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The Cage (episode)

While investigating a distress call from Talos IV, Captain Christopher Pike of the starship Enterprise is captured and tested by beings who can project powerfully realistic illusions. (Original pilot) Summary The year is 2254, and it is two weeks after a battle on Rigel VII that left seven crew members injured and took the lives of three crewmen, including Captain Christopher Pike's yeoman, the ship encounters a space distortion on a collision course, according to helmsman José Tyler. It turns out to be an old radio distress signal, "keyed to cause interference and attract attention." The crew says it was sent eighteen years earlier from the Talos star group, but first officer Number One notes they have no Earth colonies or vessels that far out. Pike declines to investigate without any indication of survivors but proceeds to the Vega colony to care for the crew's own injuries. Pike calls the Enterprises chief medical officer, Dr. Boyce, to his quarters but Boyce instead fixes Pike a martini to induce Pike to talk about the battle on Rigel VII. Pike has been thinking of resigning, burdened with making lethal decisions, but Boyce counsels against it. The science officer Spock interrupts on the intercom that a follow-up message from Talos IV indicates there are eleven survivors. Pike returns to the bridge and orders the ship to Talos, at "time warp, factor seven." He encounters a comely young woman, J.M. Colt. The ship's first officer, a woman named Number One, says Colt is the captain's replacement yeoman. Pike expresses discomfort with "a woman on the bridge," assuring Number One that she is an exception, as she's "different, of course." Pike leads a landing party to the surface of Talos IV and finds the makeshift campsite of a disheveled group of male scientists from the crashed survey ship . The scientists identify themselves as an expedition of the American Continent Institute and Lieutenant Jose Tyler describes technological advances while they have been marooned, particularly in the time barrier being broken. A beautiful young woman approaches them. She is Vina, born almost as the group crash-landed on the planet. Vina strangely tells Pike he is a "prime specimen" – as three aliens with huge, pulsating heads watch the landing party through a viewing screen. Boyce provides his medical report to Pike and reports that the survivors are in good health, "almost too good." The scientist Theodore Haskins offers to show Pike their "secret," and Vina leads him away from the others. Vina suddenly vanishes, along with the scientists and their camp. Talosians render Pike unconscious and abduct him through a doorway in the rock. The landing party fires laser pistols at the door to no avail and Spock advises the ship via his communicator that this "is all some sort of trap. We've lost the captain. Do you read?" Pike wakes up without his jacket, communicator, and laser, inside an underground cell with a transparent wall, through which he sees several creatures of different species in nearby cells. Several Talosians arrive and make callous scientific observations about him, which he perceives not through sound but telepathy. They note that Pike is more adaptable to his new surroundings and prepare to begin "the experiment." The Talosians intend to make Pike experience illusions based on his memories, in order to interest him in Vina. The first illusion returns Pike to Rigel VII, with the new task of saving Vina. Pike is not interested in participating, telling Vina he is "not an animal performing for its supper," but he is interested in learning the parameters of the illusions and of his captivity. Nevertheless, he manages to survive the illusory attack from the Kalar and is returned, with Vina, to his cell. He learns from Vina that the Talosians have severely weakened their world and themselves by reliance on their telepathic powers. They want Captain Pike and Vina as breeding stock for a new, stronger race to repopulate the barren surface of the planet. The Talosians punish Vina for revealing this information to Pike. The Talosians provide him with a vial of liquid nourishment and insist that he consume it, even offering to make it appear as any food he wishes. Pike proposes to starve himself instead, which results in the Keeper punishing him with an illusion of being surrounded by scorching flame and threatens to punish him more severely for continued disobedience. Pike appears to relent by consuming the liquid, but then displays another outburst of attempting to break through the containment, unexpectedly startling the Keeper. Pike realizes that the Keeper was unable to read his mind during his outburst of anger and tries to inquire more as to why this is. The Keeper, still unable to probe Pike's mind, attempts then to distract Pike by changing the subject to Vina. Pike relents again, and the Keeper reveals that Vina was the sole survivor of the Columbia crash and confirms what she inadvertently revealed previously – that Pike and Vina were being kept to propagate Humanity and repopulate Talos IV. The conversation ends with Pike demanding that the Talosians punish him instead of her, since he is the one being uncooperative, which the Keeper regards as an excellent development in their relationship. The next illusion is a pleasant picnic just outside Pike's hometown of Mojave, with Vina attempting to entice Pike with the familiar setting, but with Pike still resisting, knowing that all of it is just a mere illusion. Vina then realizes that scenarios with which Pike is already familiar have not been successful in enticing him to cooperate, and surmises that he might be more easily swayed by a forbidden fantasy. The Talosians next tempt Pike by making Vina appear as a dancing Orion slave girl. The Enterprise tries without success to channel the starship's power to the surface to blast a way to Pike. Then Spock locates the Talosians' power generator and prepares a landing party. However, only the females (Number One and Yeoman Colt) are the only ones transported, as the Talosians seek to give Pike a choice of mates; and their weapons and communicators appear not to work. Vina resents the competition; Number One says records indicate Vina cannot be as young as she appears. As the rescue attempts have failed, Spock orders the Enterprise to leave orbit, but the Talosians immobilize it and scan its records, convincing Spock that the ship's utility to the Talosians is at an end and that they will now "swat… this fly." Pike determines that any strong emotions keep the Talosians from controlling his mind and uses this to his advantage. While Pike feigns sleep, the Talosian magistrate tries to recover the female officers' lasers from the cage. Pike seizes the magistrate and ignores the illusions. He reasons that the malfunction of the lasers was itself an illusion and uses the laser pistol to compel the magistrate to stop deceiving him. He now sees that they had blasted away the wall of the cage on their first attempt. He escapes with the women to the surface and sees that the blasting operation on the door had also succeeded, despite an illusion made to appear otherwise. But the communicators still don't work, and the Talosian says that the original goal was to put the group on the surface. Pike offers himself as a captive for the freedom of the others and the Enterprise, but Number One begins a "force-chamber" overload of her laser pistol, intending to destroy herself and her shipmates to thwart the Talosians' plans. She tells the Talosian magistrate that it is wrong to create a whole race of Humans to live as slaves. The magistrate's aides arrive, presenting the summary of the ship's records. The records have shown that Humans possess a "unique hatred of captivity," even when pleasant, making them too dangerous for the Talosians' needs. The magistrate does not apologize for the imposition but concedes that they will now become extinct. Pike asks if commerce or cooperation might not restore the planet, but the magistrate replies that Humans would learn the Talosians' power of illusion and destroy themselves, just as the Talosians did. The crew members are free to go, but Vina says she cannot join them. After the others transport aboard, the Talosians show Pike Vina's true appearance: underneath the Talosian illusions, she is badly deformed from the crash of the Columbia. They were able to make it so that she could remain alive, but could not restore her appearance. The Talosians agree to take care of Vina and they provide her with an illusory Captain Pike to keep her company. Pike returns to the bridge, reassuring Dr. Boyce that he is completely refreshed for work, and waving off a query from Yeoman Colt about whom he would have chosen as a mate, as well as accusing the doctor of being a "dirty old man" for inquiring into the meaning of Colt's remark. The Enterprise departs. Memorable quotes "Check the circuit." "All operating, sir." "It can't be the screen then." - Spock and Tyler, speaking the first lines in Star Trek history "Records show the Talos star group has never been explored. Solar system similar to Earth; eleven planets. Number four seems to be... class M. Oxygen atmosphere." "Then they could still be alive even after eighteen years." "If they survived the crash." - Spock, Number One, and Pike "Sometimes a man'll tell his bartender things he'll never tell his doctor." - Boyce, offering Pike a martini "Chris, you set standards for yourself no one could meet. You treat everyone on board like a Human being except yourself." - Boyce, explaining Pike's work exhaustion "I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't. And who's going on the landing party and who doesn't. And who lives. And who dies." - Pike, hinting at his retirement to Boyce "A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on, and licks it. Or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away." - Boyce, advising Pike against retirement "We both get the same two kinds of customers. The living and the dying." - Boyce to Pike, as doctor and bartender "It's just that I can't get used to having a woman on the bridge." (Number One looks surprised) "No offense, lieutenant. You're different, of course." - Pike to Number One, about Colt "You appear to be healthy and intelligent, captain. Prime specimen." - Vinas first observations of Captain Pike "There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it!" - Pike to the Talosians, on his captivity "But they found it's a trap. Like a narcotic. Because when dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating." - Vina, on why the Talosians developed their mental powers "I'm a woman as real and as Human as you are. We're like Adam and Eve." - Vina, convincing Pike that she is not an illusion "No, please! Don't punish me!" - Vina, about to be punished for revealing the truth that she and Pike are meant to breed (and finally proving that she's for real) "You overlook the unpleasant alternative of punishment." - The Keeper, outlining the consequences for disobedience "You either live life – bruises, skinned knees and all – or you turn your back on it and start dying." - Pike, understanding Boyce's advice "But we're not here. Neither of us. We're in a menagerie, a cage!" - Pike to Vina, in the picnic fantasy "A curious species. They have fantasies they hide even from themselves." - The Keeper, watching the picnic fantasy "A person's strongest dreams are about what he can't do." - Vina, before becoming an Orion woman "Can you believe it? Actually like being taken advantage of!" - One of Pike's guests, describing the nature of Orion slave girls "The women!" - Spock, after Number One and Colt disappear "Since you resist the present specimen, you now have a selection. Each of these two new specimens has qualities in her favor." - The Keeper, referring to Number One and Colt "Although she seems to lack emotion, this is largely a pretense. She often has fantasies involving you." - The Keeper to Pike, about Number One "The factors in her favor are youth and strength, plus unusually strong female drives." - The Keeper, about Colt "Wrong thinking is punishable. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded. You will find it an effective combination." - The Keeper, after Pike suffers pain "With the female of your choice, you will now begin carefully guided lives." "Start by burying you?" "That is your choice." - The Keeper and Pike "It's wrong to create a race of Humans to keep as slaves." - Number One, just before preparing to kill the Humans and the Keeper "The customs and history of your race show a unique hatred of captivity. Even when it's pleasant and benevolent, you prefer death. This makes you too violent and dangerous a species for our needs." - The Keeper, before releasing Pike, Number One and Colt "No other specimen has shown your adaptability. You were our last hope." - The Keeper, explaining why Pike's inability to cooperate would lead to the extinction of the Talosians "She has an illusion and you have reality. May you find your way as pleasant." - The Keeper, after restoring Vina's beauty (as well as creating an illusory Christopher Pike to keep her company) "Who would have been Eve?" "Yeoman!" - Colt and Number One, referring to whom Pike would have chosen "Eve? As in Adam?" "As in all ship's doctors are dirty old men." - Boyce and Pike, before the Enterprise leaves Talos IV "What are we running here, a cadet ship, Number One? Are we ready or not?" "All decks show ready, sir." "Engage!" - Pike and Number One, as the Enterprise prepares to leave Talos IV Background information Introductory details The title of this episode – the first installment of Star Trek ever produced – was changed in production from "The Cage" to "The Menagerie". However, when the two-part episode and (which reused almost all the footage from this episode) went into production, the title of this installment reverted to "The Cage". (The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., p. 10; ) Although the episode has a title, and is universally referred to as "The Cage", no episode title actually appears on screen, with the only title used in the credits being "Star Trek". Story and script The genesis of this episode was the first of twenty-five proposed stories in Gene Roddenberry's series outline Star Trek is.... The description of the plot concept that became this episode (initially titled "The Next Cage") read, "The desperation of our series lead, caged and on exhibition like an animal, then offered a mate." During an early meeting wherein Gene Roddenberry and Herbert F. Solow pitched the series to television network NBC, Jerry Stanley – NBC Program Development Vice President – asked to hear more about the idea for the series' pilot episode. Solow later reflected, "I asked Gene to explain. He did, very succinctly describing the premise of 'The Menagerie'." Neither Grant Tinker – who was also present at the meeting and was, at the time, NBC Vice President of Programs, West Coast – nor Jerry Stanley was convinced to agree to a series deal with Roddenberry and Solow. Just as Roddenberry was about to leave the room, Solow made a last-ditch attempt to persuade the NBC executives, stating, "If you give us a commitment for a ninety-minute script instead of one hour, and we make the pilot, you can always run it as a TV special and recoup your investment if it doesn't sell as a series. Besides, I'm not leaving this room until you give us a script order." This was enough to sway NBC's stance and the executives agreed to make a deal. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 6, 19-20) This episode's premise was not the only concept that NBC considered for the series' pilot. Herb Solow explained, "They wanted to hear more stories before one of them was chosen for the pilot script. We had more meetings, and Gene gave them more stories." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 20) This episode's narrative style was selected after Oscar Katz, the president of Desilu Television at the time, personally pitched four different narrative approaches to the NBC executives. Whereas the first two-story types primarily focused on events aboard the Enterprise and the third option featured a planet whose inhabitants were much like Humanity of either the past or the future, the fourth type involved a planet that was highly different from Earth and was inhabited by people who were likewise very different from Humans. NBC chose the fourth type, the hardest to produce, as they wanted to challenge Desilu by making it as hard as possible for that studio to prove the series was doable. Explained Katz, "I tried to talk them out of it, because I knew it was going to be expensive and, even more, I felt that it might not be representative of the series. But they couldn't be talked out of it." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 11) The plot idea for this episode underwent further development in early May 1964, after NBC vice-president Mort Werner provided Gene Roddenberry with US$20,000 in development money to write three different story outlines based on the Star Trek format. (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 41-42; The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., p. 10) With so much at stake over the trio of episode outlines, Roddenberry diligently labored away at them, obsessing over each page and every word. He spent a month writing the outlines as well as several weeks revising them, after which he finally turned the pages over to NBC. (Star Trek Memories, p. 33) The outlines had been forwarded to the network by the end of June 1964 and the particular outline for this episode was dated 29 June (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 45 & 47). The other two candidates were "The Perfect World" aka "Visit to Paradise" (which became ) and "The Women" (which became ). (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, 1st ed., p. 34) Following the submission of the outlines, NBC took several days before announcing their choice of "The Cage" as the pilot-to-be. (Star Trek Memories, p. 33) The episode's story outline consisted of 26 pages. In those pages, the name of the Enterprises captain was Robert April (as it was in the series outline Star Trek is…). He was the only one of his crew whose name was to be changed, as the episode continued to evolve. Also, the Talosians were crab-like aliens (their species remaining unnamed, though they were commonly referred to as "crab-creatures"), and their planet was "Sirius IV". The outline is fully transcribed in The Making of Star Trek (pp. 47-65). Some of Gene Roddenberry's initial thoughts for the episode's illusory scenarios had to be altered or scaled back due to production and budgetary realities. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary) Hours after NBC greenlighted the pilot (a duration that Gene Roddenberry and Herb Solow spent ironing out some of the "twists, turns, and bends in the plot"), Gene Roddenberry set to work on writing the teleplay. (Star Trek Memories, p. 36; Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 20-21) As he wrote the first draft script, he spared no thought for the practicalities of producing what he was writing about, such as the episode's laser cannon, instead leaving such realistic considerations until later. Noted Herb Solow, "The network draft wasn't for shooting, the network draft was for selling. When we got the order for the pilot film, then we'd face the budget problem head on." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 20-21) Gene Roddenberry did, however, care about the believability of the script. To this end, he initiated a period of intensive scientific research and began an acquaintance with Harvey P. Lynn, a physicist from the RAND Corporation who served as Roddenberry's unofficial technical adviser on the pilot. (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 74, 76-77) During the remainder of the summer and into the early autumn of 1964, major effort was invested in the development of the shooting script, the intention being that it was to later be submitted to NBC for approval. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 78) The first script draft was dated . (The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., p. 11) In that version of the episode, the captain's name was still Robert April, though both the Talosians and their homeworld of Talos IV received their eventual names. (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 91-95) It was also the initial draft of the episode's teleplay that changed the Talosians from resembling crabs to becoming small and slim humanoids with elongated heads. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 93) This alteration was made because the production staff realized the aliens might seem too much like the bug-eyed monsters of "1950s horror movies," the antithesis of what Gene Roddenberry wanted the more intellectually-minded Star Trek to be. Depicting the extraterrestrials as crab-like creatures would have not only run a good chance of making them look unconvincing but also would have been prohibitively expensive, two deciding factors in the adjustment of their form. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 008) According to Majel Barrett, the first character introduced in the script was Number One. "That was the first character Gene wrote into the script," Barrett stated. "Captain April was not an afterthought because he knew he had to have a captain, but the first character that was described was Number One." () The episode's first draft script had an opening scene in the hangar bay where Captain April, whose character at this stage was a tad older than Captain Pike was later written, is inspecting new crew members. He remarks disapprovingly to the doctor, at one point, about the young age of some of these officers. "Something," Roddenberry later wrote in a memo, "that Jim Kirk, the boy wonder of the Academy, never would have done." In this same scene, April sees a number of badly-wounded crewmen off the ship, onto a space shuttle or taxi from the Human colony of Antares. Among these departing officers is an uninjured former navigator named Crowley who April is sending back in disgrace, because he fired on friendly aliens. The officer argues that they were monstrous in appearance and asks how he could have known that they were intelligent enough to have weapons. These protests are met by a stern but subdued dismissal from the captain, who quietly orders, "Get off my ship, mister." (The Making of Star Trek; The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., pp. 11-12) While scripting the episode, Gene Roddenberry developed a habit of being somewhat possessive about story ideas, to such a degree that Herb Solow considered this quality to be excessive. "As Gene completed the first-draft pilot script," Solow remarked, "he unfortunately became overly protective of his new baby." Furthermore, Roddenberry began to frequently lay claim to the input of others. "A new side of Gene slowly appeared: ownership of ideas," commented Solow. "If a good story or series point came from anyone, be it NBC, [Desilu's agent] Ashley-Famous, or Desilu, Gene Roddenberry appropriated it." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 21) A copy of the episode's first draft script was sent from Gene Roddenberry to Harvey P. Lynn, shortly prior to 14 September 1964. On that date, Lynn responded with correspondence of his own – a letter that included many comments on the script draft. Concerning the docking scene, Lynn proposed a theoretical docking method and a suggestion that the name Antares, since it refers to a sun unsuitable for the habitation of Humans, be substituted with "a more vague name" such as Tycho, Fabricus, or even Lynnicus (the latter name clearly being offered as an in-joke). Additionally, Lynn took the liberty of suggesting that the shuttle or taxi might be from a ship similar to the Enterprise and that that vessel had recently departed from Earth, which Lynn observed would correlate well with the introductions of both Tyler and Yeoman Colt. (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 90-92) The docking scene was excised from the script in a revised draft, and Roddenberry notified Lynn of the scene's exclusion in a letter sent on 24 September. (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 96-97) Though the first script draft referred to Talos IV as being located at the "edge of the universe" and stated that Earth was "at the other end of this galaxy," Harvey P. Lynn rejected these notions, advising Gene Roddenberry that traveling from one end of the galaxy to the other would take an impossibly long time and encouraging him to switch the latter reference to "far away in this galaxy." (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 92, 94) Evidently, Roddenberry ultimately minimized the references to the far distance between Earth and Talos IV; of the two such references, the first was deleted while the second remained. Harvey P. Lynn recommended that Talos IV be stated to be in either Sigma Draconis, Eta Cassiopeiae, or HR 8832 (aka ), owing to both their proximity to our solar system and the fact that it is unknown whether any of them have any Earth-type planets. Other astral names that Lynn requested be changed were Epsilon VII, Orion, and Rigel 113, which he suggested substituting with Draconis, HR 8832, and Vega 113, respectively. A similar idea that he presented was changing Orion traders to Centaurian traders. (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 92, 95) In his reply on 24 September, Roddenberry expressed an interest in having the names of the stars in this episode be ones that were familiar to the audience. "This is why I've avoided such terms as 'HR8832,' etc," he explained. On the other hand, he conceded that the continued use of Rigel and Orion could still be substituted, in the final shooting script, with names such as Vega, admitting that such names – while being more appropriate from a scientific perspective – were also possibly just as familiar. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 97) Comparing the second revised final draft script (dated 20 September 1964) to the episode's final draft indicates that Roddenberry ultimately replaced Rigel 113 with Rigel VII. Neither the same script draft nor the actual episode contain reference to Epsilon VII, though they also evidence that Roddenberry ultimately excluded not only HR 8832 but also Draconis and Vega 113. Due to Harvey P. Lynn's influence, the SS Columbia is said to have been lost in the same "region" as the Talos star group, rather than the same "quadrant" as that star system, and the gravity of Talos IV was altered from "1.3 of Earth" to less than Earth's gravity. Lynn submitted the latter suggestion on the basis of the Talosians' appearance and proposed that Talos IV have a gravity that was 85% as powerful as Earth's. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 92) In the episode's final version, it is said to be "0.9 of Earth." The character of Geologist was known as Astroscientist in the first draft script, but this was also changed on the recommendation of Harvey P. Lynn, who opted for "Geologist" because he believed it was a more specific title. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 93) In the first draft script, the illusory Columbia survivors had more dialogue than they do in the episode's final edit. For instance, it was established that the survivors' distress call had been a directional beam. Harvey P. Lynn, however, proposed that it would be more likely for the survivors' signal to have been a broadcast beam, owing to the increased probability that such a beam would be intercepted. Solar batteries were mentioned by at least one of the survivors too, but Lynn opposed this by suggesting that the illusory Human instead say, "After we could no longer use the ship's power, we switched to automatic batteries and started praying." (The Making of Star Trek, p. 93) This dialogue was evidently later cut or omitted entirely. Harvey P. Lynn also made some notes on the specifics of several elements that were intended to continue to be featured in the forthcoming series (such as lasers, for which he submitted four alternative names, though Gene Roddenberry maintained that he wanted the name to stay as it was, due to the high odds that it would be recognizable to viewers). (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 94, 97) Executives at Desilu were also included in the revision process. Herb Solow explained, "Finally, all the top executives received copies of our pilot [script] to read, review with others, and comment on. I personally walked the Star Trek pilot script into [Desilu president and actress] Lucy [Ball]'s dressing room and handed it to her. 'Lucy, this is the Star Trek pilot script. There'll be lots of changes, so if you have any comments, let me have them, because there'll be ample time to implement them.' Lucy never mentioned the script […] I know Oscar [Katz] read his copy of the pilot script, but he never offered any comments [either]." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 22) The second revised final draft script of the "The Cage" indicates, as does the episode, that Spock, José Tyler, and others had been wounded in the fighting on Rigel VII – events which took place just prior to the action in "The Cage". The script includes stage directions for Spock to be limping and for Tyler to have a bandaged hand. As late as 20 November 1964 (in the second revised final script), the captain's name was James Winter. Even though Gene Roddenberry was open to some of Harvey P. Lynn's suggestions, his possessiveness over plot ideas affected his interactions with NBC. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 21) The script's final draft was ready to send to the network by the end of September 1964 and the proposed shooting script was submitted to NBC in the last week of September. (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 90, 99) Herb Solow offered, "Gene and I met with NBC to get their script comments. He took offense at most of them, at times unnecessarily so. Some ideas were really good." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 21) However, Roddenberry was pleased with the network's general reaction to what he had written, the major stumbling block between them, at this point, being a specific dream sequence that Roddenberry had scripted. NBC warned against overly focusing on the sequence, wary that the message concerning what is reality might be lost on the audience. Numerous other, minor alterations were requested, but NBC more-or-less gave their approval for the episode to be filmed. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 99) By the time this episode's script was completed, Gene Roddenberry's initial concept for the installment had been greatly changed by suggestions from Desilu and NBC. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 22) The teleplay also reflected the input of the numerous scientific advisers who Roddenberry had consulted. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 90) Having finished writing the script, Roddenberry asked Robert Butler to read it. Butler later remembered his reactions to the teleplay; "I remember thinking it was a terrific yarn, but that it was somewhat obscured because it was such a showcase script. 'The Cage' showcased such solid, good and fascinating science-fiction disciplines, examples and events, that it was, I thought, a little obscure. The story was somewhat remote." (, issue 117, p. 55) By the time filming began, the name of the Enterprises commanding officer had finally been changed to Christopher Pike. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 115) Cast Prior to the making of this episode, Gene Roddenberry already knew that he wanted to cast both Majel Barrett – who he had in mind when originally developing the character Number One – and Leonard Nimoy as Number One and Spock, respectively. (Star Trek Memories, p. 23; ) All three had previously worked on The Lieutenant, a series that had been produced by Roddenberry and had featured appearances from Barrett and Nimoy. (Star Trek Memories, pp. 43) Casting director Joseph D'Agosta had also worked on The Lieutenant. At a point after Star Trek had been greenlighted but did not yet have a casting director, Gene Roddenberry called D'Agosta and eagerly invited him to fill that production capacity. (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 213) The casting process began at a time when the script revisions were under way and the captain's name was still Robert April. (Star Trek Memories, p. 41; ) However, because Joseph D'Agosta was meanwhile at 20th Century Fox, his work on the episode was indirect. "I cast it on the phone," he explained, "by just suggesting films to look at and what actors to see, and I relayed all this through a young man named Morris Chapnick, who was Gene's assistant." (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 213) Chapnick, yet another production staffer who had worked on The Lieutenant, had first become aware of Star Trek when Roddenberry had told him about this pilot. (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 100-101) Majel Barrett was cast as Number One before both Leonard Nimoy and Pike actor Jeffrey Hunter were cast in their roles. (Star Trek Memories, p. 23) Alternative actors that were considered include Lloyd Bridges for the Captain Pike role, Martin Landau for the Spock character, and Yvonne Craig for the guest star role of Vina. (; ) DeForest Kelley was considered for the roles of both Dr. Boyce and Spock. (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 98; Star Trek Memories, p. 44) Even though Leonard Nimoy was always Gene Roddenberry's first choice for the Spock role, he often said that he would have instead approached Martin Landau to play the role, if Nimoy had been unavailable. () Robert Butler was involved in many of the casting decisions for the episode, including the selection of Peter Duryea as José Tyler. Butler later recalled, "I was very much in on the casting of the supporting people […] I remember trying to get a freshness and colloquiality in those characters and not have them all be rigid and pasteboard leading men." () Robert Butler was happy with the casting of Peter Duryea, Majel Barrett, and Susan Oliver as Vina but had some difficulty with Jeffrey Hunter playing Pike. "I certainly knew of him and found him to be a real co-operative good guy," stated Butler. "He was a little heroic and a little stiff, and I tried to modify that a little bit." () In his introduction for the 1986 VHS release of "The Cage" (which can now be seen on the DVD version in the third season set), Gene Roddenberry noted that he refused to cast his crew what the network dubbed "sensibly," which according to Roddenberry meant "all white." This was indirectly contested by Herb Solow in the book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, in which he states that Mort Werner deliberately encouraged NBC to show racial diversity and integration in its programs. In general, the pilot gave its cast a good impression of how good the potentially forthcoming series could be. Laurel Goodwin, who was cast as Yeoman J.M. Colt, remembered, "The whole gang of us knew this show was going to go along wonderfully well. We were all so involved with our characters. There was no doubt in my mind that this would be a successful show if they could just get good stories." () Leonard Mudie, who has one line of dialogue as one of the Columbia survivors, was a veteran of dozens of films dating back to the 1930s. He was 81 when this sequence was filmed, and he died the next year. He was the second-oldest actor ever to appear on the original Star Trek and the first to pass away. Although male voices were dubbed in for the Talosians, all the Talosian actors were actually women. (This is, unfortunately, not correct. Felix Silla (January 11, 1937 - April 16, 2021) played one of The Keepers; he was not just a background image to show how small they were.) Robert Butler and Gene Roddenberry struck upon using this casting method at about the same time as one another, Butler reckoning that it would lend the Talosian characterizations an alien-like androgynous quality. (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 97) Roddenberry believed that the lighter builds of females might suggest that the Talosians had allowed their bodies to atrophy while instead choosing to concentrate on advanced brain development. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary) Upon searching for suitable performers to play the parts, Roddenberry scoured Hollywood for short actresses with faces that he deemed to be interesting. (The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., p. 15) Meg Wyllie was cast as the Talosian Keeper on Butler's recommendation, they having previously worked together. (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 98) Clegg Hoyt played the transporter chief, Pitcairn, but his voice was dubbed in by Bob Johnson. Johnson was the voice on the tape (and disc) in the TV series Mission: Impossible. Leonard Nimoy and Majel Barrett are the only actors to appear in both this episode and the final episode of , , where Barret played her most regular role, Nurse Chapel. Malachi Throne (Voice of The Keeper) featured not only in this episode, Leonard Nimoy's first Star Trek appearance, but also appeared during Nimoy's final TV Star Trek appearance, the episode . This is the first of six Star Trek instances in which Leonard Nimoy appeared without William Shatner, the other five being , and , and the films and . Michael Dugan, who played the illusory Kalar warrior, was actually a stunt performer. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary) After the crew beams down to the planet surface of Talos IV, Spock is seen limping as he walks toward the singing plants. It has been mistakenly stated that Nimoy had suffered an injury prior to filming. In fact, Nimoy's limp here was feigned, in accordance with the script. (The Making of Star Trek) José Tyler similarly appears with a bandage around his hand. Both injuries were meant to reference the recent mission-gone-wrong that Pike speaks to Boyce about. Because Jeffrey Hunter (who played Pike) was playing a very controlled, internalized character, Nimoy felt the need to bring in some energy and animation onto the set. (Mind Meld: Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime; et al.) Production The making of this episode despite the fact that best estimates for the pilot originally placed its production cost as more than US$500,000 represented a considerable gamble for Desilu, which was a small, ill-equipped studio at the time. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 41) Nervous about this situation, NBC set out to monitor the progress of the pilot, keeping a check on the project's schedule and cost. (Star Trek Memories, p. 36) Oscar Katz announced NBC's go-ahead to produce the pilot at a Desilu board meeting, after which Herb Solow fielded questions from the board. He explained that, although the pilot was going to cost more than NBC gave the studio, Desilu had no way of knowing how much more until after the revised script had been budgeted. Solow later mused, "The board was nervous. Production of a ninety-minute science-fiction pilot was an expensive business move, a risky business move." As the meeting went on, Solow gave assurances that it was possible for Desilu to produce the show and tried to maintain a positive demeanor as he answered more questions about the imminent pilot. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 23) At first, it was uncertain how a production crew could be assembled to handle such an ambitious and complex episode as this, though Gene Roddenberry and Herb Solow immediately ruled out the crew that regularly produced Desilu's The Lucy Show, which starred Desilu President Lucille Ball. "As professional as the crew was, most of them would be of little help when confronted with the overwhelming demands and technical requirements of the planned Star Trek pilot," explained Solow. "Basically, Gene and I were faced with the job of building a production unit from scratch at a time when the availability lists from the unions were scant or empty." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 27) Besides Gene Roddenberry and Herb Solow, the first production staffer to be assigned to this episode was Robert Butler. He was chosen by Roddenberry and Solow, following extensive talks with both NBC Programming and Alden Schwimmer, the boss of Ashley-Famous. NBC was satisfied with the decision, Butler having established himself as a director on numerous television series in the 1960s (including The Lieutenant). (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 27 & 13) It was Gene Roddenberry who asked Robert Butler to helm the episode. () Both Roddenberry and Solow regarded Butler as highly dependable. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 27) However, Roddenberry's extreme protectiveness over the episode clashed with Butler's impression of the script as being somewhat obscure. Butler later reflected, "I discussed whether or not people would get it. I could tell at that point that Gene was so consumed with it that he couldn't have heard any objections." ( issue 117, p. 55) The director also said, "I remember trying to suggest to Gene that we ought to do some straightening out, or at least we should discuss it, and I remember thinking that Gene was too far into it, so I just gave up." (Trek: Deep Space Nine, p. 43) Butler wanted Roddenberry to change the title of the show from "Star Trek" to "Star Track", feeling that the former was too pretentious, tedious, inert and boring. ( issue 117, p. 55; ) "In that discussion, and others regarding the story's obscurity, Gene was not in the mood to receive any such input," remembered the director. ( issue 117, p. 55) After Robert Butler was drafted, some key members of the art department were also sought out. These were Pato Guzman, the art director from The Lucy Show, and Matt Jefferies, who was hired as the episode's assistant art director. Jefferies was initially assigned to design the Enterprises exterior, with Guzman deciding upon the look of the sets. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 27-28; The Making of Star Trek, pp. 78-79) One of the environments that Guzman designed was Captain Pike's quarters. (The Art of Star Trek, p. 11) When he left amid the episode's pre-production phase (specifically, in October 1964), Guzman was replaced by Franz Bachelin, a veteran art director. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 101; Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 35) One set that was designed by both Guzman and Bachelin was the planet surface of Talos IV. ("The Menagerie, Part I" text commentary) However, Matt Jefferies also worked on designing the sets, such as the cage-like environment that serves as the episode's namesake. (The Art of Star Trek, p. 5) In fact, much to his frustration, designing the Enterprises exterior initially delayed Jefferies from planning the episode's sets. (Star Trek Memories, p. 32) A great deal of effort went into scheming the sets, on paper, while the installment's shooting script was in development, spanning late summer and early autumn of 1964. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 78) Costume Designer William Ware Theiss was fortunately available and was hired on the pilot with the task of designing, on a very limited budget, costumes that had to be different from any seen before on television. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 28) In early October 1964, Robert Justman was interviewed for the post of associate producer on the pilot but turned it down, fearing that his post-production knowledge was not as extensive as it had to be for the episode, a response that lead to Byron Haskin instead being recruited as the pilot's associate producer. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 28-30; "The Menagerie, Part I" text commentary) Justman meanwhile went back to working on The Outer Limits, on which he had worked with Byron Haskin. The Star Trek pilot still required an assistant director. "The first Star Trek pilot needed a good one," clarified Herb Solow. "I didn't want to use any first assistant [director] who'd worked with Bob Butler in the past, feeling that too much familiarity might be a disadvantage on this mind-boggling science-fiction pilot." After Solow consulted producer and director friends (including his college classmate James Goldstone) around Hollywood (irritatedly referring to the pilot as "a bitch"), he found that Robert Justman was the highest recommended candidate. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 31) Solow then convinced , Justman's boss on The Outer Limits and other projects, into permitting a temporary transfer of Justman to the Star Trek pilot, saying, "With prep time, the shooting, and some wrap-up, figure I'd be borrowing him for no more than a month at the most." Stevens wanted Justman to serve as assistant director on his upcoming Esperanto language horror movie, Incubus, which coincidentally starred William Shatner. However, pre-production of Incubus went overdue, so Stevens loaned Justman to Desilu. Justman likewise believed his assignment on Star Trek was not going to be longer than six weeks and, when he returned to Desilu, he was surprised to find that no final shooting script was yet available for him, the teleplay undergoing one of Gene Roddenberry's many rewrites of the script. Justman began his work after he read through the latest rewrite, initiating the schedule and budget "breakdown" process. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 32) His role as this episode's assistant director made Justman responsible for a virtually endless series of critical production details. ("The Menagerie, Part I" text commentary) When Director of Photography William E. Snyder became available, he brought his own camera crew and "lighting" gaffer with him. Although some sources cite Jerry Finnerman as having been the camera operator on this episode, the actual cameraman was Richard A. Kelley, according to both Robert Justman and the original crew sheet for the episode. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 36) Locating a makeup supervisor who was equipped to tackle the pilot involved a challenging search. "It was apparent that we needed the best makeup man we could find," explained Robert Justman. "There were numerous 'appliances' [latex or rubber prosthetics] that would have to be designed, built, and affixed, on a daily basis, to the actors who would portray non-human aliens […] Most makeup artists didn't have the prosthetic expertise we needed." Also, Desilu had no makeup department of its own. Justman spoke about the project with Fred Phillips, a busy makeup man who had worked with him on The Outer Limits and several previous series. "I managed to spring him long enough to do our pilot," concluded Justman. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 36) Purchasing a laser cannon for this episode was of some difficulty. Herb Solow once commented that it was "tough to go down to the local hardware store or gun shop and buy one." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 20) The laser cannon prop was ultimately a modified camera dolly. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary) The weirdness of Gene Roddenberry's requirements startled some of the advisors he attempted to consult. "Well, it was all so new and strange to them," Roddenberry observed. "Like you call some unsuspecting production man on the phone, and he says, 'Hello,' and you say, 'What does it cost to paint a girl green?' You get a long silence!" (The Making of Star Trek, p. 77) When doing makeup tests for Vina as an Orion slave girl, Majel Barrett was used as a willing test subject. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 40) "I was cheap, I was there, and our guest star was not!" Barrett laughed in retrospect. "She would have had to be brought in and they would have had to test it [on her], and there just wasn't the money." () This took place early in the episode's preproduction phase and it was Fred Phillips who applied the makeup to Barrett. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary) However, the footage of these tests kept coming back without the green skin being visible. Puzzled by this, the makeup crew kept painting the actress again and again with other shades of green, hoping it would be visible on film. This went on for a period of three consecutive days. Afterward, the makeup artists discovered that the film processing lab was "de-coloring" her because they didn't know she was supposed to be green. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 40; The Making of Star Trek, pp. 77-78) The first filmed scene from "The Cage" (and of Star Trek) – the sequence with Dr. Boyce and Captain Pike sharing a martini – was filmed on Friday, . ("The Menagerie, Part I" text commentary) Only a short stretch of corridor was built for this episode. This set can be seen, in its entirety, during the scene in which Pike heads through a passageway into his "cabin" (or quarters), passing a young couple. ("The Menagerie, Part I" text commentary) The animation of two of the specimens in the Talosian menagerie – the anthropoid ape and the humanoid bird – was provided for by Janos Prohaska. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary) The ape creature originally appeared in The Outer Limits episode "Fun and Games", without its facial hair. Prohaska was brought in by Robert Justman, who had worked with him previously on the series. The owl-like bird creature, entirely designed and built by master craftsman Wah Chang, also appeared in a later episode of that series, "The Duplicate Man". () Still, "Roddenberry's weirdness" of it all continued to befuddle Director Butler, as he recalled. "I remember there was some chicken – some killer fowl – being locked in some cell somewhere, and I'm talking to this stuntman – it's crazy, me talking to this Janos Prohaska, [who was] Hungarian or something…[saying], "Janos, okay that's good, baby, now try this." And there's this big chicken – this killer chicken – or some equivalent. I mean, it was nuts." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, 1st ed, p. 60) Needless to say, the extended scenes were not utilized in the pilot as presented. One of the imprisoned species is seen only by its shadow; the last cage in the zoo contains a large crab-like creature with huge claws. This was a shadow puppet, rendered with several fingers silhouetted against a lit background. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary) The Talosian seen down the corridor as Pike looks at all the imprisoned creatures was a dwarf (Felix Silla). This gave the appearance of great length to what was actually a short, forced-perspective hallway. Bob Justman came up with this idea when they realized the budget wouldn't allow them to build a large hallway. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p 47) The Talosian headpieces – complete with their bulging veins and small, round ears – were also created for this episode by craftsman Wah Chang, who (like Robert Justman, Byron Haskin and Fred Phillips) had previously worked on The Outer Limits. ("The Menagerie, Part I" text commentary) The head prosthetics were blended into the actresses' own facial features by Phillips and his makeup staff. (The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., p. 15) The Talosians' elevator landing was built on a platform, allowing room for the lift to descend without having to excavate below the soundstage's floor. ("The Menagerie, Part I" text commentary) A matte painting created by noted matte artist Albert Whitlock was used to portray the Rigel VII fortress, though these exterior shots also involved the filming of live-action footage on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer back lot. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary) While Susan Oliver was wearing her green Orion slave girl makeup, she became very tired. A doctor was called to the studio to give her a vitamin B shot. He went to her dressing room where, not having been informed of her appearance, he was greatly surprised to see that her complexion was green. The doctor was so flustered, in fact, that it took him nearly five minutes to simply identify an area to administer the shot. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 78) The spearhead Pike uses to kill the Kalar on Rigel VII was a recycled prop from . It measured approximately thirty inches in length and was seven and a half inches wide. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 011) Robert Butler said in an interview with Star Trek Monthly that he wanted some dirt and rust on the sets, but Roddenberry vetoed this idea, claiming that everything must be clean and shiny. In another interview, Butler claimed that this was his basic reason for disliking Star Trek overall, calling it "too square-jawed, heroic" and "too worthy and clean" for his taste. (Star Trek Monthly issue 6 ) The landing party jackets in this episode were fastened by long strips of black Velcro running down the entire length of the inside flap, visible in some of the scenes. The belts were grey-colored elastic-type bands that had metal hook/clip fasteners at the front which held the communicator and hand weapon. They were worn over the shirt but under the jacket, at the waist. When indicating the region of the Talos group on his viewscreen, Spock calls up a photograph of the Pleiades Cluster. The scene inside the Rigel fortress was one of the last scenes to be shot for this episode. It was filmed on . Gene Roddenberry was present during the filming and model maker Richard C. Datin, Jr. also payed a visit to the set, presenting the three-foot USS Enterprise study model to Roddenberry, it eventually turning out to be a full-fledged filming model onto its own. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary, ) This was the single most expensive episode ever created for the original Star Trek series. ("The Menagerie, Part I" text commentary) According to several sources (including the The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., p. 17), NBC spent US$630,000 on this episode. According to Majel Barrett, however, there was only US$168,000 available for the pilot. () The episode's preproduction costs were reduced thanks to the use of rear-screen projection for images on the Enterprises main viewscreen. ("The Menagerie, Part I" text commentary) Based upon extensive research author Marc Cushman had performed on the internal studio documentation used at the time, he has reported the budget and total cost at $452,000 (hugely debunking Barrett's earlier statement) and $616,000, respectively. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, 1st ed., p. 64) Visual effects Howard Anderson Company, the company responsible for all visual effects or "opticals" as they were called at the time, subcontracted the build of the Enterprise studio model to Richard Datin. Datin himself built the above-mentioned small three-foot that was originally intended to serve as a study model, but which ended up being used for filming nevertheless. The actual large eleven-foot filming model he himself had to sub-contract to Production Models Shop due to time pressure and lack of space in his workshop. ( For a far more detailed treatise on the two models, see: Constitution-class model The opening shot of this episode was filmed with the use of frame-by-frame stop-motion animation, in order to allow for the transition between the footage of the Enterprise model and the shot that was taken on the set for the starship's bridge. Due to the movement of the space vessel, the shot was necessarily very intricate and extraordinarily difficult to produce. It was created by the Howard Anderson Company. ("The Menagerie, Part I" text commentary) The shot used the eleven-foot model of the Enterprise, while the other ship shots of this episode involved the three-foot miniature of the spacecraft. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary) The shot was the very last to be produced and the only one where the large model was utilized, as it was only delivered to Anderson's on , after all other footage had approximately been completed a week earlier. () The text commentary for "The Menagerie, Part I" refers to the shot's creation as "an outstanding achievement in television visual effects." The opening establishing shot of the Enterprise was reused in several early episodes: , , , , and . The starship, traveling at warp speed, is depicted in a unique effect that was never re-created for the series; the camera "sidles up" to the Enterprise model and "swoops over" the top of the primary hull. Combined with this shot are two space effects: one of a stationary star field and the other of a star field moving rapidly, from right to left. The completed effect is meant to suggest that "local" stars are flying past the Enterprise while the great "backdrop" of the galaxy remains motionless. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, 1st ed., pp 90-91) The effect of the laser cannon firing was an animation produced by the Howard Anderson Company. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary) Majel Barrett felt that her perceived lack of "special effects" in this pilot episode was an indication that the finances provided for the pilot "didn't go very far." () Music Upon first hearing the theme tune for this episode (which went on to serve as the theme music for the original Star Trek series), Robert Butler was impressed. He later reminisced, "The music was good; I remember that theme song was quite wonderful […] I remember liking it when I heard it." () Alexander Courage provided not only this thematic composition as well as the episode's score but also created the sounds of the singing plants. ("The Menagerie, Part I" text commentary, TOS Season 1 DVD; et al.) The musical score of this episode has been released on CD, tied with the score of the episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". The first official release came in 1988. It was later expanded, restored and remastered for disc 1 of the Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection. Reception and aftermath One of the first occasions on which word of this episode reached the press was following NBC's approval of the pilot script; while Gene Roddenberry and Herb Solow were celebrating the confirmation during lunch with their daily Cobb salad at the Hollywood Brown Derby on Vine Street, Dave Kaufman – a television reporter and columnist for Daily Variety – passed by their table on his way back to his office and Solow notified him of the news. However, the cheerful Kaufman replied, "I knew it before you did." After leaning over to engage Roddenberry in a handshake, Kaufman repeatedly asked who would be producing the pilot, doubting that Desilu was up to the task. Roddenberry and Solow acknowledged Kaufman's remarks and he wished them good luck before exiting. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 26-27) The first view of the completed pilot was at a special screening for the episode's cast and crew. "I remember the screening and the special effects and the makeup were just perfect," remarked J.M. Colt actress Laurel Goodwin, "Everyone was applauding when we saw the transporter effect put together. When you shoot it, of course, they just stop the camera and you walk off. But on film, it was so great." () NBC rejected the episode, following its production, and declared it was "too cerebral." Robert Butler found he could relate to this statement. "Apparently, the network, at its level, was feeling exactly as I did," he remarked. ( issue 117, p. 55) According to Gene Roddenberry, he had a similar response to the news. "I sort of understood [NBC's verdict]," he said. "I wrote and produced what I thought was a highly imaginative idea, and I realized I had gone too far. I should actually have ended it with a fistfight between the hero and the villain if I wanted it on television […] because that's the way shows were being made at the time. The great mass audience would say, 'Well, if you don't have a fistfight when it's ended, how do we know that's the finish?,' and things like that." (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 10) Besides finding the episode too intellectual, NBC also cited criticisms such as the presence of a female first officer on the bridge and the character of Spock being too alien for audiences of the time. () However, the "myth" of the network wanting to eliminate the female first officer was debunked by Herb Solow and Robert Justman in Inside Star Trek: The Real Story. In the book, they state that NBC supported the idea of a strong woman in a leading role, they only rejected Majel Barrett, feeling the actress is not talented enough to pull off such a role, and "carry" a show as co-star. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 60) NBC was also not satisfied with the majority of the actors. They wrote, "We also think you can do better with the ship's doctor, the yeoman and other members of the crew". Solow decided to hire a full-time casting director for the next pilot, and eventually the series. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 60-61) Another aspect of the pilot which NBC was very worried with, was its "overall eroticism", most notably the "scantily clad green dancing girls with the humps and grinds". This was a major factor for not choosing , which dealt with "an intergalactic pimp selling beautiful women hookers throughout the galaxy", to be the second pilot. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 59-61, 65-66) Oscar Katz was pleased with this pilot episode. (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 10) However, Lucille Ball was seemingly uninterested in it. Herb Solow offered, "The day the completed pilot was screened for NBC on the West Coast, I walked into Lucy's dressing room to tell her NBC's reaction. The pilot script was still there, apparently untouched." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 22) DeForest Kelley viewed this episode around the same time it was being shown to studio executives. He told Gene Roddenberry, "Well, I don't know what the hell it's all about, but it's either gonna be the biggest hit or the biggest miss God ever made." () Despite the numerous nitpicks they had with this episode, NBC made the extraordinary (and, at the time, rare) move to order a second pilot, . For that subsequent pilot, the briefing room, transporter room and bridge were kept much the same as they are in this historic first attempt (although the bridge doors and other bridge features were painted red, and several smaller modifications were made). However, the only actor to be reused from this episode was Leonard Nimoy. In reference to Number One and Spock, Gene Roddenberry once joked about how he kept the alien character and later married the woman, noting, "I couldn't have legally done it the other way around." (Inside Star Trek) Majel Barrett commented, "To be fired from the job and then see it come back 30 years later made me feel kind of good, but at the time I wasn't happy." () After Jeffrey Hunter's wife convinced the actor that science fiction was "beneath him," Gene Roddenberry – planning to cast William Shatner for the second pilot – arranged for himself and Shatner to watch this episode in Los Angeles. (The Star Trek Interview Book, pp. 10 & 16) "When I walked out [of the viewing] I remember thinking it was a very imaginative and vital idea," Shatner recalled. "I thought everybody took themselves a little too seriously." Shatner not only thought that the episode lacked humor but was also of the opinion that its cast had overacted their parts, to the point of being unrealistic. "That was my impression," he admitted, "and we spoke about that." (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 16) Fred Freiberger was highly impressed with the episode and, in , he expressed surprise that the outing had been rejected by NBC. "I fell in love with [it] […] To me, 'The Cage' was pure science fiction," he enthused. "That's what the show should have been […] 'The Cage' was what the series was all about. At that time people didn't accept it." (The Star Trek Interview Book, pp. 162-163) In her autobiography Beyond Uhura (pp. 139 & 140), Nichelle Nichols comments on this installment, stating, "Viewing it today […] the show stands as the purest earliest representation of what Gene hoped Star Trek would achieve." She also characterizes the episode as "not only the basic pattern for countless future Star Trek episodes but a blueprint for the future of civilization" and describes the episode's conclusion as "an intelligent, peaceful resolution." In , Grace Lee Whitney cited this as one of her favorite TOS episodes (along with , and ). () The following year, Majel Barrett similarly named this as one of her two favorite episodes of TOS (the other being "The City on the Edge of Forever") and said that she thought both of them "are more Star Trek than anything else that has been conceived." Of this episode specifically, she enthused, "I thought it was beautiful. People still ask me, 'What is your favorite episode? no question, it would have to be 'The Cage' […] [It] was pure Star Trek." () A black-and-white 16mm print of this episode was owned by Gene Roddenberry and was shown by him at speaking engagements and conventions. One of these events was "Tricon" – 1966's World Science Fiction Convention in Cleveland, Ohio – whose attendees included Allan Asherman, a future writer of Star Trek reference works. Due to popular demand, the black-and-white version of this episode was shown after "Where No Man Has Gone Before". (The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., pp. 1 & 3) The event was the first convention that Roddenberry took the Star Trek pilots to. (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 11) Asherman later wrote how he had been impressed by the "serious and imaginative detail" in this episode, a facet he believed it shared with the later pilot. He went on to comment, "In addition there were the laser cannon opticals, the superb Talosian makeups, and another interesting musical score. Its most outstanding characteristics were the intelligence of its story, its polished production values, and the performances of its actors." (The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., pp. 1, 3) The master color 35 mm negative of "The Cage" was cut into the master negative of "The Menagerie" in 1966, and the trims not used were subsequently lost. No color or 35mm print of "The Cage" was known to exist, only the black-and-white print owned by Gene Roddenberry, who continued to exhibit the footage at various Star Trek conventions throughout the '70s and early '80s. "The Cage" was initially released on home video in late , in celebration of Star Treks 20th anniversary. The release was a combination of the color footage used in "The Menagerie" and the additional scenes in Roddenberry's black-and-white print. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary; et al.) In 1987, film archivist Bob Furmanek discovered the missing trims from the color 35 mm negative of "The Cage" at a Hollywood film laboratory, and saw that they were returned to Paramount. However, the soundtrack trims were not found. When restoring "The Cage", Paramount used the soundtrack from "The Menagerie" for most scenes, and the soundtrack of Roddenberry's 16 mm print (which was of lower audio quality) for the restored trims. A full-color version of this installment was aired on , with a two-hour special called The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation To The Next bookending it. The special was hosted by Patrick Stewart and traced the history of Star Trek from "The Cage" throughout the first season of TNG and the beginnings of production for . The opportunity to broadcast "The Cage" in its original form came when production of was interrupted due to a Writers' Guild strike. The broadcast filled in for two of the four hours missing from TNG's truncated second season. The Keeper's voice (Malachi Throne) used in "The Cage" was modified for "The Menagerie", in which Throne guest-starred as Commodore Mendez. ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary) When the color and black-and-white versions were spliced together in 1986, The Keeper's original voice was heard in the black-and-white footage and the altered voice in the color footage taken from "The Menagerie". This voice discrepancy persists in the "restored" all-color version of "The Cage" in the TOS Season 3 DVD set, even though it would have been entirely possible to substitute the original audio from the 16mm print for The Keeper's lines in footage taken from "The Menagerie". Conversely, the remastered version included on the 3rd season Blu-ray Disc set has the Keeper's dialogue from the black and white footage digitally pitched up to more closely match the altered voice track heard in the color footage. This episode's depiction of the Rigel VII fortress is one of the most-recognized and celebrated matte paintings in Star Trek history. The same painting was reused (unaltered) in the third season, as Flint's home in . In addition, the large moon in the background of the painting was the inspiration for a song called "Moon over Rigel VII", which Captain Kirk recommends as a campfire song in . Footage of the asteroids from the beginning of this episode was reused later, in and . Throughout most of the first and second seasons, the "singing plant" sound heard on Talos IV became the standard background noise on various planets. Beginning with , a different, warbly sound was used for a number of the remaining shows. The sound was used as the transporter beam sound effect in the series proper. In his introduction for the 1986 VHS release of "The Cage" (which can now be seen on the DVD version in the third season set), Gene Roddenberry noted that he wanted no one aboard the Enterprise to smoke. This was despite the fact that tobacco advertising was a major revenue source for the television networks in 1964. Even one of Star Treks sponsors, during its first season, was Viceroy cigarettes. (All tobacco advertising was banned from television and radio on ). Seventeen years later, Patrick Stewart would appear on-screen smoking a cigarette in , although Picard was shown choking on it. Herman Zimmerman commented: "From my point of view, Gene Roddenberry created, without being maudlin, an eternal idealization of the future. The characters that he created came out of his imagination pretty much whole cloth. You could compare "The Cage" to Sign of Four, which was written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes and Watson and Moriarty and Lestrade and the Baker Street Irregulars have a charm and an identity that are immediately discernible from that very first novel". (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp 5-6) Zimmerman found similarities between "The Cage" and s pilot episode, . Zimmerman commented, "The Cage' was a brilliant piece of science fiction work – especially for when it was done. 'The Emissary' is equally as good." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 40-41) The same was true (if only for one scene) for Michael Piller, who commented, "I haven't seen 'The Cage' in years, but what brings to mind the memory of it is the imagination that takes you out of that locked cage – Gene's imagination. It takes you into green fields and the picnic and Susan Oliver and those wonderful moments. I would be lying if I did not say that image was with me when I wrote . I don't remember much about it. I don't remember the story, but I remember that friendly green pasture." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 19) In a interview, Rick Berman revealed, "I've never seen 'The Cage'. I've seen little pieces of it." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 23, No. 6, p. 22) When this episode was re-released on VHS in 1996, rated the episode 3 out of 5 stars (defined as "Warp Speed") and regarded it as a "now classic story." Similarly, Cinefantastique scored the episode 3 out of 4 stars in 1996. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 11/12, p. 26) In their book Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga (p. 29), co-writers Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross both individually rate this episode 4 out of 5 stars (defined as "Classic!"). Continuity This episode is difficult to reconcile with canon in many instances. For example, Spock smiles and uses several Human expressions (for example, "buzzing about down there"), which he seldom does in subsequent episodes and films. In the series, he instead has the emotional control and genius level intellect present in the character of Number One here. This change was actually due to the fact that, in contrast to Jeffrey Hunter's portrayal of Captain Pike, Leonard Nimoy found William Shatner as Captain Kirk had his own energy, animation, and exuberance, so Nimoy felt like he was able to be more reserved and internalized in the series than in this pilot. (Mind Meld: Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime, et al.) Nonetheless, the scene of Spock smiling was included in "The Menagerie", with Kirk later making a brief reference to Spock's emotions, though the moment itself is not commented upon directly. More than half a century later, Michael Chabon wrote the episode to provide an in-universe explanation for the differences between Spock's behavior and manner in this episode and in the rest of the original series. () Chabon wrote that "apart from the ears and the gull-wing eyebrows, the Spock who served under Captain Pike was nothing like the Spock who later launched a thousand zines." Pike tells the Talosians that he's from a stellar group "at the other end of this galaxy," which, in modern Star Trek parlance, implies that Talos IV is deep in the Beta, Gamma or Delta Quadrants – anywhere but the Alpha Quadrant which it is established as being in in . This does not seem likely, especially because the SS Columbia was lost for only eighteen years and, having traveled at less than light speed, must be relatively close to Earth. In fact, Harvey P. Lynn, who served as Gene Roddenberry's unofficial technical adviser on the pilot, told him that traveling from one end of the galaxy to the other would take an impossibly long time. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 92) Tyler implies that faster-than-light (FTL) travel is relatively new. He tells one of the scientists that they can get back to Earth quickly. "The time barrier's been broken! Our new ships can…" Earlier, with an expression used only once in the series, Pike orders FTL speed to Talos IV by saying, "Our time warp, factor 7." Basically, this establishes that warp speed is not only FTL, but also "negates" the time dilation effect about which Einstein theorized in his Special Theory of Relativity. Of course, later Star Trek canon establishes that Zefram Cochrane "discovered" the space warp in the mid-21st century. "The Cage" takes place two centuries later, in 2254. Spock's cry of "Switch to rockets, we're blasting out!" is very anachronistic – there are no direct references to rocket engines in the episodes to come. Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson make the only contemporary presidential appearances in an original series episode here, as images in the Talosian download of the ship's computer. As opposed to the electronic clipboards used in the regular series, Pike uses a very 20th century metal clipboard. A television also appears in his quarters. A "captain's hat" can be glimpsed, in passing, on top of that television, although Pike never wears it, and after this pilot, the hat was never seen again, though similar caps later appeared in and in Carol Freeman's ready room in . Landing party jackets also vanished after "The Cage", but returned in , also appearing in , , and . was the only other television Star Trek that depicted hats and a variety of environment-specific outerwear being regularly issued to crew members. Judging by the shape of the wall and the window, Pike's quarters seem to be directly below the bridge; there are no other curved windows on the saucer section of the model. The bed in Pike's quarters was far too short for Jeffrey Hunter. His feet are extending well beyond the end of the mattress, as he briefly reclines on it. The sign next to the door of the captain's quarters reads simply "Captain." When the series went into production, Captain Kirk's name was put on the nameplate outside his quarters. The pants that the crew wear have a very conspicuous pleat down the front and seem to be a shade of dark blue-grey. At the end of "The Menagerie, Part II", Kirk sees Pike and Vina – with their illusions of youth and beauty – running off, hand in hand. This is an example of the reused footage from this episode. Here, it is an illusion of Pike who the Talosians have provided for Vina to keep her company. In "The Menagerie, Part II", it is the "real" Pike (or rather the non-physical consciousness of the now-disabled Pike) rejoining Vina to start a new life. In one brief part of the first transportation sequence, the transporter chief's assistant is a man wearing glasses, but the scene changes and he appears without them. This is one of only three occasions where Starfleet officers are shown wearing corrective eyeglasses. Although Pike cites the crew complement as 203 other lives besides his own, the Enterprises total crew complement was increased to 428 in , and 430 in later episodes. , however, confirms that, at the time of Pike's mission, the ship had 203 crewmembers. This episode's depiction of a parkland near Mojave is the only time that 23rd century Earth is ever seen in the entirety of the original Star Trek series. Given that this is merely an illusion created by the Talosians, the first appearance of the real Earth of the 23rd century was in , in which scenery from Earth is shown to a cloud creature from the ship's library computer. However, it is not shown in live-action until in . "The Menagerie, Part II" establishes that, following the events of this episode, the Federation imposed General Order 7 on the Talos system, preventing anyone from ever approaching the planet again, under penalty of death. Apocrypha Several comics and novels have chronicled continuations of this story: Star Trek: Early Voyages #4: "Nor Iron Bars a Cage" (from Colt's point of view) : #9: "Return to the Forbidden Planet" #10: "Return to the Forbidden Planet, Part 2... A Prelude to War" Star Trek Annual (DC volume 2) Annual #2: "The Final Voyage" Pocket TOS: Pocket TOS: Burning Dreams Roddenberry actually almost uses the term "forbidden planet" (the one forbidden world in all the galaxy) in his teleplay for "The Menagerie", thereby coming close to admitting how much of "The Cage" was actually "stolen" by him from the 1956 movie of that name, including: setting the action in the 23rd Century; the visual design of the starship (the flying saucer design of the C-57D spaceship in the movie becoming the saucer section of the USS Enterprise); the military organisation of the crew; their Navy-style uniforms; setting the action on an alien planet; the planet's name Altair IV, which became Talos IV; the mental powers of the Krell, which became (only slightly altered) the mental powers of the Keeper; and the energy weapons of the Cruiser's crew, which became the Star Trek hand phasers. The 1956 film also uses, as its main cast, the spaceship's captain, first officer and medical officer: the command structure which Roddenberry lifted as the basis for the main cast on Star Trek. Additionally, a few novels have theorized as to the cause for the vast differences between Spock's highly emotional behavior in this episode and his reservedness in the regular series of Star Trek. Examples of this include Spock possibly not having complete control of his emotions at that point, as he was still quite young, and that he achieved full control of his emotions by observing Captain Pike. In fact, the novel Burning Dreams establishes that indeed, whether Pike liked it or not, Spock did consider him a mentor and so Pike tried his best to live up to that assignment. Burning Dreams also establishes that Spock yelled early in his career because he was under the mistaken impression that Humans couldn't hear him unless he did. The novel The Fire and the Rose establishes that Spock was simply emulating Human behaviors such as smiles, and that there was truly no emotion behind his own smile. He eventually stopped though when his crewmates came to distrust him, believing him not to be truthful about himself to them. Burning Dreams delves much deeper not only into Pike's life before and after Talos, but also Vina's, establishing her to have been a singer and a dancer, who was lovers with the real Theodore Haskins. In fact, before the Enterprises arrival, she spent much time in illusion, dreaming that Columbia had successfully returned to Earth and she led a dance troupe afterward. The novel also establishes that Vina stood up to the Talosians, demanding that they never refer to her as a 'specimen' again and she was just as important as them, perhaps moreso, because their plans for Pike depended on her. During the Rigel VII illusion, she played the "damsel in distress" role effectively, although she hated female characters that screamed like she had to do. A cat version of "The Cage" was featured in Jenny Parks' 2017 book Star Trek Cats. Production timeline Series proposal, "Star Trek is...": – Mentions story idea "The Next Cage" Rough draft outline: Pilot story outline: (The Making of Star Trek, p. 47) Final draft outline: Final draft outline: Teleplay titled "The Cage": First draft script: (The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., p. 11) Revised draft script: on or shortly before (The Making of Star Trek, p. 96) Revised teleplay: Color Makeup Tests at Desilu Culver Stage 15: (Call sheet) Second Revised Final Draft script, titled "The Menagerie": Filmed: – Day 1 – , Friday – Desilu Culver Stage 16: Int. Pike's quarters Day 2 – , Monday – Desilu Culver Stage 16: Int. Briefing room, Corridors Day 3 – , Tuesday – Desilu Culver Stage 16: Int. Transporter room Day 4 – , Wednesday – Desilu Culver Stage 15: Int. Bridge Day 5 – , Thursday – Desilu Culver Stage 15: Int. Bridge Day 6 – , Friday – Desilu Culver Stage 15: Int. Orion courtyard Day 7 – , Monday – Desilu Culver Stage 16: Ext. Talos IV surface Day 8 – , Tuesday – Desilu Culver Stage 16: Ext. Talos IV surface Day 9 – , Wednesday – Desilu Culver Stage 16: Ext. Talos IV surface Day 10 – , Thursday – Desilu Culver Stage 16: Ext. Talos IV surface; Desilu Culver Stage 15: Int. Talosian monitoring area Day 11 – , Friday – Desilu Culver Stage 15: Int. Pike's cell, Talosian menagerie Day 12 – , Monday – 40 Acres "Arab Village" backlot: Ext. Rigel VII fortress Day 13 – , Tuesday – 40 Acres "Arab Village" backlot: Ext. Rigel VII fortress Day 14 – , Wednesday – Desilu Culver Stage 15: Int. Pike's cell Day 15 – , Thursday – Desilu Culver Stage 15: Int. Pike's cell, Hell-Fire illusion Day 16 – , Friday – Desilu Culver Stage 16: Int. Orion cavern, Ext. Mojave parkland Score recorded: Network rejection: ("The Menagerie, Part II" text commentary) Color "trims" discovered: Premiere airdate: (complete color) First UK airdate: (BBC Genome ) Remastered Originally intended for airing in syndication on , the remastered version of the episode was removed from the schedule the week before its intended airdate, but was rescheduled for , partly as a tie-in with the release of . The remastered episode is also included in the TOS-R Season 3 DVD and TOS Season 3 Blu-ray sets, along with the original color-black/white release presented by Gene Roddenberry in its original ("unaltered") format. Home media format releases US Betamax release (one-episode tape, Paramount Home Video): Volume 51, catalogue number 60040-01, This version of the episode mixed color and black-and-white footage, as a complete color print was not available at the time. US LaserDisc release (two-sided disc): Volume 27, catalog number LV60040-106, October/ This was the mixed color/black & white print, with an introduction by Gene Roddenberry. Original US VHS release: November 1986 This was the mixed color/black & white print. UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 1, catalog number VHR 2207, release date unknown This was the mixed color/black & white print. US Betamax/VHS release (one-episode tape, Paramount Home Video): Volume 80, catalog number 60040-99, First known full color release. UK VHS release as "The Cage" All Colour Collectors Edition (CIC Video): catalog number VHR 2374, US LaserDisc release (two-sided disc): Volume 42, catalog number LV60040-99* , Full color release. Japan LaserDisc release (two-episodes disc): As part of the Star Trek - Log 1 collection, catalog number PILF-1615(16), US VHS re-release in color: UK VHS re-release: As part of the Star Trek - 30th Anniversary Trial Pack collection: UK/German LaserDisc release (two-episodes disc): As part of the Star Trek - The Pilots collection, catalog number PLTES-34071 (UK)/PLTGB-34561 (Germany), UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 1.1, US DVD release (two-episodes disc): Volume 40, Released in the final volume, with both prints and an additional episode. US/Europe DVD release (two versions single-disc): As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection, (US)/ (Europe) Included on the final disc of the collection, with both prints. Oddly, the disc lists the airdate as rather than its original airdate of . US/Europe remastered DVD release (two versions single-disc): As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection, (US)/ (Europe) Included on the final disc of the collection, with both prints. US/Europe Blu-ray release (two versions single-disc): As part of the TOS Season 3 Blu-ray collection, (US)/ (Europe) Included on the final disc of the collection, with both prints. US/Europe Blu-ray release (five-episodes disc): As part of the Star Trek: The Original Series - Origins Blu-ray collection, (US)/ (Europe) Links and references Starring Jeffrey Hunter as Christopher Pike Guest star Susan Oliver as Vina Co-starring Leonard Nimoy as "Mister Spock" Majel Barrett as Number One John Hoyt as Phil Boyce Peter Duryea as José Tyler Laurel Goodwin as J.M. Colt Uncredited co-stars Barker as the 4th Talosian Mike Dugan as the Kalar Carey Foster as an Orion servant girl (scene deleted) Sandra Gimpel as a Talosian Clegg Hoyt as Anthony Jochim as the 3rd Survivor Robert C. Johnson as First Talosian's voice Pitcairn's voice Jon Lormer as 1st Survivor Edward Madden as Joseph Mell as the Earth Trader Leonard Mudie as the 2nd Survivor Robert Phillips as the Space Officer Janos Prohaska as Anthropoid ape Humanoid bird Adam Roarke as 1st Crewman Serena Sande as the 2nd Talosian Georgia Schmidt as the 1st Talosian Felix Silla as the 3rd Talosian Malachi Throne as the Keeper's voice Meg Wyllie as the Keeper Unknown performers as Three Orion musicians Two Orion servant girls (scene deleted) Orion slave master (scene deleted) Columbia survivors #4 and #5 Guards #1, #2, and #3 Crewmembers in civilian clothing (aka "Young Man" and "Young Lady") Bridge crewman #1 Transporter technician Bridge Engineer 1 Bridge Engineer 2 Communications crew woman Two Laser Technicians Sciences officer Bridge crew woman #2 Command officer in corridor Sciences officer in corridor Sciences officer in briefing room Unseen characters Pike's Yeoman and two crewmen killed on Rigel VII Stand-ins Bidwell (male stand-in) (female stand-in) Production staff Star Trek Created by Gene Roddenberry Directed by Robert Butler Written and Produced by Gene Roddenberry No other production staff received on-screen credit for this episode. Associate Producer Byron Haskin Production Designer Pato Guzman Art Director Franz Bachelin Assistant Art Director Matt Jefferies Music Composed and Conducted by Alexander Courage Director of Photography William E. Snyder Film Editor Leo Shreve Assistant to the Producer Morris Chapnick Assistant Director Robert H. Justman Set Decorator Edward M. Parker Costume Designer William Ware Theiss Sound Mixer Stanford G. Haughton Photographic Effects Howard Anderson Company Transporter Effects Darrell Anderson Matte Painter Albert Whitlock Special Effects Joe Lombardi Property Master Jack Briggs Prop Maker Jim Danforth Gaffer Bob Campbell Camera Operator Richard A. Kelley Production Supervisor James A. Paisley Script Supervisor George A. Rutter Makeup Artist Fred B. Phillips Special Makeup Creator (for Leonard Nimoy) John Chambers Hairstylist Gertrude Reade Stunt Double (for Jeffrey Hunter) Robert Herron Stunts Frank da Vinci Choreographer (Susan Oliver's dance) Penny Romans Research Kellam de Forest (de Forest Research, Inc.) Harvey P. Lynn Executive in Charge of Production Oscar Katz Assistant to Oscar Katz Herbert F. Solow References 2236; 2254; 24-hour clock; acting captain; ; Adam and Eve; adaptability; adult; advice; age; alternative; American Continent Institute; ancestor; animal; answer; apology; armor; artisan; artist; atmosphere; backpack; bargain; bartender; battery; battle-axe; beauty; big cities; blood; bluff; boasting; brain; bravery; breeding stock; bridle; bridge; briefing room; bruise; ; business; ; cactus; cadet ship; cage; call letters; canyon; captain; captivity; cell; century; chance; chicken; chief petty officer; childhood; children (offspring); choice; circuit; class M; clipboard; clothing; coffee; collision course; colony; color; ; commander; communicator; community; computer; condition; confusion; conjecture; contact; continent; conversation; countdown; course; creating; creature; custom; customer; danger; day; death; deception; deck; desert; desire; destination; devil; dignity; distress signal; (occupation); doctor (title); dream; dress; Earth; emotion; encampment (camp); engage; engine room; engineering deck; Enterprise casualties; entry; escapism; evasive maneuvers; evil; experience; experiment; fable; fabric; family; fear; feeling; flesh; fly; food; fool; forced chamber explosion; forced landing (crash); form; fortress; frustration; geological lab report; geologist; glasses; gravity (g); green; hair; hand; hand laser; hat; hate; head; headache; health; Hell-Fire; helm; hereditary; "hold on a minute"; hole; home; ; horse; horseback riding; hour; hull; Human (Human being); Human history; hunger; husband; husband-wife relationship; hyperdrive; ice; illusion; image; indication; inert element; information; inhabitant; injury; intelligence; intention; intercraft; jailer; ; Kalar; keeper; knee; knoll; landing party; laser cannon; laser weapon; library; lie; lieutenant; life; lifespan; limitation; love; luck; lunch; mace; machine; magistrate; magnetic field; martini; Mary Lou; mate; measurement; medical report; memory; memory capacity; menagerie; mental power; message; metal; metal fabric; meteoroid; meteoroid beam; microrecord; mile; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; minute; mission; Mojave; mutual cooperation; mutual dependence; name; narcotic; NC; neck; need; nitrogen; nuclear weapon; nourishment; officer; olive; opinion; orbit; Orion; Orion colony; Orion slave girl; overload; oxygen; pair; parent; parkland; passion; pen; percent; permission; person; physical appearance; physical prowess; picnic; picnic basket; picture; ; Pike's mother; place; planet; plant; ; power generator; preliminary lab survey; printout; probing; problem; proof; protectiveness; protein complex; pulp; punishment; quality; quarters (cabin); radio; radio-interference distress call; radio wave (radio beam); reality; reason; recipe; record; red; reflection; region; ; report; resignation; respect; responsibility; rest leave; Rigel VII; Rigel VII moon; risk; rock; rocket; saddle; safety limit; sand; sandwich; scientific party; scientist; scouting party; second; secret; shield; ship's captain; signal; singing plant; situation; size; slave; society; Sol system; soul; space; space vehicle/spaceship; speaking; species (race); specimen; spectrography; speed of light; star system; stellar group; starvation; "steady as we go"; strength; subject; sugar; supper; surface; survey expedition; survey vessel; survivor; sword; sympathy; table; Talos star group; Talos system; Talos system's stars; Talos IV; Talosians; Talosian ancestors; Talosian observers; Tango; tape; technician; telepathy; television; theater; theory; thermos; thing; thought; thought record; thought transmission; thousand; threat; time barrier; time computation; time warp; time warp factor; town; trade; trader; transporter; trap; travel; tricking; tuna; universe; USS; Vega colony; vegetation; ; vessel; vial; viewer; Vina's parents; volunteer; Vulcan; wall (transparency); war; warp drive; warp factor; warrior; water; weapon; week; white; wife; window; word; wreckage; wristwatch; year; yeoman; youth; zoo Library computer references USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) library computer: Africa; Alaska; altimeter; American Civil War; American Revolution; Anchorage; Andromeda Galaxy; Antarctica; antenna gear box; Arabian Peninsula; Arabian Sea; Arctic Circle; Asia; astronomical unit; Atlantic Ocean; Atlas-Agena; Australia; Battle of Hampton Roads; Bering Sea; Black Sea; bronchial tube; Canada; Caspian Sea; Central America; command antenna; cosmic dust detector; diaphragm; daisy; ; Dumbbell Nebula; Earth sensor; ; electrostatic analyzer; Explorer S-55; Europe; eye; flower; gallbladder; gamma-ray spectrometer; Hawaii; high-gain antenna; high resolution camera; Hong Kong; infrared scanner; intestine; ion chamber; ironclad; ; Japan; Juneau; ; kudu; Kyoto; ; ; ; liver; long range Earth sensor; Los Angeles; Luna; lunar capsule; lung; Lyman-alpha telescope; magnetometer sensor; Mariner 2; Mars; Maryland; ; Mexico; micrometeoroid satellite; mid-course motor; ; New Orleans; Nimbus 1; North America; North Pole; omnidirectional antenna; optic nerve; orbit; Orbiting Geophysical Observatory; Orbiting Solar Observatory; Pacific Ocean; particle flux detector; Pioneer 5; Pleiades Cluster; Point Barrow; polar orbit; Portland; President of the United States; primary sun sensor; probe; radiometer; radiometer reference horn; Ranger; Ranger 5; Ranger 7; retrorocket; rib; rocket; San Francisco; satellite; secondary sun sensor; skull; Sol; Sol asteroid belt; solar panel; Sol system; South America; South Pole; Soviet Union; star; star chart; stomach; Talos I; Talos II; Talos III; Talos V; temperature control louver; temperature control shield; thermal control van; Tokyo; trachea; TV camera; United States of America; Venus; ; Virginia; ; ; Washington, DC; wildebeest; yaw control nozzle Remastered: Africa; Asia; Australia; battery; Brazil; ; Andromeda Galaxy; Apollo CSM and LM; Apollo mission; atomic bomb; Battle of Fort Hindman; Bikini Atoll; ; ; ; Canada; carbon dioxide; ; China; Colombia; Earth; Earthrise; docking port; ; Emancipation Proclamation; eye; fuel; Fat Man; First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln; fox squirrel; Gray's Anatomy; Great Egret; heart; helium; ; India; Indian Ocean; International Space Station; Iran; ironclad; Jupiter; ; ; ; ; ; life support system; ; lionfish; Luna; lungs; maple; Mexico; Mongolia; Moses; Moses Showing the Tables of the Law to the People; muscles; NGC 602; nitrogen tetroxide; oxygen; Peru; ; ribs; rose; Russia; Saturn; Saturn V; ; Small Magellanic Cloud; ; South Africa; Soyuz; space shuttle; steamship; Ten Commandments; ; United States of America; V838 Monocerotis; ; Vina's parents; Vostok 1; water; ; ; Wright Flyer; Yosemite Falls External links de:Der Käfig es:The Cage fr:The Cage (épisode) it:Lo zoo di Talos (episodio) ja:歪んだ楽園（エピソード） nl:The Cage pl:The Cage ru:Клетка (эпизод) sv:The Cage TOS episodes

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Where No Man Has Gone Before (episode)

