral , and had a base located beneath the Kelvin Memorial Archive in London.
Following the destruction of Vulcan and a subsequent attack that the Narada committed against Earth in 2258, Section 31 began exploring more direct means of defense, particularly against the Klingon Empire. Exploring unknown regions of space, they discovered the , with Augments still in cryostasis.
Marcus woke up , and recruited him into the organization under the pseudonym "John Harrison", using his intellect to develop advanced weapons systems. With another seventy-two Augments still in stasis and under Section 31's control, Khan cooperated on a project to build a vessel, the , at the Io Facility near Jupiter. He also designed new torpedoes, which he attempted to smuggle his crew in, but his plan was discovered and he was forced to flee.
Assuming Marcus made good on his threat to his crew, Khan plotted revenge and blackmailed Thomas Harewood into bombing the Archive, before attacking Starfleet Headquarters and then fleeing to Qo'noS with a portable transwarp beaming device he salvaged from the London base.
Marcus attempted to cover-up the conspiracy, while still using the events to his advantage by assigning the to fire the long-range torpedoes on Harrison's location with the Augments still inside. The flagship's warp core was sabotaged, stranding it at the Neutral Zone, where Klingon patrols would come and attack, giving the Federation a reason to go to war with the Klingons. prevented this when he opted to arrest Khan instead of executing him – learning the truth – and returned to Earth to expose the admiral's cooperation with a war criminal.
Marcus attempted to destroy the Enterprise with the Vengeance, but sabotage by and a boarding party of Kirk and Khan further foiled Section 31's machinations. Khan killed the admiral and then crashed the Vengeance into Starfleet Headquarters, presumably killing all the Section 31 personnel aboard. A year later, Kirk spoke out against Section 31's agenda at a memorial service for those killed by their attempts to harness Khan's mind. ()
Organization and tactics
Luther Sloan, a high-ranking member of Section 31, claimed that the organization dealt with threats to the Federation that others did not even realize existed and that jeopardized the Federation's very survival. Section 31's actions were autonomous and its existence was neither acknowledged nor denied by Starfleet Command or the Federation Council. Those found guilty of posing a security threat to the Federation were dealt with quietly, as Sloan once explained.
Section 31 was not accountable to anyone except within its own echelon; it did not submit reports to anyone or ask approval for specific operations. As such, Julian Bashir described it as having granted itself the powers of "judge, jury, and executioner." () Under Section 31 credo, to save lives, the ends always justified the means, and its operatives were not afraid to bend the rules if the situation warranted it. Odo once compared Section 31 to the Cardassian Union's Obsidian Order or the Romulan Star Empire's Tal Shiar; however unlike those groups, Section 31 did not instill political dissension or manipulation within the Federation nor did they serve as enforcers in virtute of government policy. When Sloan thought Bashir was a traitor, he extensively tested his hypothesis. When Bashir passed all of his tests, Sloan let him go despite Bashir's vocal objection to Section 31's existence, and Section 31 took no action to stop Bashir from telling his friends everything he had learned. This included Captain Benjamin Sisko, who made an inquiry to Starfleet Command that was essentially dismissed. By contrast, both the Obsidian Order and the Tal Shiar showed a willingness to kill anyone even suspected of being a threat, and to them, threats included citizens with opposing views and people who knew too much.
By the 24th century and presumably well before then, Section 31 had no known physical headquarters or base of operations. A select few were chosen to carry widespread knowledge of their activities. Recruitment of new agents had to be done in secret. One method that Section 31 used to accomplish this involved kidnapping potential agents and testing their loyalty. Section 31's recruitment policy did not allow agents to officially retire from duty, and agents who had long since moved on from the agency could be called upon at any time to carry out a mission. (; )
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Section 31 Headquarters – destroyed 2257
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Section 31 was created by Executive Producer Ira Steven Behr and resulted from his desire to look into the darker aspects of the supposed utopia created by Gene Roddenberry. Behr was inspired by a line of dialogue he had written in where Commander Sisko remarks that "It's easy to be a saint in paradise." Behr remarked, "Why is Earth a paradise in the twenty-fourth century? Well, maybe it's because there's someone watching over it and doing the nasty stuff that no one wants to think about. Of course, it's a very complicated issue. Extremely complicated. And those kinds of covert operations usually are wrong!" () Behr further commented, "We need to dig deeper and find out what, indeed, life is like in the twenty-fourth century. Is it this paradise, or are there, as said, 'Weasels under the coffee table." () According to Ronald D. Moore, the writing staff had "extended discussions" about the backstory of Section 31, with much debate about how long the organization was to have existed.
Incidentally, Deep Space Nine was at the time embroiled in a fierce competition with franchise contender Babylon 5, a science fiction show created by J. Michael Straczynski, which featured striking similarities with Deep Space Nine, and which had led to contemporary to-and-fro accusations of plagiarism as both series were almost simultaneously launched. Babylon 5 had even, a little over 3 years previous, introduced a similar shadow organization, with the remarkably similar name of "Bureau 13", although B5 did not get as much mileage out of the organization as DS9 did out of Section 31, with more focus on the slightly less secret telepathic Psi Corps, and their operative Alfred Bester, played by alumnus Walter Koenig, a character comparable to that of the later-conceived Section 31 Luther Sloane operative, as portrayed by William Sadler.
On the internet, the concept of Section 31 was criticized by some fans who saw it as undermining Gene Roddenberry's vision. Following the broadcast of DS9 Season 6 entry , David Weddle said, about how the viewers reacted to Section 31, "There were many that were screaming for our heads over that show, (saying) that it betrayed everything that Star Trek stands for and the value system that Gene Roddenberry promoted. Others said that of course, the Federation would have to have an organization like this. Fans would get into these long ethical and political arguments, really struggling with issues like that, which was great to see." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 56) In response to such criticisms, Ronald D. Moore commented, "The idea that there's a rogue element within the Federation doing dark deeds outside the normal chain of command is certainly a provocative one, I'll grant you, but does it really throw into question 'on a fundamental level… the principled Federation we have known… '? Not yet it doesn't… It's a little early to declare the death of the UFP, folks."
Costume Designer Bob Blackman noted that the uniforms worn by Section 31 agents were chosen for their fascist overtones. "We design a lot of Gestapo / S.S. / Naziesque outfits for our villains. And when they're really the ultimate, like the Section 31 people, we immediately go that way to make them look like storm troopers, because that's imagery that works best, not only for the viewers but for the producers. For 'Inquisition,' Ira asked for dark black, severe, hostile looking garments. Well, that's black leather." ()
In the interim between seasons six and seven of DS9, the show's writing staff determined that bringing Section 31 back in the seventh and final season, delivering on an implicit promise to make the organization return, was an important goal. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 67) "We'd had that idea since the end of 'Inquisition'," Ira Behr noted. "We wanted to bring them back." ()
Section 31 was originally to have featured in seventh season DS9 installment . The group was included in an early version of the story that also involved Julian Bashir and genetically engineered characters , Patrick, Lauren, and Sarina being sent on a mission together, and posing as Starfleet officers. ()
The return of Section 31 had to wait until a time when Sloan actor William Sadler was available to appear on DS9. The very deliberate idea of bringing the organization back to the series eventually led to the writing of season seven entry . ()
While was in development, the revelation that Section 31 was responsible for the morphogenic virus ravaging the Founders was seen as too inconsequential by René Echevarria, who co-wrote the episode's story as well as scripting the installment. He, as a result, decided to establish that the organization had also infected Odo with the same virus. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, Nos. 4/5, p. 73) The first draft script of "When It Rains..." suggested that, in addition to Sloan, one of multiple doctors who had conducted a series of scans on Odo at Starfleet Medical (in the timeframe of and ) had been working for Section 31 and had infected Odo with the virus in order to pass it onto the Founders, though the script didn't disclose which medic it had been. In the original version of , however, it was established that Section 31 had recruited Doctor Mora Pol to create the virus, intending to inflict the Founders but not Odo. () Echevarria and Ronald D. Moore believed, while writing , that news of Section 31's involvement in the virus had to be learned by Odo in that episode. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, Nos. 4/5, p. 81)
Actor Jeffrey Combs enjoyed the appearances of Section 31 on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In retrospect, he said about the organization, "I loved it. It gave everything a real flair." ()
Ira Behr commented, "Well, without a doubt, the thing I wish we could have used more of was Section 31. We came into that late in the game, and I mean, if we had had an eighth season."
Prior to Section 31's appearance in , Series Co-Creator and Executive Producer Rick Berman professed, "I doubt we'll see them on Enterprise." () While the organization seen in that series was never explicitly referred to as "Section 31", production staff have confirmed that it was intended to be the same organization seen on Deep Space Nine. (ENT Season 4 DVD audio commentary) Harris wears a leather uniform similar to the one worn by Sloan two hundred years later and refers Captain Archer to "Article 14, Section 31" of the Starfleet Charter. This is consistent with Sloan's comment that Section 31 was created as part of the "original" Starfleet charter, but not with Bashir's statement that Section 31 had managed to stay hidden for "over three hundred years" in . Ronald D. Moore, who wrote the DS9 episode, considered Bashir's figure a mistake and stated that it should have been only around two hundred. The figure was later corrected.
It was not until the second season of Discovery that it was firmly established that prime universe Section 31, like their Romulan Tal Shiar and Cardassian Obsidian Order counterparts, also possessed considerable military capabilities as early as the 23rd century. The military capabilities of alternate-reality Section 31 had already been established in Star Trek Into Darkness.
In a "bonus scene" deleted from , Leland described his goal as galactic peace, all the while complaining that most people lived in denial of how dangerous the universe was. He believed that peace required vigilance and a moral cost. In this, it mirrored a famous "You can't handle the truth!" speech given at a court-martial by Colonel Nathan R. Jessup (played by ) in the 1992 film .
Despite Section 31 appearing in various other Star Trek productions, Ira Behr claimed the DS9 writing staff had rightful ownership of the organization, stating, "I know they used it in a movie, but it's ours. We created it." He also draw a parallel between Section 31 and the "political situation" that was current in the year 2015. (What We Left Behind)
Section 31 was included in a hypothetical Season 8 premiere which the DS9 writing staff devised exclusively for the purposes of including the writing of it in the documentary What We Left Behind. In that story, the organization was now covertly led by Julian Bashir and planned to secretly cause the destruction of Bajoran religion, in order to convince Bajor to finally join the Federation.
All of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine DVDs feature several "Easter eggs" known as "Section 31 hidden files".
Apocrypha
Novels
It is implied in Elusive Salvation that the name of Section 31 may stem from section 31 of floor B(asement) 14 in the Pentagon, which in 1996 housed a secretive unit of the US military dedicated to tracking alien threats.
Novels published by Pocket Books posit that Section 31 was involved in the theft of the Romulan cloaking device by the , () the development of the Omega molecule and the subsequent destruction of subspace in the Lantaru sector caused by a disastrous test of the molecule, () and spying upon Federation civilian attorney Samuel T. Cogley. () The fact that Starfleet Admiral Cartwright was established to be a Section 31 agent in the Star Trek: Section 31 novel suggests the possibility that the Khitomer conspiracy was, from the Federation end, a Section 31 operation.
Encounters with Section 31 have been documented in the novel series Star Trek: Section 31. These stories were largely designed around, and serve to explain or provide background to, certain canon events. In the novels, it is additionally revealed that Section 31:
placed an agent aboard the before it was transported to the Delta Quadrant in 2371 (see );
attempted to recruit conn officer Lieutenant (see );
was responsible for Admiral Dougherty's mission to forcibly and illegally relocate the Ba'ku (see );
continues to regard Julian Bashir as an asset;
attempted to kill the former Borg drone Seven of Nine.
Section 31 is also revealed to be responsible for allowing the Dominion to engage in an infamous massacre of Federation civilians during the war, as part of an attempt to recruit a potential agent, Ethan Locken.
Section 31 has also appeared in the Star Trek: A Time to... series. In A Time to Kill and A Time to Heal by David Mack, it is revealed that Section 31 has a hand in a coup d'etat organized against the Federation President, Min Zife, whom they assassinate.
After the events of the Section 31 novel , Captain Kirk briefed Starfleet Captains Phil Waterson and Nick Silver and Commodores and José Mendez on his discoveries and suspicions about Section 31. The five men went on to form the "Kirk Cabal", a secret group designed to oppose Section 31 whenever it was involved in any known activity. The Kirk Cabal was still active as of 2376, when Elias Vaughn recruited Julian Bashir into its ranks.
In the novel Hollow Men, Tomas Roeder, a Section 31 agent, learns of the Changeling disease and attempts to leak the information to the Dominion. Roeder failed in his objective and Elim Garak was forced to kill him.
In The Good That Men Do, by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin, Section 31 recruited Commander Charles Tucker III to enter Romulan territory. The novel established that Tucker was the one who coined the name "Section 31" and that the organization was already aware of the existence of the mirror universe. Also, according to the novel, the existence and activities of Section 31 were exposed to the general public by the early 25th century and its agents were eventually brought to justice for their crimes. The public release of Section 31's files and records ended over 300 years of the bureau's illegal and unsanctioned black-ops and infiltration programs. The downfall of Section 31 is further detailed in the novels Disavowed and when Trill journalist Ozla Graniv, with assistance from Julian Bashir, Sarina Douglas, Data and Lal publishes an expose about Section 31's activities to the public in 2386. In the novel Available Light, the revelations result in the Federation Security Agency carrying out coordinated arrests against Section 31 operatives and assets across the Galaxy, including Admirals Edward Jellico, Alynna Nechayev, Nakamura, and William Ross; the latter of whom would later be murdered in Federation custody, for their role in the forced removal and subsequent assassination of President Min Zife.
In the Star Trek: Enterprise - Rise of the Federation novel A Choice of Futures, when the United Federation of Planets was founded in 2161 and a unified Starfleet was created, Article 14, Section 31 of the Earth Starfleet charter was copied to the Federation Starfleet charter and allowed Section 31 to continued its activities, but it now protected the interests of the entire Federation.
Video games
In Star Trek: Starfleet Command III, in a mission in the Romulan campaign, the player is inspecting the damage to the Unity One starbase. While listening to the Federation-Klingon Alliance broadcasts, one Starfleet officer suggests, "Why don't you ask Section 31?" as to how Starfleet could know if the Unity One scans could detect cloaked Romulan vessels.
In the MMO game Star Trek Online, Section 31 continues to exist well into 2410, and despite some transparency among the upper echelons of Starfleet, much of Section 31's operations remain unknown to the majority of the general public. In a now-removed mission, Section 31 tests player characters on a mission in a fashion similar to that of Dr. Julian Bashir. A Section 31 agent also enlists the player's aid in several other missions. When Devidians start haunting the Klingon Neutral Zone, Section 31 assists the player in stopping them, and that same contact later sends them to Nimbus III to locate weapons of mass destruction.
Comics
In a couple of IDW Publishing comics, Section 31 had Captain Kirk test Starfleet's new cloaking device in a Star Trek: Year Four - The Enterprise Experiment story, which followed the events seen in . Section 31 also had an operative aboard the Enterprise in Star Trek: Mission's End.
In the Star Trek: Ongoing comic series set in the alternate reality, Section 31 were shown to still be active despite Starfleet's efforts to remove all elements of the organization and they continued to secretly plot to ignite war between the Romulans and Klingons using contingency plans devised by Marcus before his death. However, a few of their agents believed that Marcus' actions had set the organization's work back for years to come. Section 31 also attempted to recruit , whose younger sister was already a member; were revealed to be responsible for Landru; supported a rebellion on a Klingon-backed planet by supplying Robert April's with Starfleet technology; and following Alexander Marcus' death, convinced the Romulan Empire to begin a war with the Klingons, thus taking the pressure off the Federation after Khan's attack.
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Bio-neural gel packs were a form of computer technology used by Starfleet and first developed in the early 2370s.
The gel packs were a major component of the bio-neural circuitry, which was a hybrid organic-electronic computer system. The packs contained neural fibers surrounded in a blue gel with metallic interfaces on the top and bottom. They helped store more information and operated at faster speeds than isolinear circuitry.
The fibers in an individual gel pack were capable of making billions of connections, thus generating an incredibly sophisticated and responsive computing architecture. This kind of organic circuitry allowed computers to "think" in very similar ways to living organisms; by using "fuzzy logic", they could effectively operate by making a "best guess" answer to complex questions rather than working through all possible calculations. This was due in part to the inherent ability of organic neural systems to correlate chaotic patterns that eluded the capacities of conventional hardware.
The was one of the first starships equipped with the technology. () Gel packs could not be replicated. () Voyager stored their spare gel packs in engineering locker Gamma 5. ()
Like other biological forms, gel packs were susceptible to bacteria and viruses. As such, heating them could remove such infections. ()
They were infected with a virus within bacteria due to cheese created by Neelix. ()
A gel pack in the mess hall was infected with a macrovirus, and led to an outbreak when it ruptured. ()
During a voyage through a Mutara-class nebula, the gel packs began to fail due to subnucleonic radiation. ()
Bio-neural gel pack sequence 6-Theta-9 was located on Deck 4 of an starship. ()
Gel packs could be modified by injecting chroniton-infused serum into the packs in order to return a ship caught in numerous temporal periods, such as caused by a temporal anomaly, to a single temporal period. This process returned the ship to a few seconds before the anomaly occurred. ()
When Overlookers kidnapped Captain Kathryn Janeway, The Doctor was forced to steal gel packs by posing as B'Elanna Torres. However, when Janeway was rescued by Lieutenant Tom Paris and Lieutenant Commander Tuvok, the gel packs were returned to Voyager. ()
Janeway once commented that bio-neural gel packs could plot vectors "a bit faster" than Tom Paris. The context of this statement indicates that it was a deliberate understatement, implying that a bio-neural gel pack could plot vectors significantly faster than Tom Paris. ()
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Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. is the American actor who played Geordi La Forge on throughout the show's entire seven-year run, from to . He also played La Forge in the four TNG-era , in the TNG video game A Final Unity, and in the episode , which he directed. In addition, he directed two episodes for Next Generation as well as numerous episodes for , Star Trek: Voyager, and . He holds the highest amount of directorial credits for the cast members, at 29 episodes directed.