An encounter at the limits of our galaxy begins to change Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell and threatens the future of the Enterprise and the Human race itself. (Second pilot) Summary Teaser "Captain's log, stardate 1312.4. The impossible has happened. From directly ahead, we're picking up a recorded distress signal, the call letters of a vessel which has been missing for over two centuries. Did another Earth ship probe out of the galaxy as we intend to do? What happened to it out there? Is this some warning they've left behind?" In the briefing lounge, Captain James T. Kirk and Lieutenant Commander Spock are playing three-dimensional chess. Spock warns the captain that he's about to checkmate him on his next move, but the captain is preoccupied with awaiting the bridge's update on the unexplained Earth-vessel distress signal. The captain notes that Spock plays a very "irritating game of chess", to which Spock responds with "Irritating? Ah yes, one of your Earth emotions." Captain Kirk makes a move that surprises Spock, and smiles, to which Spock simply turns to look at him. "Certain you don't know what irritation is?" Kirk says wryly. As Spock begins to state that despite the fact that one of his ancestors married a Human female, Kirk interrupts him and jokingly chides him, saying it must be terrible to have bad blood like that. Just afterward then, a call comes over the comm. Navigator Lieutenant Lee Kelso informs the captain that the object is now within tractor beam range, and that it is only about a meter in diameter, too small to be a vessel or an escape pod. Kirk tells him to lock on to it, and the two of them head out. In the transporter room, Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott is fine tuning the transporter, preparing to beam the object aboard. Kirk gives the order, and Scott transports the device into the transporter chamber. The captain immediately recognizes it as an old-style ship recorder, one that would be ejected in the event of an emergency. Spock agrees, but states that, based on the level of damage the object seems to have sustained, something must have destroyed the ship. Scott tries to feed the tapes into the computer when the marker begins transmitting a signal. Captain Kirk orders red alert, and the crew go to their stations. Act One Throughout the ship, the crew is reporting to their emergency stations. Kirk and Spock enter a turbolift to go to the bridge, and Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell enters just as the doors are closing. Kirk and Mitchell joke about Kelso sounding nervous, and Spock's chess skills, showing that they're comfortable being around each other even in times of red alert. The three officers enter the bridge, Mitchell taking his station as Spock scans for the message. As they approach the edge of the galaxy, Kirk orders all stop. Captain Kirk announces ship-wide that what they picked up was a disaster recorder launched from the two hundred years prior. Department heads report to the bridge as ordered, and Captain Kirk is given introductions. , whom he mistakenly addresses as "", is his new yeoman. Sulu reports astrosciences ready, Scott reports the engineering division ready, "as always", and Chief Medical Officer Doctor Mark Piper reports life sciences ready, then introduces the 's new psychiatrist, Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, who came aboard the vessel back at the Aldebaron Colony to study the long-term effects of space travel on the crew. Spock points out he's been able to get a signal from the recorder, as Mitchell tries to flirt with Dr. Dehner, who rebuffs him only to overhear him call her a "walking freezer unit". Spock interprets the Valiants message: that they had encountered a magnetic storm and were pulled out of the galaxy, and that the crew accessed computer records on "ESP" in Humans, frantic to find information about it. The captain asks Dr. Dehner her opinion, and she mistakes the question as asking whether she has ESP. She reports that there are some Humans who can see "backs of playing cards and so on", but it is never very powerful. Spock goes on to explain that several crewmen had died aboard the Valiant, which had suffered severe damage. The Valiant crew continued researching ESP, until it seems the captain ordered a self-destruct. As future vessels will someday be coming out this far into space, Captain Kirk decides to go ahead anyway and engages warp factor 1. The crew reacts with mixed emotions as the Enterprise heads out of the Milky Way Galaxy. The ship encounters a strange field and Spock orders a full array of scans – deflectors indicating something in front of them while sensors say there's nothing. Smith and Mitchell hold hands to comfort each other as the ship enters the field. Flashes of light fill the bridge and electric discharges penetrate the hull, causing several consoles to explode. Kirk orders Mitchell to reverse course, but, before he can carry out the order, Dr. Dehner and he are struck by a mysterious electric charge which drops them to the deck. With no one in control of the Enterprise, Spock dashes over to the helm console and pilots the starship clear of the energy field. Taking damage reports, Spock informs Kirk that main power is out, the Enterprise is on emergency power cells, and nine crewmen are dead. Captain Kirk tends to Dehner and Mitchell, only to find that while Mitchell feels a little weak, his eyes are glowing an eerie silver… Act Two "Captain's log, stardate 1312.9. Ship's condition – heading back on impulse power only. Main engines burned out. The ship's space-warp ability – gone. Earth bases, which were only days away are now years in the distance. Our overriding question now is – what destroyed the Valiant? They lived through the barrier, just as we have. What happened to them after that?" Captain Kirk, while supervising repairs being made to the bridge, proceeds to the science station where he finds Spock reviewing medical records of the dead crew members, and the crew members who survived but seem to have been affected in some way. Spock is looking at ESP ratings of Dr. Dehner and Gary Mitchell. Both of the officers had high scores on ESP tests given by Starfleet Medical, Mitchell's having ultimately read as the highest in the crew. Dr. Dehner approaches Captain Kirk and provides an autopsy report of the nine dead crew members. She mentions that in all cases, there was damage to a specific region of the brain. Kirk shares the fact that all of the dead crew members, as well as Dehner and Mitchell, had high ESP ratings. Spock also mentions that the captain of the Valiant was frantically searching through their records for information on ESP. Spock then reports that the Valiants captain seems to have given a self-destruct order. Dehner defends those with ESP, stating that the ability is not harmful. Spock, however, reminds the doctor that there are the more extreme (and dangerous) abilities of ESP, such as the ability to see through solid objects or cause spontaneous combustion. In sickbay, Mitchell is reading text on a viewer, trying to pass the time. Kirk enters the room, and Mitchell greets him by name without actually looking to see who it is. Kirk and Mitchell talk about some past experiences; it is obvious they have known each other well for many years. Mitchell mentions that he feels better now than he's ever felt in his life, and he's catching up on his reading, including Spinoza, which surprises Kirk. Mitchell finds Spinoza simple, almost childish, to him. The two continue to reminisce about their days at Starfleet Academy and Mitchell says that he "aimed that little blonde lab technician" at Jim. Kirk replies, "You planned that?!? I almost married her." Kirk informs Mitchell that he's assigned Dr. Dehner to work with him. Mitchell doesn't seem happy, since Mitchell and Dehner have already gotten off to a tense start. As Kirk moves to leave, Mitchell, in an echoing voice, says, "Didn't I say you'd better be good to me?", prompting Kirk to pause and eye him with uncertainty. Once Kirk leaves the room, Mitchell continues reading books on the viewer, at a steadily-increasing rate that soon far exceeds normal pace. Kirk enters the bridge to find Spock monitoring Mitchell's viewer. Kirk assigns twenty four hour security to keep an eye on Mitchell. Kirk approaches the science station viewer to look closely at Mitchell, and Mitchell looks directly at the security camera, seemingly aware that Kirk is watching him. Dr. Dehner enters sickbay and acknowledges the fact that she realizes that Mitchell doesn't like her very well. He apologizes to her for calling her a "walking freezer unit." She asks him how he feels. Mitchell jokingly says that everyone thinks that he should have a fever or something and proceeds to change the vital signs monitor in sickbay with his mind. Then, he makes the readings show that he is dead. All indicators fall to zero, to Dr. Dehner's surprise and horror. Moments later, Mitchell awakens, and starts telling Dr. Dehner of some of his other abilities, like being able to read quickly, going through half of the Enterprises database in less than a day. Dr. Dehner decides to test his memory, and shows Mitchell the title of a record tape, asking him to recite what's on page 387. Mitchell recites, "My love has wings, slender feathered things with grace and upswept curve and tapered tip" from the poem "Nightingale Woman", written by Tarbolde on the Canopus planet back in 1996. Mitchell wonders out loud why she happened to choose that particular poem, which is considered to be one of the most passionate poems written in recent centuries. He then pulls Dehner close to him, and asks her how she feels. Her reply, that she only fell and that nothing else happened, is seemingly disbelieved by Mitchell, but the conversation is cut short by the arrival of Lieutenant Kelso, awkwardly entering at a time which might have seemed like an intimate moment. Mitchell smiles and invites him in, joking that his eyes are merely lit up "due to the lovely doctor." Kelso reports that the main engines are in bad shape. Mitchell warns Kelso to check the starboard impulse engine packs, which Kelso jokingly dismisses. Mitchell snaps (once again in his "booming" voice) that he isn't joking, and that if they activate those engines that the entire impulse deck will explode. Kelso leaves sickbay and Mitchell tells Dehner that he could see the image of the impulse packs in Kelso's mind and that he is a fool not to have seen it. In the briefing room, Kelso shows Kirk the burned out impulse circuit, which he had checked on Mitchell's recommendation, noting with puzzlement that their condition was exactly as Mitchell described. Dr. Dehner enters late, says she got held up observing Mitchell, and attempts to defend him in the face of Spock's and Kirk's seemingly cold assessment of him. She reports her observations of Mitchell's ability to control certain autonomic reflexes and increased memory. Scott reports that bridge controls had started changing on their own about an hour prior, and Spock adds that each time it happened, Mitchell could be seen smiling on the surveillance monitors set up in sickbay. Kirk is annoyed that Dehner hadn't reported Mitchell's new powers earlier, but she argues that no one has been hurt, furthermore saying that someone like Mitchell, with such powers, could give rise to "a new and better kind of Human being." Following an awkward silence, Sulu adds that the growth of Mitchell's abilities is a geometric progression, meaning they would increase at an exponential rate. Spock concludes that Mitchell would become uncontrollably powerful within a month. Kirk tells those present to not discuss their findings openly before dismissing them. After the others have left the briefing room, Spock advises taking the Enterprise to the planet Delta Vega, only a few light days away, where they can adapt the lithium cracking station's power packs to try to repair its damaged systems, and also strand Mitchell there. Kirk strongly disagrees with the plan, stating Delta Vega is uninhabited and automated, and ore ships only visit every twenty years. Spock informs Kirk the only other choice he has is to kill Mitchell before he overpowers the entire crew. Kirk tries appealing to Spock's conscience, saying Mitchell is his long time friend, but Spock merely reminds him that the captain of the Valiant probably had a similar dilemma about his afflicted crew members but made his decision to self-destruct too late. Kirk reluctantly orders the Enterprise course set for Delta Vega. Act Three "Captain's log, stardate 1313.1. We're now approaching Delta Vega. Course set for a standard orbit. This planet, completely uninhabited, is slightly smaller than Earth, desolate, but rich in crystal and minerals. Kelso's task – transport down with a repair party, try to regenerate the main engines, save the ship. Our task – transport down a man I've known for fifteen years, and if we're successful, maroon him there." In sickbay, Mitchell's telekinetic power continues to grow. Feeling thirsty, he moves a plastic cup below a faucet and dispenses water from it with his mind. Kirk, Spock, and Dr. Dehner enter to see Mitchell's levitate the filled cup towards his outstretched hand. Mitchell senses worry in Kirk and Spock's continued urging for the captain to kill him while he still can. Mitchell quickly subdues both Kirk and Spock with an electric shock and informs them he knows the Enterprise is orbiting Delta Vega but won't allow them to force him down there. As he postures about what kind of a world he can use, Kirk and Spock jump him and hold him down long enough for Dr. Dehner to tranquilize him. In the transporter room, preparing to beam down, Mitchell regains consciousness and proclaims "You fools! Soon I'll squash you like insects!" before being sedated again. After transporting down, Mitchell is confined to a holding cell as Lieutenant Kelso and the engineering team begin to salvage the needed components from the outpost to restore the Enterprise engines to full capacity. As Mitchell regains consciousness, he reminds Kirk of how he saved his life on the planet Dimorus, taking poisonous darts meant for the captain and nearly dying from it. He wonders why Kirk should fear him now. Kirk retorts that Mitchell has been testing his ability to take over the Enterprise and reminds him of the threat he made in the transporter room to squash the crew like insects. Mitchell defends himself by pointing out that he was drugged at the time, then snaps back that mankind cannot survive if a true race of Espers like himself is born, and attempts to escape the force field of the cell. Kirk pleads with him to stop, but, Mitchell refuses and is jolted back, draining the light in the eyes. Gary pleads out to "Jim…", but, it doesn't last and the maniacal that has now totally consumed Mitchell returns and he sneers that he'll "just keep getting stronger." Back on board the Enterprise, the repairs are nearly complete as Scott beams a phaser rifle down to Spock. Kirk resents Spock's callousness towards Gary, but Spock retorts that he's just being logical and he believes that the crew will be lucky just to repair the Enterprise and get away from Mitchell in time. Kirk, finally seeing Spock's viewpoint, instructs Kelso to wire a destruct switch to the power bins of the outpost, an explosion that will destroy the entire valley and hopefully kill Mitchell, and orders him to hit the button if Mitchell escapes. Act Four "Captain's log, stardate 1313.3. Note commendations on Lieutenant Kelso and the engineering staff. In orbit above us, the engines of the Enterprise are almost fully regenerated. Balance of the landing party is being transported back up. Mitchell, whatever he's become, keeps changing, growing stronger by the minute." As the landing party prepares to return to the Enterprise, Dehner, completely transfixed on Mitchell, announces she's remaining on Delta Vega with him. At the same time, Mitchell uses his powers to remotely strangle Lieutenant Kelso with a cable. As Kirk orders Dehner to return to the ship, Mitchell turns to the captain and taunts him that Kirk should have killed him while he still had the chance. With that, he shocks both Kirk and Spock and easily eliminates the force field holding him. Dehner takes no action to stop him, and he slowly walks her over to a mirror, where she can now see the light in her own eyes. A short time later, Dr. Piper revives Captain Kirk and informs him that Kelso is dead and that Mitchell and Dr. Dehner have left the facility. Kirk advises Piper not to revive Spock until after he's left as Kirk now blames himself for not listening to the Vulcan's warning. Taking Spock's phaser rifle, Kirk orders that Piper and Spock return to the Enterprise and to give him twelve hours to signal the ship. Failing that, Kirk recommends that the Enterprise proceed at maximum warp to the nearest starbase with his recommendation that the entire planet be subjected to a lethal concentration of neutron radiation. When Piper begins to protest, Kirk firmly tells the doctor it is an order and leaves. In an open valley, Mitchell (now sporting greying sideburns due to premature aging as a consequence of the stress from his advanced powers) conjures up Kaferian apples and water for himself and Dehner. He begins to sense Kirk approaching them, as does Dehner. Mitchell invites Dehner to talk to the captain and begin to realize just how unimportant Humans are compared to what they (Mitchell and Dehner) have become. Dehner appears before Kirk and advises the captain to retreat while he still can. Kirk appeals to what's left of Dehner's Humanity and her profession as a psychiatrist and asks her what she believes will become of Mitchell if his power is allowed to continue to grow. Dehner begins to see the wisdom of Kirk's words, but, before she can decide anything, Mitchell appears before both of them. Kirk opens fire with his phaser rifle, but, it has no effect on Mitchell who easily casts the weapon aside. Taunting Kirk, Mitchell creates a grave for his "old friend", saying he deserves a decent burial, at the very least. Completely convinced of his power and his superiority, with absolute power corrupting absolutely, Mitchell uses his powers to force Kirk to pray to him as a god and for an easy death. Dehner, now realizing that Mitchell is inhuman and becoming more and more dangerous, helps Kirk by blasting Mitchell with some of her power, stunning him. Mitchell turns away from Kirk and counters Dehner's attack, however, the battle drains both of them and they both collapse, Dehner's attack being sufficiently powerful enough to weaken Mitchell who temporarily loses his powers. As Dehner implores Kirk to hurry, the captain begins to attack his former friend, pummeling him to the ground. With a heavy rock raised high and preparing for the death blow, Kirk begs Gary to forgive him for what he must do. However, the captain's hesitation is enough for Mitchell to regain his powers and easily tosses Kirk away. With Kirk no longer able to cope with Mitchell's physical strength, he dives at him, sending both into the open grave. Kirk, scrambling to the discarded phaser rifle, is able to blast the rock face above Mitchell, sending him into the grave and entombing him, thus ending Mitchell's threat forever. Kirk, with his uniform torn and beaten and battered, walks over to Dehner and kneels beside her. She apologizes to the captain for her actions, but offers that the captain had no idea what it was like to be almost a god, before finally dying herself. Silently mourning Dehner's sacrifice, Kirk opens his communicator and hails the Enterprise. "Captain's log, stardate 1313.8. Add to official losses, Dr. Elizabeth Dehner. Be it noted she gave her life in performance of her duty. Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell. Same notation." Back on the Enterprise, Kirk, sitting in his chair with a bandaged hand, laments to Spock that he wants Mitchell's service record to end with dignity as he didn't ask for what happened to him. Spock admits he felt for Mitchell as well. With a smirk, Kirk remarks that maybe there's hope for Spock after all, as the Enterprise continues to journey where no man has gone before. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2265 Memorable quotes "Have I ever mentioned you play a very irritating game of chess, Mister Spock?" "Irritating? Ah, yes. One of your Earth emotions." - Kirk and Spock, in the recreation room "Terrible, having bad blood like that." - Kirk to Spock, on his Human ancestry "The first thing I ever heard from upperclassmen was: Watch out for Lieutenant Kirk. In his class, you either think or sink." - Mitchell to Kirk, reflecting on their time at the Academy "My love has wings. Slender, feathered things with grace in upswept curve and tapered tip." - Mitchell, reciting "The Nightingale Woman" by Phineas Tarbolde "Don't you understand? A mutated superior man could also be a wonderful thing!" - Dehner to Kirk, on Mitchell "Will you try for one moment to feel? At least act like you've got a heart." - Kirk to Spock, before deciding to maroon Mitchell on Delta Vega "The captain of the Valiant probably thought the same thing. And he waited too long to make his decision." - Spock, deliberating with Kirk on what to do with Mitchell "If you were in my position, what would you do?" "Probably what Mr. Spock is thinking now: kill me, while you can." - Kirk and Mitchell, discussing Mitchell's ultimate fate "You fools! Soon I'll squash you like insects!" - Mitchell, in the transporter room "There's not a soul on this planet but us?" "Nobody but us chickens, Doctor." - Dehner and Kirk, on Delta Vega "My friend, James Kirk." - Mitchell, mockingly addressing Kirk upon awakening in the cell on Delta Vega "In the sickbay, you said if you were in my place you'd kill a mutant like yourself." "Why don't you kill me then? Mr. Spock is right and you're a fool if you can't see it." - Kirk and Mitchell "Man cannot survive if a race of true espers is born." - Mitchell "Doctor Dehner feels he isn't that dangerous! What makes you right and a trained psychiatrist wrong?" "Because she feels. I don't. All I know is logic." - Kirk and Spock, as Spock brings a phaser rifle "If Mitchell gets out, at your discretion, Lee, if sitting here makes you think you're the last chance, I want you to hit that button." - Kirk, ordering Kelso to destroy the station "You should've killed me while you could, James. Command and compassion are a fool's mixture." - Mitchell to Kirk, before escaping the brig "Above all else, a god needs compassion! MITCHELL!!" - Kirk, calling out to Mitchell "What do you know about gods?" "Then let's talk about Humans! About our frailties!" - Dehner and Kirk "What's your prognosis, Doctor?!" - Kirk, to Dehner on Mitchell "Morals are for men, not gods." - Mitchell, to Kirk "Time to pray, Captain. Pray to me." "To you? Not to both of you?" "Pray that you die easily!" "There'll only be one of you in the end. One jealous god. If all this makes a god, or is it making you something else?" - Mitchell and Kirk "Do you like what you see? Absolute power corrupting absolutely?" - Kirk, persuading Dehner to turn on Mitchell "For a moment, James… but your moment is fading." - Mitchells last words "I'm sorry. You can't know what it's like to be almost a god." - Dehners dying words to Kirk "He didn't ask for what happened to him." "I felt for him, too." "I believe there's some hope for you after all, Mister Spock." - Kirk and Spock Background information The second pilot This was the second Star Trek pilot. However, it aired as the third regular series episode, after and . In their book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, Robert H. Justman and Herbert F. Solow explain that because this segment was "too expository" in nature – a common fault with pilots – it would not have made a good premiere episode for the series. Although NBC rejected , they felt that the series concept was strong enough to give Star Trek a second chance, despite having already spent an exorbitant US$630,000 on the first pilot. The network ordered three scripts, from which they would choose one to be developed into an unprecedented second pilot. The three scripts were by Gene Roddenberry, by Roddenberry and Stephen Kandel, and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" by Samuel A. Peeples. The advantage of "The Omega Glory" was that it showcased Roddenberry's "parallel worlds" concept and could be filmed using existing studio sets on the back lot as well as stock wardrobes. "Mudd's Women" was mainly a shipboard tale and could also be shot using the existing Enterprise sets left over from "The Cage". In addition, both required a minimum of new outer space effects shots. However, "Mudd's Women" guest starred "an intergalactic pimp", selling women throughout the galaxy, exactly what NBC didn't want, and "The Omega Glory" wasn't very good. The network finally chose "Where No Man Has Gone Before" which, although it required many new special effects, sets, props, and costumes, was the most powerful and compelling of the three scripts. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp 65-66; The Star Trek Compendium, p 17) There is a different, pre-broadcast cut of this episode in the archives of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. This unique cut includes a few brief scenes trimmed from the aired cut of the episode, different opening titles, and a unique opening and closing theme. The alternate themes can be heard on the GNP Crescendo CD Star Trek: Original Series (Volume 1) "The Cage" / "Where No Man Has Gone Before". This version was the one screened as the second pilot to NBC executives in the tail-end of 1965, and was originally available in bootleg form only, screened at numerous conventions, before becoming available commercially on the TOS Season 3 Blu-ray set. James Doohan was credited as "Engineer", Paul Fix as "Ship's Doctor", George Takei as "Physicist", and Paul Carr as "Navigator" in the end credits of the original cut. It was in effect the Institution itself which had already recognized the cultural significance of Roddenberry's creation; in a rare move – considering the highly contemporary nature of a television series of such recent date – the Institution invited Roddenberry in 1967 to submit both pilots and assorted production material, such as still photography, scripts and story outlines, for safekeeping for posterity. This the consummate (self)promoter Roddenberry did in a formal presentation at the Institution, pursuant the conclusion of the series' first season. ("Smithsonian Seeks TV Pilot", Los Angeles Times, 13 June 1967, p. C19) A second different title sequence resulted from the fact that the main responsible visual effects director, Darrell Anderson of effects company Howard Anderson Company, suffered a third nervous breakdown, brought on by the stress he was under to deliver the new opticals in time and on budget. As Justman recalled, when he and Roddenberry came calling on Anderson in August 1966 to check on the status of the Enterprise footage for the title sequence, for the series slated to start its run on 8 September and "Where No Man" scheduled to air third, "We had seen maybe six good shots and some others that were partially usable. We had expected many more angles, some of which were badly needed for our series main title. "Where's all the other shots, Darrell?" Darrell began to shake. He jumped to his feet, screaming, "You'll never make your first airdate." Bursting into tears, he ran out of the room, still screaming, "You'll never make your first airdate! You'll never make your first airdate!" Gene sat there in shock. I raced after Darrell and caught him outside. He was weeping. And no wonder. We later found out he had been working both day and night for months, trying to satisfy our needs. That afternoon, Darrell went to Palm Springs for a rest cure." Roddenberry and Justman managed to compose a title sequence from the footage already shot, the same day. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 281) This was the version as originally aired by NBC on 22 September 1966. The more sophisticated final title sequence was produced (with Anderson returned to his duties) for subsequent episode airings and replacing the improvised sequence for those episodes where it was utilized in reruns. Incidentally, Darrell Anderson suffered his second nervous breakdown while working on the second pilot the year previously, from which he needed two weeks to recover. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 11/12, p. 69) The aired version of this episode features a different version of the first season opening credits, which does not have William Shatner's opening narration, and uses a different orchestration of the main and end title themes. These orchestrations were used until mid-season during the original run and the initial syndication showings. However, in the 1980s, Paramount withdrew the prints from syndication and redistributed remastered and pre-cut episodes with standardized opening and closing credit music for the first season (using the Fred Steiner arrangement created for the back half of the season). These remastered prints were also used, in their uncut form, for the video and laserdisc releases. Only this episode was permitted to keep the original Alexander Courage arrangement. The 1999 DVD volumes, and later season sets, however, restored the opening credits to their original form, while leaving the end credits in their altered state (again, except for this episode which remains as originally aired). The original narration spoken by Shatner was: "Enterprise log, Captain James Kirk commanding. We are leaving that vast cloud of stars and planets which we call our galaxy. Behind us, Earth, Mars, Venus, even our Sun, are specks of dust. The question: What is out there in the black void beyond? Until now our mission has been that of space law regulation, contact with Earth colonies and investigation of alien life. But now, a new task: A probe out into where no man has gone before." After NBC saw this episode, they were pleased with the results and decided that Star Trek would be a weekly television series. Gene Roddenberry said that, like , "Where No Man Has Gone Before" still had a lot of science fiction elements in it, but that it was the bare knuckle fist fight between Kirk and the god-like Gary Mitchell that sold NBC on Star Trek. (The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation To The Next) This was the first episode of Star Trek to be shown by the BBC in the UK when the series premiered on . Story and script TNG adopted a gender-neutral and species-neutral version of this episode's title for . This episode sets the original series record for Enterprise crew members killed: twelve (Mitchell, Dehner, Kelso, and the nine who Spock says died when crossing the galactic barrier). Kirk says he's been worried about Mitchell "ever since that night on Deneb IV." Coincidentally (or not), TNG's pilot episode takes place on Deneb IV, home of the Bandi. Gary Mitchell states that the "Nightingale Woman" poem was written in 1996 and that it is one of the "most passionate love sonnets of the past couple of centuries". Taken literally, this line of dialogue seems to suggest that "Where No Man Has Gone Before" takes place no later than the end of the twenty-second century, which in turn would imply that the Valiant was launched during the twentieth. In reality, the poem ("My love has wings…") was written by Gene Roddenberry about his World War II airplane. Production Bob Justman anticipated that the second pilot would take nine days to shoot. However, after "The Cage" went severely over schedule and budget, Desilu's "old guard" executives worried about the same situation regarding the second pilot. To avoid these fears, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was scheduled to be filmed in seven days. The "old guards" skeptically expected that it will take ten or even eleven days. Filming began on Monday, . As expected, filming the pilot went over schedule, finally resulting in eight days and an extra day of shooting pickup shots and "inserts" – nine days, exactly as Justman expected. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p 85). Just as "The Cage", the second pilot was filmed at Desilu's Culver City studios. For the series itself, the entire production was moved to Desilu's main Gower Street facilities in Hollywood. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story pp 113-116) On the fifth day of filming, Friday, , a swarm of bees attacked the set, causing delay in filming, and injuries to William Shatner and Sally Kellerman, who were both stung by the bees. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p 83) Sets and props The gravestone Mitchell creates for Kirk reads "James R. Kirk". According to D.C. Fontana in the introduction for Star Trek: The Classic Episodes 1, when the mistake was discovered, Gene Roddenberry decided that if pressed for an answer on the discrepancy, the response was to be "Gary Mitchell had godlike powers, but at base he was Human. He made a mistake." The gravestone also suggests that an important event marked "C" took place on stardate 1277.1; Kirk may have assumed command of the Enterprise on this stardate. Their crew files show that Mitchell and Dehner were born in cities called "Delman" and "Eldman." The mountainous backdrop painting from "The Cage" is reused in this episode. In this episode, the helm console from the bridge was moved to the transporter set to double as the transporter console. Thus, the three levers used to "energize" are not yet in place. When he complies with Kirk's order to "Address intercraft," i.e. put open the intercom, Mitchell merely wipes the edge of his hand over his navigation plotting board and does not manipulate any buttons or switches. A bit of the transporter chamber was changed from "The Cage." The center of the ceiling was "hollowed out," allowing white light to pour down onto the platform when the "materializer" was not in operation. After this episode, however, the dark, grilled ceiling from "The Cage" was restored and remained in place throughout the series. The phaser rifle that Kirk uses appears for the first and only time in the series. However, it can be seen on many pre-season 1 promotional photos. It was designed and created by Reuben Klamer, who, being subcontracted, received no credit for it. (Julien's Auctions presents: Star Trek) In this episode, the sickbay walls are green. The alert light on the helm console is of a different shape in this episode. A large panel seen in the background of the Delta Vega control room was recycled as part of the main engineering set in the series itself. Spock carries a laser pistol (somewhat modified) as first seen in "The Cage". This episode features the goose-neck tubes also used in "The Cage". The communicator Kirk uses at the episode's end to hail the Enterprise is the Lucite-encased, circuit board-filled version from "The Cage". The insignias for the Sciences and Engineering divisions were opposite in this episode of what they were in every other episode. Cast and characters It was the first appearance for Trek mainstays Kirk, Sulu, Scott, and Leslie. Other regulars McCoy and Uhura did not appear until the next episode. In , Uhura is said to be a twenty year space veteran as of 2285, suggesting that she began her career sometime around this episode. Leonard Nimoy (Spock) is the only actor to appear in both this episode and the first pilot, . His pointed ears are a bit smaller than in the first pilot, and his eyebrows are severely slanted (yet not as bushy as in "The Cage"). Most importantly, his hairstyle is reworked to show the bangs typical of his race – and that of eventual nemeses, the Romulans. William Shatner was actually the third actor to be considered for the role of James T. Kirk. Jack Lord and Lloyd Bridges were each offered the role before him. (The Star Trek Compendium) Veteran character actor Paul Fix got the role of the ship's doctor, replacing John Hoyt. Gene Roddenberry wanted to cast DeForest Kelley in the part, whom he originally wanted to play Doctor Boyce in . Then, he was overruled by director Robert Butler's suggestion. Here again, Fix was recommended by director James Goldstone. Roddenberry thought Fix didn't work out well in the role, and decided that if Star Trek became a weekly series, he would cast Kelley as the ship's doctor. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp 74-75, 152) Andrea Dromm replaced Laurel Goodwin in the role of the captain's yeoman. According to Herb Solow and Bob Justman, her role was actually a "non-part" and Roddenberry claimed he cast her so he could "score with her". They added, it was not just a "non-part", but a "non-score" as well. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p 75) Dromm didn't return to the series, and was replaced by Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Rand. Roddenberry, Solow, and NBC were all happy about the casting of Lloyd Haynes as communications officer Alden. Haynes was one of the first African-Americans hired to play an important role in a network series pilot. However, he was not rehired for the series itself, as the production staff saw the role as dull and uninteresting. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p 75-77, 153) This is the only episode of the series in which James Doohan (Scott) appears but DeForest Kelley (McCoy) does not. This is the only episode where Spock and Scott wear gold and tan tunics instead of their better known blue and red, respectively. Effects The matte painting of the lithium cracking station was created by matte artist Albert Whitlock for this episode. A still exists showing the entire landing party in the doorway within the matte, but only the shot of Kirk and Dehner ended up being used. The matte painting was later altered and reused in . The image of the matte painting later appeared on the 1953 issue of the Incredible Tales magazine in the episode . Film trickery enabled Kirk, Spock, and Mitchell's elevator ride to look like an actual ride from one deck to another, without relying on editing. When Mitchell jumped in, there was a gray wall outside the door that hid the bridge set. When the doors closed, the wall was removed by the stage crew, and then seconds later, they're on the bridge. The turbolift in the background after this scene sports "double doors" like modern elevators – the inner one is gray and the outer is red. This feature survived into and at least until , but then was phased out. When Kirk, Spock, and Mitchell emerge from the turbolift, the main viewscreen can be seen in its "off" setting – a kind of "psychedelic" visual effect that was never used again. The voices of damage control personnel responding to the emergency situation were reused many times in subsequent episodes. These voices were provided by Gene Roddenberry, Robert Justman, Majel Barrett, Herb Solow, and other production staff members, including some from Mission: Impossible. Roddenberry can be heard saying, "Communicator, we need more lines to the impulse deck!" in subsequent episodes. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 190-191) Except for the shot of the Enterprise leaving the Barrier – which was shot using the three-foot unlighted model – all other ship fly-bys were produced using the eleven-foot model used in all subsequent episodes. At the time, this model still had no sparkling effects on the front of the nacelles. It also had a larger sensor dish, grilles on the backs of the nacelles, and not as many lighting effects. This footage was re-used in later episodes, often mixed in with shots of the improved model that is on display in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. In the standard side-to-side fly-by, two lights on the angled pylon (which connect the two hulls) go out, followed one second later by two near the shuttlebay. The original "bridge zoom-in" Enterprise shot from the beginning of "The Cage" is reused from stock footage in this episode, making it the only shot from the original pilot to appear in the second one. The same shot is also used when the Enterprise hits the barrier with added purple background and lightning effects. Stock footage of the Enterprise in the barrier was reused in and . These are the only three original series episodes in which the Enterprise leaves the galaxy. Preview The preview contains a Captain's Log recorded solely for the preview: "Captain's log, stardate 1312.4. The next mission of the Enterprise takes us into an unknown force field which affects the destiny of my closest friend." Reception A print of the pre-broadcast version of this episode was taken by Roddenberry to the annual in Cleveland, Ohio to be presented to the convention goers. This marked Star Treks second showing to the general public, on with Harlan Ellison having premiered a color print of one of the unaired episodes (those in attendance give conflicting reports on exactly which one of the early episodes was shown) earlier at the San Diego Westercon 19 the previous July. ("What We Did On Our Visit To Desilu" by John & Bjo Trimble, ST-PHILE #1, Jan 1968, p. 33) Allan Asherman, author of The Star Trek Compendium, was present among the audience. He recalled, "There must have been 500 people in that audience. When the Enterprise hit the galactic barrier, 1,000 eyes opened wide. Five hundred respiratory rates accelerated with that wonderful pleasure that comes over lovers of all things when they see their favorite subject being treated well. (…) If he [Roddenberry] could have read our minds at any moment during the screening, he would have been the happiest producer in the world. (…) Here was a future it did not hurt to imagine. Here was a constructive tomorrow for mankind, emphasizing exploration and expansion. This was a science fiction television series we all wanted to see. We were extremely impressed. (…) In fact, we liked everything about the episode more than anything else shown at the convention. (…) Roddenberry seemed to have no idea of the effect his show was having on us. (…) He asked for the audience's opinion; we gave him a standing ovation. He smiled, and we returned the smile before we converged him. We came close to lifting the man upon our shoulders and carrying him out of the room." (The Star Trek Compendium, pp 2-3) Later, a group of the audience asked Roddenberry if he had brought any other episodes of Star Trek with him. He had a black-and-white copy of "The Cage", which was then screened to the audience. (The Star Trek Compendium, p 3) Herb Solow commented on Gene's success: ""Where No Man," unlike the other television and theatrical films screened, was well received. The science-fiction aficionados at the convention were entranced by the new show. But in four days, the series would premiere on television to a national audience that thought science fiction was comic books of busty women being dragged away by alligator people, or a giant purple blob intent on dissolving Tokyo." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p 263) Bjo Trimble and her husband, John, were members of the audience at the convention, and it was the first time they'd met Roddenberry. They persuaded him to allow the Star Trek costumes he brought along to be displayed during the fan-made costume competition. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p 378) Isaac Asimov was also a member of the audience. At the start, Roddenberry shushed a loud man to be silent, not knowing that the man was actually Asimov. When Roddenberry found out it was Asimov, he was horrified. (Inside Star Trek with Gene Roddenberry) Roddenberry picked this as one of his ten favorite episodes for the franchise's 25th anniversary. (TV Guide August 31, 1991) Jason Isaacs also cited this as one of his favorite Star Trek episodes, remarking that he "loved" it. Regarding the transformation to god-like status that happens to Gary Mitchell and Elizabeth Dehner in this episode, Isaacs joked, "I tried for years to do that. In fact, I still try sometimes, in quiet moments." The book Star Trek 101 (p. 17), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, lists this episode as one of "Ten Essential Episodes" from the original Star Trek series. Apocrypha An alternate explanation for the "James R. Kirk" reference is given in Peter David's novel Q-Squared, which suggests that the events of this episode take place in a parallel universe where Kirk's middle initial is indeed R (and not T as we now know it to be). This same book suggests that Gary Mitchell's god-like powers were a result of him being temporarily possessed by Q, and the powers simply drove Mitchell insane. Another explanation for the R as Kirk's middle initial comes from Michael Jan Friedman's three-part novel series, My Brother's Keeper. In it, Kirk claims his middle name to be "Racquetball" to Mitchell upon an early meeting. Later, Mitchell "changes" it to "Rhinoceros" after Kirk steamrolls through a conversation. The grave is thus explained by Kirk as an in-joke. Mandala Productions' Fotonovel #2, in its cast of characters section, identified the captain for this episode as "James R. Kirk", even though all the other Star Trek Fotonovels listed him as "James T. Kirk". The alternate reality's version of events in this episode were depicted in issue 1 and issue 2 of IDW Publishing's ongoing Star Trek comic book. In this version, only Mitchell is affected – Dehner was a former lover of Dr. McCoy, and after the affair ended badly, their relationship was so strained that she rescinded her requested transfer to the after finding out he was on board. Also, while Mitchell was in sickbay, Spock mind melded with him and reported to Kirk that he found "No consciousness. No sentience of any kind." The Pocket TNG novel The Valiant acts as a prequel and sequel to this episode, telling the story of the SS Valiants demise and reveals that some of the crew did survive the self-destruction. Remastered information The remastered version of this episode premiered in syndication the weekend of and featured shots of a digital version of Enterprise, consistent with the model used in this episode, which had a slightly different appearance from both the version seen in the production of the series and that seen the original pilot, . Enhanced effects also included more detailed shots of the barrier, Delta Vega from space as well as on the surface, a subtle touch-up to a phaser shot during Kirk and Mitchell's fight, and an opening titles sequence featuring the pilot-version Enterprise. While the final frontier speech was absent from the original, it was brought into the remastered opening. The next remastered episode to air was . Production timeline Episode commissioned by NBC: Story outline by Samuel Peeples: first week of Revised story outline: second week of First draft teleplay by Peeples: late- Revised first draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay by Gene Roddenberry: Final draft teleplay: Revised final draft teleplay: Additional revisions: , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Monday – Desilu Culver Stage 15: Int. Recreation room, Corridors, Transporter room, Briefing room Day 2 – , Tuesday – Desilu Culver Stage 15: Int. Turbolift, Bridge Day 3 – , Wednesday – Desilu Culver Stage 15: Int. Bridge Day 4 – , Thursday – Desilu Culver Stage 15: Int. Bridge, Sickbay Day 5 – , Friday – Desilu Culver Stage 15: Int. Sickbay; Desilu Culver Stage 17: Int. Delta Vega control room Day 6 – , Monday – Desilu Culver Stage 17: Int. Delta Vega control room, Security area, Ext. Beam down area Day 7 – , Tuesday – Desilu Culver Stage 17: Int. Delta Vega security area; Desilu Culver Stage 16: Ext. Planet surface site Day 8 – , Wednesday – Desilu Culver Stage 16: Ext. Planet surface site Day 9 – , Thursday – Desilu Culver Stage 15, Stage 16 & Stage 17: Extra pickup shots Score recorded: Original airdate: Rerun date: First UK airdate Remastered airdate: Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax/VHS release: Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2, catalog number VHR 2210, release date unknown As part of the UK Star Trek - The Three Beginnings VHS collection: US VHS release: As part of the UK Star Trek - The Four Beginnings VHS collection: 1995 UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 1.1, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 1, As part of the TOS Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TOS Season 1 HD DVD collection As part of the TOS Season 1 Blu-ray collection As part of the TOS Season 3 Blu-ray collection, entitled "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" – The Restored, Unaired Alternate Pilot Episode As part of the Star Trek: The Original Series - Origins Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as James T. Kirk Leonard Nimoy as Spock Guest stars Gary Lockwood as Gary Mitchell Sally Kellerman as Elizabeth Dehner Featuring George Takei as Sulu James Doohan as Scott Lloyd Haynes as Alden Andrea Dromm as Yeoman And Paul Carr as Lt. Lee Kelso Paul Fix as Doctor Piper Uncredited co-stars Eddie Paskey as Leslie Unknown actors as Bridge guard Command crewman Command officer Command technician Engineering technician Maintenance engineer (scenes cut and reused in ) Operations crewman Sciences crewman Stunt doubles Dick Crockett as stunt double for William Shatner Hal Needham as stunt double for Gary Lockwood Production crew Directed by James Goldstone Written by Samuel A. Peeples Created and Produced by Gene Roddenberry Associate Producer: Robert H. Justman Music Composed and Conducted by: Alexander Courage Director of Photography: Ernest Haller, ASC Production Designer: Walter M. Jefferies Art Director: Rolland M. Brooks Film Editor: John Foley, ACE Assistant Director: Robert H. Justman, Gregg Peters Casting: Joseph D'Agosta Set Decorator: Ross Dowd Costumes Created by: William Ware Theiss Sound Mixer: Cam McCulloch Post Production Executive: Bill Heath Music Editor: Jack Hunsaker Sound Editor: Joseph G. Sorokin Production Supervisor: James Paisley Wardrobe: Paul McCardle Special Effects: Bob Overbeck Music Consultant: Wilbur Hatch Music Coordinator: Julian Davidson Makeup Artist: Robert Dawn Hair Styles: Hazel Keats Matte Paintings: Albert Whitlock Sound: Glen Glenn Sound Co. Photographic Effects: Howard Anderson Co. Executive in Charge of Production: Herbert F. 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Reference tables

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Rules of Acquisition

The Rules of Acquisition were the sacred precepts upon which all Ferengi society was based. They were first written by Gint, the first Grand Nagus. In the mid-22nd century there were 173 rules, and by the 24th century there were 285. (; ; ) In theory, "[e]very Ferengi business transaction is governed by [these rules] to ensure a fair and honest deal for all parties concerned." () In 2370, the Ferengi government was debating an amendment to the Rules. () In 2371, Grand Nagus Zek authored a short-lived revised edition of the Rules, after having his state of mind altered by the Bajoran Prophets. It contained rules very different in character from preceding versions, instead promoting honesty and charity. Upon recovering, Zek ordered the destruction of all copies of this work. () Official rules Unofficial rules The following sayings were either not given a number, not explicitly stated to be a Rule, or were not part of the generally-accepted Rules by the Ferengi Commerce Authority. Notes Appendices Background information The Rules of Acquisition were invented by executive producer-writer Ira Steven Behr at the beginning of (beginning with ) () and were mentioned throughout the Star Trek spinoffs. In the first draft script of , the eighty-first or seventy-first Rule of Acquisition (Rom wasn't sure which) was said to be, "What's good for the boss is good for the worker." Similarly, in the first draft script of , the 153rd rule was stated to be, "People will buy anything… especially junk." The authors of the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 267) identified "Exploitation begins at home.", from the episode , as one of these rules. Apocrypha Deep Space Nine writers Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe expanded upon the Rules and Ferengi culture in the non-canon books, The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition and Legends of the Ferengi. A number of additional rules have also appeared within Pocket Deep Space Nine titles. The following rules are derived from non-canon sources: External links de:Erwerbsregeln der Ferengi es:Reglas de adquisición fr:Règles de l'acquisition ferengies ja:金儲けの秘訣 nl:Regels van acquisitie pl:Zasady zaboru Legal documents Literature Philosophy Ferenginar

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Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager is the fifth Star Trek series. It was created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor, and ran on UPN, as the network's first ever series, for seven seasons in the USA, from to . In some areas without local access to UPN, it was offered to independent stations through Paramount Pictures, for its first six seasons. The series is best known for its familial crew, science fiction based plots, engaging action sequences, and light humor. The writers often noted that many episodes had underlying themes and messages or were metaphors for current social issues. This is the first Star Trek series to feature a female captain in a leading role. However, Kathryn Janeway herself is not the first female captain to be seen within Star Trek as a whole. Additionally, the show gained in popularity for its storylines which frequently featured the Borg. Voyager follows the events of and ran alongside during its first five seasons. (composed by Jerry Goldsmith) Series summary Launched in the year 2371, the Federation starship was a ship built to return to Starfleet's founding principle of scientific exploration. It was fitting that the ship's captain, Kathryn Janeway, rose up through the science ranks rather than command. On the ship's first mission while departing the space station Deep Space 9, which required it to find and capture a Maquis vessel that disappeared into the treacherous Badlands, the crew of Voyager, as well as that of the Maquis ship it was pursuing, were swept clear across the galaxy and deep into the Delta Quadrant. This was the doing of a powerful alien being known as the . The seventy thousand light year transit cost the lives of over a dozen crew members. Captain Janeway was forced to destroy the massive alien array that housed the remains of the Caretaker. In doing so, she saved an alien race, the Ocampa, but stranded Voyager and the crew in the Delta Quadrant. United in a common purpose, the surviving Maquis rebels joined with Janeway's Starfleet-trained crew on Voyager. Though a journey back to the Alpha Quadrant would have taken more than seventy years through unknown and treacherous territory, the crew of Voyager was well served by Janeway's skilled leadership and their own steadfast determination. Ultimately, Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant in seven years. The crew's journey home was eventful. Voyager made first contact with over four hundred completely new species in the Delta Quadrant, discovered links to Earth's early space exploration history, utilized and even pioneered new technologies, all the while engaging in countless other adventures. () The crew encountered species ranging from the violent and ruthless Kazon, the Phage-afflicted Vidiians, the colorful Talaxians and the ephemeral Ocampa. The crew's other encounters included run-ins with the temporal sophistication of the Krenim, the predatory Hirogen, the toxic Malon and the scheming Hierarchy. The crew picked up passengers along the way, including the wily but extremely resourceful Talaxian Neelix (who served, at times, as Voyagers ambassador, morale officer, and even head chef), along with the Ocampan telepath Kes (who, as a parting gift to the crew, used her powers of telekinesis to thrust Voyager 9,500 light years closer to the Alpha Quadrant). Most memorable, however, were Voyagers repeated clashes with the dreaded Borg. While each encounter posed grave danger, Voyager was able to prevail every time. At one point, Janeway actually negotiated a temporary peace with the Borg when they perceived a common threat in a mysterious alien species from fluidic space. () At other times, she was able to liberate drones from the Borg Collective, including Seven of Nine (who became a permanent member of the crew), Mezoti, Azan, Rebi, and Icheb. Other instances pitted Voyager against not only the Borg, but also against the nightmarish Borg Queen herself. Several years after Voyagers disappearance into the Delta Quadrant, Starfleet Command learned of the starship's fate. Subsequently, the Pathfinder Project was created, a Starfleet Communications project that attempted to communicate with Voyager through the MIDAS array, via a micro-wormhole and the Hirogen communications network. Thanks to the hard work and enthusiasm of Lieutenant Reginald Barclay, the communications technology improved to a level whereby contact could be made on a regular basis. In 2377, the crew was able to receive monthly data streams from Earth that included letters from the crew's families, tactical upgrades, and news about the Alpha Quadrant. By the end of the year, Voyager made a triumphant return to the Alpha Quadrant, under the guidance of Starfleet and the Pathfinder Project, by utilizing and then destroying a Borg transwarp hub, and after a turbulent trip, a celebration was held in honor of Voyagers return back home. Distinguishing Voyager Despite the general prosperity of , Paramount pressured Rick Berman for yet another Star Trek television series. Although it was decided very early on that the new series would be set aboard a starship once again, it was important for the writers to vary the series from in other ways. Berman stated, "When Voyager came around and we knew we were going to place the next series back on a starship we wanted to do it in a way that was not going to be that redundant when it came to The Next Generation. So we had a certain amount of conflict on the ship because of the Maquis. We had a different dynamic because we were not speaking every day to Starfleet and because we had a female captain. Those were the major differences that set this show apart from the others... It had the core belief of what Star Trek was all about, both in terms of the excitement and the action and in terms of the provocative elements of ideas that Star Trek has always been known to present to the audience." () The series' premise of being lost in deep space was itself a variation on a theme explored in The Next Generation. Michael Piller explained, "We remembered the episodes, many episodes, where Q would show up and throw one of our ships or one of our people off to a strange part of the universe. And we'd have to figure out why we were there, how we were going to get back, and ultimately – by the end of an episode – we'd get back home. But [...] we started to talk about what would happen if we didn't get home. That appealed to us a great deal [...] You have to understand that Rick, Jeri and I had no interest in simply putting a bunch of people on another ship and sending them out to explore the universe. We wanted to bring something new to the Gene Roddenberry universe. The fans would have been the first people to criticize us if we had not brought something new to it. But everything new, everything was... a challenge, in the early stages of development of Voyager." ("Braving the Unknown: Season 1", VOY Season 1 DVD special features) Jeri Taylor concurred that Voyager had to be different from its predecessors. She stated, "We felt a need to create an avenue for new and fresh storytelling. We are forced into creating a new universe. We have to come up with new aliens, we have to come up with new situations." Taylor also recalled, "We knew we were taking some risks. We decided, in a very calculated way, to cut our ties with everything that was familiar. This is a dangerous thing to do. There is no more Starfleet, there are no more admirals to tell us what we can and cannot do, there are no Romulans, there are no Klingons, there are no Ferengi, no Cardassians. All those wonderful array of villains that the audience has come to love and hate at the same time will no longer be there. This is a tricky thing to do." ("Braving the Unknown: Season 1", VOY Season 1 DVD special features) Differentiating the new series from what had gone before hardened the challenge of inventing the series' main characters. Jeri Taylor recounted, "It took a long, long time, it took us weeks and weeks and weeks, even to come up with a cast of characters, because we found that so many wonderful characters had already been done and we didn't want to exactly repeat ourselves. We'd come up with an idea then say, 'No, that's too much like Data,' or, 'That's too much like Odo,' or, 'That's too much like Worf.' So to try to find the right balance of characters, in terms of gender and alien species and that kind of thing, really took a long time." ("Braving the Unknown: Season 1", VOY Season 1 DVD special features) ↑ John Van Citters listed "VGR" as the series' official abbreviation when announcing the "DSC" abbreviation for . MA, among other venues, will continue to use the abbreviation VOY for Voyager, for historical reasons. Reception During its seven-year run, Star Trek: Voyager was nominated for 34 Emmy Awards, mostly in "technical" categories such as visual effects and makeup. It won seven, including "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Main Title Theme Music" for Jerry Goldsmith's theme. Main cast Starring Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway Also starring Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres Jennifer Lien as Kes (-) Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris Ethan Phillips as Neelix Robert Picardo as The Doctor Tim Russ as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine (-) Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim Executive producers Rick Berman – Executive Producer Michael Piller – Executive Producer (1995-1996) Jeri Taylor – Executive Producer (1995-1998) Brannon Braga – Executive Producer (1998-2000) Kenneth Biller – Executive Producer (2000-2001) Opening credits The opening credits for Star Trek: Voyager contained imagery of passing near various spatial phenomena. 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Regular cast

This page is a list of regular cast for the Star Trek series and films. Star Trek: The Original Series William Shatner as James T. Kirk Leonard Nimoy as Spock DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy James Doohan as Montgomery Scott George Takei as Hikaru Sulu Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov Nichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand Star Trek: The Animated Series William Shatner as James T. Kirk Leonard Nimoy as Spock DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy James Doohan as Montgomery Scott and Arex George Takei as Hikaru Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel and M'Ress The Original Series films William Shatner as James T. Kirk Leonard Nimoy as Spock DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy James Doohan as Montgomery Scott George Takei as Hikaru Sulu Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Star Trek: The Next Generation Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as William T. Riker Brent Spiner as Data LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge Michael Dorn as Worf Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi Denise Crosby as Natasha Yar Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher The Next Generation films Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as William T. Riker Brent Spiner as Data LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge Michael Dorn as Worf Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Avery Brooks as Benjamin Sisko Nana Visitor as Kira Nerys Rene Auberjonois as Odo Michael Dorn as Worf Terry Farrell as Jadzia Dax Alexander Siddig as Julian Bashir Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien Nicole de Boer as Ezri Dax Armin Shimerman as Quark Cirroc Lofton as Jake Sisko Star Trek: Voyager Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway Robert Beltran as Chakotay Tim Russ as Tuvok Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris Roxann Dawson as B'Elanna Torres Garrett Wang as Harry Kim Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine Robert Picardo as The Doctor Ethan Phillips as Neelix Jennifer Lien as Kes Star Trek: Enterprise Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer Jolene Blalock as T'Pol Connor Trinneer as Charles Tucker III Dominic Keating as Malcolm Reed Anthony Montgomery as Travis Mayweather Linda Park as Hoshi Sato John Billingsley as Phlox The alternate reality films John Cho as Simon Pegg as Chris Pine as Zachary Quinto as Zoë Saldana as Karl Urban as Anton Yelchin as Star Trek: Discovery Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham Doug Jones as Saru Shazad Latif as Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber Rachael Ancheril as D. Nhan Tig Notaro as Jett Reno Jason Isaacs as Anson Mount as Christopher Pike David Ajala as Cleveland "Book" Booker Blu del Barrio as Adira Tal Star Trek: Picard Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard Alison Pill as Agnes Jurati Isa Briones as Soji Asha/Kore Soong Evan Evagora as Elnor Michelle Hurd as Raffi Musiker Santiago Cabrera as Cristóbal Rios Harry Treadaway as Narek Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine Orla Brady as Laris/Tallinn Brent Spiner as Adam Soong Star Trek: Lower Decks Tawny Newsome as Beckett Mariner Jack Quaid as Brad Boimler Noël Wells as D'Vana Tendi Eugene Cordero as Sam Rutherford Dawnn Lewis as Carol Freeman Jerry O'Connell as Jack Ransom Fred Tatasciore as Shaxs Gillian Vigman as T'Ana Star Trek: Prodigy Brett Gray as Dal Ella Purnell as Gwyn Jason Mantzoukas as Jankom Pog Angus Imrie as Zero Rylee Alazraqui as Rok-Tahk Dee Bradley Baker as Murf Jimmi Simpson as Drednok John Noble as The Diviner Kate Mulgrew as "Captain " Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Anson Mount as Christopher Pike Ethan Peck as Spock Jess Bush as Christine Chapel Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Singh Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas Babs Olusanmokun as Joseph M'Benga Bruce Horak as Hemmer Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley<noinclude> See also Star Trek birthdays Character crossover appearances Cast members who directed Regular cast characters by rank‎ External links bg:Главни герои cs:Stálé postavy de:Liste der Hauptcharaktere es:Protagonistas fr:Personnages principaux it:Personaggi principali ja:メイン・キャラクター nl:Reguliere personages pl:Główni bohaterowie sv:Huvudkaraktärer Main characters

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Star Trek films

This article concerns itself with the general production and performances of the official Star Trek theatrical feature films as produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, having been the full rights title holder from 1979 () through 2002 (), and as licensee from 2009 () through 2016 (), thereby constituting what is currently known as the "Star Trek film franchise". Within that franchise a further distinction is often made between the two prime universe film franchises, to wit, The or "Original Crew" film franchise ( – ) The or (less commonly) "Next Gen (TNG) Crew" film franchise ( – ) and the third, alternate reality or "Kelvin-timeline", film franchise, – Films As a franchise the Star Trek films were almost conceived as an afterthought in the wake of the stupefying success of the very first Star Wars installment in 1977. The result of that, , came nowhere close to living up to the (too) high expectations of studio executives, who subsequently decided to kill off the fledgling Star Trek film franchise right there and then. The highest conglomerate executive though, Gulf+Western owner and CEO Charlie Bluhdorn, saw it differently and personally ordered his Paramount subordinates to pursue the franchise further. Having actually already ordained the original film production in the first place, it was therefore Bluhdorn in person who in effect not only conceived the Star Trek film franchise, but also saved it as a franchise as well (for further particulars, see: main article). The Original Series films Films which feature the cast of . The Next Generation films These are films that feature the cast of . Unlike the preceding TOS films, these did not carry sequel numbers - such as "Star Trek VII", "Star Trek VIII", "Star Trek IX", or "Star Trek X" - except in pre-production. However, these numbers do appear on newer DVD covers. Alternate reality films Films which feature different versions of the TOS characters portrayed by a new cast, and set in an alternate reality from earlier films and series. Footnotes: Unrealized Star Trek films Besides the above referenced films which had eventually seen a theatrical release, Paramount has over the decades embarked on the development of several other Star Trek film projects as well, they however, ultimately abandoned in various stages of development for a variety of reasons. Costs incurred for these unrealized projects were usually charged against the subsequent film project that was realized. (see also: below) For further particulars on these abandoned film projects, see: Undeveloped Star Trek projects. Summary (1979) reunites the cast aboard the original , refurbished after its five-year mission as documented in the television series. The story was originally conceived as the pilot episode of the aborted Star Trek: Phase II series, in which the now-Admiral Kirk and crew must engage with a powerful, threatening force that is heading directly towards Earth. (1982), (1984), and (1986) together form a loose trilogy beginning with the reintroduction of an old enemy from a popular TOS episode () who resumes his conflict with Kirk in epic fashion, leading to the creation of the planet , the death of Spock and his subsequent "burial" on Genesis, the destruction of the Enterprise during Kirk's efforts to reunite Spock's regenerated body with his katra, and ultimately a time-travel adventure to 1986 aboard a captured Klingon vessel () in order to save Earth from destruction. (1989) moves Kirk, demoted back to captain as a result of defying Starfleet orders in , and crew onto the new , which is hijacked by a renegade Vulcan (Sybok) who pilots it to the center of the galaxy in an attempt to find the source of creation. (1991) sees Kirk and crew attempting to prevent derailment of the Federation/Klingon peace talks by conspirators from both sides. As well as bringing the TOS cast to its retirement, the film also ties up various threads first established in the series (most notably, the conflict between the Federation and the Klingons) and paves the way for the storylines of , set seventy years later. Produced during the fall of the communist Soviet Union, the film's plot may be regarded as a metaphor for those events and the effect they had on international relations at that time. (1994) brings the cast of TNG to the big screen, set less than a year after the end of the series () and filmed straight after the completion of its last episodes. Picard and the crew of the must try to stop a brilliant scientist (Tolian Soran) from committing an act of genocide in order to enter the Nexus, a mysterious hedonistic realm in which time has no meaning. Appearances by three of the TOS cast (Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov) and the heroic death of Kirk who joins Picard by means of the Nexus, served to "pass the torch" from the old generation to the next; the appearance of recurring enemies Lursa and B'Etor and the revelation of their fate provides a key link with the TNG series. The film also includes the destruction of the Enterprise-D. (1996) brings back the TNG cast in their first truly independent big screen adventure aboard the new . Picard and his crew are pitted against their deadliest foe from the series, the Borg, who travel back in time to prevent the first warp flight by Zefram Cochrane. In (1998), Picard and crew discover a covert effort by Starfleet, in co-operation with the belligerent Son'a, to relocate the inhabitants of a "fountain of youth" planet. Standing by his morals, Picard must take up arms against the Federation to save paradise. (2002) sees Picard and the Enterprise ordered to investigate the sudden fall of the Romulan government, replaced by a leader from their neighboring race, the Remans. The dark secret of this new leader, Shinzon, brings Picard into conflict in a way he never thought possible, and culminates in a fight to save Earth from a terrible weapon – at great cost. With the death of Data and the departure of Riker, Troi, and Beverly Crusher from the Enterprise, this film marked the end of the TNG cast's adventures (until , nearly two decades later). Much as with the (chronological) final big screen appearance of the original cast, which laid the foundations of peace between the Federation and the Klingons, this film implies the establishment of an alliance between the Federation and the Romulans, enemies throughout the TNG era just as the Klingons had been in TOS. (2009) creates a new timeline in the Star Trek franchise, which is tied directly to the prime universe, effecting a return to the TOS era, albeit one populated by an all-new cast of actors. It also features a completely new look, and remains in-universe by explaining all changes as being inadvertently caused by time-traveling Romulan villain Nero. This film focuses on younger versions of , , and the crew and showcases their very first mission aboard the as they work together to stop the renegade Nero in his vengeful rampage to destroy Federation planets. The sequel (2013) picks up a year after the first film of the new timeline, where the crew is tested as they are sent to apprehend John Harrison, a traitor and mass murderer, and uncover corruption and a conspiracy to militarize Starfleet from within. (2016) picks up three years after the second film, where the crew is in the third year of its five-year mission. An encounter with an alien swarm, headed by the mysterious and powerful Krall, has devastating consequences for the Enterprise and crew, and reveals a serious threat to the Federation. Performance summary Domestically, combined and not taking inflation into account, the Star Trek features have grossed a little over US$1,4 billion. Prior to the release of , had grossed more than the other films, coming in at US$109,713,132, while had the largest-grossing opening weekend of all the films. The alternate reality film surpassed both of these records, but was itself surpassed by its sequel. Using the figures in the above specified tables, a "Top 5" worldwide performance record for the films as of 2016 is summarized in the table below, which hold a few surprises. The costs are, as expected, in accordance with the sequence the films were produced in, with The Motion Picture, being the sole exception due to various reasons. Rather surprising is that the best received films are not always also the highest grossing, The Voyage Home being the most consistent one. However, the biggest surprise in this regard, the bad press the film received in the 1980s and 1990s notwithstanding – among others by the studio itself, who considered the film a failure at the time – is that The Motion Picture as one of the worst received films, is not only the highest grossing Original Crew film world-wide, but concurrently also one of the most profitable films in the franchise. Likewise, but on the other end of the spectrum, Beyond became one of the best received films, but also the second-worst in terms of gross profitabilty. The table shows that the TNG films were the least successful ones of the franchise in critical and financial terms, First Contact being the sole positive exception – even becoming the highest worldwide grossing Star Trek-prime film – the apparent profitability of Generations (see that film's footnote above) notwithstanding. In terms of gross profitability, the six Original Series films remain to date the most successful ones by far. However, while there is a correlation between costs and profitability, the real surprise lies in the recent lack of positive correlation between gross revenues and profitability. That Nemesis and Insurrection occupy the first and third place respectively in the worst profitability ranking comes hardly as a surprise, considering their poor performance at the box office. But a break occurred in the correlation with the three alternate reality films, which were the most successful in terms of box office revenues of the franchise by far, but which also rank among the least profitable, even losing, ones – Star Trek Beyond in particular, taking second place in the worst profitability ranking – making it appear that the more successful a film is at the box office, the worse its profitability becomes. The significant jump in production budget of 29% (over ten times the official inflation rate for the period 1996-1998) between the films First Contact and Insurrection, validated Adam Lebowitz's assertion that the technique of computer-generated imagery (CGI) for producing visual effects, which was used almost exclusively for the latter film and contrary to popular belief, is not cheaper than the traditional way of producing these. "A lot of people say, 'CGI is a lot cheaper, isn't it,' but the way I like to think of it is that CGI is not cheaper necessarily, but you get a lot more for your money and you can tweak it a lot more.", Lebowitz has stated. () If anything has exemplified Lebowitz's assessment, then it must have been the number of staffers Industrial Light & Magic had employed on their Star Trek projects; whereas The Search for Spock "only" needed 42 staffers, the staff-count for Star Trek (2009) had burgeoned to no less than 315, virtually all of them working as digital specialists. Star Trek Into Darkness marks the first time that a Star Trek film performed better in the foreign markets than the home market, confirming an industry trend that has started in the early 2000s. As already stated above, the 2016 film Star Trek Beyond, even though it even surpassed its predecessor critically, performed catastrophically at the box-office (see also below) which became a major consideration for the cancellation in January 2019 of the planned fourth alternate reality film, slated to start production in that year. Gross vs net profitability It must be understood that when box-office earnings surpass the direct production budget (thereby achieving gross profitability), it does not automatically mean that a Hollywood studio has gone "into (net) profit", i.e. meaning that the studio has now funding available for investments, dividend disbursements to shareholders and third party investors, executive bonuses, royalties and the like. Aside from the direct production costs, aka the production budget, the studio also needs to cover costs which, for legal as well as practical reasons, can not be directly assigned to a particular motion picture production and which are commonly referred to as "indirect" or "production overhead" costs, in parlance usually abbreviated to "overhead". The most obvious overhead elements consist of, Operations/Management costs: These are incurred in order to maintain a studio, such as the costs for the upkeep of real estate and equipment, as well as the salaries for personnel who have studio tenure, such as executive, accountancy, administrative, technical and marketing staffers. The actual production staffers on any motion picture project, are contracted on a per production basis, and their salaries are therefore directly assignable to the production budget. (see also in this regard: Desilu Studios) Distribution costs: These entail the box office percentages, distributors and theater owners charge the studio for showing their production to the public, in order to operate their own businesses. Since it is never known beforehand how many theaters will agree to show a studio production, these costs are traditionally considered overhead. Marketing/Promotion costs: While the average "Trekkie" might mistakenly believe that any Star Trek live-action production sells itself, this is a viewpoint emphatically not shared by Paramount. In effect, the official standpoint taken by Paramount is to dismiss Trekdom altogether, deeming it too inconsequential, both in scope and in size, to warrant the consideration of any possible Star Trek live-action (both film and television) production development in and of itself. (A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager, pp. 139-140) Paramount therefore treats each Star Trek production as they would any other, each required to attract a renewed viewership, and each therefore warranting considerable promotional efforts. While a general overall promotion strategy might be devised before the start of a production, the nature and extent is usually fleshed out over the course of the production (if only for the fact that trailers and commercials have to wait for footage to have been actually shot), meaning that cost totals can not be determined with any measure of objectivity beforehand, therefore causing them to be subordinated under overhead for practicality. Traditionally, marketing costs are a substantial part of the overhead, having inflated considerably from the early 2000s onward; David Gerrold has reported that these costs for The Motion Picture were already estimated at US$10-$20 million, accounting for a third to half of over-production budget expenditures alone, which, for those times, was already exceptionally high. (, issue 30, p. 37)To an extent, Paramount's stance has validated itself by the considerable success The Voyage Home, First Contact, and the first two alternate universe films in particular have enjoyed, as these attracted a viewership (though not necessarily new fans) that went well above and beyond traditional Trekdom alone, as was evidenced by their respective outlying box office takes. Even more apparent, but then at the opposite end of the spectrum, became the validity, when Paramount failed to attract renewed viewership for Star Trek Beyond; While the film was in general favorably received by critics and traditional Trekdom alike, the mere fact that others – enjoying a plethora of other alternatives by that time, most notably those of the by then relaunched Star Wars and the ongoing film franchises – failed to show up at the cinemas, made Beyond at that time the second all-time worst performing Star Trek film for Paramount in terms of profitability, becoming a major consideration for the decision to cancel the fourth alternate universe film in early January 2019, reportedly because of relaunched Star Wars, thereby conceivably cancelling the entire alternate universe story line all together. Sundry aka Unforeseen costs: While largely self-explanatory, these costs can also include actual production costs incurred after principal photography – traditionally seen as the "Production" stage of a film production – has finished, which were not foreseen when the production budget was calculated. For example, its visual effects sequences slated to be entirely produced with CGI, Star Trek: Insurrection was nearing completion in post-production when it was decided that for some key effects sequences the digital technique would not do, and that additional visual effects companies had to be brought in at the last minute to remedy the situation. Traditionally, the production budget is then not adjusted upward in these particular circumstances, with the additional expenditure booked as "unforeseen". Something similar had actually already occurred two decades earlier with The Motion Picture. When the February 1979 visual effects debacle took place after principal photography had wrapped, new effects companies had to be brought in by the studio at the eleventh hour to (re)produce these effects from scratch. In this specific case however, the studio decided to have the additional costs of approximately US$10 million included in its publicly divulged production budget as part of questionable studio politics, explaining the discrepancy between the official production budget listed above, and the widely propagated and best known one of US$45 million. (see: The Motion Picture: Costs and revenues) Reshooting scenes after-the-fact for which principal cast had to be recalled, also fall under this heading, as was the case with Generations and Insurrection. Corporate taxes: Self-explanatory. The traditional Hollywood rule of thumb of determining the point when a motion picture production becomes net profitable for a studio, has been the application of a multiplier to the direct production budget, or as Gerrold has further explained, "(…)a film has to earn two to three times as much as it costs to make, before it breaks even. Otherwise, you have lost your shirt." (, issue 30, p. 37) Applying an average multiplier of 2.5 to the above listed figures, or achieving 250% of the production budget in box-office takes, reveal that two of the Star Trek films have barely broke even (unsurprisingly including The Final Frontier, but surprisingly the 2009 blockbuster outing as well), whereas the last two Next Generation films, as well as Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond have actually lost the studio money, substantial losses at that in the cases of Insurrection, Nemesis and Beyond. One obvious rationale for the lack of profitability of the alternate reality films lies in the circumstance that Paramount had, together with Warner Bros. in a US$60 million deal, partnered up with the Bad Robot Productions in 2006 for the development of its motion picture projects, those of Star Trek included. Therefore, in addition to the undisclosed, but undoubtedly hefty license fees Paramount had to pay franchise owner CBS Corporation, all income derived from the box offices takes needed now to be shared with a major co-producer as well, where there had been none before, cutting deeply in the gross profits. The fact that Bad Robot withdrew from the partnership in November 2018, was in effect one of the other major considerations for Paramount to cancel the fourth alternate reality film in January 2019. As a whole, the four decades old film franchise performance of all thirteen films combined yields the following, showing that the film franchise has been net profitable for the studio, albeit modestly so, mostly because of the alternate reality films as they involved he largest amount of money. When applying the 2.5 multiplier, an approximately 4.2% net return on investment remains, until the 2010s not even enough to cancel out inflation and then easily attainable by just putting your money safely away in a bank savings account. The studio therefore had to mostly rely on revenues stemming from other spin-off franchise elements in all forms and formats, such as television rights and merchandise, in order to show shareholders/investors a more healthy rate of return. It is in this regard that another Paramount production deserves a mention, the 1997 eleven Academy Award winning Titanic, served by such Star Trek alumni as Robert Legato, Don Pennington, James Horner and Tony Meininger. With a worldwide gross of US$2.2 billion – being the very first film in motion picture history to breach the two billion barrier – against a production budget of US$200 million, it did achieve a for the times mind-boggling 1,100% gross profitability. This was especially mind-boggling when the amount of money involved was considered, as that film alone, grossing the same amount as all thirteen Star Trek films combined, netted the studio US$1.7 billion in (net) profit, that is, in theory at least when discounting the below-mentioned "Hollywood accounting" phenomenon. The film stands to this very day out as Paramount's biggest success in its entire history by far, as well as being universally considered as one of the motion picture industry's greatest triumphs for that matter. Like it had with The Motion Picture, the studio had staked its very continued existence on Titanic, in the process forced to seek out 20th Century Fox as a production production partner. (see also: The Motion Picture: Costs and revenues) Still, while the rationale behind the net profitability determining methodology is valid, the methodology itself has proven to be susceptible to figures manipulation, leading up to the infamous "Hollywood accounting" phenomenon, possibly explaining not only the apparent high profitability of The Wrath of Khan and Generations – an absolute rarity where "Hollywood Accounting" is concerned as explained below – but also the recent and apparent lack of profitability of the alternate reality films. It should concurrently be noted that additional revenues, derived from later merchandise, television rights and home media sales, are traditionally discounted by Hollywood studios in their public performance assessments for a film, meaning that even loss generating productions have the potential to turn net profitable in the long run. However, the circumstance that Bad Robot had, through its many subsidiaries, negotiated a substantial say – and thus a part of the revenue stream – in the resultant merchandise, including the home media formats, meant that that potential had for Paramount been considerably diminished as well where the alternate reality films were concerned. Hollywood accounting "", or "Hollywood bookkeeping" as it is also referred to, is a particularly nefarious phenomenon in the motion picture industry which entails that, simply put, production stakeholders, such as shareholders, actors, producers, writers, production companies, local governments, and the like, who have entered in a net profit sharing agreement with the studio, are essentially "defrauded" as much as possible out of their legally entitled shares by means of untoward bookkeeping methods. These methods typically entail inflating expenses such as production, distribution, and marketing (a very popular one with studios, as these, whether or not justified, have gone truly through the roof from the early 2000s onward), overhead and, most notoriously, the production budget "sundry costs" with as much elements as possible, not rarely utterly undue. The industry phenomenon is to date deeply ingrained, widespread, persistent, and pervasive and by no means limited to Paramount Pictures or film productions alone, as Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry found out to his detriment after he discovered he too was on the receiving end of this phenomenon when he signed both his 18 May 1965 and 1978 The Motion Picture net profit sharing deals. "The greatest science fiction in show biz is in the accounting", a chagrined Roddenberry declared when he ordered his attorney Leonard Maizlish to start legal proceedings against the studio in 1981, after being faced with the studio's emphatic assertions that he still was not entitled to his share of the profits since the Original Series was still deeply "in the red" ostensibly, despite its wildly successful decade-long run in syndication. (, issue 43, p. 14) A particularly notorious instance was, for example, , who in 2009 still maintained that their 1983 third Star Wars installment, Return of the Jedi, "has never gone into profit", despite having earned a recorded US$475 million against a production budget of US$32.5 million (constituting a whopping 1,462% gross profitability, but while impressive, involving far less money than the above-mentioned Titanic) by that point, shortchanging several actors who had unwisely entered into a net profit sharing agreement. Paramount itself got caught in the act when it was successfully sued by screen writer Art Buchwald (thereby succeeding where Maizlish, on behalf of Roddenberry, had seemingly failed seven years earlier) who found himself in a similar predicament in the case of Paramount's 1988 motion picture Coming to America (starring Eddie Murphy), which grossed over ten times its budget of US$39 million. It was actually this case that brought the "Hollywood accounting" phenomenon to the full awareness of the general public. Finding itself highly scrutinized by the media at the time, Paramount was ultimately ordered by the courts to settle for US$900,000 in 1992. However, as it is still very much a gray area in corporate accounting law, it has, despite the for the industry adverse court ruling, not in the least deterred Paramount, or any other Hollywood studio for that matter, to continue with the practice unabated, to the point where it has become near-pandemic in the 2000s. Several Hollywood reporters have recorded that few, if any, of the biggest box-office successes of the past decades had, as of 2010, actually turned in an official net studio profit, that is, on paper at least. This actually made Hollywood studios one of the very worst properties to invest in, as many shareholders and third-party investors can now attest to. Despite a class-action brought against the entire industry before a Federal Court in 1996, the financial gains apparently still far outweigh the costs of any possible legal litigation. The three alternate universe films, Star Trek, Into Darkness, and Beyond, for example, are officially reported as among the least profitable, even losing, Star Trek productions by Paramount, despite grossing close to US$1.2 billion dollar between the three of them, as specified above. Stakeholders who still do enter into a profit sharing agreement have, however, learned the lessons of their unfortunate predecessors, and do so on the basis of gross profit (as indeed tax authorities have always done), instead of net profits, as gross profit is determined by only charging directly assignable production costs to the revenues under accounting laws. And indeed, creator Roddenberry himself did not repeat the mistakes he made back in 1965 and 1978, when he signed a profit sharing deal with Paramount in 1986 for , where it was stipulated that he was to receive 35% of the adjusted gross profits derived from the series. Studios countered with transferring as much production unrelated expenditures to the (in)direct production costs as they possibly could get away with legally. Notorious in this respect is the transfer of the substantial executive bonuses, which, rightfully, should be paid from the net profits, to production overhead, from which regular salaries are paid. The even more savvy stakeholders will try to negotiate a gross revenue sharing, aka "box-office take", agreement, but this is, of course, vehemently opposed by Hollywood studios and is only reserved for the few very biggest and most powerful of the Hollywood stars, such as – who successfully reinitialized the Mission: Impossible franchise not only as star, but as co-producing company as well under which he receives his box-office takes – and which Roddenberry was most certainly not. In regard to the Star Trek films, it is known that Paramount has charged incurred costs for undeveloped film projects against either the production budget, the overhead, or both of subsequent films that were realized, most notably The Motion Picture and The Undiscovered Country. While the act is in itself not illegal, it is a practice not commonly followed in most other industries (the pharmaceutical industry standing out as a notorious exception) and actually debatable from a business economics point of view; research and development costs of projects that do not come to fruition are usually written off and are commonly charged against the balance sheets of corporations. This is a sound generally accepted accounting principle for businesses (as stated in any business economics textbook and where the principles are known under their acronym ) as it prevents unwarranted cost price inflation with undue elements – thereby avoiding pollution of pre-production viability assessments – for products that do come to fruition. Paramount's divergent actions therefore can be construed as an instance of Hollywood accounting. The very rare positive – as in inflating the profitability instead of the costs – applications of Hollywood accounting by the studio executive echelons in the cases of The Wrath of Khan and Generations were motivated by internal studio politics. In the former case the goal was to convince the outside world that Gene Roddenberry was a complete and utter failure as a film producer after his dismal performance on The Motion Picture, so that the studio seemed justified to sideline the Star Trek creator for any future project once and for all, (See also in this regard: The Motion Picture: Costs and revenues) whereas the latter case was intended to convince shareholders and investors that the Next Generation film franchise would potentially be as succesfull, or even more so, as the Original Crew film franchise had been. Both instances of positive Hollywood accounting succeeded admirably in their intended goals. The 2006 separation of the Star Trek television and film productions under two newly-formed independent holding companies, resulting in that Paramount Pictures, now a holding of , had to pay licensing fees to newly-formed CBS Corporation in order to produce subsequent Star Trek (and Mission: Impossible ) films, aggravated the situation. A closely guarded trade secret, the amount of the fees were now a newly-added part to the production budget/overhead which was not there previously, and might partly explain the apparent lack of net profitability of the three alternate universe films. Some critics have surmised that this had been part of the split considerations all along, somewhat supported by the fact that both new entities have remained under the ultimate ownership and control of holding conglomerate National Amusements (NAI), and to an extent implicitly conceded as such in actuality by NAI owner and CEO Sumner Redstone, who had expressed his desire to "unlock value" by boosting stock value – for the CBS shareholders that is, not for those of (new) Viacom/Paramount, where the licensing issue is concerned – and earning potential of the at the time faster growing soon-to-be "new" Viacom. Incidentally, since NAI's core business is the operation of one of the largest chains of movie theaters in the USA, the fact that the costs they charge the by them owned Paramount for showing their productions appear in the Paramount's income statements as well, can also be construed as an instance of cost-price inflating Hollywood accounting. Future In a November 2015 Wired article discussing the recent popularity of s on film, Paramount Motion Pictures Group president Marc Evans acknowledged the possibility of spin-off films. He said, "I often think about the areas of the Star Trek universe that haven’t been taken advantage of. Like, I’ll be ridiculous with you, but what would look like? Where is the of the Star Trek universe? That fascinates me." On April 25, 2018, it was confirmed that two Star Trek films were in development. However, on 10 January 2019, pursuant the dismal profitability performance of Beyond and a little over ten months later, Forbes magazine reported that the , yet untitled, Kelvin-timeline film had been cancelled, which in itself followed in the wake of earlier reports that main performers Chris Pine () and Chris Hemsworth () had all already withdrawn their commitments to the project. While not overtly evident at the time, this decision had for all intents and purposes all the hallmarks of the definitive termination of the Kelvin timeline in the Star Trek (film) franchise. It conceivably entails for the time being the end of the Star Trek film franchise proper as well (even though the Quentin Tarantino Star Trek XIV pitch was at the time still under consideration, though apparently no longer on the table due to Tarantino's withdrawal from the project in January 2020 ), especially in light of the film franchise being virtually rendered insignificant by those from the Star Wars and Marvel Comics ones in particular, and in light of the December 2019 "reunification" of he television, and film franchises under the consolidated end auspices of Secret Hideout, after which Tarentino has indicated his disinclination to further pursue the project. The cancellation of the fourth alternate reality film could have serious consequences for Paramount, but for production partner Bad Robot Productions in particular, at least where alternate reality Star Trek is concerned, as a production license of the kind extended to the studio and its partner usually includes a timetable clause in which a franchise-licensed production company is obligated to produce sequential franchise film outings within a preordained time-frame. When defaulting on the clause, the film production rights then automatically reverts to the licensor, in this case CBS Corporation (franchise owner as of 2006, then ViacomCBS from December 2019 to February 2022; now rebranded as Paramount Global), who is then free to do with it as it wills. With the establishment of ViacomCBS in December 2019, and the resultant reunification of the two Star Trek franchises, this has indeed become the case, with the fate of the Kelvin timeline as expected hanging in the balance, it as of 2020 being under re-evalution of the new management. It is against this background that new plans, separate from the Tarantino project, for a fourteenth film were reported in November 2019, involving prospect Writer/Director Noah Hawley, though by May 2020 it too has not evolved beyond the consideration stage, its development apparently stuck in limbo. See for further details. It was in the same month that Beyond Performer/Writer Simon Pegg has expressed his personal suspicion that the end of not only the alternate reality, but also the entire film franchise proper had indeed come to pass, when he stated in an interview for Collider, "The fact is, the appeal of Star Trek is slightly more niche than the appeal of, say, the Marvel movies, which make huge amounts of money, and have this really, really broad appeal and they do very well. I think Star Trek is just a little bit more niche, so it isn’t gonna hit those kind of numbers. So yes, the obvious thing to do would be to not go for that massive spectacle, go for something a little bit more restrained in the vein of the original series. Yes, that would be a brilliant thing to do, and I’m sure it probably has been discussed… You specialize a little bit more. (… )Maybe TV is a better place for [Star Trek] now. Television has evolved so much. It’s become something which is very much a contemporary, a peer of cinema. It’s simply viewed in a different way. It isn’t a reduced scope anymore. You can still do masses of interesting things, and it can still look modern and not inexpensive. Maybe television is a better format for Star Trek. That’s where it started, you know." In this Pegg has joined the ranks of those who were already of similar mind, such as the Forbes editors who argued as early as November 2016, a mere three months after the Beyond premiere and its resultant box-office failure, "The thing that made [Beyond] most appealing to the fans, that it played like a smaller-scale 50th anniversary homage to the spirit and tone of the original show, was the thing that arguably doomed it in terms of blockbuster success. Star Trek Beyond was what its fans wanted it to be. There is value in that over the long run. But Paramount and friends need to realize that Star Trek is never going to be a Guardians of the Galaxy-level success and plan accordingly." In November 2020, Hawley intimated that his film was definitively off the table as well. In a 29 November 2020 interview to Deadline Hawley responded to a question about the status of the film, "It doesn’t appear to be in my immediate future. I think when Emma came in, she took a look at the franchise and wanted to go in a different direction with it. But you know, life is long, we were very close to production but in this business that doesn’t mean much. You got to get out of the gate to be in the race if you know what I mean." The "Emma" Hawley referred to concerned Emma Watts, a Paramount executive, who was pursuant the 2019 remerger of Paramount and CBS into ViacomCBS, appointed by National Amusements head Shari Redstone to appraise the status of the Star Trek live-action franchise, both film as well as television, for its (commercial) viability. Hawley's words were in essence Hollywood-speak for the definitive cancellation of his Star Trek film. As to Watt's "different direction", nothing, save some vague rumors, has been made public, making it appear that the entire film franchise too is terminated for the time being – all this being in line with Pegg's assessment. Cast and crew listings Credits for Star Trek: The Motion Picture Credits for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Credits for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Credits for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Credits for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Credits for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Credits for Star Trek Generations Credits for Star Trek: First Contact Credits for Star Trek: Insurrection Credits for Star Trek Nemesis Credits for Star Trek Credits for Star Trek Into Darkness Credits for Star Trek Beyond Background information There have been thirteen Star Trek cinematic features released between and . Three films were produced by Harve Bennett (he was also an executive producer on one), while Rick Berman produced all four films featuring the cast of TNG. Nicholas Meyer, J.J. Abrams, Leonard Nimoy, and Jonathan Frakes each directed two of the films, with the latter two also appearing as co-stars in their respective roles as Spock and William T. Riker. One of the films () was directed by its lead actor, William Shatner, appearing as Kirk. Leonard Nimoy has made more appearances in the film series than any other principal cast member of any Star Trek series, appearing as Spock in the first six films together with an appearance in and a brief cameo in and his likeness is seen in , as are those of his original cast mates. William Shatner, James Doohan, and Walter Koenig (Kirk, Scott, and Chekov) all appear in the first seven consecutive films. Majel Barrett has also appeared in seven of the films, albeit playing different roles: she appears as Christine Chapel in and , and supplied her voice for the Enterprise computers in , , , , and . Michael Dorn is the only member of the TNG cast to appear in more than four of the films. He plays his familiar character Worf in all four TNG-based films and has a cameo as Worf's (presumed) ancestor in . Owing to Worf's transfer onto the crew of DS9 prior to the events of , Dorn is technically the only DS9 cast member to appear in any of the films playing his usual character. Rene Auberjonois appears in playing a different character than his usual one on DS9; his scenes were cut for the film's original theatrical release but subsequently restored for the film's VHS, DVD, and Special Edition releases. Both Armin Shimerman and Max Grodenchik filmed scenes for – the former as his familiar character Quark and the latter as an unnamed Trill Starfleet officer – but these scenes were cut from the film as released. Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, and Ethan Phillips are the only VOY cast members to appear in any of the films – Mulgrew plays her familiar character in , Picardo plays an EMH Mark I in , wherein Phillips also appears – uncredited, at his own request, as a different character. (Having never before appeared in a Trek production without heavy prosthetics, he thought it would be amusing to leave fans wondering if the holographic Human he played was or wasn't him.) Russ appears in as a Human crewman. To date, no principal cast members from have appeared in any of the films, although Peter Weller (who guest-starred in two episodes of that series) plays a major role in . Between and , all the films were produced in tandem with one or more of the spin-off series. and were made during the run of TNG; production on began while the final episodes of TNG were being shot, and while DS9 was in production; and were both produced during the runs of DS9 and VOY, and was made while ENT was in production. was the first since to be produced without any other Star Trek project in progress. Perhaps reflecting their popularity as an alien race, the Klingons appear more than any other throughout the series of films – they appear, or are mentioned, in twelve of the films released so far. No Klingon characters appear in , or , although the former two films depict the which features Klingon ships. Scenes featuring Klingon characters were shot but not included in . The odd number / even number phenomenon A number of Star Trek fans have expressed the opinion that the even-numbered films are generally better than the odd-numbered ones. Such an appraisal is obviously subjective, but it has its roots in a number of factors. The even-numbered films (apart from ) have enjoyed relatively greater success at the box office and higher critical acclaim, as opposed to various lukewarm reviews received by the odd-numbered films (with the exception of ). Fans and critics have also noted that, in their opinions, the even-numbered films are better paced and more action-packed, with more memorable story lines, eminently quotable scripts and exciting special effects. (The first two films are often held up as examples of this trend from the outset of the series: has very few battle or dramatic action sequences, presenting Kirk and crew with a mostly cerebral challenge, while is dominated by epic conflict, resulting in several battle sequences and heavy damage to the Enterprise and its crew.) By the time the TNG films were being produced, the "odd/even" phenomenon was effectively regarded as a curse, with members of the production crew fearing that, despite their best efforts, future odd-numbered productions were fated to be less successful than even-numbered ones. Jonathan Frakes, when interviewed by Star Trek Monthly during pre-production for , commented that he was looking forward to directing his second film "even though it's an odd-numbered Star Trek." In 2002, however, the phenomenon was broken by the release of , which experienced the lowest box-office takings of any Star Trek film to date and was poorly received by even long-standing fans. (Though to a few, this became an even further joke – a Star Trek film which was a multiple of five was cursed to fail catastrophically, as Nemesis pulled in poor reviews and revenue in a similar fashion to The Final Frontier.) The phenomenon has seemingly been broken further by the critical success of , which has obtained a 95% on the review aggregator website , as well as an opening weekend gross of nearly twice the full run of . Sam Hughes, of the website, "Things of Interest", has suggested that the addition of "Galaxy Quest," the affectionate parody of Star Trek released in 1999, between Insurrection and Nemesis, as the "good" Star Trek movie fixes the odd-even curse. In a 1999 episode of the British sitcom Spaced, the phenomenon was mentioned by the series' lead character, Tim Bisley, who was played by Simon Pegg – an irony not lost on Pegg during and after his work on . Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Whereas the preceding live-action television series had open endings that allowed for continuation into motion picture format, ended quite firmly and conclusively, with all its various plotlines resolved and the departure of various main characters. Any subsequent film would therefore have required a significantly different premise and different casting, departing radically from the series' format which had been so familiar to its fan base. On the possibility of a film ever happening, Ira Steven Behr commented: "I don't think so. I think we could do a pretty kick-ass Deep Space Nine film, but not even in my wildest imaginations do I consider it". He also commented "The only Trek I think about is Deep Space Nine, to be honest. If they did a Deep Space Nine film, I certainly would like to be involved if that ever happened, which I doubt". After the release of , Patrick Stewart commented, "I think we should pass the mantle on to the Deep Space Nine characters. We don't want to become The Rolling Stones of the Star Trek films". Andrew Robinson commented "My feeling is that there is never going to be a Deep Space Nine film, they still have more to go with The Next Generation. I think it () was really the right way to end the series. A campaign for a Deep Space Nine film (or a miniseries) was launched in 2000 by fans Stacy Powell and Doug Wilson. Nana Visitor was thrilled to hear of the existence of the campaign and J.G. Hertzler and David B. Levinson joked with fans to "take one of these [flyers], don't throw it away or I'll come after you." Fans Terry Harris and Gisele La Roche also launched a petition for a Deep Space Nine film, receiving several positive responses from actors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, elements from the series have appeared in all TNG films. The Enterprise-D crew wore the uniforms which had been introduced on Deep Space Nine (in addition to their own series' uniforms) in ; the uniforms were also used on , which premiered several months after the film's release. The appears in the Battle of Sector 001 during , under the command of Worf (Michael Dorn), who had become a regular character on DS9 by that time; he also appears in . Both and contain references to the Dominion War story arc from the series. For , a scene was written and filmed involving an appearance by Armin Shimerman as Quark; this was cut from the film, but a still from it can be found among the extras on the DVD release. In 1998, Rick Berman commented "There are a few more movies left in the Generations franchise and there's a good chance we'll see a Deep Space Nine film. What we'd like to do is introduce a few of the characters from Deep Space into the next Generations movie just to tease audiences." Star Trek: Voyager / Star Trek: Enterprise The conclusive endings of both these series likewise indicate little or no probability of future films being based on them. During the run of Voyager, there was speculation among fans (via the internet and other media) that the series would end on a cliff-hanger, to be resolved in a theatrical motion picture, but the ultimate release of as the series finale proved that idea to be unfounded. The potential for continuation of the series has instead been explored in novels and fan-fiction. There is a gap of six years between and which could serve as the setting of an ENT film, although the timeline position of and its sequel suggests that this would be unlikely. features a cameo by Kate Mulgrew, reprising her role as Kathryn Janeway from Voyager and thus marking the only direct big-screen appearance of any character from that series. (An EMH Mark I, played by Robert Picardo, appears briefly in First Contact, but this is not exactly the same character as the holographic doctor in the series.) Nemesis also features a graphic containing a reference to a , named after Captain Jonathan Archer, the main character in Enterprise. Additionally, features a reference to "Admiral 's prized beagle", intended by the writers to be a reference to Jonathan Archer and his beagle Porthos. A replica of appears in , marking the first appearance of any element from that series on the big screen. refers to Military Assault Command Operations personnel and the Xindi encounter from ENT's third season, as well as depicting an early Starfleet ship whose design resembles that of the NX starships seen in ENT. Further reading "Rumblings: The Bottom line", David Gerrold, , issue 30, January 1980, pp. 37, 63 See also Film performers Film recurring characters Film directors Composers VHS releases LaserDisc releases DVD releases Blu-ray releases de:Star-Trek-Filme fr:Star Trek: Films it:Film di Star Trek ja:スタートレック映画 nl:Star Trek: Films pl:Filmy Star Trek pt:Filmes Star Trek ru:Звёздный путь: Фильмы sr:Филмови Звјезданих стаза sv:Filmerna pt-br:Filmes Star Trek

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Similitude (episode)

During an engine performance test, Trip Tucker is critically injured and left comatose in sickbay. Phlox suggests that Tucker's only hope for survival is the creation of a "mimetic simbiot" – in other words, a clone. The crew and Trip's clone have to face the unforeseen emotional ramifications of his creation. Summary Teaser At a funeral ceremony, the entire crew gathers as Captain Jonathan Archer is eulogizing a dead crewman – Commander Charles Tucker III. Act One Two weeks earlier, the is continuing to explore the Delphic Expanse, and testing upgrades to their warp drive in order to do it more quickly. T'Pol and Tucker have another Vulcan neuro-pressure session and discuss it. This time, Tucker tries it out on T'Pol's foot, mostly successfully. The next day, they start the test. First, they get to warp 4.9 like normal, then Tucker starts to compress the antimatter stream in the warp core. It appears to work initially, but, unfortunately, only seconds later, a primary injector flare forces Tucker to do a manual shutdown. While on the top of the warp core, he is injured by a nearby explosion and falls. Helm control is lost and the Enterprise is thrown out of warp into a polaric field of some type. Emergency teams are dispatched to tend to multiple injuries, including Tucker's. Archer learns later that nucleonic particles flooded the plasma manifolds, causing the injector flare. Tucker's action saved the ship from a breach. It will be weeks before they can get the ship back to normal. T'Pol is in charge of repairs, and later has EV teams retrieve a sample of the particles from the field. The highly magnetic properties of the particles don't appear to be a problem now, but are building on the ship's hull and could become a problem if they are not able to clear the field in time. Archer tells T'Pol to do whatever it takes. Unfortunately, Doctor Phlox must inform Captain Archer that Tucker has slipped into a coma due to extensive neural damage. He has an unconventional proposal to use a Lyssarian Desert Larvae he happens to have to make a clone of Commander Tucker (which will grow to maturity very rapidly, and have a lifespan of only about fifteen days) and harvest neural tissues from it. Because of highly sensitive ethical implications, Archer does not make a decision right away. Soon, however, Archer agrees to allow the cloning procedure, sacrificing the ethical implications for the sake of the mission's objective, and perhaps the life of his friend. Phlox informs Archer the procedure was a success, and Archer sees the new infant. Act Two Phlox, pleased at holding a newborn after a long time, informs Archer and T'Pol the infant is healthy, though needs a name. He calls him Sim. The clone quickly grows from an infant to a child. Sim can read soon, though interestingly, the boy demonstrates that he has the memories of Tucker at the same age, including his family, by saying he already knows what the book is about. Sim is as curious about the world as Tucker is, both about technology and about his existence. Archer decides to be the one to tell him the truth, and takes him to his quarters and they have small talk, with Sim pointing out Zefram Cochrane on the wall. They then go to the launch bay to fly a remote-controlled model, and the real questions start. Archer takes Sim to sickbay, where Tucker's body is. Sim recognizes Tucker and gets it all on his own. Archer does say Sim's more than just a copy, since he's making his own memories. He also says Tucker needs something from him, and that the operation is painless. Sim believes them and wants to go fix the model, seemingly taking it all very well. As Sim ages, he starts to help with the repairs. He's happy to do it, though disappointed when he thinks T'Pol doesn't want to hang out with him because he's different. T'Pol insists they need to be focused on the repairs. She's called away by Archer to find that the particles building on the hull have a dampening field effect, and that at the rate the crew has been proceeding, every system on the ship will fail before the repairs are complete. Act Three Sim soon comes up with a solution to the ship's problem, and, while trying some key lime pie, he runs it by Malcolm Reed in the mess hall. Reed confirms they could re-direct the phase cannons to fire at the launch bay so they can launch the s. Sim also runs the idea by T'Pol later that night and, although risky, she agrees it appears to be the only viable option. It involves a fusion overburn, which has never been attempted by a shuttlepod. Sim turns the conversation to her and Tucker's relationship, confesses his feelings for her, and wondering if they're his or Tucker's. Later, Sim goes to Archer and insists he pilot one of the pods since it is his plan, but the Captain assigns Reed and Travis Mayweather instead. Sim challenges his decision on the basis that he's only concerned about Tucker, but Archer points out (again) that they need Tucker to survive. The plan begins. Sim and T'Pol set the targeting scanners of the cannons and fire, successfully freeing the launch bay. Reed and Mayweather fly out and fire their respective grappling arms. Sim orders their thrust power and they try to pull the Enterprise, but it's not moving. They push their engines a little harder and, just as Archer decides to abort, the ship starts moving. The plan is a success, as their inertia will keep them going, and they'll be out of the field in six hours. Later, Phlox informs the captain of a startling discovery. According to his new predictions, and contrary to his earlier determination, Sim won't survive the transplant because Human DNA is not as resilient. Archer's decision just got a lot more difficult. Act Four Sim is devastated to hear this news, though he does say he only has a few days left, anyway. Archer doesn't see it that way, but then Sim states another complication: experiments by the Velandran Circle on mimetic simbiots claimed to have created an enzyme which could slow Sim's rapid aging and let him live a normal lifespan. Phlox didn't mention it because the enzyme was experimental and there's almost no actual evidence that it works. Also, in the time it would take to create the enzyme Sim's neural tissue would no longer be compatible will Trip. Despite that, Sim is insistent that there's a chance he can live a normal life. The next day, Archer finds Sim in Tucker's quarters, obviously dwelling on Tucker's life. He begins to question why his life is not seen to be as valuable as Trip's. He confronts Archer about the situation, saying he didn't control what happened to Trip, and he, in a way, could be saving him by taking on his life. Archer is insistent that Sim is not Trip, and that he will stop at nothing to complete the mission, which requires Trip. He appeals to the fact that Sim has Tucker's memories, so he knows Archer's resolve. Sim doesn't think Archer will murder, but Archer tells him not to make him a murderer. Sim later has agreed to the procedure, and goes to engineering to help out T'Pol beforehand. She wonders why he wants to spend his last hours of life like that, but gives him something to do. Later, Reed finds out on the bridge that launch bay controls have been tampered with. Archer goes down there to find Sim having planned but then aborted an escape attempt. Sim says that what stopped him was the thought of his sister, insisting on the fact that she was his sister as well as Trip's, and that he doesn't want what happened to her to happen to anyone else. He leaves to go back to his quarters to wait. Just before the surgery, T'Pol comes to Sim's quarters to say her goodbyes, giving him a kiss, something she had never done with Tucker. Sim returned the gesture, showing that he meant something to her, more than just being a clone to save Trip's life. Sim goes to Sick Bay, where Phlox and Archer are waiting. Sim tells Phlox he doesn't just remember Trip's childhood, he remembers his own, and Phlox was a "damn good father." Phlox says Sim was a damn good son. Sim then tells Archer that just as Archer was meant to be a starship captain, he realizes saving Trip's life is what he was meant to do. In his final preparations, he stands near the comatose Trip and says, "You owe me one." Back in the present, at the funeral ceremony, the crew, including a recovered Trip, pay their last respects to Sim as he is placed in a torpedo tube and fired out into space. Memorable quotes "The most difficult test facing any captain, any crew, is the loss of a shipmate. We've come here to honor one of our own. In the time we knew him, he showed us just how much one life can truly matter. We will never forget what he did for us, and for the ship he loved so much. We will go forward with renewed determination to complete this mission, so that his sacrifice won't just have been for the people on this ship, but for all the citizens of Earth." - Captain Archers eulogy for a lost crewman, apparently Trip Tucker "Regarding the Lyssarian procedure Doctor Phlox proposed, may I ask if you've reached a decision?" "I approved it." "Are you aware that the Lyssarian Prime Conclave has banned the creation of simbiots?" "We don't answer to the Lyssarian Prime Conclave." "Simbiots are living, conscious entities. We'll be growing a sentient being for the sole purpose of harvesting tissue." "I'm aware of the ethical implications. If we weren't in the Expanse, maybe my decision would be different. But… we've got to complete this mission. Earth needs Enterprise. Enterprise needs Trip. It's as simple as that." - T'Pol and Captain Archer, discussing the controversial procedure Phlox has proposed in order to revive Tucker "Can he do any tricks?" "I haven't taught him any. Mostly what he does is eat, sleep, and, uh, not fetch." - Young Sim and Archer, discussing Porthos "I'm not talking about an adolescent crush. That was… well, that was two days ago." - Sim, to T'Pol "I have his memories. I have his feelings. I have his body. How am I not Trip?" - Sim, to Archer "I must complete this mission! And to do that I need Trip! Trip! I'll take whatever steps necessary to save him." "Even if it means killing me?" "Even if it means killing you." - Archer and Sim, arguing over his right to survive "I was all ready to do it." "What stopped you?" "Where the hell was I going to go? We're nowhere near any habitable planet. Didn't really want to spend the rest of my life floating around in a shuttlepod, which doesn't even have any toilet facilities. Can you imagine a lousier way to spend your old age – cooped up in that thing, peeing in a bottle? Actually, I can imagine a worse fate." "What would that be?" "Being stuck in there with Malcolm!" - Sim and Archer, with an obvious reference to Tucker's experience as documented in the season one episode, "It's not that I'm scared of dying. It's just that… I can't imagine not being here tomorrow." - Sim, to Archer "Do me a favor when this is over. If Commander Tucker decides to do any more modifications to the engines… tell him to watch his ass!" - Sim, to Archer "I'm sorry I doubted you, Doc." "No need to apologize." "Yes, there is. You see, I don't just remember Trip's childhood. I remember mine. You made a damned good father." "You were a damned good son." - Sim and Phlox "You said to me once that commanding a starship was what you were meant to do. I guess this is what I was meant to do. Good luck, Captain." - Sims last words to Archer "You owe me one!" - Sims last words, to the still comatose Tucker Background information This episode marks the first written contribution of then-new Co-Executive Producer Manny Coto. The final draft script of this episode was archived on . In the final draft script of this installment, Archer replied to Sim hoping that his sister's fate doesn't happen to anyone else by commenting, "That's why we're out here." In the final version of the episode, though, Archer instead says, "That's why I gave the order to create you." Adam Taylor Gordon, who played a younger version of Tucker in , played the version of Sim at age 8 in this episode. John Billingsley named "Similitude" as one of the strongest episodes of the third season. The model Archer played with as a boy in reappears in this episode. This is the first occurrence in the Star Trek universe, chronologically, of a funeral on board a starship. This is also the first chronological mention of a tricorder (in reference to Phlox' medical tricorder) and the only occurrence of that word in the series. Pondering his final moments in a , Sim mentions sharing his agonies with Malcolm Reed which is a reference to Trip's memories from , where he was trapped with Reed in a pod. This episode establishes that NX type shuttlepods do not have any bathroom facilities. Chronologically, this is the first time we witness a photonic torpedo casing being used as a coffin for the deceased in Starfleet funeral proceedings. The practice is essentially repeated, though with a photon torpedo instead, in . In a rare break with continuity, when the shuttlepods are attempting to tow Enterprise out of the particle field, Lieutenant Reed uses kilodynes to measure the amount of force that is being applied. Dynes are part of the legacy centimetre-gram-second system of units (CGS). Except for , where old imperial units such as miles are sometimes used, Star Trek episodes and motion pictures normally apply the International System of Units where force is measured in newtons. It is worth noting that dynes were named by Joseph David Everett, an Englishman, as is Reed. Brannon Braga was delighted with this episode. "Manny just knocked it out of the park," Braga remarked. "He wrote a great script. Connor Trinneer gave a terrific performance. And you know the arc is working because 'Similitude' just wouldn't have worked last year. You needed the context of the Xindi arc to give it its power, to give Archer those tough decisions. Additionally, T'Pol learns that Trip's in love with her, but the real Trip doesn't know that she knows! That set up great dynamics for upcoming episodes." () This episode won an Emmy Award for Velton Ray Bunch's music composition. This outing was popular with fans due to its moral complexity. () The episode was chosen as the #3 fan favorite in an online poll conducted by UPN. It was re-broadcast on in that context. Note: The poll was conducted before the final six episodes of the series had aired. The book Star Trek 101 (p. 260), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, lists this episode as one of the "Ten Essential Episodes" from Star Trek: Enterprise. Interestingly, the shuttlepods would have had no difficulty pulling or pushing Enterprise out of the nebula, as there is no gravity in space when the ship is far enough from any stellar bodies, as seems to be the case here. Inertia would cause Enterprise to retain any momentum imparted by the pods, even incrementally. Links and references Co-Stars Adam Taylor Gordon as Sim-Trip at 8 Shane Sweet as Sim-Trip at 17 Maximillian Orion Kesmodel as Sim-Trip at 4 Uncredited Co-Stars Adam Taylor Gordon as Young Trip (photograph) Breezy or Windy as Porthos Connor Trineer as Sim-Trip (adult) Unknown performers Sim-Trip's funeral attendees Baby Sim-Trip Elizabeth Tucker (young; photograph) References A Night at the Opera; acceleration; antimatter injector; aptitude; ; architecture; armadillo; Bedford; birthmark; bruise; cannula; cerebrum; ; coma; clone; cut; Delphic Expanse; Dennis; Denobulan; diagnostic; diamagnetic field; diaper; DNA; dollhouse; Earth; empirical evidence; engineer; Enriquez; epidermal layer; ethical implications; EV team; feces; ferric ion; fertilizer; field coil; funeral; fusion overburn; garden snake; genetic memory; genetic sequencing; glue; growth cycle; high warp; horse; injector flare; injector port; key lime pie; kilodyne; kilometer per hour; launch bay doors; life cycle; Lyssarian; Lyssarian Desert Larvae; Lyssarian Prime Conclave; magnetism; Martian; Marx Brothers; Massaro; medical tricorder; mimetic simbiot; name; neural nodes; neural tissue; nucleonic particle; Orsic fern; phase cannon; physical age; plasma assembly; plasma rifle; playing cards; REM cycle; roommate; salve; ; Shuttlepod 2; species; Steven; system tap; targeting scanners; temperature; toilet facility; teething stage; ; ; urination; Velandran Circle; viral suppressant; Vulcan; Vulcan neuro-pressure; ; warp drive; Xindi weapon; Zefram Cochrane's statue Deleted references fetching; ocean skimmer; statistics; suspensor coil External links cs:Similitude de:Ebenbild es:Similitude fr:Similitude (épisode) ja:ENT:ライサリア砂漠幼虫 nl:Similitude ENT episodes

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Enterprise history

The name Enterprise has a longstanding history as a ship name, starting some time prior to the 18th century and lasting at least into the 26th century. History Earth was a noted sailing ship of the British Royal Navy. A galleon, she was active sometime between the 16th century and the early 18th century. A frigate named was a noted sailing ship, either of the Royal Navy or of the US Navy. She was active in the late 18th century. () A from the age of the sail, , was used in a 24th century holodeck program. () The was an aircraft carrier that served in World War II. Its successor was the , which was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. (; ) The first space shuttle orbiter was the . Benjamin Sisko kept a desktop model of the Enterprise docked with the International Space Station. (; ) The was an early spacecraft. (; ) was the first warp 5 starship to be launched. The prototype of the , it was launched in 2151 and was decommissioned in 2161. Its relatively short service life can be attributed to the formation of the Federation; its technology was far behind that of some of the founding races, rendering it immediately obsolete. It participated in early first contact missions, the Xindi incident, and several other missions during its illustrious career under Captain Jonathan Archer. () United Federation of Planets The was a starship that served under five captains from 2245 to 2285, including Robert April, Christopher Pike, Will Decker, and in later years Spock. Its most famous commander was Captain James T. Kirk, whose five-year mission aboard the Enterprise became legendary. The ship subsequently had encounters with V'ger and Khan Noonien Singh before being destroyed over Genesis.(; ; ; ; ; ) The was a refit Constitution-class vessel under the command of Captain James T. Kirk. The ship was launched in 2286 and served during the Khitomer Conference prior to its decommissioning in 2293. (; ; ) The was a refit starship launched in 2293. The ship was under the command of Captain John Harriman and was noted for rescuing 47 El-Aurians from the Nexus. () The was an starship that served in the early-to-mid 24th century under the command of Captain Rachel Garrett. The ship's destruction defending a Klingon outpost against four Romulan Warbirds eventually led to closer relations between the Klingon Empire and the Federation. () The was a starship that served under three captains from 2363 to 2371, most famously Jean-Luc Picard, who commanded the ship for the majority of its service. The ship was also briefly captained by William T. Riker and Edward Jellico. The Enterprise-D was the Federation flagship and made first contact with over thirty species. It also participated in the Klingon Civil War and was the first starship to visit another galaxy. (; ) The was a starship launched under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 2372. The ship participated in the Battle of Sector 001, the crew's insurrection against the forced relocation of the Ba'ku, and was badly damaged in the battle against the Reman Warbird Scimitar at the Battle in the Bassen Rift. (; ; ) Alternate timelines and realities In an alternate timeline created when the accidentally traveled to the future rather than being destroyed defending a Klingon outpost, the Federation was at war with the Klingon Empire. The was the first of the Galaxy class warships and its design was geared for combat. It was likely destroyed by the attack of two Klingon Birds of Prey. () In the alternate timeline in which the Sphere-Builders attempted to invade the prime reality in the 26th century, the participated in the historic Battle of Procyon V to drive them out. () In the timeline where an anomaly threatened to destroy life, the Enterprise-D was the personal flagship of Admiral William Riker. It was fitted with a large phaser cannon and a cloaking device. Starfleet had tried to decommission her, but as an admiral, Riker got to choose his own ship. () Alternate reality In the alternate reality created by a temporal incursion by Nero in 2233, the was a starship launched in 2258 as the Federation flagship under the command of Captain . Under the acting command of Cadet , the crew was successful in defending Earth from the Narada. () A year later, the Enterprise was nearly destroyed by the , but was later repaired and refitted to embark on Starfleet's first five-year mission in 2260. () The Enterprise was ultimately destroyed by Krall and his Swarm ships above Altamid in 2263. () The was a starship that was under construction at Starbase Yorktown in 2263 and was launched sometime afterwards following the destruction of the previous starship Enterprise. () Mirror universe The was the flagship of the . It was commanded by Captain Maximilian Forrest and was destroyed by Tholians in 2155 during the operation to capture the . () The was a starship under the commands of and . The crew of this ship was one of the first Terran starships to come into contact with people from the prime universe. () Legacy The legacy of the ships named Enterprise were honored at various places, including: The 602 Club: A painting of . () The captain's ready room aboard : Drawings of the frigate , , , and XCV 330. () In 2259 of the alternate reality, models of the Enterprise (OV-101), USS Enterprise (XCV-330) and Enterprise (NX-01) were displayed on a desk in ' office alongside other iconic air and space craft. () The recreation room aboard the refit : Drawings of the , , OV-101, XCV 330, and the pre-refit NCC-1701. (; The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture) The observation lounge aboard the : Models of CVN-65, NCC-1701, , , and . () The observation lounge aboard the : Models of NCC-1701, NCC-1701-A, NCC-1701-B, NCC-1701-C, NCC-1701-D, and NCC-1701-E. The captain's ready room also contained a model of the NCC-1701-E. (; ) Appendices Background information Key ships in real-world history include: French/British L'Entreprise (unknown – 1707) 320-ton, 24-gun, frigate – The first known Human ship named Enterprise. She was captured by the British and renamed HMS Enterprize in 1705. As of , the Royal Navy has had thirteen more ships named Enterprise/Enterprize, of which ten were commissioned and therefore used the prefix "HMS". American As of 2019, the United States Navy has had eight vessels named Enterprise, of which six were commissioned and used the prefix USS (United States Ship). A ninth ship bearing the name is currently under construction. Continental Navy of the United States USS Enterprise (1775 – 1777) 70-ton sloop – served on Lake Champlain. () Enterprise (1776 – 1777) 25-ton schooner – served in Chesapeake Bay. () US Navy (sail) One of these ships was the inspiration for the holographic sailing ship in Star Trek Generations: USS Enterprise (1799 – 1823) 135-ton schooner – defeated the 14-gun Tripolitan corsair Tripoli in 1801. An 1800 refit upgraded her tonnage to 165, and in 1812 she was rerigged as a brig. () USS Enterprise (1831 – 1844) 194-ton schooner. () Union Army Balloon Corps Enterprise (1861 – 1862) small hydrogen-gas balloon – the first balloon in US military service. US Navy (powered) USS Enterprise (1877 – 1909) 1375-ton barque-rigged screw sloop-of-war. She was the first Enterprise known to use the USS prefix while in actual service. ( and [) Enterprise SP-790 (1917 – 1919) motorboat – non-commissioned, served in the 2nd Naval District during World War I. () USS Enterprise CV-6 (1938 – 1947) 19,800-ton Yorktown-class aircraft carrier – the most-decorated World War II ship in US service. ( and ) USS Enterprise CVN-65 (1961 – 2012) 85,600-ton Enterprise-class aircraft carrier – the first nuclear powered carrier, and the second such powered surface ship. (, , , , , and ) The CVN-65 Enterprise was decommissioned in 2013. CVN-65 was also notably played by the in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). The Navy later announced that the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier CVN-80 would be named Enterprise. Construction began on the USS Enterprise in August 2017; it is scheduled to be delivered and commissioned in 2025. Originally, the was planned to be named Enterprise or America before being designated to honor the late President. Civilian (launched 1933) First production nonrigid airship to bear the name Enterprise, served in an advertising capacity on the east coast of the United States until WWII. Airship registration: N-1A. A second Airship Enterprise served the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in the 1980s. (2014) Virgin Space Ship, the first of the Virgin Galactic fleet. While the US ships above fit the Star Trek timeline, this ship did not. It is in fact named after the Star Trek Enterprise, and space ships in Treks history were much more advanced by this time. It crashed on 31 October 2014. Apocrypha In the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology, the USS Enterprise XCV 330 was stated to be a ship launched in 2123. The short story "Iron and Sacrifice" in the anthology Tales from the Captain's Table, describes the Enterprise-B as still being in service beyond 2315. The Star Trek: The Lost Era novel Well of Souls, notes that the Enterprise-C as being launched in 2332. In the William Shatner novel The Return, shortly after the destruction the of USS Enterprise-D, the was temporarily placed under the joint command of Ambassador Spock, Captain Kirk, and Captain Picard to attack the Borg central node, the equipment responsible for linking the Borg Collective in its group mind. The ship was temporarily renamed USS Enterprise by her regular captain for the duration of the mission, who noted that it was the least he could do for her new commanders. The is featured in Star Trek Online as the new Starfleet flagship and is commanded by an Andorian . Issue #2 of the comic mini-series Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness, set in the alternate reality right before , reveals a previous under the command of that reality's version of was in service for roughly twenty years before being decommissioned a year before the launch of the new one. In the alternate timeline from the DS9 book trilogy Millennium, following the destruction of the USS Enterprise-E, Starfleet launched the , which Thomas Riker described as being like the to the tenth power. The ship was originally commanded by Jean-Luc Picard, but was given over to William T. Riker after Picard's promotion to admiral. Among Riker's crew were Geordi La Forge, Deanna Troi, Tom Paris, and B'Elanna Torres. The Enterprise-F was lost with all hands in a horrific battle that saw the destruction of Earth. This timeline was aborted thanks to the efforts of Benjamin Sisko and the rest of Deep Space 9's crew. Several tie-in novels mention an Andorian starship named the , whose Andorian name translates into English as "Enterprise". The anthology Star Trek: Enterprise Logs tells the stories of various ships, both space and sea, named Enterprise. External link ja:エンタープライズの歴史 History

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Enterprise

Enterprise or Enterprize could refer to: The series (originally just called Enterprise) One of the various vessels named Enterprise (see Enterprise history for more): , the British galleon Enterprise (frigate), the frigate on which Jonathan Archer's drawing was based Enterprise OV-101, the Space Shuttle , Earth's first warp 5 starship Any of the ships bearing the name Any of the mirror universe ships bearing the name The notion of free enterprise The following novels: Pocket Books' tie-in series Star Trek: Enterprise Enterprise: The First Adventure My Brother's Keeper: Enterprise (novel) Star Trek: The Enterprise Logs, a series of comics Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a company bg:Ентърпрайз cs:Enterprise de:Enterprise es:Enterprise fr:Enterprise it:Enterprise ja:エンタープライズ nl:Enterprise pl:Enterprise pt:Enterprise ru:Энтерпрайз sv:Enterprise

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USS Enterprise

There have been a number of vessels named USS Enterprise, and therefore could mean: Ocean going vessels , the 19th century brig , a World War II aircraft carrier , a Cold War nuclear aircraft carrier Space vessels , a pre-Federation Earth starship , a Constitution-class starship , a partial replica of the Constitution-class starship , a balloon resembling the Constitution-class starship , the Enterprise NCC-1701 as it exists in the alternate reality , a Constitution-class refit , the Enterprise NCC-1701-A as it exists in the alternate reality , an Excelsior-class refit , an Ambassador-class starship , a Galaxy-class starship , a Sovereign-class starship , a Universe-class starship and possible Federation starship from the future See also , for other ships named Enterprise cs:USS Enterprise eo:USS Enterprise es:USS Enterprise fr:USS Enterprise it:USS Enterprise pl:USS Enterprise ro:USS Enterprise ru:USS Энтерпрайз

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Federation members

The membership of the United Federation of Planets consisted of worlds and species with shared principles of universal liberty, rights and equality. () At its founding in 2161, the Federation began with four members: Earth, Andoria, and Tellar Prime. () By 2373, the Federation consisted of at least one hundred and fifty member planets, spread over eight thousand light years. () At its peak, the Federation included 350 member worlds. By 3189, as a result of The Burn, there were only 38 known to Federation Headquarters. () After the cause of The Burn was discovered, the Emerald Chain crippled, and a planet made of Dilithium was discovered, the Federation began to rebuild with worlds such as and Ni'Var rejoining the Federation, leading to membership numbering at 60 in 3190. () After the made contact with Species 10-C, additional worlds opened negotiations to join or rejoin. Such as Andoria who began talks and Earth who were ready to rejoin immediately. () Federation planets Founding members The United Federation of Planets was founded in 2161 by the following members: Andoria Homeworld of the Andorians and the Andorian Empire. () By 3190, they had left, but talks to rejoin commenced after the DMA crisis. () Earth Homeworld of the Humans and United Earth; left the Federation following the Burn in 3089. (; ) Voiced intent to rejoin in 3190. () Tellar Prime Homeworld of the Tellarites. () They were the only founding member that never left into the 32nd century. () Homeworld of the Vulcans and the Vulcan High Command. Planet renamed to Ni'Var following Vulcan-Romulan reunification; left the Federation following the Burn in 3089, and rejoined in 3190. (; ; ) Council members The following are members of the Federation who are known to be on the Federation Council. Arcadian homeworld Homeworld of the Arcadians. () Ariolo homeworld Homeworld of the Ariolo. () Bzzit Khaht homeworld Homeworld of the Bzzit Khaht. () Caitian homeworld Homeworld of the Caitians. () Delta IV Homeworld of the Deltans. () Grazerite homeworld Homeworld of the Grazerites. () Kasheeta homeworld Homeworld of the Kasheeta. () Unnamed Federation planet Home to the unnamed alien council members. () Xelatian homeworld Homeworld of the Xelatians. () Zaranite homeworld Homeworld of the Zaranites. (; ; ) Other known members Algolian homeworld Homeworld of the Algolians. () Arbazan homeworld Homeworld of the Arbazan. () Ardana Homeworld of the Ardanans. () Barzan II Homeworld of the Barzan. () Benzar Homeworld of the Benzites. () Betazed Homeworld of the Betazoids. () Bolarus IX Homeworld of the Bolians. (; ) Coridan Homeworld of the Coridanites. () Efrosian homeworld Homeworld of the Efrosians. () Gelrak V Homeworld of the Gelrakians. () Haliian homeworld Homeworld of the Haliians. () Hekaras II Homeworld of the Hekarans. () Kaminar Homeworld of the Kelpiens and the Ba'ul. () Peliar Zel II Homeworld of the Pelians. () Rigel IV Homeworld of the Rigellians. () Risa Homeworld of the Risians. () Homeworld of the Trill. () Unnamed Federation planet Home to the unnamed alien ambassadors. () Unnamed Federation planet Home to the unnamed copper-skinned aliens. () Unnamed Federation planet Home to the unnamed cross-dressing delegates. () Unnamed Federation planet Home to the unnamed female delegates. () Unnamed Federation planet Home to Volis' species. () Unnamed Federation planet Home to the unnamed brown-skinned delegates. () Zakdorn homeworld Homeworld of the Zakdorn. () Zelonite homeworld Homeworld of the Zelonites. () Furthermore, Ithenite, Klingons, and Xindi were mentioned by as part of the Federation in a possible 26th century. () Protectorates Evora homeworld Homeworld of the Evora. () Coppelius (also called Ghulion IV) Homeworld of the Coppelius androids. () Colonies Proposed members These following were in the process of gaining Federation member status as of the year indicated. Angosia III (2366) Homeworld of the Angosians. () Antede III (2365) Homeworld of the Antedians. () Antica (2364) Homeworld of the Anticans. () Bajor (2373) Homeworld of the Bajorans. () Cairn homeworld (2370) Homeworld of the Cairn. () Catulla (2269) Homeworld of the Catullans. () (2268) Homeworld of the Gideon and the Gideon Council. () Kesprytt III (2370) Homeworld of the Kesprytt and the and Prytt governments. () (2364) Homeworld of the Selay. () Uninhabitable Galorndon Core Appendices Related topics Federation colonies Species with representatives in Starfleet Coalition of Planets Background information In , set in 2268, the ambassadors of Federation planets attended the Babel Conference, at that time there were thirty-two ambassadors, suggesting there were at least thirty-two member worlds in the Federation at that time. According to a dossier on the home page of , in the alternate reality, the Federation had one hundred twenty member planets and seven hundred colonies in the 2250s. According to Star Trek: Star Charts (United Federation of Planets IV), in 2378, there were 183 members and 7,128 affiliates. The area of the Federation was eight thousand cubic light years. At the last census, in 2370, there were 985 billion individuals living in the Federation. Aleek-Om was identified as a "Federation historian" in the Star Trek Concordance, possibly based on the script, suggesting might be a member. Bilana III was also identified as a member in the and Star Trek: Star Charts. In Star Trek Onlines Agents of Yesterday expansion pack, Mizar IV was the site of a Federation colony, suggesting that Mizar II is located within Federation space and holds a membership on the Federation Council. introduced the idea of "Federation aligned species", though no examples were given. According to , by 2399 thousands of species depended on the Federation for unity and cohesion. External links de:Liste von Mitgliedswelten der Föderation fr:Membres de la Fédération Lists Cartography Federation

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Beyond the Farthest Star (episode)

Kirk and his crew come across an ancient derelict vessel, but something is still living inside it. (Series premiere) Summary En route to investigate, the suddenly experiences severe hypergravitational effects from Questar M-17's negative star mass. The starship gets pulled towards the remnants of the star, but manages to achieve a standard orbit. The crew discover a huge, damaged pod ship of unknown alien origin. Uhura discovers that this vessel is the source of the radio emissions. Kirk orders Sulu to maneuver the Enterprise alongside the ancient starship, and then he asks Spock for readings on the ship. Spock reports that the temperature is absolute zero and that there is no energy or thermal reading in the ship to support life or send the radio messages. The only thing detected is a magnetic reading that could be normal for the metal used in the ship's construction. To Kirk's questions as to whether the metal or design can be identified, Spock replies negatively, saying both aspects of the craft are unidentified. However, Spock ascertains the ship as having been in the same orbit it currently is in for over 300 million years. Kirk decides to board the impressively designed starship with a landing party consisting of Spock, Scott, and Dr. McCoy, so they strap on their life support belts and beam over. The ship appears to have been built by an insectoid race; hexagonal windows aboard the vessel, however, look precisely like the individual cells in honeycombs of bees. However, the craft's metal, rather than having been cast or rolled, has remarkably been drawn into filaments and spun, which a fascinated Kirk believes is much like a spider spins its web. The metal is also, as Spock points, lighter and stronger than any material currently available to the Federation. The landing party then notices that every pod on the ship has been burst open, apparently from the inside. Although McCoy conjectures the widespread breach of the pods "must have been" some kind of accident, Spock refutes this theory, stating that the systematic nature of the breakage suggests that the vessel's crew themselves broke the pods and essentially destroyed the craft. Kirk contacts the Enterprise and reaches Lieutenant Uhura. Upon him asking, she notifies Kirk that she is no longer receiving the radio signal from the alien ship, the transmission having ceased when the landing party beamed aboard. Kirk then requests she keep a transporter lock on them because he has decided to investigate the inside of the strange spaceship. Spock registers a slight energy reading on his tricorder. He tells Kirk that it seems the ship is receiving the energy being generated by the away team and that the craft is apparently storing up the energy. The whole ship was made for just that purpose. When the Enterprise crew enter the control center of the ship, the door seals behind them and an interference field prevents the landing party's communicators and phasers from operating. The source of this field turns out to be a device attached to the navigational console. Spock describes it as "not part of the normal equipment; it's like something they jury rigged during an emergency." The field's purpose seems to have been to shield the control center from an intruder. Further investigation is interrupted when something begins trying to break through the door of the control center. A log entry begins playing, explaining that the original crew chose to destroy their vessel to avoid carrying a magnetic organism to other worlds. As the door collapses and explosions begin to destroy the control center, the interference field fails and the landing party is beamed back aboard the Enterprise by Kyle. After materializing in the transporter room, they discover that the malevolent lifeform has beamed aboard with them. It takes over control of the ship's systems, using the Enterprises phasers to destroy the insectoid craft. The entity wants to use the Enterprise to take it away from the dead star and takes control of the bridge's automatic defense system. But Spock has placed the navigation console inside a static shield, so the entity cannot steer the ship. However, the entity has taken the crew hostage. Kirk acts as if he is obeying the entity, but actually plans to use the slingshot effect to break the Enterprise out of orbit. The entity, thinking Kirk is going to crash the Enterprise into the star, flees for its life while the ship frees itself from Questar's gravitational pull, leaving the creature to orbit around the star forever, wailing to the crew in terrible, endless loneliness. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2269 Memorable quotes "It's a starship – like nothing I've ever seen. The size of it!" - McCoy, marveling at the ancient alien vessel "Look. Every pod… they've all been burst open." "Aye, from the inside from the looks of them." "Must have been some accident to get almost every pod." "Accidents seldom have such system, Dr. McCoy. I believe we must consider the alternative possibility that the crew of this ship destroyed her... themselves." - Kirk, Scott, McCoy, and Spock "The whole ship is designed to receive and store energy." - Scott "A physiological symptom of latent primal superstition. The fear of primitive people confronting something unknown to them." "Compared to the people who built this ship, we are primitives. Even you, Mr. Spock." - Spock and Kirk "Danger! Danger! The dead star... we are being drawn to it! Rather than carry this malevolent lifeform to other worlds, we have decided to destroy our own ship! There is no other answer! If you understand this message, you are protected only for this moment in this room! This thing, it wants..." - Insectoid captain "Jim, you don't think that's going to help us. Whatever that thing is, it survived a millennia in a dead hulk. All it has to do here is outlast us and just take over." "No. It must be held by the magnetic force of the dead star. And it needs a starship to break free and a crew to man it." "You are correct, Captain James T. Kirk. And I have the starship I've waited for so long, so terribly long!" - McCoy, Kirk, and magnetic organism "You will now remove the static shield from the navigation console, Captain James T. Kirk." "You have shut down life support systems and endangered members of my crew. Restore those systems first!" "All non-essential systems are extinguished. You will obey me." "And if I refuse?" "Obey me!" - Magnetic organism and Kirk – "Stop! You'll hurt him!" "Remove the static shield from the warp drive controls! Do it now!!" "No, captain!" "I'll obey! Let him go!" - Kirk, magnetic organism, and Spock "What are we dealing with, Spock?" "High rank probabilities, Captain. It is a magnetic organism without mass, but capable of symbiotic relationship with a host body; a starship, for instance. It is a form of primal energy, and it can utilize the electronic control systems of a starship like the mind of a man uses the neural control systems of the Human body. It has become the Enterprise, and we are only life-support organisms in its body like the white corpuscles in Human blood. And Captain, the magnetic flux readings are higher. It is growing stronger, building itself. - Kirk and Spock, on the magnetic organism "You will leave this orbit and plot course to galactic coordinates zero-three-six-point-two-three-one!" "That's the heart of the galaxy, captain!" "Plot the course, Mr. Sulu." "Captain, this symbiote can reproduce itself by mitosis and take over every starship we encounter. It can control computer centers... whole planets." "I'm aware of that, Mr. Spock." "Complete repairs! Obey me!" - Magnetic organism, Sulu, Kirk, and Spock "No! Accelerate! Do not destroy the ship! Obey! Obey!! OBEY!!!" - Magnetic organism "Is it gone?" "Affirmative. It fled the ship when it thought we would crash into the dead star." "Don't leave me alone! Please! Please! So lonely...!" - Kirk, Spock, and magnetic organism Background information Title, story, and script This episode's title was inspired by a book of the same name, one of ' lesser-known science fiction novels. (Star Trek Concordance, Citadel ed., p. 78) There is also a similarly named episode of , entitled . This episode was penned by Samuel A. Peeples, who previously wrote the second Star Trek pilot, . He remembered, "[Dorothy Fontana] called and said, 'Gene suggested that since you had done the pilot for the original Star Trek, maybe you'd like to do the pilot for the animated Star Trek.' And that's what I did [....] As far as the inspiration for the story, I don't have the vaguest idea. It seems to me that I was trying to say that it would be interesting if there was a space ship which was actually a living creature. It's alive, but it is used to going from one planet to another." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, pp. 98-99) The first draft of this episode's script was dated . A revised draft of the script was submitted on , though certain pages were revised on 10 May 1973. Cast and audio Lieutenant Kyle reappears from the original series here, though with a mustache, brown hair, and voiced by James Doohan, replacing John Winston. This is the only TAS episode in which Kyle has any dialogue. The dialogue from this episode's script was recorded with the full regular cast in attendance (the first time they had reunited since filming of the original series ended in ). This recording session was at Filmation's studios in Reseda, California, in (on or prior to the fourth of that month), and also included recording of the vocals for and . (; The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., p. 143) Production Gene Roddenberry once related that the medium of animation made it easy to depict a massive starship such as the one featured here. "If we want an exotic space ship fifty miles across," he said, "it's as easy to draw that as it is to do one the size of the Enterprise." According to background artist Robert Kline, though, pleasing Roddenberry with a feasible, unseen design for the insectoid ship herein was the hardest challenge in the creation of Star Trek: The Animated Series and required "literally 100 tries." (Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: The Original Cast Adventures, p. 156) The cutting beam in this episode emanates from an instrument that looks almost exactly like the hand-held spectrum analyzer used by Spock in the TOS episode . Continuity The fact that Lieutenant Kyle is seen to have grown a mustache by this point foreshadows the character sporting a goatee in . This episode marks the first and only use of the "automatic bridge defense system". The device was never seen again in any subsequent series. A number of sources, beginning with the Star Trek Concordance by Bjo Trimble, incorrectly list the stardate of this episode as 5521.3. This episode marks the first on-screen appearance of an entirely non-Human member of Starfleet, though the was stated to have an all-Vulcan crew in the TOS episode . Like the crew abandon a lonely but evil individual who has caused trouble for them. A tactic first attempted . Original airing and reception On 4 June 1973, NBC made the announcement that Star Treks regular cast had reunited to record the script for this installment (as well as the teleplays for an additional two episodes). () At one point during the first week of , this episode was shown at a private NBC screening, at which critic Cecil Smith was overheard remarking, "This is definitely not a kid's program." Smith's positive impression of the episode influenced a review (entitled "Star Trek Bows in Animated Form") that was written by him and was published in the 10 September 1973 edition of the Los Angeles Times. (The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, pp. 19 & iv) Andy Mangels stated, "When excited viewers sat down in front of their television sets on September 8, 1973, they weren't certain what to expect, but they knew one thing: Star Trek was back on the air! [....] It was an auspicious beginning that promised viewers a return to the 'five year mission' they knew and loved." On its initial broadcast in September 1973, this episode faced tough competition. The Monster Times stated it "was completely decimated" in the ratings by other programs airing on the same morning. () Although this episode's original air date was 8 September 1973 (or seven years to the day from the premiere of TOS), its first broadcast in Los Angeles was on 22 December of that year, due to George Takei's run for City Council and "equal time" issues. (Star Trek Concordance, Citadel ed., p. 78) As the first episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series to air, this was also the first episode of the franchise to be broadcast in the 1970s. D.C. Fontana has repeatedly cited this as one of her favorite installments of the animated Star Trek (along with , , and ). ( ) In a video interview for StarTrek.com, Fontana also remarked that she thought this outing "was very good." In the magazine , this episode received a review that Samuel A. Peeples thought was both "absolutely incredible" and "incredibly positive." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 99; issue #124, p. 37) The editors of Trek magazine collectively scored this episode 1 out of 5 stars (a rating that they termed "poor"). (The Best of Trek #1, p. 111) In the unofficial reference book Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga (p. 21), co-writer Mark A. Altman rates this episode 2 out of 4 stars (defined as "mediocre") while fellow co-writer Edward Gross ranks the episode 2 and a half out of 4 stars (defined as "average"). Altman describes the episode as "an unspectacular entry" with an "unremarkable" story and, despite recognizing "some nice touches" (counting the life-support belts among them), he laments a lack of "new" elements in the installment, finding that aliens hijacking the Enterprise has been done too much and that the episode's only innovative aspect is the design of the pod ship. Altman concludes, "It's enough to leave one longing for Sybok and ." Gross agrees that much about the episode has been seen before but also comments, "Samuel Peeples [...] has taken the animated format and attempted to concoct a script whose sheer scale is unlike anything that could have been accomplished in the live-action show back in the 1960s." Gross also describes the alien's loneliness-fearing pleas at the end of the episode to be "a bit touching" but ultimately, considering the entity's other actions, "too little too late." In the unofficial reference book Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek (p. 53), described this as one of the "most notable" installments of the animated Star Trek series (in common with and ). In the "Ultimate Guide" published in , this episode was rated 4 out of 5 Starfleet arrowhead insignia and was regarded as the fourth best installment of the animated Star Trek. The magazine also commented, "The scale and design of the ship perfectly exploits the medium. A classic Kirk bluff to defeat an energy being that takes over the Enterprise is a perfect cap to the episode." Additional information This episode was adapted for a novelization, written by Alan Dean Foster, published in Ballantine Books' Star Trek Log 1 (along with and ). A limited-edition collector's animation cel inspired by this episode was once available from Filmation. (A Trekker's Guide to Collectibles, p. 46) The cel was number "ST-16" and illustrated the Enterprise drifting in between the massive pod ship. A Daren Dochterman illustration of the pod ship is featured in the Ships of the Line'' book (pp. 70-71), a publication that is made up of images from the related calendars. Video and DVD releases UK VHS release (CIC Video): Volume 1, catalog number VHR 2535, As part of the The Animated Series LaserDisc collection As part of the The Animated Series DVD collection As part of the The Animated Series Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as James T. 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Warp drive

Warp drive or warp engine was a technology that allowed space travel at faster-than-light speeds. It worked by generating warp fields to form a subspace bubble that enveloped the starship, distorting the local spacetime continuum and moving the starship at velocities that could greatly exceed the speed of light. These velocities were referred to as warp factors. Warp drive was the most common form of interstellar propulsion used in the Milky Way Galaxy, making interstellar civilization, exploration, and commerce possible. By the 24th century, warp was the primary means of interstellar transport, but scientists from various cultures were pursuing various alternative propulsion methods that were hypothetically faster or more efficient. Etymology In 2063, the term "warp drive" was already used by Zefram Cochrane of his engine on the Phoenix. However, Cochrane used the term "space warp generator" in the monitor displays on his spacecraft (). Even as late as the 2150s, the warp five engine was still officially known as a "gravimetric field displacement manifold" (). Most cultures throughout the Milky Way Galaxy used the term "warp drive" and by the late-23rd century it was the most common term used by the Federation as well (, et al.). In the 2250s the term "hyperdrive" was used by Starfleet () and the Ferengi occasionally used the term "lightspeed drive" (). Finally, there was the term "star drive" which was only used by the Federation and Starfleet in the 2260s. () Space warp was one of the vocabulary words listed on the chart "A Tunnel in the Sky". This chart was seen in the schoolroom aboard Deep Space 9 in 2369. () The process of going to warp was described as a warp jump. (; , et al.) Technology 24th century Federation warp engines were fueled by the reaction of matter (deuterium) and antimatter (antideuterium), mediated through an assembly of dilithium crystals, which were nonreactive with antimatter when subjected to high-frequency electromagnetic fields. This reaction produced a highly energetic plasma, called electro-plasma or warp plasma, which was channeled by plasma conduits through the electro-plasma system (EPS); that system also provided the primary energy supply for the ships other electronic systems. For propulsion the electro-plasma was funneled by plasma injectors into a series of warp field coils, usually located in remote warp nacelles. These coils were composed of verterium cortenide and generated the warp field. Other civilizations used different power sources, such as the Romulans' use of artificial quantum singularities to power their warp drives (), but the basic process was similar. In some vessels, such as the , the nacelles were mounted on variable geometry pylons. () Parts of the system Antimatter containment Antimatter inducer Antimatter relay Deuterium cartridges Deuterium control conduit Electro-plasma Emergency shutdown trips Main stage flux chiller Magnetic interlock Nacelle Bussard collectors Plasma injector Warp coil Nullifier core Pre stage flux chiller Phase inducer Plasma conduit Plasma intercooler Plasma coolant Plasma regulator Power transfer conduit Power transfer grid Space matrix restoration coil Warp field generator Warp plasma conduit Warp core / matter/antimatter reaction assembly Antimatter injector Antiproton injection seal Dilithium crystal chamber dilithium articulation frame dilithium chamber hatch dilithium crystal dilithium regulator Intermix chamber Matter injector/deuterium injector Theta-matrix compositor System types Class 7 warp drive Class 9 warp drive Enhanced warp drive S-2 graf unit Subspace resonator Tetryon plasma warp drive Tricyclic plasma drive Warp five engine Warp three engine Yoyodyne pulse fusion Development Warp drive and other faster-than-light (FTL) propulsion technologies were the linchpin of an interstellar civilization, making trade and exploration across vast interstellar distances viable. Without these technologies, these distances could not be crossed in any reasonable period of time, making interstellar civilization usually limited to a single sector. () To put this in perspective, planets that were years away with impulse speeds could be reached in days with ships equipped with warp drive. () Cultures in the galaxy discovered warp drive at their own pace and rate of development, as most of the cultures had to do. The Vulcans were an interstellar civilization by 9th century BC and had reached the level of warp 7 by 2151. (; ) Klingons had interstellar travel capability around the time of Kahless in the 9th century. They had achieved the capability of warp 6 by 2151. (; ; ; ) Romulans were once considered a group of petty thugs and warp drive was regarded as the key technology that allowed the founding of the Romulan Star Empire. () The Vissians developed warp drive around the 12th century. () The Borg in the Delta Quadrant began to establish their interstellar collective by the 15th century. () In the Alpha Quadrant, the rapid progress of Humanity in the 22nd century led to the wide-scale exploration of the galaxy being one of the basic goals of the United Federation of Planets, founded in 2161. The development of the warp drive was recognized by the United Federation of Planets as the marker of an advanced society. It was only after a people developed warp drive that the Federation made contact, as codified in the Prime Directive. () A warp capable society was deemed technically and psychologically ready to embrace the universe at large. 21st century On Earth, warp drive was initially developed by Zefram Cochrane, in the period following World War III. () The spacecraft credited with discovering the space warp phenomenon was the Bonaventure (C1-21). (, production art) Despite the hardships imposed by the war's aftermath and the lack of advanced materials, Cochrane was able to build a manned warp-capable vessel using a converted Titan II missile. The successful first flight of his ship – the Phoenix – took place on April 5, 2063, and drew the attention of a Vulcan exploratory vessel, leading to the event known as First Contact. () The Bonaventure (10281NCC) then became the first deep-space starship to have warp drive installed. () 22nd century Development of warp technology by humans proceeded slowly over the next eighty years, after the flight of the Phoenix – due, in no small part, to the cautious advice of the Vulcans – and it was not until the 2140s that a warp engine developed by Henry Archer at the Warp Five Complex could exceed warp factor 2. This engine was successfully tested in the second NX prototype by Commanders A.G. Robinson and Jonathan Archer to a speed of warp 2.5, breaking the so-called "warp 2 barrier" in 2143. Eight months later, Duvall achieved warp 3 with the NX Delta. Warp 4 would be first achieved by the [[USS Franklin|Franklin]]. (; ) By the year 2149, warp technology was sufficiently advanced to begin the construction of , a vessel capable of warp 5 and launched in 2151. () Although Enterprise was at first unable to fully realize this potential (maxing out at warp 4.7), the starship finally reached warp 5 on February 9, 2152. () By 2161, Starfleet warp drive technology had achieved the capability to reach warp 7, and these engines were being built into the latest class of Starfleet vessels as the NX class were being decommissioned. () 23rd century Development and improvement of warp drive continued apace, and by the 2240s, Starfleet vessels of the had standard cruising speeds of warp 6 and emergency speeds as high as warp 8 (although under the right conditions, the engines could reach warp 9). These ships took advantage of a major breakthrough in warp technology that took place between 2236 and 2254, the breaking of the so-called "time barrier". () Higher warp factors continued to be reached, mostly through alien intervention, or dangerous malfunction. The was modified by the Kelvans to maintain a speed of warp 11 in 2268. Later that year, the Enterprise accelerated to a speed of warp factor 14.1, after being sabotaged by a Kalandan planetary defense system. At that velocity, however, the ship came within moments of destroying itself. () At around the same time, warp engines were being redesigned to allow standard speeds of warp 8 and above. During the refit of the Constitution-class, the cylindrical-shaped nacelles were replaced with a new flattened design. Engines required precise tuning; imbalanced engines caused a wormhole effect that almost destroyed Enterprise on its first mission after refit.() Warp theory continued to advance with the development of the first transwarp drive engines in the mid-2280s, which would have theoretically allowed greater efficiency and any warp speed to be available for a ship. However, the transwarp experiment of ended in failure, and the technology was abandoned at that time. The Excelsior itself was deemed spaceworthy, retrofitted with conventional warp drive and commissioned as NCC-2000 under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu. (; ; ) 24th century At some point in the 24th century, a new warp factor scale came into use, which placed warp 10 as a theoretical maximum. () By the time the starship was being designed in the 2360s, warp technology had progressed to the point where speeds of warp 9.6 could be sustained for up to twelve hours, although warp 9.2 was considered the "red line." () In 2367, the warp drive on the Galaxy-class starship was managed by the warp propulsion power system. In that year, when Data hijacked the , he issued a command override on this system giving him complete control of the system from the bridge. () The was capable of a top cruising speed of warp 9.975. () The was capable of a sustained cruising speed of warp 9.9. () In 2370, the Hekaran scientist Serova discovered that the use of conventional warp engines caused damage to the fabric of spacetime. The Federation Council imposed a speed limit of warp factor 5 on all Federation vessels in all but extreme emergency cases, such as medical emergencies. () It was not until 2372, that the transwarp threshold was broken by the Federation. Tom Paris of the managed to achieve infinite velocity on the shuttlecraft . However, this form of travel was found to have severe, unanticipated side effects. () ...and beyond In what was originally the future which was observed and altered by Jean-Luc Picard, speeds of at least warp 13 were possible. () Appendices Background information Gene Roddenberry originally intended the Enterprise to become transparent while in warp drive, as depicted in (later reformatted into the two-part "The Menagerie"). The idea was that the ship would be traveling faster than light, which means that light would not reach it, rendering the vessel invisible to the naked eye. However, according to Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity, the speed of light is a constant from any frame of reference; an observer moving at close to "c" would still observe light moving toward him and away from him at "c." External links The Warp Drive: Hyper-Fast Travel Within General Relativity – a paper by Miguel Alcubierre Warp Drive: A New Approach. An exciting new concept in warp drive by Richard Obousy rec.arts.startrek.tech Warp Velocities FAQ – extra information on maximum warp explanations rec.arts.startrek.tech Warp and Subspace FAQ – discussions about warp and subspace Hyperdrive at Wookieepedia, the Star Wars'' Wiki cs:Warp pohon de:Warpantrieb es:Warp fr:Moteur à distorsion ja:ワープ・ドライブ mu:Warp drive nl:Warpaandrijving pl:Warp pt:Motor de dobra sv:Warp Warp

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Carpenter Street (episode)

Archer and T'Pol travel back in time to stop the Xindi-Reptilians in 21st century Detroit. Summary Teaser A Human in Detroit, in 2004, returns home at the end of the day and starts to relax when he receives a phone call. Nervous, he answers and hears someone asking if he's made "his selection," yet. The man confirms and asks if his payment is ready, which is confirmed. The man is warned to be careful with the sedative, since he almost killed his last "selection." The person on the other end of the phone is a Xindi-Reptilian. Act One Later, the man, , follows through with his plan. He picks up a prostitute and, under the pretense of wanting her services, picks her up. She recognizes him as a worker at a blood bank, and he also reveals he remembers her name and blood type. Soon, he stops at the side of the road and sedates her. He brings her into an abandoned factory on Carpenter Street where several other sedated people are lying, apparently kidnapped earlier. He picks up his payment and leaves. In 2153, it's the middle of the night on the as Captain Jonathan Archer goes into the galley to eat. There, Temporal agent appears. Given the Enterprises mission, Archer confronts him immediately on being absent. He responds that there is no record in the 31st century of a conflict between Humans and Xindi, so everything that is happening is the result of temporal incursions. Archer also notes that the Suliban controller from the future had told Archer about the Xindi weapon, to which Daniels says there's no reason to disbelieve it. As for the current conflict, Daniels says it will take time before his people can detect what new events are unfolding in Archer's time. He is therefore here for another reason: three Xindi Reptilians from Archer's century have been detected on 21st century Earth, and Daniels needs Archer's help. He gives Archer a communicator and "temporal tags" he can use to mark anything from their time for Daniels to bring back. He is allowed to bring one person with him, and he chooses T'Pol, who is still skeptical that time travel is possible. Archer tells where they're going and leaves him in charge of Enterprise. The captain and T'Pol walk through the corridors and are instantly transported back in time to Detroit. Act Two Archer and T'Pol start their mission, which requires a bit of knowledge about 21st century technology and customs. Fortunately, they have a device that can interact with various electronics of the time. They then "borrow" a Dodge Ram truck by unlocking it with the device to begin searching to find the Xindi hideout. Later, they "borrow" some money from an ATM using the device in order to re-fuel the truck. They eventually find the factory by the three Xindi biosigns inside. Archer tells T'Pol to set her phase-pistol on kill since stun hasn't seemed to affect the Reptilians much. Meanwhile, Loomis has found another "selection" and goes to the person's apartment with a story of how he was sent to bring the man back to the clinic. The man agrees, and Loomis sedates him and drives him to the factory. While observed discretely by Archer and T'Pol, Loomis enters the factory. Inside, Loomis has no trouble bringing the man to the bed, but sees his payment is missing. His contact, the Xindi, is partially obscured by shadow when he informs Loomis he'll be paid the last payment when he brings the last two blood types by the next day. Loomis wants to wait because there are news reports about people going missing and he is worried about being caught since they can all be connected to the blood bank where he works. The Xindi instead offers him a double reward, and he agrees. Loomis goes back to his apartment to contemplate his increasingly harder task. Archer and T'Pol follow him and, when Archer knocks on the door, Loomis fears the worst and bolts out the window and down the fire escape. Archer pursues, but T'Pol is ready on the ground and uses her Vulcan nerve pinch to subdue him. Act Three Archer interrogates Loomis in his apartment, tied to a chair. Loomis initially denies everything, except making a few extra dollars on stolen drugs from the clinic, and asks for a lawyer. Archer then lets him know he's serious by punching him, and that gets him talking. Loomis thinks the Xindi is a doctor working on an experimental vaccine that he doesn't have approval for. He believes the doctor won't hurt anyone, and, indeed, insists that he just saw the whole group and they're fine. The "doctor" wanted eight people, one of each blood type, and is still missing AB-positive and B-negative. He always stays in the shadows, so Loomis never saw he was an alien. Archer informs him he'll make one last delivery – Archer himself, who has B-negative blood. On the way, Loomis seems very nonchalant about the whole thing, suggesting they stop to get some fast food. Loomis and Archer get hamburgers while T'Pol looks on in disgust. At the warehouse, T'Pol waits in the car while Loomis brings Archer in. Archer pretends to be unconscious as Loomis sets him up and informs him of the Xindi's schedule during the day. Loomis leaves to re-join T'Pol. After she fires her "raygun" into the car door to prove it is real, Loomis then agrees to drive to the next location. Loomis is worried that the doctor will come after him if Archer is caught. He lights a cigarette to calm himself, but, alarmed, she tells him to put it out. Unfortunately, Loomis has a plan, as when T'Pol leaves the car, he reaches for a switchblade knife which was hidden in the seat, keeping it in his pocket. Archer lies still long enough to allow his blood to be taken, then gets up and searches the area. He finds the Xindi around a bio-reactor, which fits the information Rajiin gave them. To prevent spreading whatever the Xindi are making across the city, T'Pol suggests finding the temporal tag, preventing them from going back to the future, rather than destroy the reactor. Archer, from a hiding spot, finds the device on one of them and fires, stunning him. The other two fire back, take a component with the virus from the reactor, and flee. Act Four Archer pursues the two remaining Xindi down an alley. He gives T'Pol their location and she then orders Loomis to drive there. Loomis, however, interprets her orders as their plan failing and, afraid of the consequences he'll find if they fail, Loomis beeps the horn to warn his associates and tries to stab T'Pol. As they struggle inside the car, the Xindi pause and Archer stuns another one of them. T'Pol catches Loomis' arm and stuns him, then joins Archer in the pursuit. The last Xindi finds a ventilation fan on the top of a nearby building and prepares to release the toxin, still able to do a lot of damage even though he can't return to the 22nd century. Archer and T'Pol arrive soon and engage him in a firefight. T'Pol covers Archer as he sneaks up on the Xindi from the other side. He catches the Xindi and asks why they need a second weapon, to which the Xindi says directly they will not allow Humans to destroy them. He turns to make a final lunge toward the container and, despite Archer firing on him, tips it over toward the fan, but Archer catches it. Archer and T'Pol bring the three Xindi and their equipment back to the Enterprises command center using the temporal tags given to them by Daniels. They arrive just at the point of when they left, so they catch Tucker just as he had left them. Leaving Tucker confused, Archer orders Malcolm Reed to store the equipment in Cargo Bay 2 and takes the virus sample for Phlox to examine. Back in 2004, Loomis is arrested by police officers from the Detroit Police Department for abducting the six people. He starts babbling about lizard people and ray guns and they assume he is on drugs. Memorable quotes "We just traveled ninety light years back to Earth?" "And 150 years into the past." "Forgive me if I'm not entirely convinced." "You will be." - T'Pol and Archer, after stepping through the command center door into 21st century Detroit "Have you ever operated a vehicle from this period?" "I can pilot a starship!" - T'Pol and Archer, just before departing in their stolen Dodge Ram "People used to go to jail for this." "We'll return what we don't use." - Archer and T'Pol, after Archer uses 22nd century technology to take money from an ATM "This gonna take long? I don't wanna miss Conan." - Lawrence Strode, to Loomis "You're a veggie. I forgot. Why don't you take a fry? They're probably okay." (T'Pol looks at Loomis' french fries in disgust, then at him) "Have it your way!" - Loomis, to T'Pol "Why would anyone on the street be interested in acquiring methohexital?" - T'Pol, to Loomis, after scanning the drugs and discovering they were sedatives and not recreational drugs "What are you doing?" "I don't know about you honey but I'm a little tense, you know what I mean?" "Extinguish that now!" - T'Pol reacts to Loomis lighting up a cigarette "You two better keep your word." "You've been abducting people for money and you're questioning our honesty?" - Loomis and T'Pol "Those creatures – the lizard people – they're around here somewhere. You gotta find 'em!" "No problem. We'll get right on that." "Be careful. Be careful. They got ray guns." "Yeah, ray guns. Got it." - Loomis and his arresting officer Background information Much consideration went into deciding when this episode would be set. "We talked about a lot of different time periods and felt that contemporary times would be cool" recalled co-creator and Executive Producer Brannon Braga. The writers made their choice of selecting a modern setting because it allowed them to create the character of Loomis as a more relatable character. () The final draft of this episode's script was issued on . The final scene of this episode was scripted to be set during night. However, the setting for the scene is clearly depicted as early morning. John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Anthony Montgomery (Ensign Travis Mayweather), and Linda Park (Ensign Hoshi Sato) do not appear in this episode. Dominic Keating (Lieutenant Malcolm Reed) does not appear on screen, but has several voiceover lines at the end of the episode. This episode does not feature any scenes shot on the bridge, in sickbay, or in engineering. Leland Orser previously played Gai, () Lovok, () and Dejaren. () This was the first episode of any Star Trek series to be rated TV-14 in the United States, due to a small part of the plot involving drugs and prostitution. The idea of characters coming back to the same time period as the real-life filming is similar to , , and . In this instance, "Carpenter Street" was filmed and aired in 2003 and Archer and T'Pol travel back to the then-future year of 2004. According to background production art, this episode takes place mostly in October, 2004. The final draft script simply referred to the 21st century events of the installment as occurring in the Fall of that year. The civilian costume worn by Jolene Blalock was auctioned off in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction. The truck "borrowed" by Archer and T'Pol happens to be the same color and type as the one used by Tom Paris and Tuvok in the episode . Although this episode takes place in Detroit, in reality, most scenes were filmed on the streets of downtown Los Angeles. Notably, the final shot with the police cruisers features hills in the distance; Detroit has no such hills. There is also no Carpenter Street in Detroit (only a Carpenter Avenue). There are many references to the 1978 horror film . The title, and street name, is a reference to Director . Loomis is a reference to Dr. Sam Loomis, played by . Lawrence Strode is a reference to Laurie Strode, played by . Loomis talks about a "Mr. Myers," a reference to the infamous killer . Loomis drives an old station wagon, much like one Myers drives in the film Halloween. T'Pol asking Archer if he is familiar with driving a truck recalls a similar line in , where T'Pol asks Tucker if he knows how to ride a horse. In both instances, the officer doesn't, but assumes that their past experience will be sufficient. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who played Damron in this episode, stated in 2012 to Entertainment Weekly that he only took the role because he needed some money to pay his bills. He recalled the experience of playing a Xindi-Reptilian was not pleasant for him at all, remembering that he had to stick straws in his nose to breathe, was claustrophobic the entire time and that he couldn't eat. He remembered going to his home in tears and claimed he nearly quit acting because of his experience on Enterprise. (Entertainment Weekly, issue #1201, p. 65) In some scenes between Archer and T'Pol which take place in the stolen truck, the rear-view mirror is noticeably missing. This is a common technique when filming television episodes or movies, so the camera and filming crew do not show up in the mirror. After T'Pol refuses to have a french fry from the burger restaurant, Loomis says, "Have it your way," a slogan used in . Brannon Braga was pleased with the way this installment turned out. "It was certainly fun," he said, "to get out off the ship and see reptiles creeping around modern-day Detroit." Braga also found it "fascinating" that the episode's main antagonist, at least in his opinion, is not the Reptilians but the Human Loomis. () When Loomis shows up at Strode's apartment to pick him up, Strode's apartment number is 602. The 602 is the name of the club in Mill Valley talked about in and , and seen on screen in the flashbacks of . The final scene of Loomis babbling about lizard people resembles modern conspiracy theories of alien lizard people taking over Earth. Links and references Guest Stars Leland Orser as Matt Winston as Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Damron Co-Stars Michael Childers as Strode Donna DuPlantier as Prostitute #2 Billy Mayo as Officer #1 Dan Warner as Officer #2 Erin Cummings as Prostitute #1 Uncredited Co-Stars Breezy or Windy as Porthos Jacob Chambers as Xindi-Reptilian guard Eric Mansker as Cop #5 Tom Morga as a Xindi-Reptilian guard Ben Scott as Cop #4 Peter Stader as Cop #3 Unknown actor as Burgerland employee (voice) Stunt Doubles Vince Deadrick, Jr. as stunt double for Scott Bakula Tom Morga as stunt double for Jeffrey Dean Morgan Marty Murray as stunt double for Leland Orser Boni Yanagisawa as stunt double for Jolene Blalock Photo doubles Amy Kate Connolly – photo double for Jolene Blalock Evan English – photo double for Leland Orser Stand-ins David Keith Anderson – stand-in for Billy Mayo Geneviere Anderson – stand-in for Jolene Blalock Jef Ayres – stand-in for Connor Trinneer and Michael Childers Evan English – stand-in for Leland Orser Louis Ortiz – stand-in for Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Tom Morga, and Dan Warner Bobby Pappas – stand-in for Jacob Chambers Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Scott Bakula Cricket Yee – stand-in for Donna DuPlantier References 1970s; 2002; 2004; 2061; 2154; 31st century; AB-positive; ABS; aerospace engineer; American Wrecking Company; animal products; apple juice; athlete; ATM; automobile; B-negative; bacon; beer; Beretta 92; bio-reactor; blood bank; blood donor; blood donor's relative; blood type; Blue Zebra; briefcase; Burgerland; Cadillac Seville; Carpenter Street; cent; cheese; Chevrolet Caprice; clinic; combo; command center; cops; Dearborn Gardens; December; Delphic Expanse; delta band frequency; Detroit; disinfectant; Doberman; Dodge Ram; Double Superbeef; drive-thru; duty roster; Earth; external lighting; fast food; FDB; FDB Card; Fiesta Salad; fire escape; folder; Ford Crown Victoria; Ford Taurus; Ford Thunderbird; fossil fuel; French fries; fuel door; Honda Accord; Honda Civic; Hotbox; Humanoid Figure; gasoline; graffiti; hamburger; Heisler; ; intravenous drip; jail; Jeep Wrangler; ketchup; ; kilogram; kilometer; lawyer; lettuce; lipstick; Little Tokyo mall; map; Mexhohexital; Michigan; milligram; milliliter; Mitchell S.Y.; money; motion-activated security system; ; neutronic power source; news; O-negative; ; Oshare; ; paperwork; parental advisory; parking; parking meter; peephole; penny; phase-pistol; pizza; police officer; Porter Street; pound; prostitution; Rajiin; ray gun; ; rocket scientist; root beer; Sakura Rent-a-Car; sedative; smoking; starboard; Starfleet database; stun; Suliban; supervisor; Sweden; switchblade knife; syringe; taco; temporal beacon; Temporal Cold War; temporal incursion; Temporal Prime Directive; terrorist; telephone; temporal tag; timeline; time travel; time traveler; tire lock; Toyota Corolla; transmission; Tri-City Speedway; Triple Superbeef; Twenty-Fourth Street; United States currency; vaccine; veggie; vehicle; viral agent; Volkswagen Jetta; Vulcan neck pinch; ; wheelchair; "Workin' Man in tha City"; Xindi; Xindi bio-weapon; Xindi-Reptilian; Xindi-Reptilian ray gun; Xindi weapon Unreferenced materials ; Chicago Bears; Detroit Department of Health; Detroit Lions; Detroit Tigers; ; ; epilepsy; First Street; New York Jets; New York Mets; Rhode; , UCLA; West Birch Street External links cs:Carpenter Street de:Carpenter Street (Episode) es:Carpenter Street fr:Carpenter Street (épisode) ja:ENT:デトロイト2004 nl:Carpenter Street ENT episodes

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Cutting beam

A cutting beam was a beam of directed laser energy which was used to perform a cutting function. Borg starships were known to have the ability to generate cutting beams of great , strong enough to slice sections of a starship, or even a planet, open with great precision. In conjunction with the Borg tractor beam, their cutting beams were used to "scoop" pieces of starships or cities for assimilation by Borg drones and collectives. (; ) The Borg used a cutting beam during their attack on the Tarkalean freighter but were attacked by . Later, they also tried to perform the cutting beam on the hull of Enterprise until the ship was able to destroy the assimilated and upgraded transport Arctic One. () The 's saucer section was destroyed by a Borg cutting beam at the Battle of Wolf 359. The was also hit by a cutting beam, suffering severe damage resulting in a warp core breach. During the battle, it was demonstrated that the cutting beam could also disintegrate large portions of enemy vessels rather than simply cutting into them, as occurred with the saucer section of the Melbourne. () See also Core sample Cutter beam Laser Laser cannon Laser drill Laser weapon External link de:Destruktionsstrahl de:Schneidestrahl Borg technology Tools

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2269

Events By starship or station Captain James T. Kirk, Commander Spock, and historian Erickson use the Guardian of Forever to observe Federation and Orion history firsthand. () Dr. Leonard McCoy discovers that Flint, found by the USS Enterprise living on the planet Holberg 917G, has his time as an immortal coming to an end and will soon die, due to his leaving Earth's atmosphere. Although not revealed during his lifetime, as an immortal Flint was known by several historic names including King Solomon, Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Brahms, and interstellar financier Brack. () The Enterprise makes first contact with the Excalbians. () Lieutenant Arex replaces Ensign Pavel Chekov as the USS Enterprises chief navigator as Chekov was assigned further officer training. () The Enterprise re-establishes contact with the Megans of the planet Megas-Tu as the ship is exploring the galactic core. () Lieutenant M'Ress is assigned to be a relief communications officer for Lieutenant Uhura aboard the USS Enterprise. () The USS Enterprise discovers an ancient abandoned insectoid starship in orbit around Questar M-17 and makes first contact with a magnetic organism. () The USS Enterprise uncovers what happened with the Human geneticist Dr. Stavos Keniclius by finding his fifth generation clone living with the Phylosians. () The USS Enterprise uncovers what happened with the Terra 10 colonists, with whom Earth lost contact in the middle of the 21st century, and help their mutated Terratin descendants relocate to a geologically more stable planet than the one they are found on orbiting the star Cepheus. () Other events Harry Mudd swindles the inhabitants of the planet Ilyra VI by trying to sell them the Starfleet Academy. () Memory Alpha's memory core is burned out, and all of its personnel, Federation scholars, researchers, and scientists that are there at the time are killed, when the planetoid is attacked by the "lights of Zetar" beings. () Lieutenant Mira Romaine begins working to restore the memory core of Memory Alpha. () The Federation class J space cruiser is stolen by Doctor Sevrin and his followers. () The Troglyte miners of the planet Ardana start wearing filter masks to block the mental ill effects of mining zenite. () Dr. Sevrin and his followers temporarily hijack the , steal the shuttlecraft Galileo II, and take both into Romulan space so they can get to the planet Eden. () Dr. Sevrin and his follower Adam die on Eden after biting into an acid-saturated fruit. () Tuvok begins taking lessons in kal-toh from a Vulcan master. () Els Renora is born on Bajor. () Keiko Ishikawa's mother is born. () The Mantilles colony in the Pallas 14 system is threatened by the cosmic cloud creature. () The star Beta Niobe supernovas, destroying the planet Sarpeidon. () The asteroid ship Yonada reaches its destination and the Fabrini settle down under the leadership of high priestess Natira. () Notes This is the beginning of the fifth and final year of Captain Kirk's first five-year mission. () Appendices Episodes (in part) (in part) External link de:2269 fr:2269 nl:2269 sv:2269

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Government

A government was a structure for governing a state or other population group. Societies without government were described as anarchy. () A temporary form of government which served as a political transition to the next was called a provisional government. (, et al.) A government with authority over an entire planetary body was a world government. () Governments didn't need to be connected to the populations they governed. They could also function in exile. In 2373, Major Kira Nerys suggested to Tekeny Ghemor that he'd set up a Cardassian government in exile. () In 2024, Chris Brynner commented to Jadzia Dax that, to get government contracts, people had to "look just like the rest of the drones." This precluded large tattoos. () Specific governments The following is a list of governments and political structures. For individual races, see species. Milky Way Galaxy Alpha and Beta Quadrants Major United Federation of Planets Federation Council Starfleet Klingon Empire Klingon High Council Klingon Defense Forces Romulan Star Empire Romulan Senate Cardassian Union Cardassian Central Command Detapa Council Other Acamarian Ruling Council Bajoran Republic Chamber of Ministers Bajoran Militia Barzanian Planetary Republic Breen Confederacy Coalition of Madena Straleb Legation of Unity Elasian Council of Nobles Eminian Union Eminian High Council Ferengi Alliance Ferengi Commerce Authority Ferengi Council First Federation Gorn Hegemony Halkan Council Kzin government Lysian Alliance Lyssarian Prime Conclave Nyberrite Alliance Orion Syndicate Orion Free Traders Parliament of Angel I Sheliak Corporate Tholian Assembly Troyius Tribunal Turkana IV Turkana IV Alliance Turkana IV Coalition Ventax II Atheneum Xindi Council Defunct Bajoran Occupational Government Slaver Empire Tkon Empire Andorian Empire (Part of the Federation since 2161) Andorian Imperial Guard Vulcan High Command (Disbanded in 2154) United Earth Government (Part of the Federation since 2161) Command Council African Confederation European Alliance Eastern Coalition Gamma Quadrant Major Dominion Delta Quadrant Major Borg Collective Other Alsuran Empire Annari Empire Bara Plenum B'omar Sovereignty Central Protectorate Cooperative Devore Imperium Etanian Order Haakonian Order Hierarchy Kazon Order Kazon-Hobii Kazon-Mostral Kazon-Nistrim Kazon-Ogla Kazon-Oglamar Kazon-Pommar Kazon-Relora Krowtonan Guard Krenim Imperium Mokra Order Monean Maritime Sovereignty Motali Empire Qomar Planetary Alliance Vidiian Sodality Andromeda Galaxy Kelvan Empire Mirror Universe Terran Empire Klingon-Cardassian Alliance Other Q Continuum See also Alliance Cultures Diplomacy Hegemony Interstellar history Law Military conflicts Sociology External link de:Regierung und Politik fr:Gouvernements et structures politiques it:Governo ja:政府 nl:Regering en politiek Social sciences

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23rd century

The 23rd century, defined in the calendar of Earth as being from 2201 until 2300, was a period of expansion for the United Federation of Planets, with Humans and other founding species, such as Vulcans, at the forefront of exploration. The Federation's exploration agency Starfleet would make first contact with numerous intelligent species and civilizations, including the Talosians, the First Federation, the Gorn Hegemony. the Metrons, the Horta, and the Excalbians. The long-running conflict with the Klingon Empire, begun in the 22nd century, was a major part of this century's history, as was the rekindling of tensions with the Romulan Star Empire. Of particular note are the voyages of the and the careers of its long-serving command staff under James T. Kirk. Decades Major events Relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire degenerate starting a tense cold war. () The duotronic computer is invented by Doctor Richard Daystrom, becoming the primary computing platform for all Starfleet vessels for the following eighty years. (; ) The Federation starship is launched under the command of Captain Robert April. (; ) The Federation starship launches under the command of Captain Matthew Decker.( commemorative plaque ) The Battle of Donatu V is fought between the Federation and Klingon Empire. () between the Federation and the internally riven Klingon Empire breaks out. () The costly Federation-Klingon war comes to an end and the Klingon Empire is politically stabilized. () Control is defeated and the mystery of the Red Angel is discovered by the crews of the and the USS Enterprise. After the conflict, the crew of Discovery jump 930 years into future. () The El-Aurian homeworld is destroyed by the Borg. () Klingons and Federation sign some kind of peace treaty. () After a century of isolation, the Romulan Star Empire engages in a series of unprovoked attacks on several outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone. During the incident, the first visual contact of the previously unseen Romulans themselves are made, revealing them to be an offshoot of Vulcans. () Federation-Klingon relations improve with the signing of the Treaty of Organia. Together with the Romulan Star Empire the two powers also establish a "colony of galactic peace" on Nimbus III. (; ) The disappears while on the Typhon Expanse. () The detonation of the Genesis Device during the Battle of the Mutara Nebula, results in the formation of the first artificially-created planet. Due to the use of protomatter in the development of the device, however, the planet proves to be unstable and destroys itself soon after. (, ) Earth is again saved from being obliterated by a probe of unknown origin. () Despite the prior assassination of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon, the Khitomer Accords between the Federation and the Klingon Empire are signed at the Khitomer Conference to establish a lasting peace between the two powers. () Alternate reality The is destroyed battling the Narada. () The Narada uses red matter to destroy . The crew of the newly-launched prevents a similar fate befalling Earth. () After a bombing in London, an attack on Starfleet Headquarters, and a massacre on Qo'noS, the terrorist crashes the dreadnought into San Francisco before being arrested by the Enterprise crew and returned to cryogenic sleep. () A fully recovered Kirk gives a stirring speech about the principles of the Federation, and embarks on his historic five-year mission aboard the Enterprise. () After only three years into its five year mission, the Enterprise is destroyed during a battle over the planet Altamid, when it is attacked by Krall and his Swarm ships. The long-lost is discovered intact on Altamid by . () Events without specified years Prime reality Early 23rd century As of sometime between 2226 and 2240, the exists on Cardassia Prime and is known for its serialist poets such as Iloja of Prim, who is ultimately exiled on , however. () Somewhere between 2236 and 2254, the time barrier is broken. () Mid 23rd century A Vulcan science mission discovers a subspace rupture in the Hanoli system. The Vulcans attempt to seal the rupture with a pulse wave torpedo, but instead cause the rupture to expand exponentially. The entire star system, including the Vulcans, is wiped out. () The last diplomatic contact between the and the Prytt Alliance before 2370 takes place on Kesprytt III. () Late 23rd century An attack on Earth by a massive machine lifeform called V'ger is closely averted in the 2270s. () The tribble species is eradicated by the Klingons. () A group of young Ba'ku desires to follow the way of the offlanders. They attempt to take over the Ba'ku planet, but fail and get exiled, thereby becoming the Son'a. () Unspecified Cloaking devices are installed aboard Klingon starships such as the . () On the homeworld of the Haliians, the family of Aquiel Uhnari acquire a house they will live in for the next five generations. () An alternate approach to the transporter, the Elway Theorem, is first tested in this century. Instead of utilizing subspace as the medium for which matter and energy are transported from one location to another, this form of transporting uses dimensions of space. In the end, this approach is rejected as fatal for the subject and being not as nearly as accurate as the transporter. () The Klingon Empire relinquishes its claim to the Archanis sector. () Bajoran musicians known as the Boldaric masters produce music. () The common use of invidium in medical containment fields is ended. () The first small and unstable wormhole is mapped near a T-Tauri system. () On Tagus III, the Taguans seal off the ruins to outsiders. () On Kaelon II, the theories of helium fusion enhancement are first proposed. () An earthquake is registered on Penthara IV. For the next hundred years, the planet is seismically quiet. () The first diagnosis of Iresine Syndrome is made. () The Federation raises the alarm about rising toxicity thinning the atmosphere of Urna. () Sometime after Emperor Philippa Georgiou's departure from the mirror universe, the distance between the prime universe and the mirror universe began expanding. This expansion becomes so great that the last crossing between the two universes takes place in the 27th century, stranding any residents from the mirror universe who stayed in the prime universe, and vice versa. () Mirror universe Late 23rd century to early 24th century: Sometime between 2267 and 2270, Spock becomes commander-in-chief of the Terran Empire and implements several major reforms, turning the Empire into a more peaceful and less aggressive power. Prior to the full enactment of these reforms, the Terran Empire forces occupy . Spock's reforms leave the Empire unprepared to fight against the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. The Alliance conquers the entire Terran Empire, enslaving the Terrans and Vulcans. () Appendices 23rd century productions Except for : (in part) (in part) (alternate 23rd century) (alternate 23rd century) (alternate 23rd century) (in part) (in part) (in part) seasons 1 and 2 Except for and External links bg:23 век cs:23. století de:23. Jahrhundert es:Siglo 23 fr:23ème siècle it:XXIII secolo ja:23世紀 nl:23e eeuw pl:XXIII wiek pt:Século XXIII ru:23 век sv:2200-talet 23 23

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2260s

The 2260s was a significant decade in Federation history. The five-year mission of the Federation starship under Captain Kirk's command (which ended in 2270) occurred in this time period. By 2380, Commander Jack Ransom referred to this decade as "TOS", an initialism for the phrase "Those Old Scientists". () Years Events Prime reality Stardate 1024.7: In the early 2260s, Joran Belar is born on . () The Kolvoord Starburst is banned at Starfleet Academy around this time following an accident in which all five cadets attempting to perform the maneuver are killed. () The future groundskeeper of Starfleet Academy, Boothby, is born in this decade. () Doctors Janet and Theodore Wallace performed experiments using various carbohydrate compounds to slow down the degeneration of plant life at a Federation outpost on Aldebaran III. The two had previously married sometime after 2261, with Mr. Wallace having passed sometime before 2267. () A female empathic metamorph is born on Krios Prime. () Alternate reality Sometime after stardate 2263.02, The is launched. () ru:2260-е de:2260er es:Década del 2260 fr:2260s nl:2260s sv:2260-talet Alternate reality timeline

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Yesteryear (episode)