Besides his affiliation with Star Trek, Burton is known for his star-making, Emmy Award-nominated performance as Kunta Kinte in the acclaimed 1977 mini-series . He is also well known as the long-time host of the popular, Daytime Emmy Award-winning children's educational program Reading Rainbow.
Tim Russ, who was an initial candidate for the role of Geordi La Forge, described Burton as "a great actor." ()
Personal life
The child of a military family, Burton was born in Landstuhl, West Germany, as that is where his father – an Army NCO – was stationed at the time. At the age of 13, Burton entered a Catholic seminary to study for the priesthood but ultimately decided to pursue an acting career instead, graduating from the University of Southern California's (USC) School of Theater.
In 1990, he received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame for his work in the field of television.
Burton married Stephanie Cozart, the make-up artist of Reading Rainbow, in 1992. Their daughter, Michaela, was born in 1994. Burton also has a son from a previous relationship, born in 1980, whom Burton was given joint custody of following a paternity suit.
Burton and his family currently reside in Sherman Oaks, California. An avid poker player, Burton has participated in the World Poker Tour.
Burton currently serves on the advisory committee of the 100 Year Starship Initiative, which seeks the launching of an interstellar voyage within the next one hundred years. Astronaut Dr. is heading the initiative.
Burton recorded a public service announcement for NASA to explain the purpose of the mission to Mars, which was launched on November 18, 2013.
Career
The 1970s
Burton was an undergraduate in USC's drama department when he was discovered and chosen to play the key role of Kunta Kinte in Roots, which premiered in January 1977. This groundbreaking mini-series became one of the most acclaimed and highest-rated programs in US television history, earning a total of 37 Emmy Award nominations (winning 9); Burton himself earned an Emmy nomination for his performance.
Among Burton's co-stars in this series were Madge Sinclair and Ben Vereen, who went on to play the parents of Burton's Geordi La Forge in . Sinclair and Vereen also received Emmy nominations for their performances in Roots.
After Roots aired, Burton played the title role in the TV movie Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid. This movie aired in September 1977, only eight months after Roots introduced Burton to television audiences. One month later, Burton was seen in his first feature film, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which also starred Richard Kiley.
The following year, Burton reunited with Madge Sinclair in the TV movie One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story, with Burton playing the title character – an ex-con who became a professional baseball player – and Sinclair playing his mother. Burton concluded the decade with the TV movie Dummy, in which he co-starred with Paul Sorvino and Gregg Henry. Burton and Sorvino worked together again on the TNG episode and the 1994 TV movie Parallel Lives, while Henry appeared with Burton in .
The 1980s
The 1980 TV movie Guyana Tragedy again had Madge Sinclair and LeVar Burton playing mother and son. This movie also featured future Trek veterans Brad Dourif, Meg Foster, Albert Hall, and Ed Lauter. Burton next co-starred with in what proved to be the latter's final film, The Hunter (1980).
Burton subsequently appeared in a number of TV movies, including 1983's Emergency Room (featuring Gary Lockwood, Warren Munson, and Biff Yeager), 1984's The Jesse Owens Story (with Ronny Cox, James B. Sikking, Vic Tayback, and Burton's Roots co-star, Ben Vereen), 1985's The Midnight Hour (with Kurtwood Smith), and 1986's Liberty (co-starring Frank Langella and Chris Sarandon). In 1988, he reprised the role of Kunta Kinte for the TV Christmas special Roots: The Gift, which also featured Deep Space Nine star Avery Brooks, Voyager stars Kate Mulgrew and Tim Russ, and TNG guest star Fran Bennett.
Burton broke into episodic television in the 1980s, guest-starring on an episode of Trapper John, M.D. (again working with Madge Sinclair, who was a regular on the series, as well as Miguel Ferrer and Louise Sorel) and Fantasy Island (starring Ricardo Montalban, in an episode with Janet MacLachlan). In addition, Burton co-starred with TOS actress Nichelle Nichols in the 1986 science fiction thriller, The Supernaturals, and appeared in a 1987 episode of Murder, She Wrote with Michael McGrady.
Reading Rainbow
In 1983, Burton began hosting Reading Rainbow, an educational program for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aimed at encouraging children to read. As both host and executive producer of this series, Burton has earned a total of ten Daytime Emmy nominations, with six wins. He also earned seven Image Award nominations, winning four of them.
For seven seasons of this show, Burton worked concurrently on this series and Star Trek: The Next Generation. The 1988 episode The Bionic Bunny Show of Reading Rainbow actually showed a behind-the-scenes look at the making of TNG (specifically during the episode ).
Reading Rainbow ran for twenty-one seasons before financial troubles at PBS put the show on hiatus. In 2007, Burton announced he had shot his last episode of Reading Rainbow and was retiring from the show, citing creative differences with the show's new owners. The last (rerun) episode of Reading Rainbow with Burton as its host aired on 28 August 2009.
Following the first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Republican governor Mitt Romney, Burton became enraged at Romney's campaign pledge to cut government funding for PBS. Burton targeted Romney, being quoted on TMZ as saying "I am personally outraged that any serious contender for the White House would target as part of his campaign the children of America in this fashion." Burton further added "Educators across the country, as well as millions of children and adults know that the programming on PBS has been responsible for significant improvements in education, literacy, math, science and life skills for generations of our children." Burton continued, "Defunding PBS directly punishes the less fortunate by removing this trusted and extraordinary educational resource available to all. On behalf of America's children, I can't stay silent. I encourage you to join me in fighting this short-sighted and frankly mean-spirited attack on our children."
In 2014, Burton began a campaign through Kickstarter to "Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere," a program to help bring Reading Rainbow back to classrooms throughout the United States. As of June 26, 2014, the program had raised over $4 million, greatly exceeding its stated $1 million goal. That same day, Seth MacFarlane (Rivers in ) announced that he would match up to one million dollars worth of pledges for the campaign. Burton also created Reading Rainbow Live featuring Burton himself and members of the Star Trek cast reading stories to parents and their children – Reading Rainbow Live: The Men of Star Trek (featuring Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, and Robert Picardo), Reading Rainbow Live: The Women of Star Trek (featuring Kate Mulgrew, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, and Jeri Ryan), Reading Rainbow Live with Patrick Stewart, and Reading Rainbow Live with William Shatner.
Star Trek and beyond
In 1987 Burton was cast as Geordi La Forge, a blind Starfleet officer who utilizes a VISOR to see. Initially, the character was the flight control officer of the with the rank of lieutenant junior grade. By the second season, however, La Forge was the ship's chief engineer, holding the rank of lieutenant and later lieutenant commander. Burton starred on the show throughout all seven seasons, appearing in all but four of the 177 episodes.
Burton was later a member of the music band known as The Sunspots, along with his TNG castmates Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, and Patrick Stewart. They appeared as the background vocals for "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" on Brent Spiner's 1991 album Ol' Yellow Eyes is Back. He can also be heard on The Orb's track "Little Fluffy Clouds", which sampled an episode of Reading Rainbow, apparently without Burton's permission.
Since he was working on both TNG and Reading Rainbow at the same time, Burton did little else during the early 1990s. He did supply the voice of Planeteer Kwame as well as the opening narration on the hit animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers from 1990 through 1993; his TNG co-star Whoopi Goldberg also voiced on this series. In addition, he did voice work for an episode of Batman: The Animated Series entitled "The Worry Men" and played a fire chief in the 1993 TV movie Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland, co-starring Keone Young.
In 1998 Levar appeared as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton.
In 2001, LeVar, along with several other Star Trek cast members including William Shatner, Wil Wheaton, Denise Crosby, and John de Lancie, competed for charity on the NBC quiz show, The Weakest Link. LeVar defeated Voyager actor Robert Picardo in the final round to win an impressive US$167,500 for his charity, Junior Achievement of Southern California. It was a record for the show.
Several costumes and costume components worn by Burton throughout his performance as Geordi La Forge in Star Trek were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.
In 2016, Burton appeared at E3 to promote the virtual reality game Star Trek: Bridge Crew. He also recorded a video with Jeri Ryan and Karl Urban of them playtesting the game.
Directing
In addition to acting, Burton has directed many Star Trek episodes. In fact, he has directed the most episodes of any Star Trek actor and is one of only five directors to shoot at least one episode of every live-action Star Trek spin-off series from The Next Generation through Enterprise, the others being James L. Conway, Winrich Kolbe, Mike Vejar, and David Livingston.
It was during his time on TNG that Burton became interested in directing. He made his directorial debut with the sixth season episode . He then directed the , an episode of the seventh and final season. After TNG ended, Burton moved on to direct ten episodes of Deep Space Nine, eight episodes of Voyager, and nine episodes of Enterprise.
In 1998, he directed his first non-Trek project, The Tiger Woods Story. His other television directorial credits include multiple episodes of Soul Food and Charmed. He also directed the 2003 family film Blizzard, starring Christopher Plummer and featuring the voice of Whoopi Goldberg as the title reindeer. Burton himself made a cameo appearance in the movie as an elf.
He recently directed and starred in the comic drama Reach for Me, working with performers Adrienne Barbeau, Seymour Cassel, and Alfre Woodard, and cameraman Kris Krosskove. Another directing project – a film called Initiation – is also in the works.
Post-TNG acting career
After TNG, Burton had a recurring role on the CBS series Christy and made a guest appearance on Brent Spiner's new, short-lived series, Deadly Games (co-starring Christopher Lloyd). In 1996, Burton co-starred with Richard Herd and Malcolm McDowell in the Showtime Network's sci-fi thriller Yesterday's Son.
Burton is one of many Star Trek actors to voice a character on the hit animated Disney series Gargoyles. His TNG co-stars Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, and Michael Dorn also did voice work on the series, as did Nichelle Nichols, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Michael Bell, Clancy Brown, Matt Frewer, Gerrit Graham, Clyde Kusatsu, John Rhys-Davies, W. Morgan Sheppard, David Warner, and Paul Winfield.
In 2000, Burton guest-starred on Becker (starring DS9's Terry Farrell, in an episode with Andy Milder). The following year, he made a brief appearance as Martin Luther King, Jr., in the 2001 biographical film Ali, which also featured the aforementioned Albert Hall and Bruce McGill.
Burton's latest appearance as Geordi La Forge was in the film . Burton was not pleased with this supposedly final chapter in the TNG saga, remarking at DragonCon 2005 that the reason it failed at the box office was "because it sucked". Burton also held contempt for Nemesis director Stuart Baird, who, according to Burton and his castmates, continually called Burton "Laverne" and erroneously referred to his character as an "alien". However, Burton has recently softened his view on Nemesis and decided to give it another chance, acknowledging that some people actually like it.
In 2003, Burton had a guest spot on Boomtown (starring Neal McDonough, in an episode with Vanessa Williams). In 2005, he had a voice-over role in the "Petarded" episode of Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy. Burton later returned to Family Guy, when he and his TNG castmates voiced themselves for the 2009 episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven". In the episode, Stewie Griffin (voiced by creator Seth McFarlane) kidnaps the cast of TNG and proceeds to spend the day with them, much to his own regret.
Burton and fellow Star Trek alumni Greg Grunberg, Jennifer Morrison, and George Takei will supply voices for the upcoming animated series The Super Hero Squad Show, which features characters from Marvel Comics magazines. Burton, Grunberg, and Morrison will be voicing superheroes War Machine, Ant-Man, and The Wasp, respectively, while Takei voices the villainous Galactus.
In 2009, Burton starred in the Lifetime TV movie Taken in Broad Daylight. He then appeared in the 2009 independent film Reach for Me, which he also directed and produced. More recently, Burton voiced the DC Comics superhero Black Lightning in the upcoming direct-to-DVD animated movie Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, with Clancy Brown voicing Lex Luthor.
In 2010, he appeared as guest as himself in episode 17 of the fourth season of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Among other Next Generation actors seen on this show as themselves are actor Wil Wheaton (who appeared several times) and Brent Spiner. Burton also appeared as himself in episode 9 of the fifth season of Adult Swim's Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!.
In 2011, Burton guest starred as himself in episode 16 of season two on NBC's sitcom Community.
Burton starred as Paul Haley on the TNT drama series Perception, created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman, from 2012 to 2015. Burton worked with Jonathan Scarfe, son of Alan Scarfe and step-son of Barbara March. The following year, he served as executive producer on a remake of Roots.
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TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Beginning"
TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "Selected Crew Analysis" ("Casting", "Character Notes", "Camaraderie")
TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Making of a Legend" ("VISOR")
TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "Memorable Missions"
TNG Season 2 DVD special feature "Selected Crew Analysis Year Two", interviewed on
TNG Season 3 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Three" ("Guinan Returns", "Special Guests on the Bridge"), interviewed on
TNG Season 3 DVD special feature "Selected Crew Analysis Year Three" ("Crew Profile: Geordi La Forge"), interviewed on 8 November 2001
TNG Season 3 DVD special feature "Memorable Missions" (), interviewed on 8 November 2001
TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Four" ("Celebrating 100 Episodes"), interviewed by Entertainment Tonight in
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Intergalactic Guest Stars" ("Crew Profile: Ensign Ro Laren"), interviewed on 8 November 2001
TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Six" ("A Visit from Scotty"), interviewed in and on 8 November 2001
TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Bold New Directions Year Six" ("A First Chance at "), interviewed on 8 November 2001
TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Six" ("Special Crew Profile: Lt. Cmdr. Data"), interviewed on 8 November 2001
TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Select Historical Data Year Six" ("Working with the VISOR"), interviewed on 8 November 2001
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Seven" ("Profile: The La Forge Family", "The Final Episode"), interviewed on 8 November 2001
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Starfleet Moments & Memories Year Seven" ("A Unique Family"), interviewed on 8 November 2001
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "The Making of "All Good Things…" Year Seven" ("On Location"), interviewed on 18 March 1994
Blu-ray special feature The Unknown Possibilities of Existence: Making "All Good Things" ()
"LeVar Burton – Lt. (J.G.) Geordi La Forge", , interviewed by Marc Shapiro
"LeVar Burton – Lt. Geordi La Forge", , interviewed by Marc Shapiro
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A wormhole was a "tunnel" connecting two separate points in space-time. It consisted of two apertures in space-time connected by a conduit outside normal space, through subspace. Since this conduit was shorter than the distance between the two points in normal space, it allowed rapid travel between the two points.
A wormhole was described as a time-space disturbance or as a space-time distortion. () It was described, as well, as a space-time anomaly. (; )
A tetryon scan of a wormhole would typically show up neutrinos, ionized hydrogen, theta-band radiation, and would certainly have to show quantum level fluctuations. ()
If a wormhole was large and stable enough, a starship (or other traveler) could travel through it. A wormhole could also connect two different points in time as well. As wormholes age they collapse, becoming smaller and are known as micro-wormholes. ()
Before knowing where the Harry Kim wormhole ended, Tuvok stated that there was a 75% chance that it didn't lead to the Alpha Quadrant. ()
Natural wormholes
Quantum singularities could act as wormholes. When Voyager 6 fell into a quantum singularity, at the time called a black hole, and reemerged in an unknown region of space, speculated by Captain Decker to be the "far side" of the galaxy. There it landed on a planet of sentient machines, and became V'ger. ()
Wormholes and the possibility of using them for time travel had been recognized by Human scientists since the 20th century. In 2368, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the agreed with faux historian Berlinghoff Rasmussen that using knowledge gained by means of time travel through a wormhole (for example, in order to save an endangered planet) could allow the "next Adolf Hitler" or Khan Noonien Singh to come into being. According to the captain, first year philosophy students had been asked the question ever since the first wormholes had been . ()
Small and extremely unstable wormholes have been mapped near 39 T-Tauri systems in the century preceding 2367, and more before. That year, Data claimed that he had passed through three unstable wormholes during his time with Starfleet. Wormholes of small size and relatively short period would typically be local phenomenon rather then galaxy-spanning. ()
No known naturally-occurring stable wormholes had yet been discovered in the Alpha or Beta Quadrants. The only likely candidate, the Barzan wormhole, was found to be unstable at its far terminus. However, several relatively stable wormhole-like phenomena had been reported in the Delta Quadrant. (; )
It was believed possible for wormholes to just form suddenly, and a newly-formed one might be known as a "baby wormhole". ()
The transwarp conduits used by the Borg were believed to be wormholes. ()
In the 32nd century, there was a natural wormhole one hundred light years from the planet Hima. ()
Artificial wormholes
The only known stable artificial wormhole was the Bajoran wormhole, created by beings known to the Bajorans as the Prophets, who dwelled within. This wormhole was stable enough for long-term, two-way space travel between the Bajor system in the Alpha Quadrant and the Idran system in the Gamma Quadrant. ()
In the alternate 2259, the Federation was engaged in wormhole research. The location of the research site was labeled on a map depicting a section of the Alpha Quadrant. This map was seen on a powerwall in the offices of Admirals and at Starfleet Headquarters. ()
In the 2370s, the Federation investigated methods of creating artificial wormholes. The project was headed by Dr. Lenara Kahn of the Trill Science Ministry, who eventually developed a workable theory that she tested aboard the in 2372. The technique involved generating a subspace tensor matrix in the 25,000-30,000 range, and then sending out a magneton pulse using a target drone. The pulse would then interact with the matrix to produce a subspace distortion, which would become an opening in the space-time continuum.