Spock travels back in time to prevent his own demise during his youth on Vulcan. Summary Spock is transported by the Guardian of Forever to his childhood to save his younger self from dying during a Vulcan adolescence ritual and spawning a new timeline in which he is not the 's first officer. Act one "Captain's log, stardate 5373.4. We are in orbit around the planet of the time vortex, the focus of all the timelines of our galaxy. Our mission is to assist a team of historians in the investigation of Federation history." As Federation historians Aleek-Om and Grey as well as Doctor McCoy record history, while standing outside the Guardian of Forever, the Guardian announces the return of the travelers Kirk, Spock and historian Erickson through its gateway, after a mission to observe the dawn of the civilization. As the travelers begin to appear, one-by-one, Kirk announces to McCoy how exciting it was to observe the birth of a civilization, just as the last traveler, Spock, emerges from the Guardian, much to the surprise of both Grey and McCoy. McCoy inquires who it is they brought back with them. Although Kirk reacts with puzzlement because he believes McCoy obviously knows Spock, McCoy says he doesn't. The crew members beam back to the ship and are greeted by Scotty. He was not expecting a Vulcan among those he transported back, and was anticipating one of the historians instead. Annoyed, Kirk responds that he expects his first officer to be treated with respect, just as an Andorian crew member enters the transporter room, stating that no-one has ever treated him otherwise. Kirk inquires as to who the newcomer is and McCoy then introduces – or rather re-introduces – Commander Thelin, making an attempt to remind Kirk that Thelin has been his first officer aboard the Enterprise for the past five years. Spock and Kirk finally come to the realization that what they have encountered is not a game, and question what is going on. "Captain's log, supplemental. When we were in the time vortex, something appears to have changed the present as we know it. No one aboard recognizes Mr. Spock. The only answer is… that the past was somehow altered." In a staff meeting in the briefing room, Lieutenant Erickson reviews the tricorder logs from their mission, and observes that there is nothing they could have possibly done to change the events of the future. Spock then surmises that the change in the timeline must have happened while they were in Orion's past. The meeting is then interrupted by Bates, who just checked Starfleet records on Spock, as requested by Thelin. Bates reports there is no Vulcan named Spock serving with the Starfleet in any capacity. Thelin then inquires about the results of the Vulcan family history request. Bates displays an image of Sarek of , and notes that he has been an ambassador to seventeen Federation planets in the past thirty years. Spock notes that this information is incorrect and inquires about Sarek's family – his wife and son. Bates then transmits an image of Amanda Grayson, the former wife of Sarek, from whom she separated following the death of their son. Amanda was later killed in a shuttle accident at Lunaport on her way home to Earth. Sarek has not remarried. Spock mourns briefly for his mother, then inquires as to the name of the son that died; it is Spock, aged seven upon his demise. Kirk, Spock, and Thelin return to the surface of the time planet to confer with Aleek-Om and Grey on what happened. Kirk asks if the Guardian was in use while they were away, and Grey informs him that it was used, in only in a limited capacity, to scan recent Vulcan history, twenty to thirty Vulcan years past. Kirk then wonders if there is any notation on the death of Sarek's son, and Aleek-Om confirms that there was, and that he had died during the kahs-wan maturity test. Spock then recalls the date of the event in question, the twentieth day of Tasmeen, noting that it was the day that his cousin Selek saved his life in the desert when he was attacked by a wild animal. Although Spock cannot remember the finer details of the event, he recalls that that was also the only time he had ever met Selek. On a hunch, Kirk asks if Selek looked anything like how Spock now does. Spock confirms what Kirk has been thinking; Spock saved his own life in the original timeline, but was unable to do it a second time because he was in Orion's past when the time vortex replayed Vulcan history, making it impossible for him to be in two places at one time. With the realization of what has transpired, Kirk asks the Guardian if there is any way they can reverse what happened. The Guardian confirms that there is, as long as no other important factor is altered. Spock decides that, in order for him to save the lives of both his mother and himself, he has to return to Vulcan and correct what has been changed. Before his departure, he requests a Vulcan desert soft-suit and boots, as well as a small selection of street wear and carry bag, circa 8877 Vulcan year, from the ship's wardrobe section. Kirk flips open his communicator so it can be done. A brief conversation with Thelin reveals that he bodes no ill will towards Spock's quest, despite the fact that this quest will change the commander's timeline as well. He considers it a reasonable sacrifice in order to save Spock's family. Likewise, Spock wishes Thelin a long and prosperous life, in whatever circumstances the hopefully repaired timeline will put him in. Spock hurriedly enters the Guardian and travels back to his hometown, ShiKahr, in the month of Tasmeen, thirty years in the past, in 2237. Act two "Personal log, stardate 5373.5, subjective time. I have returned to the past in an attempt to restore the future. I am home, and I have almost forgotten its beauty." Spock meets his father, Sarek, as well as his younger self (who is being harassed by three young Vulcan bullies – Sepek, Sofek, and Stark), and assumes the identity of cousin Selek, introducing himself to Sarek in such a manner. "Personal log, stardate 5373.9, subjective time. The timeline seems to have changed again, yet I do not believe I have done anything to disrupt it. My memory is quite clear regarding the date my cousin saved my life and it is tomorrow. The kahs-wan ordeal is an ancient rite of warrior days. When Vulcans turned to logic, they reasoned they must maintain the tests of courage and strength to keep pure logic from making them weak and helpless." Young Spock goes on his kahs-wan a month early, on his own will. His pet sehlat, I-Chaya, follows him into the Vulcan desert, defying young Spock's authority. In the meantime, adult Spock/Selek, about to turn in for the night, suddenly realizes and says aloud, "Of course– I should have remembered! It wasn't the actual kahs-wan ordeal." Upon that realization, he rises again and dresses, following young Spock and I-Chaya into the desert. "Personal log. The boy, Spock, should be moving towards the L-langon Mountains. He – I, had much to prove to myself. The personal ordeal upon which I embarked was meant to determine the course my life would take." In the desert, the pair are attacked by a ferocious le-matya. Adult Spock, who had been following the two into the desert, intervenes and saves young Spock's life, incapacitating the large creature with a Vulcan nerve pinch – but he is too late. For unlike the way adult Spock remembers this episode, I-Chaya is badly injured from the battle and is dying. Act three Young Spock sets out to find a healer in the city. Meanwhile, adult Spock uses a nerve pinch to help ease I-Chaya's pain, telling the creature that he previously undertook the kahs-wan ritual without I-Chaya having to be sacrificed. Although young Spock is successful, I-Chaya is too far gone by the time the healer arrives. The healer gives young Spock the choice to give I-Chaya a longer but painful life, or to release him from his suffering. Spock chooses to release I-Chaya from life, the most logical way, and, in doing so, chooses to follow the Vulcan ways of his father. The timeline is saved and Spock returns from the Guardian as first officer. Before beaming back to the Enterprise, Spock laments the death of I-Chaya to Kirk, admitting that this did not happen the first time around. Kirk, however, cannot understand how a pet could mean so much in the course of time. In the Enterprises transporter room, McCoy is complaining when it is Spock's turn to take a routine physical, and bemoans that he has to recalibrate his medical scanner for a Vulcan every time. Spock tells him that if things were different, he would be recalibrating for an Andorian instead. McCoy asks if this is some sort of joke, reminding Spock that Vulcans don't tell jokes. To this, Spock responds by pointing out to the doctor that "times change." Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2269 Personal log, Spock Memorable quotes "Is it possible for Spock to return to Vulcan and repair the timeline that has been broken so all is the same as before?" "It is possible if no other major factor is changed." - Kirk and The Guardian "What a trip, Bones!" - Kirk, to McCoy after emerging from the Guardian of Forever "In the family, all is silence. No more will be said of it. Live long and prosper, Sarek of Vulcan." - Spock (as Selek) to Sarek "Who are you?" "Oh, I thought sure you'd know Thelin by now, Jim. He's been your first officer for five years." - Kirk and McCoy "You will not disappoint me. Not if your heart and spirit are Vulcan." - Sarek, to young Spock on his upcoming kahs-wan ritual "What you do not yet understand, Spock, is that Vulcans do not lack emotion. It is only that ours is controlled. Logic offers a serenity Humans seldom experience in full. We have emotions, but we deal with them... and do not let them control us." - Spock, to his younger self "Earther! Barbarian! Emotional Earther! You're a Terran, Spock! You could never be a true Vulcan!" "That is not true! My father..." "Your father brought shame to Vulcan. He married a Human! You haven't even mastered a simple Vulcan neck pinch yet, Earther!" - Sepek, Stark, and Spock "What's the matter, Bones?" "Who's he, Jim?" "Whadda you mean, 'Who's he'? You know Mr. Spock." " 'Fraid I don't, Jim." - Kirk and McCoy "One small thing was changed this time. A pet... died." "A pet? Well, that wouldn't mean much in the course of time." "It might, to some." - Spock and Kirk, after Spock returns to the present "Every life comes to an end when time demands it. Loss of life is to be mourned but only if the life was wasted. I-Chaya's was not." - Spock "Doctor McCoy, you do not know your good fortune. If the times were different, you would have to recalibrate for an Andorian." "What's that supposed to mean? If that was supposed to be a joke, Spock, I have to remind you Vulcans don't tell jokes." "Times change, doctor. Times change." - Spock and McCoy Background information Story The writer of "Yesteryear", Dorothy "D.C." Fontana, was a writer and story consultant for , and also served as the story editor and associate producer of . She said, "When I came to the [animated] show, I wanted to do at least one script." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 56) This episode is the only one she wrote for the animated Star Trek. Prior to the writing of this animated episode – with its portrayal of a boyhood Spock – a young version of him had been temporarily considered for inclusion as a regular character in Star Treks animated series, along with other child equivalents of the series' main characters. (The Art of Star Trek, pp. 42 & 43) Dorothy Fontana originally wanted this episode to be a "touch-back" to TOS. She explained, "Yesteryear' resulted from my looking back at the things we had done on the [original] series." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 97) Fontana also realized that she wanted to feature Spock in the story, since he had always been her favorite of the main characters and was the focus of her favorite episodes from the ones she had written for TOS, such as (which this episode ties into) and . (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 56) Dorothy Fontana was excited about the prospect of exploring Spock's formative years, especially the early history of his familial relationships. "We could probe into these characters," she related, "and see the beginning of some of the trouble with Spock and Sarek, Amanda's problems back then and part of what made Spock Spock." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 97) At the time she plotted the installment, one of the questions Fontana asked herself – she having explored the conflicted state of relations between the adult Spock and Sarek in "Journey to Babel" – was, "How had that relationship been before, why did it evolve?" (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 56) This outing is a sequel to the TOS episode . In fact, Dorothy Fontana once explained that this installment stemmed from "remembering the time portal from 'City on the Edge of Forever' [namely, the Guardian of Forever]." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 97) She kept thinking about that time portal. (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 56) Fontana recollected, "I thought we could use [the Guardian] for a legitimate trip, but then have something happen so that Spock has to return to Vulcan to his childhood." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 97) The reuse of the Guardian of Forever from "The City on the Edge of Forever" was not only a tie-in to one of the most popular episodes of TOS but also minimized the need for exposition concerning time travel, which was important since Fontana already intended so much backstory, unrelated to the Guardian, to be in this episode. (TAS DVD text commentary) Indeed, she once referred to the Guardian of Forever as "an ideal way to put Spock back into his childhood, which was the story I wanted to do." Dorothy Fontana pitched the story to Gene Roddenberry, who approved of the pitch. () Inspired by one of his guidelines, Fontana tried to utilize animation in such a way as to show a more expansive portrayal of the planet Vulcan than had previously been possible. She said, "I was mindful of Gene Roddenberry's rule that writers must take advantage of the enormous range animation gave us, in terms of 'sets' and aliens [...] Animation [...] would allow us to show the planet Vulcan any way I saw fit. Although it had been established in 'Amok Time' that most of the planet was desert, I wanted to depict other aspects of Vulcan." (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, issue 11, p. 26) Fontana also mused, "We never really could [show Vulcan] on the [original] series except, in 'Amok Time', we had a ceremonial circle, very small piece. We could show the whole planet of Vulcan, and a lot more of it, in the animation. So, that was one of the reasons I wanted to do the story." Fontana concluded, "I realized that here was a way to tell a really nice Vulcan story in a way that would look good [...] It was an absolutely ideal way to [show Spock's backstory] [...] because of the freedom that the animation allowed us. For instance, we could show a great deal of ShiKahr and the surface of Vulcan, the desert, the city and environment of the home, and the strange creatures that lived there, the Le-matya and [...] the sehlat." () The storyline involving the sehlat was not included in the episode's pitch. Dorothy Fontana noted, "I came up with that angle in the outline." () The concept of Spock having had a pet sehlat in his youth had already been established, however, the creature having been spoken about (though without Spock's particular sehlat being named) in "Journey to Babel". Fontana observed, "You [could now] finally get to see a sehlat, which could only be referred to in 'Journey to Babel'." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 57) Another influence on the sehlat I-Chaya was a cat that Dorothy Fontana owned, which was named Bobby McGee (after that popularized). (TAS DVD text commentary) Shortly after working on the episode, Fontana remarked, "As to who and what I-Chaya would be as a character, I decided he would be closely patterned on my large cat, Bobby McGee. While Bobby is not old and fat, he has the same affection, snuggle-ability, the fastest claws in the West, and complete disregard for orders. 'One word from me, and he does exactly as he pleases.' The statement fits both Bobby and I-Chaya." (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, issue 11, p. 27) The euthanizing of I-Chaya embodied a theme that Dorothy Fontana was eager to teach youngsters about. "I actually wanted to do a story that dealt with death," she admitted. "It just seemed to me that so many times children are not aware of death and then, when a pet dies, the child is devastated by it. The parents find it's difficult to explain the situation. And I wanted to touch on a way to deal with the subject." () Fontana additionally remembered, "[I] felt strongly about dealing with the death of a pet. It was a very serious thing for kids. We were trying to put across a lesson to children, that when it comes time for an animal to die, if he must go, it should be with dignity." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 97) Fearing that children would be "upset" by the depiction of euthanasia, NBC executives wanted the ending of this episode changed, but Dorothy Fontana refused and Gene Roddenberry supported her decision. (The Trek 25th Anniversary Celebration; TAS DVD text commentary, et al.) NBC's concerns were voiced by the network's Standards and Practices department, after the episode's outline was submitted to the network. () Andy Mangels explained, "[The death of Spock's pet sehlat] [...] was something that NBC was absolutely freaked out about. Like, how do you show the death of a pet, a child's pet?! How do you do that and not traumatize your audience?! But remember that Filmation had complete creative control, and [the deciding factor] was, if Gene Roddenberry approved it, the network had to go with it." Years after the incident, Fontana reflected, "Gene said, 'Trust Dorothy, she'll handle it." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 56) NBC thereafter followed Roddenberry's advice, allowing the example of euthanasia to be shown. (TAS DVD text commentary) Noted Fontana, "I really appreciated his confidence in me. So I handled it, I think, in a sensitive way." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 56) However, not a word was directly passed from the network to Fontana herself, who later commented, "There was never any discussion at any time that the story was too adult for a children's audience." Having had past experiences of losing pets of her own, though, she was nevertheless aware of the feelings involved in such a loss and knew she had to handle the issue delicately and sensitively. () The creation of the Vulcan city ShiKahr was influenced by D.C. Fontana considering where the eminent Ambassador Sarek might reside, a question she had pondered years beforehand. "Reasonably, he would maintain his residence in a city, probably the capital," Fontana noted. "Therefore, I created ShiKahr as the foremost city of Vulcan. I had visualized this city before in an early draft of 'Journey to Babel' [...] I still saw the city from the way I had in ." (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, issue 11, p. 26) Additionally, Fontana explained, "I went back to the description from that script and said 'let's do this now.' I wanted to see a city with parkways and trees, with growing things, and with unique spires." According to D.C. Fontana, she intended the name "Vulcan's Forge" literally, due to the dangers existing therein. One of these perils was sucker vines, which were written into the script but could only be shown fleetingly, due to NBC censorship. (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, issue 11, pp. 26-27) Due to the limited time constraints of the narratives in Star Treks animated series, D.C. Fontana found there wasn't enough time for an in-depth exploration of what eventually happened to Thelin. She felt that answering the question of whether he was wiped from existence by Spock's time traveling might have been better addressed if this episode had been longer than half an hour. "This is ethical time traveling because it deals with characters," she observed. "If something is changed in another section of time, it causes a ripple effect, like a pebble thrown in a pond [....] Ideally, it [the story] would have dealt more with the characters. This is truly a Vulcan and a Spock story, so we had to go with it from that perspective." () D.C. Fontana thoroughly enjoyed working on this episode. She enthused, "It was great." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 57) Fontana also felt compelled to tell this episode's tale, saying in retrospect, "It was an opportunity to tell a story that was very dear to my heart." () Script The first draft of this episode's script was submitted on . The final draft of the script, which included a page from that initial draft, was submitted on 20 April 1973, though some pages were revised three days later. The character names of Grey, Erickson, Bates, Stark, Sofek, Sepek, and Aleek-Om are not mentioned on-screen and are derived from the episode's script. Furthermore, the script named Aleek-Om's species as Aurelian. () In addition, the teleplay described the character as "a native of the planet , and he is a bird-like creature of blue-green hue." The first draft script of this episode contained an ultimately omitted scene extension that dealt with the aftermath of McCoy admitting that Spock wasn't familiar to him. In the omitted section, Spock replied, "I am not amused, doctor," to which McCoy answered, "I'm not being funny, mister." Angered, Kirk announced, "All right, Bones, I've had enough of this game," before he called for the Enterprise to beam them up. This scene was changed in the final draft script, replaced with a scene description that instead merely stated, "Kirk eyes McCoy curiously, puzzled," prior to Kirk calling for the beam-up, the wording of which was similarly very slightly different between those two drafts as well as between the final draft and the on-screen version. Another revision was in Kirk's response to Scott voicing surprise at seeing a Vulcan in the beamed-up group. Originally, instead of Kirk ordering Scott to "explain" himself, Kirk declared, "That will be enough, Mr. Scott." He went on to "angrily" say, "I'm ordering you to stop playing games with the dignity of my First Officer. I don't know who started it," at which point Kirk was interrupted by Thelin entering with an assurance to the captain that his dignity was "quite intact". In the final draft of the script, though, this dialogue was changed to Kirk commenting, "I don't know what's going on, but the First Officer of this ship will be treated with respect," at which point Thelin interrupted with an assurance to the captain that nobody had ever treated him otherwise. The first draft script specified that the Andorian character of Thelin was to have blue skin. This detail was retained in the final draft. The first draft script didn't, on the other hand, include Kirk saying to Spock, in reply to him concluding they were not in a game, "No... but if it's reality... what happened?" The same draft of the teleplay also left out a captain's log entry immediately thereafter. However, both portions of dialogue were in the final draft. In the first draft teleplay, a baffled Erickson revealed, during the subsequent briefing scene, that he couldn't find anything that might have "changed any time lines," though this phrasing was replaced (in the final draft) with "affected the future". The first draft script did not have Kirk tell Spock, "But I know who you are, and no one else aboard does. While we were in Orion's past, the time revision that took place here didn't affect me." However, this statement was written into the episode by the time the final draft was submitted. Chekov, described as an ensign, was in the first draft script, rather than Bates. By the time the final draft was issued, Bates had been created, replacing Chekov's role in the story. In the first draft script, a particular close-up of Spock was instructed to be shown but wasn't described. The shot was intended to portray him reacting to news that Sarek and Amanda had separated following the death of their son. In the final draft, a scene description specified, "A reaction on this... tightly held back... but surprises and pain." Also, Spock didn't react to news of Amanda's death by stating, "My mother," in the first draft, though he did say this in the final draft. In the first draft script, Spock described "the twentieth day of Tasmeen" as "the day my cousin saved my life in the desert." In the final draft, he concluded this sentence with "when I was attacked by a wild animal." Also, in both the first draft and the final draft of the teleplay, Spock referred to the name Selek as "a common name in my father's family," though this description is not in the episode. Another piece of dialogue included in both drafts but not the actual installment had Spock saying that none of his family, after they were visited by the Vulcan who had called himself Selek, had ever seen the man again. In the first draft script, Kirk told Spock, "This time, you were in Orion's past with us when Vulcan history was replayed – so you died as a boy." In the final draft, the same statement was refined to become, "This time, you were in Orion's past with us when the historians had the time vortex replay Vulcan history. You couldn't be in two places at once – so you died as a boy." In the first draft teleplay, Kirk asked the Guardian if it was possible for Spock to "repair the time line that has been broken". In the final draft, Kirk concluded this question with the words, "so all is the same as before?" As evidenced by the first draft script, Kirk originally told Spock, "You have to remember – to exist." In the final draft, Kirk instead cited the need for Spock to remember as being "for you... and your mother... to live." In the first draft teleplay, Thelin mused that, in Spock's timeline, he and and his "family" would continue to live. In the final draft, however, Thelin mentioned Spock and his "mother" living, rather than Spock's family. In the first draft script, Spock used the Guardian of Forever by instructing it, "Activate for planet Vulcan." This became, in the final draft, Spock more casually telling the Guardian, "I wish to visit the planet Vulcan." The first draft script didn't contain Spock's personal log at the start of the second act, though the final draft did. Both drafts noted the potentially vicious nature of sehlats. Although the sehlat seen here is commonly referred to as "Eye-chi-ah" in the final version of the episode, the name was phonetically spelled as "EE-chi-ah" in the installment's script, which is how Fontana much preferred the name to be pronounced. (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, issue 11, pp. 27, 29) In both drafts of the script but not in the episode itself, Sarek warned Young Spock that his "schoolwork has been disgraceful" and, in reply to Sarek admonishing the boy for having been "seen fighting in the street", Young Spock answered back, "Personal combat is not dishonorable." To that, Sarek retorted, "Brawling like a common deckhand off a freighter is," advice that Spock finally accepted, responding, "Yes, father." In the episode, this reply of Spock's is in response, instead, to Sarek telling him he has been witnessed quarreling in the street. The first draft script did not include Sarek advising Spock, "The time draws near when you will have to decide whether you will follow Vulcan or human philosophy. Vulcan offers much... no war... no crime... order, logic and control in place of raw emotion and instinct. Once on the path you choose, you cannot turn back." This dialogue was included in the final draft. It is in the actual episode, though, that iteration of the statement changes "emotion" to "emotions". A comment by Amanda Grayson wasn't in the first draft teleplay either. This was when she expresses that she hopes Spock will find his direction in life and goes on to observe, "I respect Vulcan and all its traditions. But it is a demanding life..." Sarek was originally to have told Spock he would not disappoint his father by failing the kahs-wan maturity test, adding, "Not if you are a Vulcan." In the final draft, this became, "Not if your heart and spirit are Vulcan." The script also declared that no moon was to be pictured in the Vulcan sky. (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, number 11, p. 27) Cast and audio The dialogue from this episode that was spoken by Star Trek: The Animated Series regular cast was recorded when all of those cast members were together (the first time they had reunited since filming of TOS ended in January 1969). This recording session was at Filmation's studios in Reseda, California, in June 1973 (on or prior to the fourth of that month), and also included recording of the vocals for and . (; The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., p. 143) Some of the cast's lines from this installment were rerecorded at a later date. (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, number 11, p. 27) With the addition of this episode, Mark Lenard (Sarek) became one of only three actors, besides the regulars, to play the same character on both this series and TOS. The other two were Roger C. Carmel (Harcourt Mudd) and Stanley Adams (Cyrano Jones). Before Mark Lenard was available for the episode, James Doohan was originally set to voice Sarek and actually recorded the character's lines of dialogue, over which Lenard's voice was thereafter looped. () D.C. Fontana was pleased that Mark Lenard was available to voice the role of Sarek. She later remarked, "I was fortunate that [he was]," and went on to say that Lenard reprising the role "added weight to the story." () Although the role of Amanda Grayson was most frequently played by Jane Wyatt (including an appearance in TOS), the character was voiced by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry here. D.C. Fontana explained, "Jane Wyatt was not available to do the voice of Amanda, so Majel Barrett did that characterization, pitching her voice to that of Ms. Wyatt's as closely as possible." () Similarly, even though the Guardian of Forever was originally voiced by Bartell La Rue (in "The City on the Edge of Forever"), James Doohan provided its voice for this episode. Quite unlike LaRue's rich, booming register, Doohan enunciated the Guardian's words in an elderly, quavering tone. This is one of two episodes of the animated Star Trek series that James Doohan provided the most voices for; in both this installment and , seven different characters are voiced by Doohan. According to D.C. Fontana, the practicalities of casting would have meant that trying to produce this as a live-action episode would have been extremely challenging. "It would have been far more difficult to do it live, because we would have had to have a young Spock, a young actor, and that was a difficult role," Fontana observed. "As it was, we managed to get a boy whose voice was quite good, and we were able to pull it off that way." In 1973, a nine-year-old Billy Simpson was selected for the role of Young Spock. He later remembered first learning of the part; "My agent called with an audition at Filmation Studios for a new animated Star Trek show. Having not really been too aware of the original series, I didn't really appreciate how important this role could be!" Simpson did have some awareness of the original Star Trek series, however, and – upon walking into Filmation Studios with his mother – he was surprisingly handed the script. () "I was given a rather extensive stack of sides to study in the waiting room (usually it's just one sample scene from the script) and then was called into a recording studio with director Hal Sutherland in the booth," explained Simpson. "He rolled tape as I recorded all of the isolated lines marked 'Young Spock' and that was it." Simpson further remembered, "I was standing alone in the studio with my script pages on a stand. Sutherland was in the booth behind the glass and would prompt me to read each of my isolated lines [....] It seemed odd that I was reading so much for what was supposed to be merely an audition." () Billy Simpson found the recording session challenging and, even though he was somewhat familiar with TOS, he struggled with emulating the portrayal of the adult Spock, which Hal Sutherland instructed him to do. "The only coaching he gave me," offered Simpson, "was to read the lines in a rather stilted way, as Mr. Spock would [...] I recall being rather uncomfortable at that direction, having difficulty distinguishing stilted 'Spock'-like interpretations from just plain bad acting! Since I wasn't hearing too many of my cue lines, it was difficult to respond naturally [...] I stumbled on the pronunciation of some of the more unusual names." () Billy Simpson experienced difficulty with one particular line. "The preceding line stated something to the effect that it would be impossible to bring the injured I-Chaya to a healer," reflected Simpson. "My line should have had the inflection, 'I will bring a healer HERE,' but instead was 'I will bring a HEALER here.' Having been unaware of the context, that seemed the 'logical' reading." Hal Sutherland liked the audio tape from Billy Simpson's audition to such a degree that he used it for the actual episode. (TAS DVD text commentary) "A day or two later, the agent called with the exciting news that I got the part!" Simpson exclaimed. "When asked when the recording date would be, I was told that I already did it!" No reason for the audition tape's use in the episode was given to the baffled Billy Simpson. () He ultimately felt the "cold reading" quality of the tape was readily apparent from listening to the episode, including audible hesitation on "some of the unusual character names I had to pronounce," and he especially regretted his pronunciation of the line, "I will bring a healer here." The change regarding the pronunciation of I-Chaya from "EE-chi-ah" to "Eye-chi-ah" happened amid the recording of the episode's vocals. Although the series' regular cast consistently said the former (and, according to D.C. Fontana, "proper") version during their recording of the script, Billy Simpson was told that the name was to be pronounced "Eye-chi-ah" and therefore repeatedly did so on his audition tape. D.C. Fontana concluded, "Rather than call him back to re-record at extra expense, the regular cast changed the name in pick-up lines read at the next recording session." (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, issue 11, p. 27) Hal Sutherland's son, Keith Sutherland, provided the voice of one of Young Spock's tormentors – namely, Sepek. (TAS DVD text commentary) The voice of the le-matya was a reuse of Godzilla's roar from Japanese movies. (Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga, p. 272; ) Production As this episode was less action-oriented than a lot of the other animated Star Trek installments, Hal Sutherland experienced some difficulty with the episode's pacing. "I couldn't do anything with the camera or the action on that one," he later disclosed. "The pacing of it was quite different, and I was very surprised. I couldn't reach a stride of some excitement. It was a very emotional story, not an action story. And that was just my impression at the time. You would get all caught up in the momentum of what was happening on the show." For the time vortex planet, Filmation's background artists recreated the planet's look from "The City on the Edge of Forever", painting the planet's backgrounds under the auspices of art director Don Christensen as well as director of color (and background director) Ervin Kaplan. (TAS DVD text commentary) Just as D.C. Fontana had planned, Filmation's artists were able, with expansive background paintings, to create grander vistas for the planet Vulcan than had been doable in TOS. (TAS DVD text commentary) Inspiring and witnessing the creation of the city ShiKahr was thrilling for Fontana. "Remember, up to that point, we'd never seen a Vulcan city of any kind," she pointed out. "I could describe the way it should be laid out, to my mind, and they drew it." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 57) The fact that a long shot of ShiKahr portrays a huge planetoid in the Vulcan sky, despite the script having specified that the planet Vulcan was to have no moon, was a mistake made during production. D.C. Fontana reflected, "Frankly, it was an error on the part of the animation house. The problem lies in the fact that, once past the story board, no one – no artist – ever [referred] to the script or descriptions [....] A preliminary drawing of the long shot included the huge orb in the sky. Both Gene Roddenberry and I noted, 'NO MOON!' on the sketch when it came to us for approval. Someone didn't get the word, and the final print shows that satellite in the Vulcan sky." (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, issue 11, p. 27) Similarly, in contradiction to the episode's script, the Andorian Thelin was given a much paler complexion than those of known Andorians, due to the coloring practices of Filmation (director Hal Sutherland was color-blind); in the animated series, Andorians are sometimes grayish rather than blue, and Orions are commonly pale blue or yellowish instead of green. Evidently, Aleek-Om was another lifeform that was colorized differently than scripted, changing from the "blue-green hue" that is referred to in the teleplay. The episode's depiction of Spock's pet sehlat was influenced by the fact that, in "Journey to Babel", it is described as being akin to "a fat teddy bear" with six-inch fangs. According to the unauthorized reference book Boldly Writing (p. 5), the design of the sehlat I-Chaya was also inspired by a speculative article that was published in the fanzine "Spockanalia 5". Boldly Writing states, "In this piece, the author looks at precedents in nature to see what sort of animal would have six-inch fangs. The author concludes, 'And so our portrait of the sehlat: a carnivore or just possibly tushed omnivore, general shape that of a giant panda, size on the order of an Alaskan brown bear, highly intelligent, and despite the six-inch fangs, of a patient and gentle disposition.... Question: did the sehlat belong to Spock, or was Spock in the care of the sehlat?' The Star Trek production staff read this article, and animators incorporated many of the suggestions into the drawing of the sehlat I-Chaya." Another basis for the animated appearance of the sehlat was an illustration that fantasy and science fiction artist Alicia Austin drew for D.C. Fontana, who remembered, "Alicia Austin came up with several variations on what a sehlat looks like. I chose one of the early ones as a model – with modifications [....] I-Chaya has a different kind of tail, different shape of face, the broken fang." (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, issue 11, p. 27) Fontana purposefully instructed the Filmation artists to break off the creature's tooth, in order to give the animal a more aged appearance. Continuity D.C. Fontana once remarked that, due to her interest in making this installment a "touch-back" to TOS, the episode "does have a lot of references back." Similarly, Billy Simpson said, "In retrospect it fills in several rather significant plot elements from the original series." () One element that Fontana thought importantly linked this episode with Star Trek of the time (such as both the original and animated series) was its depiction of the relationship between Kirk and Spock – for instance, Kirk being the only inhabitant of the alternate timeline who remembers the half-Vulcan officer. "There is a continuity of friendship between Kirk and Spock," opined Fontana, in , "binding this adventure into the total Star Trek concept [....] Without such ties to the original Star Trek concept, 'Yesteryear' would merely have been an interesting adventure that had no real relationship to the overall show – a dramatic diversion, but not consistent with series continuity." (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, issue 11, p. 29) Although Michael and Denise Okuda originally decided that the animated series would not be canonical, they also stipulated that this episode is the only exception, stating their reasoning as "partly because it is reinforced by material in '' [sic] and 'Journey to Babel', but also because of Fontana's pivotal role in developing the background for the Spock character in the original Star Trek series." () It is not only the Okudas who accept the events of this episode to be canonical; many other production staffers also do. (, et al.) Even Gene Roddenberry reportedly regarded the episode as canon. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 37, No. 2, p. 37) Spock's survival in the past required that he travel in time to save himself. Therefore, within the logic of the episode, the "normal" timeline is actually an altered timeline. In a production inconsistency, a low portion of the le-matyas head abruptly disappears during a close-up of the adult Spock's hands around its neck, during the nerve pinch that he uses to down the creature. A similar mistake occurs during the beam-in of Kirk and Spock in one of the Enterprises transporter rooms, near the end of the episode, as they also momentarily disappear, making their transport seem like a riskily stinted process. In another production inconsistency, when the landing party beams up from the Time Planet, they are wearing life-support belts, whereas they were not wearing them on the planet's surface. There are several production errors in the scene in the briefing room. At one point, Thelin's uniform color is blue, not black. Erickson has no identifying logo on his insignia. And Spock's insignia is transposed to his right side. Manny Coto considered this to be a very rare Star Trek outing. Twice referring indirectly to the installment, he opined, "The animated show [...] was one of the few shows to do a whole episode on Vulcan and do a really in-depth show about that." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 37, No. 2, p. 37) Andorians, as well as the characters of Sarek and Amanda, were reused, from "Journey to Babel", here (although Andorians also appear in , and , all three of which are TOS episodes that were produced and are set between this outing and "Journey to Babel"). D.C. Fontana clarified, "There are lots of references [to TOS] in 'Yesteryear', in terms of Spock's parents." () Andorians went on to appear in numerous productions after this one, as did Sarek and Amanda. The "family shrine" that Spock tells Sarek he is on a journey to was meant to be, according to D.C. Fontana, an allusion to the ceremonial grounds in "Amok Time". (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, issue 11, p. 27) D.C. Fontana's concerns over depicting the massive planetoid in Vulcan's sky were due to, in , Spock telling Uhura that "Vulcan has no moon." The theatrical edit of later featured a similar large body, but for the director's cut of that film, it was decided to remove the orb. This is the first of three animated episodes that do not feature any scenes set on the bridge of the . The two subsequent episodes that exclude the location are and . Similarly, this is the first of three episodes in which the character of Arex does not appear, the first of three that do not feature Uhura and the first of two wherein Sulu is absent. The two other installments that exclude Arex are "The Slaver Weapon" and "The Jihad", while Uhura appears in neither nor "The Jihad", and Sulu is additionally absent from . Amanda's maiden name, Grayson, was first established here and later mentioned in . The city of ShiKahr essentially resurfaces on an okudagram in , as it includes the holoprogram title "Shi-Kar Desert Survival, Vulcan," which is also a subtler reference to Spock's kahs-wan. The city is again indirectly mentioned in , in reference to the Shi'Kahr Academy, and later serves as the namesake for the , seen but not mentioned in . A Vulcan city which looks very similar to ShiKahr is shown in new establishing shots used in the remastered version of "Amok Time". An okudagram that features in references the Sepek Academic Scholarship, partly sharing its name with an aforementioned Vulcan child from this episode. The title of "healer," for a Vulcan physician, is referred to for Healer Senva in . Both Lunaport and the kahs-wan are mentioned in . Vulcan's Forge is later referenced in and is the focus of a three-episode ENT arc: , , and . The location reappears in the first installment of that trilogy, but not in the other two episodes. The sehlat, having first appeared in animated form in this episode, was recreated in CGI for and features in "The Forge". Spock's dialogue to his younger self, regarding logic offering "a serenity Humans seldom experience," is revisited by in the film , in which Spock likewise travels through time and meets . The film also depicts, with almost the exact same taunts, the confrontation of young Spock and three Vulcan bullies – though, in that version, Spock's physical response is much more effective. Reception and aftermath On 4 June 1973, NBC made the announcement that Star Treks regular cast had reunited to record the script for this outing (as well as the teleplays for an additional two episodes). () Even though this installment of the animated Star Trek series was the second to air in most of the United States, it was the first to be telecast in Los Angeles. As Sulu actor George Takei was running for a District Councilman post in that area, the broadcast of any episode in which he vocally features was considered unfair by his opponents, who demanded equal airtime. Therefore, this episode was swapped with series pilot ; unlike that installment, this one does not include Takei's vocals. (TAS DVD text commentary, booklet) D.C. Fontana, who did not see this episode until the day of its telecast, believed that fan reaction to the episode was initially negative. Shortly after its first airing, she remarked, "I'm sure when it was announced that my Star Trek animation script 'Yesteryear' was about Spock as a boy and included his sehlat, a lot of fans thought I had sold out to a kiddy show. Now that the episode has been on the air, I hope that notion has been disabused." (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, issue 11, pp. 26-27) Viewer response between the episode's announcement and did not focus on the sehlats death; Fontana never had a conversation, during that time, with fans who spoke to her about the issue. () Also, despite NBC's initial nervousness over how controversial the euthanasia in this episode would prove, the television network never received a single letter of complaint about the story. (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 57, et al.) Decades after the episode's broadcast, Fontana remarked, "We did not get one letter of complaint, so apparently we did it right." Fan reaction did, however, concentrate on the thrill of viewing some of Spock's backstory. Fontana commented, "The response I get most often – and it has been consistent over the years – was that it was the one chance fans got to see Vulcan and had some insight into what made Spock 'Spock'." () In 1974, D.C. Fontana addressed the issue of I-Chaya's demise in an article she wrote, which explained her intentions in writing the episode and defended the importance of the death in the context of the plot. She mused, "I-Chaya's death was absolutely necessary to the story. Part of Spock's training had to do with the facing of responsibilities and realities. One of the greatest weaknesses of children's programming on television, especially animation, is the presentation of total non-reality. Things do die – plants, pets and people. Is there anyone who, as a child, has not suffered the loss of a pet? In deciding that I-Chaya should die with peace and dignity rather than pain and suffering, Young Spock accepted reality and responsibility." (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, issue 11, p. 29) In a interview, Fontana stated about the use of euthanasia here, "It was in the Vulcan way, because the argument for allowing the pet to go was its peace of mind; this was the kind thing to do, the peaceful and logical thing to do." () In a video interview for StarTrek.com, Fontana thanked God that Gene Roddenberry had supported her decision to keep the euthanasia in the episode, saying the reason she was grateful was "because that, I think, was the power of that particular story, to say that it is kinder to let an animal in pain die with dignity than to keep them alive just for your sake. You know, it was a nice message, it was a moral tale." In an interview from , D.C. Fontana related that this episode's story was still "very dear to [her] heart." () In her 2003 video interview, she additionally stated, "I looked at 'Yesteryear' not too long ago and I was amazed, myself, having not seen it for a while and not read my own script for a while, how much story we got into that and how complex the story was." She also cited the episode as one of her favorites from the animated series, despite admitting that her opinion was prejudiced. Fontana again expressed pride in the episode during a 2006 interview. () Also in 2006, Fontana speculated about how this episode would have been as a live-action treatment. "Vulcan could probably have been visualized both with locations and on stages," she reckoned. "But I don't believe there was any way we could, with the technology of the time, have effectively done the sehlat and the Vulcan mountain lion. With the longer story time allowed by a one-hour live action show, I could have done more between [Spock and his parents] [...] and how Young Spock had a difficult time fitting into Vulcan life because of his Human heritage. But the action line would have had to be done differently because of the difficulty of creating the animals believably." () The satisfaction with the decision to show I-Chaya's demise was exemplified by Filmation co-founder Lou Scheimer when he remarked, "A pet's death had never been done on a children's program, and it was touching and provocative. Dorothy [Fontana] was instrumental in making it so creative." Scheimer also judged the depiction of euthanasia to have been "quite effective" and was happy with the installment in general. He went on to say, "Not only did it deal with something that was hardly ever dealt with before on Saturday morning, it was very moving and touching, and much more than just another science fiction story. It was a very Human story. We used alien people and animals to tell a very Human story, which is what Star Trek is all about, and why the animated version succeeded." Due to having found the episode's pacing a challenge, Hal Sutherland felt that he had done an inadequate job on the outing. "And I felt that some of the younger viewers would have difficulty understanding the story," he continued. "It may have seemed somewhat tedious, and less action-packed. But so much for what I know, because it's become one of the most popular of the animated episodes." At least in the opinion of Andy Mangels, this was an historically important episode. "It is the first animated show to show the death of a pet [...] and that's major; for that to happen on a Saturday morning show is seismic!" exclaimed Mangels. "It changed everything for Saturday morning television." Star Trek: The Animated Series received a nomination during the First Annual Emmy Awards for Daytime Programming for the 1973-1974 season in the category of "Outstanding Entertainment Childrens Series," based on the submission of this episode. Andy Mangels noted, "It was the first time that Star Trek had gotten that kind of attention, and it was the very first daytime Emmy Awards." The following year, the TAS episode "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" won the series its only Emmy. Billy Simpson was under the erroneous impression that it was this episode that won the award. About three decades after the actual Emmy win (at a point when Simpson admitted that he found the details surrounding this episode's production were "a bit sketchy"), he recalled what had happened when he had met Hal Sutherland "a couple of years" after the making of this outing; "I recall being approached by Sutherland who proclaimed, 'Billy, do you know you won us an Emmy?!' He was referring to the award won by the animated Star Trek. 'Yesteryear' was the episode submitted for academy consideration." Simpson also observed that, despite regretting some of his vocal work on the episode, the accuracy of his pronunciations "didn't seem to bother the Emmy voters, as I was told that 'Yesteryear' was the episode submitted and it won!" () This episode did obtain a Filmcon Award for D.C. Fontana. David Gerrold cited this as his favorite TAS episode, further commenting, "Brilliant storytelling, and some great background on Spock." J.M. Dillard's reference book Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before (pp. 55-56) describes this installment as both "certainly one of the finest episodes of the animated show," and "the show's finest and most popular episode." Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens have also been highly appreciative of this installment, having found it to be emotionally effective. In their book The Art of Star Trek (pp. 49-43), they refer to it as a "moving episode" and an especially good example of "a few exceptions to the generally lack-luster animated episodes." In the DVD documentary "Drawn to the Final Frontier - The Making of Star Trek: The Animated Series", Judith Reeves-Stevens opines that the episode shows a "pretty poignant glimpse" of Spock's childhood. Another pairing of Star Trek production staffers who have exhibited enthusiasm for this outing are Michael and Denise Okuda. In their text commentary for the episode, they describe it as a "very Human tale," positively comment on its views of both the time vortex planet and Vulcan (describing the former as having "beautifully stylized backgrounds" and the latter as incorporating "imaginative vistas"), and state that it was "fortunate" that NBC complied with Gene Roddenberry's advice to "trust Dorothy." The Okudas' text commentary additionally enthuses, "D.C. Fontana's script proved to be a powerful yet sensitive treatment of a very emotional subject [....] [It] took advantage of animation's strengths to tell a story that would not have been possible for the original live-action show. The result is what many fans consider to be the finest episode of the animated Star Trek series." The Okudas also note that the prevalence of subsequently made productions that reuse elements from this episode reflects the outing's importance for the character of Spock. In their text commentary for "Amok Time", the Okudas refer to this episode as a "memorable visit to Vulcan." Likewise, the Okudas' text commentary for "The Forge" states that "Yesteryear" provided the Star Trek audience's "first tantalizing glimpse of a stylized Vulcan cityscape." The book Star Trek 101 (p. 48), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, cites this installment as "The Best Episode" of Star Trek: The Animated Series. The same publication also raves, "Yesteryear' deals with an interesting science fiction premise and carries the emotional significance found in the best Star Trek live-action episodes." Additionally, the book considers this episode to be either the only or most extreme exception to what it describes as the "flawed" nature of numerous episodes from the animated series. The unofficial reference book The Trek 25th Anniversary Celebration (p. 47), by James Van Hise, cites this episode, due to Mark Lenard reprising the character of Sarek herein, as one of three installments that, collectively, the book regards as "the plus side" of the animated Star Trek series (other such outings being and ). The same book (p. 48) also defines this episode as "one of the few exceptions" to most of the other scripts for the series being "bland and uninteresting." The book goes on to say, "Yesteryear' is the only animated episode which, in its aired form, can be placed alongside some of the better live-action episodes without coming up a distant second [...] Stories dealing with actions deriving from characterization [were] considered too complex for Saturday morning. This is where 'Yesteryear' broke the mold." Similarly, the unauthorized reference book Beyond the Final Frontier (p. 57) enthusiastically refers to the installment as "the undoubted highlight" of the animated series. That book, which was first published in 2003, goes on to say, "[The episode] transcends the limitations of the animation to present a story that's rich, complex and moving, as well as being a fanboy wet dream. Even now, 'Yesteryear' ranks as one of the best Star Trek episodes." In , writer Philip Chien positively commented on this installment in a feature about the animated series, published in . He remarked, "What was particularly special about 'Yesteryear' was that it actually felt and looked like a live Trek episode." In the unofficial reference book Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek (p. 53), described this as one of the "most notable" installments of the animated Star Trek series (in common with and ). The editors of Trek magazine collectively scored this episode 4 out of 5 stars (a rating that they termed "very good"). (The Best of Trek #1, p. 109) rated this episode 5 out of 5 Starfleet arrowhead insignia and named it the best episode of TAS, also featuring Sarek as the "best guest star" of the series. Furthermore, the magazine referred to the installment as "a fabulous coming-of-age story" and stated, "It helped that 'Yesteryear' was not a simple retread of an original episode but had a fresh story with solid character development. [Mark] Lenard's distinctive voice helped this episode into the number one slot by reinforcing its continuity with the original series." In the book Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga (pp. 271 & 272), co-writer Mark A. Altman rates this episode 3 and a half out of 4 stars (defined as "great") while fellow co-writer Edward Gross ranks the episode 4 out of 4 stars (defined as "classic!"). Altman describes the installment as "a superbly moving story," "a compelling Trek adventure," and "one of its most adult offerings" that nevertheless involves "some wonderful wit." He considers both Thalen's introduction and the moralistic plot point about I-Chaya's death to be successful. Altman also passes judgment on the outing as being "the best-acted episode of the animated series," and appreciates Mark Lenard's vocal return to the Sarek role. He criticizes, however, the casting of Majel Barrett-Roddenberry and James Doohan for the voices of Amanda and the Guardian of Forever. Gross regards the outing as "the perfect animated episode" and "the best of the series," additionally saying that the installment has "more resonance than most episodes." He also implies a belief that the episode's animation is the only facet that is less than perfect and bemoans the fact that the outing was not produced in live-action. In , UK magazine SciFiNow (issue 44, p. 026) cited this as the 24th best Star Trek episode. The magazine stated, "Featuring delicate levels of characterisation and exposition that wasn't intrusive, 'Yesteryear' was a fantastic piece of sci-fi writing." In 1974, D.C. Fontana re-used the plot of this installment for an episode of entitled "Elsewhen". This was on the recommendation of David Gerrold who, at the time, was the story editor for Land of the Lost and who later commented, "I actually think the 'Elsewhen' episode has some strength to it that the 'Yesteryear' episode didn't, because it was trapped in the Star Trek universe." According to Michael and Denise Okuda, this episode's portrayal of the planet Vulcan is of such a scale that it could not be equaled by later productions, "even the higher-budgeted Star Trek movies and spin-off TV shows [...] with matte paintings and location filming." (TAS DVD text commentary) By 1974, several people had asked what the orb in Vulcan's sky, in this installment, was and members of the production staff had had to dismiss it as being a sister planet. (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, number 11, p. 27) Following the appearance of the birdlike Aleek-Om in this episode, the same animated design was reused for the character of Tchar in Star Trek: The Animated Series first season finale, "The Jihad". The fact that, in that episode, the character is referred to as a Skorr rather than an Aurelian caused decades of speculative discussions about whether the two species were related. Adaptations This episode was novelized by Alan Dean Foster in Ballantine Books' Star Trek Log 1 (along with and ). Among numerous changes and additions made to this episode, as adapted in that book, are the facts that the name of Spock's pet sehlat is commonly spelled "Ee-chiya," that the natural habitat of the sehlat is "the cool, high forests of the north" and thus makes the animal's thick fur a heavy burden in the open desert, Spock's pronouncement that he can bring a healer to the wounded animal is notated as, "I can bring a HEALER here!" and no Vulcan-neighboring planets or planetoids are mentioned, with the novelization specifically stating, "Vulcan had no moon." This was the second of five Star Trek projects to be adapted into View-Master reels, and was retitled Mr. Spock's Time Trek. There was also a version for use with "talking" View-Masters. Both versions involved 21 pictures. Two animation cels, released by Filmation as part of a collection of cels from the animated Star Trek series, had this episode as its subject. One involved Aleek-Om, Kirk, Spock and McCoy standing near the Guardian of Forever, and showed Spock pointing at Aleek-Om with a hand including six digits. The other cel was of Young Spock riding I-Chaya, ready to battle the le-matya. In the collection, these cels were numbered 5 and 12, respectively. (A Trekker's Guide to Collectibles, p. 46; et al.) Apocrypha The Star Trek: Myriad Universes story "The Chimes at Midnight" goes into greater detail about the alternate timeline in which Spock died, focusing mainly on the differences of the events in the films ranging from to . The same story also states that Thelin is, in fact, half-Aenar, accounting for his particularly pale complexion. Other aspects of this episode have been included in a variety of Star Trek novels. For instance, the phrase "Vulcan's Forge" is not only the name of a desert area on Vulcan but also the title of one particular novel. The planet seen in Vulcan's sky here is named Charis or T'Khut in the novel Spock's World. Video and DVD releases Released on LaserDisc in analog CX encoded audio, catalog number LV60754-6, Re-released by Paramount and Pioneer: UK VHS release (CIC Video): Volume 1, catalog number VHR 2535, Released in Japan on LaserDisc, catalog number PILA-1406, As part of the The Animated Series DVD collection: Region 1: Region 2: Re-release: As part of the The Animated Series Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Also starring Majel Barrett as Grey Amanda Grayson James Doohan as Guardian Voice Montgomery Scott Thelin Erickson Bates Aleek-Om Vulcan healer Guest stars Mark Lenard as Sarek Billy Simpson as young Spock Keith Sutherland as Sepek An unknown voice actor as Stark (uncredited) Background characters Sofek References 2230; 2235; 2237; 2264; 8877; adulthood; age; ambassador; Andorian; animal; annual physical; answer; antidote; apology; area; Aurelians; authority; barbarian; beauty; behavior; body; "Bones"; boots; captain; carry bag; case; charity; child; chit-chat; city; civilization; claw; conclusion; consciousness; courage; cousin; coward; crime; danger; ; day; death; ; desert; desert flyer; dignity; discipline; doctor; Earth; Earther; embarrassment; emotion; family; family history; family line; family shrine; Federation; Federation history; food; foothills; forefather; fountain; friend; god; graciousness; Guardian of Forever; Guardian ruins; healer; healing; heart; history; historian; home; honor; hospitality; Human; Human philosophy; humble; instinct; "in the course of time"; investigation; joke; kahs-wan; L-langon Foothills/L-langon Mountains; le-matya; liar; location; logic; Lunaport; marriage; maturity test; medical scanner; medicine; memory; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; mission; month; mourn; name; "no doubt"; "of course"; "on the part of"; orbit; order; ; Orions; pain; path; peace; perfection; pet; philosophy; physical; place; "point of view"; poison; practical joke; question; reality; regret; remarriage; research; respect; rite; road; Sarek's house; Sasak; schoolmate; screen; search; sehlat''; Selek; sensitivity; separation; serenity; shame; ShiKahr; shuttle accident; silence; spirit; Starfleet; Starfleet records; streets; street wear; sucker vine; survival test; sympathy; ; Tasmeen; tear; Terran; thing; timeline; time period; time plane; time planet; time revision; time vortex; tradition; trait; traveler; vacation; visit; visitor; (planet); Vulcan (species); Vulcan desert soft-suit; Vulcan history; Vulcan neck pinch (neck pinch); Vulcan philosophy; Vulcan salute; Vulcan ship; Vulcan year; Vulcan's Forge; war; wardrobe section; warrior; warrior race; water; weapon; wish; witness; wound Unreferenced materials ; dust demon External links cs:Yesteryear de:Das Zeitportal (TAS) es:Yesteryear fr:Yesteryear (épisode) nl:Yesteryear pl:Yesteryear TAS episodes

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Aleek-Om

Aleek-Om was a Federation historian of Aurelian origin. Aleek-Om participated in historical research expeditions using the Guardian of Forever on the time planet. A mission which Aleek-Om undertook along with Grey, another historian, in 2269 ended up revealing much data on the history of and . () Appendices Background information Aleek-Om was voiced by James Doohan. The same script further described his species name, and also states the following: "Aleek-om is a native of the planet , and he is a bird-like creature of a blue-green hue. He keeps his wings neatly folded along the line of his back and has a pair of short arms ending in a spread of delicately taloned claws. These do not stop him from operating a tricorder efficiently." Apocrypha The novelization of "Yesteryear" (in Star Trek Log 1) gives Aleek-Om's first name as "Loom". In the novels Watching the Clock and Forgotten History, he is depicted as being the Department of Temporal Investigations' senior historian in the early 2380s. According to the latter, he was one of the DTI's consultants at the time of its founding in 2272. External links de:Aleek-Om fr:Aleek-Om ja:アレーク・オム Aurelians Scientists

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Aurelian

The Aurelians were an ornithoid species who have been associated with the Federation since at least the 23rd century. Standing taller than most Humans, Aurelians had six limbs: two arms, two legs, and two wings that allowed them to fly. They were covered by feathers that could be various colors including yellow, orange, brown, gray, and white. Their eyes typically had bright blue sclera, though Aurelians with white sclera also existed, with some possessing pupils and others lacking them. Aurelians typically did not wear clothing. (; ) Aurelians preferred to live in spherical treehouses with a single round door, that were nestled in tree es high above the ground. () In the early 2380s, Aurelians were present on Tulgana IV and Starbase 25. () People Aleek-Om Unnamed Aurelians Appendices See also Aurellian beef stew Appearances Background information Specifically, the script of "Yesteryear" identified them by way Aleek-Om, which according to the stage directions, he was further described as "a native of the planet , and he is a bird-like creature of blue-green hue." In the actual episode, he is instead a golden color. The novelization of "Yesteryear", appearing in Star Trek Log 1, describes the Aurelian Aleek-Om as having an "intricate scroll" – a sign of manhood – tattooed on his beak, "wide, black eyes," as well as a "brilliant gold and blue-green plumage." The Aurelians closely resemble the Skorr, as reused the Aurelian character design for the Skorr as a budget-saving measure. () In the text commentary to "Yesteryear", Aleek-Om is even described as a member of the Skorr. The Aurelian design differs from the Skorr in having a slimmer build, a thinner neck, and longer plumage on the hips. According to Brad Winters, uses a design closer to the original Skorr appearance for the Aurelians because it "looked cooler". He has suggested that the Aurelians and Skorr made peace and began to unify after discovering they were related, and thus some of the Aurelians seen on screen may actually be Skorr or Aurelian-Skorr hybrids. The Ornarans were first referred to as Aurelians in an early draft of . External link de:Aurelianer ja:アウレリアン Species Avians

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Aurelia (planet)

Aurelia was, according to the script of the first season episode , a Federation member planet, and homeworld to the Aurelians. Neither Aurelia nor Aurelians were referred to in the final version of "Yesteryear". According to Star Trek Maps, Aurelia was the second planet in the Xi Herculis system. In The Worlds of the Federation (p. 56), Aurelia was class L, the second planet in the Xi Herculis system. The indigenous name was Meriabii. Aurelia was on the list of member planets in the Star Trek: Star Charts. (United Federation of Planets I) External link de:Aurelia (Planet) ja:アウレリア nl:Aurelia Unused production material

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Thelin

Thelin was a 23rd century Andorian Starfleet officer. In an alternate timeline created by the death of Spock at age of seven, Commander Thelin served as the First Officer aboard the under Captain James T. Kirk from the years 2265 to 2270. Upon learning of the damaged timeline that Kirk and Spock decided to correct, Thelin was supportive. Upon hearing that, Spock wished Thelin a long and prosperous life in whatever circumstances the corrected timeline placed him in. () Appendices Background information Thelin was voiced by James Doohan. His pale complexion, compared to known Andorians, was due to the coloring practices of TAS – Andorians were sometimes grayish, and Orions were pale blue or yellowish instead of green. The script of specified that Thelin was to have blue skin. Apocrypha Perhaps coincidentally, in Star Trek Online, the USS Kirk is commanded by an Andorian named Thelin, who has similarly pale skin. In the Star Trek: Myriad Universes story The Chimes at Midnight, which explores the timeline from , Thelin's appearance is explained as being the result of having an Aenar parent. Thelin's full name is given as , following Andorian naming conventions that were established in the post-finale novels. According to the novel The Fire and the Rose, the prime timeline version of Thelin was the first officer of the USS Ticonderoga. He was killed in an avalanche during a survey of an unexplored planet just one year after his posting. According to the novel The Higher Frontier, Thelin's prime timeline counterpart served in Andorian Sector Headquarters in 2278. Due to licensing restrictions preventing any mention of anything from Star Trek: The Animated Series, the All Our Yesterdays sourcebook changed Thelin's name to Thaalen and also changed the circumstances of Spock's death. External links de:Thelin fr:Thelin Andorians Starfleet sciences personnel USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) personnel

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2264

Events By starship or station In an alternate timeline, Captain James T. Kirk is the commanding officer of the . () In the same timeline, Commander Thelin becomes the first officer of the Enterprise. () The is launched. ( commemorative plaque ) Other events Stardate 38774: Tuvok is born on Vulcanis Lunar colony. () The Omicron colony is established at Omicron Ceti III. () Carter Winston disappears in a meteor storm. His spacecraft crashes on the planet Vendor, where he is saved by an inhabitant of the planet. () Spock visits his parents on for the last time in the next four years. () External link de:2264 fr:2264 nl:2264 sv:2264

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2270

Events By starship or station On the planet Dramia, Commander Demos place Doctor Leonard McCoy under arrest for allowing the outbreak of an auroral plague to develop on Dramia II in 2251. () Captain James T. Kirk invokes Starfleet General Order 6 on the after he and his crew contract the auroral plague. () McCoy finds a cure for the auroral plague, via blood samples of the USS Enterprise crew, which allows Kirk to lift General Order 6. () After the testimony of Kol-Tai, the defense witness for McCoy, it is discovered that the auroral plague was caused by radiation; McCoy is exonerated and lauded as a hero for saving both the lives on Dramia II and his own crewmates. () Orion neutrality comes to an end after an act of piracy. After the freighter is attacked and looted, the USS Enterprise captures the Orion vessel responsible. () After a mild outbreak of choriocytosis aboard the USS Enterprise, the only seriously ill crewmember, Commander Spock, is saved from near death by a shipment of strobolin which was briefly stolen by Orions. () Kirk orders a Federation quarantine of the planet Delta Theta III under Starfleet General Order 1 to maintain the Prime Directive of non-interference in the development of that planet's society and culture. () Near the beginning of this year, James T. Kirk's five-year mission ends. () Kirk is promoted to admiral and becomes Chief of Starfleet Operations. () Spock retires from Starfleet and returns to to undergo Kolinahr. () Leonard McCoy also retires from Starfleet and starts a private medical practice on Earth. () Will Decker is promoted to captain of the USS Enterprise. () Other events Felisa Howard is born. () Appendices Episodes Apocrypha The first TOS missions of Star Trek: Legacy take place in this year, since Kirk notes in his captain's log that it has been two years since the events of , which took place in 2268. The events of the Star Trek novel The Lost Years occur in this year. The Star Trek Online mission "Past Imperfect" takes place during this time. External links es:2270 de:2270 fr:2270 nl:2270 sv:2270

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Distant past

Billions of years ago More than 10 billion years ago [[File:Just 'before' the universe.jpg|thumb|Just "before" the Universe, as seen by Voyagers crew]] The universe is formed in one or multiple expansion phases that scientists called "Big Bang(s)". Federation cosmologists still debate in the 24th century on the datation of the universe and the causes of its birth. () The bir-th of the Universe represents a hideout for members of the Q Continuum. The was briefly transported here by Quinn in order to escape Q, but he too had once used this hideout and was thus able to find the ship. () 9 billion years ago Hundreds of protostars collapsed in close proximity to one another forming the astronomical phenomenon later known as a black cluster. () 5 billion years ago The star Sol begins to form out of nebular dust and interstellar gases. () is born. () 4.5 billion years ago The Guardian of Forever was asked its last question until 2267. () The ancient humanoids, one of the oldest known sentient species, seeded the oceans of many worlds with DNA codes, directing the evolution of life towards a physical pattern similar to their own. The varieties of lifeforms that carried this seed code to fruition include the Humans, Vulcans, Klingons, and Cardassians, and likely many other humanoid species of the galaxy. () 4 billion years ago Q and the female Q begin their romantic involvement around this time. () The planet Pollux IV forms in the Beta Geminorum system. () 3.5 billion years ago On Earth, in a region later known as France, amino acids combine to form the first proteins. In an alternate timeline, an anti-time eruption prevents the formation of life, fulfilling Q's verdict for Humanity. () 2 billion years ago Civilization on Tagus III exists as of this time. () 1 billion years ago The Slaver Empire is the master of all intelligent beings in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Slavers and all of their subjects are exterminated in a massive war which caused all intelligent life to re-evolve. () Millions of years ago 400 million years ago In the Devonian period, Eryops, the last common ancestor of cold-blooded and warm-blooded organisms, lives on Earth. () 300 million years ago An alien ship of an insectoid race is invaded by a magnetic organism. Trapped in orbit of Questar M-17, the crew destroys their own ship to prevent it being carried to other worlds. () 87 million years ago The D'Arsay civilization launches the archive of their culture. () 65 million years ago A mass extinction occurs at the end of the Cretaceous period on Earth when a comet impacts the planet, wiping out the dominant reptile superorder, the dinosaurs, among others. (; ) According to the Distant Origin Theory, some of Earth's dinosaurs belonging to the hadrosaur genus survive the mass extinction. Although the dominant reptile superorder was almost wiped out, these surviving dinosaurs continue to develop, likely on a secluded, later destroyed landmass. Sometime thereafter, they possibly become one of the first interstellar species in the galaxy when they leave Earth and travel to the Delta Quadrant, laying the foundation for the Voth civilization. () 50 million years ago An amphibous lifeform goes extinct. () 20 million years ago Now considering themselves a race indigenous to the Delta Quadrant, the recorded history and identity of the Voth dates back to around this time. () 10 million years ago The humpback whale evolves on Earth. () 1 million years ago On Earth, the ancestors of Humans begin to distinguish themselves from their primate ancestors by their intelligence and reasoning skills. () Construction of the vast city around the Guardian of Forever, stretching out to the horizon of its' planet. () Indeterminate The inhabitants of Organia evolve to beings of pure energy. () Pliocene epoch on Earth. () Hundreds of thousands of years ago 600,000 years ago The Tkon Empire collapses. () The humanoid ancestors of Arretans colonize the galaxy. Their colonists may have caused, or influenced, the rise of intelligent life on . () 500,000 years ago Arretan is destroyed in a massive civil war when the atmosphere is ripped from their planet. Only a few survivors escape by preserving their consciousnesses in a cave deep below the surface. () Bajoran civilization begins to flourish. The ancient Bajorans are renowned for their accomplishments in science, mathematics, philosophy, and the arts long before Humans learn to speak or make tools. () The planet Exo III becomes uninhabitable after its sun begins to go dark. The inhabitants resettle beneath the surface and construct androids to serve them. () 200,000 years ago The Iconians, a highly developed civilization, are presumed destroyed in an orbital bombardment of their homeworld. (; ) The large bioplasmic organism, later dubbed the "telepathic pitcher plant", is born in the Delta Quadrant. () The Eightfold Stars, an octonary star system, is created around the planet Aia. () 100,000 years ago The subspace network which will be later claimed by the Hirogen is constructed. () The ocean planet, later home of the Monean civilization, is created by extracting all water from a class M planet and containing it inside an immense force field. () In Africa on Earth, the :/Xam Abathwa tribe gathers to share a story about a girl who created the milky way. In one later told version of the story, the girl belonged to a group of primitive farmers afraid of the night, until the girl encounted an alien. (; ) Indeterminate The population of Talos IV is largely wiped out in a war. Forced to live beneath the surface, the Talosians develop their mental powers, while neglecting their technological knowledge and skills. () A -shaped lifeform that died in the mid-23rd century dates back to this era. It records everything it sees and experiences starting around this time as well, including data on countless civilizations () According to Guinan, the Borg began their evolution into cybernetic beings thousand of centuries before the 2360s. () Tens of thousands of years ago 50,000 years ago Circa 48,000 BC The Horta of Janus VI begin their latest cycle of rebirth. () Bele begins to chase Lokai, who has led a revolution on the planet of Cheron. () 45,000 years ago Circa 43,000 BC Extraterrestrial visitors, known as the "Sky Spirits", visit a people on Earth who become the indigenous inhabitants of America. () 30,000 years ago Circa 28,000 BC The Verathan civilization, originally from the Verath system in the Gamma Quadrant, reaches its height, spanning two dozen star systems. () An ancient city is built on Bajor with walls and a stone tablet. Trapped inside the tablet are two antagonistic non-corporeal lifeforms, a Pah-wraith and a Prophet. () 28,000 years ago On Earth, the Neanderthals become extinct. () 25,000 years ago Circa 23,000 BC The stone tablet city in Bajor is abandoned, sediments bury the ruins, and eventually the ancient city of B'hala is built on top. () 22,000 years ago Circa 20,000 BC The first of at least 947 archaeological expeditions is conducted at the ancient ruins on Tagus III. () 20,000 years ago Circa 18,000 BC The Bajoran Holy City of B'hala is lost to history. () The Bajorans begin celebrating the Bajoran Gratitude Festival. () 12,000 years ago Circa 10,000 BC An artisan known only as the Master of Tarquin Hill on Kurl, during the , creates small ceramic figurines, called naiskos, that embody that culture's belief that within each person is a community of individuals, each with its own desires, views, and voices. () 10,000 years ago Circa 8,000 BC''' The machine-god Vaal is built on Gamma Trianguli VI. () The civilization on Sigma Draconis VI, by this point at its technological peak, advanced well beyond 23rd century Federation capabilities, experiences a catastrophic glacial age. As a result, the inhabitants of the planet begin to de-evolve to a primitive level, and the male and female inhabitants experience a great schism in their society. () When their sun is about to go nova, the Fabrini leave their system on a propelled asteroid known as Yonada. () A species of intelligent spacefaring organisms which form symbiotic relationships with humanoid lifeforms that live within their bodies becomes nearly extinct. Gomtuu is the last known survivor. () The first of the Orbs is discovered by the Bajorans in the sky above their planet. Over the next ten millennia, a total of nine of these extraordinary objects are discovered, inspiring revelations that shape Bajoran religion. () According to Quinn, this is the last time that "ordinary" Q in the Q Continuum have to speak with each other. () Bajoran archaeologists begin their unsuccessful search for the lost city of B'hala, which is not uncovered until the year 2373. () A path on a Delta Quadrant planet was said to be cut out by unknown spacefarers. The path endured into the 24th century, when it was used by Mikhal Travelers who had an outpost on the planet. () Indeterminate The Custodian is built by the Progenitors on the planet Aldea. () Thousands of years ago 9,000 years ago circa 6600 BC The Zakdorn earn a reputation as brilliant strategists. () 6,000 years ago circa 4000 BC Unknown aliens remove several Humans from Earth to be eugenically bred on a distant planet, lest Humanity destroy itself in its early technological age. Gary Seven, Agent 201 and Agent 347 will be among their descendants. () 3834 BC Akharin is born in Mesopotamia on Earth. A soldier felled in battle, he soon realizes that no injury can kill him. He goes on through many aliases, becoming the immortal known as Flint. () circa 3700 BC Landru of Beta III preaches peace and coexistence among his people, ending a period of savagery. He creates a powerful computer to guide and protect his people after his death. () 5,000 years ago circa 2700 BC Earth is visited by aliens who settle in the region near Greece and the Mediterranean, where they are worshiped by the Greeks as gods. () Sarpeidon experiences an ice age. Zarabeth is later exiled to this time period, and Spock and Leonard McCoy are briefly stranded here as well. () By this time, Vulcans are still barbaric, war-like and "nearly killing themselves off with their own passions". () A battle warm-up is developed, that according to legend, "makes the heart a friend to the hand." () circa 2500 BC Vulcans begin to mentally train themselves to suppress their emotions. () Humans develop currency. () 4,000 years ago circa 1800 BC The Xindi-Avians build a concealed fortress on a planet that will one day become the home of the Xindi Council. () circa 1735 BC According to Spock, this is when Humans begin to glorify organized violence. () Humans on Earth begin the tradition of confining law-breakers to prisons. () 3,000 – 2,000 years ago circa 850 BC The Vulcan monastery on P'Jem is built. () circa 630 BC The Bajoran prophet Trakor first encounters the Orb of Prophecy and Change, and writes a series of prophecies concerning the Emissary of the Prophets. () circa 525 BC Aeschylus is born in Greece. () 5th to 3rd century BC Survivors from the Sahndara system supernova arrive on Earth. Their sojourn coincides with the time of the philosophers Socrates and Plato. "After the death of the Greek civilization they idolized" they move on to the planet Platonius. () 280 BC The Lighthouse of Alexandria is built under Ptolemy II. () 120 BC Hipparchus dies. () 44 BC Parmen is born on Platonius. () circa 40s BC The records data on Kaminar, indicating that a significant portion of Kelpiens have passed Vahar'ai to reach a more evolved state. () 32 BC Philana, future wife of Parmen, is born on Platonius. () 3 BC Philana, now 30, stops aging. () Indeterminate Kalandan constructed an artificial planet. During its construction, a deadly disease organism was accidentally created, killing all the outpost's inhabitants. Supply ships servicing the outpost inadvertently transported the disease back to the Kalandan homeworld, which presumably led to the extinction of their species. Before her death, Losira enabled the outpost's automated defenses to protect it until the day when more Kalandans would arrive to secure it. () The people of Megas-Tu leave their dimension in search of companionship which they find initially on Earth. () In the Delos system, the two inhabited planets Ornara and Brekka took different paths, with Ornara becoming technologically sophisticated and Brekka not doing likewise. () The being known as Kevin Uxbridge, a Douwd, begins living in the Milky Way Galaxy. () The Mintakans of the planet Mintaka III abandon their belief in the supernatural. () The Trill begin their life as a joined species. () Background information Undated human eventsc. 15th millennium BC Parietal wall paintings in Lascaux caves. () Indeterminate Myth of Adam and Eve expelled from Garden of Eden. ( ; ; ; ) Myth of Noah's Ark during the Flood. () Myth of the Tower of Babel. () Myth of Atlantis. ( ; ) 3rd millennium BC Construction of Stonehenge in England. () Sumerian myth of Enkidu and King Gilgamesh of Uruk. () circa 2600 BC: The Egyptians build the s of Giza. They are observed by anthropologists from the future (specifically, the year 2769). ( ; ; ) 2nd millenium BC Emergence of the Mayan civilisation. () c.1810 BC – c.1750 BC : Life and death of the Babylonian king Hammurabi. () c.1755 BC – c.1750 BC : Code of Hammurabi is established. () Emergence of Hinduism. ( ; ; ) Emergence of Judaism. ( ; ; ) c.1500 BC – 400 BC (1) : Olmec civilization thrived in the region of Mexico. () c.1303 BC – c.1213 BC : Life and death of the Egyptian king Ramses II. () c.1302 BC – c.1255 BC : Life and death of the Egyptian queen Nefertari. () According to several religious texts, Moses led the Jews out of slavery, and received the Tablets of the Law from 'God'. The immortal Flint claimed to have personally met Moses. ( ; ) Myth of the Trojan War: after the kidnapping of Helen of Sparta, a Greek expedition was raised to besiege the city. Greek forces included Agamemnon, Achilles, Odysseus, and Ajax; Trojan forces included Priam and Hector. ( ; ; ; ) According to several religious texts, confronted the giant Goliath. ( ; ) 1st millenium BC c.990 BC – c.931 BC : Life and death of the Israelite King Solomon. Flint claimed it was one of his previous aliases. () c.753 BC : According to Roman legends, Romulus and Remus founded Rome. () 8th century BC : Presumed life and death of the Greek author Homer. () According to several religious texts, Jonah was swallowed by a whale. () 776 BC : First Olympic Games. ( ; ; ) 7th century BC : First Homeric Hymns were written. () c.550 BC : Construction of the Temple of Artemis of Ephesus. () c.540 BC – 480 BC : Life and death of the Spartan king Leonidas. () c.544 BC – c.496 BC : Life and death of the Chinese general and philosopher Sun Tzu, author of "The Art of War". ( ; ; ) According to several religious texts, Daniel was once thrown into a lion's den for refusing to worship a Persian king as a god. () 5th century BC (1) : Buddha founds the nontheistic religion of Buddhism in Asia. ( ; ; ) c.496 BC – c.405 BC : Life and death of the Greek writer Sophocles, author of "Oedipus Rex". ( ; ) c.495 BC – 429 BC : Life and death of the Greek statesman Pericles. () 490 BC : Battle of Marathon in Greece. () 480 BC : Battle of Thermopylae between Spartans and the Persians. () 469 BC – 399 BC (1) : Life and death of the Greek philosopher Socrates. The immortal Flint claimed to have personally met Socrates. ( ; ; ; ) c.460 BC – c.370 BC : Life and death of the Greek physician Hippocrates, presumed author of the Hippocratic Oath. ( ; ; ; ) c.428 BC – c.348 BC (1) : Life and death of the Greek philosopher Plato. ( ; ) c.412 BC – 323 BC : Life and death of the Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. () 4th century BC : Life and death of the Greek sculptor Praxiteles. () 6th/4th century BC : Life and death of the Chinese philosopher Lao Tze. () 384 BC – 322 BC : Life and death of the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle. () 356 BC – 323 BC : Life and death of the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great. Flint claimed it was one of his previous aliases. () c.350 BC : Construction of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. () c.309 BC – 246 BC : Life and death of the Egyptian king Ptolemy II. () c.292 BC : Construction of the Colossus of Rhodes. () c.288 BC : Construction of the Library of Alexandria. () 259 BC – 210 BC : Life and death of the first Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang. () 247 BC – c.182 BC : Life and death of the Carthaginian general and statesman Hannibal. () 220 BC – 206 BC : Great Wall of China is formed when the first Qin emperor connected the walls built by a previous dynasty to prevent an invasion by nomads to the north. () 106 BC – 43 BC (1) : Life and death of the Roman statesman Cicero. () 100 BC – 44 BC : Life and death of the Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar. ( ; ; ) 85 BC – 42 BC : Life and death of the Roman politician Marcus Junius Brutus. () c.84 BC – c.54 BC : Life and death of the Roman writer Catullus. The energy being Onaya unlocked his potential. () 70 BC – 19 BC : Life and death of the Roman writer Virgil. ( ; ) 69 BC – 30 BC : Life and death of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. () 63 BC – 14 AD : Life and death of the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar. () c.59 BC – c.17 AD : Life and death of the Roman writer Titus Livius. () Life and death of the Jewish preacher John the Baptist according to several religious texts. () Life and death of the Jewish preacher Jesus Christ according to several religious texts. ( ; ; ; ; ; ) Indeterminate past (overall) Lactrans attain a level of development that would not be met in terms of Human development until the late 23rd century. () Eons ago the Changelings are Solids before they evolve into a liquid-based, shapeshifting species. () An unknown race, possibly of extragalactic origin, builds a massive planet killer. () According to Klingon mythology, Kortar, the first Klingon, destroys the gods who created him. (; ) A neutron star in a binary star system in the Kavis Alpha sector begins exploding every 196 years. () A power struggle occurs within the highest ranks of a race called the Saltah'na, which ultimately destroys them. Before their extinction, the Saltah'na create a collection of energy spheres which preserve a record of the events leading to the species' destruction via a telepathic matrix, which can be transferred into the minds of some humanoid species, causing them to reenact the power struggle. () A scientist named Lazarus discovers the alternative warp, constructing a space-time vehicle which can transverse the corridor between two universes over both time and space. He begins his relentless pursuit of his nemesis "the thing" across centuries of time, who is in fact Lazarus's own from the alternate universe. () According to Cosimo in an alternate 2372, Harry Kim could have been sent to before the formation of sentient life on Earth by the time stream, had his attempt to restore history failed.'' () External links de:Ferne Vergangenheit fr:Passé lointain it:Preistoria nl:Ver verleden pl:Odległa przeszłość

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Tricorder

A tricorder was an advanced multi-function hand held computing and scanning device used to gather, analyze, and record , with many specialized abilities which made it an asset to crews aboard starships and space stations as well as on away missions. () Captain Donald Varley compared "little piece of legend" from an archaeological dig at Denius III that was believed to be of Iconian origin. Varley's engineers examined the object, but were completely baffled by its technology, leaving Varley to ponder its purpose. He likened his understanding of it being comparable to "a caveman confronted by a tricorder." () "Mr. Tricorder" was a joke made by Data in 2371, during an away mission aboard the Amargosa observatory following the installation of his emotion chip. He used a tricorder like a hand puppet and talked to Geordi La Forge. () During B'Elanna Torres' baby shower she weighed a gift in her hand that she had received from Tuvok before opening and noted that it "Feels heavy," before she guessed, "Baby's first tricorder?" Tuvok responded, that it was "not exactly", and Torres opened it to find a pleenok. () Operations One could learn how to use a tricorder from a tricorder operations manual. () Tricorders maintained their own tricorder logs, but were often useful for recording entries in personal or official logs. (; , et al) Capabilities In the proper hands, a tricorder could be used or rigged to: Detect a cloaking frequency. () Emit a homing signal. () Set up a multiphase pulse. () Range EM interference limited tricorder range to as little as one hundred meters. () The jamming signal produced by the Jem'Hadar on AR-558 limited a tricorder's range to one hundred meters. () Similarly, a planet's atmospheric ionization jammed the transponders of tricorders, which rendered them useless. () In 2375, Geordi La Forge modified a tricorder with one of Data's actuation servos, but it only had an operational range of four meters. () Components Isodyne relay Optronic relay Scanner head Types Bajoran tricorder Jem'Hadar tricorder Klingon tricorder Romulan tricorder Starfleet tricorder Heavy duty tricorder Psycho-tricorder Medical tricorder TR-560 Tricorder VI TR-580 Tricorder VII TR-590 Tricorder X TR-590 Tricorder XI TR-890 Tricorder XV Trill medical tricorder Vulcan tricorder Appendices See also Diagnostic wrap Tricom badge Background information The original impetus for the introduction of the tricorder to Star Trek was outlined in a memo from Gene Roddenberry to Robert Justman, dated 14 April , stating with regard to the role of the 's Yeoman: "It has been suggested that she carry as part of her regular equipment...some sort of neat, over-the-shoulder recorder-electronic camera via which she can take log entries from the Captain at any time, make electronic moving photos of things, places, etc...it seems like it could also be a potentially popular toy item for female-type children." (The Making of Star Trek, p.169) As of its third revision, dated 17 April , the series' Writers/Directors' Guide (p. 19) described the device thusly: "TRICORDER: A portable sensor-computer-recorder, about the size of a large rectangular handbag, carried by an over-the-shoulder strap. A remarkable miniaturized device, it can be used to analyze and keep records of almost any type of data on planet surfaces, plus sensing or identifying various objects. It can also give the age of an artifact, the composition of alien life, and so on. The tricorder can be carried by Uhura (as communications officer, she often maintains records of what is going on), by the female yeoman in a story, or by Mister Spock of course, as a portable scientific tool. It can also be identified as a 'medical tricorder' and carried by Doctor McCoy." (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 026) In the final draft script of , a tricorder was used by Spock to ascertain that McCoy wasn't dead. In the final version of that episode, however, no device is used by Spock upon determining that conclusion. According to Eileen Palestine, Geoffrey Mandel, Doug Drexler, and Anthony Fredrickson's Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual (p. 150), the name "tricorder" was short for "tri-function recorder." The tricorders in were designed by Bill George. (text commentary, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Special Edition) DVD special features) In the documentary Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier, Brannon Braga ironically states that, although he didn't know what tricorders do, "they were probably used a little too often." Recalling how the tricorders in were designed, Aaron Harberts described them as "super-important [...] key props" that "nobody wanted to really change." Real-world devices The first "real-world" tricorder was developed by a Canadian company called Vital Technologies Corporation in 1996. The scanner was called the ; Vital Technologies sold 10,000 of them before going out of business in 1997. The TR-107 could scan EM radiation, temperature, and barometric pressure. Many research laboratories are developing, or have developed, portable scientific analyzers. For example, in February 2007, researchers from Purdue University publicly announced their portable (briefcase-sized) DESI-based mass spectrometer, the Mini-10, which could be used to analyze compounds in ambient conditions without prior sample preparation. This was also announced as a "real-life tricorder" in later press releases. Truly hand-held devices, based on lab-on-a-chip systems, are also in development. These are typically more specialized than the Star Trek equivalent; however, it is believed that biomarker analysis will allow the development of a general-purpose medical instrument in the near future. Sandia National Laboratories in the US is a major center for lab-on-a-chip research, and have developed many handheld instruments for biological or chemical analysis. In May 2008, researchers from Georgia Tech publicly announced their portable hand-held multi-spectral imaging device, which aids in the detection of the severity of an injury under the skin, including the presence of pressure ulcers, regardless of lighting conditions or skin pigmentation. The day after the announcement, technology websites including Inside Tech and The Future of Things began comparing this device to the Star Trek tricorder. In October 2009, researchers from NASA showed their prototype for a device that detects deadly gases in the air; it contains a chip the size of a postage stamp connected to an iPhone. A mobile medical imaging lab that operates using inexpensive mobile phones was demonstrated in 2009. In April 2017, a seven-member, self-funded team took first place in the international Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE competition. Their entry consists of several parts that are used with a tablet. It exceeds the design goal by being able to help a layperson walk through the process of diagnosing thirty-four medical conditions. The tricorder is called DxtER (pronounced Dexter) and the team is looking forward to evaluation and testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. More information is . External links cs:Trikordér de:Tricorder es:Tricorder fr:Tricordeur it:Tricorder nl:Tricorder pt:Tricorder Tools Sensor technology

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2245

Events By starship or station The (NCC-1017) is launched under the command of Captain Matthew Decker. The ship begins it's first of three five-year exploratory missions. ( commemorative plaque ) April 11: The (NCC-1701) is launched from San Francisco Fleet Yards under the command of Captain Robert April. His wife, Sarah April, is the vessel's first medical officer and Christopher Pike as April's first officer. (; ; Dedication plaque) Other events Michael Burnham begins attending the Vulcan Science Academy making her the first Human to do so. () Pavel Chekov is born to Andrei Chekov in Russia, on Earth. () The inconclusive Battle of Donatu V is fought between Federation and Klingon forces near Sherman's Planet. () Emony Dax visits Earth to judge a gymnastics competition at the University of Mississippi, where she meets Leonard McCoy. She told him he "had the hands of a surgeon." () Afterward, he began his career in medicine. () Appendix Background information According to , Leonard McCoy became a doctor in this year. Since he was eighteen at this time, it is likely that the episode refers to the beginning of his undergraduate studies, supported by . The 2245 launch date for the Enterprise was suggested in the , and would be referenced in an unseen portion of Jonathan Archer's created for . Although this clashes with a "twenty years old" reference in , which would indicate that the Enterprise only dated back to the early 2260s, the later date is supported by the fact that Pike served aboard her during the 2250s, and April much earlier, who served aboard prior to his ambassadorship, beginning in 2250, while under the assumption that he commanded a five-year mission. Archer's unused personnel file would also have stated he died this year, one day after observing the christening of the Enterprise. suggests may be alive and active in or around Starfleet Academy on Earth past this date as was sent to the outpost after testing his theory on transwarp beaming on an Admiral Archer's prize beagle. External link de:2245 fr:2245 nl:2245 sv:2245

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2240s

The 2240s were an important decade for Federation space exploration, with the commissioning of new starship class known as . Captained by Robert T. April, with wife Sarah April as CMO, Enterprise experienced many exploration firsts in her long career, which began in 2245. These new ships benefited from advances in warp drive which came along with the breaking of the time barrier, and also new computer advancements such as duotronics, invented by Richard Daystrom in this decade. Years Events The PXK pergium-powered nuclear reactor goes out of common use. One notable exception is the Janus VI colony. () The decade also included one of the worst crimes in Federation history when four thousand colonists at Tarsus IV are put to death at the orders of Governor Kodos. () Christopher Pike is assigned to the under Captain Robert April. () Alternate reality Approximately around the early to middle years of this decade, a young went for a joyride in his stepfather's Corvette, bailing out just as the car fell into a deep quarry. () Around the same time, a young gets into a physically violent altercation with one of three other Vulcan students at the Vulcan Learning Center after they insult . () ru:2240-е bg:2220те de:2220er fr:2220s it:Anni 2220 nl:2220s sv:2220-talet pl:2221-2230 Alternate reality timeline

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2230s

The 2230s decade covers the period from 2230-2239. Years Events Stardate 1087.7 Gary Mitchell is born. () Stardate 1089.5 Elizabeth Dehner is born. () bg:2230те de:2230er fr:2230s nl:2230s sv:2230-talet pl:2231-2240

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2220s

The 2220s decade covers the period from 2220-2229. Years Events Christopher Pike attends Starfleet Academy on Earth. () Relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire become hostile. () Simon Van Gelder is born. () ru:2220-е bg:2220те de:2220er fr:2220s it:Anni 2220 nl:2220s sv:2220-talet pl:2221-2230

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2210s

The 2210s decade covers the period from 2210-2219. Years Events A mining colony is established on the planet Janus VI, which soon becomes the Federation's key source of pergium and other rare ores. Unknown to the colonists, the planet is actually the homeworld of the Horta species. () bg:2210те de:2210er fr:2210s nl:2210s pl:2211-2220 ru:2210-е sv:2210-talet

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2200s

The 2200s decade covers the period from 2200-2209. Years bg:2200те de:2200er fr:2200s nl:2200s sv:2200-talet (decennium) pl:2201-2210

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2250s

The 2250s saw Starfleet and the Federation face a significant threat, as the maneuverings of the Klingon T'Kuvma led to the rallying of the Klingon Great Houses and the . Years Events Jame Finney, the sole child of Benjamin Finney and his wife, is born and is named after James Kirk. () Michael Burnham becomes the first officer of the under Captain Philippa Georgiou. () The Tholians attack Berellium, leaving Thira Sidhu and her husband as the sole survivors. () de:2250er fr:2250s nl:2250s sv:2250-talet pl:2251-2260

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2270s

The 2270s decade covers the period from 2270-2279. Years Events The original is refitted. () V'ger heads for Earth. The and two other vessels attempt to intercept V'ger in Klingon space, but are vaporized out of existence by the energy cloud. () Stardate 7410.2: Admiral James T. Kirk assumes command of the USS Enterprise to intercept V'ger. () Stardate 7414.1: The crew of the USS Enterprise encounter V'ger and guide it to enter its next evolutionary phase. () Tuvok undergoes training with a Vulcan master in order to control his emotions. () Pardek becomes a member of the Romulan Senate. () Contact with the is lost on stardate 7780.85, and the ship eventually crash-lands on Tau Cygna V. Two thirds of the crew died of hyperonic radiation before the survivors manage to establish a colony, that by 2366 was thriving. () Starfleet radically changes their uniform by 2278. () Films de:2270er fr:2270s it:Anni 2270 nl:2270s pl:2271-2280 ru:2270-е sv:2270-talet

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2280s

The 2280s decade covers the period from 2280-2289. Years Events The is captured by Khan Noonien Singh, who escapes from Ceti Alpha V and seeks revenge on now-Admiral James T. Kirk for his previous exile. Reliant is destroyed in the process, but not before heavy casualties are inflicted upon , most notably Captain Spock. () The Genesis Planet is created by the Genesis Device, a highly classified research project led by Dr. Carol Marcus. The planet would prove unstable due to the use of protomatter in the process, and would ultimately explode soon after its creation. The Genesis energies did, however, revive Captain Spock's body; he would be fully resurrected shortly thereafter using the legendary fal-tor-pan process. (; ) The first of the starships is built to test numerous new technologies, such as transwarp, but ultimately proves to be unsuccessful. () The original is scuttled at the Genesis Planet to prevent her capture by Klingons. () Earth and Starfleet's vessels in the Sol system are attacked by a probe of unknown origin. It ceases its efforts when two humpback whales are brought from 20th century Earth by the former crew of the Enterprise, aboard a stolen Klingon Bird-of-Prey. () The is commissioned. () The Enterprise-A becomes the first Starfleet vessel to visit the center of the galaxy, after being hijacked by a Vulcan cult leader named Sybok in an effort to meet God at the fabled planet of Sha Ka Ree. The entity there posing as "God" attacked Sybok and the Enterprise crew, but was destroyed by a Klingon vessel commandeered by Captain Spock. () bg:2280те de:2280er fr:2280s it:Anni 2280 nl:2280s pl:2281-2290 sv:2280-talet ru:2280-е

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2290s

The 2290s decade covers the period from 2290-2299. The year 2293 was particularly significant in this decade, as it marked the ending of hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, despite attempted thwarting by a conspiracy to disrupt the peace negotiations at Camp Khitomer. Additionally, the crew of the were retired following the signing of the Khitomer Accords, along with the Enterprise-A herself. Captain James T. Kirk was presumed killed in this year during the maiden voyage of the . (; ) The following year, Captain Montgomery Scott went missing while en route to the Norpin colony. He was recovered seventy-five years later by the crew of the . () Years Events Following the explosion of the Klingon moon Praxis, the Federation and the Klingon Empire begin negotiations for ending nearly seventy years of hostilities between the two governments. Chancellor Gorkon of the Klingon High Council is assassinated en route to Earth, threatening the peace initiative. An investigation by the crew of the Enterprise-A reveals a conspiracy to stop the peace process, and subsequently manages to arrest the conspirators, allowing the Khitomer Accords to be signed in 2293. () Captain Spock meets Ambassador Pardek at the Khitomer Conference and the two begin discussions of reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan peoples. () The crew of the Enterprise-A is retired with their vessel in 2293. The is launched later that year. (; ) The Federation starship crashes on a Dyson sphere in 2294, killing all but two passengers. Only Captain Montgomery Scott is recovered seventy-five years later. () de:2290er fr:2290s it:Anni 2290 nl:2290s pl:2291-2300 ru:2290-е sv:2290-talet

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Andorian

The Andorians were a warp-capable humanoid species from the moon Andoria, capital of the Andorian Empire, in the Alpha Quadrant. In 2161, their homeworld became a founding member of the United Federation of Planets. Biology Andorians had blue skin and white to gray hair. Some individuals had fleshy protruding structures above their eyes instead of eyebrows. The Aenar subspecies had white skin and, unlike mainstream Andorians, were blind and telepathic. Hybrids between Andorians and Aenar had pale greenish skin and were not blind. (; ; ; ) Andorians had a higher metabolic rate than Humans, which could theoretically permit a Human opponent to best an Andorian in hand-to-hand combat by simply exhausting them. This also made them especially vulnerable to phase-pulse infection; even minor phase-pistol injuries could prove fatal. () However, they demonstrated resistance to a wide range of environmental conditions. In a climate where the temperature was near the boiling point of water, an Andorian could still thrive, despite losing ten percent of their body weight in two days. () Since Andorian physiology made intravenous injection impossible, physicians administered medication through intramuscular injection instead. () Andorians could require a tonsillectomy. () Antennae One of the most distinctive traits of Andorians and Aenar was a pair of e on top of their heads. The antennae were moved by voluntary muscles and could be controlled separate from one another. () Although an antenna cut off or otherwise separated would eventually grow back, it could be humiliating to lose one or both antennae. () Blood Andorians were true blue-bloods: Talas' blood displayed non-viscous, translucent qualities, and was as dark blue as Shran's abrasions. Andorian tongues and gums alternated from dark blue to pink. () Andorians had increased perfusion in colder environments. On breathing the freezing air of Andoria, Shran remarked how it "really gets the blood running!" () History Main articles: Andorian history and Federation history The Andorians originated from the icy moon of Andoria. Early in their history, the Aenar diverged from them as a subspecies, having retreated to the Northern Wastes, thenceforth considered a myth until the early 22nd century. () The Andorians employed ice-cutters to navigate their homeworld; the first to circumnavigate the moon was called , a name that was carried on to future Andorian vessels. () Mirror universe In the mirror universe, Andorians were among multiple races conquered by the Terran Empire by 2155. While some Andorians served aboard vessels like the that year, other Andorians took part in a rebellion against the Terran Empire. In one engagement, at least two Andorian battle cruisers were present. () Andorian rebels continued to resist the Empire well into the 23rd century. () Society See also: Andorian Empire Andorians were a militaristic race, exemplified in small part by weaponry without stun settings. They considered it an honor to serve in their Imperial Guard, and military rank greatly influenced social reputation. Deploring dishonesty – and never fighting without reason – Andorians were nonetheless capable of duplicity. The Andorians were suspicious and volatile. They considered themselves deeply emotional, passionate, even violent; not known for their charity or sympathy, they placed a high value on family. (; ; ) A chirurgeon was a type of medical practitioner on Andoria. () Culture and tradition A crucial part of Andorian tradition was the Ushaan, a code of honor demanding a duel to the death, with combatants pitted against one another using an ushaan-tor ice miner's tool. A vast body of regulations – up to twelve thousand amendments – bound this code. Such a fight could be called off if one combatant disabled the other enough to prevent its continuance. Though Ushaan could be called by someone to avenge a personal loss, there existed a right of substitution wherein each combatant could offer up a replacement, and married combatants could postpone duels indefinitely if they had no children to continue their clans. () Members of the Andorian Imperial Guard who died far from home could count on their companions to transport a part of them, for example some of their blood, back to the Andorian ices. As a special honor, the blood of a dead person could be taken to the Wall of Heroes on Andoria. () Females enjoyed an equal position in Andorian society, and as soldiers, were as capable as males. Also, they could initiate an intimate relationship by assaulting a male. Andorian weddings required groups of four people, except under certain circumstances. (; ) Andorians were well known for their determination and endurance in physical combat. On Andoria, they were taught how to fight with an ushaan-tor when they were children. (; ) Andorians made prodigious artists; Ezri Dax's mother, Yanas Tigan, bought hand-painted Andorian tiles for her solarium in 2375, and the Andorian Academy was widely considered the best art school in the Federation. () Like most species, Andorian society also harbored the idea of Heaven, a dream of a place from which creation sprang. According to Sybok, the word for it in the Andorian language was "unpronounceable." () Cultural products Andorian blues Andorian chest Andorian jewelry Andorian silk Food and beverages Andorian ale Andorian fast food Andorian tuber root Andorian redbat Andorian boiler Andorian cabbage soup People List of Andorians Appendices Appearances (Season Two) (Season Three) (corpse) (Season One) TOS films: (hologram only) (Season Three) (Season One) (Season Two) (Season Three) (Season Four) (Season One) (hologram only) (Season Two) (corpse) (Season Three) (Season Four) (Season One) (Season Two) (Season One) (Season Two) Background information Originating the species Since Andorians first appeared in , their look has changed considerably, both for budgetary reasons and due to improvements in makeup technique. The script of "Journey to Babel" described Andorians, stating, "They are humanoids, tall and quite slim. If at all possible, the ears will be played down (taped back?), but there are two delicately tapered antennae curling from the head. Despite their almost fragile bodies, Andorians are a fierce warrior breed. Their dress indicates this to some extent, and will include a vicious looking bladed weapon... which is carried for use and not ceremony. Andorians are pale blue." The script also stated, "Habitually, because of the sensitive antennae, Andorians listen with heads down and slightly tilted. Andorian voices are also different... soft, whispering." The Andorians were designed by Fred Phillips. Given virtually no notice that he would be required to design their make-up, Phillips had to do so overnight. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 17, No. 2, p. 32) His original design typically had antennae at the back of his head to cover where they were connected to his white wig. Phillips sculpted the antennae using modeling clay, and according to Star Trek archivist Richard Arnold, Phillips used the ends of thread spools for the ends of the antennae, The main stems were made of a rigid material and attached to the white wigs. The makeup chosen to color Andorians was Max Factor Aqua Blue cream stick, highlighted with a slightly deeper blue cream liner to shadow the face. (Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts, p. 49) "I was told the makeup would take a little time," remembered Thelev actor William O'Connell, "and they put on, like, a matte finish for an actor, and then the hair, the antennae, and so on and so forth. It took, I think, almost two hours, so it was laborious." Due to the amount of makeup time required, Andorians were also very costly to do. (The World of Star Trek, 1994 UK ed., p. 182) The Andorians were kept conceptually vague in . Fred Dekker observed, "As far as I know, on the original series it was an interesting makeup concept and there was barely any back story to the characters at all." (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 37, p. 11) The script of described the species thus; "Andorians are slim, almost fragile-looking humanoids with pale blue skin and silver hair. Two slightly curved antennas which end in little flared knobs adorn their heads. These are their listening organs; therefore, no ears are in evidence. When an Andorian listens to anyone speak, he bows his head slightly to get maximum 'receiving'. Andorian speech is accented, softly spoken and deliberate. By heritage, Andorians are a savage race of warriors, and their agility and strength belie their slender builds." Despite this description, when the Andorian Thelin appeared in the finished episode, he was depicted with gray skin. This was probably due to director Hal Sutherland's color blindness. In either the original Star Trek series or , makeup artist Fred Phillips – who worked on both productions – tested Andorian antennae and blue facial makeup on his daughter, Janna Phillips. (The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, p. 140) The first significant change in the Andorians' appearance came in The Motion Picture, for which Fred Phillips gave the Andorians forehead ridges with thin, spindly antennae coming off the top of the forehead. Both male and female variants of the Andorian appearance were created. (The Art of Star Trek, p. 178) The white wigs for the Andorian females in The Motion Picture were extremely difficult to design. They involved much backing with starchy material as well as wire, and were covered with cotton, together with real hair. (The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, p. 142) In notes that Costume Designer Robert Fletcher wrote about the aliens in The Motion Picture, the description of the Andorians incorporated some elements of their conceptual design that had previously been invented, while also introducing some new facets, and the statement additionally included some costume notes. After pointing out the Andorians were "from tv series", the brief continued as follows: "Blue-skinned, with white hair and small-knobbed antennae (sensors) out of forehead. Can communicate over great distances. Very musical people, fairly combative. By heritage, a race of savage warriors, with strength masked by soft voices and slender builds. Ladies' costume: hand-painted; adorn sleeves with pieces from planet, used sliced geode framed in brass for ornaments and in hair. Men's costume: has belt and carries Flabbjellah, a combination musical instrument and weapon, carried by most males. Costume of old suede which was stored at Paramount since ." (The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, p. 133) An Andorian was storyboarded to be featured among the crew of the Merchantman in , though no Andorians appear in that film. (storyboard sequence "The Klingons Attack", DVD special features) In , makeup evolution allowed an Andorian to be seen as balding, with antennae bases joined seamlessly to the actor's skin. At the advent of , the Andorians were affected by the fact Gene Roddenberry was insistent on TNG excluding any species featured on TOS, as he wanted the new series to not be reliant on the past. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 37, p. 10) Nevertheless, they were mentioned in an internal reference document, listing all the aliens seen in , which was circulated around the time of the production of TNG Season 5, where they were inexplicably called "Androgens" and described as "blue-skinned, antenna-topped race". An Andorian god in made it into makeup screen tests. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Special Edition)) This Andorian retained, in the words of Makeup Effects Artist Kenny Myers, "the classic blue look and long, bone white hair" of previous Andorians, as well as the common two antennae, which Myers referred to (in the case of the Andorian Supreme Being) as "little horns." The fact that Andorians were not meant to have ears came as a surprise to Myers. Without knowing whether this was true of the species or not but having been told it was, Myers "played it safe" by covering the ears of the Andorian-playing actor under the wig. (The Making of the Trek Films, UK 3rd ed., p. 90) Like many ideas for the film, the Andorian Supreme Being didn't survive the movie's final cut. TNG Season 3 offered up two Andorians – one of which was an appearance for Lal – with skin more greenish-blue, larger bulbous heads, and taller spindly antennae attached to the wig. The look of the Andorian Risa tourist was designed by Michael Westmore who used electronics from a novelty potted plant toy which was built to respond to sounds so the plant danced to music, voices or noise. But the idea to make the antennae twist in response to sounds did not work on camera. (, text commentary, ENT Season 1 DVD special feature) Although "Andorian fast food" was listed in set dressing for a Promenade directory, there was no support, in DS9's writing staff, for the idea of an Andorian or multiple members of the species appearing on that series. (; ) Writing staffer Ronald D. Moore even doubted that the Andorians would get increased exposure on DS9 and warned viewers not to look for them. No Andorian appeared during the run of and the species itself was only mentioned in one episode, , with an additional mention of Andorian amoeba in . Over the years since the start of TNG, Andorians had been shown in a few cameos but had stayed relentlessly absent. One reason the Andorians didn't make any substantial return was that their makeup, with their antennae and blue skin, might inadvertently look silly. They actually appeared much less often than Andorian ale. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 37, p. 10) Prequel appearances Enterprise The decision to feature Andorians in was made immediately after Executive Producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga were considering which villain to incorporate in the story that ultimately became . "We just came up with the Andorians," said Braga. "My feeling on it was: let's take the silliest looking race and make them look cool [....] I wanted to take a fan favorite, and revamp them." () Braga also wanted to "make them" become a believable culture. () In devising the story for "The Andorian Incident", Braga decided the Andorians would make an ideal adversary to the Vulcans. His confidence that the creative team could give the Andorians a "cool" appearance was due to makeup technology having greatly advanced. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 37, pp. 10-11) However, Braga was at first uncertain if he could convince Rick Berman into okaying the return of the species. "The Andorians were ludicrous!" exclaimed Braga. "I never thought in a million years that I would get Rick to agree to have them on the show, because of the way they looked." () Once it was decided to bring back the Andorians, they were the subject of much debate among the members of ENT's creative personnel. "There was a lot of discussion," remembered Mike Sussman, "about how to do them, how to bring their makeup up to date." ( audio commentary, ENT Season 1 Blu-ray special features) The ENT writing staff, in general, were excited about bringing the Andorians back to the screen. Those members of the creative staff who were enthused about the species returning included Fred Dekker, who was given the task of writing "The Andorian Incident" and was entirely unfamiliar with Star Trek fan fiction, so felt he was basically starting from scratch. "The Andorians felt like an untapped mine," he noted. (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 37, p. 11) Updating the highly memorable Andorians proved to be a challenge. This process included giving them more conceptual depth. The story that Berman and Braga concocted for "The Andorian Incident" was thus partly written in an attempt to "get into Andorian psychology a little more, and find out they are highly paranoid." () The process of working out their psychology for ENT began by contrasting them with the Vulcans. Stated Fred Dekker, "We wanted the Andorians to be extremely agitated and full of energy [....] What we wanted was the contrast so we made them the opposite of unemotional. They would have a hair-trigger." (Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 37, p. 11) In the first draft script of "The Andorian Incident" (which had the working title "Incident at P'Jem"), Andorians were said to be evolved from "subterranean creatures." As a result, their antennae could sense odors and vibrations, helping the Andorians navigate in low light conditions. In the final draft script for "The Andorian Incident", the Andorians were initially described with the statement, "Flush to their skulls are strange, bony antennae." They were also referred to as having blue skin and white hair, though there were no lengthy descriptive passages detailing how they looked. However, a later description in the same teleplay read, "As we'll see, the Andorians are paranoid and easily agitated." Although Shran actor Jeffrey Combs was at first uncertain about whether he wanted to accept an invitation to appear on Enterprise, suspicions that the Andorians would likely feature in the same episode sparked his interest, initiated by him learning that the episode was called "The Andorian Incident". "And once I heard about that, that intrigued me a lot," he related, "because I knew that the Andorians had never really been fully explored but were somewhat devious, their makeup would probably be really cool now, ... and that they were founding members of the Federation." Combs also characterized the episode as "kind of a pivotal launching of this species." () The Andorians in Star Trek: Enterprise were painted differently than the ones in the past. "We applied the blue in subtle layers to give the skin a translucence instead of just slathering on blue paint," explained Brannon Braga. () Makeup Supervisor Michael Westmore was instrumental in redesigning the Andorians for ENT. He came up with the concept of making their antennae movable. ( audio commentary, ENT Season 1 Blu-ray special features) Those appendages were also attached to the forehead and reverted to the thicker, segmented look of the original series aliens. Jeffrey Combs was of the opinion that having the antennae be shown via mechanics was very brave. "They didn't have to do that," he said, "they could have brought the Andorians with just a static antennae." () At first, there were some worries that the servo mechanics used for the Andorian antennae might malfunction or hold up production, concerns felt by delay-conscious producers as well as actors who were each conscious that their individual pair of mechanical antennae – essentially a wayward item of hardware – could end up destroying their scene. "That was my biggest concern – [that] these antennae would overpower, or be too much, and then they're just silly," remarked Jeffrey Combs. "So we minimized these things – we let them do their thing, but let them be like kelp in the sea: they're always there, always undulating, and then every once in a while they react. So it's a really delicate balance, which I think we hit." () The antennae went on to be used as tools of subtext that had the potential to add to the performances delivered by the actors. Jeffrey Combs recalled, "I took the tack that they were antennae that depicted deception or perhaps danger – almost like a sixth sense, being able to tell if someone is not being forthcoming. The puppeteer, me, [Director] Roxann [Dawson] – and each of the Andorians had their own puppeteer – ... we quickly realized there were some basic things they would convey: when anger came up, they were like a cat's ears, they would just flare back. And when you were curious about something they would come forward [....] We were trying to find another position for the antennae to show gratitude. We came up with a little heart-shaped position where the tops come in and touch each other – like the Ferengi (subservient hand gesture), only on your heads! So it wasn't technical or antiseptic, it was just how do we make the technical emotional and give it life." () The particulars of the Andorian prosthetics created for ENT had an impact on how the aliens could be used in stunts. "When we're doing physical stuff with the actors that have the antennae that move, we have to be very careful," explained Stunt Coordinator Vince Deadrick, Jr.. "If we snap one of those, it requires a big reset and a huge expense. It's a big makeup deal, and they've got to take everything apart and it's a lot of work. So it's 'No pressure, Vince, but don't break them when you fight!" () The two stunt Andorians seen in were not equipped with these moveable antennae – tiny electronic servos built into the antennae and radio-controlled by puppeteers in response to sounds and emotions. ("The Andorian Incident", text commentary, ENT Season 1 DVD special feature) Ultimately, the physical design of the ENT Andorians was highly popular with the writing staff. Mike Sussman regarded the moving Andorian antennae as "great" and remarked about Michael Westmore's work on the species, "I thought he did a brilliant job reinventing the look of those aliens and freshening them up." ( audio commentary, ENT Season 1 Blu-ray special features) Brannon Braga was likewise highly pleased with how the species turned out. "They're still Andorians," he commented, "but we gave them better costumes, we made the makeup cooler [....] They look really cool." () He additionally enthused, "They look just like Andorians, but somehow they just look more believable [....] And their costumes are cool [....] I have to imagine that even (viewers) who haven't yet met the Andorians will really like these guys." () As a result of the redesigned Andorians being thought of as successful, it wasn't long before they reappeared on ENT. "So we went ahead and took a gamble and brought them back fairly soon," commented Brannon Braga. () The species was referenced in a working title used by the next episode to feature Andorians, , as it was originally called "Untitled Andorians Return". In a line of dialogue from the first draft script for that installment, Andorians were referred to as "a violent, predatory species." However, that line was ultimately changed to Andorian commandos being described as "a dangerous group." The only general physical description of the Andorians in the episode's final draft script – in that case, referring to the Andorian blue complexion and antennae – was specifically in reference to Shran alone. Following "Shadows of P'Jem", depicting the Andorians again was certainly of interest to the ENT writing staff. "We were very eager to bring back the Andorians," Brannon Braga recalled, at the conclusion of the second season. "We were just waiting for the right story idea to come along [....] It's still amazing that you can take blue guys with antennae and make them believable. They're turning into a very interesting species." () The two aforementioned physical attributes had become so clearly the defining characteristics of the Andorians that the final draft script of season two episode introduced the species into that story by stating, "We recognize their blue skin and antennae instantly." However, "Cease Fire" also introduced the first female Andorian to appear in ENT, and the script stated, "Andorian women have a paler, more subtle hue to their skin." The final draft script of third season offering observed, "Andorian officers are a bit more outspoken with their superiors." Brannon Braga commented approvingly about how the Andorians are portrayed in "Proving Ground", saying, "I thought it was just great that the Andorians were there to get the weapon to blow up the Vulcans!" () The script of ENT Season 4 installment explained, "Andorian antennae work like inner ears, necessary for balance." Discovery Andorians were referenced in the very first episode of , , and were mentioned or appeared in eight out of the fifteen episodes of the first season. Glenn Hetrick noted about redesigning the Andorians for Discovery, "It blew our minds that we were getting to revisit those." ("Creature Comforts", DIS Season 1 DVD & Blu-ray special features) Trivia Denise and Michael Okuda offered an explanation for the Andorians' differing appearances; in a DVD text commentary for , they wrote, "It may be that Andorians have different ethnic groups, with different skin colors just like humans; after all, in we saw some Andorians have white skin." This aligns with both Vulcans and Bajorans being shown with different pigmentation, making diversity of skin color more than just a Terran trait. An Andorian ship was scripted to appear in but is not actually visible in that episode. In the installment's script, the craft was referred to as "a crab-shaped alien ship." Likewise, the species itself was scripted to be referenced in the second season episode (as evidenced by the episode's final draft script), though they are not mentioned in the final edit of that outing. Apocrypha In non-canonical novels by Pocket Books, Andorians have : zhen, shen, chan, and thaan. In function and appearance, zhens and shens are largely female, and chans and thaans approximate males, with shens and chans the more androgynous of the pairings. In the Pocket DS9 novels set after the end of the television series, this quadrigender paradigm is cited as the reason for Andorian difficulty in maintaining adequate population growth in the face of near extinction. Andorian names in these works consist of two parts in the native tongue, : a longish personal name shortened to the size of established series' names, and a clan name with a gender-denoting prefix – for instance, TharinJar ch'Thas, a chan from Thas clan commonly known as Jar. This information is derived from a comment that Data makes in – that "Andorian marriages require groups of four, unless...." Roleplaying author S. John Ross wrote a non-canon Andorian sourcebook, entitled Among the Clans: The Andorians, for Last Unicorn Games' Star Trek RPG book. It expanded the Andorian background, and details like the Andorian Ushaan duel were adopted from the publication by Enterprise writers. Among the Clans defines three sub-races of Andorians: the predominant Thalassan, with high, knobby antennae (as seen in the original Trek); the Talish (of ), who have forward, tendril-like antennae; and the Bish'ee (of TNG), who have diminishing antennae standing straight out from their head. Several issues of DC Comics' first Star Trek comic series featured Andorians with feather-like hair, rather than the fine white hair other Andorians have always had. These included Thimon and Melchior. Andorians are a playable Federation species in Star Trek Online, and the game includes several Andorian NPCs, most notably the Enterprise-F's captain, Va'Kel Shon. Andorian "duty officers" (or "doffs") come with the trait "Founders of the Federation," as do Humans, Vulcans, and Tellarites. External links A Rogues' Gallery of Andorians – exhaustive list of Andorian appearances compiled by Ian McLean ca:Andorians cs:Andorian de:Andorianer es:Andorianos fr:Andorien it:Andoriano ja:アンドリア nl:Andorian pl:Andorianie ro:Andorieni ru:Андорианцы sv:Andorianer Species Andoria

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Angosian

The Angosians were an intelligent humanoid race originating from the planet Angosia III. Outwardly indistinguishable from Humans, Angosians eschewed violence, preferring to focus on intellectual development. In the mid-24th century, the Angosians were involved in a protracted conflict called the Tarsian War. Being inherently non-violent, the Angosian authorities ordered their soldiers subjected to genetic engineering and chemical manipulation in order to make them superior soldiers and survive. This treatment meant that their behavior radically became violent when they sensed danger to themselves. This treatment was successful and the conflict ended. However, it was discovered that the process was irreversible, and, when the "super soldiers" returned to normal Angosian society, they were unable to function within or co-exist alongside them. No attempt was made to give them even a partial recovery as the government decided they may need to use them again. After a referendum by the larger population, the soldiers were relocated indefinitely to a penal settlement on Lunar V, and considered to be outcasts and criminals. In 2366, the Angosians petitioned to join the . The visited Angosia III to follow up on the petition. However, the occasion was interrupted by the escape of the soldier Roga Danar who was pursued by the Enterprise crew at Angosia III's request. The crew then captured Danar and learned of the gross systemic sentient rights violation of the training program. Danar escaped again and proceeded to start a rebellion with his fellow soldiers, storming the main government building. In the face of the planet's unacceptable policies and the resultant civil upheaval caused by them, the application was put on hold for the immediate future. () Technology Angosian senatorial database Angosian police shuttle Angosian escape pod Tracking station People Named Chritezbr Cragweis Roga Danar Davgrant Derwarn Erbrun Marjmacl Marvhild Nayrok Wagnor Zayner Unnamed List of unnamed Angosians External link de:Angosianer es:Angosianos fr:Angosien Species

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Balance of Terror (episode)

The Enterprise battles a Romulan ship suspected of destroying outposts near the Neutral Zone. Summary Teaser Captain James T. Kirk is officiating at a wedding between two crew members, Angela Martine and Robert Tomlinson, when suddenly a red alert klaxon interrupts the ceremony, followed by a request for Captain Kirk to report to the bridge. Kirk learns that Earth Outpost 4 is under attack as everyone runs to battle stations. Act One The investigates in the vicinity of the Romulan Neutral Zone, where an unknown assailant is methodically destroying each of the Earth outposts bordering the Zone. Spock explains to the crew that the Neutral Zone was established after the Earth-Romulan War over a century ago. Neither race has had contact with the other since that time, and neither side knows what the other looks like. Kirk then tells the crew that while self-defense is permitted, they are forbidden by Starfleet Command's orders to violate the Neutral Zone. The Enterprise and its crew are to be considered expendable. Lieutenant assumes the attacking vessel is Romulan, but Kirk points out that after a century, no one would know what a Romulan ship looks like. Stiles shares his knowledge of Romulan ship markings, as a number of his relatives died in the Earth-Romulan war. "Their war, Mr. Stiles," says Kirk. "Not yours." Earth Outposts 2 and 3 are found to be destroyed, and the Enterprise briefly contacts Outpost 4. The sole survivor of Outpost 4, Commander Hansen, describes a powerful blast of energy from a ship they couldn't track and the destruction of Outpost 8. He then reports that the ship has reappeared. A view relayed from the outpost's sensors shows the ship firing, and then the viewing screen goes blank. Spock's sensors detect a moving object, but nothing is visible on the screen. He suggests that the Romulans have some sort of invisibility shield. Since the Romulan ship seems to be in no hurry, Kirk theorizes that it may not be aware of the Enterprise. Spock then reports that the ship is heading back towards the Neutral Zone. Despite objections from Stiles, Kirk orders a parallel course instead of an intercept course. By matching the unknown ship's course and speed, he hopes to make the Enterprise seem like an echo. Under no circumstances is the Enterprise to enter the Romulan Neutral Zone without a direct order from Kirk. Stiles points out that there could be Romulan spies on board the Enterprise, and Sulu recommends maintaining a security alert. Uhura picks up a communication signal, through which Spock is able obtain a view of the Romulan ship's interior, providing the Federation their first visuals of the Romulans. Stiles notices the Romulan captain's physical resemblance to Spock. Act Two As Uhura attempts to interpret the Romulan signals, Stiles sarcastically suggests giving the job to Spock. Kirk orders him to keep his bigotry to himself. Meanwhile, on the bridge of the Romulan ship, the Romulan commander has noticed the Enterprise following them. He confers with one of his officers (the centurion) on the ethics of their mission. He then rebukes and demotes another officer, Decius, for dispatching a subspace message in violation of orders for radio silence. The centurion warns the commander that Decius has powerful friends. The commander quietly expresses distaste for the mission but assures the centurion of his devotion to his duty. In the Enterprise briefing room, the officers discuss their chances against the Romulan ship. Spock demonstrates the effect of the Romulan weapon on Outpost 4's protective shields, and Scott reports that the Romulan ship's power is "simple impulse". Stiles urges an attack, arguing from history that running would guarantee war. Spock agrees, pointing out that Vulcan had begun to colonize space before giving up its warlike ways, and that if the Romulans are indeed descended from ancient Vulcans, they are more dangerous than Kirk might realize. After a moment, Kirk gives the order to attack. The Enterprise heads into battle at red alert. Act Three Following the Romulan ship's path towards a comet's tail, Kirk orders the Enterprise to jump forward and attack the Romulan ship when its trail becomes visible. The Romulan commander hopes to double back to intercept the Enterprise, but, on learning that his target is no longer following, orders an evasive maneuver. Each commander, having failed in his plans, reflects on the other's intelligence. A barrage of phaser fire damages the Romulan ship. The centurion pushes the Romulan commander out of the way of falling debris but is fatally injured himself. Meanwhile, the phaser circuits on the Enterprise burn out as the Romulan ship fires its primary weapon. Kirk orders full astern and as the Enterprise backs up, they find that the weapon has a range limit which causes the shot to partially dissipate, resulting in reduced impact. Determined to prevent the Romulan ship from reentering the Neutral Zone, Kirk orders another barrage of phaser fire. Unable to stop the Romulan ship, and aware of the consequences, Kirk orders the Enterprise into the Neutral Zone. Displaying restrained emotion as his friend dies, the Romulan commander orders all debris and, sadly, the body of his friend into the escape chute as a decoy. The Enterprise picks up the debris on the sensors but in doing so, loses track of the Romulan ship. Act Four It has come down to a waiting game and both ships have powered down in the Neutral Zone to prevent detection. After the Enterprise has been powered down for 9 hours and 47 minutes, Kirk tries to rest in his quarters, when Yeoman Rand walks in and asks the captain if he would like something to eat from the galley. Kirk shakes his head and tells Rand to get him coffee and have it on the bridge, as he will be heading up there soon. Just then, Dr. McCoy arrives as Rand leaves. Kirk confesses that he wishes he were on a cruise somewhere with no responsibility. He admits to McCoy that when his crew looks to him to make the next move, he wonders, "What if I'm wrong?" McCoy struggles at first to come up with an answer to this and Kirk does not expect him to provide one. However, McCoy puts his hand on Kirk's shoulder and gently says, "In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us. Don't destroy the one named Kirk." Later on the bridge, Spock, while making repairs, accidentally activates a panel, and the Romulan ship detects the Enterprise and moves in to attack. Kirk anticipates this and manages to fire on the Romulan ship. Furious, the Romulan commander orders more debris into the disposal tubes, including a nuclear warhead. Spock picks up the "metal-cased object" on his sensors and the Enterprise fires upon it. The massive explosion causes damage to the Enterprise but despite now having the upper hand, the Romulan commander decides to head for home. Scott reports that while phasers are operational, only Tomlinson, the groom from the wedding, is manning the station. Stiles quotes his experience with phasers and Kirk sends him down to assist. In an attempt to lure the Romulan ship back, the Enterprise plays dead. Despite his reservations, and the crippled status of his ship, the Romulan commander is reminded by Decius that it is the commander's duty to crush the enemy. The commander then reluctantly gives the order to attack. Meanwhile, Spock checks on the phaser crew and Stiles coldly remarks that they "will handle things without your help, Vulcan." After Spock leaves however, a phaser coolant leak erupts. As the Romulan ship moves in to attack, Kirk gives the order to fire phasers. But both Tomlinson and Stiles have been overcome by the coolant fumes. Realizing the danger, Spock runs back and manages to fire the phasers in time, severely damaging the Romulan ship. Visual contact between ships is somehow established as Kirk watches a severely wounded Romulan commander stagger to his feet. The Romulan commander turns and looks upon Kirk's face. Despite Kirk's offer to beam aboard any survivors, the Romulan commander informs him that it is not the Romulan way. He then says, with admiration, "I regret that we meet in this way. You and I are of a kind. In a different reality, I could have called you friend," and as the last part of his duty, he sets the Romulan ship to self-destruct. Kirk watches regretfully as the ship is destroyed. Kirk goes to sickbay and discovers that not only did Spock fire the phasers, but he also rescued Stiles. Stiles is humbled and amazed that Spock saved his life after everything he had said to him. Unfortunately, Spock was unable to save Robert Tomlinson. Kirk is then forced to console his grief-stricken fiancée, Angela Martine, while she stands alone in the chapel. "It never makes any sense. We both have to know that there was a reason," Kirk says softly to Martine. She tearfully assures the captain that she will be fine and leaves. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2266 Memorable quotes "Since the days of the first wooden vessels, all ship masters have had one happy privilege: that of uniting two people in the bonds of matrimony." - Kirk, in the chapel "I had no idea that history was your specialty." "Family history." - Kirk and Stiles, on the Romulan War "Their war, Mister Stiles. Not yours." - Kirk, after Stiles lists his family losses in the Romulan War "Happy wedding day, almost." "You won't get off my hook this easily. I'm going to marry you, mister. Battle or phaser weapons notwithstanding." - Tomlinson and Angela, in the phaser control room "Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge." - Kirk, to Stiles, after he implies that Spock could be a Romulan spy "That Earth outpost sent word to an Earth vessel, now it follows." "Which neither retreats nor grows near, which turns as we turn. Commander, it is our judgment that we run from a reflection." "Perhaps so, but my judgment prevails." - Romulan commander and Romulan bridge officer "He has friends. And friends of his kind mean power. And power is danger." "Danger and I are old companions." - Romulan centurion and Romulan commander, after Decius is demoted in rank "Not too soon for me to see the stars of home." - Romulan commander, to the centurion "War is never imperative, Mister Spock." "It is for them, Doctor. Vulcan, like Earth, had its aggressive, colonizing period; savage, even by Earth standards. And if the Romulans retained this martial philosophy, then weakness is something we dare not show." - McCoy and Spock, after the latter agrees with Stiles on attacking the Romulans "I wish I were on a long sea voyage somewhere. Not too much deck tennis, no frantic dancing. And no responsibility." - Kirk to McCoy, on the Romulan incursion "In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million earth-type planets… and in all the universe, three million million galaxies like this one. And in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us. Don't destroy the one named Kirk." - McCoys advice to Kirk "He's a sorcerer, that one! He reads the thoughts in my brain!" - Romulan commander to Decius, on Kirk "You and I are of a kind. In a different reality, I could have called you friend." - Romulan commander to Kirk, after the Romulan ship is disabled "We are creatures of duty, Captain. I have lived my life by it. Just one more duty to perform." - Romulan commanders last words "It never makes any sense. We both have to know that there was a reason." - Kirk to Martine, on Tomlinson's death Background information Production timeline Theatrical premiere of "The Enemy Below": Theatrical premiere of "Run Silent, Run Deep": Story outline by Paul Schneider: Revised Story outline: , First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: Revised teleplay by John D.F. Black: Second revised teleplay by Black: Final draft teleplay by Gene Roddenberry: Revised final draft teleplay: Additional revisions: , , , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 3 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 4 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Chapel (redress of Transporter room), Phaser control room (redress of Engineering) Day 5 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Kirk's quarters, Briefing room, Sickbay, Corridors Day 6 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. McCoy's office, Romulan bridge Day 7 – , Thursday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Romulan bridge Original airdate: Rerun date: First UK airdate: Remastered airdate: Story and script The plot of this episode is based on the 1957 film , with the Enterprise taking the part of the American destroyer and the Bird-of-Prey with its cloaking device taking the part of the submarine. (The Star Trek Compendium 4th ed., p. 40) Director Vincent McEveety had seen the film but only noticed the similarity later, when this was pointed out to him. He commented, "Obviously, it's the same story." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 34) Star Trek: The Original Series 365 (p. 063) suggests that Schneider may have also been inspired by another submarine film, . The authors note that the film contains a similar plot thread of an officer longing for vengeance, as well as the tactic of releasing wreckage and bodies from a damaged vessel in order to mislead the opposing ship. The Star Trek Compendium (5th edition, p. 40) also mentions this film as the inspiration along with The Enemy Below. The "Revised Final Draft" of the script was disseminated on 18 July 1966. (Cover) A portion (scene 46) with the doomed Commander Hansen was filmed but cut from the final episode. In it, Hansen informed Kirk that the Romulan vessel is of "starship design" and that the Romulans had probably stolen Earth designs via espionage and traitors. This is the basis for Stiles' remarks in scene 52 about a vessel "remarkably similar to ours" and having Romulan spies aboard the Enterprise, which was aired and before he even knew what Romulans looked like. A shot filmed for scene 171 but cut from the finished episode shows Kirk saluting the Romulan commander, which the latter acknowledges with a courteous nod, before destroying his ship. Production The music featured during the opening scenes of the wedding ceremony is the 19th century English tune "Long, Long Ago." Although phasers are used throughout the episode, the visual effect seen is that which later was used for photon torpedo launches, probably because the term "photon torpedo" was not invented until later in the season, in . Kirk orders the phasers to be "set for proximity blast"; each phaser blast acts like a Navy depth charge. This is the only time in the series that the Below decks Phaser weapons room is seen. The Making of Star Trek and The Star Trek Compendium (4th ed., p. 40) state that the ship's chapel was a redress of the transporter room. Inside Star Trek: The Real Story (pp. 170-171), states that it is, instead, a redress of the briefing room. The trailer includes footage of the Enterprise firing its phasers from instead of the "blast-like" phaser effect seen in the actual episode. Cast Regular first season extra Ron Veto gets his only close-up in TOS, when he replaces Stiles at the navigation console. Two of the actors playing Romulans in this episode later played Vulcan characters, namely Mark Lenard (Sarek) and Lawrence Montaigne (Stonn). Costumes The Romulan helmets shown aboard the Romulan bridge were designed to cover the ears of the actors. This saved the additional cost of creating prosthetic ear-points for each of the supporting actors. They were reused in (on Vulcans) and for the same reason. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 173) The rarely seen command work utility jumpsuit is worn by several crew members in this episode. Continuity This episode saw the introduction of the Romulan Star Empire in Star Trek. Paul Schneider is credited with creating the Romulans. Schneider remarked, "It was a matter of developing a good Romanesque set of admirable antagonists that were worthy of Kirk. I came up with the concept of the Romulans which was an extension of the Roman civilization to the point of space travel, and it turned out quite well." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 34) Schneider's next contribution was . Associate producer / story editor John D.F. Black said about Schneider, "He was the father of the Romulans. Not Gene, not me, not anyone else – but Paul Schneider. And when he came up with the Romulan characters, they were so wonderful – I mean, they were full. I liked that script a lot." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, p. 217) "Balance of Terror" introduces cloaking devices to the Star Trek universe. While this episode suggests that they are a new development in interstellar history, and establish that Starfleet has encountered Suliban and Klingon cloaks in the past (2151 and 2256, respectively). This is the only time in which the ship's weaponry is fired through a chain of commands (Kirk, to Stiles, to phaser room), although comes close with Bailey's phaser drills. When Kirk requests communication with the Romulan flagship, Uhura opens a hailing frequency from the navigation console, which seems unusual. However, when she left the communications station, Uhura had shut down most of the light indicators, which could indicate a transfer of functionality to the navigator's position. This is not the first time the navigation console has been used to open communications. In and , when Captain Christopher Pike and Captain Kirk, respectively, want to "address intercraft," the system is opened from the navigation console. This apparently is also true in the alternate reality, because in , is able to address the crew of the from his position at navigation. As an homage, Captain Picard's wedding remarks in are almost the same as those Kirk uses. () An alternate timeline version of the events of this episode is shown in , in which Christopher Pike remains captain of the Enterprise, while Kirk is present as captain of the . This episode contains the first mention of Romulus's neighboring planet Remus, which later appears prominently in . Preview The preview contains a Captain's Log recorded solely for the preview: "Captain's log, stardate 1710.0. The starship Enterprise is under heavy attack by an enemy vessel." Reception McEveety recalled, "[Kirk and the Romulan commander] were very heroic characters pitted one against the other, and it dealt with the length to which people would go for their honor. It was a morality fantasy play, but terribly gripping. I thought that Mark Lenard's performance was brilliant, as was Bill Shatner's. It was a two-people show that I felt was real strong." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 34) Mark Lenard said, "The Romulan Commander was one of the best roles I ever had on TV." Comparing the part with that of Sarek, Lenard elaborated, "In many ways, I did enjoy that role [Sarek], but I think the more demanding role and the better acting role was the Romulan Commander". (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, p. 217) Gene Roddenberry picked this as one of his ten favorite episodes for the franchise's 25th anniversary. (TV Guide, August 31, 1991) According to the original showrunner of , Bryan Fuller, the events of "Balance of Terror" were to provide a "touchstone" for the series. However, since Fuller left the series during its development, it is unclear what exactly this was supposed to entail. The Romulans have not been seen or mentioned on Discovery thus far, though Romulus was mentioned in . In , Ted Sullivan described the Discovery episode as "'Balance of Terror' good". Apocrypha In the James Blish adaptation of this story, presumably based on an earlier draft of the script, Stiles dies. In addition, Robert Tomlinson and Angela Martine actually marry, in a second ceremony late in the story. When the Enterprise fires on the Romulan ship for the final time, the latter explodes immediately, with the conversation between Kirk and the Romulan commander being omitted. In the William Shatner The Return, where Kirk is resurrected by a Borg/Romulan alliance to kill Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the Romulan alliance is arranged by the granddaughter of the Romulan commander of this mission, convinced that Starfleet are brutal murderers and seeking revenge for her grandfather's death at Kirk's hands. The story of the events on Romulus leading up to this episode are told in the "". A different background to this episode is told in the novella The First Peer and the novel Summon the Thunder, where Vrax is the Praetor who authorized the Neutral Zone incursion. In the novel Headlong Flight, an experiment in dimensional displacement results in the of the "prime" universe – over a decade after – encountering both an alternate version of the – from a year after the Battle of Wolf 359, in a timeline which ended with the death of Picard/Locutus of Borg – and a trio of Romulan ships from this era, in a timeline where the Romulan ship depicted here apparently destroyed Kirk's Enterprise in the final showdown. Remastered information "Balance of Terror" was the first episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air, though in some markets it was preceded by . It premiered in syndication on the weekend and most notably featured shots of the comet, Romulan plasma torpedo, and Bird-of-Prey, as well as of the Enterprise and Bird-of-Prey "adrift".The next remastered to air was .Video and DVD releases US CED VideoDisc release: US LaserDisc release: Original US Betamax/VHS release: Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 5, catalog number VHR 2250, release date unknown Japan LaserDisc release: US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 1.3, As part of the US VHS collection Star Trek - The Greatest Battles: As part of the UK VHS collection Star Trek - Greatest Battles: Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 4, As part of the TOS Season 1 DVD collection As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Captain's Log DVD collection As part of the TOS Season 1 HD DVD collection As part of The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series DVD collection As part of the TOS Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock Mark Lenard as a Romulan Commander Co-starring Paul Comi as Lawrence Montaigne as Decius Featuring DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Rand George Takei as Sulu James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Stephen Mines as Tomlinson Barbara Baldavin as Angela Garry Walberg as Hansen And John Warburton as The Centurion Uncredited co-stars John Arndt as Fields William Blackburn as Hadley Robert Chadwick as a Romulan scope operator Frank da Vinci as Brent Walt Davis as Romulan crewman 1 Vince Deadrick as Romulan crewman 2 Jeannie Malone as a yeoman Sean Morgan as Brenner Eddie Paskey as Leslie Ron Veto as Harrison Unknown actors as Bobby Command crewman Command crew woman 1 Command crew woman 2 Command lieutenant Crewman 1 Crewman 2 Medical technician Operations crewman Wedding attendee 1 Wedding attendee 2 Wedding attendee 3 Stunts Vince Deadrick (double) Allen Jaffe (stunt) Stand-ins William Blackburn as the stand-in for DeForest Kelley Frank da Vinci as the stand-in for Leonard Nimoy Jeannie Malone as the stand-in for Grace Lee Whitney Eddie Paskey as the stand-in for William Shatner References 2156; 2160; ability; Achilles' heel; act of war; adversary; "all decks alert"; "all hands"; amen; analysis; answer; area; assignment; assumption; asteroid; atomic weapon; battle stations; battle status; bearing; best man; bigotry; bird-of-prey; blip; body; bonds of matrimony; book; "Bones"; brain; briefing room; campaign; candelabra; carelessness; ; centurion; century; chance; commander; channel; chapel; cloaking system; code; coffee; command base; Command base nearest to Neutral Zone; comet; comet tail; command order; composition; comrade; condition red; conduit; conscience; contact; control circuit; couch; Cryptography; customer; ; damage report; dancing; danger; death; debris; deck; decode; deflector shield; disposal tube; distance; dust; duty; Earth; Earth Outpost Station; Earth-Romulan War; emergency call; emergency warp; enemy; ; escape maneuver one; estimate (estimating); evasive maneuvers (aka evasive action); family history; face-to-face; feeling; flagship; friend; fuel; fuel reserve; "full astern"; Galaxy Quadrant YX-12-114; galley; green; hailing frequency; heading (aka course); "Here Comes the Bride" (aka "Bridal Chorus"); history; homeland; hour; Human; Icarus IV; idea; identification; impact; implosion; impulse; interception course; intruder; invisibility screen; iron; junior officer; lab; lateral power; lectern; light; magnitude; ; master; match; maximum warp; memory; metal; meter; mile; minute; Milky Way Galaxy; million; mission; mistake; mister; motion sensor; navigator; Neutral Zone Incursion; no quarter; nuclear warhead; obedience; object; "of course"; opinion; order; "out of reach"; outpost station; Outpost 1; Outpost 2; Outpost 3; Outpost 4; Outpost 5; Outpost 6; Outpost 7; Outpost 8; overload; parallel course; patrol; phaser control room (aka phaser room, phaser control); phaser coolant; phaser coolant seal; phaser crew; phaser weapon; philosophy; plasma; plasma torpedo; plastaform; playing dead; power consumption; praetor; Praetor's flagship; probability; proof; protective shield; proximity fuse; question; radiation burn; range; rank; rank reduction; reality; Remus; ; risk; rodinium; Romii; Romulan Star Empire; Romulans; Romulan Bird-of-Prey; Romulan Neutral Zone; Romulan praetor; Romulus system; Romulus; rule of silence; salute; savage; science; sea; second; Sector Z-6; security alert; sensor (sensing device); sensor probe; sensor range; services; session; shipmaster; sighting; signal for war; sneak attack; sorcerer; space recorder; Space Service; space vessel; specialist; speaker; spy; "stand by"; standby alert; standby crew; starboard; star sector; (Captain); (Commander); (Commander); Stiles family; subject; subspace radio; superior officer; surrender; survivor; Table of Comets''; tactic; tactical report; tape; telepathy; television camera device; tennis; theory; thing; thought; transfer coil; Treaty of 2160; trick; velocity; victory; viewing screen; Visual communication; Vulcans; Vulcan (planet); Vulcan history; weapons control; weapons crew; wedding day; wooden vessel Unreferenced material bird; bull; chest pain; creature; ; a medicine; seat-harness; terrier External links de:Spock unter Verdacht es:Balance of Terror fr:Balance of Terror (épisode) it:La navicella invisibile (episodio) ja:宇宙基地SOS（エピソード） nl:Balance of Terror pl:Balance of Terror sv:Balance of Terror TOS episodes

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Norway class

The Norway-class was a type of Federation starship in service with Starfleet during the 2370s. Armament included a phaser emitter mounted on the dorsal . The keel of the ship class resembled the hull of the . In 2373, at least four Norway-class vessels saw action at the Battle of Sector 001. () Ships commissioned Named (NCC-64923) Unnamed Unnamed Norway-class starships Appendices Appearances () () Background information Studio model The Norway-class starship was one of the four CGI models designed by Alex Jaeger, once referred to by him as being "Voyager–esque", for the Battle of Sector 001 in . (American Cinematographer, December 1996, p. 70) A single CGI rendering of the model was featured in the reference book Star Trek: The Next Generation Sketchbook: The Movies (p. 122). During pre-production of the film, the producers approved alternative backups for ship names and registries. The ship scale sheet showing the back-up names and registries can be found on . The CGI model of the Norway-class was constructed at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) by Larry Tan and Paul Theren, executed in the software for animation, and software for the model itself. One year later, ILM was requested by Paramount Pictures to hand over their CGI models made for First Contact – the Norway amongst them – to Digital Muse for reprogramming in the software, in preparation for use in the upcoming season six episode , but the Norway design was never again featured. One of the apparent factors for the model of the Norway not appearing in later productions following First Contact, was according to DS9 Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes at the conclusion of Deep Space Nines sixth season, that "the Norway needs to be resurfaced and modified," further stating that it "may be done on later episodes." This was apparently never completed, and, as rumor had it, the CGI files for the Norway were either lost or corrupted , the latter the more likely as it was something Stipes himself hinted at in an earlier , "I believe we removed the Norway-class for technical reasons". Stipes made that comment on the occasion of the Deep Space Nine season five finale episode , where Jaeger's other designs made their first reappearance in a live-action production. Unlike his three other ship designs, this made First Contact the only CGI appearance of the Norway design in the live-action franchise. Though the class has never appeared on-screen again as a model since Star Trek: First Contact, it did re-appear as a display graphic in and . The latter display prop, which clearly reads "", was later sold as in the August 2007 It's A Wrap! sale and auction for US $2,025. The Deep Space Nine transparency was lifted from Doug Drexler's art he made for representation of the class in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual (p. 154). Representations of the Norway-class were for the aforementioned reasons conspicuously absent from any later official franchise publications and/or productions until 2015; for the British partwork publication Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, a new CGI model had to be constructed from the ground up for representation in that publication – adhering to the specifications as given in the Deep Space Nine Technical Manual – , a chore that was handled by Digital Modeler Fabio Passaro, giving fans finally a detailed close-up look at the hitherto ethereal starship class. In the magazine, the upper side of the ship shows the six mentioned phaser cannons, but looking at the underside, there are three additional phaser cannons on the underside, one being lighted with the bit NCC-64923 at the front, and two at the back-edges near the position-lights, as well as a possible fourth one right between the hangar-doors, giving the Norway-class at least nine instead of six phaser-cannons, when comparing the naming of the armament in the overview-page with the underside of the ship. Technical Manual The following specifications and defenses come from the reference book Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual (p. 154): Production Base: ASDB Integration Section, Spacedock 1, Earth Type: Medium Cruiser Accommodation: 190 officers and crew; 500 personnel evacuation limit Power Plant: One 1,500 plus Cochrane warp core feeding two nacelles; one impulse system Dimensions: Length, 364.77 meters; beam, 225.61 meters; height, 52.48 meters Mass: 622,000 metric tons Performance: Warp 9.7 for 12 hours Armament: Six type-10 phaser emitters; two photon torpedo launchers Apocrypha In the video game Star Trek: Starfleet Command III, it was stated that a Norway-class starship had a crew complement of 337 personnel, including three passengers and fourteen dependents. Norway-class ship names in Starfleet Command III: USS Aliyah USS Assawari USS De Ruyter USS Defence USS Glorie USS Groton USS Iowa USS Kortenauer USS Medina USS Meko USS Michigan USS Mikasa USS Missouri USS Naken USS North Carolina USS Norway USS Olympia USS Pervenetz USS Piorun USS Vosper USS Warspite The Norway-class is also a playable ship in Star Trek: Legacy. The DS9 novel Sacraments of Fire established that the Norway-class remained in service in the 2380s, with the patrolling the Federation border in the in 2385. The novella Olympus Descending in Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine stated that Norway-class starships have large shuttlebays that can house short and long-range shuttlecraft, shuttlepods, work bees, support modules, maintenance platforms, and runabouts. Further reading Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 61, December 2015 External link cs:Třída Norway de:Norway-Klasse ja:ノルウェー級 nl:Norway klasse Federation starship classes Memory Alpha articles named from supplementary resources

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Defiant class

The Defiant-class battleship, officially an escort vessel, began development in 2366 as a small, highly powered, heavily armed warship intended to defend the against the Borg. The was the prototype of what was to be a new Federation battle fleet. However, the ship had numerous design problems that were made apparent during its shakedown cruise. These flaws, combined with the decreased urgency of the Borg threat, caused Starfleet to table its plans for a battle fleet and put the Defiant in storage. () The Defiant prototype was pulled out of storage in 2371 when the Dominion threat emerged. After several upgrades by Deep Space 9 Chief of Operations Miles O'Brien, the ship was subsequently deemed worthy of use and more ships of the class were constructed. (; ) History While Starfleet had participated in numerous battles and engagements in it's history, it had largely fought those battles with the ships they had available. The Defiant-class starship was a heavily armed, limited-role vessel: the first true "warship" Starfleet had ever designed. It was developed in response to the Borg threat as originally encountered at System J-25 in 2365. () After initial and hostile first contact with the Borg, Starfleet did what it hadn't done in decades, place greater emphasis on defense of the Federation, including the incorporation of war game exercises. () Likewise, Starfleet Tactical threw every resource it had into the project, where it drafted plans for weapon system designs capable of fighting against the Borg. () In 2366, Starfleet also began to explore the possibility of building a new class of starship that had "no families, no science labs, no luxuries of any kind, and existed simply to "to fight and defeat the Borg". () By mid-year, Shelby had taken over the tactical analysis aspect of the entire project, and over a year after initial contact, the majority of Starfleet's new designs were still on the drawing board and were at least twenty-four months from completion. () Shortly after the massacre at Wolf 359, Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Sisko joined the development team at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards and the prototype was build. () The Defiant-class was heavily armored and incorporated the latest in Starfleet weaponry and defensive technology and was equipped with a class-7 warp drive. The Defiant was considerably smaller than most other Federation starships. Despite the ship's compact size, she was packed to the brim with equipment designed for larger starships. () The prototype Defiant performed poorly on its shakedown cruise. The vessel was overpowered and overgunned for a ship of its size; so much so that the Defiant nearly shook itself apart when the engines were tested at full . These design flaws, combined with the decreased urgency of the Borg threat, led Starfleet to abandon the project and put the prototype away in storage. () The Dominion threat discovered in 2370 led Benjamin Sisko, now the commanding officer of starbase Deep Space 9, to pull the prototype vessel out of storage. The ship was assigned to his station and it was officially christened that same year on stardate 47538.5. The prototype was then equipped with a Romulan cloaking device, the only Federation starship to posses such technology as the result of an amendment to the Treaty of Algeron. () Thanks to the efforts of Chief O'Brien, many of the original ship's design flaws, such as its structural integrity field, were fixed. (Defiant dedication plaque; ) At some point Starfleet eventually decided to put the Defiant-class into full production. By the end of 2373, there were a significant number of Defiant-class ships in operation, and over the next two years, they played a vital role in the Dominion War. (DS9 Season 7; ) In 2373, the USS Defiant was given a chance to do what it had been designed for when it participated in the Battle of Sector 001, where a Federation fleet engaged a single Borg cube on its way to assimilate Earth. As the cube approached Earth, the Defiant, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Worf, was disabled by a tractor beam strike after having sustained massive battle damage. With the ship's main power and defensive systems offline, Worf prepared to ram it into the Borg cube when the arrived to assist the tattered Federation fleet. As the Enterprise entered the battle, the Defiant lost life support after sustaining another hit from the Borg tractor beam, and the survivors were transported onboard the Enterprise. Shortly after the Borg cube was destroyed, Captain Picard noted that the Defiant, despite being adrift, was salvageable. () The USS Defiant was destroyed by a Breen ship in 2375, during the Second Battle of Chin'toka. Another Defiant-class ship, the , was then assigned to Deep Space 9. Given the USS Defiants exceptional record under Captain Benjamin Sisko's command, the Chief of Starfleet Operations gave a special dispensation to change the ship's name to Defiant. On this ship, the shield generators were completely reconfigured so that they would not be affected by the Breen's energy-dampening weapon. However unlike the original Defiant, this ship was not equipped with a cloaking device. This new Defiant played a distinguished role in the final battle with the Dominion at Cardassia Prime, and remained stationed at Deep Space 9 by the end of 2375. () Schematics of the ship were also part of the standard library computer, with images of the class appearing in the LCARS files of the and the holographic files of the . (; ) Knowledge of this class was retained well into the 31st century, as demonstrated when Captain Jonathan Archer and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed viewed schematics on the class in the 22nd century while accessing the database belonging to temporal agent . () Technical data Propulsion systems The warp core spanned three decks in the aft section of the ship. The class-7 warp drive was extremely powerful for a ship of this size, and as such, Defiant-class vessels put out a warp signature equivalent to much larger starships. () The propulsion systems of the Defiant-class were overpowered for her size, to the extent that the original configuration would rip the ship in half if run above warp 9. () This flaw contributed to the mothballing of the prototype. () Despite this issue being resolved after the prototype was deployed to DS9, some ships produced later, such as the , still suffered from similar issues. () When energy was diverted from the weapons' ready reserves, a Defiant-class ship could achieve the speed of warp 9.5. () The large power signature of the engines proved taxing for the USS Defiants cloaking device, and remaining concealed initially required stopping and powering down the ship, although this issue was later addressed. () Tactical systems Phaser cannons A total of four phaser cannon assemblies were located in forward-facing locations on board Defiant-class vessels. The cannons were located above and below the nacelle root attachments on the main body on both port and starboard sides of the ship. The plasma conduit ran through the primary phaser coupling, almost doubling the power of the phaser cannons. (, et al.) These cannons had a much higher damage output compared to standard phasers. () Phaser emitters The standard phaser beam emitters aboard Defiant-class vessels served as a secondary supplement to the primary phaser cannon array. The Defiant-class was equipped with at least three emitters: one each forward and aft, as well as one behind the bridge on the dorsal surface. (; ) These arrays were included to allow the Defiant to engage multiple targets simultaneously, protect against enemies to the rear, and to allow it to perform strafing runs, all of which could not be accomplished by the forward-facing phaser cannons. (; ) The Defiant-class vessels' deflector arrays could also be refitted into a makeshift phaser emitter, providing one-shot capability in extreme emergency. The phaser emission was generated by the nose/deflector unit. () Torpedo launchers Defiant-class vessels had a total of six torpedo launchers, four forward and two aft. The four forward launchers were located on the hull just ahead of each of the warp nacelles in dorsal and ventral pairs. () The two aft torpedo launchers were tucked in near the back end of the warp nacelles. () These torpedo launchers allowed the ship to fire both quantum torpedoes and photon torpedoes. (, etc.) Mines While it was presumably never intended, the Defiant-class shuttle bay could be converted to allow the ship to lay mines. () Deflector shields The Defiant-class was equipped with deflector shields. During the Dominion War, after the destruction of the first USS Defiant, the Federation fleet was modified to be immune to Breen energy-dampening weapon technology. () Ablative armor At least one Defiant-class vessel, the experimental prototype, was equipped with ablative armor. () As late as 2372, Starfleet Operations had not been informed that the Defiant had been so equipped. () Cloaking device A special amendment to the Treaty of Algeron allowed the USS Defiant to be fitted with a Romulan cloaking device. () The Romulans loaned and allowed the limited supervised use of at least one cloaking device. Operation of the cloaking device was to be limited to the Gamma Quadrant and in return, the Federation provided the Romulans any and all intelligence collected in the Gamma Quadrant and about the Dominion. () The USS Defiant was the only Federation ship to be seen regularly operating a cloaking device. () After the Defiant was destroyed by the Breen, her replacement, the former USS Sao Paulo, was not equipped with a new cloaking device. () Interior design Due to the militaristic nature of the Defiant-class starship, the interior design was the most spartan in Starfleet. With her role as a warship first and foremost, the Defiant eschewed most of the typical living, recreational and leisure amenities enjoyed on typical Starfleet vessels. The ship possessed no holodecks, no lounges or recreation centers, no arboretums, no accommodations for families or civilians; the ship's mess hall was small and doubled as its sole informal meeting venue. The Defiant class had four decks. Deck 1: main bridge, captain's ready room, transporter room 1, phaser cannons (2), upper main engineering, plasma exhaust vents, upper sensor array, officer and crew quarters, deuterium storage. () Deck 2: lower main engineering, main impulse engines, computer core, targeting sensors, mess hall, warp coils, sickbay, medical and science laboratory, transporter room 2, officer and crew quarters, warhead control room. () Deck 3: main impulse engines, warhead impulse engines, shuttlebays 1-3, antimatter storage, cargo bays 1-4, airlocks (2), aft torpedo magazine, warp coils, shuttle and cargo management unit maintenance. () Deck 4: landing struts, navigational deflector, phaser cannons (2), forward and aft torpedo magazines, aft torpedo launchers (2), forward torpedo launcher (1), lower sensor array, shuttlebay 1-2 exterior doors and elevator system, main tractor beam emitter. () Main bridge The bridge layout of the Defiant was compact, but nonetheless accommodated the familiar engineering, tactical, science, conn, and ops stations. The main bridge acted as the nerve center of the vessel, and the entire module was sunken into a much larger Deck 1 than on most Federation starships to provide added protection during combat situations. Access to the bridge was provided by two doorways at the back, located on both port and starboard sides. Just forward of the starboard entryway was the location of the ship's dedication plaque, as well as an auxiliary computer access panel. The port side of the bridge housed the engineering and tactical I stations, while the starboard side featured the science and tactical II consoles. Because of its nearly exclusive role as a combat vessel, stations aboard Defiant-class vessels were designed with speed in mind. The center of the bridge featured the lone captain's chair, which was on a raised platform and had a clear view of all bridge stations, as well as of the main viewscreen. On both sides of the command chair were separate control panels, allowing the occupant access to virtually every system aboard the ship. Between the command chair and the viewscreen was an integrated flight control and operations panel, capable of performing the joint duties of those stations' larger counterparts on other Federation starships. Like all of the bridge stations on Defiant, the conn had been designed for maximum speed and efficiency of commands input by the operator, allowing the craft to be handled almost like a fighter when under the hands of a skilled pilot. The engineering station allowed for a direct link to the impulse and warp engines, as well as monitoring of the other various systems vital to the operation of the ship. This single station was capable of mirroring all the readouts and consoles located in main engineering, allowing the chief engineer or another engineering officer to issue commands from the bridge. Mirroring the engineering station on the port side of the bridge was the science station. Normally occupied by the ship's chief science officer, the panels and readouts on this station allowed direct access to the ship's sensor systems. While the ship was not built for scientific or exploration missions in mind, it was capable of taking high resolution scans of both natural and artificial phenomena, engaging in scientific investigation; this station played a vital role during reconnaissance missions. Flanking both sides of the viewscreen were two tactical stations, which had primary access to the ship's powerful phaser cannons, torpedo launchers and various other special ordnance packages. Working closely with conn, the officers stationed at these consoles were responsible for firing the various weapons aboard Defiant-class vessels during combat operations. The purpose of the tactical II station was to lighten the load on its sister station, particularly in battle. Some time after the commission of the Defiant-class in 2371, various aspects of the bridge were redesigned. The captain's chair area was redone to remove the fencing and add new consoles, the dedication plaque was moved to the starboard door area, and additional consoles were added to the side stations and the rear wall. () Some time in 2373, Starfleet vessels were fitted with new holo-communicator technology. A holographic projector on the bridge could create a holographic simulation of the communique. () This technology was only briefly in service, as it proved inefficient and had minimal advantages compared to communicating via viewscreen. Medical facilities The main sickbay was located on Deck 2 between the mess deck and science labs. Containing four biobeds, this room served as the primary crew support facility during emergency situations. The room was equipped with limited surgical facilities and was primarily intended merely to stabilize patients until they could be delivered to a nearby friendly Starbase medical facility. In its limited role as a reconnaissance starship, the Defiant-class was equipped with two dedicated science and medical labs for field testing and investigations. These rooms mirrored their counterparts on larger Federation starships by making use of scaled down devices that could commonly be found on those ships. () Main engineering Main engineering on the Defiant-class was situated on Deck 1 with the lower section on Deck 2. The Master Situation Monitor was located in the starboard wall bulkhead. The warp core was placed on an elevated platform in the center of the compartment, opposite the control consoles. Ships of the Defiant-class were equipped with a class-7 warp drive. Crew berthing Overall, crew quarters aboard Defiant-class vessels were the most austere in Starfleet, neither sizeable nor aesthetically laid-out when compared to other ships in the fleet. In keeping with its tactical layout, accommodations were simplistic. Each cabin was equipped with one replicator port and one standard computer terminal. With emphasis towards the tactical systems being the foremost priority in the vessel designers' minds, crewmembers had to share their quarters with at least one other crewmate during normal times of operation. To this end, standard crew quarters had two stacking bunks fitted into the walls of each cabin. Only the ship's commanding officer was given his own room on Deck 1, which doubled as an informal ready room. Mess deck Ships of the Defiant-class lacked any sort of recreational facilities, and the only place for informal gathering were the two mess deck areas located on the port side of Deck 2. Like all the rooms and materials aboard the ship, the mess deck was compact and functional. At the head of the room were three open slots that served as dispensers for the replicators. A counter extended from the underside and was used for the placement of trays, mugs and eating utensils. Seating inside the mess deck was provided by four metallic tables arranged in a semicircle at the wider end of the room. These tables were approximately one meter square, and each had four stools connected to its legs. In addition, the mess deck doubled as a makeshift meeting area that could be used to conduct crew briefings and mission profiles. A tall screen panel located on one of the walls could be used as a visual aid to display tactical graphics. () Transporter rooms Defiant-class ships were equipped with two transporter compartments, one located on Deck 1 and the other on Deck 2. Again, the compact nature of the Defiant-class meant the transporter pads were much smaller than the sort found on and starships and could not accommodate as many people at one time. () Cargo hold The cargo hold was where the ship's supplies were kept. () Ships commissioned Named (NX-74205) (NCC-75633), renamed USS Defiant (NX-74205) (NCC-74210) Unnamed Unnamed Defiant-class starships Mirror universe Appendices Appearances TNG films: Background information According to Ronald D. Moore the Defiant did not have a detachable saucer section. Design In the final draft script for "The Search", the physical appearance of the Defiant-class was initially described thus; "The ship should look a little clunky compared to other Federation vessels we've seen – this ship was built primarily for battle, not exploration or science." The Defiant-class was designed by James Martin under the direction of Herman Zimmerman and Gary Hutzel. According to Martin, the initial instruction for the designers was that it was a "beefy runabout." His initial designs based upon this guideline, however, were not accepted by the producers. Martin next turned to more traditional starship designs, but Zimmerman told him that a completely new look was needed, like nothing ever seen on Star Trek before. Ultimately, Martin went to a design he had done for a Maquis fighter for the episode , and he brought it to the producers, who approved it as the basis for the Defiant-class. After tweaking the design a little, Martin gave the schematic to model maker Tony Meininger who, along with his Brazil Fabrications, was given the nod to bring the design to life. The main problem with the design at that stage was that it didn't look fast enough, so Meininger, a car enthusiast, got some posters of Ferraris and used them to help him design the "streamlined" look of the ship, making it very compact and sleek. Indeed, Herman Zimmerman has stated that the compact design of the Defiant-class influenced the design of for . He also pointed out, "It was very clear it could not look like NCC-1701-A, B, C, D. It was to be an entirely new ship." (The USS Defiant, DS9 Season 3 DVD special features; ; ; ) The CGI Defiant, as it appeared in First Contact, was built by Vision Art and rendered by Industrial Light & Magic. For DS9, a digital model of the Defiant was built by Digital Muse, which was then borrowed by the visual effects artists of Star Trek: Voyager, as and when required. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 80) A CGI Defiant was also used in DS9's title sequence. Stock visual effects shots were used for both the prototype USS Defiant and its substitute. () The studio model of the Defiant, measuring 37" × 27", was sold at the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection auction on for US$85,000 (US$102,000 with buyer's premium). Additionally, several white foam core camera test models were sold on It's A Wrap! sale and auction, selling at prices ranging from US$27.00 to US$384.00. Several pieces of Martin's revised sketches of the Defiant, dated , were also sold on It's A Wrap!, for US$502.00. Size According to Hutzel, during the early development stages of the ship, the Defiant was to be "a new hot battleship that would really set a new standard for an action ship in the series. First, there was lots of talk like 'How big is the Defiant?' Well, we'll make it really small and really powerful, that it would be so powerful and scary, nobody would mess with it." (USS Defiant, DS9 Season 3 DVD special features) According to Doug Drexler, "The size of the Defiant was a hot potato from day one. Rick Berman wanted a small pocket battleship (a couple times longer than a runabout, with the girth of a regular starship), Gary wanted at least 500' [152.4 m]." The scale of the CGI mesh, according to a post in the newsgroup nntp://alt.tv.star-trek.ds9, by DS9 Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes, was 560 feet (170.7 meters), the length used when he blocked shots in DS9. This was also the size established in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual (p. 153). The original MSD that appeared in actually depicted an early concept design and did not represent the final iteration. was later replaced with an accurate MSD in such episodes as , although it was used on displays until the end of Deep Space Nine. Drexler, who was responsible for creating the ship's MSD, rationalized "a 420′ [128.0 m] Defiant." For further analysis on the Defiants scaling, visit the "Defiant Problems" link at Ex Astris Scientia below. Designation Initial drawings described the class as the Valiant-class. Indeed, Drexler even constructed an initial dedication plaque for the Defiant that referred to it as the "Valiant-class," before a new plaque was recreated that simply stated "the first ship of her class." The plaque was later given to Rob Bonchune. Bruce Branit also once referred to the class as "the Valiant-class." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 64) Interior The interior sets of the Defiant were supervised by Herman Zimmerman. According to regular background performer Brian Demonbreun, there were special carpets transferred onto the "normally" seen carpet of the Defiant in scenes including explosions and sparks. All actors, mostly the background performers, who were near those sparks were made wet, with a light moisture film on their hair and uniform. When it came time to film DS9 Season 3 premiere , the relatively small set used as the Defiant challenged the production crew, who had transferred to DS9 from TNG. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 82) They began to find design flaws as soon as they started filming on the new set. "Initially, it was very hard to shoot in the Defiant set," confirmed Director Kim Friedman. () David Livingston added that this was "because we hadn't been in there a lot, and it's cramped; any time you shake the camera or move the camera it takes a lot more time." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 82) With the floor of the Defiants bridge including a central raised platform under the command chair and a frontal raised platform beneath the helmsman's station, the filming workers discovered the bridge, whose layout was permanent, didn't allow for sufficient room to lay a dolly track, which restricted the camera movements. The tight physical restrictions influenced Friedman to watch old World War II films involving "people sitting in cockpits," in an effort to increase her familiarity with methods employed when shooting in constrained places. Another issue was that, since the cloaking device was initially only meant to be used during the "The Search" two-parter, the set was not made with variable lighting; all the light bulbs had to be manually changed (by stopping filming) whenever the cloak was used. When the cloak was kept, this made filming nightmarish and reshoots an exercise in hurry up and wait. Subsequent alterations to the Defiant bridge set made it a lot easier to film in. () DS9 Season 3 finale introduced a Defiant-class engine room and mess hall, which were created as standing sets. "What we did is we amortized the set costs in our amortization account since they're permanent sets," explained David Livingston. Ronald D. Moore was highly pleased with the addition of the new sets. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 99) The same sets were used for both the Defiant and the Valiant. () However, these interiors were intentionally not used for the in (which instead became an ship, permitting the use of the standing sets for ). "We could have reused the Defiant sets once again [as in ], saying the Bellerophon was a Defiant-class ship, but I didn't want to," Ron Moore recalled. () Elaborating on why he opted not to reuse the Defiant-class sets for the Bellerophon, Moore critiqued, "It's always a little bit of a push with the audience when you are doing that, because they know what you are doing. They know you are just using the same sets again, and it gets a little boring." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, Nos. 4/5, p. 76) Technical Manual The was later designed based on the configuration of the Defiant "Pathfinder" vehicle, registry NXP-2365WP/T, included in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual. The following details and specifications come from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual (p. 153): Specifications Production Base: ASDB Integration Facility, Antares Fleet Yards, Antares IV Type: Escort Accommodation: 40 officers and crew; 150 personal evacuation limit Power Plant: One 1,500 plus Cochrane warp core feeding two nacelles; two impulse modules Dimensions: Length, 170.68 meters; beam, 134.11 meters; height: 30.1 meters Mass: 355,000 metric tons Performance: Warp 9.982 for 12 hours Armament: Four pulse phaser cannons; two torpedo launchers Warhead The notched forward hull containing the vessel's navigational deflector and main sensors was a detachable single-use last-resort missile. This missile was equipped with a small impulse engine and a magazine with six torpedo warheads. These torpedo warheads were part of the ship's auto-destruct system and under more normal circumstances could be fired from the forward launcher. Any torpedo warheads left in the magazine would become the missile's warhead upon the missile's separation from the rest of the ship. If no torpedo warheads remained, then the missile would have to rely on kinetic energy alone. The ship would be unable to travel at high warp speeds without the missile since the latter contained the ship's navigational deflector. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual, pp. 132, 134) Apocrypha During the mission "Ambush" in the game Star Trek: Legacy, the USS Defiant was sent to the Etarian Nebula for a test flight of its systems, where the crew found that the Romulans had invaded the nebula waiting for a fugitive. The USS Enterprise-D was sent to rescue the Defiant with three other starships and to neutralize any Romulan threat remaining. The William Shatner series of novels featured another Defiant-class vessel, the . The Monitor boasted several modifications from a standard Defiant-class starship, such a cloaking device and black sensor reflective hull plating. Its warp engines were tuned so the nacelles would emit ultraviolet light instead of the standard red and blue, and the ship had no running lights or hull markings. In Shatner's novel The Return, the Monitor is temporarily renamed Enterprise during a mission to the Borg homeworld using a stolen transwarp drive, commanded by Captains Kirk, Picard, and Spock. The Decipher role-playing supplement Starships lists many other conjectural vessels of this class including the (NCC-74206), (NCC-75636), (NCC-75634), and (NCC-75635). Star Trek Online has Defiant-class vessels available for characters who reach Captain rank or higher as a Tier 4 "Tactical" Escort or Tier 5 "Tactical Escort Retrofit" (the difference being that the Tier 5 variants come equipped with cloaking devices). Other Tier 4 escorts are meant as late 24th and early 25th descendants of the Defiant class, sharing its basic profile – these include the class and class Tactical Escorts. It also has a refit version called the "Tactical Escort Refit" with quad phaser cannons. The game features two NPC Defiant-class starships, the USS Defiant and the . In both Star Trek: Armada and Star Trek: Armada II the ship, in particular the Avenger, carries antimatter mines. A Defiant-class starship appeared as an escort in the video game Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation. The Defiant-class is playable in multiplayer and skirmish modes in the PC and Xbox 360 video game Star Trek: Legacy. Star Trek: Armada II features the following possible names for Defiant-class starships: External links : a comprehensive look at the scaling issues of the Defiant-class - an article by Jim Martin taken from the () and () , the Star Trek LCARS Blueprints Database cs:Třída Defiant de:Defiant-Klasse es:Clase Defiant fr:Classe Defiant ja:ディファイアント級 sv:Defiantklass Federation starship classes Starship classes (mirror)

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Borg species designations

The Borg used numerical species designations to identify various species and cultures they encountered. Appendices Background information Though not explicitly stated, species designations are mostly consistent with being incremental, i.e. each newly encountered species receives a number one higher than the previous one. Some anomalies exist, such as the Alpha Quadrant Ferengi having the low number of 180, which may hint at an early first contact with the Borg under unusual circumstances. Numbers do not appear to be re-used even after the species has been assimilated. Whether the Borg have a designation for themselves is unknown. According to a deleted line from , the Turei were known to the Borg as "Species 532". Likewise the Vaadwaur encountered the Borg in 1484. Apocrypha Several additional species designations are given in non-canon works: External link cs:Borgské označení druhů de:Liste von Spezieskennzeichnungen der Borg es:Designación de las especies (Borg) it:Designazione delle specie (Borg) ja:ボーグの種族識別番号 nl:Borg soortaanduidingen pl:Gatunki Borg Species designations Classifications

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USS Lexington

There have been two Federation starships known to bear the name USS Lexington: , a Constitution-class starship , a Nebula-class starship de:USS Lexington es:USS Lexington fr:Lexington nl:USS Lexington

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USS Challenger (NCC-71099)

The USS Challenger (NCC-71099) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In 2378, the Challenger was one of several starships which intercepted a Borg transwarp conduit that carried the back to the Alpha Quadrant. () In an alternate timeline created after an attempt made by Voyager to use quantum slipstream drive resulted in the ship being destroyed, the Challenger was captained by Geordi La Forge in 2390. The vessel was assigned to pursue and capture the , which had been stolen by former Voyager crewmembers Chakotay and Harry Kim. The Challenger managed to inflict severe damage on the Flyer, causing a warp core breach. However, Harry Kim was successful in transmitting a message to Voyager in the past, giving that ship's crew instructions to collapse the slipstream and avert the disaster. () Appendices Background information According to the , the Challenger was named for the space shuttle orbiter Challenger (OV-099). The registry number, NCC-71099, reflects this tribute. The Challenger was a computer-generated model; its presence during "Endgame" was implied by the fact that the name and registry on the model was left over from "Timeless". Like the , the ship's name was emblazoned below the registry number on the ventral side of its saucer section. The Venture model was the first to do this. The Challenger also appeared in the and Ships of the Line calendars from Pocket Books, although parts of the CGI image were still labeled "Enterprise" and "NCC-1701-D". Apocrypha In the non-canon Pocket TOS The Return by William Shatner (with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens), a Galaxy-class starship Challenger was mentioned existing earlier in 2371. In the novel, the ship was commanded by a Vulcan, Captain Simm, and, docked at Deep Space 9, was the scene of a fight between Jean-Luc Picard and a Borg-assimilated James T. Kirk. Geordi La Forge also assumed command of the Challenger in Star Trek Online in 2397. The Challenger has been seen in and around Earth Spacedock, initially orbiting the station. After an update the Challenger was moved inside the Spacedock. Various ship status signs relating to relevant areas mention the Challenger with her registry, and were updated when the ships where moved. The Challenger took an active role in the game in the mission "Beyond the Nexus" which was added to commemorate the 30th anniversary of . In the mission, the Challenger joins the player in investigating a distress call from a Starfleet vessel which was believed to have been lost while exploring the Nexus in 2332. The Pocket TNG novel Indistinguishable from Magic by David A. McIntee has Geordi La Forge promoted to captain and assuming command of the Challenger in 2384 after its previous commander, Captain Montgomery Scott, retired after the death of his first officer during a battle with marauders and the determination that he failed to meet the minimum service requirements for command by the Challengers chief medical officer, Alyssa Ogawa. Then-commander La Forge was aboard in a detached, temporary role of operations and second officer during a mission to investigate the 's discovery of the (NX-07), assumed destroyed in 2162 by a left-over Romulan mine from the Earth-Romulan War. The Challenger was portrayed in this novel as being a testbed of several experimental systems developed by the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. External link bg:USS Чаленджър (NCC-71099) cs:USS Challenger (NCC-71099) de:USS Challenger (NCC-71099) es:USS Challenger (NCC-71099) fr:USS Challenger (NCC-71099) ja:USSチャレンジャー(NCC-71099) nl:USS Challenger (NCC-71099) Challenger, USS (NCC-71099)

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USS Constellation

There have been three Federation starships known to bear the name USS Constellation: , a Constitution-class starship , a Constellation-class starship , a mid-to-late 24th century starship de:USS Constellation es:USS Constellation fr:Constellation nl:USS Constellation

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USS Dauntless (NX-01-A)

The "USS Dauntless" was an alien starship disguised as a Federation starship that was in service to Starfleet in the late 24th century. Allegedly, the Dauntless was the prototype for its class of starship, launched on Stardate 51472. In mid-2374, while still stranded in the Delta Quadrant, the received a transmission from Starfleet Command via the ancient Hirogen communications network. Although the message contained a number of unencoded personal messages, there was also an encrypted file that the Voyager crew was unable to open. () On Stardate 51978, Voyager encountered an alien named Arturis who had a gift for translating languages, both verbal and visual. He easily decrypted the mysterious message, which gave a set of coordinates near their current location. Upon arrival, the Voyager crew discovered the Dauntless, which activated its quantum slipstream drive when the away team of Chakotay, Tom Paris, and Tuvok boarded it to travel fifteen light years in a few minutes. Although intrigued at the drive's possibilities and its promise of a faster trip home, the Dauntless was relatively minimalist by other Starfleet standards, possessing only one transporter and no replicators, holodecks, or shuttlecraft. Because of the sparse facilities aboard this vessel, Captain Janeway commented that Neelix's skills at cooking and morale building would be much needed. Neelix, for his part, embraced the challenge. While investigating the Dauntless, it soon proved to be an elaborate trap set by Arturis to arrange for the Voyager crew's assimilation by the Borg, with its resemblance to Starfleet technology the result of particle synthesis, an advanced form of replicator technology. Arturis' race had been recently assimilated by the Borg, and Arturis blamed that event on Janeway's short-lived alliance with the Borg against Species 8472. He had assumed that the crew's desire to get home would prompt them to immediately take the ship and use the slipstream to try and get back to Earth, only learning after activating it that it was programmed to take them to his homeworld, now inside Borg space, but past experience and an unwillingness to abandon Voyager prompted the crew to carry out various tests first. After Janeway decoded enough of the original message to reveal that Dauntless was a trap, Arturis attempted to simply take Janeway and Seven of Nine back to Borg space, but Voyager was able to duplicate the slipstream and rescue them, leaving Arturis stranded aboard the Dauntless as it entered Borg space, where he was presumably assimilated. () In 2375, Voyager used the slipstream technology examined aboard the Dauntless to construct their own makeshift slipstream drive. () External link de:USS Dauntless fr:USS Dauntless (NX-01-A) ja:USSドーントレス Dauntless, USS

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Starship

A starship was any manned spacecraft that was capable of viable interstellar travel, i.e. any manned spacecraft that had the ability to transport and support a crew across interstellar distances. Most starships accomplished this via the employment of some form of faster-than-light spacecraft propulsion technology, such as warp drive. Many times, starships were often personified as female by their crew. (, etc.) In the Federation during the 22nd and 23rd centuries, spacecraft, such as those of the , were identified almost exclusively as vessels operated by Starfleet, or as stated by R.M. Merik, "a very special vessel and crew." () Within the Federation, starships were viewed as having the role of protector within the civilian community, as starship captains were given a certain level of authority in the region they patrolled. () Design was also a factor in defining a starship. The configuration of a vessel, as identified by sensor scans, could be used in identifying a starship. () Likewise, a starship could be identified on sensors by its utilization curve, as a vessel utilizing 100% power had the ability to skew sensor readings. () Generally limited to the roles of exploration and defense, starships did not generally transport cargo, unless in the case of an emergency, where they could take on any role. () While discussing his service history with Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Captain Montgomery Scott noted that in his lifetime he had "served aboard eleven ships," including "freighters, cruisers, [and] starships." () By the mid-24th century, though, the exclusivity of the term "starship" had essentially fallen out of use, and was redefined as a term interchangeable with "spaceship" and "spacecraft". (, , ) When the Ferengi Marauder Kreechta was about to target the , after interfering with the battle simulation Operation Lovely Angel, the Ferengi ship's sensor codes were overridden and it was fooled to believe there was "another Federation ship" closing. When it was further revealed that the Federation ship was in fact "a starship," the Ferengi feared that they had been outmaneuvered and quickly retreated. () Appendices See also Galactic starship design Starship classification List of classifications List of starships List of starship classes Background information In The Original Series, the term "starship" was seemingly synonymous with , if not any reference made to any other Starfleet vessels. In at least two instances, the term was applied to two other non-Constitution-class vessels, namely the "old Class J starship" in , and the D7 class in . Contrarily, at least two other alien ships were specifically said not to be starships, the Orion scout ship in , and the Orion vessel in . External links bg:Звезден кораб cs:Hvězdná loď de:Raumschiff fr:Vaisseau spatial it:Nave stellare ja:宇宙艦 nl:Sterrenschip sr:Звјездани брод sv:Stjärnskepp Spacecraft classifications

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USS Defiant (2370)