The first test of this technique produced a wormhole that was stable for 23.4 seconds. On the second test, a class-4 probe was launched through the wormhole to simulate the passage of an interstellar spacecraft. However, the probe's shields unexpectedly interacted with the tetryon field, collapsing the wormhole and producing a massive graviton shock wave that heavily damaged the Defiant. ()
The MIDAS array was able to create an artificial micro-wormhole that connected the Alpha Quadrant to the Delta Quadrant, but it was only stable for a brief moment. ()
According to a classroom chart in Keiko O'Brien's school aboard Deep Space 9, "Most wormhole are naturally occurring or the result of dangerous warp drive malfunctions. Such wormholes tend to oscillate wildly across time and space, making them useless for normal interstellar commerce." () Such an imbalance happened to the during the 2270s, when Captain Kirk ordered the ship's warp drive utilized before proper simulations had been completed, causing the Enterprise to become trapped in a wormhole for a brief period of time. The crew survived the wormhole effect after Commander Will Decker ordered Lieutenant Pavel Chekov to fire a photon torpedo at an asteroid that had been pulled in with them. ()
In theory, detonating a heavy gravimetric charge in a Type-6 protostar could open up a wormhole to a given location. ()
Background information
André Bormanis commented: "The wormhole was a really interesting, fascinating moment in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and so we knew that that would be a fun idea to revisit it in later series. It became the benchmark of Deep Space Nine and it is a really intriguing idea that the fans have very much responded to. With our warp drive we can travel from here to the next nearest star in a couple of days. But the wormhole gave us the opportunity to travel 50,000 light years, half the breadth of the galaxy, in a matter of seconds. That was an astonishing thing, even for our 24th Century characters"
List of wormholes
Bajoran wormhole
Barzan wormhole
Cyclic wormhole
Interspatial flexure
Intermittent cyclical vortex
Micro-wormhole
Harry Kim wormhole
Möbius Inversion
Spatial vortex
See also
Spatial gradient
Subspace axis
Subspace instability
Subspatial contortion
Temporal variance
Transkinetic vector
Wormhole effect
Geodesic fold
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Ketteract was a 23rd century Federation physicist who synthesized a single Omega molecule.
Intending to create a new energy source, Ketteract was assigned a classified research station in the Lantaru sector where he successfully synthesized a single Omega molecule particle. Unfortunately, it only existed for a fraction of a second before destabilizing, killing Ketteract and 126 of his research colleagues. As a secondary effect, it also ripped open the fabric of subspace and made the sector impassable to standard warp drive travel. ()
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Clifford "Cliff" John Bole directed numerous Star Trek episodes from all three series set in the 24th century.
The Bolian race was named for Cliff Bole (he directed the first episode in which they were featured, ), an in-joke that was carried to an even more obvious conclusion in the naming of the Cliffs of Bole – a tourist destination on the Bolian homeworld. ()
According to actor Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), Cliff Bole was one of many directors who treated him condescendingly on the set. Wheaton elaborated, "Most of them favored grabbing me by the elbow and moving me around the set, rather than, you know, giving me direction like I was a person or a professional or anything like that. The worst offender was this guy Cliff Bole."
Alternately, actor Robert O'Reilly commented, "Cliff Bole was just a wonderful director [....] And he's a really nice guy." ()
Bole also directed episodes of other cult series, such as , , and The X-Files. In 1982, he directed the pilot of , starring William Shatner and Richard Herd and featuring Ike Eisenmann. Later, he helmed seven additional episodes of that series between 1982 and 1984, some of which also starred James Darren. Bole also directed three episodes of , which starred Avery Brooks and fifteen episodes of , which starred Ricardo Montalban.
Bole is featured in the "Regeneration: Engaging the Borg" special of the 2013 The Best of Both Worlds (Blu-ray) release.
Bole passed away peacefully on 15 February 2014 at his home in Palm Desert, California. He was 76.
Star Trek interviews
"Cliff Bole – Of Redemption & Unification", , interviewed by Edward Gross
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David Livingston served as a supervising producer on , , and . He has directorial credits on two Next Generation episodes, 17 Deep Space Nine episodes, 28 Voyager episodes and 15 episodes, for a total of 62 episodes across these four spin-off series, making him the most prolific director in the franchise. He also wrote the story for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first season episode .
Career
Star Trek
Livingston began his work with Star Trek as unit production manager on the pilot episode of The Next Generation in February 1987 before moving up the ranks to become a supervising producer in 1992 there and for the subsequent Trek series.
In 1994, Livingston was nominated, along with the rest of the series' production staff, for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for Next Generation.
While directing the Star Trek: Voyager second season episode on the third day of filming, Tuesday on location at the New York Street, a reflection in the glass door of "Cosimo's" let Livingston appear in the episode as an inhabitant of San Francisco.
Contributions to the Star Trek universe
Livingston, the lionfish present in the ready room of Jean-Luc Picard for all seven years of , was named for him, as was the starship and Starfleet Vice Admiral , who was listed on the dedication plaques of the , , , , and .
Other work
Livingston has production credits on several episodes of the science fiction television series and . He also has direction credits on episodes of , Seven Days, , and . In 2000, Livingston wrote, directed and produced Slice of Life, a short film starring Matthew Baer, Patricia Tallman and Star Trek: Voyagers Robert Picardo.
In 2004, Livingston opened a photography exhibition entitled "The Sign," featuring original photography of the . . In 2005, he opened another exhibition entitled "Slice of Life" which featured some of Livingston's experimental photography.
Directorial credits
Producing credits
( –) – Unit Production Manager
Star Trek: The Next Generation ( –) – Line Producer
Star Trek: The Next Generation ( –) – Producer
Star Trek: The Next Generation ( – ) – Supervising Producer
Star Trek interviews
VOY Season 1 DVD special feature On Location with the Kazons, interviewed on
Launch of Star Trek: Voyager ()
Star Trek: Voyager - Inside the New Adventure (1995)
TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Four" ("Production"), interviewed on
TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "New Life and New Civilizations" (""), interviewed on 14 March 2002
TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "Chronicles from the Final Frontier" ("Lt. Yar's Legacy Endures"), interviewed on 14 March 2002
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Five" ("A Visit from Spock"), interviewed on 14 March 2002
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Memorable Missions Year Five" (), interviewed on 14 March 2002
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Intergalactic Guest Stars" ("Crew Profile: Ensign Ro Laren"), interviewed on 14 March 2002
TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Six" ("Resolving the Cliffhanger", "January 1993 Debuts"), interviewed on 14 March 2002
TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Bold New Directions Year Six", interviewed on 14 March 2002
TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Six" ("An Android Sings"), interviewed on 14 March 2002
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Starfleet Moments & Memories Year Seven" ("A Unique Legacy", "A Unique Family"), interviewed on 14 March 2002
"David Livingston – Master of the , , interviewed by Pat Jankiewicz
audio commentary (ENT Season 3 DVD and ENT Season 3 Blu-ray)
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Jonathan Frakes
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Actor and director Jonathan Scott Frakes portrayed Commander William T. Riker on , and in four . He also appeared as Riker in (as an Okudagram only), , , , and , and portrayed Thomas Riker in an episode of The Next Generation, and an episode of Deep Space Nine.
He also directed a number of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, , and Picard episodes, along with two Star Trek films, and . He and David Carson are the only people to have directed Star Trek television and film productions.
Along with Marina Sirtis, he is one of only two actors to play the same character in four different live action Star Trek series. He and Tim Russ are the only actors to appear on screen with four Star Trek captains. (Frakes also appeared with William Shatner in , but did not share any scenes with him).
Personal
Frakes, whose father was a college professor who taught English and literature, was born in , and raised in . He began acting at a young age in junior high and high school plays.
Following high school, Frakes enrolled at Pennsylvania State University as a psychology major, and during his time at Penn State became involved with an off-campus professional theater group; this experience eventually led to Frakes changing his major to theater arts. Upon completion of his studies, a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Theater Arts, Frakes spent two summers studying drama at Harvard University, where he performed at the Loeb Drama Center.
On 28 May 1988, he married the actress Genie Francis (Laura Spencer on General Hospital, on which a pre-Spock Leonard Nimoy starred in 1963 and on which Corbin Bernsen starred long after playing Q2) after working together in the television mini-series North and South. Francis is the daughter of the late character actor Ivor Francis, and the colony mentioned in , Ivor Prime, may have been named after Frakes's father-in-law. Frakes portrayed the brother of fellow Star Trek actors Kirstie Alley and James Read in North and South and North and South: Book II. The sequel also starred DS9 guest star Jim Metzler. Frakes previously met Francis filming the drama series Bare Essence in 1983.
Television career
Prior to Star Trek: The Next Generation, Frakes appeared in numerous TV roles. In 1977, he co-starred on the medical soap opera The Doctors and between 1978 and 1985 held numerous guest roles on various shows such as Fantasy Island, The Dukes of Hazzard, Quincy, M.E., Highway to Heaven, The Waltons, and The Fall Guy.
Frakes also held a guest role in a 1982 episode of Hill Street Blues. The series featured many Star Trek personalities including James B. Sikking in the recurring role of Lieutenant Howard Hunter and Barbara Bosson as Fay Furillo. The series also featured guest roles by Jonathan Banks, Merritt Butrick, Miguel Ferrer, Larry A. Hankin, Tim Culbertson, and Chris Doyle. Brent Spiner also appeared in the 1985 episode "The Life and Time of Dominic Florio Jr".
In 1985, Frakes was cast as Damon Ross on the prime-time soap opera , a role for which he became very well known. Later that year he starred as a villainous steel industrialist in the 1985 mini-series North and South. The series co-starred Kirstie Alley as well as a cameo role by the famous country music singer . In 1994, while working on Star Trek, Frakes returned to his previous role in North and South: Book II. From 1998 to 2002, he was the host of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.
In 1994, Frakes portrayed himself in the Cybill episode "Starting on the Wrong Foot", giving a parody on Star Trek. The episode also features Stephen Root.
Star Trek
Frakes auditioned seven times over six weeks for the part of Riker. (TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "Selected Crew Analysis – Casting") He was cast in the role, first appearing in the pilot episode in 1987. Frakes portrayed the role of Riker for the next seventeen years in various Star Trek series and films, before returning to the franchise again in 2020 portraying Captain William Riker in the series and .
For the Deep Space Nine episode , Frakes filmed his scenes between Wednesday and Tuesday on Paramount Stage 4, 17, and 18. According to the call sheet, he received a hair and beard cut prior to filming on 5 October 1994. The call sheets also distinguish the parts of "Will Riker" and "Tom Riker" in the cast section by using the numbers 9A and 9B.
He recorded an audio commentary for the DVD, a film in which he both starred and directed. His efficient filming style on the set earned him the nickname of "Two-Takes Frakes".
Several of his costumes from his appearances in Star Trek were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including the episodes , , , and .
He personally feels that the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode is the worst segment of Star Trek that he worked on, while is his favorite Next Generation episode that he directed.
Frakes pitched his own spin-off Star Trek show, but CBS rejected it due to the perceived over saturation of the franchise.
Frakes returned to direct episodes of and . For the former series, he directed the first season episode , and the second season episodes and . For the latter, he helmed and . He also directed two episodes of the third season of Discovery, and will return to direct episodes of the second season of Picard.
Frakes appeared in a promo for the DS9 documentary What We Left Behind.
The Riker Maneuver
During his role as William T. Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jonathan Frakes developed an unusual habit of sitting in chairs by swinging his leg over the chair top, essentially "mounting" the chair in order to sit down.
According to Jonathan Frakes, the manner in which he sat in chairs began in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, specifically due to the chairs in Ten Forward being very low and difficult to sit in, due to Frakes' large stature of being over six feet tall. Eventually, this method of sitting simply became habit and stuck with him for the remainder of the series.
Related to his manner of sitting, fans also noticed the frequency of Riker placing his leg up on consoles, often when standing to overlook a crewman, most often Data when sitting at the operations station. This way of standing, often referred to comically as the "cock-a-leg" or "Riker lean" was attributed for many years to Frakes having a back injury, supposedly due to working as a furniture mover in his early life and severely straining his back muscles. This story went unconfirmed for many years, until Wil Wheaton confirmed Frakes had admitted the same to him during their time together on the series.
The Riker Maneuver actually later became an established Star Trek reference when it was mentioned in .
Further work
His non-Star Trek feature-film directing credits include , , and all three of movies. He directed the Star Trek spoof Star Patrol! in which was planned as a potential pilot for a series but not picked up by 20th Century Fox.
He has also directed various television episodes, including shows such as Roswell, Dollhouse, Castle (including an episode, "The Final Frontier", that featured a large number of Trek references), The Good Guys, and NCIS: Los Angeles. He has also directed several episodes of The Librarians, a spinoff of the film series, which films in the Portland, Oregon area. In these works, he frequently makes cameo appearances. He has also directed episodes of The Orville, a science fiction series which is largely inspired by The Next Generation.
He has also co-written a book, The Abductors: Conspiracy.
Frakes was later a member of The Sunspots, along with Patrick Stewart, Michael Dorn, and LeVar Burton. They appeared as the background vocals for "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" on Brent Spiner's 1991 album Ol' Yellow Eyes is Back.
Frakes is also credited with playing trombone for "Riker's Mailbox" on the 1994 Phish album, Hoist.
Star Trek appearances
Appearances as William T. Riker
Jonathan Frakes is the only Star Trek regular cast member to appear in six Star Trek television series.
(every episode)
(okudagram)
Star Trek films
Additional roles
Aftershow appearances
Appearances on and
Star Trek directorial credits
Jonathan Frakes has directed several Star Trek episodes, and two movies.
Other Trek connections
Alfre Woodard, who starred in First Contact, is his self-proclaimed godmother (despite being three months younger).
He shares his birthday with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and TNG co-star Diana Muldaur.
Aside from Voyager and Nemesis, Frakes has worked with Kate Mulgrew on two other projects: (which also featured the voice of numerous actors from Star Trek, including Avery Brooks, Nichelle Nichols, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, and Colm Meaney) and (which also starred Christopher Lloyd and Thomas F. Wilson).
He directed Brent Spiner and Armin Shimerman in the episode "The Juror #6 Job" and also Spencer Garrett in the episode "The Morning After Job", of the series Leverage.
In 2002, Frakes directed the movie , where he included line "Make it so, Number One", an in-joke in reference to his Star Trek days.
In 2012, Frakes directed Armin Shimerman in the episode "The Final Frontier", and had a small cameo as an autograph-seeking fan.
In 2013 Frakes voiced an adult version of in an episode of with a plot very similar to that of . The same episode also included a cameo by Wallace Shawn.
Star Trek interviews
TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Beginning"
TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "Selected Crew Analysis" ("Casting", "Character Notes", "Camaraderie")
TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Making of a Legend" ("Artistic Design")
TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "Memorable Missions"
TNG Season 2 DVD special feature "Mission Overview: Year Two" ("Ten Forward"), interviewed on
TNG Season 2 DVD special feature "Selected Crew Analysis Year Two", interviewed on
TNG Season 3 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Three" (, "Guinan Returns", "Special Guests on the Bridge"), interviewed on
TNG Season 3 DVD special feature "Selected Crew Analysis Year Three" ("Crew Profile: Riker and Troi"), interviewed on 2 November 2001
TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Four", interviewed on 2 November 2001
TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Four" ("Celebrating 100 Episodes"), interviewed by Entertainment Tonight in
TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "Selected Crew Analysis" ("Profile: Vash"), interviewed on 2 November 2001
TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Four" ("Production"), interviewed on 2 November 2001
TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "Inside the Star Trek Archives" (), interviewed on 2 November 2001
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Five" ("A Visit from Spock"), interviewed on 2 November 2001
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Five" (), interviewed on 2 November 2001
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Intergalactic Guest Stars" (Main segment, "Profile: Captain Morgan Bateson"), interviewed on 2 November 2001
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry" ("Gene Roddenberry Building Dedicated to Star Trek's Creator", "Gene's Final Voyage"), interviewed on , , and an unknown date
TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Bold New Directions Year Six" ("A First Chance at "), interviewed on 2 November 2001
TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Six" ("Writing", "Acting with Spiner"), interviewed on 2 November 2001
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Seven" ("An Ending And A Beginning"), interviewed on 2 November 2001
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Seven: Production" ("New Director, New Challenges"), interviewed on 2 November 2001
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Starfleet Moments & Memories Year Seven" ("A Unique Legacy"), interviewed on 2 November 2001
"Jonathan Frakes – Commander William Riker", , interviewed by Marc Shapiro
"Jonathan Frakes – Commander William Riker", , interviewed by Edward Gross
"Riker's Role", , interviewed by Dennis Fischer
"Jonathan Frakes – Commander William Riker",
"A Career as a Captain", , interviewed by David McDonnell
"Jonathan Frakes – Commander William Riker", , interviewed by Christina Mavroudis & Michael McAvennie
Blu-ray special feature The Unknown Possibilities of Existence: Making "All Good Things" ()
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Winrich "Rick" Ernst Rudolf Kolbe was a German national born in the Netherlands (during its occupation in World War II), who had worked on all four Star Trek spin-off series of the Rick Berman era.
A character listed in a piece of background signage in the episode , Captain , was named after him. The Next Generation series' finale, co-earned Kolbe a Hugo award.
Kolbe served in the Vietnam War, an experience he drew on when he directed . ()
Though at the time still married, Kolbe made the tabloids when he started dating the recently divorced Captain Kathryn Janeway actress Kate Mulgrew during the early seasons of , a relationship that ended when Mulgrew became engaged to her future second husband. (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine issue 6, p. 39; )
Career
Kolbe became an US citizen when he moved to the USA to study architecture, but ended up being drafted during the Vietnam War, in which he served as an artillery spotter in the US Army.
After his service in the US Army, Kolbe started directing for the television series Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries and moved on to episodes of Battlestar Galactica (1978), Sword of Justice, and The Weavers, followed by The Rockford Files, Knight Rider, and Scarecrow and Mrs. King for Warner Bros. In 1987 Kolbe and his family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he directed Spenser: For Hire, followed by its spin-off A Man Called Hawk, starring Avery Brooks.
Other credits
Other directing credits include CHiPs, Voyagers!, Millennium, Angel, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, 24 (earning him a 2002 OFTA Television Award nomination, his second and last motion picture award consideration), and the remake of The Twilight Zone (2002).
Later years and death
From 2003 to 2007, Kolbe was a professor of Film and Television at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Around March 2007, he resigned and returned to California with his family for health reasons.
A private family affair, his sister has only been willing to confirm that Kolbe died in late September 2012. (; )
Star Trek credits
Star Trek awards
Though Winrich Kolbe had been a long-time serving director on many episodes of the Star Trek television series, his work eventually only netted him one Star Trek award.