The USS Defiant (NX-74205) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. This was the prototype of the class and the second Federation ship known to bear the name Defiant. History Origins Development on the Defiant began around 2366 in response to the Borg threat to the Federation. After initial and hostile first contact with the Borg, Starfleet did what it hadn't done in decades, place greater emphasis on Starfleet's essential role in the defense of the Federation. Drafting plans for such a defense required a starship capable of fighting against the Borg. The Federation's devastating defeat in the Battle of Wolf 359, resulting in the loss of nearly 40 ships and 11,000 personnel to a single Borg vessel, proved that the Federation's defenses were horribly inadequate, and plans were spearheaded for the production of a more combat capable starship. Officially classified as an escort vessel, the Defiant was nothing less than Starfleet's first design of a warship intended to combat the Borg. The vessel featured minimal equipment for scientific research and was not designed to accommodate families. () The Defiant did not perform well in its initial trial runs. The vessel was overpowered and over-gunned for a ship of its size – so much so that the Defiant nearly shook itself apart when the engines were tested at full power. Ultimately, these design flaws, combined with the Borg threat becoming less urgent, led Starfleet to the decision to abandon the project and place the prototype in storage. () Service at Deep Space 9 After the was destroyed in late 2370, Commander Benjamin Sisko, who served on the team that designed the Defiant, requested that the vessel be pulled out of storage and assigned to Deep Space 9 to counter a new threat of the Dominion. The vessel was officially launched in 2370, on Stardate 47538.5, from the Antares Ship Yards. Arriving in early 2371, the Defiants first assignment was to attempt to convince the Founders of the Dominion that the Federation posed no threat to them. After a special amendment was made to the Treaty of Algeron, the Romulan Star Empire provided Sub-commander T'Rul and one of their cloaking devices to aid in its mission – in exchange for any intelligence gained on the Dominion. (; Defiant dedication plaque) The mission did not go well for the DS9 crew. Shortly after entering the Gamma Quadrant, the Defiant was attacked by several Jem'Hadar fighters. During a resulting battle, the vessel was boarded, and the senior officers were captured and placed into a simulation to test how Starfleet might react to the Dominion attempting to gain a foothold in the Alpha Quadrant. Ultimately, the crew was discovered by Bajoran Militia officers Major Kira Nerys and Odo, and were allowed to return to DS9 with the Defiant. () DS9's chief of operations, Miles O'Brien, spent two weeks overhauling the Defiants structural integrity field to overcome the ship's design flaws. () Several weeks later, the Defiant transported Lieutenant Jadzia Dax to the Trill to receive medical treatment. () When Major Kira was abducted by the Cardassian Union's Obsidian Order, Commander Sisko took the Defiant into Cardassian space in a rescue attempt. To ensure the Cardassians did not identify the ship, the vessel's shield harmonics were reconfigured to make the Defiant appear to be a Kobheerian freighter. () The Defiant made contact with the planet Meridian during an exploration mission in the Gamma Quadrant. Despite its reportedly limited facilities for scientific analysis, the ship was able to work with the inhabitants of Meridian to analyze the nature of the unusual effect that caused the planet to shift between dimensions and devise a means of stabilizing the effect, with the result that Meridian's next manifestation on the corporeal plane would last for thirty years where it had currently only manifested for twelve days. () Later in 2371, Maquis operative Thomas Riker hijacked the Defiant and used it to attack several Cardassian targets. Commander Sisko was forced to travel to Cardassia Prime with Gul Dukat to help track down the vessel. Although Dukat initially wanted to destroy the Defiant, he agreed to release the vessel and the Maquis crew to Starfleet custody in exchange for the Defiants scans of the Orias system and Riker himself. After facing overwhelming opposition from Obsidian Order forces deployed from the Orias system, Riker ultimately surrendered and the Defiant was returned to DS9. () Later the same year, the Defiant visited Earth, where the vessel's senior staff was to attend the Annual Starfleet Symposium on the current situation in the Gamma Quadrant. The ship was briefly caught in a temporal anomaly when chroniton particles trapped in the cloak caused some of the crew to travel back in time, unwittingly changing key events in history that erased the existence of the Federation, but the same particles kept the Defiant in existence long enough for the missing crew to be recovered and history restored. () Several weeks later, the Defiant was used to carry out a joint project between the governments of the Federation, Cardassia, and Bajor, to establish communications between the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants. () After a joint Obsidian Order-Tal Shiar fleet entered the Gamma Quadrant on a mission to destroy the , Vice Admiral Toddman ordered that the Defiant remain at DS9 to protect the Bajoran sector from any Dominion retaliation. Despite these orders, Commander Sisko took the vessel into the Gamma Quadrant in order to rescue Odo and Elim Garak, who were being held on one of the Romulan vessels in the fleet. Even with sabotage of the cloaking device by security chief Lieutenant Commander Michael Eddington, the Defiant ultimately succeeded in its mission and returned to DS9. Admiral Toddman decided not to file charges against Sisko or any of the other officers who had joined him. () In late 2371, a Changeling posing as Federation ambassador Krajensky sent the Defiant on a patrol mission of the Federation-Tzenkethi border. During the mission, sabotaged the Defiant, causing it to fly out of control towards a Tzenkethi colony that was intended to be attacked; the Dominion hoped it would provoke a second war between the two powers. The crew was eventually able to regain control of the vessel and kill the Changeling. () In early 2372, the Defiant fought its way through Cardassian space against Klingon forces – as the Klingon Empire had withdrawn from the Khitomer Accords due to the Federation's failure to support their invasion of Cardassia – to bring the Detapa Council to Deep Space 9. During this mission, the ship once briefly used its tractor beam to reduce the accuracy of a attack cruiser's disruptor banks, when it was forced to drop its usual deflector shields to beam the Council to safety. () The Defiant was used by Doctor Lenara Kahn and her research team in an attempt to create an artificial wormhole. () Several weeks later, the Defiant traveled to the Gamma Quadrant to meet with a Karemma ship. During the meeting, the two vessels were attacked by Jem'Hadar forces. The Defiant engaged the Jem'Hadar in the atmosphere of a gas giant and took severe damage; several of the senior officers were incapacitated. Under the command of Lieutenant Commander Worf, the Defiant was able to destroy the Jem'Hadar ships and rescue the Karemma. () In mid-2372, Lt. Commander Worf took the Defiant to Earth to assist Captain Sisko in foiling a plot by Admiral Leyton which would have overthrown the Federation government and established martial law. While en route, the Defiant was forced to engage the under the command of Captain Benteen, who was operating under the assumption that the Defiant was manned by Changelings. After a prolonged battle in which both ships took significant damage (it was strongly suggested by Major Kira that the Lakota was "in even worse shape" than the Defiant), the Lakota eventually stood down when Benteen conferred with Worf and Kira about her orders to stop the Defiant. Thus, the Defiant was allowed to continue to Earth with the evidence Sisko needed to stop the coup. () Major Kira used the Defiant to stop the Klingon Empire from mining the Bajoran sector, later that year. () The Defiant later became home to Worf, who found adapting to life on Deep Space 9 difficult. Captain Sisko gave him approval to live on the vessel, so long as it did not interfere with his duties. () During an escort mission where the Defiant was protecting several Cardassian freighters against Klingon raids, Commander Worf accidentally destroyed a Klingon civilian transport ship. The Klingon Empire requested that Worf be extradited to face justice for the ship's destruction, but was refused when it was determined that the transport ship had been unmanned and the situation set up to force the Federation to give concessions to the Empire. () Following an attack on DS9 by Jem'Hadar rebels, the Defiant pursued their vessel into the Gamma Quadrant and rescued the crew of a disabled Jem'Hadar fighter. The crews of the Defiant and the fighter then worked together to destroy an Iconian gateway that was under the control of the rebels. () In late 2372, the Defiant took Odo to the Founders' new homeworld, where he was to be judged for killing the Krajensky changeling the previous year. The Female Changeling allowed the vessel to personally transport him to the Founder's homeworld, so long as one of her pilots entered the coordinates for the planet and wiped them from the ship's memory afterwards. While the vessel was in orbit, Garak unsuccessfully attempted to use the Defiants weapons to attack the Great Link, but he was caught and prevented from doing so by Worf. () In early 2373, the Defiant tractored a Jem'Hadar fighter captured by Captain Sisko back to Federation space. () A few weeks later, Captain Sisko took the Defiant to Ajilon Prime to get his son, Jake, off the front lines of the Federation's war with the Klingons. () The Defiant was later transported by the Orb of Time to the 23rd century, where it encountered the original visiting Deep Space Station K-7 in 2268. The Defiants crew stopped Arne Darvin from killing Captain James T. Kirk with a bomb implanted in a dead tribble. () The Defiant subsequently rescued Odo and Quark from an L-class planet their runabout had crashed on after being sabotaged by the Orion Syndicate. () While pursuing Maquis defector Michael Eddington, the Defiant was disabled by a cascade virus that Eddington had installed in the ship's computers during his time as DS9's Starfleet security chief. The vessel had to be towed back to DS9 by the . When that vessel was later disabled by the Maquis, Captain Sisko used the damaged Defiant to continue pursuing Eddington. After Sisko poisoned a Maquis planet, Eddington surrendered to Sisko and was incarcerated. () Under the command of Worf, the Defiant was finally used for what the vessel had originally been designed for: fighting the Borg. In the Battle of Sector 001 in mid-2373, the Defiant assaulted an invading Borg cube from the Typhon sector to Earth and took severe damage. Worf was about to order the ship to ram the cube when the rescued the vessel's survivors, leaving the Defiant unmoored though salvageable. Aboard the Enterprise, the Defiant and Enterprise crews followed a Borg sphere to 2063 shortly after the cube's destruction, to stop the Borg from sabotaging Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight. () Following these events, the Defiant was repaired and returned to DS9. () When the Dominion annexed the Cardassian Union and invaded the Alpha Quadrant, the Defiant was forced to destroy the runabout , which had been commandeered by posing as Doctor Julian Bashir. The runabout was carrying a trilithium weapon which was to be detonated in the Bajoran sun, destroying the entire system. () In late 2373, the Defiant became trapped inside a temporal distortion surrounding a planet in the Gamma Quadrant. The planet was inhabited by descendants of the Defiant crew, who revealed that the vessel would crash while attempting to escape the distortion. The Defiant crew and the planet's inhabitants worked to formulate a plan that would allow the Defiant to escape back into normal space, while simultaneously creating a second ship that would crash on the planet and land 200 years in the past, thus ensuring the inhabitants' survival. However, it was discovered that the plan would fail and that Yedrin Dax was deliberately setting up the Defiant to crash. The crew eventually planned to allow this event to take place, but was stopped by an elderly version of Odo, who was living on the planet's surface; he changed the ship's flight plan so that it would avoid the distortion that would otherwise have sent them back in time. The Defiant returned to DS9 and the colonists were found to have never existed. () Service during the Dominion War In an effort to stop the Dominion's military build-up in Cardassian space, Starfleet Command opted to mine the entrance to the Bajoran wormhole, a move that was virtually guaranteed to lead to war. Despite coming under fire by Dominion forces, the Defiant was able to deploy the minefield and evacuate DS9's Starfleet personnel before the Dominion took control of the station. () For the next several months, the Defiant fought as part of the Second Fleet, operating out of Starbase 375. When Captain Sisko was made an adjutant to Vice Admiral William Ross, Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax was assigned to the vessel. Under Dax's command, the Defiant destroyed a Dominion sensor array hidden in the Argolis Cluster. () Sisko returned to the captain's chair of the Defiant to lead Operation Return in mid-2374, with the Defiant being the only Federation ship to make it through the Dominion blockade and reach DS9. From the perspective of the wider galaxy, the Defiant was subsequently singularly responsible for destroying the Dominion reinforcements coming through after the destruction of the Self-replicating mine field, although in reality, Sisko had actually appealed to the Prophets to destroy the fleet and prevent further such passage through the wormhole. The vessel resumed its assignment at Deep Space 9 after the station was retaken. () The Defiant was part of a search effort to look for survivors of the , after the latter vessel was destroyed by Cardassian forces. Upon completion of that mission, the ship was immediately assigned to escort a Federation troop convoy near the Badlands. () While studying a subspace compression anomaly in mid-2374, the Defiant was taken over by Jem'Hadar forces. Thanks to the efforts of the Defiant crew combined with work by the , the starship was retaken and the surviving Jem'Hadar were taken to a Federation prisoner of war camp. () The Defiant rescued survivors from her sister ship, the , later that year. () Upon completion of a convoy escort mission, the Defiant responded to a distress call from Captain Lisa Cusak, who was commanding the . The Olympia had crashed on an L-class planet in the Rutharian sector of the Beta Quadrant. Upon arrival at the planet, the Defiant crew found an energy barrier surrounding the planet which had carried Cusak's distress call forward through time; Cusak had been dead three years. Her body was taken back to DS9 and a memorial service was held for her by the crew. () The Defiant, along with the , led the Federation Alliance fleet at the First Battle of Chin'toka in late 2374. The crew of the Defiant found a way to disable a deployment of Cardassian orbital weapon platforms protecting the Chin'toka system. () Under Worf's command, the Defiant spent the next several months on convoy duty. () In early 2375, the Defiant made a supply run to AR-558, a planetoid in the Chin'toka system under heavy siege by the Jem'Hadar. The Defiant crew provided a small reinforcement of the planetoid and helped disable many houdinis that had been plaguing Federation troops stationed there. () The Defiant later served as part of a search effort to look for survivors of the , which had been destroyed by Dominion forces in the Badlands. The Defiant managed to recover six escape pods, but was forced to call off its search for the Koragas captain, Worf, after only three days, due to heavy Jem'Hadar patrols in the area. () The Defiants short but illustrious career came to an end in mid-2375. Shortly after joining the war on the side of the Dominion, the Breen retook the Chin'toka system using a new form of energy-dampening weapon. The Defiant, along with 310 other allied vessels, was destroyed during the battle, although the crew were 'permitted' to escape in life pods by the Dominion forces who wanted to ensure the Federation knew of their new allies. () The was assigned to DS9 to replace the Defiant after its destruction. Captain Sisko was granted special dispensation by the Chief of Starfleet Operations to rename the Sao Paulo to "Defiant" in honor of this "tough little ship." () Unique characteristics Ablative armor The Defiant was equipped with an ablative armor coating that was designed to disintegrate under enemy fire at a controlled rate. It dissipated the effects of directed energy weapons, decreasing damage to the main hull of the ship and therefore providing an extra layer of defense. As late as 2372, Starfleet wasn't informed that the Defiant was equipped in that way. () Cloaking device After the Dominion threat emerged in late 2370, a special amendment made to the Treaty of Algeron allowed the Defiant to be equipped with a Romulan cloaking device. In exchange for providing the cloaking device, the Federation agreed to share all of its Dominion intelligence with the Romulan government. Additionally, the cloak was only authorized for use in the Gamma Quadrant, although Captain Sisko violated this provision on numerous occasions. Use of the cloaking device was initially supervised by Sub-Commander T'Rul, although the Romulans later discontinued supervision. () Because of the amount of power the Defiant used, the cloak did not completely hide the ship from Jem'Hadar sensors during normal operation. () First contacts Karemma (the Ferengi were the first Alpha Quadrant species to contact them) Founders, 2371 Seltin Rakal's species on Meridian, 2371 Command crew The Defiants permanent assignment at Deep Space 9 as a support vessel meant that it had no specific or dedicated crew complement of its own. Since the vessel was manned by station personnel, their assignments often fluctuated based on the needs of each individual mission, much like a shuttlecraft on a starship. The following listing should be considered a generalization. Commanding officer Benjamin Sisko (2371–2374; 2374–2375) Jadzia Dax (2374) Executive officer / Tactical officer Kira Nerys (2371–2375) Worf (2372–2375) Chief engineer Miles O'Brien (2371–2375) Chief medical officer Julian Bashir (2371–2375) Helmsman Jadzia Dax (2371–2374) Nog (2374–2375) Science Officer Jadzia Dax (2371–2374) Security chief Michael Eddington (2371–2372) Counselor/Communications Officer Ezri Dax (2375) Engineer Nog (2373–2375) Additional personnel USS Defiant personnel Embarked craft Chaffee (Chaffee type shuttlepod) Shuttle 01 (Type 18 shuttlepod) Appendices Appearances The Defiant appears in all episode title sequences beginning with season 4. (Season 3) (Season 4) (Season 5) (Season 6) (Season 7) Background information Origins The invention of the USS Defiant was preceded by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe discussing, for some time, the possibility of giving the main characters of a method to leave space station Deep Space 9 en masse. "We wanted a ship in which we could send more people out on an adventure," explained Wolfe, "and we'd never really figured out how to do it." () The main reason for the creation of the Defiant was that Ira Steven Behr and the other writers felt the runabouts would not be able to protect the space station from the Dominion, and that something with more muscle was necessary. In the second season finale , the Dominion had shown themselves capable of destroying a starship (the ) and it was felt that viewers would not accept the idea that the Federation's first line of defense against such a powerful enemy was three runabouts. Behr remembered, "At one point, Robert Wolfe and I were sitting around after the 'Jem'Hadar' episode had been filmed. We were looking at dailies and said, 'Jesus, we're blowing up Galaxy Class starships; these guys are tough, and all we have are these freaking runabouts' [....] We had to come up with a ship to combat [the Dominion]." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 79) As Behr additionally explained, "We had all these plans for this Dominion, not so much the Dominion War yet, but the Dominion as a three-pronged attack, and what were we going to go after them with? Shuttlecrafts? You know, I mean, with the Galileo or whatever the hell those names were? You know, it just seemed ridiculous. So we needed a ship." Similarly, Production Designer Herman Zimmerman stated, "We needed a ship that would give the writers the opportunity to have more direct conflict." (USS Defiant, DS9 Season 3 DVD special features) He also commented, "The Defiant was a direct result of the need on the part of the writer/producers of the show to get away from the station, to give them a vehicle that would allow them to travel at higher warp speeds than the Runabout [...] is capable of, and to carry more armament and more personnel." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 96) Additionally, Zimmerman said, "We knew at the end of second season that the story lines were going in a direction that required a larger ship, with armament and much more warp-speed capability, and the ability to hold a larger crew." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, paperback ed., p. 189) Illustrator Jim Martin reported, "They wanted a starship that could be based at Deep Space Nine that was kind of an ass-kicker that they could have some fun with. They wanted a fighting ship." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 7) Wolfe specified, "Bringing in the Defiant was based on our own internal perceptions of something that would make the show better. It was not based on ratings." () The Defiant was originally envisioned, by the DS9 producers, as "a beefy runabout." (). Its unique weapons were designed by animator Adam Howard: “There’s a shot of this thing roaring out of the background past the camera. It had to be blazing gunfire. I said to Gary [Hutzel], what does it need to be? He goes ‘I don’t know, just make it cool.’ I designed these photon torpedo cannons that were just machine guns at the front – tchu-tchu-tchu – sending out photon torpedoes. It took 20 minutes to animate.” (The Companion) Feeling the need for a ship assigned to protect the space station, Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe approached then-Executive Producer Michael Piller with their idea. Related Behr, "We [....] said, 'We need something with teeth to it so it doesn't seem ridiculous that this space station is the only thing between the Dominion and the Alpha Quadrant." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 79) Talking with Piller in his office, Behr additionally told him, "We know Voyager is coming and there will be problems, but we need a ship. Doesn't have to be a ship that's as good as Voyager. Doesn't have to be a starship – we need a kick-ass ship." Though Piller became temporarily side-tracked with addressing another issue, Behr expressed the need for a ship once again, to which Piller finally replied, "Absolutely, let's talk to Rick [Berman]." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 102) Piller felt it didn't matter much whether DS9's regular characters had a starship at their disposal, or merely their contingent of Runabouts. However, he was ultimately willing to concede to the request of the former, motivated by a criticism of the series – due to its station-bound setting – that the producers often heard. "The addition of the Defiant," he explained, "was a direct result of, 'It doesn't go anywhere' [....] I came out of that meeting and said, 'I've had it. They want a ship, we'll give them a ship.' We felt it was a fake criticism and said, 'Let's just get rid of it." () Piller's advice to speak with Berman was because he might have concerns due to the fact the starship Voyager was about to also be introduced. () As it turned out, Michael Piller himself brought the idea to Rick Berman's attention. At this point, the general idea was still for the craft to be a kind of runabout, larger than the others. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 96) Berman did indeed have some worries, though Ira Behr addressed them by saying, "It's a different show, it's a different ship, and we need something cool, something DS9-specific." () In hindsight, Behr explained, "It couldn't be like Voyager. And I didn't know what Voyager was going to be at the time. I said, 'Fine, let's give it something only Deep Space Nine has." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 102) Although there was initial opposition to the subsequent request for the ship to have a cloaking device, Behr and Robert Wolfe managed to convince Berman that the Defiant was a unique ship in a unique situation and, with the added stipulation that the cloak could only be used in the Gamma Quadrant, Berman agreed, so the vessel was approved. () The design direction of creating the Defiant as a larger form of runabout was soon revised. The craft was – from that point on – redesigned as a starship rather than a runabout. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 96) When Ronald D. Moore and René Echevarria left and joined the DS9 writing staff in its third season, they were told about the plans for the new ship. "When Ron and Rene came on we all sat down and talked about it as a group," remembered Robert Wolfe. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 112) Establishing the Defiant became Moore's responsibility, as he was tasked with scripting the Defiants introduction in season three premiere . Recalled Moore, "They told me, 'We've got this ship!' And I said, 'You've got what? But this show's about a station. I just left a ship!" Ira Behr and Robert Wolfe responded by explaining that the new craft was to be a tougher kind of starship than the , not a large exploratory vessel with families on board. () Subsequently, the ship inspired Moore. Observed Behr, "[He] got all excited at the thought of this [....] Ron was ecstatic, 'cause he got to play with the Defiant." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 102) Naming the newly conceived vessel was one of the first tasks Ron Moore had to do, as he began work on the script for "The Search, Part I". "They'd graciously left [naming the craft] to me," he remarked. Moore originally wanted to call the Defiant the USS Valiant (based on either the or the from ). The producers didn't allow him to use that name for the new ship, as the USS Voyagers name also begins with a "V". It was Moore who instead selected the name Defiant (inspired by the from ). () This was three years before Moore was able to name a ship Valiant; the appears in the sixth season episode . As well as liking the name Defiant, Ron Moore believed it required some backstory, wondering, "Why would you name a ship the Defiant?" The writers soon devised the backstory about the vessel having been constructed as an attempt to defy the Borg. () Making the Defiant a warship seemed to fit the grittiness of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. () However, the craft couldn't seem too militaristic for the Federation. "That was one of the problems and something we had to discuss," reflected Ira Behr. "We really wanted this to be a ship that went out there to fight, no science, no searching. This was 'Uh oh, they're bigger than we are and they're coming to get us. Let's ram it down their throats.' We had to pull back a little on that [....] But when you meet people, like the Borg or the Romulans, it does pay to have a ship that can do some damage. It's still considered a fighting ship." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 102) Consequently, the revised Deep Space Nine bible (dated 1 August 1994) referred to the Defiant as having been "originally built as a warship designed to fight the Borg." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, p. 189) The scientific capabilities of the craft were planned to be less-equipped than the likes of the Enterprise or Voyager. "We always said," Robert Wolfe recollected, "that the Defiant wasn't good at certain things – that there's a cost for designing a pure warship, and why doesn't the Federation just crank out thousands of these things? [....] The Defiant was just meant to go around and shoot at people, and that's a bit of a drawback when you're going into [something like] a difficult atmospheric situation." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 109) The idea the Defiant had been "hastily put together in the face of the Borg threat," as phrased by Science Consultant André Bormanis, helped to account for the fact that tight budget constraints limited the amount of sets which could be built for the ship. "[It] was a fair enough justification," opined René Echevarria. () André Bormanis liked how the Defiant, with its technological problems due to being a prototype, departed from "the concept that all Federation technology was squeaky clean and perfect." () Herman Zimmerman explained, "Because it's a prototype, it has a certain quirkiness as any high-speed prototype aircraft would have. You don't know exactly how it will react in a given situation." Ira Behr wanted the Defiant to be a "fun" environment, remarking, "We're hoping that we get that with the Defiant." Jim Martin, who designed the vessel, commented, "The Defiant was special." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, pp. 96 & 97) Zimmerman stated, "The Defiant was a big boost for the show's bag of tricks." Robert Wolfe observed, "We've opened up the ability to go off the station, something we obviously needed to do, not just to establish the 'bad guys' in the Gamma quadrant, but just the Gamma quadrant as a whole – to make it a place with a real sense of depth where we need to spend some time." (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before, paperback ed., p. 189) Various rumors circulated about the origins of the Defiant. Noted Ira Behr, "I've heard all types of rumors about the Defiant." Many fans suspected the craft was invented by Ron Moore or René Echevarria, and that the writers wanted a ship on which to set more stories like those of TNG, despite the vessel actually predating the addition of Moore and Echevarria to the DS9 writing staff. Responding to such opinions, Robert Wolfe said, "The truth of the matter is the Defiant was an attempt to correct a deficiency in the runabouts [....] It wasn't that we have to be like Next Gen. We were doing those kinds of stories on DS9 anyway. We just wanted to do what we do better and a ship will help us do that." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 102) The craft turned out to be popular with fans. () Uses in stories The DS9 writing staff swiftly realized that imagining the Defiant as "a unique little warship that was overpowered and overgunned" could generate dynamic stories in future installments. () As Ira Behr noted, "That got us through the first couple of [third season] episodes." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 79) Indeed, the addition of the Defiant to the series created many new storytelling possibilities. "First, it meant the crew could have a different set of adventures off the station. It also made it easier to shoot scenes with more people inside a bigger vessel, rather than in the cramped quarters of those little runabouts," stated Terry Farrell, with a laugh. "And finally, it allowed Sisko to truly live up to those immortal words spoken by two other, famous captains before him – 'To boldly go where no-one has gone before." (, Deep Space Nine Chronicles, DS9 Season 4 DVD special features) On the other hand, Michael Piller remarked about the Defiant, "It didn't change any of our character arcs or anything." () Although the producers chose to include no spotlights on the outer hull of the Defiant-class, the Defiant was lit with spotlights for the ship's debut, in . Describing how this was done, Gary Hutzel said, "We hooked a mag light on a C-stand arm that was connected directly to the camera head, so that it rocked and rolled with the model. Then we designed the shot to display some of the ship's better angles as it backed away and turned around." When the Defiant leaves Deep Space 9 on its maiden voyage through the wormhole, the ship's name is brightly illuminated. () This shot was later reused in numerous DS9 installments. By the end of , the writers had given up on the idea of the Defiant using its cloaking device and didn't expect to use it ever again. Director of Photography Jonathan West was even told, "We'll never be cloaked again; this is just for the first show." Ron Moore recalled, "It wasn't until a few episodes later that we decided to say it was still there." () Upon starting to write the story for the episode , one of the first ideas Ron Moore had was the starship Defiant being stolen by Thomas Riker. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 98; Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 87) The notion quickly occurred to him while he was writing the story of "Defiant"; the ship was the answer to Moore asking himself what would motivate the Maquis, led by Tom Riker, to visit Deep Space 9. () "I had the whole stealing of the Defiant sequence before I even knew why he was stealing it," Moore commented. "I thought that would be a great way to open an episode." By the time production on "Defiant" was over, Jonathan West was becoming familiar with filming on the Defiant. "He asked for some changes in terms of paint schemes and lighting, and now it was pretty together," remembered David Livingston. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 87 & 88) When the writing staff was trying to select a "contained" setting for third season finale , the Defiant provided a useful environment. Robert Wolfe remembered that the idea of the ship "heading inexplicably toward destruction, like the death machine that she really is, being all locked down and going like a runaway train, became the basic hook that everyone really liked." However, turning the Defiant into "a runaway train" proved neither as simple nor cheap as it sounded, as it required the expense of creating an engine room for the vessel. () The DS9 staff writers were pleased with how the Defiant was established during its first season and how it opened up narrative possibilities for later stories. At the end of DS9 Season 3, Ron Moore reflected, "The Defiant has developed nicely over the course of the year [...] and now we have a fully functioning starship." René Echevarria agreed, "We can do a shipboard episode if we want and cut back to the station for a B story. We really feel we have the best of all possible worlds with the Defiant. We're freed up." Producer Hans Beimler, who joined the writing staff for the fourth season, remarked, "The addition of the Defiant has given us the ability to every once in a while do a show that's dynamically similar to Next Generation." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 99 & 101) Ira Behr commented: "The fans are already asking for Defiant play sets". (Cinefantastique, Volume 27, Issues 2-12) In , freelance writer David Mack suggested to his writing partner, John J. Ordover, an unusual way of using the Defiant, inspired by the German submarine drama . Mack subsequently recalled, "I [...] said, 'I'd like to sink the Defiant.' Those were my exact words." As Ordover joined in the process of working out the story, the conditions in which the vessel would find itself continued to develop. "We came up with the high concept of the Defiant getting into a conflict in orbit over a planet, being damaged, and plunging down into an alien sea where it sinks like a rock," remembered Mack. The writers imagined the craft sinking to a depth hundreds of kilometers underwater. They intended to set up the risk that "the ship runs out of power and the structural integrity field collapses, and the ship is crushed like an egg." When the notion of a pricey underwater show was deemed unviable, the ship's threatening surroundings were changed to the atmosphere of a gas giant, complete with a scene showing the Defiant temporarily being flooded with gas rather than water. () The Defiant is indirectly referenced in the title of the episode, DS9 Season 4's , which was still thought of as "a submarine movie" by the in-house writing staff. They also wanted to deliver on what they had planned for the starship, portraying it as having some weaknesses. "We wanted to show the Defiant in action and pushed to its limits," said Robert Wolfe. Having the ship encounter "a difficult atmospheric situation" served this intent well, as Voyager or the Enterprise would have had no problem in similar circumstances, whereas the relatively under-equipped warship Defiant was shown to struggle. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 109) A three-second shot of the Defiant in battle, from "The Way of the Warrior", was reused and re-composited by Glenn Neufeld for part of a combat sequence in . () Kira Nerys actress Nana Visitor once commented that "going out on the Defiant" was one of two main components that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine became "about," "doing battle" being the other. () There was an ulterior motive for including the Defiant in . "The Defiant appeared in FC as a way of bringing Worf into the film," clarified Ron Moore. Also, the inclusion of the ship allowed the film to address the fact that Worf was now assigned to the vessel. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 6, p. 30) The fate of the Defiant in the aftermath of First Contacts Battle of Sector 001 became controversial after Ira Steven Behr read an early draft of the movie's script, which was collaboratively written by Moore and Brannon Braga. "Somehow," recalled Moore, "we had implied that, like, the Defiant was destroyed or something [....] We didn't mean to destroy the Defiant." Behr was nonetheless extremely upset that the writers hadn't made it clear the ship was not destroyed. The annihilation of the vessel would prove needless in a story that didn't even involve the Deep Space Nine characters (apart from Worf) and inconvenient for the television show. "I said, 'So, what did you think?' And he just [...] ranted at me for destroying the Defiant," Moore continued, with a laugh. "And it was really his only note on the whole script. So we went back [to the script]. We were very careful that the Defiant actually did [survive]." (audio commentary, Star Trek: First Contact (Special Edition) DVD/Blu-ray) Behr himself explained, "I didn't see the point in bringing it on just to kick the crap out of it." The line "tough little ship" was added to the script after he had expressed his concerns. () According to Anthony Pascale, a line suggesting the Defiant was "adrift, but salvageable" was also added to clear up any ambiguity. (audio commentary, Star Trek: First Contact (2009 DVD/Blu-ray)) No reference to the damage the Defiant received during the Battle of Sector 001 was ever made on Deep Space Nine (although a brief reference was made to the battle itself in , when Sisko mentions "the recent Borg attack"). Though the viewers of DS9 would likely have preferred something as simple as a mention of recent repairs to the craft, Ira Behr wanted to forget about the ship's involvement in the film. () In the final shot of DS9 fifth season installment , the Defiant slowly flies over and past the camera. "I was planning on just doing a standard fly-by for that shot when we ran into some technical problems with the motion control rig," explained Gary Hutzel. "The pan/tilt wasn't operating properly; it was locked off at a downward angle as the camera drove past the ship." Hutzel chose to use the unusual shot provided by the malfunctioning technology and was ultimately very pleased with the footage. () Maneuvers performed by the Defiant while damaged in were also done by Gary Hutzel, using motion control photography. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, Nos. 6/7, p. 45) In the story, the damage to the ship meant the vessel had to be operated manually. "Great idea," Ira Behr happily remarked. "I loved it." The writing staff wanted the environment aboard the craft to meanwhile seem like that on board a submarine in a submarine movie, such as in , which the writers repeatedly discussed as a point of reference for conditions on the Defiant. () When Gary Holland originally devised a story that eventually served as the basis for , he imagined the Defiant crash landing on a planet where the ship's crew met their ancestors. The story was rewritten, with the vessel referred to as having instead crash landed in the past, on a planet named Gaia. () In the interim between the fifth and sixth seasons, Ira Behr planned using the Defiant in more episodes. "We're going to be doing shows that take place on the Defiant," he promised. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, Nos. 6/7, p. 51) The day before "Call to Arms" entered production, Ron Moore likewise commented that the Defiant would be a setting for "some very interesting stuff" in the show's sixth season. Although René Echevarria initially devised the idea of a miniaturized runabout maneuvering inside Deep Space 9 in a story that became the episode , using the Defiant instead of the space station seemed to work better for teleplay writers David Weddle and Bradley Thompson. "When we came up with the idea of the Defiant getting taken over, and the little ship having to board it to rescue the rest of the crew, then we suddenly had a workable premise," Weddle explained. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 39) To prepare for the filming of "One Little Ship" scenes in which the runabout Rubicon was miniaturized inside the Defiant and shrunken officers from the Rubicon walked around the starship's innards, John Eaves produced at least three concept sketches of various parts of the Defiant. Also, David Weddle and Bradley Thompson – who were credited with writing "One Little Ship", although the story idea didn't originate with them – spent many hours touring the Defiant sets, choreographing shots of the tiny runabout. () Sets they visited included the bridge and engineering. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 40; ) However, their tour of the sets wasn't as extensive as one carried out by Allan Kroeker, who directed the episode. "He had taken the visual effects people through the corridors and places in the ship, and worked all of that out very, very carefully," offered Thompson. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 40) The Defiant eventually turned out to be the primary setting of too, that episode having originally been set (at least mainly) aboard Deep Space 9. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 69) While writing Bashir-centric seventh season episode , Ron Moore opted not to use the Defiant as the installment's main setting (which instead was the ). "For the piece to work, it couldn't be [on] the Defiant, because I didn't want the rest of our characters along for the ride," Moore explained. "It would have given Bashir too many safe places to go. It had to be on another ship." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, Nos. 4/5, p. 76) In , the DS9 writing staff made the Defiant, even under Captain Sisko's command, unable to effect a rescue that a runabout, piloted by Ezri Dax, managed, carried by the Badlands' currents. "The Defiant is so big that even if he'd thought of what she tries, the ship never would have followed the same path," René Echevarria reasoned. () When the writers chose to destroy the Defiant in , they decided it was important to make the craft's annihilation emotionally effective. "We wanted to do something that would be painful and gut-wrenching to everyone," Ira Behr remarked. Ron Moore added that the writers also "wanted to kill Defiant as a statement on how tough the Breen were. We thought that would rock the characters and the audience." () The DS9 writing staff were pleased with how emotionally effecting they were able to depict the Defiants destruction, making it as deep an emotional impact as the death of a regular character. "It worked very well," Ira Behr declared. "It wasn't the Enterprise, it wasn't Voyager, and it wasn't the basis of the show. But still, the ship had become a character that had caught on in people's hearts and minds. Even though we're not a Star Trek series that takes place on a ship, when the Defiant went down, that hurt." René Echevarria agreed, "The death of the Defiant was quite striking – but at the same time, we didn't want to keep it dead forever." () Studio and CGI model The CGI model of the Defiant was first used in . In the opening titles sequence for DS9 Seasons 4 to 7, the Defiant was depicted using CGI, which allowed the visual effects artists to concentrate on filming the model without having to worry about accidentally showing the model mount, as they would have to have done if they had been using a practical studio model for the sequence. "VisionArt did a wonderful job of matching the lighting where the ship comes out of the shadows behind one of the pylons," Dan Curry enthused. "And using CGI allowed me to do a couple of moves with the Defiant that we couldn't have done with a model." () The creative staff decided to represent the Defiant with CGI in Star Trek: First Contact. "We could have shot the existing Defiant stage model," commented John Knoll, "which we had on hand for the crew to use as reference. But [...] it was a more efficient distribution of our resources to do that ship in CG." Because VisionArt had already created a detailed CG model of the Defiant for its multiple appearances on Deep Space Nine, Knoll acquired the company's modeling data. New digital textures, based on transparencies taken of the studio model, were then mapped onto the pre-existing CG model. (Cinefex, No. 69, p. 109) "They [Industrial Light & Magic] had to add a lot of battle damage to it," stated Illustrator John Eaves, "because it's already been in the battle pretty heavily before it gets rescued [on screen] by the Enterprise-E." ("The Art of First Contact", Star Trek: First Contact (Special Edition) DVD/Blu-ray) For the last shot in fifth season closer , filming the Defiant with the relevant studio model in conjunction with motion control technology would not have been possible. This was because the ship makes an almost-180-degree turn. () "The intention was that the Defiant would go and join [a] [...] fleet [...] then turn around," explained René Echevarria. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 34) The visual effects artists, due to the Defiants rotation, were unsure where to put the mount for holding the model to a stand, or where to lay all the dolly track they would have needed for the camera to move along, especially as no motion control soundstage was big enough to house as much dolly track as was required. Consequently, the ship was alternatively represented with CGI. Commenting on how the vessel joins a combined Starfleet-Klingon fleet in the footage, Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes commentated, "The Defiant comes in and it's like, 'Here we are. We've joined the fleet and now we're gonna come back and kick fanny." Despite the difficulty of portraying the turnabout the Defiant makes to match the direction of the fleet, Visual Effects Coordinator Adam Buckner deemed it a necessary maneuver. "We felt that it ought to be flying along with the fleet, that it would join it in the fight to retake the station," he explained. "Otherwise, essentially, it would have sort of chugged up to the fleet and said, 'Hi, I'm here!' That's a little less aesthetic," Buckner concluded, laughing. () For footage of Operation Return in Season 6 outing , the Defiant was again portrayed with CGI and was the only example of its class to be included. Digitally modeling the craft meant the ship could thereafter be shown with the same method, whenever it was subsequently required. To create about a second of the vessel cruising through the wormhole in the same episode, the Defiant was depicted with the usual studio model, the only motion control element in the entire installment. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, pp. 64 & 66) The final moments of the Defiant in "The Changing Face of Evil", with the craft beginning to burn but ejecting escape pods, were shown with CGI achieved by Digital Muse, supervised by David Stipes. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, Nos. 4/5, p. 74) Miscellaneous The Defiant sets including the bridge, quarters, engineering, the mess hall, and the sickbay were built on Paramount Stage 18. Speaking from the perspective of Jadzia Dax, Terry Farrell once said, laughing, "I love the Defiant because I fly it." () Models and replicas of the USS Defiant have been produced by AMT/Ertl, Franklin Mint, and Furuta. Galoob released a Micro Machines miniature and Playmates Toys released small Innerspace Series and large electronic starship versions. Hallmark released two versions of the Defiant as Christmas ornaments. Corgi produced a prototype model of the Defiant in but this release was canceled before it reached production. In , the Japanese toy company F-Toys released two models of the Defiant which included a transparent "cloaked" version. Between 2011 and 2014, WizKids released miniatures of the Defiant in its Fleet Captains, Tactics, and Attack Wing games. In 2013, Eaglemoss Collections released the Defiant as part of its Official Starships Collection, which was later released in Japan by De Agostini. Dairy Queen also produced a Defiant food toy premium and a Defiant game token was included in Screenlife's Star Trek Scene It? game. The USS Defiant could be seen in the Discovery Science program Ultra Science (an episode about time travel). An unused door signage for the Defiant was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. From the , "The Defiants registry number, NX-74205, is in honor of Gene Roddenberry's son, our friend Rod Roddenberry who worked with us as a member of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine art department. Rod's birthday is February 5, 1974." Apocrypha In the The 34th Rule, the Defiant has a shuttlecraft called the da Vinci. Worf's first mission of the computer game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen involves Worf being left in command of the Defiant, trying to fight off a boarding party of Grigari troopers. The Defiant, as well as the in general, feature as playable ships in the tactical combat game Dominion Wars. In the video game Star Trek: Encounters, the Defiant appears in two levels based on Deep Space 9. In addition, the Defiant appears in the game's last level, where it briefly visits an alternate timeline in which the Romulan Star Empire has conquered the Federation. The Defiant later helps the , the , the , and defeat a combined Xindi, Klingon, Romulan, Dominion, and Borg fleet. Also, the game Star Trek: Legacy features a mission depicting the Defiants shakedown cruise under the command of Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Sisko. The ship encounters Romulan Tal Shiar forces preparing to ambush a Vulcan scientist named within Federation space and, despite trying to evade them, is captured. The crew and the ship are rescued by a task force led by the USS Enterprise-D. The alternate reality version of the Defiant appears in the Star Trek: Ongoing story arc The Q Gambit. Launched in 2367, it became the flagship of the Free Federation Resistance after the fall of the United Federation of Planets. The Defiant operated from Klingon-occupied Earth and fought the Dominion under the command of Captain Keiko O'Brien and first officer Lieutenant Miles O'Brien. 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The USS Defiant (NX-74205), originally known as the USS Sao Paulo (NCC-75633), was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. The Defiant was assigned to Deep Space 9 in the final weeks of the Dominion War. This starship was the third known Federation ship, and the second ship of the Defiant-class, to bear the name Defiant. History According to its dedication plaque, the USS Sao Paulo was launched from the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards in late-2375, on stardate 52889.3. As one of the first new starships launched from Federation shipyards after the disastrous Second Battle of Chin'toka, the Sao Paulo was immediately assigned to the front lines at Deep Space 9 as a replacement for the . The Sao Paulo was equipped with redesigned shield generators to counteract the Breen energy-dampening weapon, which had decimated the allied fleet at Chin'toka. Upon taking command of the Sao Paulo on stardate 52891.3, Captain Benjamin Sisko received a special dispensation from the Chief of Starfleet Operations to change the vessel's name to USS Defiant, after the original, which had been destroyed by Breen forces in the Second Battle of Chin'toka. The new Defiant was slightly modified from the prototype. On the bridge, the consoles alongside the captain's chair had been redesigned, and the aft operations table was replaced with a free-standing console. In addition, the ship's shield generators had been completely reconfigured, as had its internal furnishing – a fact bemoaned by Doctor Julian Bashir upon boarding the vessel. () The Defiant participated in the Battle of Cardassia, the last battle of the Dominion War. The ship suffered at least three casualties, with eight wounded in Phase One; it is unknown if any were suffered in Phase Two. Familiar with the individual characteristics of the old Defiant, the crew found it difficult to equate the one with the other, prompting Ensign Nog to report that the new Defiant was "a little sluggish." The vessel lacked the worn-in combat capability and effectiveness of the prototype, but acquitted herself well during the battle. At the end of 2375, this ship was docked at Deep Space 9. () Command crew As with the previous Defiant, this vessel's assignment to Deep Space 9 as a support vessel meant that it was manned by station personnel and had no dedicated crew complement of its own. Crew assignments varied by mission. Commanding officer Captain Benjamin Sisko (2375) First officer Worf (2375) Chief medical officer Julian Bashir (2375) Security Chief Worf (2375) Tactical Officer Worf (2375) Communications officer/Counselor Ezri Dax (2375) Helmsman Nog (2375) Chief Engineer Miles O'Brien (2375) Appendices Appearances Background information Although this ship's predecessor was destroyed in , the writing staff of "didn't want to keep it dead forever," as expressed by René Echevarria. Several scenes that were written, one in the first draft script of "The Changing Face of Evil" and another in the first draft script of , but ultimately not used dealt with Captain Sisko desperately asking Admiral Ross for a new ship to command in order to protect DS9 but being politely refused because Starfleet's resources were stretched so thin that they couldn't give him another vessel like the Defiant. Eventually, however, a substitute vessel was conceived. Ronald D. Moore explained, "There was no way to do the big final battles [of the Dominion War] without it [....] So we brought it back and 'made it a virtue." () Ron Moore intended for the ship to be designated the "Defiant-A". "I fought quite a bit on this rather minute point," he related, "because I'm a Star Trek aficionado and I feel strongly about these kinds of things. I drove Ira [Steven Behr] up the wall on this 'A' business, trying to get 'A' onto the model." The show's tight budget constraints meant that there were insufficient funds to redo all the stock visual effects shots of the Defiant-class, which would have had to be done if the ship had been named the "Defiant-A". It also would have been prohibitive to repaint and reshoot the model. "So we had to bite the bullet," commented Behr. "We didn't have to end the series without the ship [...] but we weren't going to build a new ship at the end of the show, and we weren't going to change the decals [on every frame of stock footage]." Nevertheless, Moore personally still considered the vessel's designation to be "Defiant-A". () This Defiant was originally to have been introduced in the teaser of . However, when it was decided that that episode was too long, the craft's introduction was moved to later DS9 Season 7 installment . The ship's introduction was written for "Tacking Into the Wind" by Ron Moore, prior to the scene being moved. () The decision to make the vessel's introduction part of "The Dogs of War" was made prior to the sixth revision of the first draft script of "Tacking Into the Wind", in which the craft wasn't mentioned at all. The script of "The Dogs of War" (both the first draft and the final draft) remarked, "We should try to convey a sense of a brand-spanking new ship (budget permitting), with shining consoles, new carpeting, slick new VPB wallpaper, etc." In the episode's first draft script, the vessel was also referred to as being "only two weeks out of the yard" prior to its arrival at DS9 and as having broken its predecessor's speed record on the new craft's initial journey to the space station, having traveled up to warp 9.8 on the way there. In Admiral Ross' opinion, the vessel was "a fine ship" that "outclasses the [earlier] Defiant in a lot of ways." Gary Hutzel was pleased with how this ship was depicted in series finale , using CGI. "The Defiant looks really good, the CG model looks very good," he remarked. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, Nos. 4/5, p. 87) The Sao Paulos motto was "Give me Liberty or give me Death...", a quote by Patrick Henry. The ship was "named for the people of Brazil." This motto was in the same spirit as the famous words "Independência ou Morte" ("Independence or Death"), said by Dom Pedro I when he declared Brazil's independence from Portugal. Although Sao Paulo ("Saint Paul") was in Brazil, the ship wasn't named after the city. Instead, the name "USS Sao Paulo" was actually an in-joke reference to the film , which features the USS San Pablo. () The name was selected by Ron Moore. () The dedication plaque included the names of forty-six Star Trek executives, including Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Ira Steven Behr, David Livingston, Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson, René Echevarria, Steve Oster, and "Chief of Staff" Gene Roddenberry. This Defiant has conflicting registry numbers. The dedication plaque on the bridge gave the registry as NCC-75633, but the plaque also contained the original name Sao Paulo (the first draft script of "The Dogs of War" also associated that registry number with the craft's original name). External CGI images seen in "The Dogs of War" and "What You Leave Behind" repeated the old registry of NX-74205 as a result of the extensive use of stock footage from earlier episodes, including , , and . The new footage in "What You Leave Behind" continued to use NX-74205 for consistency. Memory Alpha uses the commissioning year to differentiate this ship from its predecessor. From the , "The Defiants registry number, NX-74205, is in honor of Gene Roddenberry's son, our friend Rod Roddenberry who worked with us as a member of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine art department. Rod's birthday is February 5, 1974." In the Federation starship list of the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 328), the authors note that the new Defiant retained the same registry number as its destroyed predecessor. Apocrypha In the miniseries Star Trek: Divided We Fall and the relaunch novels set after "What You Leave Behind", the Defiant was depicted with the NX-74205 registry. In Books One and Two of the duology Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Avatar, the first books in a series set after "What You Leave Behind", the Defiant was described as having been fitted with a new Romulan cloaking device, the Romulan Senate having recognized the strategic importance of the Defiant as the first line of defense against any future Dominion attack through the wormhole. Avatar also depicts the Defiant in battle, defending DS9 from a group of rogue Jem'Hadar who attack the station, which at the time was undergoing a refit and was barely able to defend itself. The Defiants commander, and DS9's recently acquired second in command, Tiris Jast, was killed in the attack, spurring Ezri Dax to take command. In a desperate attempt to stop the Jem'Hadar, Dax and Nog used the Defiants warhead module – a last ditch weapon which fired the Defiants nose section, containing the deflector and a complement of photon torpedoes. In the next books, Abyss and Demons of Air and Darkness, the Defiant was commanded by DS9's new first officer, Elias Vaughn. Following on from those, in the four-book miniseries Mission Gamma, Vaughn commands the Defiant on a three-month voyage of exploration through the Gamma Quadrant. The Sao Paulo was also a playable starship in the video game Star Trek: Legacy, for a level set in the year 2380, possibly indicating that after the war had ended, the ship reverted to its original name. It is equally possible that, due to the original Sao Paulo being immediately renamed Defiant, another Defiant-class vessel was named the Sao Paulo. The Defiant was depicted in Star Trek Online as still in service in 2409, while also still attached to DS9. The ship appears in the missions "Assimilation of the Innocent", "The Tribble with Klingons" (removed in Season 11), "Spoils of War", "Jabberwocky", "Second Wave", "Boldly they Rode", and "Midnight", under the command of DS9's commander, Captain James Kurland. The Defiants original christening USS Sao Paulo gives its name to an upgraded version of the vessel, the Sao Paulo-class, available in the game's store. In the "Victory is Life" expansion, the newly-reinstated Captain Kira Nerys is given command of the Defiant during the campaign against the Hur'q in the Gamma Quadrant. External links bg:USS Дефаянт (2375) de:USS Sao Paulo ja:USSディファイアント(NCC-75633) nl:USS São Paulo pl:U.S.S. "Sao Paulo" NCC-75633 ru:USS Сан-Пауло Defiant, USS, 2375

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USS Adelphi

The USS Adelphi was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. While under the command of Captain Darson, the Adelphi was assigned to a first contact mission to the planet Ghorusda. The mission was centered around civilian specialist Tam Elbrun, an unusually talented Betazoid telepath, who joined the mission to facilitate contact with the culturally complex Ghorusdans. The situation was considered extremely delicate and volatile, and due to a misunderstanding, a conflict broke out. In the incident, later known as the Ghorusda Disaster, forty-seven Adelphi crewmembers were killed, including Captain Darson, and two friends of Riker from his class at Starfleet Academy. Later, a Starfleet board of inquiry blamed Darson for "carelessness" concerning Ghorusdan cultural taboos. () Personnel USS Adelphi personnel Appendices Background information The Adelphi was classified as an heavy cruiser with the registry NCC-26849 in an internal list of starships, dated September 26, 1990. This information later appeared in the and . Apocrypha The Adelphi was also listed as an Ambassador-class vessel in the Decipher role playing game supplement . External link cs:USS Adelphi (NCC-26849) de:USS Adelphi es:USS Adelphi ja:USSアデルファイ nl:USS Adelphi pl:U.S.S. "Adelphi" Adelphi

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Kirayoshi O'Brien

Kirayoshi "Yoshi" O'Brien was born in 2373, the second child of Miles and Keiko O'Brien. Kira Nerys acted as a surrogate mother for Kirayoshi after Keiko was injured during a mission to the Gamma Quadrant in late 2372, carrying the baby to term. Conception Kirayoshi was conceived in 2372. Miles found out Keiko was pregnant again after Keiko and Molly arrived back from a trip to Bajor. It was Molly who told her father that she was going to have a little brother. Miles initially believed she was talking about her doll, but after Molly pointed to Keiko's stomach, he realized what she meant. () The news quickly spread around Deep Space 9. Julian Bashir gave his congratulations and he and the expecting parents celebrated with a drink at Quark's. Worf also learned of the news and, recalling his reluctant role during the birth of Molly, told O'Brien that he would be away from DS9 at the time Kirayoshi was born ("Far away. Visiting my parents. On Earth."). () Transferral and development Several months later, Keiko and Kira Nerys were involved in an accident aboard a runabout in which Keiko was critically injured. In order to save both mother and unborn child, Julian Bashir transferred the baby to an undamaged womb – namely, Kira's. Although the procedure required various hormonal injections in order to allow Kira's Bajoran body chemistry to cope with a Human infant, it proved generally successful; however, due to the dense blood vessels that form between the mother and baby during a Bajoran pregnancy, Kira would have to carry the baby to term as a transfer back to Keiko would prove too dangerous for Kira and the baby. Thereafter, Kira moved in with the O'Briens so that they could continue to feel close to their unborn child. () The Cardassian Silaran Prin intended to remove Kirayoshi from Kira's womb several weeks before he was due to be born, wishing to differentiate himself from Kira's old resistance movement by refusing to harm the 'innocent'. Fortunately, the makara herbs she had been taking counteracted the effects of Prin's merfadon, which enabled Kira to stop him. () Birth Kirayoshi was delivered in a traditional Bajoran birthing ceremony in early 2373. Miles, Keiko, Shakaar Edon, and Y'Pora, a Bajoran midwife, were at her side; Kira later expressed some sorrow that she was not able to raise the baby herself, having genuinely bonded with the child during her time as a surrogate. () Early life Several weeks after the birth, Kira claimed that Kirayoshi recognized her, although a skeptical Jadzia Dax believed he was too young to "even recognize his own fingers." Even after Kira told her that Kirayoshi smiled every time she entered the room, Jadzia retorted that it was "probably just gas." () Later that year Keiko had to go to Bajor, leaving Miles to look after Kirayoshi and Molly. He found that no one could look after Yoshi without the baby bursting into tears. Jake Sisko was one such unsuccessful babysitter. Miles later found that Yoshi slept better in the pit in DS9's operations center. He believed it was the "pattern of lights… the hum of the optronic emitters, or the vibration of the ODN relays". Miles later found that Worf had a calming effect on Kirayoshi; Worf would sing Klingon nursery rhymes to Kirayoshi while babysitting him. () Tekeny Ghemor thought Yoshi was "a beautiful baby" when he visited the station just before his death in 2373. Owing to his complicated fatherlike relationship with Kira, he said he felt that, in a strange way, Yoshi was the closest thing he had to a grandson. () Kirayoshi had not begun to walk by late 2373. () Before the Dominion takeover of Deep Space 9 and the start of the Dominion War, Keiko took Molly and Yoshi to Earth for their safety. () When Molly O'Brien was lost in time in 2374, Worf took care of Kirayoshi, in an effort to prove to Jadzia that he was well suited as a father, as Miles and Keiko tried to reintegrate Molly into the family and station life. Although Worf felt briefly disheartened after he accidentally bumped Kirayoshi's head during a Klingon game, his mood improved when he learned that Kirayoshi was enthusiastically repeating the phrase "gung-gung-gung", part of a Klingon exercise called Hehh-duHpp that was traditionally taught to Klingon children, which Worf had played with Kirayoshi during his time babysitting (). Kirayoshi moved back to Earth with his family in late 2375, when Miles accepted a position as Professor of Engineering at Starfleet Academy. () Appendices Appearances Background information Kirayoshi was portrayed by Clara Bravo. Kirayoshi was presumably named partly after his surrogate mother, Kira Nerys. Yoshi's root meaning is "good" and is used as a prefix/suffix in names. "Yoshi!" is also said in a way meaning "Yes! All right! Good!" In ultimately omitted dialogue from the second draft script of "Accession", Kirayoshi was predicted, prior to birth, to be male, tall, left-handed, and have curly hair like his father's. According to the script for "Business as Usual", his name was pronounced as "keer-uh-YOE-shee". Apocrypha In Star Trek Online, Kirayoshi O'Brien is a Starfleet Lieutenant stationed at Memory Alpha. He later becomes Chief Engineer of the Enterprise-F. External links de:Kirayoshi O'Brien sv:Kirayoshi O'Brien Humans Deep Space 9 residents

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Brunt

Brunt was a male Ferengi of the 24th century Ferengi Alliance. He was a liquidator for the Ferengi Commerce Authority. He often wore a bar of gold-pressed latinum on a chain around his neck. Career Brunt was given the task of dealing with Ishka, Quark's mother, in 2371 after she was found to have illegally earned profit. He used the threat of selling Ishka into indentured servitude to persuade Quark to get her to confess to her crimes. () Brunt later returned to Deep Space 9 to investigate a strike at Quark's by Quark's employees who had formed a union. After these two encounters with Quark, Brunt grew to hate him. () Brunt had the joy of revoking Quark's business license in 2372, after Quark broke a contract with him. Quark had sold Brunt the vacuum-desiccated remains of himself for 500 bars of latinum, but later found out that he was not going to die. Brunt seized Quark's assets and expelled him from the Ferengi business world. However, the generosity of the staff and residents of DS9 helped mitigate this punishment to Quark and allowed him to continue his bar business in defiance of Brunt's intentions. () In 2373, Brunt concocted a scheme to install himself as the new Grand Nagus, by exposing Grand Nagus Zek's failing business mind. His plan was foiled by Quark, who helped Zek reunite with Quark's business-minded mother. () Following his betrayal, Brunt was fired from the FCA. Brunt later hoped to regain his old job by joining a rescue mission commissioned by Zek and led by Quark to rescue Ishka, who had been taken prisoner by the Dominion. Quark and the other team members initially did not welcome Brunt's efforts to join the group until he revealed his ownership of a shuttle. While the team was showing a notable lack of success in simulated engagements with Jem'Hadar soldiers on in the holosuite, Brunt suggesting starting off with something easier like ambushing Bolians. Team member, Nog, angrily retorted that Brunt couldn't ambush a Bolian if the Bolian was blindfolded and tied to a tree. Once it became clear that the team was not qualified to engage in a rescue mission, the instead arranged a prisoner exchange on Empok Nor. Brunt, along with Leck and were infuriated when they discovered Quark and Rom were going to cheat them out of most of the reward money. Their problems grew much more serious, however, when the resulting argument led to Gaila accidentally shooting and killing their own Vorta prisoner Keevan. With some creative use of some neural stimulators, however, they were able to revive Keevan's body long enough distract the Dominion party, allowing Quark to rescue Ishka, while Rom and Brunt shot and killed a Jem'Hadar soldier and took another Vorta, Yelgrun, prisoner. () Brunt finally maneuvered his way to the throne by 2374, becoming Acting Nagus after Zek was deposed by the Ferengi Commerce Authority. Zek had enacted a set of reforms to give Ferengi women equal rights. With the help of Quark, Zek regained the support of enough commissioners of the Ferengi Commerce Authority to return to his position. Brunt returned to his job as a liquidator. () When Zek returned to Deep Space 9 in 2375 to install the next Grand Nagus, Brunt believed Quark was to take the throne. Ever the opportunist, he wasted no time in lavishing praise on his former enemy and offered his services as financial adviser. However, it was in fact Quark's brother, Rom, who was installed as Nagus. Brunt later made the same offer to Rom, though Nog did not appreciate the offer and escorted him away. () Appendices Appearances (Season 3) (Season 4) (Season 5) (Season 6) (Season 7) Background information Jeffrey Combs who played him commented on the character of Brunt: "I think he's a completely right-wing devout Ferengi. I mean, on top of being a Ferengi through-and-through, I think he is also inflexible in allowing any deviation from what he thinks are his high standards. Now, maybe that's the Ferengi way as well, but I don't see that from Quark and Rom. They're Ferengi through-and-through, but they seem to have a basic goodness about them. Brunt sees that as a weakness. That's not being a true Ferengi. They've been around the Humans too long. Anyone who sets themselves up to be as self-righteous as Brunt does, always has a chink somewhere. There's always a weakness". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, issue 14) Combs also said of Brunt, "He was the IRS guy from hell. He's the guy who just kept coming back to make your life miserable, audit after audit after audit. I can imagine that that would be pretty awful. He also typified to me the inflexibility of someone who thinks their way is the right way." (Hidden File 02, DS9 Season 7 DVD special features) On wearing Ferengi makeup Combs stated, "Wearing makeup was never horrific because I was thankful for coming to this beautiful lot. But the Ferengi makeup was much more uncomfortable. You can't hear, so it's very difficult to modulate your voice, and as the day went on my head would start to ring. Also, you release a lot of heat from your scalp, and when you're wearing this big rubber thing it just gets suffocated after awhile." (Star Trek: The Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 17, p. 19) Apocrypha Brunt appeared in the novella Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed in Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and in the related short story "Reservoir Ferengi" in Seven Deadly Sins. Brunt later appears in Rules of Accusation. Brunt appears in the "Victory is Life" expansion of Star Trek Online, voiced again by Jeffrey Combs (who also returned as Weyoun 10, his other main DS9 role). In a mission harkening back to , Brunt joins a commando team led by Quark to infiltrate an Iconian dreadnought and reclaim the Sword of Kahless to convince the Klingons to commit to the war against the Hur'q. Once the Sword is found, Brunt steals it, believing the profits for finding it will allow him to depose Rom as Grand Nagus, and escapes with a Ferengi mine owner named Madran. However, both Quark and Rom anticipated Brunt would turn on them and made a counter-offer to Madran, who takes Brunt and the Sword back to DS9. Brunt is last seen in DS9's infirmary, having suffered injuries just short of being fatal, courtesy of Madran's Nausicaan mercenaries. External links de:Brunt fr:Brunt es:Brunt it:Brunt Ferengi Ferengi government officials

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William Ross

William J. Ross was a Human male who served as a Starfleet flag officer in the mid- to late-24th century. As an admiral, Ross took command of military operations during the Dominion War and led the Allied forces during the Battle of Cardassia, later presiding over the signing of the Treaty of Bajor, which ended the war. Starfleet career 2374 In 2374, Ross was a leading flag officer responsible for the Dominion War and coordinated his battle plans from Starbase 375. When Captain Benjamin Sisko and his crew arrived at the starbase, Ross appointed him the lead in a mission to destroy a Dominion ketracel-white facility using a Jem'Hadar attack ship they had captured a year prior. () Later that year, following the success of the mission, Admiral Ross asked Sisko and his crew to report to the conference room for a full debriefing. () On Sisko's advice, Ross later approved a plan in which the would attack the Dominion's new sensor array in the Argolis Cluster. Around the same time, Ross' adjutant Captain was promoted to command the Seventh Tactical Wing. Since Ross had been impressed with Sisko's performance in the preceding weeks and believed they would make a good team, he made Sisko his new adjutant, effective immediately. Ross then ordered Sisko to review some tactical reports and present an opinion on the Bolian operation at 0600 the next morning. Meanwhile, Lieutenant commander Jadzia Dax took command of the Defiant and ultimately concluded the mission in the Argolis Cluster successfully; Ross and Sisko then recommended Dax and the entire crew to be cited for exceptional performance of their duties. () Shortly thereafter, Ross was present during the briefing for Operation Return, Sisko's plan to retake Deep Space 9 from the Dominion. Ross supported the plan and allayed the concerns of Admiral Cobum that Earth would be left unprotected. Once everything was in place, Ross gave the go-ahead to Captain Sisko, wishing him good luck in the assault. () Towards the end of the year, Ross presented Sisko with the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor for his actions in retaking Deep Space 9 and forcing the Dominion into temporary retreat. Following the award ceremony, Ross had scheduled a briefing to discuss a new plan to strike the Dominion behind the lines. General Martok and Sisko observed the plan would need the help of Romulan forces, who until then, had also been on the defensive, protecting their territory. Martok, optimistic of their chances, believed that in just a year's time, all three of them would be drinking blood wine in the halls of the Cardassian Central Command, following their victory over the Dominion. During a meeting with Romulan Senator Letant, Ross attempted to convince him to join the fight, explaining the Dominion would continue to send ships at them one after another. Letant was ultimately swayed and committed his forces to the assault. Ross later ordered Sisko to take the lead in the operation, which was to become known as the First Battle of Chin'toka. () 2375 In early 2375, Ross again visited Deep Space 9 to inform Colonel Kira Nerys, who was temporarily in command, that Romulan Senator Kimara Cretak and her delegation would be establishing a presence on the station for the duration of the war. () After it was discovered that the Romulans had established plasma torpedo launchers on the Bajoran moon Derna, Ross at first refused to get involved, as he felt it could destroy the alliance they had established. However, when Colonel Kira set up a blockade of the moon in protest, he realized her resolve and told Senator Cretak that if she didn't remove the weapons, he would. () Later that year, Admiral Ross aided the covert Federation organization Section 31 by helping their agents infiltrate a conference on Romulus, in order to place an operative named Koval at the highest levels of the Romulan government. Doctor Julian Bashir, who had also attended the conference, was deceived by Ross, as part of a plot to deliver Senator Kimara Cretak into the hands of the Tal Shiar in exchange for Koval's loyalty to the Federation-Romulan alliance. Cretak had been in consideration for a seat on the Romulan Continuing Committee, just like Koval; but when she was arrested by the Tal Shiar based on a scheme perpetrated by Section 31 and Ross, the seat fell to Koval, whose support for the alliance was believed to be even more convincing due to his previously uttered anti-alliance views. When he found out, Bashir was furious and confronted Ross. Only agreeing to openly discuss the matter if the conversation was off-record, Ross defended his actions of setting up an innocent woman by stating that he had no choice. He saw Cretak as a patriot who would not have had any remorse delivering the Federation into the hands of the Dominion and striking a separate deal with them if it served the Romulan Empire. He admitted he disliked doing what he did. However, he also disliked ordering young women and men to die and felt this was the best way to maintain the alliance. In justifying his actions, Ross quoted Cicero's famous line "Inter arma enim silent leges", translated by Bashir as "In time of war, the law falls silent." () In late 2375, Admiral Ross met with Benjamin Sisko and ordered him to take the USS Defiant to the Chin'toka system, where Breen forces had broken through the lines in two places. During the engagement, which became known as the Second Battle of Chin'toka, the Defiant was destroyed and the system was lost to Dominion forces. () Admiral Ross later returned to Deep Space 9 to discuss the Breen energy-dampening weapon and Legate Damar's newly formed anti-Dominion resistance. () Following this, Ross met with Sisko, Martok, and Romulan General Velal to discuss the Dominion's retreat into Cardassian space. During discussions, Ross agreed with both Sisko and Martok in that to leave Dominion forces to rebuild would be a mistake, and that a major offensive against Cardassia Prime should be launched. () Ross personally participated in the assault, taking command of the Starfleet element aboard a Federation starship. During the battle, he maintained a constant communications link with Sisko and Martok, later ordering Sisko to help the Romulans, who had been hit badly, while he and Martok hit the center of Dominion lines. When the Cardassian forces switched sides against the Dominion, Ross initially suggested they keep the Dominion bottled up at Cardassia Prime. After objections from both Martok and Sisko, he later changed his mind and ordered all forces to press on in a three-pronged attack, eventually defeating Dominion forces and taking Cardassia Prime. On returning to Deep Space 9, Ross participated in the signing of a peace treaty to end the Dominion War, giving a speech that echoed that of Douglas MacArthur during Earth's World War II. () Personal relationships Benjamin Sisko Ross' relationship with Sisko was initially one of a professional nature. Their early meetings on Starbase 375 consisted of tactical reports and mission planning with no room for personal conversation. When Ross appointed Sisko his adjutant, he did, however, note that he was very impressed with Sisko's performance on the Defiant and felt they would make a good team. Sisko expressed some desire to remain with his ship, especially on the eve of the Argolis mission, and did not return Ross' expression of congratulations on his new position. During the mission itself, Sisko could not sleep, but instead waited up for news of the Defiants progress. Admiral Ross attempted to remind him he was now responsible for an entire tactical wing with thousands of lives at stake and that he had to get used to the Defiant being away on missions. When the crew returned after completing their mission, Sisko relaxed slightly, and both he and Ross shared a drink in the ship's mess hall. () As time went on, Ross and Sisko began to discuss matters of a personal nature. Prior to the launch of Operation Return, Ross paid a visit to Sisko to wish him good luck on the mission. As Sisko was reading a book on Bajoran texts, the conversation quickly changed to Bajor, with the captain recommending he visit the planet sometime. Ross joked that he "was already planning [his] next R&R there." () Upon awarding Sisko the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor, Ross noted his remarkable leadership and meritorious service in the fight against the Dominion and his bravery in taking back Deep Space 9. () Despite his respect for Sisko, the captain's role as Emissary of the Prophets did cause friction between the two. This came to a head when Ross ordered him, "to stop meddling in Bajoran affairs and return the damned tablet," referring to Sisko's acquisition of the Reckoning Tablet from Bajor and after an official protest from Kai Winn Adami. () The two also clashed after Sisko received a vision from the Prophets which told him not to go on the mission to Chin'toka. Sisko asked Ross to let him stay on Deep Space 9 but, unsatisfied by Sisko's reasoning, Ross warned him, "You've got to make a decision. You are either the Emissary or a Starfleet captain. You can't be both." Sisko ultimately decided to go on the mission as planned. () After Sisko took leave to return to Earth in 2375, Admiral Ross had his doubts about whether he would return. However, when Sisko did indeed return to the station, his relationship with Admiral Ross began to improve, so much that he invited Ross to preside over his wedding to Kasidy Yates. () This relationship improved as the year went on. Following the destruction of the Defiant at the Second Battle of Chin'toka, Ross promised Sisko he would find him a new ship, though it might take some time. He later kept this promise when he presented the captain with the on stardate 52861.3, just in time for the assault on Cardassia Prime. Ross even arranged for the ship to be renamed the USS Defiant, in honor of Sisko's former ship. () Martok As commanders of their respective fleets, Ross and Martok spent most of their time together discussing the war effort. () In late 2375, Ross was invited to participate in Martok's induction into the Order of Kahless, though appeared noticeably uncomfortable during the ceremony, especially when he learned he was to cut the palm of his hand using a Klingon d'k tahg. Even though this was a learning experience for Ross, he still took to it in honor of Martok's service and partook in some blood wine to celebrate. () Following the Battle of Cardassia, Martok opened a bottle of blood wine with both Ross and Sisko, having promised to do so upon their victory over the Dominion. However, Ross and Sisko declined to drink over the dead bodies of their enemies, much to Martok's displeasure. () Kira Nerys As a Starfleet admiral and Sisko's superior, Ross did not come into contact with Kira Nerys until early 2375, following Sisko's decision to take leave on Earth. With Kira in command of Deep Space 9, Ross informed her Romulan senator Cretak and her delegation would be establishing a presence on the station for the duration of the war. Though Kira voiced her objections to the admiral, Ross firmly rejected them, telling her the decision had already been made and that she didn't have a say in it. Though the two of them clashed on the issue, Ross did compliment Kira on her command of the station in Sisko's absence, hinting that he didn't believe the captain would return. () Their relationship became further strained following the placement of Romulan plasma weapons on the Bajoran moon of Derna. Though Ross sympathized with Kira's stance that the Romulans had no right putting weapons on a Bajoran moon, he declined to assist her in removing them, for fear it would jeopardize the alliance. Kira took this to mean the Bajorans weren't as important to the war effort as the Romulans, and decided to take matters into her own hands by blockading the moon, thereby preventing any Romulan ships from reaching it. With the blockade in place, Ross attempted to convince Kira to stop what she was doing, to no avail. Realizing the colonel's resolve led Ross to his decision to instruct Cretak to remove the weapons "or he would." Following the incident, Ross jokingly instructed Kira to remind him never to play poker with her. () Ross was later present and approved of the plan to give Colonel Kira a Starfleet commission in order to assist Damar's resistance movement. () Personal life Due to an embargo on Romulan ale, making it illegal in the Federation, Ross had never sampled it until the embargo was lifted in 2375. He admitted that he was probably one of few Starfleet officers who hadn't ignored the law in this case. Upon drinking his first glass of ale aboard the , Ross was a bit overwhelmed by its strength and started coughing. () Memorable quotes "I'm glad to see you made it back in one piece, Ben." "I was lucky. We lost a lot of good people." "Yes, we did. And we're going to lose a lot more before this is over. I hope you'll find this office satisfactory." "Office? I wasn't aware I'd be needing an office. I thought I was here for an assignment briefing." "I'm afraid you're going to be here longer than you think, Captain. As of right now, you're no longer in command of the Defiant." -William Ross and Benjamin Sisko () "The Prophets don't see me as a Starfleet captain. They see me as their Emissary." "That's the problem, isn't it? For the past six years you've tried to be both, and up to now I've been patient. I've indulged you, I've gone out on a limb for you many times, but this is it. You've got to make a decision. You are either the Emissary or a Starfleet captain. You can't be both." - Benjamin Sisko and William Ross () "Let's get one thing straight, colonel. I came here as a courtesy to you. This decision has already been made." - William Ross, of the Romulan presence on Deep Space 9 () "Remind me never to play poker with you." - William Ross, following Colonel Kira's blockade of Derna () "I don't like it. But I've spent the last year and a half of my life ordering young men and young women to die. I like that even less." "That's a glib answer and a cheap way to avoid the fact that you've trampled on the very thing that those men and women are out there dying to protect! Does that not mean anything to you?" "Inter arma enim silent leges." - William Ross and Julian Bashir () "Four hundred years ago, a victorious general spoke the following words at the end of another costly war. 'Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph. From both we have learned there can be no going back. We must move forward to preserve in peace what we've won in war." - William Ross, quoting Douglas MacArthur at the signing of the Treaty of Bajor () Appendices Appearances (DS9 Season 6) (DS9 Season 7) Background information William Ross was played by the late actor Barry Jenner. The script for "A Time to Stand" described Ross thus; "Despite being a man no older than Sisko, [he] shows signs of the burden of office." As Sisko was born in 2332, this would put Ross around age forty-two at the time of the episode. Barry Jenner felt he won the part of Admiral Ross by doing basically what he thought any actor should do; rather than portraying the role as one-dimensional and instead of simply delivering the lines written for him in a technically proficient manner, Jenner thoroughly prepared for his audition and invested more work into imagining the role than he needed to, giving Admiral Ross a backstory. "He was obviously a line officer who'd seen a lot of combat, seen a lot of people killed, and he's got a lot of memories," Jenner pointed out. "And that really tied into the way I did the audition scene, where he was talking to Sisko about sending young men and women off to battle, knowing that some of them wouldn't come back." () Although Barry Jenner originally meant to play Admiral Ross only in "A Time to Stand", the probability of the character's return was first hinted to Jenner by Sisko actor Avery Brooks, when the two performers met each other for the first time. "He said, 'So you're going to be Admiral Ross," Jenner recollected. "And I said, 'No, I'm only here for today.' And he said, 'No, you're going to be around a lot. You'll be back, you'll be back." () The producers were so impressed by Barry Jenner's portrayal of Ross that they quickly wanted to get the admiral into the show as a recurring character. () Ira Behr recalled, "After 'A Time to Stand', we said, 'Hey, this guy's okay. We should give him another shot.' And then after we did one or two more with him, it suddenly dawned on us that Barry was a solid actor." () Hence, Behr jokingly told Jenner, "We've had other admirals on this show. We're glad we've found you. Sorry it took five years!" () When interviewed, Behr enthused, "Barry Jenner has made Admiral Ross such a well-rounded character." () As Admiral Ross, Jenner indeed "bucked the trend" – at least in the viewpoints of the DS9 writer-producers – of Star Trek admirals seeming untrustworthy, antagonistic, gruff, bland, or unconvincing. Hans Beimler reminisced, "When we found Barry, we knew we had found someone that we could develop and use on the show. He gave us the right attitude – that admiral attitude – that was really intelligent. He seemed like someone who could be Sisko's boss, although not his superior, obviously, because the show is about Sisko." René Echevarria said in agreement, "[Jenner] seemed like a good foil. Light and droll and all the things we wanted an admiral to be." Behr concurred, "He brings a gravitas to the role, and yet you can see there's a man behind the uniform. I think that Barry Jenner is one of the unsung heroes of the show, one of the pieces of the puzzle that might not be readily apparent to the audience. But he's part of the glue that makes our job easier." () The producers' interest in and approval of Admiral Ross greatly flattered Barry Jenner. He was particularly appreciative of the fact that his portrayal of Ross influenced how the DS9 writers wrote the character, Jenner saying that their usage of aspects he had introduced into the role made him "feel good as an actor." () Admiral Ross was given the first name "Cliff" in one of several wall-mounted diplomas created, during DS9 Season 6, as set dressing for his office on Starbase 375, although these documents weren't intended to be shown in detail on camera. () In "Image in the Sand", Odo refers to Ross as "Bill". This was originally put in as a joke by writers Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler, who weren't thinking of the diplomas when they gave Ross a new given name. As Behr explained, however, it quickly became popular; "At the time Hans and I wrote the line, we weren't even sure if that was the admiral's name, because Odo was making a joke. But it caught on, and after that, every goddam writer had to put the name in his script. You know: 'Oh, there's Bill Ross.' 'Let's get Bill Ross to perform the ceremony.' So he's no longer 'Admiral Ross,' he's Bill." () Perhaps Ross' most notable episode is "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges", in which his character goes through an important change. Looking back on the episode, Jenner recalled, "He'd do anything to save the Federation. And here he put so much value on the success of the war efforts that he's willing to do things that might not be thought of as honest and aboveboard. He was willing to bend some rules behind the scenes and go through some soul-searching to defend the integrity of the Federation." Behr observed that Ross was, in many ways, like Sisko; "Ross is a compromised guy, just like Sisko," he commented. "But it's not like he's a double agent. If he were, we'd have never allowed him to marry Sisko and Kasidy." () Speaking of the wedding itself in "'Til Death Do Us Part", writer Bradley Thompson revealed Ross' words were based on the marriage ceremony of Miles and Keiko O'Brien in ; "Ron [D. Moore] had written the speech that Captain Picard delivers when he married O'Brien and Keiko [...] and he based that on a speech Kirk gives at the wedding in the original series. David [Weddle] and I looked at both of those episodes, and then modified it a little. We took the tradition and improvised on it, because the words don't actually come out of a book. You can say whatever you want. So they're similar but not identical to what Kirk and Picard say." () Over the course of the series, actor Barry Jenner put together his own personal backstory for the character. "He has two children", Jenner explained, "a boy and a girl, both serving in Starfleet. The young man was lost in battle, but his daughter is still alive, and I think that one of he reasons Ross likes Benjamin Sisko is because he would trust for his daughter to serve under the captain." () In , a news article mentioned Jenner had been asked to reprise the role of Ross in . This reappearance of the character never transpired, though. Apocrypha William Ross has become a popular character in numerous non-canon works. The reveals he and his parents took a publicly-offered tour of the Palais de la Concorde when he was just seven years of age, during the 2320s. During the tour, he enters the Presidential Office and meets several prominent Federation Councilors. In the SCE eBook Home Fires, Ross is a Lieutenant Commander working with Starfleet Intelligence in the 2350s. In 2355 he recruits the services of civilian captains Giancarlo and Aldo Corsi of the freighter Ulrika's Hope to conduct some discreet scans of the Topin system in hopes of gaining intelligence on the workings within the Cardassian Union. Despite Ross's assurances, the scans are detected and the Ulrika's Hope is intercepted by a Cardassian vessel commanded by Gul Mogad, who kills Giancarlo Corsi. Ross and his team manage to save most of the Hopes crew, but the grieving Aldo gives Mogad the intelligence gathered in exchange for a cessation of hostilities. Following this, in The Future Begins, Ross appears as Second Officer on the USS Leonov, during the conflict with the Tzenkethi. During one battle against two Tzenkethi vessels, the Leonovs warp core is breached, and the crew barely have time to make it to escape pods. The Tzenkethi kill half of the surviving crew by shooting down the pods. Those who survive, including Ross, find refuge on an L-class planet. A few months later, Ross learns that the ship's coordinates had been given to the Tzenkethi by a member of a rogue intelligence network from within the Federation. Ross tracks down the agent to a remote moon in the Arias sector, where he explains the Leonov had been about to receive orders to destroy a presumed Tzenkethi industrial complex that had been based on bad intelligence. Section 31 thought that the loss of innocent life would aggravate matters with the Tzenkethi, and took steps to keep the Leonov from carrying out its mission. Ross makes the difficult decision not to report the man to Starfleet Command. This is the first time Ross comes into contact with Section 31 during his career. The book also gives Ross's middle name as "Johannes". The video game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen reveals that Ross served as first officer on the during a mission to locate the orb of the Pah-wraiths in 2361. During their search, the ship was attacked by a warship and Ross was taken captive by the Cardassians. Furthermore, his character makes several non-speaking appearances on the station's promenade in-between missions. In the The Sky's the Limit short story "Turncoats", Admiral Ross travels to Draken IV after Vice-Proconsul M'ret and his aides N'veran and Revaik defect to the Federation aboard the in 2369. Ross expresses his desire to oversee their debriefing but the Vulcans request they be brought to instead. After the Enterprise is damaged by a Romulan weapon and Starfleet is unable to contact her, Ross sends the USS Nolan to investigate. The Slings and Arrows eBook The Oppressor's Wrong reveals that Ross was given his assignment on Starbase 375 following the death of Admiral Eric Hahn and the arrest of Captain Ishmael Snowden for his role in a conspiracy against the Federation government. In the Pocket DS9 novel Hollow Men, set in 2374, Ross is among the guests at a multi-species conference on Earth, which brings together Humans, Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians. According to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch novels Avatar, Book One and Avatar, Book Two, Ross is kept busy in the months following the war, overseeing the response to an attack by rogue Jem'Hadar soldiers on starbase Deep Space 9. The books also state his flagship is the USS Cerberus. He is also kept busy coordinating fleet actions in the Gateway Crisis, as featured in the Star Trek: Gateways novel series. In the SCE eBook Ross heads an inquiry into the near-destruction of the USS da Vinci at Galvan VI, later finding Captain David Gold not at fault for the incident. This takes place in the year 2376. In the Pocket DS9 novel Abyss, also set in 2376, Ross has access to the Pathfinder Project database and asks the crew of Deep Space 9 for their opinions on the data gathered by the crew of the during their time in the Delta Quadrant. In the Star Trek: Titan novel Taking Wing, set in late-2379, Ross orders the to Romulus in response to Praetor Tal'aura's request for relief and humanitarian aid to the stricken Romulan Star Empire, following Shinzon's assassination of the Imperial Senate. With regards to Ross's personal life, the of "Sacrifice of Angels" reveals Ross had a son who also served in Starfleet, while of "What You Leave Behind" states he was a friend of Morn. William Ross also appears as a selectable commanding officer in the video game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars, in which he is voiced by his Deep Space Nine actor Barry Jenner. He also has a card in the Star Trek Customizable Card Game. Ross also appears in the Star Trek: A Time to... novel series, during which, in 2379, he discovers that Federation President Min Zife is responsible for supplying the Tezwan madman Kinchawn with the weapons that were responsible for the deaths of 6000 Klingon warriors. Ross and several other Starfleet admirals resolve to remove Zife from office, with Ross insisting that the President needs to be held accountable for his crimes, even if the public never knew. Ross is later contacted by Section 31, who write Zife's resignation speech and have the President and two of his top advisers quietly executed for their crimes. Following Zife's resignation, Ross is considered as a likely candidate for the office but declines to run, instead becoming an advisor to Nanietta Bacco's campaign. This story is followed up in Articles of the Federation, in which Ross is forced to retire from Starfleet when President Bacco discovers his involvement in Min Zife's death. Because of his respected position and historic accomplishments throughout his career, President Bacco allows Ross to disappear into obscurity rather than face public punishment. The novel gives his retirement year as 2380. In the novel Available Light, following the disclosure of the existence of Section 31 to the public at large, Admiral Ross is arrested by the Federation Security Agency on Caldos for his role in the removal and susbsequent assassination of President Min Zife. Along with Ross, Admirals Edward Jellico, Alynna Nechayev, and Nakamura are also arrested for participating in the coup. While in holding at the FSA detention facility in San Francisco, Ross and his defense attorney are murdered during an interrogation by a grieving FSA agent, whose husband was killed in a staged shuttle crash near Bajor which was orchestrated by Section 31. Following Ross' death, an in-depth investigation would find that Ross had been one of the main organic leaders of the rogue agency. External links bg:Уилям Рос de:William Ross es:William Ross fr:William Ross nl:William Ross Humans Starfleet personnel (24th century) Starfleet command personnel Starfleet flag officers USS Bellerophon (NCC-74705) personnel

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Five-year mission

A five-year mission of deep space exploration into uncharted space was a type of assignment given to Starfleet starships in the 23rd century. History Prime reality In 2245, the began her first of three five-year missions under the command of Commodore Matthew Decker. ( commemorative plaque ) In 2257, Captain Christopher Pike mentioned that he had been on a five-year mission aboard the , a considerable distance away, when the Federation-Klingon War broke out the year before. They had not been ordered to return, which had taken a toll on the crew. () One of the greatest chapters in Starfleet history was another five-year mission of the USS Enterprise from 2265–2270 under Captain James T. Kirk. (, , ) In 2269, Captain Kirk said to Odona that the USS Enterprise carried on board enough food to feed a crew of 430 for five years. () In the 24th century, Captain Nyota Uhura led an exploratory five-year mission to the Lesser Magellanic Cloud. The mission lasted from 2301 to 2305. ( commemorative plaque ) Five-year missions were abandoned by 3189. () Alternate reality On May 12, 2260 of the alternate reality, the , under the command of Captain , began the first official five-year mission of deep space exploration into uncharted space that had ever been attempted by any starship. By the third year, the ship had been in uncharted space for an extended period. This had stretched the ship's mechanical capacities, although the engineering department was up to the job. The rest of the crew likewise continued to act admirably despite the rigors. By day 966, the crew were looking forward to a resupply stop at Starbase Yorktown. From there, the ship continued on a rescue mission to Altamid, where it was destroyed. The crew later continued their mission in the after it was finished. (; ) See also Four-year mission Eight-year mission Appendices Background information The 2265-2270 five-year mission of the USS Enterprise mission was chronicled in and , based on the opening narration to those series. The and have conjectured that Captain Robert April had one five-year mission and Captain Christopher Pike had two five-year missions with the Enterprise before Kirk assumed command. These sources also state that Kirk had a second five-year mission after . later made canon that Pike did indeed have at least one five-year mission as commander of the Enterprise which, based upon dates given in the series, would have been underway at the time of "The Cage". Until 2260 in the alternate reality, a five-year mission of deep space exploration was unprecedented. Because the alternate reality was a divergent timeline that split from the original universe in 2233, there presumably had not been any official five-year missions prior to, at least, that year in the prime reality. No references have been made to five-year missions after the 23rd century. Instead, the opening narration of refers to the Enterprises "continuing mission". However, in 2363, the embarked on an eight-year mission. In an interview in the DS9 Season 3 DVD, Ira Steven Behr said that the was "on a five-year mission to kick ass." External link de:Fünf-Jahres-Mission fr:Mission quinquennale ja:ファイブ・イヤー・ミッション Starfleet Missions and expeditions

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Ishka

Ishka, daughter of Adred (nicknamed Moogie) was the mother of Quark and Rom, and was romantically involved with Grand Nagus Zek. She played a crucial role in initiating reforms which took place in Ferengi society in 2375. Life Ishka was born sometime before 2274, as she had once indicated in 2374 that her lobes hadn't been "this firm in over a century." () Ishka was married to Keldar, a good man who didn't have the mind for business that was needed in Ferengi society. Ishka attempted to help her husband in financial matters, but he refused to listen to her because she was a female. When Quark and Rom were children, Ishka taught them to memorize their first copies of the Rules of Acquisition. Following Keldar's death, Ishka began conducting secret business transactions in violation of Ferengi law, since as a female, she was forbidden to acquire profit in Ferengi society. Amassing a large fortune, Ishka was eventually discovered by the Ferengi Commerce Authority. Her son Quark was forced to travel to Ferenginar to handle the matter. Quark discovered that Ishka had earned far more profit than he expected, and that it would be impossible for him to make restitutions for her. After much strife between mother and son, Quark finally convinced his Moogie to make a full confession so that she could avoid being sold into indentured servitude and his business would be saved. Ishka returned the money she made to the FCA, though only she and her other son Rom knew that she had only given one-third of the profits back. () When Kira Nerys and Odo saw Quark with a holo-imager in 2371, he claimed it was to record an image of the Promenade that he was to send to Ishka. () Later that year, Nog visited Ishka. () Quark visited Ishka while on Ferenginar, negotiating a vole belly deal, in late 2372. () Ishka competed in the Global Tongo Championship, female division, in 2373. She began passing tips to Grand Nagus Zek during his games, helping him win the competition. The two began corresponding afterwards, with Ishka at first concealing her identity as a female. When she eventually revealed herself to Zek, he was furious until he realized that they were in love. Later, as Zek's mind began to fail, Ishka realized that his deterioration would cause the deterioration of the Ferengi economy. She began discreetly giving him assistance in financial matters, keeping the Ferengi business world going from behind the scenes. Eventually, FCA Liquidator Brunt discovered their relationship and plotted for Quark to break them up, in exchange for restoring his Ferengi business license. Brunt hoped that, without Ishka, Zek would be deposed as Nagus, and then he could take Zek's place. After Quark discovered the state of Zek's mind, he reunited the two lovers. () During the Dominion War, Ishka traveled to to get her ears raised. During the return trip to Ferenginar, her transport was captured by the Dominion. Grand Nagus Zek commanded Quark to rescue her. Quark arranged a prisoner exchange on station Empok Nor, trading the Vorta Keevan for Ishka. () The exchange didn't quite go as planned, since Keevan was inadvertently killed moments before the exchange took place, but thanks to some improvised engineering by Nog and quick thinking by the others in the group, Quark was not only able to effect the transfer and save Ishka, but capture the other Vorta Yelgrun in the process. In gratitude for allowing them to use Keevan to conduct the exchange, Quark gave Yelgrun to the Federation for interrogation. Under Ishka's influence, Zek began reforming Ferengi society in 2374. After an amendment to the Ferengi Bill of Opportunities caused Zek to be deposed, Ishka attempted to arrange his comeback. She set up a meeting with an important FCA commissioner on Deep Space 9. During a fight with Quark, she had a heart attack and was unable to attend the meeting. Quark posed as Zek's "other female financial adviser" and convinced commissioner Nilva to vote for Zek's reinstatement. Ishka recovered after receiving a new heart. () After influencing Zek to pass even more extreme reforms on Ferenginar, Ishka and the Nagus retired to Risa in 2375. They stopped at Deep Space 9 to instate Rom as the new Grand Nagus. () Philosophy Ishka was never a typical Ferengi female. She defied almost every tenet and taboo of Ferengi philosophy and law regarding women; she spoke to strangers and refused to chew her children's food (although she sometimes offered to "pre-chew" Quark's food, as a gesture of motherly compassion). () Later in life, she wore clothes, made profit, left the Ferengi homeworld, things which were illegal in Ferengi society, and helped bring about the reformation of Ferengi society. Ultimately, she influenced Zek to choose her son Rom as his successor, ensuring that her reforms would live on in the future. () It was Ishka's hope that one day a Ferengi woman would take her "rightful place" as Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance. () Personal relationships When it came to interacting with other people, Ishka was quite amicable and offered sound financial advice. Even while she was held prisoner by the Dominion, she had friendly conversations with the Vorta Yelgrun, informing him about such things as the importance of a diversified portfolio. However, she was also willing to stand up for herself and wasn't willing to put up with nonsense. () Ishka loved her husband, who she felt was a good man, but he was unsuccessful in his commercial ventures, and while Rom inherited Keldar's heart, Quark inherited Ishka's lobes. Rom and Ishka were very close when he was a child, and they remained close when Rom moved away from Ferenginar; however, Ishka and Quark quarreled constantly. He did not approve of her lifestyle and resented her for earning more profit than him. Additionally, Quark believed that the reason his father, Keldar, had been such a failure was because of Ishka's unorthodox ways, oblivious to her true financial genius. Nonetheless, Ishka always loved Quark, and she was still his "Moogie." () The romance between Ishka and Zek blossomed because she was willing to open his eyes to life beyond profit. When Zek was deposed temporarily, Quark became furious with Ishka, as he believed that she had been using Zek to advance her feminist agenda all along. She had been instrumental in the emancipation of females, but she maintained that Zek had made the decisions. Regardless of Ishka's motives, Quark accused her of being the worst thing that ever happened to the Ferengi Alliance. As Ishka pointed out, Zek was lonely and miserable prior to becoming involved with her. In addition to enlightening Zek's mind, Ishka was responsible for helping the Nagus' failing memory run the Alliance until their retirement to Risa together. () Appendices Appearances (Season 3) (Season 5) (Season 6) (Season 7) Background information Origins The creation of the Ishka character represented another step in the process of developing the Ferengi on . "I [...] thought it would be fun to see a Ferengi woman who did not fit the supposed stereotype," reflected Ira Steven Behr, who co-wrote Ishka's first appearance in with Robert Hewitt Wolfe. Ishka was nevertheless envisioned as fitting the mold of "a true Ferengi." For instance, though she was conceived as a women's liberation advocate, she was intended to be one whose actions went beyond those of a stereotypical activist. If she had been merely "screaming to end profit", Wolfe commented, she would not have been true to how the species had been established. () Finding a suitable performer to appear as Ishka in "Family Business" was extremely challenging. One option was for the character to be played by Wallace Shawn, the same actor who portrayed Grand Nagus Zek. "I suggested Wallace Shawn in drag, which didn't go over real big," remembered David Livingston. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 97) Rene Auberjonois, who directed the episode, explained, "It needed to be a comic performance, but by a really good actor. We had a lot of trouble finding the right balance in the people we saw." () Eventually, Rene Auberjonois himself suggested casting comedienne Andrea Martin to play Ishka. "I [...] thought she would have the right take on it," Auberjonois subsequently related. At the time, he mentioned Martin's name to the DS9 producers and "Ira just went for it," he later recalled. () Martin was indeed soon cast for the role. "In fact, she didn't even read for the part," continued David Livingston. "We just offered it to her, and she delivered it." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 97) Martin did, however, receive an immediate cautioning from Auberjonois about the extremities of makeup she would have to endure as Ishka. He later recalled, "I said to her, 'You've got to know that up front, so if you feel that you're not going to be able to handle it, then don't do this part, because it's going to be harder than anything you've ever done if you haven't worn prosthetics.' She decided to go ahead with it, I think really based on the fact that I was so candid with her." (, issue #222, pp. 29 & 31) Because Andrea Martin is only about three years older than Quark actor Armin Shimerman, she was heavily made-up to appear as an older woman. Martin's old-age makeup required extra care. () She wore a head-piece which was based on that worn by Wallace Shawn as Zek, and was designed to look almost caricature-like, with drooping lobes and large jowls. (Michael Westmore's Aliens: Season Three, DS9 Season 3 DVD special features) "To make her head a little more wrinkly," recollected Makeup Supervisor Michael Westmore, "we made a thin skin that went over one of our stock Ferengi heads. Then we made a new face for her, wrinkled, and did the backs of her hands." () Since Ishka was planned to be portrayed as naked in several scenes of "Family Business", multiple parts of her body were crafted. () For a scene in which her knees are shown on-screen, Michael Westmore even designed drooping kneecaps. (Michael Westmore's Aliens: Season Three, DS9 Season 3 DVD special features) A camera take looking over one of her bare shoulders had to be reshot, due to the producers feeling that Andrea Martin's supple skin looked too different from the rest of Ishka's appearance. () Westmore didn't have time to create a proper foam-latex appliance for the scene, in which Ishka's shoulders and the top of her chest are exposed. The pressing time factor meant he resorted to a simpler method. (Michael Westmore's Aliens: Season Three, DS9 Season 3 DVD special features) "We literally took Kleenex, wrapped it up and rubberized it, and covered her back and shoulders," he reflected. () Westmore also laid the rubberized, wrinkled Kleenex on the upper portion of Martin's chest. (Michael Westmore's Aliens: Season Three, DS9 Season 3 DVD special features) According to Westmore, Martin wasn't amused or thrilled by the makeup. (Michael Westmore's Aliens: Season Three, DS9 Season 3 DVD special features; ) Rene Auberjonois reflected, "[The rubber on Martin's shoulders] was not something she was prepared for. She was balking at it, and it was miserable and painful and uncomfortable, and she looked at me and said, 'Boy, if you hadn't warned me about this, I would be out the door." (, issue #222, p. 31) The nakedness of Ishka in parts of "Family Business" called for those shots to be well thought out and created some technical problems for Rene Auberjonois. "It was very limiting, having to hide her behind things," he expressed. As an example, Auberjonois blocked portions of Ishka's body with a bowl of Ferengi fruit, in a scene wherein she finally imprints her confession. () Andrea Martin's portrayal of Ishka in "Family Business" was well received by the DS9 production staff. "I thought Andrea Martin was very good," remarked Ira Behr. Robert Wolfe agreed, "She was great." David Livingston enthused, "Andrea Martin [...] gave a fabulous performance." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 97) Shortly after the start of DS9 Season 4, Rene Auberjonois concurred, "Despite her discomfort, I thought she was wonderful in the role. The crew would have done anything for her." (, issue #222, p. 31) Reprising the role With the introduction of Ishka having been a success, steps to bring her back were put in place. Rene Auberjonois alluded to this possibility during the interview he gave at the beginning of the fourth season, admitting, "I'm very hopeful that the character will return." (, issue #222, p. 31) Indeed, straight after the making of "Family Business", the DS9 writing staff decided to bring Ishka back, with a story in which she was involved with Grand Nagus Zek, an idea that eventually led to the writing of DS9 Season 5's . () Regarding the reappearance of Ishka in "Ferengi Love Songs", Rene Auberjonois noted, "Andrea Martin at the last minute couldn't do it because of some other business." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, Nos. 6/7, p. 34) Ira Behr agreed, "Andrea Martin was going to reprise the role, but had to drop out at the last minute." Owing to the unavailability of Andrea Martin, the role of Ishka had to be recast. "We started looking for another Moogie," recalled Rene Auberjonois, "and it was tough, because wonderful actors would come in and do brilliant takes on it but they would be so different from Andrea Martin. We and Rick Berman wanted it to be in the same texture and color." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, Nos. 6/7, p. 34) One actress who tried out for the part of Ishka was Cecily Adams. She initially wasn't familiar with the role, never having played an alien before and not knowing much about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Conversely, Adams was aware Quark's mother had been established in an earlier installment. "Moogie was an amazing departure for me [....] I called Armin [Shimerman] to tell him I was up for the role and he was kind enough to lend me a tape of the show that Andrea Martin had done," Adams reflected. " I watched it and got an idea of the tone, the comedy, and the relationships." Adams, a natural mimic, was highly prepared to perform as Ishka when the actress arrived at the studio for her audition. "She came in," remembered Ira Behr, "and said, 'Do you want to hear this the way Andrea Martin would do it?' And then she just did Moogie." () Rene Auberjonois noted, "[Adams] had watched Andrea Martin and she did her own version [of Ishka]." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, Nos. 6/7, p. 34) Although she was able to easily enunciate Ishka's vocal inflections, Adams encountered more difficulty, during the audition, with the character's vocabulary. "It was like reading in another language," she admitted. "During the audition, I didn't know what the character was talking about! [....] I felt like I was literally walking into another universe." Words which Adams struggled with, while auditioning for the part, included the names "Maihar'du" and "Tongo Festival". Nonetheless, her audience at the audition was so impressed by her take on the Ferengi mother that they decided to offer Adams the role. Concluded Behr, "We all looked at each other and said, 'Why the hell not!" () Like Andrea Martin in the Ishka role before her, Adams was artificially made to look older than she actually was, as she was in fact over nine years younger than Armin Shimerman. "I'm younger than both Armin and Max [Grodénchik]," she said, "so it's fun to play their mother." On the other hand, the makeup requirements for portraying Ishka shocked Adams. "I was excited when I came in that first day," she related, "but then they put the headpiece on and glued it to my eyelids, and in that first moment I knew I was in for it." Following three hours in the makeup chair, Adams was dressed in Ishka's clothing by DS9's wardrobe department, then was taken to the set, where she had a single rehearsal before the cameras rolled. "It was sink or swim, and I had no idea how to move my face with all that makeup on," she conceded. () Fortunately for Cecily Adams, both her co-star Armin Shimerman and her director Rene Auberjonois helped her with the prosthetics needed to complete Ishka's look. "Armin said, 'Cecily, it's all in the eyes. If you're doing your work on the inside, it will show on the outside," Adams relayed. "And Rene encouraged me to go a lot farther with the character and trust that it wouldn't look like overacting. I said to him at one point, 'I'm just afraid that I'm gonna look like a cartoon character,' and he said, 'Cecily, have you looked in a mirror? You are a cartoon character!' I was like, 'Oh. Yeah. Okay." In retrospect, Adams found the situation funny. () Cecily Adams reintroduced the role of Ishka in "Ferengi Love Songs". Rene Auberjonois commented, "By the end of the shoot she had made the character totally hers, which was great." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, Nos. 6/7, p. 34) Adams also reprised the part in all subsequent appearances of the character. Although the original version of DS9 Season 6 outing featured Grand Nagus Zek being kidnapped by the Dominion, Ishka ultimately replaced Zek in the script, after the writing staff learned Wallace Shawn was unavailable. Cecily Adams consequently made her second appearance as Ishka, a role she loved and was extremely proud of. "I feel very fortunate to play her," Adams stated. "She's made me grow as an actor and as a person." In the case of "The Magnificent Ferengi", Adams felt she had to deliver a performance that was as good as every other actor in the episode and was impressed by Ishka's indomitable spirit, even giving financial advice to her captor, Yelgrun. () From the moment the sixth season episode was conceived, Ishka was imagined as part of it. Cecily Adams approved of a scene, once it was reshot, in which Ishka collapses. "I laugh my head off every time I watch Moogie fall over," she remarked. () While Cecily Adams was in a crowd on the set for Vic's lounge during the last day of production on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (filming series finalé ), David Weddle didn't recognize her as having played Ishka, as the actress wasn't wearing her Ferengi makeup. Adams replied, "I'm Moogie." Both she and Weddle thought the situation was extremely funny. () In a retrospective interview, Ira Behr spoke with pride about Cecily Adams and her part in DS9, as Ishka. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, Nos. 4/5, p. 67) Academics Robert H. Chaires and Bradley Chilton commented, "Of the female characters who are semi-regulars of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Quark's mother, Ishka, is one of the most interesting." (Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice) Apocrypha Ishka appears in numerous stories that are set after DS9. These include Doors Into Chaos, "Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed" in Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Rules of Accusation, I, The Constable, and Star Trek: Ferengi. The character also appears in the Star Trek: Terok Nor Dawn of the Eagles, which is set before DS9. Ishka is still alive as of 2409-2410, the setting of Star Trek Online, and is mentioned as being a financial advisor to her son, Grand Nagus Rom. External links de:Ishka fr:Ishka es:Ishka Ferengi

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Bareil Antos

Bareil Antos was a prominent Bajoran spiritual leader during the years immediately after the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor. He was the leading candidate to become the next kai after Opaka, but withdrew his candidacy shortly before the election took place, clearing the way for the elevation of Winn Adami to kai. He later played an important role in the negotiation of the first Bajoran-Cardassian Treaty, but died during the negotiations. Early life Bareil spent his early years living under the yoke of Cardassian rule. He grew up in the Relliketh refugee camp. () At the age of five, Bareil met a Bajoran monk who grabbed him the first time on his ear, to feel his pagh. As a chronic misbehaver, Bareil became his favorite victim and the monk was able to "virtually squeeze the pagh out of his ear with his thumb and forefinger." () During the waning years of the Occupation, Bareil became a gardener at the Bajoran Monastery of the Kai and his own goal was to plant the most beautiful Feloran bromeliads on the planet. However, he eventually devoted his life to the Prophets, becoming a vedek. () Career Bareil was an unorthodox Vedek. Bajorans with more traditional beliefs considered him to have a way of "taking a prophecy and showing that it can mean exactly the opposite of the accepted interpretation". After Kai Opaka left Bajor in 2369, Bareil became the leading candidate to replace her in that role - he was Opaka's personal choice and was popular in the Assembly. Bareil spent the time before the election in seclusion, but was drawn to space station Deep Space 9 by his opponent, Winn Adami. He decided to visit the station after a school, run by Keiko O'Brien, was bombed by Bajoran fundamentalists who were against her teaching that the wormhole prophets were aliens. Bareil hoped to act as a peace mediator. While Bareil was aboard the station, Neela, a Bajoran crew member of DS9, attempted to assassinate him. The assassination attempt was really engineered by Vedek Winn, who wished to be kai and who wanted to eliminate her rival, Bareil. The attempt failed - although Winn's connection to it never came to light publicly - and Bareil was favored to be the next kai. () Bareil aided Major Kira Nerys in exposing a plot to overthrow the Bajoran Provisional Government by Jaro Essa and the Circle, who were unwittingly being aided by the Cardassians. Kira was hurt in a shuttle crash as she was trying to deliver evidence of the plot to the Chamber of Ministers. Bareil sent his aides to rescue Kira, had her wounds tended to at his monastery, and helped disguise her and Jadzia Dax as monks. Bareil accompanied the women to the Chamber of Ministers, where they presented evidence that foiled Jaro's coup. () When Bareil was tied to the infamous Kendra Valley Massacre, he withdrew from consideration for kai, and Vedek Winn was elected. No one outside of Kira Nerys and a few other members of the DS9 crew knew that Bareil had taken the blame for Kai Opaka's role in the massacre. She had allowed her own son and forty-two other Bajorans to be killed during the Occupation to prevent over 1,200 deaths in the Kendra Valley. Bareil took the fall to protect Opaka's memory, although Kira acknowledged that he was too honorable a man to avoid facing the consequences of his mistakes. () In 2371, Bareil visited the station to celebrate the Bajoran Gratitude Festival. He became infected by Zanthi fever, which Lwaxana Troi had transmitted to those at the station party. This caused misplaced amorousness in people who had been near her, and caused latent, subconscious attraction to others. Bareil amorously chased Dax, became jealous of Benjamin Sisko, and hit Sisko; Dax subsequently punched Bareil. Doctor Bashir was able to cure him of the fever. () After the election, Bareil joined Winn as her key adviser in negotiating the Bajoran-Cardassian Treaty. Bareil negotiated for five months with Legate Turrel. Just before the final treaty negotiations, he was injured in a plasma explosion on board a Bajoran transport. Dr. Bashir was able to bring him back from the brink of death, but needed to expose him to dangerous levels of neurogenic radiation in order to do so. Bashir told the vedek that he should be placed in stasis for an indefinite period of time, until a cure for the radiation damage could be developed. Bareil insisted that Bashir find another solution, so he could remain conscious to help Winn. Bareil believed the Prophets had spared him in the explosion so that he could ensure the success of the peace talks. Dr. Bashir, on the orders of Bareil, gave him an experimental drug that let him function for a few days. However, the drug did irreversible damage to the vedek's organs, leading to their replacement with implants. In spite of this, the damage spread, destroying part of his brain. At Kira's urging, Bashir replaced the damaged brain region with an artificial positronic implant, so that Bareil could continue to advise Winn. Soon after the peace treaty was signed, the remainder of Bareil's brain was destroyed. After Bashir gently refused to proceed with any further surgeries, saying he would fight Kira if he had to, Kira and Bashir decided to allow him to die, rather than replace his entire brain with a machine, for Bashir believed that, though Bareil would still look and talk like his old self, he wouldn't be himself. With Kira at his side, Bareil died shortly thereafter. () Personal life Even after becoming a vedek, Bareil still loved to tend his garden. He also enjoyed playing springball. () He became romantically involved with Major Kira Nerys in 2370, after meeting her during a visit to Deep Space 9. () During the attempted coup led by Jaro Essa, Bareil's relationship with Kira started to blossom. After Kira was dismissed by Jaro from the space station, she stayed at Bareil's monastery. On Bajor, Kira and Bareil grew close, and Bareil allowed Kira to consult one of the Bajoran Orbs for guidance. She had a vision that showed her and Bareil as lovers. () Bareil and Kira subsequently became lovers until his death. () Following his death, when Kira's next love interest, Shakaar Edon, shared with Odo his feelings for Kira, Odo attempted to mislead him into believing that he thought that she was still grieved for Vedek Bareil. Shakaar respected that point, understanding it to only be natural, as he believed patience was the best thing he could do, but quickly reconsidered, and suggested that perhaps he should let her know how he felt, so as to help her get over her loss of Bareil. () When Gul Dukat later learned of Kira's relationship with Shakaar, he recalled her previous relationship with Vedek Bareil, noting, "[y]ou do like powerful men, don't you?" () When it was revealed by Odo that he had feelings for Kira, she recollected all of the times she came to him for advice about both Bareil and Shakaar, expressing how hard it must have been for Odo to listen to her go on about another man. Odo, nevertheless, expressed his discomfort with the scenario, but maintained that he did so because he wanted to be a good friend to her. () Later, in 2375, when it seemed as though Odo was going to die from Section 31's morphogenic virus, he asked Kira to leave his side, explaining "[y]ou watched Bareil die in this very room and I know how that's haunted you," before expressing his desire for her not to experience the same with him there, too. () Appendices Appearances (Season 1) (Season 2) (Season 3) Background information Bareil Antos was portrayed by actor Philip Anglim. Anglim commented, "What I found most interesting about the way Bareil was written and conceived, and what I found such a pleasure, was the lack of pomposity, the lack of self-satisfaction and self-righteousness that goes with so many people who claim the moral high ground." According to the script for "In the Hands of the Prophets", Vedek Bareil was described as "a short Bajoran man about fifty-five in religious garb." [...] "Bareil is a soft-spoken and gentle man, somewhat reminiscent of Gandhi or the Dalai Lama." According to the script for "In the Hands of the Prophets" and "The Circle", the pronunciation of Bariel's name was "buh-RILE". An early name for Bareil was Eniyo. (The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) Writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe revised his original concept of Bareil, during development of DS9 Season 1 ender . "When I created Bareil in that script," he said, "I saw him as a wise old guy, sort of a Gandhi figure. And Michael Piller said, 'No, he should be young and vigorous.' I think he always saw Bareil as a romantic hero, so the relationship with Kira was more his idea than mine." () Bareil's given name (which was not revealed until ) is a reference to the character Anton ("Tony") in , whose first name is actually of Polish origin. As the DS9 writing staff was unable to directly reuse that name for Bareil, Hans Beimler suggested changing it to the "Antos" alternative. () The depiction of Bareil in displeased Ira Steven Behr. "I didn't think the Bareil stuff worked that well," he complained. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 88) While was in development, Bareil conceptually replaced a young Federation ambassador, who was conceived as being akin to John F. Kennedy and was proposed in the original story document for the episode. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 106; Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 90) As in the aired version of the installment, the diplomat was dying and arrived at DS9 aboard a damaged shuttle. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 90) "The same things happen: he dies on the table, Bashir brings him back to life and then it becomes his gradual descent into madness – Frankenstein frankly," recalled Ronald D. Moore. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 106) He specified about the character, "He becomes this monster that Bashir has to let die." As the DS9 writing staff was breaking the story in the break sessions, it became evident that two aspects of the character weren't working. "One was, 'Who is this guy?" noted Moore. The other was "Who really cares what happens to him?" () Essentially, Moore began to feel that the plot's central character, which would have been played by a guest star, wasn't important enough to make the audience care. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 106) For a short time, the writers toyed with the concept of making the dying character Miles O'Brien, inspired by rumors that O'Brien actor Colm Meaney might be departing from the series. Ira Behr offered, "That's when Ron said, 'What about Bareil?" () Moore himself remembered, "As the audience I said, 'This guy should be Bareil." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 90) He further explained, "If this guy was Bareil [...] then you've got Kira involved and it brings so much more to it." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 106) There was some discussion about deciding what extent to make Bareil suffer in "Life Support". In the initial draft of the episode, the writers were going to torture him even more than they eventually did. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 106; Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 90) "We were going to have Bareil's body completely collapse," Ron Moore reflected, "and they were going to put his brain in an android body, to go the next step and go for Frankenstein." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 90) Moore continued, "So by the end of the episode he was Frankenstein the monster, but I think Rick [Berman] felt that was taking it too far." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 106) In their unofficial reference book Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages (p. 90), Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman liken Bareil in this imagined scenario to Spock in . Nonetheless, the decision to kill the character of Bareil had been made, partly because there was no impression in the DS9 production offices of him being a particular favorite with the show's fans. () "I just felt that no one was dying to do a Bareil show," explained Ira Steven Behr. "We never got letters from fans saying 'We love Bareil' [....] No one was losing sleep over Bareil. It just wasn't clicking." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 106) Ron Moore concurred, "He served his purpose for a while, and then we felt that the character [...] had run out of steam." Moore was actually instrumental in devising Bareil's death. "I killed Bareil," he announced. () With a laugh, Bashir actor Alexander Siddig theorized, "Philip Anglim [...] was making so many noises about leaving, that I think they just did him a favor and did it." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 43) As such, Bareil joined a long line of recurring characters (including K'Ehleyr and James T. Kirk) that Moore had killed off. () In a manner that may have been only half joking, Robert Hewitt Wolfe declared, "Ron butchered my character, what can I say? [....] That's a character payment I'll never see again." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 90) Philip Anglim was given little notification of Bareil's demise. "He didn't know, pretty much until he got the script, and that was that," noted Alexander Siddig. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 43) Although fans didn't initially respond much to Bareil, the audience had (in the words of Robert Wolfe) "gotten to know Bareil" by the time he was killed off in "Life Support". (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 106; Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 90) Fan mail regarded the character in an extremely positive light after his life and recurring appearances were terminated. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 106) "Why they killed him off is the big question everyone asks me," Kira actress Nana Visitor offered. "I honestly can't figure that out." () In fact, Bareil proved so popular with fans that there was a campaign to bring him back. Following the initial broadcast of "Life Support", the DS9 producers received lots of fan mail from a group they had previously neither heard of nor from: The Friends of Vedek Bareil. "We got pictures of a bunch of people at a memorial service for Bareil," René Echevarria acknowledged. "Very somber. Angry letters." () The complaints over the death of Bareil were long-standing, more so than protests against a same-sex kiss in DS9 Season 4 installment . At about the end of the fourth season (in ), Robert Wolfe remarked, "The Bareil fans still write us letters." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 108) In March (prior to the airing of "Resurrection"), Ron Moore responded to the fan grievances, "I'm afraid that the truth is that the writing staff simply isn't interested in Vedek Bareil [....] We can't really bring him back unless we, the writers, suddenly find a [...] passion for the character and I don't think that's going to happen. The show is ultimately an expression of our particular likes and dislikes and unfortunately Bareil is not one of those 'likes.' The show has moved on and so has Kira." When "Resurrection" was under development, however, Ira Steven Behr started to feel a compulsion to temporarily return Bareil to the series. Behr later admitted about the episode, "Finally I said, 'It's a show that seems to be saying, make me a Bareil show, so let's just make it a Bareil show." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 44) Behr decided to do so by resurrecting Bareil, mirror-universe style. Though Nana Visitor felt revisiting the romance between Kira and her late lover was slightly odd, it was not the case that she disliked the Bareil character. () External links de:Bareil Antos es:Bareil Antos fr:Bareil Antos nl:Bareil Antos Bajorans Religious leaders

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Leeta

Leeta was a Bajoran dabo girl at Quark's on the space station Deep Space 9. She married Rom, who later became the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance. () Life on Deep Space 9 Leeta became a dabo girl in 2371, although she was an amateur sociologist. () She quickly formed friendships with many of the station residents, including Doctor Julian Bashir and science officer Jadzia Dax. She was even asked by Dax to take part in her Trill zhian'tara ritual. During the ceremony, the memories of one of Dax's former hosts, Emony, were temporarily transferred into Leeta. () In 2372, Leeta joined the Guild of Restaurant and Casino Employees in response to Quark's pay cuts. She helped lead the formation of the labor union, helping Rom stand up to his brother Quark. () When the Federation retreated from Deep Space 9 after the Second Battle of Deep Space 9, Leeta returned to Bajor for safety. () When the situation on the station became less dangerous, Leeta returned and helped the resistance cell which had formed against the Dominion. () When Quark temporarily posed as a female in 2374 to help Grand Nagus Zek regain his office, Leeta helped teach Quark how to act like a woman. () In 2375, she participated in a game of baseball in the holosuite with the senior staff of the station against a team of Vulcans. () Relationships Romances Julian Bashir Soon after moving to Deep Space 9, Leeta became interested in Julian Bashir and the two began dating. () Their relationship lasted for over a year, but the two decided to break up in 2373. They traveled to Risa and participated in the Bajoran Rite of Separation. Leeta then admitted to having a crush on Ferengi engineer Rom. () Rom Leeta waited for Rom to ask her out for months, but he never worked up the courage. When Doctor Lewis Zimmerman visited the station to work with Doctor Bashir on his Long-term Medical Holographic program, he fell in love with Leeta. Knowing that Leeta had always wanted to open her own restaurant, he arranged for her to take control of an establishment on Jupiter Station. He asked her to return there with him and live together. She agreed and arranged to leave the station. Just as she was boarding a ship, Rom stopped her and confessed his love for her. Leeta admitted that she was in love with Rom, too, and Doctor Zimmerman returned home alone. () Rom and Leeta decided to get married quickly. Rom initially asked her to sign a Waiver of Property and Profit, a Ferengi legal document requiring her to give up all claim to his estate should the marriage end, but she refused. Rom eventually donated all of his money to the Bajoran War Orphans Fund to make the issue moot. () They asked the , Captain Benjamin Sisko, to perform the ceremony. He married them on the eve of the Dominion War. The two were temporarily separated when Leeta returned to Bajor while Rom stayed on the station as a Federation spy. () She returned to the station several months later and joined the anti-Dominion resistance cell lead by Major Kira Nerys along with Rom, Quark, Odo, and Jake Sisko. () When Rom was given the role of Grand Nagus by Zek in 2375, Leeta went with him to Ferenginar to help him carry out his duties. () Friendships Leeta was considered by Jadzia Dax as one of the seven people she was closest to on the station, prompting her request that Leeta be one of the hosts of the Dax symbiont's former hosts during Jadzia's zhian'tara. () Appendices Appearances (Season Three) (Season Four) (Season Five) (Season Six) (Season Seven) Background information The character was named after pre-production coordinator Lolita Fatjo, as was Kivas Fajo. Leeta was played by actress Chase Masterson, who had previously auditioned unsuccessfully for the role of the dabo girl Mardah. Ira Steven Behr said about Masterson, "We kept her in mind, thinking she could make a fun character. When we cast her as Leeta in , we didn't know if we were going to continue her character right away. We just wanted to see how it would work." () Masterson summed up her character's arc, "I loved what they did with Leeta, bringing her from a lonely Bajoran Dabo girl part of a race that had been oppressed and someone who was an immigrant … someone who was from a marginalized society and a Dabo girl who was usually just meant for fun. To go from that to date the handsome British doctor and then to fall in love with the guy who was only pretty on the inside, what an incredible Star Trek message that was. And to be part of the storylines where Leeta stood up for justice in the Ferengi union and who refused to have a pre-nup with the man she loved because she truly believed that their relationship was to be forever and who had so much integrity and honor about her." Leeta's backstory was not elaborated on, so as Masterson commented, "I did make up my own. I think there were some things in the script regarding Leeta being a Bajoran war orphan. But there wasn’t a lot of backstory and that is okay. There were so many recurring characters, it was difficult for the writers to make the world any more full or detailed than it already was. It would have been great to have a little more context for Leeta and a little more grit and depth as the series progressed. But as it is, the character arc was brilliant and very indicative of the hope of Star Trek to go from being a lowly Dabo Girl, and a Bajoran at that, to being the wife of the Grand Nagus. I’m happy." Masterson commented on an aspect of Leeta's backstory she imagined herself, "I always half-joked that Leeta was a war orphan who was going to work her way through med school – hence, my attraction to Julian." When asked what Leeta's life would be like after DS9, Masterson commented: "I think Leeta is a leader of a social justice movement like Ferenginar has never seen! She is the of Ferenginar, standing up for the marginalized and making sure everyone has a seat at the table". Masterson also thought: "Now that Leeta has a position of influence, as the First Lady of the Ferengi Alliance, I’d like to think she’s working to help people who need it. There certainly were a lot of Bajoran war orphans, much like Leeta was. And there were countless Bajorans who were displaced due to the occupation and so many who lost family members. The war left untold wreckage…physical, spiritual, emotional, psychological, financial. Loyalty was a huge part of Leeta’s inner character, and I can’t imagine her leaving her own people behind now that she has the authority and means to help. So I’m thinking that Leeta is using her role as wife of the Grand Nagus to get some good things done, and at the same time be an example to the Ferengi Empire that money isn’t what really counts. I know, lotsa luck on that one, Leeta!" Apocrypha In the relaunch series of novels, Leeta became pregnant and (after a hard pregnancy due in part to the fetus' half-Bajoran, half-Ferengi biology) gave birth to a baby girl named , named for the Emissary and the Bajoran word for "joy." Unfortunately, the word "bena" also means "underflooring" in the Ferengi language (although Rom defended it by saying that it symbolized how children were always getting underfoot). At the time of Bena's birth, Rom was being challenged for his role of Grand Nagus on the grounds that he had broken his original marriage contract with his first wife, Prinadora. Ro Laren buys the case time by noting that, according to the Rules of Acquisition, "A contract is a contract is a contract, but only between Ferengi", arguing that since Rom's second marriage was to a Bajoran woman in a Bajoran ceremony overseen by the Bajoran Emissary, he technically didn't violate his original contract as the new one doesn't "count" under Ferengi law. With this delay drawing the case out further, Quark was able to find proof that the evidence indicating Rom's first marriage had never been dissolved was false and he was in fact divorced. During the novel, Nog pays a brief visit to his mother, but departs when she fails to even recognize him, admitting later that Leeta has been more of a moogie to him than Prinadora ever was. Leeta was never given a full name in course of the TV series, only ever referred to as Leeta. The novel Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed explained that this was because Leeta never knew her family name – she was an orphan brought up without a family during the Occupation of Bajor. The novel also explains that during the Occupation, she worked as a servant in the home of a Cardassian named Gallek who treated her well, and despite a growing attraction to her as she matured, never went beyond verbal compliments. Leeta used her influence with Gallek to make the lives of his servants better. Gallek died from a heart attack a week before the Occupation ended, and Cardassian forces burned his house during the withdrawal, leaving Leeta homeless. She gathered up the money she had managed to save over the years and eventually made her way to Deep Space 9. Leeta appears in several roles in Star Trek Online; in all of her in-game appearances, she is voiced by Chase Masterson. Her initial appearance is in holographic form as part of "Dabo with Leeta", a product of Quark Enterprises. Holo-Leetas appear at the dabo tables at Quark's Bar on DS9, Drozana Station in the Neutral Zone, the resort on Risa, and the bar in Paradise City on Nimbus III. Player characters can also obtain a holo-Leeta bridge officer, in either her dabo girl or outfits, through special promotions. The real Leeta, in her role as First Lady of the Ferengi Alliance, appears in the expansion pack "Victory is Life". External links ca:Leeta de:Leeta es:Leeta fr:Leeta it:Leeta Bajorans Terok Nor residents Dabo girls Athletes

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Rom

Rom was a male Ferengi engineer of the 24th century Ferengi Alliance and became its Grand Nagus. A failure as a businessman but a mechanical and engineering genius, he worked as a waiter for several years at Quark's Bar, Grill, Gaming House and Holosuite Arcade on Deep Space 9 before becoming an engineer in the Bajoran Militia. He was known for being a kinder, gentler Ferengi and kept that reputation as Nagus. He was the son of Keldar and Ishka, younger brother of Quark, and father of Nog. He was married twice, to Prinadora and then Leeta. Early history Rom grew up on Ferenginar with his family. As a child, Rom was always teased for having smaller-than-average lobes than the rest of the boys. Quark was the worst, telling everyone that Rom was adopted. On Rom's Naming Day, Quark substituted his brother's presents with old vegetables, and sold the presents for more than their father had paid for them, which actually earned him the praise of his parents. () When Rom was a child, he had a latinum tooth sharpener. Quark resented this, as his tooth sharpener was a wooden chew stick. Deep Space 9 Rom was employed at Quark's aboard Deep Space 9, holding several positions such as server, pit boss, and assistant to Quark, before being "promoted" to Assistant Manager of Policy and Clientele. He and his brother Quark had an odd relationship. Quark at times treated him like a servant, many times swindling him out of latinum. Other times Quark took care of Rom and provided him with whatever he needed. Rom was very loyal to Quark and would do anything Quark asked - although it wasn't below him as a Ferengi to swindle, steal from or even sell his brother out at times. () When the Grand Nagus Zek visited the station, he admonished Rom for sending Nog to school and told him to stop it. Zek made Quark the new nagus so he could retire. Shortly after this, he died. Rom wanted Quark's Bar, but instead Quark appointed Rom as his bodyguard. Rom still wanted the bar, but Quark refused, and Rom along with Krax, Zek's son, decided to kill Quark. Rom escorted him to an airlock but instead of a ship waiting, there was empty space. Just before Quark would have been ejected into space, Zek appeared and stated that he faked his death to test his son's worthiness to be nagus – which he failed. Quark congratulated Rom on his treachery, since this made him a true Ferengi. () After Quark was appointed to open trade negotiation with the Gamma Quadrant, Rom became jealous of a Ferengi named Pel who became Quark's right-hand man in the negotiations. Rom exposed her as a female which got Quark in trouble. () After the attempted murder of his brother, Rom briefly became a suspect. When the murderer tried to kill Quark again in the hospital, Rom was able to save him. () He opposed his brother during the crisis their mother caused when she earned profit. Quark wanted Ishka to return all the profits, or he would have to and be ruined. When they stopped talking to each other, Rom arranged a meeting, and they resolved the issue. Ishka signed a confession and returned the profits. But she hid two-thirds of the profits with Rom's help. () Rom was made senior administrator of the Ferengi Benevolent Association, a short-lived organization established by Grand Nagus Zek during a period in which the Prophets had replaced the Nagus' greedy philosophical perspective with a more charitable one. Rom's greed was unaffected, however, and he embezzled money from the association until it was shut down, after Quark convinced the Prophets to restore the Nagus. () In 2372, a mishap on their ship sent Rom, Nog and Quark back to Earth in 1947. This became known as the Roswell Incident. They were mistaken for invaders and were almost dissected by the military. They escaped with the help of Earth scientists and returned to their own time. On the journey to Earth, Rom's engineering expertise saved them when their ship was in danger of breaking up; and his skills helped them return to the correct time in the future, too. () A new career Rom became sick due to being overworked. He became angry at the working conditions in Quark's and formed the Guild of Restaurant and Casino Employees. Brunt arrived at the station and threatened Rom, when this failed, he had Quark beaten and threatened to kill him. Rom ended the strike when Quark secretly agreed to his demands. He followed this up with an application to join the station's Bajoran engineering crew and joined Chief O'Brien's maintenance team, initially working in waste extraction as a Diagnostic and Repair Technician, Junior Grade. Furthermore, while Rom promises to be at Quark's business all the time off duty, it will be as a paying customer who will expect to be treated with more respect as one. () Rom re-calibrated the deflector beam at O'Brien's request. O'Brien was ordered to do this by a Pah-wraith who had taken over Keiko O'Brien's body and had threatened to kill her. Rom informed O'Brien that the recalibration would send the deflector beam into the wormhole and kill the aliens inside it. O'Brien was able to rig the beam to hit the alien and save Keiko. As Rom kept O'Brien's secret safe until Keiko was no longer in danger, this endeared Rom to O'Brien, who promoted him to the day shift. () He was further promoted to Maintenance Engineer, First Class in mid-2375. () Rom was invited to join Captain Sisko's baseball team that was going to play against a Vulcan team coached by Captain , a rival of Sisko's since their Academy days. Rom couldn't hit a ball, and wasn't good at catching, either. Sisko cut him from the team. Later, Sisko felt bad and in the last inning with Nog on third, the team losing 10 to 0, Sisko sent Rom to bat. Rom missed the first two pitches. On the third pitch, as Rom leaned forward to try to see what the coach wanted him to do, he accidentally hit the ball. It rolled down the first base line and Nog slid into home, scoring his team's only run. The team rushed the field and lifted Rom up as the hero of the game. () Dominion War Rom played an important role in the war against the Dominion, coming up with the idea of self-replicating mines to block the Bajoran wormhole, stopping the Dominion from being reinforced from the Gamma Quadrant. When the Dominion captured Deep Space 9, he remained on board as a "spy" for the Federation and resumed his title of Assistant Manager of Policy and Clientele. () During the Cardassian takeover of DS9, he was part of Kira's resistance cell against the Dominion. He helped cause dissension between the Dominion and Cardassians. After learning that Gul Dukat was going to use the deflector array to disable the mines, he tried to disable the deflector array, but was caught. He was sentenced to death by Dukat for his actions, but was rescued by Quark and Tora Ziyal. He failed to disable the deflector array in time, but disabled the station's weapons systems instead. The loss of the weapons systems left the Dominion-held station vulnerable after the loss of their reinforcements, allowing the Federation/Klingon task force to recapture the station easily. () Several weeks later, when his mother was captured by the Dominion, Rom was part of the Ferengi group that traveled to Empok Nor to exchange her for Keevan. () Becoming Nagus A series of events through the years all contributed to Rom's elevation to nagus. In 2375, Rom eventually became Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance. At first, Grand Nagus Zek ignored Rom, believing him to be of poor business sense and not very intelligent. Zek disagreed strongly with many of Rom's choices concerning his son Nog. Zek did not like the idea of Nog attending a Human school and was opposed to Nog entering Starfleet. But events and Ishka would influence the improvement of Zek's attitude toward Rom. () Rom helped restore the Nagus to the Ferengi ways after the Nagus had been influenced by the Prophets. He helped restore Zek as the Grand Nagus after Brunt had deposed him. () He and Quark entered into the mirror universe and saved Zek from the Alliance. They helped the in capturing the , after disabling his weapon systems. They also killed who was going to kill them, although Rom was shocked at offering to "debrief" following her defection. in the mirror universe had been killed by the Alliance. This saddened Rom as he would have liked the opportunity to have met himself. () When Ishka became Zek's companion, she influenced him in trying to turn Ferengi society into a more tolerant one that allowed free commerce and women's rights. Her influence over Zek led to social reform and a Ferenginar that instituted democratic changes. Rom became the perfect choice for Nagus because he himself had never been a traditional Ferengi. Zek believed that he would be an excellent successor for the newly reformed Ferenginar. () Family After Quark left Ferenginar in 2351, upon reaching his Age of Ascension, Rom lived at home for a further decade. During this time, he realized that Keldar was a poor businessman, going from one bad deal to the next. Rom finally left Ferenginar in 2361. () Prinadora In the early 2350s, Rom met his first wife, Prinadora. He signed a standard five-year marriage contract with her father in order to have a child. In 2353, they had their son, Nog. Rom, however, then fell in love with Prinadora and wanted to extend the contract. Unfortunately, he was so in love that he never bothered to read the extension before signing it. In the end, her father swindled Rom out of all of his money, and Prinadora left Rom (and Nog) for a richer man. () Quark Quark was annoyed and irritated by his brother's stupidity and idiocy all of his life. Growing up, Quark often belittled Rom about his smaller lobes and about supposedly being adopted. He worked in Quark's Bar for low wages and was cheated out of his share of the profits. When Grand Nagus Zek visited Deep Space 9, Quark made Rom give up his quarters for the Nagus. When Zek appointed Quark to be the new Grand Nagus, Rom conspired to kill Quark, and might have succeeded if Zek and Odo hadn't arrived at the last minute. Quark later praised Rom for his treachery. () At first, Rom did whatever Quark demanded. But as time went on, Rom began to resist his brother's demands. Rom became less afraid of Quark and confronted him over many issues. When Quark dropped Rom's share of the profits from 14.3% to 12.5% (from one-seventh to one-eighth share of profit), Rom left and joined Martus Mazur in opening a rival bar. When Martus began treating Rom even worse, he returned to Quark's where he could at least "be cheated by family." () He opposed Quark over his treatment of their mother, who—against Ferengi law—earned profit. When Quark tried to forbid Nog's admission to Starfleet Academy in late 2371, Rom reminded him that he was Nog's father and Quark had no say in the matter. Later that year, Rom discovered that Quark sabotaged Nog's spatial orientation test to disqualify him from entering the Academy, under the belief that he was perfectly justified in doing so in Nog's "best interests". The infuriated father confronted Quark and in no uncertain terms warned him against interfering with Nog's happiness ever again, even threatening to burn down Quark's bar if he does. () The following year, he single-handedly organized a union of Quark's employees after Quark had cut their wages. He defied both his brother and Liquidator Brunt, whom the Ferengi Commerce Authority had sent to resolve the situation. After the wages had been restored, Rom made the final break with his brother. Rom joined the maintenance crew on Deep Space 9. () But, throughout all the conflicts with his brother, he and Quark loved each other very much. This was evident when he became jealous of Quark's relationship with . Rom exposed Pel as a female during a visit by Grand Nagus Zek in 2370. () For his part, Quark always took care of Rom if he was in need. Quark had always remained neutral in conflicts from the Cardassian occupation of Bajor to the retaking of Deep Space 9 by the Cardassians. When Rom was arrested for sabotage and sentenced to death, Quark risked his life and saved Rom. They had many adventures together, and many opportunities for profit. After Quark had sold his bar to Rom for 5,000 bars of latinum under the miscommunicated belief that he was about to become Grand Nagus, Grand Nagus Rom gave him back the bar and let him keep the money as they were family. Quark called him an idiot, but then affectionately added that he loved him. () Ishka Rom's mother, Ishka, loved Rom very much and protected him. She saw that he was a good man, unsuccessful in commercial ventures, but with a good heart. Ironically, she saw Rom as being more similar to his father Keldar, whom Quark mistakenly idolized, although he too was a terrible businessman. Quark, conversely, was more like her. Rom and Ishka were very close when he was a child, and they remained close when Rom moved away from Ferenginar. Rom never quarreled with her over her lifestyle, nor resented her for earning more profit than him. Ishka was his "Moogie." He supported her against both Quark and the Ferengi Commerce Authority. When he admitted to being somewhat uncomfortable with being in Ishka's newly clothed presence in a private discussion between them, she disrobed, but "only for him". () Rom was part of the team that rescued Ishka from the Dominion. The Dominion agreed to a prisoner exchange, Ishka for the Vorta Keevan. Empok Nor was the site for the prisoner exchange. After a battle with the Jem'Hadar, Ishka was rescued. () Ishka probably influenced Zek in naming Rom his successor as the new Nagus. () Nog Rom had a good relationship with his son Nog, although there were times that they did not see eye-to-eye. Nog wanted to pursue career opportunities of a nontraditional Ferengi nature. Rom strongly disapproved and even attempted to prevent Nog from learning to read or attend Keiko O'Brien's school on the station. But he changed his mind and allowed (forcefully) Nog to attend the school. () Over the years, Rom's attitudes softened, and he encouraged his son in his goals. His ambition for his son grew to the point where he felt directly invested. When Nog wished to apply to Starfleet, Rom encouraged him, saying that he would be proud to have a son in Starfleet. () Quark, however, remained opposed to the idea. When Rom discovered that Quark had altered the settings of the holosuite to sabotage the results of the spatial orientation test so that Nog would fail, he confronted his brother about it. Having already reported the incident to Commander Sisko, who allowed Nog to retake the test, Rom warned Quark that if he tried to interfere again, he would burn his brother's bar to the ground. Nothing was important to Rom than his son's happiness, not even latinum. () When his son became a cadet, Rom was extremely proud, although he always worried about Nog and the dangers he faced. Nog joined Rom in rescuing Ishka from the Dominion. He later had to deal with Nog's depression after his son was wounded in a battle with the Dominion and lost a leg. Rom opposed the idea that Nog would recuperate in the Vic Fontaine holoprogram. () Leeta In 2373, Rom fell in love with Leeta, a Bajoran woman who worked as one of the dabo girls at Quark's. Leeta admitted to having a crush on him to her ex-boyfriend, Julian Bashir. () Despite constantly planning to do so, Rom could never work up the courage to ask Leeta out. When Doctor Lewis Zimmerman visited the station to work with Doctor Bashir, he fell in love with Leeta. She was going to leave with him, and they planned to live together, Zimmerman offering to let her open a restaurant on Jupiter Station. Just as she was boarding a ship, Rom stopped her and confessed his love for her. Leeta admitted that she was in love with Rom and remained. () Rom learned about Bajoran customs to please Leeta but demanded that Leeta sign the Ferengi equivalent of a pre-nuptial agreement, called the Waiver of Property and Profit. Rom and Leeta broke up over the demand and that made Rom miserable. He decided to give his latinum to the Bajoran War Orphans Fund so that the pre-nuptial agreement was no longer necessary, and he and Leeta made up. () The two were married in late-2373 in a ceremony officiated by Benjamin Sisko. () Appendices Appearances (Season One) (Season Two) (Season Three) (Season Four) (Season Five) (Season Six) (Season Seven) (archive footage) Background information Rom was portrayed by Max Grodénchik. Grodénchik commented: "When this series started, Rom had no prospects. He was under his brother's thumb, he had no real sense of self, and he felt that he was a failure as a Ferengi. He was frightened, a scared little guy. But with the influence of all the different races that have come through the station — the Bajorans, the humans, the Klingons, and so on — he began to think about other ways of life and to reshape his own. He began to stick up for his son and then for himself, and to separate what was important to him in life, and what wasn't. And he developed to a point where he wanted to share his life with someone else. He fell in love and married Leeta and felt worthwhile. I think it began back in season one, when Rom returned a purse and Quark asked, 'Why did you do that? The First Rule of Acquisition says once you have their money, you never give it back.' He was trying to do a good thing, the right thing. And somehow that led him to the point where the guy who felt less like a Ferengi than any other Ferengi was suddenly head of the Ferengi Alliance! It's just like an American kid wanting to grow up to be President. I'm sure every Ferengi boy wants to grow up to be the Grand Nagus. If you're an American kid and somewhere along the line you start getting bad grades, you tell yourself, 'Well, maybe I'll just settle for being a fireman'. Your dreams get whittled down over the years. So I'm sure for Rom it's the last thing he ever expected. It's just been an amazing journey! Over the years, I've tried to outguess the writers. I've tried to imagine what's next for Rom and think of what's best for Rom. But they always come up with something better than I could ever imagine. I certainly can't complain and I've learned that maybe it's not my job to think about it. I should just leave it to the Blessed Exchequer!" () Max Grodénchik sees as an important episode in the development of Rom as a character. Grodénchik commented: "I do think that these characters are continuing to grow. In "Necessary Evil", Odo says to me, 'You are a hero, Rom. You saved your brother's life'. That feels good. I think Rom is torn between both sides of that - being a good brother and wanting the bar. He is very conflicted, and I think that is a good thing. We are all conflicted about something. It is more sophisticated and true to life than just saying Rom just wants the bar, because I think Rom also wants his brother's approval. He even says in ["Necessary Evil"], 'I tried so hard to win my brother's trust, but now he is dead I can never earn it'. He wants the bar to prove to his brother that he can make great profit. When Quark went away to the Gamma Quadrant with (in ), he did great business". (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p 66) According to Ronald D. Moore, Rom (as of Season 6, and unlike his son) probably was not a Federation citizen. Apocrypha In the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels, Rom and Leeta went on to have a daughter, whom they named Bena, both for the Bajoran word for "joy", and after Benjamin Sisko for all he had done for them. Ironically, as Quark pointed out, the word "bena", in Ferengi, meant "underflooring", although Rom defended it by saying that it symbolized how children were always getting underfoot. At the time of Bena's birth, Rom was being challenged for his role of Grand Nagus on the grounds that he had broken his original marriage contract with Prinadora, but Ro Laren was able to clear him by pointing out that, according to the Rules of Acquisition, "A contract is a contract is a contract, but only between Ferengi", arguing that, since Rom's second marriage was to a Bajoran woman in a Bajoran ceremony overseen by the Bajoran Emissary, he technically didn't violate his original contract as the new one didn't "count" under Ferengi law. Rom also opened diplomatic relations between Ferenginar and Bajor when Bajor joined the Federation. At the same time, he arranged to have Quark's Bar named as the official Ferengi Embassy to Bajor, resulting in Quark becoming the Ferengi Ambassador to Bajor. With his bar now as the Ferengi Embassy, Quark could still continue to charge latinum for his services - as the Embassy, the bar became Ferengi "soil" and therefore subject to Ferengi law, whereas under Federation law (and the Federation's post-scarcity, money-free economy), Quark would have been unable to charge. In the novel A Singular Destiny, Rom accepted an invitation for the Ferengi Alliance, and the Cardassian Union, to join the Federation and Klingon Empire in an expansion of the Khitomer Accords, in response to the Typhon Pact: an alliance of the Romulan Star Empire, the Tholian Assembly, the Breen Confederacy, the Gorn Hegemony, the Tzenkethi Coalition, and the Holy Order of the Kinshaya. In the video game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen, Rom made several non-speaking appearances on the Promenade between missions. He was also mentioned by name in the PC game Star Trek: Bridge Commander in his capacity as Grand Nagus. In the video game Star Trek Online, Rom, as Grand Nagus, negotiated an agreement with the Cardassian Detapa Council to finance the rebuilding of Cardassia's cities and industry in 2391. Rom makes his official appearance in the game in the "Victory is Life" expansion, voiced once more by Max Grodénchik. He attends a conference called by Odo at DS9 to answer the threat of the Hur'q, remarking that Ferenginar was one of the planets attacked by the creatures, and enthusiastically supports joining the forces assembled to fight them. Both he and Quark also work to convince the Klingons to commit to the conflict by reclaiming the Sword of Kahless from the Iconians. In the Star Trek: Terok Nor novel Dawn of the Eagles, Rom moved to Terok Nor with Nog and began working at Quark's in 2363 after being swindled by Prinadora's father Dav. 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Zek

Zek was a male Ferengi, who had become Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance by 2369. Zek was one of the most savvy and visionary Ferengi leaders, pioneering business ventures into the Gamma Quadrant and making the Ferengi Alliance the first Alpha Quadrant power that ever learned of the Dominion. In contrast to his cunning business practices, he also became known for his liberal attitudes towards the end of his reign including the expansion of female rights. History Early career Zek was born sometime during the 23rd century, and became a particularly hard-working Ferengi, having once gone 85 years without taking any significant vacations. () Zek had one son, Krax; was an aficionado of Hupyrian beetle snuff; and, was also taught how to go into a Dolbargy sleeping trance, by his servant Maihar'du. By 2369, Zek was already considered to be in "his advanced years." () Following a physical later given by Doctor Julian Bashir, in 2371, Zek was said to be, "for a Ferengi [his] age" to be "in excellent health", except for "some vascular damage to [his] mucous membranes" from his beetle snuff use. () In 2346, Zek began a 27 year winning-streak in the Global Tongo Championships on Ferenginar. () Among Zek's business ventures was one partnering with Chairman Nilva of the Slug-o-Cola company, who together had made a lot of latinum over the years. () Expansion into the Gamma Quadrant In 2369, Zek arrived at Deep Space 9 where he sought out Quark, the proprietor of Quark's, located on the station's Promenade. Although the reason for his presence was not immediately revealed, he wished to use Quark's holosuites, having heard that some of Quark's programs were "quite alluring." When Quark gave Zek a selection of his top five favorites, he decided to sample them all, after which Quark volunteered Rom's quarters for the Nagus to rest in. Following his rest, he told Quark to invite him to dinner, where Quark offered tube grubs, that Zek found to be "chilled to perfection." As Zek slowly revealed his intentions, he complimented Quark on his "stroke of brilliance" to establish his bar so close to the Bajoran wormhole. He then asked Quark for the favor to using his bar and services as host "for an important conference" he had planned to hold the following day, to discuss "the future" of "Ferengi business interests", namely "the Gamma Quadrant." As the meeting started, Zek requested that Quark stay. Following concerns that "it is becoming more and more difficult to find truly lucrative business opportunities here in the Alpha Quadrant [...] because no matter where we go, our reputation precedes us." Zek unveiled his plan, "thanks to the discovery of the wormhole," which opened access to "millions of new worlds at our very doorstep," meaning that "the potential for Ferengi business expansion [was going to be] staggering." As the conference attendees expressed their support for the Nagus' plan, he declined the offer, stating, "I'm old. The fire dims. I'm just not as greedy as I used to be," before suddenly announced that he wished to retire, and going naming his new successor – Quark. Following his retirement, Zek began making considerations where he would go next Risa or Balosnee VI, this while Quark, overwhelmed with his new responsibilities as Grand Nagus, sought Zek's counsel. As Zek explained the basics of his old role, he apparently died mid-thought, from an apparent "massive infection of the tympanic membrane. A chronic condition." His body was, soon after, and apparently, "automatically vacuum-desiccated and sold as a prized collectible." As attempts were underway to assassinate Quark by Rom and Krax, Zek revealed himself and it was soon discovered that his death was only a ploy to test his son's worthiness for the position. However, Krax did not succeed as expected, Quark abdicated the position back to Zek, and Zek postponed his retirement, hoping only "long enough to establish a Ferengi presence in the Gamma Quadrant." Zek then promised Quark if "any good deals" that were right for Quark opened up. () Later that year, when Odo's imagination became reality and a duplicate of Quark was kept in a holding cell, the false Ferengi demanded to talk to the Nagus over subspace. () In 2370, Zek attempted to open negotiations with the Dominion, and although he opened contact with the Dosi for tulaberry wine, eventually leading him to more important members of the Dominion, the Karemma. () In 2371, Zek appointed Quark as his representative to accompany the on its mission to make contact with the Founders of the Dominion, through Benjamin Sisko. () Zek would later ask Quark to remind Sisko of his instrumental role in the events leading up to first contact with the Dominion, after his nephew Belongo, was detained by authorities on Aldebaran III. Sisko said he would look into the matter, but made no promises. () When someone pre-bought Quark's vacuum desiccated remains, Quark thought that it was Zek, remembering that "He always liked me." () Later domestic interests Later that year Zek came into possession of a Bajoran orb, and attempted to contact the Prophets to ask them to reveal the future to him for financial gain. Finding Zek's greed offensive, the Prophets returned him to Deep Space 9 after de-evolving him to "to an earlier, less adversarial state of existence," when the species was less profit-driven. With his mindset transformed, he believed the future was looking very bright, and recorded his thoughts in his personal log. He promptly created the Ferengi Benevolent Association to provide aid to poorer worlds, devised a revised version of the Rules of Acquisition that emphasized giving, and offered to give his orb to the Bajoran people for free. Though Rom speculated that he had gone insane, Quark quickly discovered that Zek had been altered by the Prophets, and convinced them to restore Zek to his former self. Zek then cancelled all of his reforms. Zek was unaware, however, that Rom had embezzled money from the Benevolent Association while he was Senior Administrator. () In his later years, Zek began to experience a dramatic change in his policies. He was fairly liberal-minded for a Ferengi male, declaring his indifference towards Ferengi females who wore clothing inside the home, so long as they maintained the status quo by staying naked while in public. In 2373 he fell in love with Ishka, Quark's mother and a radical feminist who became the "power behind the throne," but also helped keep the Ferengi Alliance stable with her business acumen as Zek's mental faculties were starting to fail him. He eventually amended the Ferengi Bill of Opportunities to allow females the right to wear clothing. Few accepted this radical change at first, and Zek was ousted by Ferengi Commerce Authority liquidator Brunt. However, he was able to convince a few influential FCA commissioners that females represented an unexploited business opportunity right at home, and Zek was reinstated. () The Dominion War and expansion into the mirror universe In early 2374, Zek offered to buy Rom's freedom from the Dominion. () Later, when the transport ship Ishka was aboard was captured by Dominion forces while returning from a trip to , Zek requested that Quark rescue her, offering an incentive payment of fifty s of gold-pressed latinum. () Despite the Ferengi Alliance's official neutrality during the Dominion War, Zek maintained close relations with the Federation, and periodically requested status reports about the course of the war. In late-2374, Nog and Jake Sisko were on their way to Ferenginar, where Nog was to meet with Zek on behalf of the Federation, when their runabout was ambushed by the Jem'Hadar. () Zek later sent Quark on another fact-finding mission to the front lines in the Chin'toka system in 2375. () Later that year, Zek and Maihar'du crossed over to the mirror universe hoping to make some profit. However, they were captured by the Alliance. Quark and Rom rescued them, by bringing Regent a cloaking device. () Retirement Later that year, Zek finally retired just after implementing radical new social welfare programs, appointing Ishka's son Rom as Grand Nagus, and passing to him the Grand Nagus' staff as a symbol of his new office. Zek and Ishka planned a subsequent stay on Risa. () Appendices Appearances (Season 1) (Season 2) (Season 3) (Season 5) (Season 6) (Season 7) Background information Zek was played by Wallace Shawn. Shawn commented: "To be in that world and to be in that makeup really liberated me in a way that I never experienced before – or since. I felt completely free, so it was a joyful experience. But it was physically very, very arduous, and I couldn't have done it on a regular basis. Once a year, which is what I did, was basically perfect for me. But to be trapped inside that head for at least 12 hours, not counting three hours to put the makeup on and an hour to take it off, was a little bit disturbing and uncomfortable and exhausting. And if you had to scratch your forehead, you couldn't". Shawn also commented that playing Zek: "was arduous, the hair and makeup – it took three hours! But it was thrilling. It was an amazing gift. It made acting very easy. If you looked in the mirror, you saw you looked very, very different. I had this anonymity; I was very free and could do what I wanted. It was fun". Zek was described in Star Trek 101 as: "Donald Trump, Alan Greenspan, and Scrooge McDuck all rolled into one diminutive wrinkled body". Apocrypha Zek also appears in the novels The 34th Rule, I, Q, The Big Game and Balance of Power. The novel The Buried Age establishes that Zek was responsible for creating propaganda over the supposedly threatening nature of the Ferengi in early because the Ferengi, after hearing early reports about the Federation and their moneyless economy, decided that the Federation might well be insane if they truly did not seek profit. Zek also threw funding into a large military buildup in order to preserve their appearance as a dangerous race and in order to defend themselves against the Federation, should it prove necessary. External links de:Zek es:Zek fr:Zek mu:Zek (mirror) pt:Zek eo:Zek Ferengi Ferengi government officials

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Sirella

Lady Sirella, daughter of Linkasa, was Martok's wife and of the House of Martok. Sirella was of noble descent, tracing her maternal lineage back to Shenara, daughter of Emperor of the Second Dynasty. However, her 23rd maternal grandmother was actually named Karana, a concubine. () Upon her marriage to Martok, she moved into his house. She "accidentally" left the door of the house open, allowing Martok's pet targ to escape. Even though she was responsible for the loss of the creature he had had since he was a boy, Martok later told Benjamin Sisko he would "not trade Sirella for all the targs on Qo'noS." () Although she was completely different from the woman Martok thought he would marry, his love for her was very deep. She was opposed to Worf joining the house of Martok, but eventually accepted she could do nothing about it. A proud and headstrong woman, Sirella was originally opposed to the marriage between Worf and Jadzia Dax, believing that by allowing aliens to join her house would threaten their identity as Klingons. Since as mistress she had the duty of approving all marriages into the family, she came to Deep Space 9 to evaluate Dax's worthiness. She was greeted affectionately by Martok when she arrived but she was dismissive of this and refused his offer to escort her to Dax's quarters. Sirella's views led her to set Dax's standards impossibly high, eventually causing a clash between them and to her canceling the wedding. Dax eventually begged her forgiveness, changing Sirella's mind about her. Sirella later performed the wedding ceremony. When the ceremony ended Dax bowed to Sirella and addressed her as "my lady" and the two women embraced ending their conflict. () In 2375, Sirella sent Martok several cases of bloodwine. They were purloined by Nog as part of a business deal, though Nog was able to appease Martok with fifteen cases of a 2309 vintage, superior to the ones Sirella had sent. () Ezri recalled Sirella's words at the wedding after Worf disappeared in the Badlands later that year. () Appendices Background information The casting of Sirella pleased Martok actor J.G. Hertzler. He reminisced, "When I heard that Shannon Cochran was going to play her, I said, 'Perfect!' because she has a Shakespearean background and I knew we could really feed that into the two characters' relationship." Indeed, the portrayal of Sirella's relationship with Martok was influenced by the connection between Beatrice and Benedick in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing". () Jadzia Dax actress Terry Farrell was impressed by the portrayal of Sirella in . "Shannon Cochran [...] was really good," she remarked. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 48) Ronald D. Moore and Ira Steven Behr thought Sirella's ability to make Martok cower was very funny. Behr admitted, "I thought that Sirella was a hoot!" J.G. Hertzler felt likewise. () Ron Moore was additionally happy with the way Sirella supervised the Klingon wedding ceremony in "You Are Cordially Invited". "Sirella really delivered the ceremony with all the dignity and panache I was hoping for," Moore related. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 44) Apocrypha Sirella appeared in J.G. Hertzler's The Left Hand of Destiny novels, dying in book 2 which is set in 2376. Set in 2409, the computer game Star Trek Online depicts Lady Sirella alive and supervising the family estate of the House of Martok in the Ketha lowlands on Qo'noS. The following year, Sirella, along with Worf, lead a fleet of Klingon warships to the Briar Patch to provide reinforcements for a rescue mission undertaken by Rodek and the player to liberate her husband who is discovered to be alive and imprisoned at a Son'a prison there. Sirella was originally voiced by different actress, but Shannon Cochran reprised the role in a 2020 update. In , Martok finds Praetor Tal'aura's voice to be similar to Sirella's, an in-joke by Keith R.A. DeCandido, as both characters were played by Shannon Cochran. External links de:Sirella Klingons

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Adred

Adred was a Ferengi, father of Ishka, grandfather of Quark and Rom and great-grandfather of Nog. Brunt cited the family relationship when explaining to Quark in 2371 his culpability for his mother's crimes. () de:Adred fr:Adred Ferengi

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Female Changeling

The Female Changeling was a Founder from a rogue planet located in the Omarion Nebula, in the Gamma Quadrant. She was chosen by the Great Link, a giant gelatinous sea of shapeshifters, to represent the interests of the Changelings in both the Gamma and Alpha Quadrants and instigated a bloody, genocidal interstellar war in order to conquer their inhabitants and worlds and subjugate them to the rules of the Dominion: a major galactic political power established by the Founders to defend their interests at all costs. The Female Changeling harbored a particular mistrust and hatred towards non-Changelings – whom she referred to as solids – believing them to be infinitely inferior and unworthy beings by design. She was trapped in the Alpha Quadrant during the start of the Dominion War and helped coordinate the Dominion's war efforts, ultimately leading to the destruction of hundreds of worlds and the death and suffering of hundreds of millions of people. The Female Changeling ultimately paid the price for the millions of lives lost when Starfleet forced her to sign the Treaty of Bajor that ended the war and took her into custody. Life in the Link The Female Changeling assumed a humanoid form resembling that of Odo in order to greet him on his return to the Great Link in 2371. She first told him of his people, their history, and what it truly meant to be a Changeling. However, after Odo discovered his people's identity as the Founders of the Dominion, he decided to abandon the Great Link and return home. () In order to discover what was the true cause of Odo's choice to live with the solids, the Female Changeling traveled to the Alpha Quadrant and lured Odo to a deserted moon aboard a stolen Maquis courier ship. She posed as Major Kira Nerys and forced Odo into admitting his love for the Major. She had hoped that Kira's apparent death would drive Odo back to the Link, but Odo deduced that 'Kira' wasn't real and made the Female Changeling reveal where she was being kept. Afterward she returned to the Link. () After Odo killed another Changeling, breaking their people's only law, the Female Changeling lured him home to be judged by the Link. His judgment was to be locked into humanoid form, losing his shapeshifting abilities and becoming a solid, although his face remained the same to remind him of what he had done. During her stay with Odo, she promised Cardassian citizen Elim Garak that his people would all die by the Dominion's hand. () The Dominion War The Dominion War broke out with the Federation's mining of the entrance to the Bajoran wormhole, trapping the Female Changeling in the Alpha Quadrant. After spending months among solids, she felt the need to be with one of her own. She sought out Odo on Dominion-held Deep Space 9. There, she linked with him in an attempt to give him a better understanding of his nature. She also manipulated him into viewing solids as inferior beings undeserving of the Changelings' compassion, time and efforts. Odo became so smitten with what the Female Changeling showed him that he began believing what she said and exhibiting similar feelings of superiority, much to the dismay of Major Kira, who depended on Odo for their plans to sabotage the Dominion while they were occupying DS9. In fact, Odo was so firmly in the grip of the Female Changeling that when Rom was about to be executed, he did not do anything about it but instead preferred to link with the Female Changeling. () The Female Changeling's priority was the disabling of the minefields so that reinforcements from the Gamma Quadrant could be brought in. She began overseeing Weyoun and Gul Dukat's war efforts directly from DS9. As the Dominion was eventually forced back into Cardassian space, the Founder retreated with Weyoun to Cardassia Prime, where they set up a new Dominion Headquarters. She was forced to leave Odo on DS9, but was certain he would change his mind, believing it to be only a matter of time until he saw how truly superior and better than everyone else he was and rejoin the Link. () By 2375, the Female Changeling began manifesting symptoms of a disease that had infected the Great Link – the morphogenic virus – and thus her ability to change was slowly limited; but she continued to command the Dominion from Cardassia Prime. () Attempts to create a vaccine for the disease by Vorta scientists were unsuccessful. () During the final months of the war, the Female Changeling's health continued to deteriorate, but she was still able to negotiate the admission of the Breen to the Dominion, which greatly strengthened their position. During the Second Battle of Chin'toka that ended in success for the Dominion, she allowed enemy escape pods to flee the battle zone so that the survivors could spread the despair and demoralization that had followed their defeat during the battle to other troops and the Federation Alliance in particular, sending a clear message to all Dominion opponents. She also had the Breen attack Starfleet headquarters on Earth for similar reasons. () Later that year, the leader of Cardassia at the time, Damar, was growing increasingly frustrated of and angry at being the Dominion's puppet and sacrificing the lives of millions of Cardassians for their cause; he realized that Cardassia had become a conquered world, forced to serve entities that had little to no regard for its interests. When he was asked to give up undisclosed amounts of territory to the Breen and make concessions that clearly went against the interests of Cardassia, he had a drastic change of attitude which eventually lead him to muster up enough courage to stage a rebellion in an attempt to free Cardassia from the shackles of the Dominion. The Female Changeling, outraged at Damar's actions, ordered that all Dominion outposts be populated by Cardassian civilians, especially women and children, so that Damar and his insurgency cells would have to kill all those innocent people first if they wanted to destroy key Dominion structures. She also specifically ordered the murder of Damar's wife and son, whom she clearly knew had nothing to do with the Rebellion, in order to teach him a lesson. () By the end of the war, the Female Changeling was so ill that she was no longer able to shapeshift. When the Federation Alliance attacked Cardassia Prime in what became known as the Battle of Cardassia, and defeat for the Dominion seemed imminent, she ordered the Jem'Hadar and Breen to fight to the last man in hopes of sufficiently damaging the Federation Alliance that it could not threaten the Dominion's territories in the Gamma Quadrant. After Cardassian civilians on Cardassia Prime began rebelling against the Dominion as part of Damar's resistance movement, she ordered every Cardassian on the planet exterminated. Members of the Cardassian resistance, led by Kira and Garak after Damar's death, penetrated the Dominion command compound and took the Female Changeling prisoner. Shortly thereafter, Odo, who was present on the during the battle, beamed into the compound and against the protests of Kira and Garak, linked with the Female Changeling. By doing so, Odo cured her of the disease, and the Female Changeling agreed to end the war and stand trial for her war crimes. Odo returned to the Great Link to cure the rest of the Founders. The Female Changeling was taken away by Starfleet after signing the Treaty of Bajor. () Values The Female Changeling, as a representative of her kind, believed that her species, with its shapeshifting abilities, was far superior to humanoids, whom she referred to as "solids". Her distrust, disapproval and severe aversion for the "solids" became apparent the very first time she met Odo and only strengthened throughout the course of the war that she organized and coordinated. She told Odo that living among the solids had damaged him far worse than she realized, supposedly leaving him ignorant of the gifts he possessed. She rationalized her kind's dislike for humanoids, and ultimately the war waged against them, by recounting the suspicion, hatred and violence they had experienced thousands of years ago when exploring the galaxy. Built on that prejudice, her mistrust kept growing and she was very proud that her kind, through the creation of the Dominion, had finally become the "hunters", controlling the destinies of hundreds of other races, "because what you can control, can't hurt you". She called the murders and deaths the Founders were responsible for after the creation of the Dominion as bringing "order" to the galaxy and had no regard for life itself. The fact that "solids" merely existed was enough for her to justify their deaths, even though the humanoids she encountered prior to the war had done her no harm and were mere explorers, just like her kind once was before isolating themselves on a rogue planet and brooding in their hatred. Odo's initial joyful reunion with the Female Changeling was overshadowed by recognizing her true face, which was not interested in justice, but mere "order", as she referred to her genocidal intentions, at all costs. (). She never understood why Odo would choose to live among humanoids rather than among his own people. She truly believed that humanoids were incapable of ever accepting or even loving a Changeling; her confidence in the Link's alleged superiority was relentless and she went to great lengths to prove that to Odo. () She once remarked that she was willing to sacrifice the entire Alpha Quadrant to get him back, and her ruthless and condescending attitude towards those who faithfully served under her and gave their lives for her, such as the Vorta and Jem'Hadar, was superseded only by her complete disregard of life itself, as evidenced by her ordering the annihilation of all Cardassians at the end of the war and her willingness to sacrifice the lives of innocent civilians, even children, for her cause. Even the lives of her faithful servants meant little to her; on one occasion, she ordered that the Vorta doctors who were working tirelessly to find a cure for her illness be terminated and replaced with their clones, hoping a fresh perspective would speed things along. (). She despised humanoids so much that, in fact, Odo's punishment for having killed another Changeling was to be turned into a "solid", which she remarked was a far crueler punishment than death itself. () Verbal communication was an insufficient mode of communication for her and she kept on insisting that the way solids experienced such things as emotions and intimacy was inferior to the way Changelings experienced them. () Her patronizing view of solids as "small and insignificant" beings "confined to a single shape and perspective" in need of the Founders' guidance further fueled her ruthlessness and the extent of the bloodiness of the war that had begun in the Alpha Quadrant on her orders. She once said that it was important to "break" the solids as it was their fate to be either crushed by or serve the Founders. The only time she showed any sign of respect for a solid was when Sisko showed his allegiance to an ailing Odo by refusing to allow her to take him away from the Defiant, acknowledging Sisko's loyalty and allowing the crew to 'accompany' Odo so long as one of her Jem'Hadar piloted the Defiant and deleted the coordinates afterwards. () Because of her blind hatred and distaste for humanoids, and her genocidal ambitions, she was prepared to be responsible of the death of billions of people and the destruction of hundreds of worlds in the Alpha Quadrant. Even though the Federation had practically won the war she refused to give the Dominion troops the order to surrender so that in the end, as she remarked, that victory would taste as bitter as defeat to the Federation, given the havoc that had spread in that part of the quadrant and the number of casualties. However, she changed her mind and surrendered after receiving the cure for the virus by Odo. Cardassia was in ashes and shambles after she was done with them, counting 800 million casualties alone and the entire Federation, including the Romulan Star Empire and Klingons, suffered severe losses after this war of death and conquest. After her capture, she never apologized to anyone for her actions and did not show the slightest remorse for her atrocities and war crimes. () Appendices Appearances (Season Three) (Season Four) (Season Six) (Season Seven) Background information The Female Changeling was played by Salome Jens; in the episode , she was played by Nana Visitor when she was imitating Kira Nerys. The character's name "Female Changeling" comes from on-screen references given in both "Favor the Bold" and "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", and was once used as her script name in "Heart of Stone". The scripts for the remainder of her appearances generally refer to her as "Female" or "Female Shape-shifter", with the latter name also used on screen in . Jens was credited onscreen in "What You Leave Behind" as "Female Shapeshifter". Apocrypha The Star Trek Customizable Card Game has cards naming her "Founder Leader" and "Kira Founder", referring to her time impersonating Kira Nerys. In the Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novella Olympus Descending, a Jem'Hadar named Taran'atar goes to visit the Female Changeling in a maximum-security prison called Ananke Alpha. During flashbacks throughout the story, it is revealed that when she and Odo briefly engaged in sexual intercourse during the Dominion's control of Deep Space Nine as part of Odo's attempt to help her better understand solids, Odo realized that he simply didn't connect with her the way he had connected with Arissa – his only other romantic relationship that had progressed that far at this time – prompting him to once again realize how distant he was from the rest of his people. In the alternate future seen in the Deep Space Nine Millennium trilogy, the Female Changeling was killed when she refused to have the Dominion join with the Grigari, who, ironically, were commanded by Weyoun, the new self-proclaimed "Emissary of the True Prophets" who lived in the newly-opened red wormhole. In Star Trek Online, the Female Changeling plays a major role in "The 2800" feature episode series. The Founder has been incarcerated for more than thirty years by this time, held in a secret Federation maximum-security prison called Facility 4028. A Vorta named Eraun (replaced by Weyoun following the release of "Victory is Life") demands the release of the Female Changeling in exchange for Dominion support against a renegade fleet, originally the 2800 Dominion ships that had disappeared in the wormhole in 2374 (see ), that presently controls DS9. The Federation Council ultimately agrees, and the player who made contact is sent to Facility 4028 to oversee the Founder's release. She orders the Jem'Hadar forces on DS9 to stand down, but Kar'ukan refuses, leading to the captain to sneak in and retake the space station. When the forces are defeated, the Founder and the remaining Jem'Hadar return to the Gamma Quadrant. The Female Changeling is one of a number of Deep Space Nine characters who return in the fourth expansion "Victory is Life", with Salome Jens reprising her role (as well as recording new lines for her character's previous appearance in "The 2800" series). Through the early episodes of the campaign in the Gamma Quadrant, it is revealed that she was the catalyst for the ongoing Hur'q invasion of the galaxy, after a failed effort to take control of them two millennia earlier. The Fek'Ihri, encountered by Klingon players earlier in the game, were also revealed to have been created by the Dominion at her behest. Her views on "solids" are shown to be far more radical than earlier appearances showed, as evidenced in her belief in a "True Dominion" over not only the Gamma Quadrant, but the galaxy as a whole. She even admits to having killed other Changelings, breaking their most sacred rule, who were in opposition to her radical beliefs. In the mission "Tenebris Torquent", the Female Changeling and Odo face off in the ruins of the Hur'q homeworld, before she is apparently killed by a feral Hur'q mutant. The Female Changeling later appears briefly in the episode "Measure of Morality, Part 1", as part of the game's tenth anniversary. In an Excalbian simulation, she infiltrates the Krenim weapon ship K.I.S. Annorax during the Battle of Procyon V and assassinates its renegade captain, Noye, after the Alliance had failed to stop him. The player is given the option to leave Noye dead and destroy the ship, or to use the ship's temporal core to go back a moment in time to stop the Founder from killing Noye. External links de:Gründerin nl:Vrouwelijke vormverwisselaar Changelings Terok Nor residents

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Gaila (Ferengi)

Gaila was a male Ferengi and arms dealer of the Ferengi Alliance in the 24th century. He was successful enough to buy his own moon. Odo noted that he knew Gaila to be a more devious Ferengi than Quark, his cousin. () Gaila began his career in the weapons business in 2333. () In 2362, Quark loaned Gaila the latinum to start a munitions consortium, and in return, Gaila promised to buy Quark a ship if he became successful. () In 2372, during a discussion between Quark and Garak over Quark's surplus of kanar in storage due to the lack of Cardassian customers, Quark regretfully remarked that he should have listened to his cousin Gaila in entering the arms market with him. In retrospect, Quark admitted that no one ever went broke selling weapons, but nonetheless didn't listen to Gaila's advice because he was a "people person"; that he enjoyed interacting with his customers as opposed to the impersonal nature of arms customers. () Gaila hatched a plot in 2372 to kill Quark while seemingly honoring his debt to him with a ship. He sent Quark a Ferengi shuttle, which Quark designated Quark's Treasure. The shuttle was later found to have been sabotaged. () Later that year, Quark planned to use the money generated from the sale of his vacuum desiccated remains to pay back Gaila. After he learned he did not have Dorek Syndrome, Quark tried to rescind the debt payments. () In 2373, Gaila and his business partner Hagath approached Quark to make use of his holosuites for use in their business endeavors. Though Gaila and Hagath had no qualms about selling weapons that would be used to kill millions of people, Quark began to have a crisis of conscience, particularly after learning the Regent of Palamar intended to buy biogenic weapons that would be used to that effect. Quark eventually double-crossed Gaila and Hagath by arranging for the Regent's enemy, General Nassuc to come to the station and "accidentally" run into them. Following the ensuing firefight, Gaila and Hagath fled the station with the Palamarian Freedom Brigade's purification squads in pursuit. () Gaila managed to evade the purification squads but soon fell on hard times. In 2374, Gaila was arrested on Thalos VI for vagrancy. He had a fine levied against him, but was unable to pay it and ended up in starbase prison. Initially swearing revenge against Quark, his vengeance soon gave way to greed after learning about an offer to earn latinum by joining Quark's team to rescue his mother Ishka, who had been captured by the Dominion. He accepted the offer when he learned that Quark paid his fine. Gaila insisted that he was "a weapons dealer, not a soldier," which proved to be all too true as he jeopardized the mission more than once. First, he nearly allowed Keevan, the Vorta prisoner to be exchanged for Ishka, to escape when he fell asleep while guarding him. Later, after discovering that Quark intended to keep most of the reward money for himself, Gaila attempted to shoot him but shot and killed Keevan instead. Despite the daunting setback, the Ferengi managed to rescue Ishka and take Yelgrun, another Vorta, prisoner. () Gaila was one of the people that Rom tried to contact several months later, but was unable to, due to a communications blackout on Ferenginar. () Appendices Appearances Background information According to the for and the for , Gaila was pronounced as "GAY-luh". Apocrypha Gaila makes an appearance in the Demons of Air and Darkness. He and his cousin, Quark, are on the opposite side of a negotiating table involving supposed Iconians and the Orion Syndicate. He also appears in the Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novella Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed. In the mission "Quark's Lucky Seven" in Star Trek Online, Quark specifically excludes Gaila from his planned mission to infiltrate an Iconian dreadnought to retrieve the Sword of Kahless, primarily due to killing Keevan on Empok Nor. However, Gaila still contributes to the mission by providing a cloaking device that allows the player's ship to get up close to the dreadnought for Quark and his team to get aboard. Gaila also appears in the Star Trek: Terok Nor novel Dawn of the Eagles. External link de:Gaila (Ferengi) fr:Gaila (Ferengi) Ferengi

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Keevan

Keevan was a male Vorta in service with the Dominion during the late-24th century. History Marooned and Captured Like all Vorta field supervisors, Keevan was the Dominion official in charge of a Jem'Hadar unit. In early 2374, Keevan and his unit of Jem'Hadar crashed on a class M planetoid within a dark matter nebula in Cardassian space. With his ship destroyed and only a handful of vials of ketracel-white remaining, Keevan was forced to ration it among the ten Jem'Hadar who survived. To make matters worse, Keevan himself received serious injuries in the collision and the unit's communications equipment was heavily damaged, leaving them unable to submit a distress call. Fortunately for Keevan another Jem'Hadar attack ship, containing Captain Benjamin Sisko and his crew on a secret mission to infiltrate Dominion space, also crashed on the planet just a few days later. The Jem'Hadar in Keevan's unit were able to successfully capture Ensign Nog and Elim Garak from the ship, whom Keevan then ordered to be traded for the services of a Starfleet doctor to treat his injuries. Following his orders, Remata'Klan organized a meeting with Captain Sisko and the exchange was carried out, with Doctor Julian Bashir returning to the Jem'Hadar camp, where he successfully healed Keevan. After recovering from Bashir's treatment, Keevan knew that once the ketracel-white had run out, the Jem'Hadar would turn on him and each other. Realizing this, he offered Captain Sisko a trade; he would order his Jem'Hadar to attack the Starfleet camp but would reveal the attack plan to Sisko beforehand, allowing the Starfleet crew to eliminate the Jem'Hadar with ease. In return, Keevan would surrender to Sisko and escape death by becoming a prisoner of war. When Keevan presented himself for surrender, he was smug and emotionally cold towards the events that had happened promoting Captain Sisko to be visibly disgusted as he ordered Keevan to be restrained while ordering other crew members to form a burial detail. Though Sisko was reluctant to accept the plan at first, when Keevan informed him the Jem'Hadar would be attacking his camp regardless, Sisko had no choice but to relent. In the ensuing firefight, all of Keevan's unit were swiftly killed at the cost of one Starfleet officer, Ensign . Following the battle, Keevan surrendered himself and the Jem'Hadar communications device to Captain Sisko, resulting in his escape from the planet and subsequent imprisonment by Starfleet. () Prisoner Exchange and Death Later that year, Keevan was used as part of a bargain for a prisoner exchange between the Ferengi Alliance and the Dominion. Following the capture of Quark's mother Ishka, Major Kira Nerys convinced Starfleet to allow Quark to trade Keevan in exchange for his mother's freedom, in return for saving her from incarceration during the occupation of Deep Space 9 months earlier. Keevan, for his part, took no pleasure in the idea of being returned to the Dominion. As a Vorta field supervisor, he had been expected to commit suicide to prevent capture. Having failed to do so, he fully expected "a most unpleasant debriefing", followed by an execution. Quark, along with his team of Ferengi, transported a handcuffed Keevan to the abandoned Cardassian space station Empok Nor where the exchange was to take place. While on the station, Quark's cousin took first watch over Keevan but soon fell asleep, giving Keevan an opportunity to escape. Though he managed to make it to their ship, Quark had earlier told his brother Rom disable the impulse engines, thereby preventing Keevan from departing. Keevan was discovered by Quark and eventually led back to the station's infirmary in time for the exchange. However, during a heated argument between Quark and Gaila, Gaila accidentally shot and killed Keevan before the transfer could happen, necessitating another plan of action. Growing desperate, Nog engineered a series of neural stimulators to take control of Keevan's body and motor functions, thereby making it appear as if he was alive long enough to secure Ishka's release. After killing the Jem'Hadar and capturing the Vorta Yelgrun, the Ferengi left Empok Nor, leaving Keevan's body continually walking into a bulkhead due to a jammed transceiver, much to Nog's amusement. () Memorable quotes "I understand." "No, you don't. But that's all right. It's not important that you understand, only that you carry out my instructions precisely." "Obedience Brings Victory." "Yes. Yes, it does. Go." - Third Remata'Klan and Keevan () "You know, Captain, if I'd had just two more vials of White you never would have had a chance." - Keevan () "Hi. I'm Rom. This is Nog, that's Brunt." "Rom, he doesn't care." "Truer words have never been spoken." - Rom, Quark, and Keevan () "I'll advise you all to send final messages to your loved ones and make sure your wills are in order." "Why?" "Because the moment we leave this station, you'll have signed your death warrants. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to take a nap." - Keevan and Rom () "I hate Ferengi..." [collapses, dies] - Keevan () Appendices Appearances Background information Keevan was played by recurring Star Trek guest actor Christopher Shea. After Shea auditioned for a role as a Romulan but didn't get it, the producers remembered him when the role of Keevan came up. "He had a certain look in his eyes that we noticed [...] He could give you this very unsettled feeling just by looking at you," recalled Producer Steve Oster. "After we saw him, we all looked at each other and said, 'We need to bring him in as a Vorta!". () Shea's eyes weren't the only aspect that led to him being cast as Keevan. "His voice was suitably disturbing and helped land him the role," noted Ronald D. Moore. Coincidentally, Christopher Shea was cast as Keevan on his birthday, much to his pleasant surprise. Speaking of the character, Shea remembered, "I read the script and just loved it. It was a dynamite role, and so well written. It reminded me of Shakespeare in many ways." () Shea played character in both "Rocks and Shoals" and . The script for "Rocks and Shoals" specifies the pronunciation of Keevan's name as "KEY-van". Additionally, for the scene in which Keevan is introduced, it describes him as, "a badly wounded Vorta" who is lying on a "makeshift bed." The script goes on to refer to him as "the sweating, miserable Vorta." When writing the character of Keevan in "Rocks and Shoals", Ronald D. Moore didn't base him on anyone in particular but tried to make him "as despicable as possible while making his motivations completely believable." Writer and Executive Producer Ira Steven Behr, who co-wrote "The Magnificent Ferengi" with Hans Beimler, described Keevan as "a wonderful Vorta." () Max Grodenchik commented: "... Chris Shea, who played the Vorta, was hysterically funny". The costume Christopher Shea wore as Keevan in "The Magnificent Ferengi" was later sold off in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction, complete with phaser burn, for US$280.01. Authors Mark Jones and Lance Parkin described the final scene in which Keevan's body is left walking into a bulkhead in "The Magnificent Ferengi" as "really quite distateful." (Beyond the Final Frontier, p. 248) Apocrypha Keevan appears as a selectable commanding officer in the non-canon video game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion Wars, in which he is also described as being "highly experienced and devious" though not a skilled commander. In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Millennium Inferno, several clones of Keevan are created on the planet Rondac III in an alternate timeline. Keevan's card in the Star Trek Customizable Card Game describes him as a "Conniving liar". External links cs:Keevan de:Keevan Vorta

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USS Agamemnon

The USS Agamemnon was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In late 2369, Vice Admiral Nechayev mobilized a fleet consisting of the Agamemnon and fourteen other ships with the stated aim of patrolling and defending Federation colonies from an anticipated second Borg invasion. The ships were divided into five task forces with the as the flagship. Agamemnon was assigned to task force three under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. For the duration of the task force's existence, the Agamemnon would serve alongside the and the . () Appendices Background information According to the , this vessel was an starship, with the registry NCC-11638. Agamemnon was "named for the , said to have commanded the Greek forces during the Trojan War." () Apocrypha USS Agamemnon was one of the possible names for the Federation battleship in the PC game, Star Trek: Starfleet Command. In the Lost Era Serpents Among the Ruins, a USS Agamemnon, whose captain and first officer were Esteban Rodriguez and (father of Owen, grandfather of Tom) was a casualty of the Tomed Incident – though in reality, the ship, and all other Starfleet installations lost in the catastrophe – was empty, rigged to emit false life signs, members of its "crew" killed in action in the past year and their deaths covered up by Starfleet until then. External link cs:USS Agamemnon de:USS Agamemnon es:USS Agamemnon fr:USS Agamemnon ja:USSアガメムノン nl:USS Agamemnon Agamemnon

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USS Ahwahnee

There have been two Federation starships known to bear the name USS Ahwahnee. , a Federation starship in Operation Retrieve , a Federation starship at Wolf 359 de:USS Ahwahnee ja:USSアワニー nl:USS Ahwahnee

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USS Ajax

The USS Ajax (NCC-11574) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In 2327, Captain Narth was the commanding officer of the Ajax. Ensign Cortan Zweller was first assigned to the Ajax following his graduation from Starfleet Academy. () The Ajax was one of the ships that received Kosinski's experimental warp drive upgrades in 2364. The engineering staff reported a measurable increase in performance and engine efficiency following the upgrade. It was later suggested that these enhancements in performance may have been attributed to straightening out simple engine inefficiencies experienced by the older ship. () In 2367, the Ajax was on a deep space exploration mission in Sector 21834. The ship was named on the chart "Starfleet Operations-Sectors 21166-23079" on the bridge. ( okudagram) In 2368, the Ajax joined Captain Picard's fleet that blockaded the Klingon-Romulan border during the Klingon Civil War. The ship was one of twenty-three assembled for the fleet and was one of the seventeen chosen for the tachyon network. Identified by its name and registry number, the ship's position in the network was monitored from the Enterprise-D. When the network was disrupted by a high-energy burst released by the Romulans, the net was no longer effective in a of ten million kilometers around the . Subsequently, Picard ordered the fleet to proceed to Gamma Eridon at maximum warp, where the fleet would attempt to reestablish the net before the Romulans got there. (, okudagram) In 2369, the Ajax was on a deep space exploration mission in Sector 21396. The ship was named on the chart "Starfleet Operations-Sectors 21538-23079" in the Enterprise-D observation lounge. ( okudagram) Appendices Background information In the episode "Brothers", the Ajax was classified as an starship with the registry of NCC-13554. Soon after the episode was taped in the summer of 1990, the class and registry were retconned for an internal list of starships, dated September 26, 1990. In future episodes, the registry was mentioned in a tachyon detection grid seen in "Redemption, II" and the class was mentioned in a chart seen in "The Chain of Command, Part I". According to the , this ship was "named for two heroes from Greek mythology who fought in the Trojan War, and ." Apocrypha The Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph featured a listing of a Ajax with the registry NCC-547 (it was of the Cochise-subclass). The Stargazer Gauntlet suggested that Cortan Zweller was second officer of the Ajax by 2333. According to an Okudagram that appeared in the Simon and Schuster PC game Star Trek: Captain's Chair, the Ajax was on a deep space exploration mission to Sector 21396 in 2369. In Star Trek: Legacy, Ajax appeared as a playable starship, designated as a scout. External links de:USS Ajax es:USS Ajax fr:USS Ajax (NCC-11574) ja:USSエイジャックス nl:USS Ajax pl:U.S.S. "Ajax" NCC-11574 Ajax

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USS Akagi

USS Akagi (NCC-62158) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In 2368, the Akagi joined Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fleet that blockaded the Klingon-Romulan border during the Klingon Civil War. The ship was one of twenty-three assembled for the fleet and was one of the seventeen chosen for the tachyon network. Identified by its name and registry number, the ship's position in the network was monitored from the . A plan was hatched by Picard, which he hoped would lure the Romulans through the detection grid. When Gowron launched a full attack against the forces of the House of Duras, the Romulan ships would rush to their aid. During this, the would fall back with feigned engine troubles, taking the Akagi and the . In doing so, this would open up a small gap in the detection net for the Romulans to attempt to pass through. As their ships passed through the gap, the Enterprise-D and the would swing around, close the gap, and catch the Romulans in the act. The plan was foiled when the network was disrupted by a high-energy burst released by the Romulans, and the net was no longer effective in a of ten million kilometers around the . Subsequently, Picard ordered the fleet to proceed to Gamma Eridon at maximum warp, where the fleet would attempt to reestablish the net before the Romulans got there. () In 2374, Akagi was assigned to the Ninth Fleet, operating in the Bajor sector theater. A week after Operation Return, the ship visited Deep Space 9 along with and to be resupplied. () The starship reported numerous casualties to Starfleet Command. The name of the reporting ship and its registry and the casualties were named on the "Personnel Status Update" chart in the Deep Space 9 wardroom. ( okudagram) List of casualties Lt. Matata L. Kimya (MIA) Lt. Alan M. Kobayashi (MIA) Ens. Beverly C. Kurts (MIA) Lt. Jay T. Laprade (MIA) Ens. Paul F. Lawrence (MIA) Lcmdr. Kathy S. Leprich (MIA) Lester P. LeVesconte (MIA) Lt. (jg) Faith LeVesconte (MIA) Lt. Rose E. Limli (MIA) Cmdr. Mindy C. Long (MIA) Ens. Tom P. Mahoney (MIA) Ens. Marian A. McAllum (MIA) Kathy McCammon, RN (MIA) Lcmdr. Jon S. Monson (KIA) Cmdr. David P. Nemzek (MIA) Donna W. Nemzek, RN (MIA) Ens. Dorit J. Oberman (MIA) Ens. Lori B. Oberscheven (MIA) Larry A. Ohlson (MIA) Nancy B. Ohlson, RN (MIA) Captain Leslie Wong (MIA) Appendices Background information The classified this vessel as a starship. Akagi was named for the that served as the flagship of the Pearl Harbor strike force on 7 December 1941. Akagi held the somewhat dubious distinction of being the only Starfleet vessel whose namesake was (indirectly) destroyed by an Enterprise, sunk by dive bombers from the first aircraft carrier at six months later. The American carrier was also heavily engaged in that action. writer Ronald D. Moore thought it fitting that in Star Treks future, USS Akagi would be serving alongside . () The inclusion of a Japanese carrier in Starfleet had already been a desire of Original Series Producer Robert Justman, when he annotated on a ship names list memo of 9 August 1967 as namesake suggestions for starships belonging to, what they at the time still called, the Starship-class, "I think there would be several other candidates, such as Saratoga and perhaps another English carrier, a French carrier, a Russian carrier and certainly a Japanese carrier". While there had been plenty of historical Japanese aircraft carriers to choose from at the time, the eventually chosen had in actuality been a World War I-II era . (The Making of Star Trek, pp. 164-165) It was therefore Moore who had at long last fulfilled Justman's wish a quarter of a century later. Apocrypha The Price of Freedom sourcebook described the class of USS Akagi, Rigel-class, as a heavy scout with a crew of 70. It had 6 decks and was 215 meters in length. The ship had a maximum speed of warp factor 9.2. The ship was armed with type VII phaser emitters, and two torpedo launchers with a normal loadout of 75 photon torpedoes. The Star Trek Online mission "Devil's Choice" depicted the successor to this vessel, USS Akagi (NCC-62158-A), as an Armitage-class starship and implied that the 24th century ship was an vessel. External links de:USS Akagi es:USS Akagi fr:USS Akagi (NCC-62158) ja:USSアカギ nl:USS Akagi Akagi

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Akira class

The Akira-class was a class of Federation starship that was in service with Starfleet by the early 2370s. History Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards was one of the sites at which this class was constructed in 2371. () Akira-class starships were featured prominently in the Battle of Sector 001 and the Dominion War. (; , et al.) Several Akira-class ships were stationed near Deep Space 9 during the war. () As well, several were involved in most of the major battles of the war. In 2374, they saw action during Operation Return and the First Battle of Chin'toka, where at least two ships of the class were destroyed by Cardassian orbital weapon platforms. () In 2375, they were involved in the Second Battle of Chin'toka and the Battle of Cardassia. () At least one member of the class was within a light year of Earth in 2378. () Admiral Alonzo Freeman kept a model of an Akira-class starship in his ready room in 2381. () In 2401, four ships of this class were sent by Starfleet to join an armada opposing a unknown Borg vessel. The Borg liaison sent to the briefly commandeered this vessel and others, before the crew managed to engage their auto-destruct system. () Technical data Physical arrangement The Akira-class design ditched Starfleet's usual saucer-secondary hull-nacelle design, and more closely resembled the with its catamaran shaped hull. The engineering section was tucked under the main saucer, which housed the main deflector, and some of the ship's tactical systems. The nacelles were connected via long catamaran type structures, which in turn connected to a large weapons pod, housing several photon torpedo launchers. The catamaran pylons offered a degree of protection for the main bridge, which retained its traditional location at the top of the saucer. (; , et al.) Tactical systems The Akira-class design incorporated a multitude of tactical systems, including at least three Phaser arrays, and housed numerous Photon torpedo launchers along the port and starboard sides of the ventral primary hull, at least one launcher forward of the deflector, and several located on the aft weapons pod. () Ships commissioned Named (NCC-62497) (NCC-63887) (NCC-64280) (NCC-63284) (NCC-63293) (NCC-63549) Unnamed Unnamed Akira-class starships Appendices Appearances (first appearance) (also on a computer display) (on astrometrics screen) (model) Background information The name of the ship class was never mentioned on screen but is derived from production sources. According to the , the Akira-class was named after the anime fantasy film . "Along with the , the Akira-class starship helped to inspire Doug Drexler's design of the from . According to designer, Alex Jaeger, "This was my gunship/battlecruiser/aircraft carrier. It has 15 torpedo launchers and two shuttlebays – one in front, with three doors, and one in the back. I really got into it with this one, with the whole idea that the front bay would be the launching bay, and then to return they'd come into the back, because they'd be protected by the rest of the ship." (Star Trek: The Magazine, , Issue 3) A design sketch of the USS Akira shown the vessel bearing the registry NCC-2497. In an unpublished interview with author Larry Nemecek, designer Jaeger said he simply used the four-digit number of his then-phone extension for that registry; to conform to Starfleet practice, the number "6" was added by Mike Okuda and the film's art department to make "62497," a number then approved by producer Rick Berman. At the same time, Jaeger said, two other ship names and registries were approved as back-ups, if needed, to the USS Thunderchild actually seen on film as NCC-63549: the (named after former Israeli Prime Minister ) as NCC-63293, and the USS Spector (NCC-65549). The ship scale sheet showing the back-up names and registries can be found on . The latter ship has never appeared on screen, although the CGI file used for the Akira-class seen in the Voyager episode was ostensibly the Spector, and was used by the Star Trek Fact Files. The ship allegedly appeared in one of the battle scenes from the sixth and seventh seasons of , but this has not been verified. The scale of the CGI mesh, according to a January 20, 1998 post in the newsgroup alt.tv.star-trek.ds9, by DS9 Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes, was 860 feet or 262.13 meters, the length used when he blocked shots in DS9. However, the measurement used by Visual Effects Supervisor Gary Hutzel, according to an in-house chart dated 5/15/98, was 840 feet. According to a size chart of Alex Jaeger, the Akira-class would be roughly 500 meters (1640.4 ft) in length. Studio model Technical Manual The following specifications and defenses come from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual (p. 153): Production Base: ASDB Integration Facility, Antares Fleet Yards, Antares IV. Type: Heavy Cruiser. Accommodation: 500 officers and crew; 4,500 personnel evacuation limit. Power Plant: One 1,500 plus Cochrane warp core feeding two nacelles; one impulse system. Dimensions: Length, 464.43 meters; beam, 316.67 meters; height, 87.43 meters. Mass: 3,055,000 metric tonnes. Performance: Warp 9.8 for 12 hours. Armament: Six type-10 phaser emitters; Two photon torpedo launchers. Apocrypha Novels The Star Trek: The Dominion War Behind Enemy Lines features the Akira-class starships and the . The Millennium novel The Fall of Terok Nor mentions two Akira-class starships, the and the , both named after Canadian astronauts and . The Akira-class starship features heavily in the DS9 novels set after . The Gryphon was commanded by . In Lesser Evil, Kira Nerys is given command by Captain Mello when the Gryphon is sabotaged by its first officer after he was infested by a Bluegill parasite who intended to use the ship to attack , but Kira was able to stop Montenegro and regain control of the Gryphon. The mentioned in is described as an Akira-class starship that Lt. Commander Sonya Gomez served on during the Dominion War as chief engineer, according to Pocket SCE: War Stories, Book 1 and had the registry NCC-68455. The DS9 novel Original Sin features the Akira-class (NCC-63719), named in honor of Captain James T. Kirk of the . The James T. Kirk was commanded by and had an illustrious service history which included exploration and defensive missions. The Star Trek: Destiny novel Gods of Night features the Akira-class . During the of 2381, the Constant was assigned to defend the planet Khitomer, along with the and . Although the signaled of an incoming Borg cube, the fleet of three vessels had little chance of defending the Klingon planet. The Constant was destroyed first after the cube adapted to their weaponry; although the vessel was able to launch escape pods, they were all consumed by the ship's destruction. The short story "On the Spot" in the anthology book The Sky's the Limit features the Akira-class USS Korolev. Games The Decipher role-playing games supplement lists several Akira-class starships, including (NCC-62501), (NCC-62743), (NCC-62878), (NCC-62891), (NCC-63002), (NCC-63306), and (NCC-63419). The Activision PC game Star Trek: Bridge Commander includes the (NCC-64088), (NCC-69302), and . The Activision PC game Star Trek: Armada includes the (NCC-71267) and , as well as many others. In both this game and the sequel, Star Trek: Armada II, these vessels have an advanced weapon called the "" which bounces a bolt of energy off of enemy shields, damaging several ships consecutively. The Jupiter was also a promotional card for the Star Trek Customizable Card Game, where it was listed as being "under the command of Captain Satelk."Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion Wars includes the .Star Trek: Away Team includes the (NCC-71427). The Akira-class is featured in the game Star Trek: Starfleet Command III, where it is classified as a heavy cruiser. The Xbox 360/PC game Star Trek: Legacy allows control of Akira-class ships as cruisers with names such as USS Akira, USS Spector, USS Rabin, and USS Thunderchild. The Akira-class is featured in Star Trek Online as the prototypical example of a "Strike Wing Escort", a class of tactical starship blending the weaponry an escort with the capacity to field smaller vessels such as shuttlecraft, runabouts, or attack fighters in combat. Other Strike Wing Escort classes fielded by Starfleet with designs derived from the Akira-class include the game-original , , and classes. Akira-class ship names from Starfleet Command III: USS Akira USS Aquino USS Begin USS Cristiani USS Galtieri USS Gorbachev USS Grant USS Kennedy USS Kravchuk USS Landsbergis USS Lincoln USS Mitterand USS Ramos USS Reagan USS Shamir USS Shevardnadze USS Sihanouk USS Thatcher USS Thunderchild USS Yeltsin External links – contains detailed notes and articles on the Akira-class Akira class Technical Manual – fan wiki on the Akira'' class starship bg:Клас Акира cs:Třída Akira de:NCC-63549-Typ es:Clase Akira fr:Classe Akira ja:アキラ級 Federation starship classes Memory Alpha articles named from supplementary resources

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USS Al-Batani

The USS Al-Batani was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. Captain Owen Paris was the commanding officer of this ship. This was the first posting of Kathryn Janeway. () While under the command of Captain Paris, the Al-Batani participated in the Arias Expedition, with Janeway serving as the ship's science officer. () One memorable incident aboard the Al-Batani was when Janeway accidentally disabled power to six decks after misaligning the ship's positronic relays. () During one of the missions aboard the Al-Batani, the ship became trapped for three days by intense gravimetric forces inside a proto-nebula. () Command crew Commanding officer Owen Paris Science officer Kathryn Janeway Appendices References External link de:USS Al-Batani es:USS Al-Batani fr:USS Al-Batani ja:USSアル・バッターニー nl:USS Al-Batani Al-Batani

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USS Ambassador

The USS Ambassador was a starship mentioned in several production sources, but never referenced on screen. It was first referenced in an internal list of starships, dated , where it was listed in reference to the , as an ship with the registry of NCC-10521. The ship was later mentioned in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Writers' Technical Manual (3rd ed., p. 28) and in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (p. 75). In the latter source, the ship's registry was given as NX-10521. The Ambassador was referenced in the Ambassador-class article in the and subsequent editions, as well as , where it was identified as the prototype ship with the registry NCC-10521. External link Unused production material de:USS Ambassador es:USS Ambassador

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USS Archer (NCC-44278)

The USS Archer (NCC-44278) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. In 2379, the Archer was assigned to Star Fleet Battle Group Omega. This battle group was redirected by Starfleet Command to sector 1045 for a rendezvous with the , which was returning from Romulan space with the Reman warbird Scimitar, under the command of Shinzon, in pursuit. The Enterprise was forced to face the Scimitar without the support of the fleet, however, when Shinzon ambushed the Enterprise in the Bassen Rift. () External link bg:USS Арчър cs:USS Archer de:USS Archer es:USS Archer fr:USS Archer (NCC-44278) ja:USSアーチャー pl:USS Archer (NCC-44278) Archer (NCC-44278)

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Scimitar

The Scimitar was a massive, heavily-armed Reman warbird. It was constructed under the command of Shinzon as part of a secret plot to overthrow the Romulan Senate, defeat the United Federation of Planets, and liberate the subjugated natives of Remus. History Built at a secret base, the Scimitar was the keystone of Shinzon's plot to assassinate the Romulan Senate and assume the role of praetor of the Romulan Star Empire, something he could not have achieved without the support of the Romulan military. The Scimitar helped prove Shinzon's ambitions of attacking the Federation and ending the period of peace that had frustrated some Romulan generals. The Scimitar inflicted severe damage on the and Romulan reinforcements during the Battle in the Bassen Rift. When Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Enterprise made a successful attempt to collide his vessel with the Scimitar, the Reman warbird was crippled. As Shinzon made a last ditch effort to inflict even more damage, a powerfully destructive thalaron generator aboard the ship was powered up, though Captain Picard boarded the vessel in a failed attempt to disable the weapon. Lieutenant Commander Data of the Enterprise managed to board the Scimitar, where he transported Picard off the ship. Data fired his hand phaser into the thalaron intermix chamber, only two seconds before the weapon would have fired. This caused a chain reaction which destroyed the ship, and Data along with it. () Technical data Cloaking technology The Scimitars cloaking technology was, in the words of Geordi La Forge, "perfect." It emitted no tachyons and left no residual anti-protons, the two ways that a cloaked ship could be tracked and located. Thus, when cloaked, the Scimitar was virtually impossible to find. Only a chance hit by an opposing ship's weapons or by targeting where the Scimitars shots came from could reveal its location, temporarily disrupting the cloak. The Scimitar could even deploy its weapons and deflector shields and travel at high warp speeds while cloaked, actions which, with less-advanced cloaking technology, necessitated de-cloaking or reduced the effectiveness of cloaking. Its maximum warp factor when cloaked was more than that of Starfleet's starship. Weaponry and military equipment Having been designed for war, the Scimitar had fifty-two disruptor banks and twenty-seven photon torpedo bays; it was thus ready for nearly any battle, carrying roughly five times the armament of any other single ship. The powerful thalaron radiation weapon with which it was also equipped was capable of stripping the life off a planet in a matter of seconds, though it took seven minutes to prepare. The Scimitar also held a large complement of attack fighters. Shielding technology The Scimitar had primary and secondary shields. This allowed for twice the protection, giving it a backup shield. Even against the Enterprise-E and two Romulan warbirds, the Scimitar still had the obvious advantage. Interior design Bridge The bridge of the Scimitar was radically different in design from any other vessel, though it did share the same basic layout as most Romulan starships. In the center of the room was located the chair of the vessel's commanding officer. Behind his chair, both to the left and right, were consoles that required the operator to stand up. Directly in front of the captain's chair were two more stations. The command chair itself contained a built-in replicator, for the commanding officer's needs. Directly behind the captain's chair was a flight of stairs that led to a higher level. Here, two more consoles were located, and access was provided to the thalaron weapon room through a pair of doors. () Shuttlebay The shuttlebay of the Scimitar was a large area over two decks. It featured several Scorpion-class attack fighters. The shuttlebay was completely destroyed when the saucer section of the Enterprise-E was crashed into the Scimitar. () Personnel Appendices Background information After an initial description of the Scimitar as "magnificent," the shooting script for introduced the craft with the following description; "Our first sight of this incredible ship is absolutely breathtaking. Shinzon's vessel combines the clean lines of the traditional Romulan Warbird with unique weaponry and styling. It is huge, easily twice as large as the Enterprise. And it is aggressive. Awesome in its power." The Scimitar was designed by FX artist John Eaves. Its computer voice was provided by Nemesis Director Stuart Baird. Originally, Eaves was inspired by science fiction conceptual artist John Berkey. With a very, classic battleship type design, as the work progressed, the ship took on a more organic and insect appearance with projecting appendages. Finally with some additional design cues, the ship went on to resemble a Lionfish. The name Scimitar itself is actually derived from an ancient Middle Eastern curved sword, used as far back as the mid-16th century. This type of sword was referred to in the final draft script of , likening Simon Van Gelder's right hand slashing at a crewman, thereby rendering him unconscious, to a scimitar. The name was originally to have been used for the in . (The Star Trek Compendium) Apocrypha In Star Trek: Countdown, the Remans were shown to have constructed smaller ships based on the design of the Scimitar. Three of these ships were used to capture the Narada, but were easily disabled by the Enterprise-E. Scimitar-class ships appear in Star Trek Online, classified as dreadnoughts and used by the Romulans as well as the Remans. Two sub-variants, the Falchion and Tulwar, also exist, and can be used by Romulan Republic player characters at the rank of Vice Admiral or higher. Among the Scimitar-type ships appearing are the Leahval, the flagship of Empress Sela, and the Tulwar-variant Lleiset, the flagship of the Romulan Republic under the command of Tiaru Jarok, daughter of Alidar Jarok. External links cs:Scimitar de:Scimitar es:Scimitar fr:Scimitar ja:シミター pl:Scimitar Romulan starships