Hugo Award
Kolbe received the following Hugo Award in the category Best Dramatic Presentation
Hugo Award for the episode , shared with Brannon Braga and Ron D. Moore
Star Trek interviews
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "The Making of "All Good Things..." Year Seven" ("On Location"), interviewed on
VOY Season 1 DVD special feature On Location with the Kazons, interviewed on
"Rick Kolbe - Interpreter for , , interviewed by Ian Spelling
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The Orb of Time was one of the nine Tears of the Prophets delivered to the Bajoran people by the wormhole aliens. Capable of transporting an object or person through time and space, it produced a characteristic surge of chronitons when doing so. The Orb was taken by the Cardassians during their occupation of Bajor, and was only returned in 2373.
In that year, the Cardassians, who were under siege by the Klingons at the time, contacted Starfleet with an offer to return the Orb. As the was transporting the Orb back to Bajor, Arne Darvin, a Klingon spy who had been surgically altered to appear Human, used it to transport the Defiant back in time to the year 2268, where he intended to change history by assassinating James Kirk. Captain Sisko and his crew, however, were able to foil Darvin's plot, while minimizing their participation in historical events. ()
Upon its return to Bajor, the Orb of Time was kept at the Temple of Iponu. In 2374, Major Kira, using her relationship with Captain Sisko, the Emissary of the Prophets, to gain access to the Orb, used it to travel back in time to 2346 and investigate Gul Dukat's claim that he had a relationship with Kira's mother, Meru. Upon learning that Dukat was telling the truth, and that her mother did indeed engage in a relationship with him, Kira attempted to change history by assassinating both Dukat and her mother. When she learned, however, that her mother was only staying with Dukat in order to secure her family's safety, she aborted the plan and saved Meru's and Dukat's life. Upon coming to terms with her mother's actions, she was returned to her proper place in time. ()
Use of the Orb of Time was controlled by the Vedek Assembly and the Department of Temporal Investigations. Using the orb to change history was forbidden and considered a violation of the Temporal Prime Directive which could have serious consequences. ()
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Brent Jay Spiner is an actor best known for playing the android Starfleet officer, Lieutenant Commander Data, on , in four , several episodes of , and off-screen in , the final episode of . He also played Data's "brother", Lore, and "father", Doctor Noonian Soong, in various episodes of Next Generation. In , he played B-4 in . He appeared as Arik Soong in a three-episode arc on Enterprise and as Altan Inigo Soong and Adam Soong on Picard. He also co-wrote the story for Star Trek Nemesis with Rick Berman and John Logan.
His portrayal of Data, the android in search of Humanity, made him an invaluable member of the TNG cast. These skills were highlighted in the episode , in which Spiner played all three main characters of the story, effectively turning the episode into a "one-man show".
Biography
Spiner was born in Houston, Texas in 1949. His father, Jack Spiner, died of kidney failure at the age of 29, when Brent was only ten months old. His mother, Sylvia, married again when Brent was about six years old. Brent and his elder brother, Ronald, were adopted and raised by their stepfather, Sol Mintz, but Brent changed his surname back to "Spiner" in 1975. He first obtained an interest in acting while attending Bellaire High School. He went on to graduate from Trinity College, but he never finished his studies at the University of Houston.
He worked as a cab driver in New York before he could get a job as an actor. In his early years on stage he played a number of roles in off-Broadway productions including by . He soon received roles in several Broadway productions, most notably , and also became active in film and television. In addition to his acting career, Spiner is also a professional singer and has released two albums.
Brent Spiner is married to publicist Loree McBride, with whom he has a son, Jackson Spiner, born 29 June 2002.
Film and television career
Early career and the TNG years
Spiner's first television work was a brief, uncredited role in the 1970 TV movie My Sweet Charlie. His next TV appearance was not until 1978, when he became a cast member in the mini-series The Dain Curse. His future TNG co-star, Jean Simmons (Admiral Norah Satie in ) also starred in this series.
His first feature film appearance was a brief one in Woody Allen's 1980 comedy Stardust Memories. Also making his film debut in this film was future star Armin Shimerman. Spiner next appeared in an uncredited role in the 1981 comedy Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, starring David Clennon. His first major film role – and his first and only starring role to date – was in 1984's Rent Control, a comedy in which Spiner played Leonard Junger, an aspiring TV writer who searches for a cheap apartment for his family only to become involved in a murder. One of his co-stars in this film was Roy Brocksmith, who went on to co-star with Spiner in the TNG episode .
It was also in 1984 that Spiner began appearing in episodic television, beginning with an episode of Tales from the Darkside with Christian Slater. This was followed with guest appearances on Hill Street Blues (starring fellow Trek alumni Barbara Babcock, Barbara Bosson, and James B. Sikking), Mama's Family (featuring Anne Haney), Hunter (with Bruce Davison and TNG guest actress Katherine Moffat), and Cheers. In the latter, he played a man who was accused of attempting to murder his wife. John Fleck played the bailiff at Spiner's character's court case; Kelsey Grammer also appeared in his role as Dr. Frasier Crane.
Between 1985 and 1987, Spiner and Annie O'Donnell had recurring roles on the hit sitcom Night Court, playing a Yugoslavian family pretending to be hicks from West Virginia and who often found themselves, through pure misfortune, as defendants in the courtroom. Besides series regular John Larroquette, other Trek performers Spiner co-starred with on this series were K Callan, Carlos LaCamara, and Kenneth Tobey. In 1985, Spiner appeared in the mini-series Robert Kennedy & His Times, which also featured the likes of Cliff DeYoung (as John F. Kennedy), Bruce French, Albert Hall, and Harris Yulin. In 1986, Spiner appeared in a segment of the 1980s version of , appearing with his future TNG co-star John de Lancie. Additionally, Spiner appeared in a number of TV movies during the 1980s, including 1986's Sunday in the Park with George, 1987's Family Sins, and 1989's What's Alan Watching?.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Spiner focused primarily on his role as Data on TNG, although he did make occasional appearances in other projects. He had a role in the 1989 comedy Miss Firecracker, his first feature film appearance in five years. Spiner's future co-star, Alfre Woodard, was among the stars of this film, and guest actor Bert Remsen also appeared. That same year, Spiner made a cameo appearance in Wes Craven's horror movie Shocker. And in 1991, Spiner made an uncredited appearance in the TV movie Crazy from the Heart, which also featured Fran Bennett and the late Bibi Besch.
Post-TNG
After TNG ended in , Spiner was seen in the 1994 film Corrina, Corrina, which starred Spiner's fellow TNG castmate Whoopi Goldberg in the title role. The following year, Spiner starred with actor Christopher Lloyd in the short-lived science fiction series Deadly Games. He was also seen in the 1995 TV movie Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long, along with Bill Cobbs and Bob Gunton, and made guest appearances on the shows Mad About You (starring Anne Elizabeth Ramsay), Dream On (starring Michael McKean), and The Outer Limits (with Erich Anderson). Spiner also made a cameo in the 1996 romantic comedy Pie in the Sky, starring his former TNG castmate Wil Wheaton as well as TNG/DS9/ENT guest actress Dey Young.
Spiner was one of the many Star Trek performers who lent his voice to the animated Disney series Gargoyles. Others who have done the same include his TNG co-stars Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, and Colm Meaney, Deep Space Nine star Avery Brooks, Voyager star Kate Mulgrew, Original Series actress Nichelle Nichols, Voyager guest actor John Rhys-Davies, and TNG guest actors David Warner and Paul Winfield.
Spiner had roles in three blockbuster films in 1996. Not only did he play Data in Star Trek: First Contact, but he also had a memorable role as eccentric scientist Brackish Okun in the sci-fi mega-hit Independence Day (which also featured Bill Smitrovich, Frank Novak, Leland Orser, Raphael Sbarge, Carlos Lacamara, Tim Kelleher, Robert Pine, Randy Nolen, Randy Oglesby, and Erick Avari). Spiner additionally appeared as a psychologist in the drama Phenomenon, co-starring Ellen Geer, Richard Kiley, and Daniel Zacapa.
The following year, Spiner had a major supporting role as despotic cruise director Gil Godwyn in the comedy Out to Sea. In 1999, Spiner gave an acclaimed performance as Dorothy Dandridge's manager, Earl Mills, in the critically-lauded, Emmy Award-winning HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge again working with Raphael Sbarge. He also lent his voice to a parody of Conan O'Brien for the animated film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut that same year.
Spiner played the sinister Stromboli in the 2000 TV movie Geppetto, co-starring Deep Space Nine star Rene Auberjonois. The following year, Spiner co-starred with Scott Bakula and Bruce Greenwood in the mini-series A Girl Thing. Spiner would go on to work with Bakula during the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise.
Spiner's film credits following the turn of the century include a cameo appearance in the 2001 comedy Dude, Where's My Car? (in which Andy Dick also had a cameo), a brief role in the 2001 drama I Am Sam (co-starring former TNG castmate Rosalind Chao), and a role in the 2002 comedy The Master of Disguise (co-starring Michael Bailey Smith, Erick Avari, and Larry Cedar). He also made an appearance in the Oscar-winning 2004 film The Aviator, a role he acquired due to his association with the film's writer, John Logan, with whom Spiner collaborated while writing Star Trek Nemesis.
His television credits include guest appearances on Frasier (starring one-time TNG guest actor Kelsey Grammer, in an episode also guest-starring another one-time TNG performer, Bebe Neuwirth), Friends, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Most recently, Spiner starred in the short-lived sci-fi series Threshold, on which TNG producer Brannon Braga served as executive producer; Mike Sussman wrote several episodes for this series.
Spiner next starred in the comedy Material Girls, released in August 2006. He was later seen in the comic book movie spoof Superhero Movie with his co-star Christopher McDonald. He also lent his voice to a 3D computer-animated film called Quantum Quest, which also features the voices of Jason Alexander, Robert Picardo, Chris Pine, and William Shatner. He also did an episode of the TNT show Leverage alongside Armin Shimerman and Kitty Swink, with Jonathan Frakes directing.
In 2011, Spiner had a cameo on The Big Bang Theory as himself, alongside recurring guest star Wil Wheaton. He also provided the voice of the Joker on Young Justice, an animated series produced by Gargoyles creator Greg Weisman. Bruce Greenwood voices Batman.
In a 2012 five-minute behind-the-scenes interview, Spiner and Saul Rubinek discussed Spiner's multi-episode guest-starring role as Brother Adrian in Season 4 of Syfy's Warehouse 13. They revealed their long history of friendship since their stage acting days, with fond references to Rubinek's antagonistic portrayals opposite Spiner in .
Also in 2012, Spiner guested in of The Simpsons, "Them, Robot", in which he voiced all the robots.
More recently, Spiner had a recurring guest role as therapist on the second season of the crime/drama series Ray Donovan, in which he worked with Paula Malcomson, Michael McGrady, Josh Pais, and fellow TNG alumn Denise Crosby. He completed filming on the thriller The Midnight Man, with Jeff Bornstein, in which he played the character Ezekiel.
Spiner reprised his role as Dr. Brakish Okun in the sequel of Independence Day. John Stoneham, Jr. also worked on this sequel, as the film's stunt coordinator.
Stage work
Spiner's off-Broadway credits have included Leave It to Beaver Is Dead and the aforementioned The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. He has also starred in a number of Broadway stage productions, beginning with A History of the American Film in 1978.
From 2 May 1984 through 13 October 1985, Spiner appeared in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, in which he played two roles – Dennis the technician and Franz the servant. Harry Groener joined the cast in April 1985, replacing Mandy Patinkin in the lead role of George.
While still appearing in Sunday in the Park with George, Spiner also played Aramis to Ron Taylor's Porthos in a short-lived production of The Three Musketeers. In October 1985, Spiner took over the role of The Duke from DS9 star and Geppetto co-star Rene Auberjonois for the play Big River; Spiner himself was ultimately replaced in the role by Ken Jenkins. Bob Gunton played The King during both Auberjonois' and Spiner's tenures.
Spiner returned to Broadway in 1997, starring as John Adams in the musical 1776, which also starred Michael Cumpsty. For his performance in this play, Spiner was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Musical. More recently, Spiner starred with Helen Hunt and John Turturro in Life (x) 3.
His many other stage credits have included Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (1976), Little Shop of Horrors (1985), and 's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1991).
Singing career
In a rather unexpected turn of events, in 1991, Spiner released an album of 1930s and 1940s pop standards called . Notably, the back-up vocals in the song "It's a Sin (to Tell a Lie)" were performed by "The Sunspots," aka his fellow TNG cast-members LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, and Patrick Stewart. Wendy Neuss and Dennis McCarthy co-produced this album. This album may have influenced Paramount Pictures enough to let him sing the Irving Berlin song "Blue Skies" in the movie .
Spiner also lent his singing talents to the film Out to Sea. More recently Spiner performed in Dreamland, a musical/radio play released as a CD album in 2008.
Appearances
As Data...
All episodes except
...and Data as...
Additional characters
Star Trek video game credits
Star Trek: Bridge Commander as Lt. Commander Data
Star Trek: Away Team as Lt. Commander Data
Star Trek: Hidden Evil as Lt. Commander Data
Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity as Lt. Commander Data
Star Trek interviews
TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Beginning"
TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "Selected Crew Analysis" ("Character Notes")
TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Making of a Legend" ("Make-Up")
TNG Season 2 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Two: Memorable Missions" (), interviewed on
TNG Season 3 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Three" (), interviewed on 4 April 1994
TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Four" ("Make Up"), interviewed on 4 April 1994
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Five" ("A Visit from Spock"), interviewed on
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Intergalactic Guest Stars" (Main segment, "Presidential Visit: Ronald Reagan"), interviewed on 11 April 2002
TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Six" (Main segment, "Resolving the Cliffhanger", "Descent – Part 1 Featuring "), interviewed on 11 April 2002
TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Bold New Directions Year Six", interviewed on 11 April 2002
TNG Season 6 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Six" ("Special Crew Profile: Lt. Cmdr. Data", "Doubling Data", "An Android Sings", Acting with Spiner"), interviewed on and 11 April 2002
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Seven" ("The Final Episode"), interviewed on 11 April 2002
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Starfleet Moments & Memories Year Seven" ("A Unique Family"), interviewed on 11 April 2002
Trekkies
Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: First Contact (2009 DVD) special "Brent Spiner: Data and Beyond Part 2" ()
"Brent Spiner – Lt. Commander Data", , interviewed by Marc Shapiro
Blu-ray special feature The Unknown Possibilities of Existence: Making "All Good Things" ()
Writing credits
(story, with Rick Berman & John Logan).
Trivia
Brent Spiner was afraid of Heights so having to film the part in First Contact where he jumps down numerous levels down in the missile silo was terrifying to him.
Brent Spiner was not very fond of cats even though Data had a pet cat named Spot.
See also
The Spin on Spiner
External links
– official site
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Les Landau
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Leslie "Les" Landau is a veteran director of Star Trek episodes in all four Rick Berman-era spin-off series. Landau started as first assistant director on the first season of . During this capacity, he replaced director Russ Mayberry on , when Mayberry left the production. Later in the season, Landau finally debuted as a credited director with .
Dr. Les Landau, a character in the episode that appeared in a directory of names on a set decoration, was named for him. Landau was interviewed by Lee Goldberg for the article "Les Landau – Friend to , published in . In his position as first assistant director, Landau attended casting sessions and story meetings after he asked Corey Allen to participate as much as possible. Landau was asked to return for the second season as assistant director with the promise to direct two Star Trek episodes and a segment of MacGyver and accepted.
Landau served as assistant director on the 1976 film Leadbelly, starring Madge Sinclair and Albert Hall, and as first assistant director on the television series Dynasty, starring Joan Collins and Lee Bergere, co-produced by Douglas S. Cramer, and T.J. Hooker, starring William Shatner, James Darren, and Richard Herd.
He has also directed episodes for such television series as Beverly Hills, 90210, seaQuest DSV, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, M.A.N.T.I.S., Sliders, JAG, and Dark Angel. He produced and directed the 1998 film Archibald the Rainbow Painter, which starred Robert Picardo, Michael McKean, Andrew Robinson, Ann Gillespie, and Spice Williams. He also directed the television science fiction film The Last Man on Planet Earth in 1999, written by Kenneth Biller and starring Tamlyn Tomita, Elizabeth Dennehy, Nancy Hower, Martha Hackett, Cliff DeYoung, and Azalea Davila.
Star Trek credits
– First Assistant Director (Season 1)
– Director (uncredited), First Assistant Director
– First Assistant Director
– First Assistant Director
– First Assistant Director
– First Assistant Director
– First Assistant Director
– First Assistant Director
– First Assistant Director
– First Assistant Director
– First Assistant Director
– First Assistant Director (Season 2)
– First Assistant Director
(Season 3)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Klingon Challenge
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe is a writer of many Star Trek episodes. His first episode was the sixth season episode , which helped him get a job as a writer on .
Biography
Robert Hewitt Wolfe was born in in . His father was a career officer in the United States Army and his mother was a nurse. The family moved around the United States to where Wolfe's father was assigned. They stopped moving in the 1970s and settled in San Francisco.
Wolfe later attended where he earned a bachelor's degree in Film and Television and a Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting in the late 1980s.
Work on Star Trek
After leaving UCLA, Wolfe spent five years attempting to find a writing job. The sale of "A Fistful of Datas" boosted his standing and he was asked to become a member of Deep Space Nines writing staff soon after.
Wolfe spent the next five years on DS9, writing mostly with Ira Steven Behr. He left the show at the end of its fifth year, although he wrote in the seventh season. He appeared in the fifth season episode as a wounded Starfleet officer boarding the .
Wolfe also wrote the Legends of the Ferengi with Behr.
After Trek
Soon after leaving DS9, Wolfe developed the series Andromeda based on material Gene Roddenberry had developed several decades earlier. He worked as both executive producer and head writer on the series. He left Andromeda at the end of its second season, due to creative differences between him and the studio and network over the focus on Kevin Sorbo's character. Wolfe wanted other characters to be focused on as well.
Wolfe later worked with several of his fellow DS9 writers, most often for shows Ira Steven Behr worked on. He wrote The Twilight Zone episode "Upgrade" and The Dead Zone episode "Descent" in this period.
He later joined Behr again as a consulting producer and writer on The 4400, scripting Season 1's "Trial by Fire." He left the show after helping to guide it through its first season, then returned to work on the final season and write the episode "Till We Have Built Jerusalem."
The Dresden Files
In 2006, Wolfe and Hans Beimler began developing television series, which they based on the by . Wolfe served as both executive producer and writer on the series, which aired prior to Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica on the Sci-Fi Channel.
Like he was during Deep Space Nines run, Wolfe was active on various Dresden Files Internet message boards, discussing the series with viewers. In an interview, Wolfe said that he would've liked to do twenty-six episodes a season like DS9 did, but that "You get a little more time to breathe, afterwards, even though the intensity is same when you're actually doing it. You get a month or two off, instead of just two weeks for Christmas and three weeks for the summer, like we did on Deep Space Nine".
The Dresden Files was not renewed for a second season, although fans campaigned to get it brought back. Wolfe later returned to "The 4400" as consulting producer from the 5th episode of Season 4 until the show's demise at the end of that season. He also wrote an episode for the show that year, entitled "Till We Have Built Jerusalem."
Other works
Wolfe and Beimler were also developing a television series called Scarlett, which focused on a horror writer who moves to a mansion in New Orleans and finds her characters come to life. Unfortunately, the series seems to not have been picked up by the Lifetime network.
Additionally, the pair wrote a script called The Serpent and the Eagle which focuses on ' invasion of and his war against the Aztecs. The script was optioned by Imagine Entertainment, but has not yet been produced.
With Beimler, and then later on his own, Wolfe worked on several drafts of the 2010 Syfy channel miniseries adaptation of "Riverworld." In 2010 he was working as a consulting producer on the ABC summer series "The Gates" for which he wrote two episodes, episode 7 "Digging the Dirt" and episode 10 "Little Girl Lost." Since then (2011) he's working on the Syfy series Alpha for which he wrote three episodes and also serves as a co-executive producer once again together with his old writing partner Ira Steven Behr.
Wolfe is now a producer and writer on Elementary.
Writing credits
(teleplay only) (Season 1)
(teleplay only, with others)
(teleplay only, with John Whelpley) (Season 2)
(teleplay only, with several others)
(teleplay only, with Ira Steven Behr and Gary Holland)
(story only, with Ira Steven Behr) (Season 3)
(story only, with Ira Steven Behr)
(story with Ira Steven Behr, teleplay)
(story only, with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(teleplay only, with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr) (Season 4)
(teleplay only, with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(teleplay only, with Ira Steven Behr)
(teleplay only, With Ira Steven Behr)
(teleplay Only)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(teleplay only, with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr) (Season 5)
(story with Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(teleplay only)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(Season 7)
Novels
DS9 Legends of the Ferengi with Ira Steven Behr
External links
– official site
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Writers
DS9 performers
Star Trek novel authors
Hugo Award nominees
Story editors
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Kenneth P. Biller is a long-time writer, producer, and (occasional) director of episodes. He joined the series as an Executive Story Editor with the first season episode .
Beginning with the second season episode, , Biller became a Co-Producer on the series. He was named Producer by season four and Supervising Producer at the start of season five. He was fired from the show by Rick Berman after season five, to make room for Ronald D. Moore, who joined the writing staff at the beginning of the sixth season. However, Moore's tenure on Voyager turned out short and Biller was brought back after his departure, promoted to Co-Executive Producer.
For the seventh and final season, Biller was made showrunner and an Executive Producer on the series, taking over from Brannon Braga who felt burned out and was busy developing the next spin-off, . (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years)
Biller also co-wrote the Klingon Encounter ride for Star Trek: The Experience with René Echevarria. A call sheet for the Voyager episode , , the 4th of 8 days, featured a note that Biller and his wife Hope became parents of a baby girl, Sophia Rose, on 29 August 2000 at 7:42 a.m.
Prior to Voyager, Biller was a writer and executive story editor on the popular series Beverly Hills, 90210. During his tenure on this series, Biller, in collaboration with Chris Brancato, penned the episode "Wild Horses", which guest-starred Alice Krige. Biller also co-wrote the 1993 X-Files episode "Eve" and wrote the 1999 television science fiction movie The Last Man on Planet Earth for director Les Landau. The film starred Tamlyn Tomita, Elizabeth Dennehy, Martha Hackett, Nancy Hower, Cliff DeYoung, and Azalea Davila.
After Voyager, Biller became Co-Executive Producer, Writer and Director on the television shows Dark Angel, Smallville, and North Shore. He also executive produced, wrote and directed for the NBC series E-Ring. In 2008, Biller directed an episode of Smallville that featured Voyager regular Robert Picardo.
More recently, Biller executive produced the short-lived series Six Degrees with J.J. Abrams, the director and producer of and . He also was an executive producer on Legend of the Seeker, a syndicated series based on Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series of novels that ran for two seasons from 2008 to 2010. Mike Sussman was a writer and producer on this series.
Writing credits
(story with Jonathan Glassner and teleplay) (Season 1)
(teleplay with Jack & Karen Klein)
(teleplay with Jeri Taylor)
(teleplay)
(story and teleplay) (Season 2)
(story and teleplay)
(story and teleplay)
(teleplay)
(teleplay) (Season 3)
(teleplay)
(story and teleplay)
(story and teleplay)
(story and teleplay)
(story and teleplay) (Season 4)
(story and teleplay)
(teleplay)
(story and teleplay) (Season 5)
(teleplay)
(story)
(teleplay with Bryan Fuller & Nick Sagan)
(teleplay with Michael Taylor)
(teleplay with David Zabel) (Season 6)
(written with Raf Green)
(teleplay with Mike Sussman and Bryan Fuller)
(story with Robert Doherty) (Season 7)
(story)
(teleplay of Part II with Raf Green)
(story with Larry Nemecek & J. Kelley Burke and Raf Green)
(story with Raf Green)
(story and teleplay with Bryan Fuller)
(story with Bryan Fuller and teleplay with Michael Taylor)
(story with André Bormanis)
(story)
(story with James Kahn)
(story with Rick Berman & Brannon Braga and teleplay with Robert Doherty)
Directorial credits
External links
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René Echevarria is a Cuban-American writer, producer and story editor of many and episodes. He also appeared as a holographic bar patron in the final episode of Deep Space Nine, .
Star Trek
Echevarria preferred writing dialogue for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine characters over the Star Trek: The Next Generation characters. Echevarria commented: "In a lot of ways, I find it much easier and much more enjoyable to write for ST:DS9. I think the characters feel more real to me and more vivid. I remember sitting down to write a scene between Geordi and Beverly and not knowing what these people have to say to each other. After seven years, we really don't know that much about them. ST:TNG was pitched at a sort of heroic level – like a fable. In the end, these characters were all wonderful, nice people who got along with each other. On ST:DS9, I think the characters are much more real people who have back stories and problems and ways of looking at the world. The problem of writing a scene between Riker and Geordi was that you just didn't know what they would say, and you couldn't keep going. On ST:DS9, when you sit down to write a scene between Bashir and O'Brien, they talk to you as you write them. Their voices are so clear. You find yourself thinking, 'Oh no, what have I done? I've written a nine-page scene. It should only be two! As a writer I find that more satisfying". ("The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword", Star Trek Monthly, issue 29)
Echevarria participated in filming of the documentary What We Left Behind.
Biography
Echevarria comes from a Cuban family of Basque origins.
After graduating with a degree in history from Duke University, Echevarria moved to New York to pursue a career in theater. In 1985, he was assistant director to a production of the Victor Muniz play "Darts" and appeared in a production of "Lower Depths by Gorky". In 1986, he starred in a production of the Kristin McCloy play "Isosceles" at the Chelsea Theater, and in 1987, he appeared in the La Marna Theater adaptation of the Aeschuylus play "Oresteia". Echevarria collaborated with McCloy on the full-length play "Prepared", which was presented at the World's End Theatre in London in 1988 and was performed at the Edinburgh Festival that same year.
In 1989, while working as a waiter in New York, he wrote his first script for , . As a result he became a regular writer for the show and was also a regular writer for . His 30-plus episodes of Star Trek have earned him a Humanitas nomination, a Peabody nomination, two Hugo nominations, and a NASA Vision award for Best Depiction of Humanity's Future in Space. In 1994, he received a Special Achievement award from the Latino Media Organization HAMAS. In 1998, he developed the scenario for Star Trek: The Experience.
After Star Trek he was supervising producer on the critically-acclaimed, but short-lived CBS series Now and Again distributed by Paramount Pictures. In 2000, he signed on as co-executive producer for the short-lived James Cameron FOX series Dark Angel as part of an overall multiyear with 20th Century FOX Television to develop new projects for the studio. In 2004, Echevarria created The 4400 and has since produced shows such as Medium, Castle, Terra Nova and Teen Wolf. In 2019 he co-produced the fantasy series Carnival Row for Amazon Prime Video.
Star Trek credits
Writing credits
(Season 3)
(Season 4, teleplay, story with Ken Schafer)
(Season 5, story with Gary Perconte)
(Season 6)
(story)
(teleplay)
(Season 7)
(uncredited)
(uncredited)
(teleplay with Dan Koeppel)
(teleplay)
(teleplay)
(teleplay)
(teleplay)
(Season 3, teleplay)
(teleplay with Ira Steven Behr)
(teleplay)
(teleplay)
(Season 4, teleplay with Ronald D. Moore, story)
(teleplay, story with Majel Barrett-Roddenberry)
(Season 5, teleplay)
(teleplay with Ronald D. Moore)
(teleplay)
(Season 6)
(teleplay)
(teleplay)
(Season 7)
(teleplay, story with Spike Steingasser)
(teleplay with Ronald D. Moore)
Other credits
Season 6 – Story Editor (26 episodes)
Season 7 – Executive Story Editor (26 episodes)
External links
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Jeri Cecile Taylor is a television writer and producer best known for her contributions to the Star Trek franchise. Born in Bloomington, Indiana, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Indiana University in 1959, and her Master's degree in English from California State University at Northridge. She is the mother of two-time guest star and recurring actor Alexander Enberg.
Prior to joining Star Trek, Taylor was a producer, story editor, and occasional director on the hit medical series Quincy, M.E., on which Trek guest performers Robert Ito and Garry Walberg were regular cast members. She went on to serve as producer and writer for such series as Magnum, P.I., In the Heat of the Night, and Jake and the Fatman. She also directed episodes of the latter series. In addition, she co-wrote the 1987 CBS TV movie A Place to Call Home, for which she also served as supervising producer. She was also a producer of the short-lived TV adaptation of the film Blue Thunder, whose guest stars included Tracy Scoggins, Sam Anderson, Ray Wise, John Hancock, Robert DoQui, and Kurtwood Smith.
She joined the staff of The Next Generation as supervising producer in and held that position through the show's fifth season. She then served as co-executive producer for the show's sixth season, and was then promoted to executive producer for its final season, and served as showrunner for the final year, as Michael Piller was primarily occupied with at the time. She also co-wrote three episodes of Deep Space Nine during the latter period. Additionally, she assisted in the production of the Trek films and , receiving special thanks notices in each of the films' end credits for her contributions. Working in the business since 1976, Taylor was asked to join the staff after rewriting the episode . ("Chronicles from the Final Frontier", TNG Season 4 DVD special feature)
After Next Generation came to an end in , Taylor co-created with Rick Berman and Michael Piller and served as executive producer on that series for its first four seasons. She also worked on several episodes of the series as a writer. She retired from the series (and the franchise) in , handing over her position of Executive Producer and showrunner to Brannon Braga, but continued to serve as creative consultant for the show during its last three seasons.
Between 1994 and 1998, Taylor gave the Indiana University Lilly Library a collection of papers from her career, which included outlines, final scripts for the entire Next Generation series and the first two Voyager seasons, technical notes, cast lists, and shooting schedules for the final season of The Next Generation (1993-1994), and draft scripts, casting call sheets, research notes, etc. for Voyager (1994-1996). Some of the outlines, technical notes, and lists contain Taylor's handwritten changes and comments.
Writing credits
(teleplay with John Whelpley) (Season 4)
(teleplay with Kacey Arnold-Ince)
(teleplay)
(teleplay with Pamela Douglas)
(co-writer, uncredited)
(teleplay) (Season 5)
(teleplay)
(teleplay with Pamela Gray)
(uncredited)
(teleplay) (Season 6)
(uncredited)
(story)
(story)
(uncredited, Season 7)
(television story)
(story with Ira Steven Behr) (Season 2)
(story with Rick Berman, Michael Piller and James Crocker)
(story with Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Ira Steven Behr)
(teleplay with Michael Piller, story with Rick Berman and Michael Piller) (Season 1)
(teleplay with Bill Dial)
(with Brannon Braga) (Season 2)
(teleplay with Kenneth Biller)
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(Season 3)
(teleplay)
(Season 4)
(Season 5)
Producing credits
Season 4 ( – ) – Supervising Producer
Season 5 – Supervising Producer (26 episodes)
Season 6 – Co-Executive Producer (26 episodes)
Season 7 – Executive Producer (26 episodes)
Season 1 – Executive Producer (16 episodes)
Season 2 – Executive Producer (26 episodes)
Season 3 – Executive Producer (26 episodes)
Season 4 – Executive Producer (26 episodes)
Bibliography
(novelization)
Mosaic
Pathways
Star Trek interviews
TNG Season 4 DVD special feature "Chronicles from the Final Frontier", interviewed on
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Five" ("A Visit from Spock", ), interviewed on 17 March 1994
TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry" ("Gene's Final Voyage"), interviewed on 17 March 1994
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Mission Overview Year Seven" ("An Ending And A Beginning", "The Final Episode"), interviewed on 17 March 1994 and
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Seven" ("Creating Stronger Women"), interviewed on 17 March 1994
TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "The Making of "All Good Things..." Year Seven", interviewed on 17 March 1994
VOY Season 1 DVD special feature Braving the Unknown: Season One, interviewed on 8 November 1994
E! Inside Star Trek: Voyager ()
Launch of Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
Star Trek: Voyager - Inside the New Adventure (1995)
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Hans Beimler
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Hans Anthony Beimler is a writer, producer, and script editor of many and episodes. He also appeared in Deep Space Nines final episode, , as a holographic guest at Vic's Las Vegas Lounge.
Biography
Beimler was born in Mexico City in the 1950s, the son of a Spanish Civil War refugee and an American painter. He was named after his grandfather, German Communist and Hero of the Spanish Civil War Hans Beimler (1895-1936). His mother is a trained psychoanalyst. In the 1970s, he attended the University of Southern California, graduating with a degree in Film Production in 1977.
In the early to mid 1980s, Beimler worked as an assistant director on several films. These included Night Shift, Splash, Mischief and The Golden Child.
Beimler wrote several episodes of She-Wolf of London and Space Precinct after leaving The Next Generation and before joining the staff of Deep Space Nine. He also produced, wrote and also directed several episodes of William Shatner's TekWar television series.
Beimler wrote all of his Next Generation episodes with Richard Manning. Ira Steven Behr asked them to join the Deep Space Nine staff after they wrote the teleplay of the second season episode . Although Beimler turned him down at the time, he would later join the team a year later, beginning with the series' fourth season.
Although he wrote many episodes on his own, he collaborated with Ira Steven Behr on many episodes of the sixth season and seventh seasons, earning with him a Hugo Award nomination in 1997 for .
After leaving Star Trek in , Beimler wrote episodes of Profiler, The District, The Chronicle and The Twilight Zone. Beimler served as co-executive producer on The District and The Chronicle.
He also co-wrote the upcoming The Serpent and the Eagle, which is based on the life of Cortez. It is interesting to note that Beimler co-wrote three Deep Space Nine episodes () that mentioned the .
Beimler is currently working with his friend and fellow Deep Space Nine staff member Robert Hewitt Wolfe on the television series The Dresden Files. David Carson directed the pilot episode.
Writing credits
– – Story Editor
(teleplay with Richard Manning)
(teleplay with Robert Lewin and Richard Manning)
– – Executive Script Consultant
(story with Richard Manning)
(television story and teleplay with Richard Manning)
(teleplay with Maurice Hurley and Richard Manning)
(with Richard Manning)
(teleplay with Ira Steven Behr, Richard Manning and Ronald D. Moore)
(with Richard Manning)
(teleplay with Jeff King and Richard Manning)
(teleplay)
(teleplay)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(teleplay)
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(story with Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe)
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(with Ira Steven Behr)
(teleplay)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(teleplay with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
(with Ira Steven Behr)
Producing credits
TNG Season 3 – Co-Producer (26 episodes)
Hugo Award nomination
Hugo Award nomination in the category Best Dramatic Presentation for , shared with, Jonathan West, Director; Ronald D. Moore and René Echevarria, Writers; Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe, story by; Ira Steven Behr and Rick Berman, Executive Producers
Star Trek interviews
"Hans Beimler; Star Trek:The Next Generation", Larry Nemecek, , May 2001, pp. 50-55
"Hans Beimler", Larry Nemecek, , July 2002, pp. 42-47
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Starfleet Academy (also referred to as the Space Academy) was a department within Starfleet. The main purpose of this department was for the education and training of individuals for service in Starfleet. (; ; ; ) The movement of personnel in and out of this service was governed by the Starfleet Transfer Regulations. (, okudagram) The chief administrator of the Academy was the superintendent or commandant. () The head of the academy was the Chancellor of Starfleet Academy. ()
History
As early as the 2140s, United Earth had established a Space Academy where Starfleet personnel were trained. (; commemorative plaque) It was officially incorporated into the Federation in 2161 with the motto Ex Astris, Scientia, to serve as a training facility for Federation Starfleet officers. (Starfleet Academy emblem plaque; commemorative plaque)
In the 2260s of the alternate reality, information on Starfleet Academy was located in the Federation database. ()
By the early 25th century, there were thousands of cadets from the Alpha and Beta Quadrants attempting to complete the four-year training program. In one graduating class in 2401, there were cadets from Andoria, , United Earth, Vulcan, Ferenginar, Betazed, Klingon Empire, Romulan Free State, Denobula, and Orion. ( commemorative plaque)
In 3190, Starfleet Academy was reopened following The Burn. ()
Dedication plaques
In the 24th century, the Academy was named on the dedication plaques of some and starships.
Captain was noted for his work with the Academy on the on Stardate 22519.5. (, dedication plaque)
Captain was noted for her work with the Academy on the on Stardate 40250.5. (, dedication plaque) Later, she was noted for her work with the Academy on the on Stardate 44820.5. (, dedication plaque)
Holodeck simulation - Captain Riker
In 2367, while exploring a cavern on Alpha Onias III, Commander William T. Riker was rendered unconscious by gases. While unconscious, neural scanners scanned Riker's brain. The scanners used elements of Riker's reality and constructed a holodeck simulation with those elements interspersed throughout, so that it felt real to him. What Riker wanted; the scanners made possible.
In one of these simulations, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard was promoted to superintendent of the academy, on stardate 51253, Captain Riker succeeded him as the commanding officer of the . In 2383, the academy was mentioned in Riker's service record that was on display in his quarters on the Enterprise-D. (, okudagram)
Locations
The headquarters of Starfleet Academy were located in the Presidio in San Francisco, while the Academy training facility itself was located in Marin County across the Golden Gate Bridge. The training facility consisted of a Starfleet Command School, a Starfleet Flight School, a Starflight Tactical School, and the Starfleet Medical Academy. (; commemorative plaque)
Staff accommodations for flag officers was next to the northern part of the Golden Gate Bridge, also in Marin County. (; )
Administration buildings were located in San Francisco's downtown financial district. ()
By the 32nd century, Starfleet Academy had left Earth, along with the rest of Starfleet and the Federation government. However, a massive tree on the former campus under which cadets had studied as far back as the 23rd century remained intact and well-maintained. () In 3190, Starfleet Academy was re-commissioned at Starfleet Headquarters, with Captain Michael Burnham of the and Federation President Laira Rillak addressing the new class of cadets there. ()
Starfleet Academy training bases and campuses
In 2401, there were satellite campuses on over 80 Federation worlds. ( commemorative plaque)
Academy Flight Range
Marseille Starfleet base
Starfleet testing area, Relva VII
Starfleet Academy, Beta Aquilae II
Starfleet Academy, Beta Ursae Minor II
Starfleet Academy, Earth
Starfleet Academy, Psi Epsilon III
Starfleet Academy, Psi Upsilon III
Preparation for admission
Admission into Starfleet Academy began with the acceptance of the candidate's application. Once the application was accepted, the candidate underwent the Academy entrance competition exams, which determined those admitted by the best scores among a group of candidates competing to gain admission. In 2364, one such location for these competitions was on Relva VII. The exam contained sections on hyperspace physics and dynamic relationships, among others. Along with the infamous "psych test", in which the prospective cadet faced their greatest fear, unannounced tests could take place at any time during the exam period. (; )
Not all candidates made entry into Starfleet Academy on their first attempt; however, if their scores were high enough in the competition, they could be eligible to reapply the following year. If the results of the reapplication were sufficiently high, they were accepted into the Academy. ()
For non-Federation citizens, a candidate could attend the Academy if they were sponsored and had a letter of reference written on their behalf by a command-level officer. Once this was accomplished, the candidate was eligible for the Academy Preparatory Exam. (; )
The Starfleet Academy Preparatory Program was the next stage for consideration of admission, which consisted of six weeks of summer classes. By passing the Preparatory Program, a candidate's admission was ensured, as they had then proven to the admissions committee that they were prepared, or determined, to become a cadet. Once this had been accomplished, the candidate was then eligible for the Academy entrance exam. ()
Attending the Academy
The Academy program typically lasted four years, though certain programs lasted five, six, or eight years. (; )
Academy personnel
Starfleet Academy personnel
Course work
Starfleet Academy courses
Majors
Starfleet Academy majors
Extracurricular
Academy wrestling team
Boxing
Decathlon
European Swordsmanship club
Parrises squares
Rigel Cup competition
Starfleet Academy marathon
A team
Program for enlisted crewmen
The Academy had a separate program for the training of enlisted crewpeople, which included receiving basic training and attending the Starfleet Technical Services Academy on Mars. ()
For the elite cadets
Falcon Squadron
Nova Squadron
Red Squad
Third Academy Training Wing
Training ships
Training ships included:
Academy flight trainer
Academy trainer craft
Class J starship
Notable exams
Kobayashi Maru test
Graduation
In 2368, Captain Jean-Luc Picard was asked to deliver the commencement address for that year's Academy graduates. The occasion was marred by the loss of Cadet Joshua Albert in an accident shortly before commencement. ()
Post-graduate options
Advanced Tactical Training
Bridge Officer's Test
Starfleet Medical Academy
Starfleet Command School
Appendices
Background information
Information on this educational institute being a department was derived from the regulations that were seen in "The Measure Of A Man".
Exteriors of Starfleet Academy were filmed at the Japanese Gardens at Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys, California. The Golden Gate Bridge was inserted into some shots in post-production to make it appear that the Academy was located in San Francisco. This location was also used to depict the planet Rubicun III in .
In the 2009 film, exteriors of Oviatt Library at California State University, Northridge, were used to depict Starfleet Academy.
An unseen portion of the Picard family album mentioned the academy having a "Onizuka Wing".
The Academy motto was "Ex Astris, Scientia", meaning "from the stars, knowledge" in Latin. The ancient Romans usually did not use verbs in inscriptions, so it would be better translated as "knowledge comes from the stars". According to Michael Okuda, the motto was inspired by a quotation on the Apollo 13 mission patch, "Ex luna, scientia". The Apollo 13 quote was itself a paraphrase of the motto of the United States Naval Academy, "Ex Scientia Tridens," which means "from knowledge, seapower." (; )
The initially shown version "Ex Astra, Scientia" was grammatically wrong, as the preposition "ex" requires the ablative case "Astris". According to Michael Okuda, six months after "The First Duty" aired he received a letter from a Latin Professor at Brown University pointing this out. This error was corrected for later appearances and also in the remastered Blu-ray edition of TNG. (Memorable Missions, TNG Season 5 DVD special features)
The Academy emblem was based on a design by Joe Sena. ()
There have been three versions of the Academy logo. The first version being the original logo seen in , with the Latin grammar error. The second was seen only briefly behind Harry Kim's interrogation in the alternate timeline in . This logo had the updated Latin phrase and the rays of light had been inverted when compared to the original, with the outer border changing to a shade of pink rather than a red. The third logo debuted shortly thereafter with an updated Starfleet insignia and the border returning to a shade of red.
Apocrypha
According to the The Kobayashi Maru, Starfleet Academy has a curfew.
In Star Trek Online, Federation players can visit Starfleet Academy on Earth.
The IDW comic series reveals that the Academy was founded by Admiral in 2161 following the disappearance of the , whose crew included his son, . Somers felt that if Starfleet officers were properly trained, incidents like this wouldn't happen. This, however, may contradict canon as the Academy was said to be established in some form before the founding of the Federation.
See also
Imperial Starfleet Academy
Starfleet yearbook
External links
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Treaty of Algeron
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The Treaty of Algeron was a peace treaty signed between the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire in 2311, following the events of the Tomed Incident. The Treaty of Algeron was signed approximately 160 years after the conclusion of the Earth-Romulan War. (; )
The treaty reinforced and redefined the Romulan Neutral Zone, and made clear that any violations of the Zone without adequate notification, by either side, would be considered an act of war. (; ) The treaty also expressly prohibited the development or use of cloaking device technology by the Federation. Then-Captain Pressman attempted to circumvent this clause in 2358 with the test of a phasing cloaking device developed covertly at least in some part by Starfleet Intelligence aboard the . ()
An exception to the treaty in 2371 allowed for the limited supervised use of at least one cloaking device on loan from the Romulans. Operation of the cloaking device was to be limited to the Gamma Quadrant. In return, the Romulans would receive all information the Federation obtained on the 's voyages into the Gamma Quadrant, most importantly any information concerning the Dominion. As such, the Defiant was the only Federation ship to be permanently equipped with a cloaking device. () However, Captain Benjamin Sisko and his crew violated the terms on several occasions by using the cloaking device in the Alpha Quadrant. ()
In Q's anti-time future, the Federation possessed and openly used cloaking technology. The Romulan Empire had been conquered by the Klingon Empire, which presumably nullified the Treaty. ()
The Romulan Free State maintained the Treaty in the Star Empire's stead following the Romulan supernova. As such, the terms of the Treaty allowed Starfleet to place Coppelius under its protection. ()
By the 31st century, Vulcan reunification had been achieved, presumably nullifying the Treaty since it resulted in the Romulans joining the Federation. One of the upgrades to the when a refit brought her up to 32nd century standards was a cloaking device. ()
Appendices
Apocrypha
In the video game Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity, the Treaty has a provision allowing entry into the Neutral Zone for scientific or archaeological purposes, which the Enterprise-D exploited to investigate a Chodak planet. Tomalak also appears to reference this provision in
In the video game Star Trek Online, set in 2409/10, the Romulan Star Empire collapsed due to the destruction of Romulus. The in-game , however, states that the elected president of the United Federation of Planets, Aennik Okeg, proclaimed that the UFP and Starfleet are still bound to the contents of that treaty and all efforts concerning the research and/or developing of cloaking technology have been banned within the UFP (The Path to 2409: Volume 16, Chapter 2). This statement was a reaction to the exposed illegal attempts of Starfleet Security to develop cloaking technology of their own when the USS Kelso, fitted with a prototype cloaking device, was lost with all hands on stardate 72487.91 due to a critical malfunction (The Path to 2409: Volume 16, Chapter 1).
Contrary to the games' own lore, Federation players are able to choose from several ships equipped with cloaking technology, including the refit (named "Dreadnought Cruiser" in-game) as seen in , a retrofit of the , battle cruiser, Intel Ships (Phantom, Eclipse, and Scryer), Arbiter, and the Yamato class, which is specifically designed to compete with comparable Klingon vessels. Non-player controlled (NPC) versions of those ships however do not show cloaking capability.
In the video game Star Trek: Invasion, the Valkyrie-class Federation fighter craft are equipped with cloaking devices.
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San Francisco
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San Francisco was a major port city located in California on the planet Earth. The geographical coordinates for the city were 37.7749° N and 122.419° W.
The site of many momentous historical events, including the signing of the Charter of the United Federation of Planets in 2161, San Francisco was one of the most important cities in the Federation, home to the Federation Council, Starfleet Headquarters, and Starfleet Academy. It was also renowned as a center of culture, with numerous significant landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge, the Presidio, the Embarcadero, and Alcatraz.
History
Early history
Founded as a Spanish colony in the 18th century, San Francisco was soon claimed by the United States of America. It first gained prominence in 1849 after gold was discovered in California. Thousands of American fortune seekers, known as the 49ers, flocked to the city.
By 1893, San Francisco had gained a growing and diverse population, including professional gamblers like Frederick La Rouque and Joe Falling Hawk, as well as aspiring writers such as Jack London. In August of that year, the city was visited by Samuel Clemens and Guinan, a disguised El-Aurian.
At the same time, an outbreak of cholera killed many residents, which was used as cover by a pair of Devidians time traveling from 2368 to harvest Human neural energy. The Devidians were stopped by a party from the who had followed them through their temporal vortex. In the aftermath, Lieutenant Commander Data's severed head and several other artifacts would lay undiscovered under the Presidio for almost five centuries. ()
20th century
In an alternate timeline created by Vosk's faction of the Temporal Cold War, Nazi Germany successfully invaded the East Coast of North America during World War II, while San Francisco remained under allied control. When a from , which had also been moved back in time, attempted to approach the city in 1944, they were attacked by a squadron of P-51 Mustangs. ()
In 1986, a captured Klingon Bird-of-Prey commanded by Admiral James T. Kirk landed in Golden Gate Park after using the slingshot effect to travel back from 2286. They successfully retrieved two humpback whales from the Cetacean Institute in the nearby city of Sausalito, and returned to the future. Kirk and his compatriots remarked that the culture of the time was "primitive", "paranoid", and "medieval", and that it was a "miracle" Humans survived into the 21st century. ()
21st century
The city's social ills worsened by the early 2020s, when massive unemployment and homelessness had led the government to create walled Sanctuary Districts. Originally promoted as temporary shelters for the economically disadvantaged, the Sanctuaries became dumping grounds for undesirable segments of the population. They became overcrowded, destitute, and all but lawless.
On September 1, 2024, San Francisco's Sanctuary District A saw what would later be called the Bell Riots, a hostage crisis that ended with government troops storming the Sanctuary and killing hundreds within. Sanctuary resident Gabriel Bell would sacrifice himself to save the hostages' lives, which coupled with the shocking violence would turn public opinion against the Sanctuary system. Shortly after, the Sanctuary Districts were torn down and the United States began making genuine progress in addressing its social problems. ()
After World War III, the nations of the world met in San Francisco to negotiate a peace treaty. ()
San Francisco prospered after First Contact with the Vulcans in 2063 and the subsequent founding of United Earth. The nascent Starfleet was headquartered in the city, and the skyline was altered by a host of new buildings. The San Francisco Fleet Yards were built, and the Vulcan Compound was established nearby in Sausalito. (; )
22nd century
Jonathan Archer lived most of his life in San Francisco. ()
Malcolm Reed contacted his parents from San Francisco before he signed onto Enterprise. ()
Following the resolution of the Xindi crisis in 2153, a ceremony was held in San Francisco's Bay Stadium to welcome back Captain Archer and his crew. ()
In early 2155, delegates from Earth, , Tellar, Andoria, Denobula, Rigel V, and Coridanite met in San Francisco to discuss the formation of a Coalition of Planets. During the conference, the terrorist group Terra Prime seized the verteron array on Mars and targeted Starfleet Command, which would also have wiped out half of San Francisco. After they were stopped by the Enterprise crew, the conference proceeded successfully. ()
Six years later in 2161, the Charter of the United Federation of Planets was signed in San Francisco by Human, Vulcan, Andorian, and Tellarite representatives. The event was witnessed by an earlier version of Archer from 2152, who was brought there by temporal agent in an effort to gain his cooperation. ()
23rd century
San Francisco was the birthplace of Hikaru Sulu. ()
James T. Kirk lived in an apartment in San Francisco in 2285. (; )
In 2286, a Klingon delegation visited San Francisco to demand the extradition of Kirk for his actions regarding Commander Kruge's attempt to capture the Genesis Project. Shortly after, Earth was threatened by a mysterious probe attempting to contact humpback whales, which by that time had become extinct. Kirk and his crew, after traveling back to 1986 to retrieve a pair of whales, crashed their captured Klingon Bird-of-Prey in San Francisco Bay. ()
Alternate reality
In 2258 of the alternate reality, Nero deployed a drilling rig over the city, but destroyed it, causing it to plunge into the bay. ()
The next year, Starfleet Headquarters was attacked by , who escaped to Qo'noS before he could be apprehended. He later made a second attempt to destroy the Headquarters by crashing the critically damaged into it. The descending Vengeance grazed Alcatraz and demolished a number of buildings in San Francisco before coming to a stop. ()
24th century
In 2368, evidence of an alien incursion to San Francisco in the late 19th century were uncovered beneath the Presidio, prompting an investigation by the Enterprise-D that led them to Devidia II. ()
In 2371, Commander Benjamin Sisko, Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax, and Doctor Julian Bashir were inadvertently transported to 2024 San Francisco by a temporal anomaly, whereupon they would play a crucial role in the Bell Riots. ()
In 2375, San Francisco was attacked by the Breen, resulting in massive casualties and heavy damage to the city, including the renowned Golden Gate Bridge. () Most of the city, including the Golden Gate Bridge, was fully rebuilt and restored less than a year later. ()
In an alternate timeline, triumphantly flew over San Francisco to fireworks after returning to Earth in 2394. The ship eventually landed in the Presidio and was turned into a museum. ()
In an alternate timeline where the Federation was replaced by the Confederation of Earth, San Francisco served as the seat of the office of the President. It was also where the public executions for Eradication Day were held. ()
32nd century
By this time, although the site of Starfleet Academy was still intact, it was no longer a Starfleet school, as Earth had withdrawn from the Federation by this time, and Starfleet as well.
There were what appeared to be many buildings that hovered in the sky over the city of San Francisco, and the Golden Gate Bridge was likewise still intact.
When the traveled to the year 3189, they were granted by United Earth Defense Force officer Captain Ndoye to visit Earth. Ensign Sylvia Tilly, along with Lieutenants R.A. Bryce, Keyla Detmer, Nilsson, Joann Owosekun and Gen Rhys visited the former Starfleet Academy grounds. ()
Geography
San Francisco was located at the northernmost point of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. The Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridges connected the city to the northern and eastern regions of the bay, respectively. A lake was located in its southwestern corner. The city was the center of the San Francisco Metropolitan Area, which included a number of other cities such as Alameda, Oakland, and Sausalito. (; ; ; )
San Francisco was identified on a political map of the North Pacific region in the library computer. ()
Landmarks
Main article: San Francisco locations
Major landmarks in the city included Fisherman's Wharf, the Transamerica Pyramid, Golden Gate Park, and the Presidio of San Francisco. (; )
One of the city's oldest neighborhoods was the Mission District. Another district was Chinatown.
The Clift Hotel was one of the best known hotels in the city. ()
The Embarcadero was a street in San Francisco, directly along San Francisco Bay. There was a restaurant, often visited by Malcolm Reed and Mark Latrelle. ()
The 602 Club was a popular meeting place for many Starfleet pilots in the 2140s. ()
The pizzeria Fiorella's was located in San Francisco, on Fountain Street. It was one of Hoshi Sato's favorite places to eat. ()
In the early 2150s, Doctor Phlox liked to frequent the restaurant Madame Chang's, which was located in San Francisco. In 2154, Phlox was assaulted near the restaurant and captured by three Rigelians, who were working for the Klingon Empire. ()
There was a bar in San Francisco that was visited by Doctor McCoy in 2285. ()
In an alternate reality of 2372 visited by Harry Kim, parts of San Francisco were pedestrianized and served by public transports. In this reality, Kim lived in an apartment near a coffee shop called Cosimo's. Since the establishment's owner, Cosimo, was actually an alien whose time-streams Kim's shuttle intersected, it is unknown if the restaurant actually existed in the prime reality. ()
During her Academy days, Captain Janeway frequented a little coffee shop on Market Street, which was called the Night Owl. ()
Federation installations
San Francisco was home to a number of major Federation and Starfleet facilities:
Starfleet Academy
Starfleet Medical Academy
Starfleet Headquarters
Starfleet Medical
Communications Research Center
Federation Council
Both Starfleet Headquarters and Starfleet Academy were located in an area of San Francisco known as the Presidio. (; ; ; ; )
Infrastructure
From the 21st century onward, San Francisco was served by the Trans Francisco and Bay Area Rapid Transit mass transportation systems. Other means of transportation available in the city included hovercars, cable cars, air trams, and shuttlecraft. (; ; ; ; ; )
The San Francisco area was prone to earthquakes; seismic regulators were installed beneath the city in 2368. ()
Government
This city was governed by the San Francisco Municipal Government and its sets of laws was codified in the San Francisco Municipal Code. Its coat of arms was the Seal of San Francisco.
Culture
In the mid-20th century, San Francisco was the setting for novels featuring the adventures of the iconic private detective Dixon Hill. The novels featured San Francisco residents such as John Rawley, and the newspaper San Francisco Herald. () The city also served as the backdrop for many movies, including the comedic classic The Man From San Francisco. (;)
San Francisco was home to the San Francisco Giants baseball team, during the period before baseball's decline in the mid-21st century. ()
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Appearances
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Background information
Gene Roddenberry previously worked on a show entitled Have Gun Will Travel, in which the protagonist lived in San Francisco. He conceived of San Francisco's importance to the Star Trek franchise in "The God Thing", as that ultimately-rejected script placed Starfleet Headquarters in the city. (Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry, p. 69) Roddenberry went on to establish the city's importance with the production and ization of , the first feature-length film, choosing San Francisco primarily because of its role in the creation of the United Nations. However, he also considered the city an appropriate showcase for the secular Humanism that underlined much of his own philosophy (though controversies have arisen about the role of Alan Dean Foster in the changes to the Star Trek lexicon the film introduced).
More shots of San Francisco were planned to appear in The Motion Picture than were ultimately completed for the film. A storyboard from the movie, depicting one of these unused shots, shows a walkway with a building on one side and a row of trees on the other, backgrounded by a skyline featuring multiple high-rises. ()
The scale model of the San Francisco skyline was originally created by Industrial Light & Magic for the movies featuring the TOS cast; it has been reused as stock footage and in modified form ever since. Paramount Pictures also commissioned several matte paintings of San Francisco, which have been used to establish location.
Interior scenes set in San Francisco were typically shot at a Paramount Studios sound stage. The conference room at Starfleet Headquarters in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was actually a room in the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood.
Outdoor scenes featuring the Presidio were filmed at the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant and Gardens in Van Nuys, supplemented by a matte painting. 19th century San Francisco was actually a redress of the "Western" Universal Studios backlot set. Different sections of the same back lot were used for some of the street scenes in the 24th century as well.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was the only Star Trek movie or television production filmed substantially in San Francisco itself. When Leonard Nimoy and Harve Bennett relayed to Nicholas Meyer the story of that film prior to its making, Meyer's first reaction was to ask if San Francisco had to be the movie's main 20th century setting, he having already made a film in which time-travelers end up in that city. Meyer wondered aloud about whether the former Enterprise crew couldn't go somewhere else "for a change," suggesting Paris as an alternative city. Nimoy and Bennett promptly replied that the San Francisco setting had to be used. "Ostensibly this had something to do with the fact of Starfleet Headquarters being based there," recalled Meyer, "but may more likely have been related to the fact that filming in San Francisco would be cheaper than attempting it in Paris." (The View from the Bridge)
Upon visualizing 1940s' San Francisco for the episode , Eden FX took considerable care to depict the city correctly. Robert Bonchune later recalled, "That little sequence, in going back to the producers [for approval], took a lot of finessing and tweaking for it to look right, and [for] San Francisco to look right." ()
For the film , three or four different versions of 23rd-century San Francisco were developed in concept CGI illustrations. Stated Roger Guyett, "There would be no reason there still couldn't be current buildings around." (Star Trek - The Art of the Film, p. 51) Director J.J. Abrams intended to introduce the city with a static camera. "I wanted to do an establishing shot that was part of a scene," Abrams pointed out. "So you see... 'Look, there's future San Francisco." (audio commentary, xxx) The production shot aerial plates and scenic reference in the city, which Industrial Light & Magic significantly modified, adding towering buildings supposedly constructed to replace those lost in a mid-21st century cataclysm. As well as adding such futuristic and monothlithic structures, some fairly common reference sites were also used, such as the Transamerica Pyramid and the Golden Gate Bridge. The reuse of these locations helped maintain continuity with earlier Star Trek films. Views of the city predominantly consisted of three-dimensional structures layered through levels of haze, creating parallax effects. Footage set in the grounds of Starfleet Academy required the filmmakers to digitally expand the city from another angle. Associate Visual Effects Supervisor Eddie Pasquarello explained, "Some of our aerial shots of San Francisco began with a real plate; but by the time we were done, it was pretty much all 3D digimatte." (Cinefex, No. 118, pp. 60 & 64)
Various filming locations were used for the depictions of San Francisco in . Industrial Light & Magic Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Roger Guyett recollected, "We used parts of the CAA building in Los Angeles as San Francisco. We modified them a lot, but the style of architecture allowed us to establish a lot of in-camera shots. This time we filmed Starfleet exteriors at the Getty Center in the Santa Monica Mountains, and we used Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove as subsections of Starfleet." The filmmakers decided that, in San Francisco, buildings newer than the Golden Gate Bridge dwarfed the Transamerica Pyramid. After Roger Guyett shot visual effects plates and aerial reference footage in downtown San Francisco, Tiburon and Los Angeles, ILM developed environment extensions. "We started with the very tall and elongated city buildings that were featured briefly in the previous movie," explained ILM Art Director Yanick Dusseault. "In this movie, we were moving between buildings in 80 or 90 shots, so we had to get more intimate with the design. We spent a lot of time coming up with designs that fit Star Trek and the current city. San Francisco is the perfect location for capturing the Star Trek feel – it's very bright and airy, and fit the optimistic aesthetic." The ILM environments team created a model of futuristic San Francisco featuring sixty high-resolution buildings and then dressed in tiers of lower-resolution architecture. The high-resolution constructs could be exchanged and rotated to produce new configurations. (Cinefex, No. 134, pp. 72 & 74)
According to the Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 32), San Francisco was the capital of the North American continent.
An early version of the script for would have implied that as of 2063, no one was thought to live in San Francisco anymore.
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Allan Kroeker is a Canadian director who directed thirty-eight episodes of Star Trek. He holds the distinction of directing the final episodes of , and . In addition to those three series finales, he has directed eight season finales in total.
He has also directed episodes of Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, Wonderfalls, Tru Calling, Jake 2.0, Firefly, both the 1980s and 2000s revivals of , Andromeda, Roswell, Charmed, Earth: Final Conflict, William Shatner's TekWar, Grimm, Defiance, Alphas, Covert Affairs, Bones, Pushing Daisies and Supernatural.
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(Season 5)
(Season 6)
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The Tomed Incident was a confrontation between the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire in 2311 that cost thousands of lives. The incident led to the signing of the Treaty of Algeron, which banned Federation research into or use of any cloaking device, and led to the withdrawal of the Romulan government from interstellar affairs until 2364. (; )
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Apocrypha
The Tomed Incident was the primary focus of the Pocket TOS Lost Era , Serpents Among the Ruins. In this version of the story, the Tomed Incident was a staged terrorist attack, where the flagship of the Romulan fleet, the warbird named , crashed into a Federation base at high warp. When the quantum singularity confinement of the Tomed failed, the massive explosion wiped out thirteen Starfleet outposts, as well as the USS Agamemnon. While the official casualties numbered in the thousands, in reality the Agamemnon and the bases were all empty, rigged to emit false lifesigns. The thousands of Starfleet personnel listed as killed in the attack were already dead – their deaths in the past year having been covered up – and records fabricated to appear that they had been stationed there. The act of terror was orchestrated by Starfleet Intelligence to defuse the rising tensions between the two powers, forcing the Romulan Empire to stand down when the Klingons sided with the Federation in the wake of the attack.
The novel The Return features a Romulan warbird named .
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A prototype was the common designation for a first working model of a new invention, used for trial runs.
History
In 2371, the Obsidian Order tested a prototype quantum stasis field, which prevented a Changeling from altering its biomolecular structure. ()
In 2373, Starfleet Science developed a prototype of a device called a polaron emitter, designed to expose Changelings by rendering them unable to maintain solid form. The untested nature and the complicated means of placement and activation made Miles O'Brien remark: "I hate prototypes". ()
Concerning starships, Starfleet prototypes had an "NX" prefix in the registry number, as opposed to the normal "NCC" prefix, and which were typically the first vessels in their class. (; ; ) Once certified for operational status, however, these prototype vessels usually reverted to a more standard NCC prefix. (; ; )
Prototype ships
Andorian Imperial Guard
Kumari (2140s)
Earth
Enterprise (OV-101) (20th century)
Phoenix (2063)
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Klingon Defense Force
Advanced Bird-of-Prey (2293)
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Romulan military
Romulan drone ship (2154)
Scimitar (Reman) (2379)
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23rd century
("The Great Experiment")
24th century
(actually an alien vessel in disguise)
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(runabout; existed in an alternate timeline)
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During production of , Star Trek: Phase II, and , several prototypes of the , both in her original and refit configurations, were built.
During production of , several USS Excelsior prototypes were built.
During production of , a USS Voyager prototype mock-up model was built.
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The Menagerie may refer to:
Menagerie, a collection of animals
Real world
, the first of the two-part reiteration of "The Cage"
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A nacelle was an outboard engine housing structure on a spacecraft. The nacelles in warp-capable shuttles and starships housed the warp coils of the vessel's warp drive. Warp nacelles, or warp field nacelles, were also sometimes known as power nacelles, energy nacelles, antimatter nacelles, warp drive pods, or space/warp propulsion units during the 23rd century. (; ) Impulse nacelles of a sublight shuttlecraft housed the ship's impulse drive engines. ( display graphic)
The warp coils in warp nacelles created a subspace displacement field, which "warped" the space around the vessel allowing it to "ride" on a spatial distortion, and travel faster than the speed of light. () While not always present on starships, warp nacelles were the most common component of warp flight, dating as far back as Zefram Cochrane's original warp ship, the Phoenix, circa 2063. ()
Aboard most warp-capable vessels, warp coils were fed by plasma conduits from the warp core reactor assembly. Venting the plasma from the nacelles made warp drive impossible until the nacelles could be replenished. () Nacelles were separated from the ship by large pylons, and usually housed a Bussard ramscoop at the fore end, primarily used for collecting hydrogen from space.
On the large nacelles, the interior included a small control room, accessible in nominal conditions by a Jefferies tube that permitted maintenance and monitoring of the system's operation. () Aboard the prototype of the 22nd century, a long catwalk spanned the length of each nacelle and, in emergency situations, acted as shelter for the ship's crew against certain types of radiation such as that created by neutronic storms. () Nacelles aboard Enterprise were required to be polarized for warp travel to be possible. If one of the nacelles were to become depolarized, warp drive would be impossible until repolarization could take place. ()
Most vessels, like the Galaxy-class, , , , , , and the , typically had two nacelles. However, such vessels could operate with one nacelle disabled, but at reduced warp speeds. (; ) It was not unprecedented, though, for vessels to have had different nacelle configurations. For example, Federation , , , and starships had only one nacelle. and in the prime reality and starships in the alternate reality had three nacelles. , , and starships had four nacelles. (; ; ; ; )
Even at sublight speeds serious impacts from weapons or other objects could spell disaster for a ship because of a feedback of energy throughout the vessel. The Enterprise-D was destroyed by such an impact in an alternate timeline when the collided with one of Enterprises warp nacelles. ()
Some starship classes, such as the and the , possessed nacelles that were integrated into the ship's main structure without pylons. (; )
Alien vessels, such as the Dominion's Jem'Hadar fighters, also possessed nacelles. ()
In 2374, the crew of the had difficulty stabilizing the guidance thrusters on their port nacelle, forcing them to fall back from the position they were in as part of the Operation Return fleet. ()
When a Class 2 shuttlecraft exceeded the speed of warp 9.7, tritanium depolarization created a velocity differential between the nacelles and fuselage. A depolarization matrix around the fuselage was required to avert the nacelles from tearing off due to subspace torque. ()
In 2377, the expression "third nacelle" was analogous to "third wheel". ()
By the 31st century, Federation starships were being designed and constructed with detachable nacelles. An example of a class with detached nacelles was the . ()
In 3189, as part of the 's retrofit, detachable nacelles replaced the older style nacelles. This upgrade improved the starship's maneuverability and enabled her to be more efficient in flight. ()
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The use of the word "" in spacecraft design descends from its use for similar housing structures in air and water craft design.
From the , "The nacelle control room and plasma injectors were a full-sized set designed by Richard James. The cavernous warp coils were a miniature built by Anthony Fredrickson and composited by visual effects supervisor David Stipes. The design of the coils was based on a drawing by Rick Sternbach in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual. Warp nacelles were conceived by original series art director Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, as part of his design for the original . Matt told us he felt that faster-than-light engines would be extremely powerful, and therefore potentially dangerous. For crew safety, he decided they should be housed separately, away from the inhabited part of the ship. He noted that this would also make it easier to replace the engines should it ever be necessary to upgrade them. This was actually done, years after the end of the original Star Trek, for the uprated Enterprise designed for Star Trek: Phase II and seen in ."
According to Star Trek Blueprints, while the nacelles are powered up, they produce dangerous levels of radiation and crew members are not permitted to go up the Jefferies tubes that lead to the nacelles inside the nacelle pylons.
According to Star Trek: Starship Spotter, there were several different types and designations of warp nacelles officially known as warp drive units. In Federation starships, the original configuration of the Constitution-class and the shuttles featured circumferential warp nacelles. The refit-Constitution-class and featured linear warp nacelles. Later starships featured advanced linear nacelles, whereas smaller ships featured compact versions of these. Klingon nacelles were known as dilithium conversion graf units (See S-2 graf unit) and Romulan nacelles of the were known as quantum singularity energized warp drive units. The Jem'Hadar attack ships featured ion propulsion units as warp nacelles.
According to the Spaceflight Chronology (p. 139), a three-nacelle configuration gives a third more power to the warp drive, greater acceleration and faster engagement. However, in the first experiments, the third nacelle accentuated discrepancies in the warp field causing warp vibrations. This created difficulties in steering, and would have resulted in the ship shaking itself apart at higher warp speeds. It was however noted that if the design was constructed perfectly it was possible for it to deliver what it promised.
The Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (pages 63, 65, and 66) states that the experiments with single and more than two nacelle designs, conducted in 2269, proved that having two nacelles was the optimal configuration for vessel control and power generation. On Galaxy-class starships, there was an emergency separation system for the nacelles. In the event the ship was damaged and unable to retain nacelle safely, explosive latches separated the nacelle from the pylon and lifted it up at thirty meters per second. If a nacelle was lost during warp flight, it would tear the ship apart, as the loss would cause different areas of the ship to travel at different warp factors.
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Mogh was a male Klingon citizen of the Klingon Empire in the early 24th century. He was the father of Worf and Kurn.
Mogh was a very influential figure in the Empire. He helped Huraga's House during their blood feud with the House of Duras. He was also a friend of Noggra and Lorgh. (; )
In 2346, Mogh had suspected that another high-ranking Klingon, Ja'rod, was collaborating with the Romulans and was prompted to observe him. He followed Ja'rod to Khitomer, taking his wife, son Worf and Worf's nurse, Kahlest, with him. Not expecting a long trip, he left his younger son, Kurn, with Lorgh as he was only a year old. While there, Mogh was observed by the commander of the outpost as acting strangely. The Romulans then attacked the outpost, and he was killed along with his wife. Fortunately, Worf and Kahlest survived. (; )
The fact that Ja'rod had betrayed the outpost's defenses did not come to light until 2366. As his House was very powerful at the time, the Klingon High Council decided to frame Mogh. Duras, son of Ja'rod subsequently made the allegation. Worf came to challenge it, however, having learned of the consequences of the truth being known, was forced to accept discommendation in order to protect the Empire. ()
Kor often called Worf "the son of Mogh". ()
When Worf met General Martok for the first time in 2373, he introduced himself as "Worf, son of Mogh". ()
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Ronald D. Moore's early idea for the episode was for Worf and Martok to encounter Mogh in Gre'thor. ()
A deleted scene from saw Worf wish that Mogh was alive to see his son briefly be Chancellor of the Klingon Empire. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion - A Series Guide and Script Library)
It was widely assumed that Mogh was the son of Colonel , but this was never confirmed on-screen. This assumption was briefly mentioned in the . Promotional material for , including interviews with Michael Dorn, stated that Dorn was playing Worf's grandfather in the movie.
While Mogh was never seen on camera, a trading card of the character was created for the Star Trek Customizable Card Game, using photo elements of both Worf and Kurn, combined together using Photoshop.
The Star Trek: The Lost Era The Art of the Impossible used the assumption that Mogh was the son of Colonel Worf, and stated that Worf was named after his recently deceased grandfather. The same novel also established that Mogh served as first officer under Captain K'mpec on the IKS Pu'Bekh. K'mpec noted that, while Mogh was a warrior and excellent with a disruptor pistol, he was terrible with a bat'leth. When K'mpec ascended to the Klingon High Council, Mogh became captain of the Pu'Bekh.
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Events
By starship or station
The Setlik III massacre. ()
A Federation soldier, Miles O'Brien, kills a Cardassian soldier during the massacre. ()
He later operates a field transporter for the first time and saves thirteen men. ()
Several prisoners, including Raymond Boone, are taken by the Cardassians. ()
O'Brien is declared the "Hero of Setlik III" after leading a group of two dozen men against a Cardassian regiment at the Barrica encampment. ()
O'Brien is transferred to the operations division and promoted to tactical officer. ()
Under the command of Captain Blackwood, the Tombaugh is attacked and assimilated by the Borg. Among the crew is Ensign , fresh out of Starfleet Academy. ()
Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards
Warp engine control systems are installed on the . ()
Ensign Marla Finn begins a romantic relationship with Walter Pierce. She soon begins an affair with William Hodges and both are killed by a jealous Pierce in a plasma explosion. Afterward, Pierce vaporizes himself in the Enterprises plasma stream. His Betazoid empathic trace is inadvertently left in the nacelle tube bulkhead. ()
Stardate 40987.2: Starfleet reports Marla E. Finn and William Hodges as missing. ()
Stardate 40999.4: The OSHC investigation into Finn's disappearance is terminated with no result. ()
Stardate 40164.7: The Victory investigates the mysterious disappearance of 49 people on the Tarchannen III outpost. Ensign Geordi La Forge is involved in the away team. ()
Other events
On Mordan IV, construction workers use steelplast for the sealing off of segments of tunnels under the principal city of the planet. An example of a tunnel segment sealed from adjoining tunnels is the subsidiary tunnel M-4. ()
In an alternate timeline in which the disappeared mysteriously in 2344. Natasha Yar is assigned to the first battleship, the following her graduation from Starfleet Academy. ()
Cadet Ro Laren graduates from Starfleet Academy. (; )
Stardate 39355.5: Dekon Elig is killed by phaser fire on Velos VII. ()
Rugal, son of Kotan Pa'Dar, is kidnapped by a Cardassian officer and taken to the Tozhat Resettlement Center after his mother is killed in a Bajoran Resistance attack. He would be adopted by Bajoran Proka Migdal. ()
Fallit Kot hijacks a shipment of Romulan ale. He is caught and sentenced to eight years in a labor camp. ()
Beverly Crusher is promoted to commander after passing the bridge officer examination. ()
Raymond Boone is killed. He is replaced by a and returned to Starfleet. Within the year, "Boone" resigns from Starfleet, leaves his wife, and moves to a Cardassian border planet. ()
Quark loans his cousin an amount of latinum to start up a munitions consortium. Gaila promises Quark to pay him back in a shuttle should he become a success. ()
Notes
An investigation begin by Worf in 2367 into the movements of Simon Tarses uses this year as the starting point. ()
The last Klingon raid into Federation space occurs for at least the following seven years. ()
This is the last year in which Tom Paris feels he has a life that is worth risking. ()
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Background information
According to the , events in this year should take place between the stardates of 39000 and 39999.
There are two sources for 40000s range stardates in this year:
The log entry made by Ensign Anthony Brevelle in .
The dates seen by Deanna Troi in a hallucination in . These dates were all in the 40000s range, even though they took place over several years.
There is some debate on the dating of the Setlik III massacre. O'Brien had previously stated his first use of transporter technology was in 2347, () and his Starfleet career began in 2350. () The faux Boone specifically stated he left Starfleet in 2362 following the massacre. ().
Ro Laren's graduation date was listed as 2364 on her personnel file in , but was corrected to 2362 by .
The script for states Jil Orra is seven years old in 2369, thereby placing her birth date in this year.
According to the for , Patterson Supra was six years old, placing his birth in this year.
According to the script for , Tebbis was fifteen years old, placing his birth in this year.
Apocrypha
According to the non-canon video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, B.G. Robinson graduated from Starfleet Academy in this year. Her first assignment was to the as cargo transporter sub-chief.
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Events
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Jupiter Station
Lewis Zimmerman is assigned to the Holo-Programming Center on the station. He begins developing what he refers to as a "Holo-Doc": a holographic doctor intended to assist in medical emergencies. ()
The Potemkin attempts to contact the failed Federation colony on Turkana IV. They are warned that anyone beaming down to the planet will be killed. ()
The Potemkin sends down an away team, led by Lieutenant William T. Riker to evacuate a research station on Nervala IV. Due to atmospheric distortion, the Potemkin transporter chief attempts to use two confinement beams to transport Lieutenant Riker, the last one on the planet. Although the first confinement beam works and a Riker is beamed aboard, the second beam is unknowingly reflected back to the planet, creating another William T. Riker. The second Riker would later be discovered by the crew of the in 2369. ()
Lieutenant William T. Riker is promoted to lieutenant commander for "exceptional valor during the evacuation of the research station on Nervala IV." ()
Starbase 133
Dr. Dalen Quaice is assigned to the starbase. He moves there with his significant other, Patricia. ()
Terok Nor
Roana and her husband, both Bajoran entrepreneurs, open a store on the Promenade of Terok Nor, after closing down their shop on Bajor after seventeen years. ()
Other events
William T. Riker and Deanna Troi meet for the first time on Betazed while Riker is stationed there as a lieutenant. ()
Botanists Kevin and Rishon Uxbridge move from New Martim Vaz on Earth to the Federation colony on Rana IV. ()
The father of Jeremy Aster dies from a Rushton infection. ()
Vash is hired as the personal assistant to Dr. Samuel Estragon, a scientist devoted to finding the legendary Tox Uthat. ()
One of the children living on Deep Space 9 in 2369 was born in this year. ()
Obsidian Order operative Iliana Ghemor volunteers for an undercover assignment on Bajor. She is surgically altered to appear as a Bajoran and infiltrate the Resistance. Her memories are erased. ()
The Shakaar resistance cell, including a young Kira Nerys, spends the entire winter hiding in the Dahkur Hills from Cardassian sensor sweeps. ()
Lidell marries Tolen Ren on . ()
Rom leaves Ferenginar. ()
Notes
An issue of the Journal of Starfleet Technology is released in August of this year. ()
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Background information
According to the , this year comprises the stardate range of 38000 to 38999.
In material created for , Jean-Luc Picard received the Grankite Order of Tactics on stardate 38946.2 for "development of the Picard Maneuver during the Battle of Maxia." This material was included in the Picard family album, but was not seen on-screen.
According to the , this is the year Worf graduated from Starfleet Academy.
According to the for , Jay Gordon Graas was seven years old, placing his birth in this year.
According to the for , Clara Sutter was seven years old, placing her birth in this year.
Apocrypha
According to the non-canon video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, B.G. Robinson averted a serious transporter accident during a midshipman cruise on the USS Cornwall during her time at Starfleet Academy in this year.
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Events
By station
Terok Nor
Gul Dukat is assigned command of Terok Nor. ()
Other events
Due to the effects of Iverson's Disease, Admiral Mark Jameson is confined to a support chair. ()
The Velara Base on Velara III begins its terraforming of the planet. ()
Jono receives the first of his many injuries. Over the next seven years, he will experience a broken arm, two fractured ribs, and a low-grade concussion. ()
Galis learns that Dekon Elig is imprisoned at the Velos VII internment camp. ()
In a small village on Bajor, Hovath becomes the apprentice to the in order to succeed him. ()
Li Nalas, a Bajoran Resistance fighter and former Terok Nor miner, is captured by the Cardassians and presumed dead. He spends the next ten years at the Hutet labor camp on Cardassia IV. ()
Before the Cardassians hit the Lunar V base, the Bajoran Resistance hid a few of their sub-impulse raiders underground. ()
Alixus deliberately arranges for the to be stranded on a planet in the Orellius system, in order to establish her own technology-free colony. ()
In the Delta Quadrant, the wife of Caylem, a member of the Alsaurian resistance movement against the Mokra Order, dies in prison. ()
Vreenak becomes a key member of the Romulan Senate. ()
Sarina Douglas begins to live with , Lauren, and Patrick. ()
Captain Jean-Luc Picard receives an award from the Galaxy of Planets and Suns fundraiser. ()
Births
Darrell Oja Raymond is born to Thomas and Louise Cara Raymond. ( okudagram)
The son of , grandson of Timicin is born on Kaelon II. ()
Taya is "born" on Yadera II. ()
Mekor, the son of Dukat, is born. ()
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Background information
In either this year or 2358, Lieutenant Data is promoted to lieutenant commander, according to dialogue from .
According to the , this year comprises the stardate range of 37000 to 37999. Information from appears to place this year in the 40000s range.
In the script for , Jake Sisko's birth occurs in this year. This note was contradicted by on-screen evidence shown in and placing his birth in 2355.
According to the for and the , René Picard is born in this year.
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After forty years, the civil war on Mordan IV ends, with Karnas emerging as governor. ()
Admiral Mark Jameson is diagnosed with Iverson's Disease. ()
Worf and K'Ehleyr separate because neither feel ready to engage in a deep relationship. ()
Deanna Troi graduates from Starfleet Academy. ()
William T. Riker begins practicing "Night Bird" on his trombone. ()
Kar is born. ()
Piri is born. ()
Dr. Bathkin dies in a shuttlecraft accident. ()
Appendices
Background information
According to the for , Marissa Flores was nine years old, placing her birth in this year.
According to the script of the episode , a Bajoran girl who attended Keiko O'Brien's school on board Deep Space 9 in 2369 was born this year.
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The Pegasus is presumed destroyed after an apparent warp core breach. The ship had been a test bed for a new phasing cloaking device developed by Starfleet Intelligence, and the ship's crew had mutinied in protest against the creation of such a device. In fact, the ship, still in a phased state, drifts through space, eventually dephasing inside an asteroid in the Devolin system. Following the Judge Advocate General's inquiry into the incident, William T. Riker is assigned to Betazed. ()
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Willie Potts is born. ()
Ro Laren enters Starfleet Academy. ()
Rugal is born. ()
The Parada civil war begins. ()
One of William and Louise Samuels' two daughters is born on Volan II. ()
Miranda Vigo and her son, Jason, move to a colony on the planet Camor V. ()
is born. ()
The daughter of Lieutenant Onara, an officer in the Bajoran militia, is born on Bajor. ()
Harry Kim joins his parents, John and Mary, on a humanitarian mission to a colony that had just suffered from a radiation disaster. While there, the Kims visit a hospital, and Harry wanders off by himself to an area where he wasn't supposed to be. In this area, he sees many sick and dying, including a little girl on an operating table. As he watches, the doctor calls for a scalpel, and the little girl looks at Harry, her face filled with fear. () As well, at some point this year, the nine year old Kim contracts the Mendakan pox. ()
Vice Admiral , father of Kathryn Janeway, drowns beneath the ice cap of Tau Ceti Prime. ()
In the Delta Quadrant, the "Think Tank" group recruits an unnamed person into their number. They do not attempt to do so again until 2375, when they extend the offer to Seven of Nine. ()
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According to the , Leah Brahms joins Design Team 7 as a junior engineer. This team belongs to the Theoretical Propulsion Group, one of the groups involved in the Galaxy-Class Starship Development Project.
The script for states Timothy is ten years old, putting his year of birth in this year.
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The freighter Odin is declared missing after a collision with an asteroid. After five months in escape pods, the survivors land on Angel I. ()
T'Jon, a native of Ornara in the Delos system, assumes command of the interplanetary freighter . ()
William T. Riker and Geordi La Forge graduate from Starfleet Academy. Riker is assigned to the and La Forge takes a post on the . ()
As part of the Galen border conflict, the Talarians attack the Federation colony on Galen IV, where the four-year-old Jeremiah Rossa loses his parents and is adopted by the Talarian officer Endar. ()
Surmak Ren is convicted of terrorist activity by the Cardassian Regional Court on charges of terrorist activity stemming from the kidnapping of Gul Spumco. ()
Vash visits Earth for the last time. ()
The Cardassian Gallitep labor camp is liberated by the Shakaar resistance cell. ()
Worf enters Starfleet Academy. (; )
In the Delta Quadrant, a Hirogen is captured by Penk and is forced to fight in Tsunkatse matches. ()
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According to the Picard family album from , Jean-Luc Picard is awarded The Silver Spade in a Starfleet tournament on Risa at stardate 34180.7.
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The Alcyone people destroy a Tarellian vessel which is assumed to be the last ship of this ill-fated species. Up to the year 2364, the Tarellian people are thought of as extinct until a lone starship entered the star system. ()
According to a falsified Starfleet personnel file, Kieran MacDuff graduates from Starfleet Academy. ()
Surmak Ren is arrested several times but released for insufficient evidence. ()
One of William and Louise Samuels' two daughters is born on Volan II. ()
Production of Mark V transporters is stopped. ()
In the Delta Quadrant, the Talaxian moon Rinax is attacked by a metreon cascade engineered by the Haakonian scientist Ma'Bor Jetrel. The moon is rendered uninhabitable, killing hundreds of thousands of Talaxians. ()
Kira Nerys becomes a member of the Shakaar resistance cell. ()
Julian Bashir discovers that he was genetically enhanced and believes that his parents might have considered him as defective. ()
Abaddon begins maintaining his inventory for Abaddon's Repository of Lost Treasures. ()
Kathryn Janeway meets Tuvok for the first time. ()
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According to the for , both and Tara were eight years old in 2364, placing their birth in this year.
According to the for and the , D'Tan was twelve years old in 2368, placing his birth in this year.
According to the for , is born on Moab IV.
According to the for , Asha is born.
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Stardate 40217.3: In what later became known as the Battle of Maxia, the is attacked by an unknown vessel (later revealed to be Ferengi in origin). His ship severely damaged, Captain Jean-Luc Picard devises a maneuver that makes the Stargazer appear in two places at once, which allows him to destroy the alien vessel. This maneuver, accomplished by making a very short warp jump, is dubbed the "Picard Maneuver". Picard and his crew are subsequently forced to abandon the stricken Stargazer, limping through space in shuttlecraft for weeks before being rescued. (; )
Chu'lak is assigned to the Strata as an ensign. ()
Other events
Dr. Paul Manheim first devises his theory that if the consistency of time is altered, a doorway into another dimension will appear. He won't put it into practical use for nine years, though. ()
Captain Jean-Luc Picard is court martialed for the loss of the Stargazer. The prosecutor for Starfleet Command is Phillipa Louvois. ()
Worf completes his first Rite of Ascension. ()
Deanna Troi enters Starfleet Academy. ()
Jake Sisko is born, son of Benjamin and Jennifer Sisko. ()
Kira Nerys joins the Shakaar Edon base camp in the hopes of becoming a resistance member. ()
Worf visits the Great Domes of Qo'noS for the first time. ()
John and Mary Kim take their son Harry to a haunted house. ()
Seven of Nine emerges from a Borg maturation chamber, having been assimilated five years before. ()
Jean-Luc Picard receives the Klingon Planetary Humanitarian Award. ()
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According to the script for , Mason was born this year.
According to the script for , Jake Potts is born in this year.
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Jack B. Raymond is born on Earth. (, okudagram)* Jeremy Aster is born on Earth. ()
The visits the world Chalna. ()
Doctor T'Pan becomes director of the Vulcan Science Academy. ()
Benjamin Sisko and graduate from Starfleet Academy. Sisko meets his future wife, Jennifer at Gilgo Beach, shortly after graduation. Later that year, they both attend the Mazurka Festival in New Berlin together with their friends Cal and Gretchen Hudson. ()
Kathryn Janeway plays her last game of tennis. She does not play again for another nineteen years. ()
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Background information
According to the for , Harry Bernard was ten years old in 2364, placing his birth in this year.
According to StarTrek.com and the , the Paqu Tetrarch Varis Sul was fifteen in 2369, placing her birth in this year. She was a character from the episode .
According to an okudagram displayed in , the exploration vessel departed the Drexler outpost. This date was later completely disregarded in , where it established that the Hansens were assimilated in 2350.
According to the official Star Trek website, Ezri Tigan was born on New Sydney around this year.
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Jack Crusher dies on an away mission. Jean-Luc Picard, Crusher's captain aboard the Stargazer, delivers the sad news to Jack's wife, Beverly Crusher. () Following his death Beverly packs up some things, placing them in storage, including a holographic message Jack recorded for his son Wesley in 2348 when Wesley was about ten weeks old. She doesn't remove the small container from storage until 2367. ()
, a genetically-engineered Human, is born at the Darwin Genetic Research Station. ()
The Tholians destroy a Federation starbase. The only survivor of the attack is Kyle Riker. ()
Jeremiah Rossa is born at Galen IV colony. ()
William T. Riker and Geordi La Forge enter Starfleet Academy in San Francisco, Earth. ()
One of the children living on Deep Space 9 in 2369 was born in this year. ()
Nog is born on Ferenginar. ()
Tora Ziyal, daughter of Gul Dukat and Tora Naprem, is born. ()
In the Delta Quadrant, five members of Viorsa's species go into hibernation as the planet they live on is rendered uninhabitable by a solar flare. ()
Worf accidentally kills a boy named Mikel in a soccer match. ()
Kira Meru dies in a Cardassian hospital. ()
Hector Ilario is born. ()
Notes
Telek R'Mor's three-year scientific mission was slated to end in this year. ()
A subspace message sent by the Borg in 2153 to the Delta Quadrant was estimated to have arrived by this time. ()
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Turkana IV severs relations with the Federation. ()
Natasha Yar flees from the failed Human colony on Turkana IV. ()
Ishara Yar becomes a Turkana IV Coalition member. ()
Varria partners with Kivas Fajo. ()
Beverly Crusher interns on Delos IV under Doctor Dalen Quaice. ()
According to a falsified Starfleet personnel file, Kieran MacDuff enters Starfleet Academy. ()
Joseph Sisko's family doctor moves to New Orleans. ()
Tim Watters is born. ()
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Background information
According to the for , Katie was twelve years old in 2364, placing her birth in this year.
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