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Hypergravity

The term hypergravity referred to particularly intense gravity. Large amounts of mycelial spores packed together created hyper-gravitational fields. () While on route to Questar M-17 on stardate 5221.3, the experienced hypergravity more powerful then any it had previously encountered. The source turned out to be a dead star. () See also Black hole External links Physics

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Questar M-17

Questar M-17 was an object beyond the fringe of the Milky Way Galaxy. It was believed to be the source of mysterious radio emissions until 2269, when during a star charting mission heading on an outward course towards it, the was drawn off course towards the real source, an unusual dead star. () Appendices Background information According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 13) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), "Quasar M17" was located in the Beta Quadrant, at the fringe of the Milky Way Galaxy, near the galactic barrier. Apocrypha According to Star Trek Maps ("Chart A"), Questar M17 was located near the disputed border between the and the Tholian Assembly on the Federation side. External link de:Questar M-17 Stars

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Starships

A list of starships by: Affiliation Andorian starships Borg starships Cardassian starships Dominion starships Earth starships Federation starships Ferengi starships Klingon starships Romulan starships Vulcan starships Other Appendices See Also :Category:Starships for a full listing of all starships External link Star Trek Ships: Expanded - Others at The STArchive de:Liste anderer außerirdischer Raumschiffe Lists

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USS Rio Grande

The USS Rio Grande (NCC-72452) was a 24th century Federation runabout operated by Starfleet. This ship was assigned to Deep Space 9. The Rio Grande was one of the three runabouts offloaded at DS9 by the . The Rio Grande was the first vessel to discover the Bajoran wormhole in 2369, and was the only Starfleet runabout to remain operational at Deep Space 9 for the following years. Service history 2369 The Rio Grande was the runabout piloted by Commander Benjamin Sisko and Lieutenant Jadzia Dax on the mission that first discovered the Bajoran wormhole in 2369. () Major Kira Nerys and Doctor Julian Bashir piloted the Rio Grande back to Deep Space 9 when they received a priority one distress signal from the Kobliad transport Reyab. Later the Rio Grande was used to transport Doctor Bashir, under the control of the criminal Rao Vantika and hired Bajoran mercenaries, to steal a shipment of duridium from the freighter Norkova. () Several months later, Sisko and Dax took the Rio Grande to Rakhar. () After the crash landed on a moon in the Gamma Quadrant, the Rio Grande was deployed to rescue Sisko, Bashir, Kai Opaka, and Major Kira, who were on board the Yangtzee Kiang. () 2370 The Rio Grande was used to evacuate civilians from DS9 prior to the arrival of Bajoran militia forces acting on orders from Minister Jaro Essa, working for the Alliance for Global Unity. Quark had intended to be on board with his brother Rom, but Rom took a dabo girl in Quark's place. () The Rio Grande was used to pursue the hijacked containing Quark, Lieutenant Dax, and Ensign Melora Pazlar. For this mission, the Rio Grande was equipped with a roll bar module. The roll bar was removed for all future missions. () On stardate 47573.1, Commander Sisko and Chief Miles O'Brien explored systems near the Bajor sector aboard the Rio Grande in search of planets suitable for colonization. Upon discovering a class M planet in the Orellius system, they transported down to the planet's surface. The Rio Grande remained in orbit until it was hijacked by Alixus, who attempted to destroy the runabout by setting its course into the system's sun, Orellius Minor. Her attempt failed, and the ship was deflected across Sector 401, unpiloted, until it was reported to Starfleet by the Romulan vessel Gasko. Major Kira and Lieutenant Dax pursued the Rio Grande aboard the Orinoco. When the Orinoco caught up with the Rio Grande, Dax, inspired by an old Hopi rope trick, used the Orinocos tractor beam to force the Rio Grande out of warp. They then transported over to the Rio Grande to determine the origin of the runabout's course, later taking the Orinoco in tow as they returned to Orellius. () Along with the and the Orinoco, the Rio Grande was used to stop the Maquis from attacking Bryma, a Cardassian colony in the Demilitarized Zone. () Doctor Bashir and Major Kira used the Rio Grande to travel to the New Bajor colony in the Gamma Quadrant so they could help set up the colony's hospital. While en route back to Deep Space 9, the Rio Grande became the third Federation vessel to enter the mirror universe, the after the and the . (; ; ) Later that year, Sisko took his son Jake, along with Quark and Nog into the Gamma Quadrant aboard the Rio Grande. It was the first time Jake and Nog had been there. However, the trip took a fateful turn as Sisko and Quark were captured by the Jem'Hadar, the soldiers of the Dominion. () 2371 In 2371, Constable Odo used the Rio Grande in an attempt to follow a ship piloted by a Flaxian suspected of attempting to kill Elim Garak. The Flaxian ship exploded before it could leave Deep Space 9, cutting the Rio Grandes mission short. () 2372 In 2372, Major Kira and Legate Dukat used the Rio Grande to search for the Ravinok. () Later that year, Lieutenant commanders Worf and Dax, along with Klingon Dahar master Kor, took the Rio Grande into the Gamma Quadrant to find the long-lost Sword of Kahless, which was located at a former Hur'q planet. () Later that year, Kira, Dax, and Bashir took the ship into the Gamma Quadrant, where it visited the Teplan homeworld. () 2373 In early 2373, the Rio Grande was attacked by Klingons while Sisko, Dax, and O'Brien were returning to Deep Space 9 from Starfleet Command. () At some point after that, Odo used the Rio Grande to transport Quark to a Federation grand jury on Inferna Prime as part of a ruse to determine which criminal organization Quark had ties to, which later proved to be the Orion Syndicate. The Syndicate planted a bomb on the Rio Grande, intending to destroy it en route. Odo was able to mitigate the damage from the bomb by beaming it out and channeling the explosion through the transporter buffer, though the runabout still took heavy damage and was forced to crash land on an unnamed class L planet. Odo and Quark were later rescued by the , and the Rio Grande was salvaged. () Later that year, the Rio Grande was used in the defense of the station against a newly arrived Dominion fleet. () 2374 In alternate 2374, the Rio Grande departed DS9 after the situation with the Klingons came to a head, and the Federation turned over control of the station to the Klingon Empire. As it departed for it flew over two Bajoran transports while transporting Jake Sisko to Earth. () The Rio Grande, along with the and , evacuated Deep Space 9 at the time of the Reckoning aboard the station in late 2374. () Captain Sisko and Jake took the Rio Grande back to Earth in late-2374 shortly after the death of Jadzia Dax. () 2375 In 2375, Benjamin, Jake, and Joseph Sisko, along with Ezri Dax, used the Rio Grande to travel to so Benjamin could locate the Orb of the Emissary. () Later that year, the Rio Grande was used by Ezri Dax to travel to Sappora VII. Before arriving at Sappora VII, this ship gave transport to other passengers. () Later that year, Odo took the Rio Grande into Cardassian space to meet with an ex-informant whom he believed to be dead. He had been duped by the "defective" clone Weyoun 6, and took him back to Federation space. When Legate Damar and the successive clone Weyoun 7 learned of their whereabouts they sent a fleet of Jem'Hadar attack ships to stop them. Odo diverted the Rio Grande into an ice field to avoid the attacking ships. () Shortly after the Dominion War, Captain Sisko took the Rio Grande to Bajor, and left her behind, for his final confrontation with Dukat and the Pah-wraiths. She was later recovered, presumably by Bajoran forces. () Appendices Appearances (reference only) (simulation) Background information As noted in , all of the runabouts assigned to Deep Space 9 were named after Earth rivers. The is a river in North America, part of which serves as a natural border between the United States and Mexico. The computer voice of the Rio Grande was provided by Majel Barrett. The Rio Grande was the only one of the original three runabouts (Rio Grande, Ganges, and Yangtzee Kiang) assigned to the station to remain intact throughout the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine seven-year run. It did crash in , but it was apparently salvaged. In "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", the Rio Grande (whose name, translated to English as "Great River", is part of the title of the episode), was inadvertently given the registry of the , rather than its own previously-established registry number. 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The USS Sentinel was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. While visiting Deep Space 9 during the Dominion War in 2375, the Sentinel listed a surplus graviton stabilizer on its manifest. Nog, acting on behalf of Chief O'Brien who needed the stabilizer for the , secured the unit in a complicated trade that brought a phaser emitter from the . () Apocrypha The starship class of the Sentinel was not known, but the games Star Trek: Invasion and Star Trek: Armada portray it as a starship, while Pocket Books' Star Trek: SCE, War Stories, Book I stated the starship belonged to the with the registry NCC-68455 and that Lieutenant Commander Sonya Gomez served aboard the vessel during the Dominion War as chief engineer. In the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy game (set in the TOS film era), the Sentinel was a starship and crossed the Klingon neutral zone without authorization and engaged two Klingon Birds-of-Prey after it was believed that the Klingons were responsible for the mysterious destruction of a Federation colony. Sentinel, USS

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Julian Bashir

Julian Subatoi Bashir was a 24th century Human Starfleet officer who served as chief medical officer of the Federation space station Deep Space 9. Childhood Julian Bashir was born in late 2341. As a child he was known as "Jules," a name his parents called him well into adulthood. He stopped calling himself Jules when he was age 15 and referred to himself by his full first name, Julian. His parents were Richard and Amsha Bashir and he was an only child. () One of Julian's most prized possessions as a child was his stuffed teddy bear, Kukalaka. When Julian was a boy, he took him everywhere he went. In 2346, at the tender age of five, Bashir performed his first surgery when he re-stuffed his well-worn Kukalaka. Bashir continued to hang on to Kukalaka well into his adulthood. () At age six, Bashir was small, not very bright, and a bit physically awkward for his age. In the first grade, while the other children were learning how to read and write and use a computer, Julian was still trying to tell a dog from a cat and a tree from a house. () He never really could understand what was happening, but he knew that he wasn't doing as well as his classmates. There were several concepts they took for granted that he couldn't begin to master, but he didn't know why. All he knew was that he was a great disappointment to his parents. In 2348, just before Julian's seventh birthday, the Bashir family left Earth for Adigeon Prime. At first, he was excited to see all the aliens in the hospital, but then they gave him a room and started a series of treatments. These treatments, known as "accelerated critical neural pathway formation," were a method of genetic engineering that involved the resequencing of his DNA. Over the course of two months, his genetic structure was manipulated to accelerate the growth of the neuronal networks in his cerebral cortex, and a new Julian Bashir was made. The focus of his "enhancements" were to increase his mental abilities and as such, his IQ jumped five points a day for over two weeks. Further treatments led to improvements in his hand-eye coordination, reflexes, vision, stamina, height, and weight. Genetic augmentation of this kind was illegal in the Federation since the Eugenics Wars and the creation of the dangerous Augment known as Khan Noonien Singh, so the Bashirs kept Julian's enhancements secret. In the end, everything but his name had been altered in some way, Julian said. The Bashirs returned to Earth and moved to a different city, where Julian was enrolled in a new school using falsified records his parents obtained somewhere. Instead of being the slowest learner in his class, Bashir was the star pupil. () As a child, Bashir was afraid of doctors because they seemed to know everything, as if they held the power of life and death in their hands. He used to think that if he didn't behave, they would make him sick. () In 2351, at the age of ten, he was living with his family on Invernia II. He and his father got caught in an ionic storm and found shelter with a girl who became ill and later died because no one present knew that a nearby herb could have saved her. This memory further influenced Bashir's choice to become a doctor. () As he got older, he decided that he wanted to know what doctors knew, to be as smart as they were. Upon furthering his education, he learned that all he really wanted to do was help people. () In 2356, at the age of fifteen, Julian stopped calling himself Jules when he found out his parents had him genetically enhanced, believing that his parents had had him altered because they considered him defective. () Julian, however briefly, considered becoming a professional tennis player. Although good enough to play professionally, he decided to give it up and become a doctor instead, knowing that his parents would approve more of his career choice. He retained a passion for tennis throughout adulthood: along with medicine and biology, it was one of the things he knew most about, being able to geek out about the material composition of rackets. () Starfleet Medical Academy While at Starfleet Medical Academy, Bashir took engineering extension classes that focused mainly on starship operations. () On New Year's Eve, 2367, Bashir attended a party at the home of Bruce Lucier, with his Andorian friend, Erit – Elizabeth Lense also attended. At the party, Erit (the Andorian) was pointed out to Lense as being Bashir, causing her to have mistaken Bashir for an Andorian for four years. () While attending Starfleet Medical Academy, Bashir designed an incredible candy bar that was far superior in food value than Starfleet combat rations. () Bashir was the captain of the Medical Academy racquetball team. His team won the sector championships in his final year. When he played against a Vulcan rival in his final match however, he found his greatest opponents were the ones with no formal training. At another tournament, he picked up a five-thousand-year-old battle warm-up exercise from a top player. According to legend, the warm-up makes the heart a friend to the hand. () Julian graduated in 2368 as salutatorian, missing one question on the final, where he mistook a preganglionic fiber for a postganglionic nerve during the oral exam phase of his Starfleet Medical finals. () The valedictorian of his class was Elizabeth Lense. () Despite graduating salutatorian, he did graduate first in his class in pediatric medicine. () After graduation, Bashir was offered the choice of any job in the fleet. He was also offered a position at a prestigious medical complex in Paris by its top administration, Mr. Delon, the father of Bashir's then-girlfriend, Palis Delon. He promised Bashir he would be chief of surgery within five years, which meant Bashir would have to give up his Starfleet career. Bashir came very close to taking the position but subsequently gave it up, as well as Palis. () Deep Space 9 Choosing to stay in Starfleet, and not wanting a cushy job or a research grant, Bashir chose an assignment aboard starbase Deep Space 9. At the time, it was one of the most remote outposts available, located beyond the farthest reaches of the Federation, allowing Bashir the chance to study "real frontier medicine". On stardate 46379, 27-year-old lieutenant junior grade Bashir was transported to his new posting at Deep Space 9 by the . It did not take Bashir long to experience frontier medicine. During the first week of the Federation take-over of Deep Space 9, the station was attacked by Gul Jasad of Cardassia, who believed that the station had destroyed a Cardassian vessel. The vessel had really entered a stable wormhole near the station. Bashir was called to the station's Promenade to treat the wounded. () While serving on Deep Space 9, he met Elim Garak, a Cardassian tailor, who Bashir thought might have been a spy. () Bashir was enthralled by him and they became friends, with Bashir frequently trying to pry secrets from Garak. () Later that year, he accompanied Benjamin Sisko, Kira Nerys, and Kai Opaka on a journey through the Gamma Quadrant. They crash landed on a moon where war was eternal, and the combatants did not die. He, along with Miles O'Brien, visited a village on Bajor and helped the people pick a new to drive off the Dal'Rok, an energy being, from the village. () During an away mission, Bashir rescued a Kobliad security officer from a burning ship. The criminal she was transporting transferred his mind into Bashir's mind and controlled Bashir into committing criminal acts, until he was driven out of his consciousness and destroyed. () At one point, Bashir became a Human game-piece in a Wadi game that Quark was forced to play to teach him a lesson in honesty. Quark believed that if he lost, his friends would die, but it was only a game. () During an accident on the space station, Bashir saved the lives of a group of Federation ambassadors. () He began a friendship with Elim Garak, the only Cardassian on the station. He saved his life by removing an implant from his brain that had been put there by Enabran Tain, the former head of the Obsidian Order. Together, they also exposed Gul Dukat's plot to embarrass Kotan Pa'Dar, whose son was left on Bajor during the Cardassian Withdrawal from the planet. () Bashir and O'Brien helped destroy the nano-biogenic weapons of the T'Lani and Kellerun. Officials of both races ordered the assassination of both men in order to make sure that the secrets of the weapons would not become known. () In 2370, he became the first Starfleet officer to cross over to the mirror universe in more than a hundred years. His was one of the leaders of the Terran Rebellion against the Alliance. () He unknowingly took part in a fixed racquetball game against O'Brien. A swindler had opened a new bar on the station and was hurting Quark's business. Bashir was the favorite in the game, and by fixing it so O'Brien won, would have garnered Quark huge profits. () In 2371, Bashir, along with Jadzia Dax and Sisko, was accidentally transported back in time. They went back three hundred years to the time of the Bell Riots on Earth. It was a time of social upheaval and they were instrumental in helping the government become aware of the poor. Later in 2371, he was attacked by Altovar, a Lethean who was attempting to steal bio-mimetic gel from the infirmary. The Lethean's telepathic attack put Bashir into a coma, but Bashir managed to fight his way back to consciousness. Shortly thereafter, he helped O'Brien expose a Romulan plot to destroy the wormhole through a series of time jumps. () After an attack by the Jem'Hadar, the was heavily damaged. Bashir and Dax were trapped in a turbolift, with a limited supply of air. Just as their air ran out, they were freed from the lift. () During the war with the Klingons, Bashir saw war close up. He attended to the wounded on a colony attacked by the Klingons. With limited medical facilities, he was still able to treat and save many of the wounded. () Bashir was promoted to full lieutenant in 2372. Early that year, Bashir participated in drills aboard Deep Space 9, in preparation for potential Changeling infiltrators, where he coordinated phaser sweeps of the Promenade. On stardate 49011, Bashir prepared his staff for the pending Klingon assault on the station. () On stardate 49066, Bashir and Chief O'Brien conducted a mission to the Gamma Quadrant that included a bio-survey of Merik III. En route to the Bajoran wormhole, their runabout, the Rubicon, detected a subspace magneton pulse in the Bopak system. The source was later determined to be coming from a Jem'Hadar attack ship, located on the planet Bopak III. () Later that year, Bashir was at a burn treatment conference on Meezan IV. He went to bed one night and woke up in the Dominion Internment Camp 371. Meanwhile, a had replaced the doctor aboard the station for over a month. () The Changeling Bashir remained aboard Deep Space 9, secretly laying the pieces of a plan to trigger a supernova in the Bajoran sun with a bomb composed of trilithium, tekasite, and protomatter, in order to wipe out a large chunk of the combined Alpha Quadrant fleet at once. When the time came, the Changeling Bashir hijacked the runabout Yukon to perform his mission, but at about the same time, the real Bashir and his fellow prisoners escaped the internment camp. Bashir was able to alert the station that the other Bashir was a fake just in time, and the Changeling plot was thwarted by the Defiant. () Bashir enjoyed the holosuites at Quark's. One of his favorite programs was a spy novel, with Bashir in the title role. When the explosion from a sabotaged runabout blew out the station's transporter, Michael Eddington was forced to save the patterns of Sisko, Dax, Kira, O'Brien, and Worf in the station's computer. Their neural patterns took up so much space in the main computer that it had to store their physical patterns in the holosuite Bashir was running, causing the senior staff to appear as characters in his program. () Bashir's genetically engineered status was revealed in 2373, after Lewis Zimmerman chose him to be the template for the Long-term Medical Holographic program. Bashir was nearly expelled from Starfleet service upon this revelation, due to regulations barring any genetically augmented personnel from serving in their ranks, citing the danger that "for every Julian Bashir that can be created, there’s a Khan Singh waiting in the wings." However, a special exception was eventually made provided Bashir's father accept incarceration for violation of eugenics laws, which he did. Their interactions during this stressful period eventually brought Bashir and his parents closer together - they had been estranged from each other for years because Bashir thought they had had him genetically enhanced as a child because they were disappointed by him. () Bashir later encountered other genetically enhanced humans who had undergone the same accelerated critical neural pathway formation process he did as a child. Their enhancements left them as savants who were confined to a specialized Institute and unable to function in normal society, where their "genetic status" prevented them from joining Starfleet or performing certain professions in the Federation. However, Bashir encouraged them to find ways to be productive members of society; but after they briefly considered forcing Starfleet to surrender to the Dominion to prevent undue bloodshed, Bashir managed to convince them to return to the Institute. () Dominion War Bashir participated in numerous military operations during the war. He was with Sisko when they destroyed the ketracel-white storage depot. The Jem'Hadar ship they used suffered heavy damage and lost its warp drive. When the ship crashed, it was on a planet where a Jem'Hadar ship had previously crashed. A battle ensued between the crews. Elim Garak and Nog were captured by the Jem'Hadar. But with Keevan, the Vorta leader hurt, they were released in exchange for Bashir treating Keevan. Bashir operated on him and saved his life. Keevan then betrayed his forces because he had run out of ketracel-white and worried that the Jem'Hadar would kill him. () Bashir took part in the recapturing of the station and driving the Dominion back to Cardassian space. Later that year, he was a part of Worf's and Jadzia's wedding. He and O'Brien used Ma'Stakas to attack Worf and Jadzia at the end of the wedding, which was a Klingon tradition (as well as an opportunity for the two to vent their frustrations over the trials and suffering endured during the symbolic lead-up to the wedding ceremony itself). While studying genetically-engineered Humans, he learned from them that the attempt by the Dominion to open peace talks and cede territory was a ruse in order to acquire planets that could help produce ketracel-white. () Bashir took part in the defense of AR-558, which was a planet that guarded the supply route of the Federation. He found a cure for the virus that Section 31 infected Odo with, saving Odo's life. Bashir took part in the final battle of the war. After the war was won by the Federation Alliance, Bashir said goodbye to his friend, Miles O'Brien and began a relationship with Ezri Dax. () Research projects On stardate 46578, Bashir boarded the to access its computer's bio-imaging systems in sickbay, following the discovery of what he believed was a medical scanner discovered in the Gamma Quadrant. With the assistance of Commanders Data and La Forge, they ran a full circuit pathway diagnostic on the device in engineering. While working with Data, Bashir became interested in cybernetic research. Bashir was fascinated by all the trouble his creator took to make Data, who he referred to as a "synthetic lifeform", seem "Human". He was especially surprised by how "personable" Data was, and among other things, questioned Data about whether his hair grew, and observed that Data was "breathing" and had a "pulse", questions that Data had never been asked before, people being more focused on how he was different from Humans rather than how he was similar to them. During their investigation of the device, it emitted a plasma shock that overloaded Data's positronic net, activating a series of previously dormant circuits that subsequently allowed Data the ability to dream. With Data's permission, Bashir took this opportunity to author a paper on the subject with the intentions of getting published in the Starfleet Cybernetics Journal. () One of Bashir's notable projects was on biomolecular replication. His work was submitted by Jadzia Dax and later nominated by the Federation Medical Council for 2371's Carrington Award for his work, which was, according to Dax, "both audacious and groundbreaking." This made Bashir the youngest nominee in the history of the Carrington Award. He was honored to be nominated, but felt that the undeniable truth was that he was far too young to be a serious candidate for the award. () Another of Bashir's early research topics on Deep Space 9 was an immuno-therapy project of T-cell anomalies conducted on Bajor. Doctor Lense had read Bashir's research and was extremely interested in his work. () While on Bopak III, Goran'Agar, a Jem'Hadar, implored Bashir to conduct some scientific research in order to find the cure for their addiction to ketracel-white. Bashir agreed, and initially tested for potential matches containing the molecular structure of the enzyme receptors in the Jem'Hadar's bodies. Upon further investigation, it was determined that there was no cure on the planet and that Goran'Agar was a genetic anomaly. () Another project Bashir worked on at this time was a treatment for the Teplan blight, a fearsome bioweapon used by the Dominion to punish at least one planet, Teplan, for resisting them. However, his initial attempt to treat a number of patients ended disastrously with Bashir discovering too late that Dominion had prepared the weapon to fatally accelerate its symptoms when subjected to the electromagnetic fields of modern medical equipment. Although deeply despondent at this failure, Bashir inadvertently discovered an in-vitro vaccine that would allow the population to give birth to children immune to the blight. Despite this breakthrough, which earned a commendation from his superiors, Bashir still researched the disease for some time before apparently giving up and presumably delegating the project to Starfleet Medical. () By 2373, he was working on two studies of prion replication in ganglionic cell clusters. () Section 31 In late 2374, Bashir was selected by Luther Sloan, a member of the covert Federation intelligence group, Section 31, as a potential operative. While the crew of DS9 believed he was attending a medical conference on Casperia Prime, he was abducted by the group and placed in a holographic simulation to determine his potential of being a Section 31 operative. Although offered a position as part of their organization, he turned down the offer. However, Sisko ordered him to join Section 31 as a double agent. () A year later, Bashir was contacted by Sloan to serve as an operative for Section 31 during Bashir's trip to lecture at a conference on Romulus. Sloan led Bashir to believe that he was planning to assassinate the chairman of the Tal Shiar, Koval. In reality, it was an operation to prevent Kimara Cretak from ascending to a position on the Continuing Committee. () Several months later, Bashir and O'Brien realized that Section 31 was responsible for the morphogenic virus that was killing the Founders of the Dominion, as well as their friend Odo. Bashir sent a false message to Starfleet Medical, informing them that he had found a "cure". Sloan traveled to Deep Space 9 with the intent of destroying the cure. Bashir and O'Brien were successful in restraining him and, using Romulan mind probes, were successful in extracting the cure from Sloan's mind before he died. () Physiology Due to his genetic enhancements Julian, in many ways, possessed a superior physiology to other Humans. His intellect was the most obvious example of this, as he was able to perform complex computations faster than a computer (), and his total recall was almost absolute. () This also made him one of a few Humans who could play Tongo on a Ferengi level, and got to the point that he could beat several experienced Ferengi after a few games. () Physically he was also enhanced, although his physical abilities were mostly less remarkable. His hand-eye coordination was greatly enhanced to the point where he could hit the smallest part of a dart board with ease at over eight feet, () his hearing was also enhanced beyond that of a normal Human (), and his strength and reflexes were at least on far with a Vulcan's. () In 2375, Koval found that as an apparent result of Bashir's enhanced parietal cortex, his brain's neurocellular structure was not susceptible to Romulan mind probes. () He also had limited control of his vital signs, although he lost control if significantly weakened. () Personal life Family One of Bashir's early ancestors was the 15th century poet, Singh el Bashir. () Bashir's great-grandmother's name was , and she served as a Starfleet officer during the mid-23rd century. In 2373, when the traveled back to 2268 by way of the Orb of Time, he encountered a Lieutenant aboard the . Bashir became momentarily convinced that Lieutenant Watley was his great-grandmother, and that he may be facing a predestination paradox. Since no one ever knew his great-grandfather, he thought that he might be destined to fall in love with Lieutenant Watley and become his own great-grandfather. () Bashir did not have a positive relationship with his parents for many years. Bashir believed his parents had had him genetically enhanced as a child because they were disappointed by him, a child who was "small for [his] age, a bit awkward physically, not very bright". He lived his life as a child and a young adult to try to please his parents, even choosing a medical career because of them instead of one in tennis. His father thought that Bashir considered himself better than his parents because of the enhancements. They would often argue and Bashir felt compelled to stay away from his parents. He blamed them for changing him and he felt "unnatural", a "freak". Both Bashir and his parents misunderstood each other, however: Bashir's parents had had him genetically enhanced because they loved him and were worried about him; and Bashir didn't think himself better than his parents, but, along with thinking his parents were disappointed in him, believed his father didn't take responsibility for the problems he brought on himself and his family. When the family secret about Bashir's illegal enhancements became public by accident, Bashir's father brokered a deal with Starfleet to be incarcerated so that Bashir could retain his position in Starfleet. Their interactions during this stressful time brought the family closer together and helped them understand each other. () Friendships Miles O'Brien Bashir's best friend was Miles O'Brien. At first they did not get along; O'Brien felt that Bashir was annoying. This all changed when both men were marked for assassination after helping to destroy biological weapons. O'Brien was wounded, and Bashir helped save him. They enjoyed playing darts and racquetball. Together they had many adventures in the holosuites, the most noteworthy being the Battle of Britain and The Alamo. They even built a scale model of the Battle of the Alamo. () When O'Brien was given twenty years of prison memories for a crime he did not commit by the Argrathi and could not adjust, he attempted to kill himself. One of the false memories was that he had killed his best friend in prison. It was Bashir who was able to talk him out of the attempt and get him help. Bashir was dismayed when during the final battle of the Dominion War, O'Brien told him he was leaving for Earth to become a professor at Starfleet Academy. () Although Bashir fell in love with Ezri Dax in 2375, he confessed that he liked Miles "a little bit more", indicating the strong bond of friendship that formed between the two over their seven years of service together on Deep Space 9. () Martok Martok and Bashir were both prisoners at Internment Camp 371. Ever since their escape, Martok had always trusted and respected Bashir's medical expertise. Elim Garak Bashir struck up an unlikely friendship with Elim Garak. He was interested in him because he thought Garak might be a spy. Garak first introduced himself to Bashir during the Tahna Los incident on the station, in such a flirtatious way it confused Bashir and left him quite flustered. They worked together to expose a plot by Dukat to embarrass a Cardassian official who wished to reconcile Cardassia with Bajor. They had many lunches together. It was during one of these luncheons that Bashir discovered an implant that was killing Garak and he was able to save him. Bashir and Garak often discussed literature during their lunches and frequently debated the differences between Human and Cardassian written works. Garak also became Bashir's sidekick in Bashir's holoprogram about international spies. Together, they saw many combat duties during the Dominion War. () Relationships Jadzia Dax Bashir was infatuated with Dax from the very beginning, when they met on a transport to Deep Space 9, and since then desperately pursued her. Quark once said of Bashir as being there every other day "crying into his synthale over her". () She enjoyed his flirtatious attempts to become intimately involved with her, and according to Ezri Dax, would have entered a romantic relationship with him had Worf not come along. () Melora Pazlar Melora was an Elaysian who was briefly commissioned to Deep Space 9. She and Bashir had a brief romantic affair, during which Bashir worked on a way to adapt Nathaniel Tero's neuromuscular adaptation theory into a working, long-term solution to Melora's gravity problems. Melora ends up pulling the plug on the treatment, as she wants to be able to return home. She leaves the station and her and Bashir's relationship presumably ends. () Leeta Leeta first showed interest in Bashir in 2371. She faked a cold in order to meet him. They broke up a year later, in 2373. They went to Risa to complete the Bajoran Rite of Separation. Later that year, Nog helped Bashir retrieve his teddy bear, Kukalaka, from Leeta, who had failed to give it back after their break-up. () Sarina Douglas Bashir first met Sarina Douglas when he was studying a group of genetically-enhanced Humans. The following year, he helped restore her to a normal life by using a neurocortical probe, helping her relate to other Humans. He fell in love with her, and she appeared to fall in love with him as well. In the end Julian's affection for her almost drove her back in seclusion, so he let her go. () Ezri Dax When Ezri arrived on the station, Bashir was drawn to her because she carried Jadzia's memories. At first, they tried to avoid each other. But nothing could stop their attraction to each other, culminating in a passionate kiss in a turbolift on the way up to Ops. An annoyed Worf sends them back down, but they didn't appear to notice. They spent their first romantic night together on the eve of the final battle of the Dominion War. () Alternate realities and timelines In an alternate timeline created in 2373, the USS Defiant was thrown several hundred years in the past, where it crash-landed on the planet Gaia in the year 2173. After the crash, Bashir married one of the ships' crewmembers, Angie Kirby. After several generations, the colony encountered the Defiant once again, where Bashir learned that the planet was "crawling with Bashirs". He made a special point to get down to the planet to meet some of his descendants. While on the surface, Bashir surveyed of the settlement's clinic to determine what supplies needed to be left behind, where he met his great-great-great-great granddaughter: the doctor. She made quite a fuss over Bashir, whose "healing touch" was something of a legend on the planet. () In a future alternate timeline, during the early-2400s, Bashir held the rank of full commander, and was among the crew aboard the USS Defiant that traveled to the Bajoran system in an attempt to recreate the conditions that caused the disappearance of Captain Sisko. It was revealed during this timeline that he had multiple offspring. Bashir also commented on how long it had been since he used a two-dimensional control panel, and later suggested they drop by Morn's bar for a drink. () Holograms Bashir was holographically duplicated at least once. In 2373, Doctor Lewis Zimmerman based his initial test version of the Long-term Medical Holographic program on Bashir's likeness. () Memorable quotes See I'm a doctor, not a... Appendices Appearances ; all episodes except for: (only as ) (only as mirror Julian Bashir) (only as Changeling replacement) (only as Changeling replacement) (only as Changeling replacement) Background information Julian Bashir was played by Alexander Siddig. In March 2015, Executive Producer Rick Berman related on his Twitter account, "When I first saw Siddig on film I wanted him as Sisko. Then I learned he was in his 20s (couldn't have a teenage son) so he became the doc." Another actor who auditioned for the role was Edward Rawle Hicks. Julian Bashir was originally called "Julian Amoros", and his name was only changed at the last minute prior to the filming of . In the "DS9 Bible", while most of the characters had several pages describing their back-story and giving information on their psychology, Amoros' description was simply, "a Human male in his mid-twenties; may have an accent depending on casting." In the first draft script of "Emissary", Amoros was described as "Human, male, mid-twenties, wide shouldered with a boyish face, trying to appear confident." The character was described in much the same way in the final draft of the "Emissary" script, though his surname was changed to "Bashir" by then and the latter statement of the initial description was now altered to refer to him as "cocky with a little too much confidence." As Alexander Siddig pointed out in 2002, "He was a completely blank canvas, no one knew anything about him." He believes that the only reason the character was created was because the producers knew there had to be a doctor on the show, but beyond the fact that he was a doctor, "they were all scratching their heads." (Crew Dossier: Julian Bashir, DS9 Season 6 DVD special features) In , it was stated that Bashir was twenty-seven, which would make his birth date late in the year of 2341 or early in 2342. This is confirmed by the mention of his birth date in 2341 in . According to Michael Piller, "We wanted to do something that very rarely happens on Star Trek; we wanted to create an imperfect character, we wanted to create the tenderfoot in the old western town, somebody who's ready to go out to the great unknown, but isn't quite ready for it. We saw the potential of having the character grow into his role as a hero." (New Frontiers: The Story of Deep Space Nine, DS9 Season 2 DVD special features) Ira Behr elaborates on this, "Doctor Bashir began as probably the least liked character on the series by the fans, tremendous resistance to Dr. Bashir for some reason. They felt he was too green, too arrogant, too wet-behind-the-ears, too fumbling. And we said 'We are going to make this character great, because Sid is a great actor, and we are going to make this character great.' And again, over the years, this character has grown by leaps and bounds." (Crew Dossier: Julian Bashir, DS9 Season 6 DVD special Features) Speaking in , shortly after filming had begun on , Siddig El Fadil said of Bashir, "He's a brilliant medic, knows very much how to apply himself, and cares very much about being a doctor, and people, and general things in that sense. But there's a chink there, something that makes him lose his concentration a little bit, and it's his zealousness, his enthusiasm for things. But he also has a romantic vision of what he's capable of, which might get him into an awful lot of trouble." (Hidden File 08, DS9 Season 1 DVD special features) Ronald D. Moore commented "In my mind, Julian was of Sudanese (like Sid), Indian, or Pakistani extraction, but that the family's roots were probably in England, hence the accents." Making Bashir genetically engineered in was a last-minute decision. As Ira Steven Behr explains, "at the time we were working on and , we had no idea that Bashir would turn out to be genetically engineered… even though it was the very next episode…" In Jimmy Diggs' original version of , the Bashir/Zimmerman plot was the B-story. The producers were uninterested in the A-story, but they loved the idea of Zimmerman using Bashir as the model for the LMH and decided that it was worthy of being an A-story in and of itself. However, they were aware that a comedy show dealing with holographic doctors would not be enough to sustain an entire episode, and they decided that to make things more interesting, Zimmerman would have to discover some dark secret from Bashir's past. As René Echevarria says of Ronald D. Moore, "his instinct was that there needed to be some big secret that Zimmerman uncovers, but we couldn't, for the life of us, think what it would be." According to Moore, "I kept saying 'What's the secret of Bashir's past? What's the thing that this guy Zimmerman is going to find that's so interesting?' I remember that René and I started talking about genetics, and René pointed out that genetic engineering is one of the things that is oddly missing in the Star Trek universe. It's a concept that's very much out there in science fiction, and even in the real world of science, but in Star Trek, it's virtually never discussed, aside from the fact that there was this thing called the Eugenics Wars at some point, and Khan came out of it." That conversation ultimately led Moore to come up with the idea that Bashir was genetically enhanced. () Alexander Siddig was not happy about this sudden development in his character: "I didn't know about it on Tuesday, and on Thursday the script arrived – we started shooting on Friday. I was so shocked. You know you get the impression that maybe the producers sit down and talk about strategies and character arcs with actors but this thing came out of the blue and pissed me off so royally." Siddig interpreted the change as an attempt to turn his character into Data, a tendency which he fought against by deliberately playing any "Data-esque" lines badly. Siddig did enjoy the episode: "I think 'Doctor Bashir, I Presume' was probably the best one I got to do. It was a really good idea for an episode, and it had some interesting elements in it. Bob Picardo was great. The guy is a blast, a lot of fun. I'd known him before doing the show, but only on an acquaintance level. We'd met at a convention in Australia and in a couple of other places. He's really good. He can come back again if he wants to – I'd hire him! I also liked in that episode they finally gave Bashir parents, because we hardly knew anything about his family before then. And on top of that they have me parents who'd given me a tricky life. The whole genetic engineering issue, I thought, was an interesting double whammy. I went from getting Bashir ready to become this wonderful holographic doctor to realizing that he was actually a fraud. That's really good stuff". ("A Truly Model Doctor", ) The relationship built up between O'Brien and Bashir was very important to all of the writers, as well as both actors. According to Ronald D. Moore, after the scene where they sing "" together in , all of the staff writers wanted to write scenes involving their friendship. According to Alexander Siddig, "it's been said, by even the producers, that O'Brien and Bashir are the only real friendship that's ever happened on Star Trek. These two really are friends. It's not like some kind of odd couple scenario, like Spock and Kirk. It's a real friendship. These people talk about inane things, and I think that's been really refreshing." Robert Hewitt Wolfe elaborates, "It was just great. There was just great chemistry between the two actors, great chemistry between the two characters. It was brilliant of Michael and Rick to create these two characters as foils for each other. And to then see this relationship develop over the years till they're best friends, till Miles actually likes Bashir kind of almost better than his wife some days, which is very real, I mean there's days that everybody, you know, it's easier to be friends with a friend than with your wife some days." (Crew Dossier: Miles O'Brien, DS9 Season 5 DVD, Special Features) Ira Behr goes even further, and cites it as his favorite relationship in all of Star Trek; "The relationship between Bashir and O'Brien is the best relationship, the best friendship, in the history of the franchise. Spock and Kirk were still about the captain and his number one. This is a friendship with two equals, two guys. It's a wonderful thing to watch how this relationship has grown." (Crew Dossier: Julian Bashir, DS9 Season 6 DVD special features) Early in the run of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Michael McGreevey pitched a story to the writers that featured Jadzia and Bashir falling in love. McGreevey commented "It was a love story, a simple concept. I don't know why they didn't want to do it. The symbiont inside Dax becomes ill, making her ill, and Dr. Bashir must separate them in order to treat the symbiont. We would come to see the personality of Jadzia, which of course is different from Dax. Bashir falls in love with her, and she feels for him, too. But the most important thing in life is to be joined with the symbiont. Bashir realizes that the only way to save the symbiont is to put it back into Jadzia, and thereby lose the girl he loves". () Bashir, Quark, Morn, Admiral Chekote, and Gul Evek are the only characters to appear in prior to appearing in . Bashir is one of the few regular characters to be referenced in an episode name. The other similarly-honored regulars are Spock, Data, Deanna Troi, Jadzia Dax, Quark, and Bradward Boimler. While Jean-Luc Picard does not have an episode title referencing him, he has in fact an entire series named after him. Apocrypha According to the video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, Bashir was born in London. The cover art for the Section 31 Novel states his date of birth to be August 29, 2341 (though this date of birth is never confirmed officially). The novel establishes that Bashir was on Earth attending the Academy during the impending Borg attack of 2367. In the DS9 relaunch novels, Bashir and Ezri break up when Ezri began to pursue a more command-based career path after incorporating her past hosts into her personality. Ezri went on to receive a battlefield promotion to Captain of the USS Aventine when most of the ship's senior staff were killed and remained as its commanding officer. In Zero Sum Game, Bashir reunited with Sarina Douglas and renewed their relationship during a mission to sabotage a Breen shipyard. Bashir contemplated a transfer to Starfleet Intelligence as he now felt more like just another Starfleet doctor without the opportunities for "frontier medicine" he had originally come to the station to practice, as well as the fact that almost all of his old friends in the station's command structure had left the station. However, Bashir eventually decided to remain on Deep Space 9 in Plagues of Night. As a result of his work to save the Andorians from extinction (by providing them with extremely classified information concerning a meta-genome) in A Ceremony of Losses, Bashir was court-martialed by Starfleet and dishonorably discharged. However, due to a pardon from the newly-elected Andorian Federation President, the discharge was changed to an honorable one in Disavowed. Bashir and Douglas continued their quest to destroy Section 31. Ultimately, in , he discovered that Section 31 was being run by an artificial intelligence called Uraei, also known as "Control", which had its origins in the 22nd century. With Data's help, he managed to eliminate Uraei, but in the process, Douglas died and Bashir himself was rendered catatonic. Section 31 was exposed to the public and dismantled but unknown to anyone, the Control persona survived independently of Uraei and went into hiding. Bashir, still catatonic, was taken to Cardassia where, as of Enigma Tales, he remains under the care of Castellan Garak's staff. Bashir appears in the "Victory is Life" expansion of Star Trek Online, played once more by Alexander Siddig. Set over 30 years after the events of DS9, Bashir had retired from Starfleet to run a private practice on but was asked to return to Starfleet by now-Kai Kira and Captain Ezri Dax due to the Hur'q threat. Despite the promotional materials showing him with the rank of Captain, he appears in game at the lower rank of Lieutenant Commander. During the campaign in the Gamma Quadrant, Bashir accompanies Kira and the player character to the moon where Kai Opaka had been marooned four decades before () and administers a cure for the microbes that keep Opaka and the now-peaceful Ennis and Nol-Ennis prisoners trapped on the surface, allowing them to leave. When Quark and his Ferengi team recover the Sword of Kahless from an Iconian dreadnought, Bashir is able to determine that its blade was created from a four-thousand-year-old Hur'q carapace, originally from the planet Havas-Kul in the Gamma Quadrant. In the mission "Home", Bashir and the Vorta Loriss work to introduce a ketracel-based compound into the Hur'q's organic computer system in order to restore their cognitive function, an effort that is successful due to the sacrifice of the Jem'Hadar Elder Dukan'Rex. At the mission's end on DS9, he mentions that he will be deployed to Havas-Kul aboard the USS Aventine, and that he is also married to the ship's captain (confirmed, like in the DS9 relaunch novels, to be Ezri Dax in the STO fiction blog "Spores", which links to the "Age of Discovery" expansion; "Home" also establishes that they have multiple children). Bashir also replaces the Andorian doctor Ghee P'Trell in the earlier mission "The Ultimate Klingon", dealing with a mad scientist working to create Klingon Augments. The alternate reality version of Julian Bashir appears in the third issue of the Star Trek: Ongoing story arc The Q Gambit where he serves as a doctor at a Dominion labor camp on Bajor. When the sciences division officers of the are taken prisoner and brought to the camp, he meets and Dr. after saving McCoy from be brutalized by a Cardassian overseer. They explain to Bashir that they were brought over a hundred years into the future by Q and he explains to them that the Federation no longer exists. He then eagerly offers to help them by paying Quark off to smuggle Spock and McCoy off-world in cargo containers pass the Vorta supervisors in exchange for Romulan ale. External links ca:Julian Bashir bg:Джулиан Башир de:Julian Subatoi Bashir es:Julian Bashir fr:Julian Bashir it:Julian Bashir ja:ジュリアン・ベシア mu:Julian Bashir (mirror) nl:Julian Bashir pl:Julian Bashir pt:Julian Bashir ro:Julian Bashir ru:Джулиан Башир sr:Џулијан Башир Augments Humans Starfleet sciences personnel Deep Space 9 personnel Section 31 personnel Athletes Scientists Medical practitioners

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The NX-class was a type of United Earth starship in Starfleet service during the mid-22nd century. The class is notable for having been the first to be constructed with the warp five engine, allowing Humanity to explore beyond neighboring star systems. The lead ship of the class, , was launched in 2151, weeks ahead of schedule, while the second, , was launched in 2154, after lengthy delays in drydock. History United Earth The NX-class was conceived in the early 22nd century as part of the NX Project at the Warp Five Complex: a research and development site on Earth, where Henry Archer, Zefram Cochrane, and Captain W.M. Jefferies, among others, worked on the creation of the warp five engine. (; Enterprise (NX-01) dedication plaque) Starships of the NX-class were far more formidable than the J and freighters that had preceded them. Following the construction of the first starship of the class (Enterprise), three more NX-class starships were on the drawing board by August 2151. () NX-01 Enterprise was launched from the Orbital Drydock Facility on April 12, 2151, under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. The launch occurred three weeks ahead of schedule because United Earth needed to return the Klingon Klaang to his homeworld. The early launch was strongly protested by the Vulcans, who believed Humanity was not ready to explore space. Ambassador Soval managed to wrangle a concession from Starfleet, forcing the placement of Sub-Commander T'Pol on Enterprise in exchange for Vulcan star charts. () The early launch of Enterprise meant that it left spacedock somewhat unprepared: its spatial torpedoes were uncalibrated and its phase cannons weren't even installed. The spatial torpedoes were calibrated in the heat of battle in May of 2151; the ship only survived because of the intervention of the Axanar. () The phase cannons were not installed until September of 2151, while Enterprise battled an unknown enemy. () After the Xindi attack on Earth in of 2153, Enterprise was recalled home. Arriving on April 24th, the ship was refitted and upgraded with new photonic torpedoes, a universal translator update, and a new command center. She was relaunched on a new mission to the Delphic Expanse to search for the Xindi weapon. () The search for the Xindi was long and perilous, taking almost a year. In February of 2154, Enterprise determined the location of the Xindi weapon and arrived in the Azati Prime system. () There, the ship suffered severe damage due to multiple attacking Xindi ships. The primary warp coil was destroyed, damage that required drastic actions on the part of Captain Archer to repair. () Enterprise accomplished its mission to destroy the Xindi weapon and was returned to Earth by a Xindi-Aquatic cruiser following the end of the mission, though it made a slight detour to an alternate timeline's 1944 with the help of , where the vessel's crew managed to stop Vosk and bring an end to the Temporal Cold War. () After returning to its own timeline, Enterprise continued to serve the United Earth Starfleet for another seven years. The vessel was decommissioned in 2161. () NX-02 Columbia At the time of the Xindi attack on Earth in 2153, the second NX-class starship, , was still under construction. Columbia was launched, under the command of Captain Hernandez, in November of 2154. () Compared to the class prototype, Enterprise, Columbias hull polarization was improved by twelve percent. Furthermore, the ship possessed ventral and dorsal photonic torpedo launchers as well as pulsed phase cannons. Another improvement was that the bridge stations were directly tied into the primary EPS junction. () In November of 2154, Columbia was stuck in drydock with engine trouble, delaying the ship's launch, and rendering it unable to assist Enterprise during a large-scale orchestrated hunt for the Romulan drone ship. () In late 2154, the vessel's engine troubles were fixed upon the transfer of Enterprise engineer Charles Tucker to Columbia, allowing the vessel to be launched in November of that year. () Mirror universe In the mirror universe, NX-class battle cruisers were the pride of the Terran , with vessels such as the and serving as the flagships of fleets. They were slightly more advanced than the vessels of United Earth, a result of the application of stolen Vulcan technology taken from the in 2063. These vessels primarily used plasma cannons and photonic torpedoes in battle, though they did carry phase cannons as well. At some point after ISS Enterprise attacked a Rigellian scoutship and fought a Xindi fleet, NX-class vessels had a yellow-gold paint scheme on the top of the saucer section that also included the Terran Empire logo. However, this meant the saucer omitted the registry number. () Refit Sometime after the 2150s, the NX-class underwent a major refit which saw the addition of an underslung secondary hull, as well as a larger deflector dish. As a child, Jean-Luc Picard had a model of the refitted NX-class. () Alternate reality In 2259 of the alternate reality, a miniature of an NX-class starship was displayed in Admiral ' office on Earth. () Technical data Physical arrangement The NX-class consisted of a habitable saucer module that contained seven decks (lettered A through G) and a symmetrical warp field governor located just aft of the saucer section that regulated the warp field shape that would otherwise break apart at higher warp factors. Two half-decks were inserted between D and E Deck, as well as between E and F Deck. These contained plasma conduits and access tunnels. Two docking ports were located on either side of the saucer section, accessible on E Deck. The ship's hull plating was fixed to the rest of the ship with bolt-couplings. () A subsequent refit added a drive section below the saucer, connecting to the saucer via a small "neck" located where the shuttlepod drop bays had been, with the bays subsequently relocated to either side of the neck. The warp field governor was relocated to the dorsal hull of the drive section. A larger, round deflector dish - similar to those of the 2250s and 2260s - protruded from the front of the drive section. Propulsion systems NX-class ships achieved warp flight through two warp nacelles, which housed multiple pairs of warp coils. (, et al.) By 22nd century standards, the NX-class engines required a lot of deuterium. () Maximum speed was warp 5.2, and the NX-class was the first Earth vessel to achieve warp 5.06. () Standard cruising speed was warp 4.5. () A retrofitted Enterprise from an alternate timeline was theoretically able to reach warp 6.9 for short intervals. () There were two fairing impulse engines, mounted on the aft of the pylons leading to the warp nacelles. The navigational deflector was mounted on the front of the saucer module. (, et al.) Following a major refit that added a secondary hull, a large, round navigational deflector was mounted on the front of the secondary hull. Tactical systems Initially, in 2151, the NX-class starships were designed to carry three phase cannons as the primary weapons of the ship. () While these were powerful weapons by Human standards at the time, they were still considered to be "low-yield" particle cannons by the Klingons of the era. () The ship was also fitted with plasma cannons and spatial torpedoes that also turned out to be mostly less than effective in combat. () Later on, the NX-class weapon systems were upgraded to include several more phase cannons. In 2153, photonic torpedoes were installed and improved pulsed phase cannons were developed by 2154. () The defensive systems of the NX class were also not as advanced as those of other races at the time. Instead of deflector shields and tractor beams, the NX-class was equipped with polarized hull plating and grapplers. Shuttlecraft systems Located mainly on E Deck was the launch bay. The pressurized sector of the bay – limited to E Deck – contained the launch bay control room, while the launch bay itself, on F Deck, was where the two s were docked. A magnetic docking arm extended from the launch bay's ceiling to lower or raise a shuttlepod upon arrival or departure of the craft. () An auxiliary launch port was located on the port side of the saucer, which served as an entrance and exit for an inspection pod. () Subsequent to a major refit, the launch bays were relocated to either side of the "neck" that attached the saucer to the secondary hull. Interior design For deck configuration, see NX class decks. Command bridge The bridge was the nerve center of every starship. The commanding officer of an NX-class starship sat in the center of the circular-shaped room, surrounded by the duty stations of their science and communications officers to the left, the helmsman in front, and the security chief and chief engineer (or another engineering officer) to the right. All officers faced the main viewscreen, which was mounted against the forward bulkhead of the bridge. To both sides of the viewscreen was access to a corridor that ran behind the consoles walls to port and starboard. These corridors had access to the ship's lower decks. To the aft of the bridge was the situation room, which served as an informal briefing room to the senior staff. There was also a corridor to port behind a door to the situation room which had access to the ship's lower decks. () Upgrades The bridge of the second NX-class starship launched, Columbia, featured additional columns near the helm and behind the captain's chair. () These were later added to Enterprise and had been installed by 2161. () There was also a command center upgrade, a specialized room that was once a storage bay. It was created just before Enterprise went to the Delphic Expanse, for use during the Xindi mission. () Corridors Corridors in NX-class ships were made of a metallic material. They were characterized by circular section separations, for evident mechanical equilibrium reasons. They all had a pair of handles in cases of shaking or turmoil. The circular panels also had a tactical use as defenders could crouch or lean behind them as they fired upon intruders. Throughout the corridors, communication panels were mounted on the walls. () Engineering Located on D Deck was the engine room of the NX-class starship. This class was the first type of Human starship to carry a warp reactor capable of speeds up to warp 5. After exiting the core, and before being injected into the nacelles, warp plasma was accelerated in the two plasma injectors. Sickbay Sickbay was located on E Deck of the NX-class. In the center of the room was an operating table, while additional beds were located alongside the walls. The sickbay facility also included a medical laboratory. () A ladder from the sickbay lead to maintenance shafts. () The NX-class additionally included a morgue. () Armory The armory was used to launch spatial or photonic torpedoes and could be used to operate the phase cannons. Although weapons were primarily kept in the armory of the NX-class, the ship possessed a total of fourteen weapons lockers. The armory was originally configured to carry nuclear torpedoes. () Transporter alcove In the time of the NX class, the transporter alcove was usually used for cargo transportation only, although it was capable of transporting people. Most people, however, were uneasy of the device, limiting its use to emergency situations only. () Mess Hall Located on E Deck was the ship's mess hall, which was used once a week on Thursday as a movie theater. The mess could seat approximately forty people at a time at ten circular metallic tables. Simple dishes were available from protein resequencers on the walls, while elaborate dishes were prepared in the ship's galley. Beverages were provided as well via a wall-mounted drink dispenser. Drinks available on the menu included coffee, tea, hot cocoa, cola, various juices, and water. A small captain's dining room was located near the galley. () Hydroponics NX-class starships had a hydroponics facility in which fresh fruits and vegetables were grown to supplement the ship's food supply. () Quarters The eighty-seven crew quarters aboard the NX-class starships were located on Decks B through E. Very few quarters had a view of space (typically those of the higher-ranked officers). On D and G Decks, there were special quarters for guests visiting an NX-class starship. () Ships commissioned Named Unnamed NX-03 (planned) NX-04 (planned) Mirror universe Appendices Appearances A list of all appearances of NX-class starships (excluding the regular appearances of ): (model) (model) Background information Name The prefix "NX" was formerly used for aircraft registered in the United States as experimental. If the name of this class had followed the protocols of naval tradition, it would have been called "Enterprise-class," as the first ship of a new contract provides the class' name. However, Starfleet has never been officially stated to follow that naval tradition. The notion that this class was to be named "NX class" came from the producers of . Their reasons for insisting on that designation were unknown to the series' art department. Also see Registry. Model See NX class model. Interior Although the NX class had to make the impression that it was a 22nd century predecessor to ships of the later centuries portrayed on Star Trek, everything had to be redesigned, including the vessel's interior. For instance, there was no question of simply borrowing a wall from a set or reusing the consoles with merely a subtle redesign. () The cramped living conditions aboard the NX class were influenced by an experience in which a group of the production staffers personally researched what it was like to spend a day on a nuclear submarine in , about six months before the series started to be broadcast. () "Rick and Brannon and I did a tour of a nuclear sub that was in a base in San Diego," explained Herman Zimmerman. "That was quite an interesting trip and we learned a lot about what real space you have to work with." () Deciding that they didn't want the NX class interiors to be quite as claustrophobic as those aboard the submarine (out of concerns that such uncomfortably confined areas might be off-putting for the show's weekly audience), the group used conceptual elements from the seafaring craft in their designs for the starship, so that (for instance) the doors aboard the NX class were made to seem like the heavy-duty hatches of nuclear submarines. (; ) Some of the sets and control panels were additionally influenced by NASA designs. () In fact, Herman Zimmerman researched, especially for this project, then-current designs that were in development for both NASA and the US military. (, paperback ed., p. 261) Rick Berman explained, "We looked at a lot of film on the various space stations – on Mir and on the [...] International Space Station – and on the interior of the various space shuttle." Berman specified, too, that – as well as wanting the interiors to be "fun" and "cool" with "a sense of excitement" – he and his collaborators tried to "find something in between" the insides of a modern-era spacecraft or submarine and the interiors of the 23rd century. () The process of designing the inner environments of the NX-class was a struggle in which Herman Zimmerman played a key role. John Eaves offered, "The internal sets of this ship went through some pretty radical changes as it evolved [....] As much of a fight Doug had with the devilish details of the exterior, my boss had just as many with the interior." Herman Zimmerman was interested in having the interior sets for the NX-class lightly tinted bronze. "I believe he wanted that for the interiors as well," reckoned Doug Drexler, "although that did not happen." The materials used in the NX-class sets constituted a more hard-edged approach to Starfleet design than what had been established in the franchise, so far. For the shipboard surfaces, the production team, under the direction of Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, used more real metal – including aluminum, steel, copper and brass – than simulated metal. This, thought Herman Zimmerman, made the painted metal surfaces seem "much more believable," as they were often situated directly next to real metal surfaces, convincing a viewer's eye that both types of surface were actually metal. The interiors didn't involve much plastic nor anything, at all, that looked like wood. The producers were also adamant for the sets not to have designer colors and that the flooring would be without carpets. () The production team differentiated the doors aboard the NX-class by having them be non-automatic and entail more security for access. Another method that was used to relate the NX-class' highly utilitarian nature was giving the corridors an extremely basic shape. Much of the lighting for the sets was likewise made more practical; virtually every set was ninety percent lit by the set decorator and Herman Zimmerman, with the latter and his team having selected positions for the spotlights where they could be clearly viewed on-screen. (, pp. 60, 65 & 61) Set decorator James Mees found that his recruitment into the project to decorate the NX-class sets was somewhat complicated. He recalled, "When we started we had virtually no prep time [....] But we had so much stuff to forget about. What we [...] had to do is to take a futuristic attitude but step back in time from the other shows." () Much of the furniture in the NX-class interiors was bought from Europe and consisted of items that James Mees thought had been "beautifully designed." Furnishings such as sofas aboard the NX-class were from Italy. Mees noted, "We wanted to be functional, and the Europeans are quite efficient at designing furniture for very small spaces." Moments later, he recalled, "When we started I scouted out everything and showed Herman a whole lot of different pictures. When I knew the direction he wanted to go in I went back to the dealers, and when I knew how much things cost I had him come shopping with me. Then we had a show-and-tell with the producers, with a sample of every single thing; it was like a great big furniture warehouse, with all the stuff that I liked and thought we could use in different places. There was not one single item that Rick Berman and Brannon Braga didn't like, so I was very, very happy!" () The NX-class sets were meant to complement the class' exterior. The exact whereabouts of the various shipboard areas, for example, were planned. "It's not so difficult to place the interior sets once you've got the exterior design, but it took us quite a while," stated Herman Zimmerman. () However, in their text commentary for on the ENT Season 1 DVD, Michael and Denise Okuda unofficially theorized that, based on the fact that the movement of stars viewed from Enterprises captain's mess changed as the series progressed (seemingly indicating that that room's placement on the ship was altered during the course of the series), the NX-class had movable rooms. The round windows on the outside of the NX-class saucer section were, upon being designed by Doug Drexler, intended to be portholes. He also hoped the production team would be permitted to include them in a set. Even though this did not happen, Drexler was highly satisfied with the interior sets that were created for the series, describing them as a "spectacular job." Enterprises scenic art department at first considered whether video playback would be required at all for the displays aboard the NX class. Scenic Artist James Van Over noted, "We thought they [the producers] might say, 'Well, they didn't use it on [Kirk's] ship, let's just skip it." () Selecting the keypads and screens for the NX-class sets proved to be challenging. "We spent quite a lot of time looking at what was available and what we could buy off the shelf, because we can't invent everything [....] We spent a lot of time looking at aircraft control panels, for instance, both ancient and not-so-ancient," recalled Herman Zimmerman, "but those things are really expensive. We would have liked to use aircraft-style LCD screens, for instance, but an LCD screen just turning it from horizontal to vertical would make a big difference, and they use them that way in modern aircraft. But those things cost about $25,000 a piece. And that's in quantity! Mike Okuda did some research and was quoted at $50,000 a piece on some screens that were 9 inches by 12 inches high. They said if we bought more than 10 they could give it to us at $40,000 a piece! [....] We couldn't afford that. We did buy about 80 LCD and plasma screens and none of them cost more than $4,000, much less $40,000." () Ultimately, there were a total of eighty-one active plasma and LCD screens in the NX-class sets built for the start of the series. Even though the screens were still initially very expensive, their inclusion was planned so that, over the run of the series, a lot less optical burn-ins would be required than had needed to be done for older video screens commonly used in the franchise's past. () At the start of the series, the graphics on all the plasma screens were designed by Michael and Denise Okuda. () "Mike Okuda had the idea that the interface would be built out of boxes," said Jim Van Over, "and there would be buttons for the actors to push to give them something to do." () All the standing sets for the NX-class had features which the production crew termed "busy boxes," and which Herman Zimmerman described as "things that can be opened up and worked on [....] Leaving so much more for the actors to do." (, paperback ed., p. 267) All the standing sets for the NX-class had removable, so-called "wild" walls, to allow for cameras and equipment. (, paperback ed., p. 267) Director James L. Conway was very impressed with the degree of access provided for filming the smaller-than-usual sets (believing that their cramped quality made the areas feel "authentic"). Shortly after completing work on the pilot episode "Broken Bow", Conway attested, "You do have enough room because there's a crane that they use which can poke into the sets, and so in places where you normally couldn't get a Steadicam or a dolly this camera crane can reach out over the consoles and over the floor and move around, so you can actually get fantastic angles." () Bridge and other rooms The NX-class bridge often provided a genesis for the design of the class' other interiors. "Herman Zimmerman would always start with the bridge to set the tone for the overall architecture," remembered John Eaves, "and then branch out carrying the details through the corridors and secondary rooms, based on this master blueprint." Due to Rick Berman and Brannon Braga liking the bridge of the , the long and narrow shape of the NX-class bridge was influenced by that earlier-created room, as opposed to appearing (in the words of Herman Zimmerman) "elliptical as the Enterprise-D bridge was, or wide as the Voyager bridge was." ("The USS Defiant", DS9 Season 3 DVD special features; ) Other design facets of the NX-class bridge that took their cue from the equivalent area aboard the included the presence of a single helm, instead of two stations for helm and navigation functions, and detailing on the ceiling. Concerning the latter, Herman Zimmerman said, "Much of the treatment of the ceiling has overtones of the Defiant." () Certain parts of the NX-class bridge in common with the TOS Enterprise – for instance, the room's layout featuring a sunken central captain's chair and a scope at the science station – were added at Brannon Braga's request. () Another detail of the NX-class bridge that was in homage to that of the traditional was an astrogator at the helm. Michael Okuda incorporated 1960s-style touch-tone phone buttons on the bridge consoles which seemed as if they might predate the translucent candy-colored buttons installed aboard Kirk's original Enterprise. Many of the other physical controls on the NX-class bridge were fleshed out by Anthony Fredrickson and set designer Wendy Drapanas. () In contrast, one aspect of the bridge that intentionally set it apart from the equivalent areas of other ships was its inclusion of the situation room. The bridge was made to encompass this area not only so that the characters would have somewhere to have meetings close to the center of command but also because it facilitated more staging options. () Another way in which the bridge was made different, visually, from those of several past classes of ship was by not hiding the monitors under black Plexiglas. (; ) Yet another difference was that the controls were decided, by the producers, to be made essentially more hands-on, with buttons, knobs, gauges, dials, and levers, rather than touch-sensitive panels. () The scripted description of the bridge was as follows: "Far more basic than future starships, this command center lacks the 'airport terminal' feel of Enterprises A through E. A central captain's chair is surrounded by various stations, the floors and walls are mostly steel, with source light coming from myriad glowing panels. No carpets on the floors, no wood paneling on the walls, high-tech gauges, dials." The interior elements of the NX-class that were sketched in concept artwork by John Eaves included the bridge viewscreen, the helm and the engineering stations on the bridge, the situation room's plotting table, the launch bay, engineering, and sickbay. (; ) In fact, Eaves was instrumental to the design of the bridge consoles. He remarked, "In the early stages the consoles were being designed in an angled, tubular fashion; these ideas went a ways before the look changed to a more angular look." Of all the NX-class sets created for the pilot episode , James Mees once characterized the bridge and engineering as "the easiest and hardest, all at the same time" and explained this opinion by commenting of the two selections, "They're monumental, and although you do have a little bit of room for growth, you pretty much have to get it right." The basic design of the bridge was mostly decided upon when Mees joined the project to decorate the sets. "Herman had already developed the general idea of the bridge, so a lot of it was there and in working order," Mees explained. Virtually all the chairs on the bridge were from the aforementioned European showroom, except for the command chair. After receiving the sketches of the room's work stations from the art department, Mees put together the intricately detailed consoles. () Many of the NX-class sets were built on Paramount Stages 8 and 9. However, the bridge and armory sets were constructed on Paramount Stage 18. () The bridge and situation room were the most costly sets of the NX-class interiors to build. () The NX-class bridge displays were run at a nearby video control room which, like the bridge set, contained many screens, with rack upon rack of monitors that kept quality control over the images on the set, such as previewing displays that were to be switched. Rather than utilizing videotape playback, the displays on the bridge were fed to the set's monitors from computers (of which there were about fifteen to twenty) using CD playback. (; ) Rick Berman referred to the array of plasma screens on the NX-class bridge as "beautiful." ) Aftermath The NX-class was at first reported to be 190 meters (slightly longer than 600 feet). (; ) Shortly prior to the launch of the series, Rick Berman cited the standard crew complement of the NX class as being "around 65 crew members." () In (p. 23) and (p. 6), the crew complement was said to be 78 and 87 respectively. (p. 30) gave a rougher estimate of "between 70 and 80." In unused dialogue from the script for , T'Pol refers to the crew of Enterprise as numbering seventy-five. established the total of eighty-three crew members, a number repeated in later episodes, such as , , , , , and . Rick Berman was ultimately delighted with the look of the NX-class. Not long before the series began airing, he contemplated the design, saying, "We have designed a ship which is very cool while, at the same time, is not as streamlined as the Enterprise has become [....] The whole layout and feel of the ship is different – I don't know if 'retro' is the right word but it certainly is not the ship Captain Kirk was on. However, in every way, it signals and telegraphs what in 90 years will be Kirk's Enterprise [....] [but] the interior design of the ship is, I think, dramatically different than previous Enterprise bridges specifically [....] There is definitely some of that submarine feel to [the NX-class bridge] compared to the bridges of the D or E or Voyager." () Jonathan Archer actor Scott Bakula was also pleased with the realistic feel of the NX-class interiors, believing that it helped ground the actors in their work. "I love that it's small," he enthused. "I love that it's based on a submarine [....] I think it has a great feel to it. Sometimes I do feel like I'm in a submarine, banging around. But it feels right." () There were several fan complaints that the NX-class looks more advanced than both the original variant of Constitution class and even the , due to the creative license the producers originally took with the design of the NX-class, as they preferred not to reduce the appearance of the ship's technology to being limited more than modernity. () At the time, Manny Coto was one of the fans who felt the NX class was too advanced. "I would have preferred that, you know, the Enterprise looked more like a crude battleship," he noted. ("Before Her Time: Decommissioning Enterprise, Part One: New Voices", ENT Season 4 Blu-ray special features) Doug Drexler ultimately wished that the overall exterior of the NX-class had been brighter than it ultimately was, stating, "The NX appeared dark and dingy on actual show. Against space it was often hard to see. Not to my taste." The tight formation flying performed by the Enterprise and Columbia in had some real world roots as Mike Okuda remembered; "In 'Divergence', we had that really cool action sequence with the Enterprise and the Columbia flying in formation, and an EVA crew transfer between ships at warp. Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, who wrote the episode, said it was inspired by NASA’s contingency plans to rescue astronauts from a damaged space shuttle orbiter." A master systems display style cross-section of the NX class appeared in the Propworx' auction catalog. Several consoles and panels from the NX-class bridge and other sections were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. Apocrypha In the video game Star Trek: Elite Force II, a computer on the Enterprise-E had information on the NX project on display. The Pocket ENT novels and Beneath the Raptor's Wing have depicted the manufacture of four additional NX-class ships, all named for American space shuttle orbiters: Challenger (NX-03), Discovery (NX-04), Atlantis (NX-05), and Endeavour (NX-06). Beneath the Raptor's Wing further depicts development of the NX-class being suspended due to Earth's war with the Romulans, owing to the high costs and time involved in building an NX-class ship. Starfleet's shipbuilding efforts were refocused on the older ships, which were comparatively faster and cheaper to construct. The Pocket TNG novel Indistinguishable from Magic establishes that production on NX-class ships resumed after the Earth-Romulan War, and that, according to Jean-Luc Picard, the total number of NX-class vessels rose to "fifteen or sixteen" before the class was finally retired. One such vessel, Intrepid (NX-07), featured prominently in the novel. A subsequent Pocket ENT novel, A Choice of Futures, which depicts the early years of the Federation Starfleet, establishes that the NX-class is redesigned into a new class of starship, the Columbia class, as of 2162. Chief among the class' upgrades is the addition of a TOS-style cylindrical secondary hull section, an intentional homage by author Christopher L. Bennett to Doug Drexler's original design and later redesign of the NX-class vessel. Jonathan Archer, by the time of the novel an admiral, named the class after the Columbia, the first NX class ship to be lost in the line of duty (as seen in the Star Trek: Destiny novel trilogy), and decreed that not only would the only NX-class starship to remain in service, Endeavour, be refitted into a Columbia-class ship, but that all future NX-class vessels would be constructed as Columbia-class ships, effectively phasing out the original design. Also instituted is the addition of the "USS" prefix to Starfleet ship names and the replacement of the "NX" registry number prefix with "NCC." The PC and Xbox 360 game Star Trek: Legacy depicted further NX-class ships with the Avenger NX-09, a "prime" universe counterpart to the mirror universe , and the Currie NX-16. In the game Star Trek Online, new player captains are able to purchase a replica of the NX-class to fly as their starter ship from the in-game C-Store. The NX-class ship is similar to the starter ship, but is classified as a Light Escort rather than a Light Cruiser, and places an emphasis on tactical systems. In Season 12 the in-game model has been modified to properly match how it is resembled in the Enterprise series. Season 12 also introduced the Columbia-class, which was named there as the "NX Escort Refit". Federation players can obtain this vessel from the Lobi store for 900 Lobi Crystals. In its backstory, the refits were NX-class ships modified in the 23rd century and used as escort ships. They were brought back into service following the Iconian War and the Temporal Cold War to bolster the Federation's forces. In Issue 3 of the comic series, the NX-05 Slayton is featured. External links de:NX-Klasse es:Clase NX fr:Classe NX ja:NX級 mu:NX class Earth starship classes Starship classes (mirror)

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Wells class

The Wells-class was a timeship used by Starfleet in the 29th century to protect the timeline against temporal incursions. Specifications The Wells-class was equipped with temporal transporters, an advancement on transporter technology allowing transport through space and time. It also had at least one holodeck or the 29th century's equivalent thereof which was called a holomatrix. () Ships of the class (NCV-474439-G) Appendices Background information According to the , the Wells-class is named after noted science fiction author H.G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. Model The design for this CGI model departed significantly from the standard saucer and nacelle layout of 24th century starships. According to Rick Sternbach: "The inspiration for the ship was a blended arrowhead sort of shape with a lot of roller coaster curves, upon which were drawn most of the little details that were familiar to older Starfleet ships. Those details were evolved, but one could still see what they were for. The Bussard collector caps were turned and stretched, but they're there. Same with the phaser strips, lifeboats, etc." The scale included on Sternbach's design schematics indicates an overall length of approximately 640 feet (195 meters). Nine decks are shown in the side view. Apocrypha Within the New Frontier novels, it is stated that the ships possessed an anti-proton beam in addition to phaser arrays. Star Trek Online In Star Trek Online, the Wells-class timeship (classified in-game as a "Temporal Science Vessel") can be obtained by Federation players through the Temporal Lock Box. The Wells-class has a mirror universe alternative model, the Mobius-class "Temporal Destroyer", operated by the Terran Empire. Both also have alternate designs, the Verne-class for the Wells and the Klein-class for the Mobius. The flavor lore regarding the ships indicates that 29th century ships from both the prime and mirror universes were brought into the 25th century by the Tholian Assembly, similarly to how the , a 23rd-century Federation starship, ended up in the 22nd century mirror universe. In a mission released to celebrate the game's third anniversary, a Wells-class ship called the USS Pastak appears to assist the player in battle against Tholians in the Azure Nebula and correct damage done to the timeline by the appearance of the in the 25th century. The Pastak and its commander, Captain Benjamin Walker, later go on to be the player's contact and chaperone in attending the 28th-century signing of the Temporal Accords, a galactic treaty regulating the use of time travel and temporal alteration, as well as helping defend against Krenim and Na'kuhl terrorists, led by "the Envoy" - revealed as rogue Krenim scientist Noye - intent on disrupting the event in both the 28th and 25th centuries. External links de:Wells-Klasse ja:ウェルズ級 Federation starship classes

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Memory Alpha

Memory Alpha (also called The Memory Planet) was an inhabited planetoid and the home for a Federation central library. It was located in the Alpha Quadrant. Location In 2259, Memory Alpha's location was labeled on a stellar cartography chart that was seen on a 's ready room viewscreen. () In 2293, the location of Memory Alpha in the Milky Way Galaxy was labeled in a star chart that was in Captain James T. Kirk's quarters aboard the . ( okudagram) In 2399, the location of Memory Alpha was labeled in a Federation star chart that was in Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy's office at Starfleet Headquarters. The planetoid was located in or near to Federation space. () In 3190, the location of Memory Alpha was labeled on a star chart used by Commander Paul Stamets for tracking the movement of the Dark Matter Anomaly through the galaxy. () History The Federation built a central library on an unnamed planetoid to hold the total cultural history and scientific knowledge of all planetary Federation members. During assembly, the library wasn't installed with protective shields as this was considered inappropriate for a facility dedicated to academic research. In the 2240s, was born on this planetoid. ( okudagram) As of 2269, the library complex was an array consisting of five large and seven smaller domes on the surface of the planetoid. Aside from the technicians, the occupants of Memory Alpha varied with the number of scholars, researchers, and scientists from various Federation planets who were using the computer complex at any given time. In that year, the was en route to transfer newly designed equipment to Memory Alpha. Lieutenant Mira Romaine was on her first deep space assignment to supervise the transport from the emergency manual monitor. Before the arrival of the Enterprise, Memory Alpha was attacked by the non-corporeal Zetarians. While the Zetarians were attempting to take over the bodies of the personnel of Memory Alpha, they managed to cause extensive damage to the complex. The memory core of the computer, called the central brain, was burned out. The energy generator was rendered inoperative. All occupants of the complex died from brain damage caused by resisting the mind control efforts of the Zetarians. After the Zetarians were destroyed, the Enterprise returned to Memory Alpha to begin repairs. () See also Memory Alpha Cultural Institute Memory Delta Memory Gamma Appendices Background information The name of this facility was originally "Memory 7". The idea that the name be changed was first suggested in a list of research notes submitted by the de Forest Research Company on . Regarding the designation "Memory 7", the document commented, "This name would imply that there are six other 'Memories.' Since script specifies that installation is unique, suggest: Memory One or Memory Alpha here and throughout script." According to Michael Okuda, "Based on the size and spacing of the windows, I'd estimate that each of the domes must be similar to the ." He also stated, "If you look very closely at the far left dome, you might notice a small blue patch on the top of the dome. That's the Memory Alpha emblem." As evidenced by the first draft script of , Memory Alpha was originally to have been cited as the location of the Fleet Museum. However, all mention of Memory Alpha was removed from the episode by the time the final draft of the script was issued. A working title of was "Assault on Memory Alpha". While the episode was called that, the story included a Vulcan space station named "Memory Alpha". In a story outline, it was described as "a massive data archive that will store hundreds of years worth of scientific data and historical research." The facility was under construction at the time the story was set, with "the last third of the structure" being built by laborers of an alien species who were hired by the Vulcans. Starfleet hoped to someday build a similar archive of their own (implying that the Vulcan station led to the building of the canonically established Memory Alpha). As "The Andorian Incident" continued to develop, this facility was replaced by the Vulcan monastery at P'Jem. However, the term "Memory Alpha" was used even in the episode's first draft script (which had the working title "Incident at P'Jem"), because an underground spy station beneath the monastery (which does appear in the episode) was referred to as that, three times (the first time used in the stage directions, in quotation marks, and the next two appearing in scripted dialogue without quotation marks). Apocrypha According to Star Trek Maps (p. 27 & chart D), Memory Alpha was established for the Federation Centennial celebration and opened to the general public two years later. The library computer was only partially destroyed by the Zetarians and was overhauled after the attack. The resident population was six hundred. Memory Alpha had a small moon called "Arsende". According to FASA's The Federation sourcebook, Memory Alpha was the second planet in the Karn Sim system. Decipher's Worlds sourcebook contradicts this, saying that Memory Alpha is the only satellite orbiting its star. The Memory Alpha facility is mentioned in the sequel to "The Lights of Zetar", Memory Prime. Memory Alpha is also referred to in Boogeymen, and research done at the complex was referenced in Demons of Air and Darkness and Preserver. Memory Alpha is mentioned in Losing the Peace. In the Star Trek: Countdown, information from Memory Alpha was restricted while Nero was searching through the historical files on the . In the video game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen, Jadzia Dax consults the Memory Alpha database for information on the . By 2409, in the game Star Trek Online, the complex expanded to circumnavigate the planetoid. Memory Alpha was located in the Alpha Centauri sector block, near Tellar Prime. External links de:Memory Alpha fr:Memory Alpha it:Memory Alpha ja:メモリー・アルファ nl:Memory Alpha pl:Memory Alpha Planetoids Deleted and unused material in background Outposts

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USS Relativity

The USS Relativity (NCV-474439-G) was a 29th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. This timeship was commissioned at the University of Copernicus, and was under the command of Captain Braxton. The vessel was equipped with powerful sensors capable of scanning throughout spacetime, and a temporal transporter capable of beaming an individual to virtually any point in space and time. The Relativity is involved in a mission to avert the destruction of the , which was destroyed in 2375 by a temporal disruptor. Seven of Nine and Captain Kathryn Janeway were recruited from that time period to identify and apprehend the person responsible. It was eventually discovered that the saboteur was, in fact, a future version of Captain Braxton, who held the Voyager crew responsible for his eventual forced retirement. In response to this revelation, Braxton's first officer, Lieutenant Ducane took command of the ship, and successfully completed the mission to save Voyager from destruction. () The Relativitys dedication plaque listed members of the Temporal Integrity Commission and contained a quote from E.M. Rauch: "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen all at once." See also USS Relativity personnel USS Relativity dedication plaque External link cs:USS Relativity de:USS Relativity fr:USS Relativity (NCV-474439-G) it:USS Relativity ja:USSレラティヴィティ Relativity

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Sol

Sol, also known as the Sun, was the primary for the Sol system. It was classified as a type-G yellow dwarf star, and located within a stellar cluster in Sector 001 (or Sol sector), a region of space in the Alpha Quadrant. Location Sol was located less than ninety light years from the primary of the Qo'noS system, a Beta Quadrant system. (; production art) Solar system maps In the late 19th century, the position of Sol was depicted on a German map of the inner system. ( opening credits) In 2024, the position of Sol was depicted on a map of the Solar System, which was seen at the gala held for the Europa Mission astronauts. () In 2254, the position of Sol was depicted on a map of the inner system, which was stored in the library computer. This was one of the records scanned by the Talosians. ( production art) In 2267, the position of Sol was depicted on "Chart 14A: The Sol System", which was stored in the Enterprise library computer. This chart was scanned by the probe Nomad in auxiliary control. ( production art) Star charts In the 2270s, the location of Sol, and its largest planet Jupiter, was labeled on a neighborhood of astronomical objects, which was stored in the Enterprise library computer. This was one of the records scanned by V'ger. ( production art) In 2293, the location of Sol was labeled in a map of the Milky Way Galaxy. This map was on a wall of Captain James T. Kirk's quarters aboard the . ( okudagram) In 2364, the location of Sol was labeled in a star chart of a stellar neighborhood with Sol at the center. This chart was stored in the library computer. Later that year, the chart was scanned by Outpost 63. ( production art; ) In 2399, the location of Sol, and the planet Earth, was labeled on a Federation star chart that was in Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy's office at Starfleet Headquarters. () History Sol began to form out of nebular dust and interstellar gases around five billion years ago. () For centuries, Humans believed that Sol revolved around Earth. When the scientist Galileo Galilei publicly challenged this belief in the early 17th century, by teaching that the opposite was true – that Earth revolved around Sol, he was tried and convicted by an inquisition. The inquisition ordered that his books be burned. (; ) In February of 2152, Captain Jonathan Archer pointed Sol out to Keyla in the Risan night sky. () In April of 2153, as was returning home due to the Xindi attack on Earth, Ensign Travis Mayweather notified Captain Jonathan Archer that Sol could be seen on the ship's viewscreen. () During the mid-23rd century, on at least two accounts, the crew of the used Sol to assist in a method of time travel known as the slingshot effect after they had been sent to the past. () In the year 2286, the crew of "" used the "slingshot effect" to travel to the year 1986, and once again in that year to return to 2286. () Appendices Appearances (remastered) (name on a star chart) Background information In a filmed but deleted Kirk voice-over which originally introduced , Sol was mentioned by Kirk as one of multiple "specks of dust" while the Enterprise was on a heading out of the Milky Way Galaxy. ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" (Rare and Unaired Alternate Version), TOS Season 3 Blu-ray special features) Sol appeared in the first shot of the opening sequence of the remastered , seen surrounded by the Earth, the moon, Jupiter, and Saturn, before the started its exploration of the unknown space. The viewscreen graphic on the bridge of the from was taken from page T0:02:07:02 of the Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph. Many of the names for astronomical bodies were unique to this book. The star chart naming stars within twenty light years of Sol was drawn by Rick Sternbach for the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology in the late 1970s. Found on page 77, this chart showed Earth commercial and exploration routes after the use of warp drive began. External links bg:Слънце cs:Slunce de:Sol es:Sol fr:Sol ja:太陽 nl:Sol pt:Sol ru:Солнце Stars Sol system

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Sol system

The Sol system, also known as the Terran system and Earth's (star) system, was an inhabited planetary system in the Alpha Quadrant. It was located within a stellar cluster in Sector 001. The Sol system was the capital system of the United Federation of Planets. Location The Sol system was located in the Alpha Quadrant. Star systems in its immediate neighborhood included the Alpha Centauri system and the Wolf system. The Sol system was located about sixteen light years from Vulcan and less than ninety light years from Qo'noS. (; ; ) Solar system art Deep Space 9's classroom featured a painting of four planets of the Sol system including Earth and Saturn. () A year later, this classroom featured the poster "The Solar System", which depicted the whole system. () Solar system maps In the late 19th century, the inner system was depicted on a German map of the inner system. (, opening credits) In 2024, a map of the solar system was depicted on a backlit panel seen at the gala for the Europa Mission astronauts. () In 2254, the inner system was depicted on a map, which was stored in the library computer. This was one of the records scanned by the Talosians. ( production art) In 2267, "Chart 14A: The Sol System", which was stored in the Enterprise library computer, was a map of the Sol system. This chart was scanned by the probe Nomad in auxiliary control. ( production art) Star charts In 2258, the system's location was labeled on a star chart seen on the main viewscreen of the . () In 2259, the location of this system was labeled on a stellar cartography chart that was seen on the 's ready room viewscreen. As the capital system of the Federation, it was represented by the Starfleet Command seal colored blue. () In the 2270s, the location of Sol, and its largest planet Jupiter, was labeled on a neighborhood of astronomical objects, which was stored in the Enterprise library computer. This was one of the records scanned by V'ger. ( production art) In 2293, the location of Sol was labeled in a map of the Milky Way Galaxy. This map was on a wall of Captain James T. Kirk's quarters aboard the . ( okudagram) In 2364, the location of Sol was labeled in a star chart, which showed the distance of this sun to neighboring stars in light years. This record was stored in the library computer. The Portal of Outpost 63 scanned this record that year. ( production art) In 2399, the location of Sol, and the planet Earth, was labeled in a Federation star chart that was in Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancys office at Starfleet Headquarters. () Physical characteristics The system consisted of its primary Sol, nine planets and their moons, as well as several smaller planetary bodies and minor planets. An separated the system into an inner system and outer system. The inner system had four terrestrial planets: , Venus, Earth, and Mars. The outer system had four gas giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The outermost terrestrial planet in the Sol system was Pluto. In the far reaches of the system, smaller dwarf planets existed. The system also contained a high number of comets, the orbits of which could take them both into the inner and outer solar system. (; ; : ; ) Known system locations Sol (primary star) (Sol I) Venus (Sol II) Earth (Sol III) Luna (moon) See objects in Earth orbit for more. Mars (Sol IV) Deimos (moon) Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards (orbiting drydocks) Asteroid colonies Jupiter (Sol V) Starbase 1 (in 2259) Jupiter Outpost 92 Jupiter Station (space station) Europa (moon) Ganymede (moon) Io (moon) See moons of Jupiter for more. Saturn (Sol VI) Mimas (moon) Rhea (moon) Titan (moon) Uranus (Sol VII) Neptune (Sol VIII) Triton (moon) Pluto (Sol IX) Unnamed planet Starbase 1 (in 2257) Kuiper belt Oort cloud Comets (comet; crashed into Mars 2155) Halley's Comet (comet) 1889 V (comet) 1892 III Holmes (comet) 1892 V (comet) Biela's Komet (comet) d'Arrest (comet) De Vico's Komet (comet) Enke's Komet (comet) Faye's Komet (comet) Finley (comet) Winnecke's Komet (comet) History Approximately four billion years ago, an ancient species of humanoids injected genetic material into the primordial soup on Earth. Five hundred million years later, life began on the planet. Besides Earth-based life, Martian fossils indicated that life also once evolved on other planets of the Sol system. () Approximately sixty-five million years ago, a comet collided with the planet Earth. With this mass extinction event ending the dinosaurian era, mammals rose to prominence. One of those mammalian species, Humans, forged a civilization on their home planet. By 2373 a small number of Voth scientists believed that their species originally evolved from hadrosaurs on Earth, before leaving the Sol system towards the Delta Quadrant. () Starting in the mid-20th century, Humans began the process of exploring and eventually colonizing their home system. Renée Picard was an astronaut that had a large role to play in the exploration of the system during this time. In the mid-22nd century, amid the Xindi crisis, it was already expected that a residual presence of humans would remain in the Sol system, even after the total destruction of Earth. By the late 24th century, there were Humans living on Venus, Luna, Mars, and on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Terraforming efforts were under way to make planets such as Venus and Mars more hospitable for humanoid life. (; ; ; ; ) In addition to planetary settlements, habitable space-based facilities such as starbases and spacedocks had been built in orbits around Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and smaller planetary bodies in the outer Sol system. (; ; ) In 2257, the Sol system came under attack by Klingon forces near the end of the . Members of the House of D'Ghor attacked and occupied Starbase 1, orbiting a planetary body in the outer reaches of the system. A short time later, a Klingon fleet moved towards Earth, only disengaging their attack after a sudden armistice had been declared by the new Chancellor L'Rell. () In 2293, the maiden voyage of the was planned as a tour around the Sol system, with the ship traveling past Pluto and then returning to spacedock. However, the flight plan was abandoned when the Enterprise received a distress call from the . () In 2367, a Borg cube crossed the Sol system, easily eliminating the Mars Defense Perimeter, a last line of defense for the inner planets of the system. The cube was later destroyed in orbit of Earth. () In 2370, the Sol system was listed on the Deep Space 9 arrival roster as the point of departure for the . ( okudagram) In 2371, a microscopic singularity passed through the system and exploded. () The Borg maintained a transwarp conduit with an aperture less than a light year away from Earth. The conduit was collapsed by the in 2378. () In an alternate timeline, all major inhabited planets and colonies in the Sol system were destroyed by the Xindi weapon. This ended when the crew sacrificed themselves to change the future by erasing interspatial parasites from Jonathan Archer, allowing him to remain in command and find and destroy the weapon. () In another alternate timeline, the entire Sol system was destroyed in a temporal explosion when Henry Starling took the timeship Aeon from the 20th century to the 29th century without properly calibrating the temporal matrix. This event nearly happened but was stopped when Captain Janeway manually fired a photon torpedo from Voyager at the Aeon as it entered the temporal rift, destroying it and killing Starling. () Appendices Background information A map of the galaxy created for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual (p. 2) was reused on a PADD in the film depicted the location of the Sol system. The PADD prop was sold on It's A Wrap! sale and auction. The chart naming astronomical objects was from the Star Fleet Technical Manual. The chart naming stars within twenty light years of Sol was drawn by Rick Sternbach for the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology in the late 1970s. Found on page 77, this chart showed Earth commercial and exploration routes after the use of warp drive began. Sol was a stop on the Alpha Centauri-Epsilon Eridani commercial route. According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 19), although the Sol system is located in the exact corner of the sector and was thus divided equally among all eight sectors, it is considered to be in Sector 001 for purposes of celestial navigation. Similarity, while the Sol system is divided equally between the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, it is considered to be part of the Alpha Quadrant. Apocrypha The real-world debate on the status of Pluto as a planet was referenced in the novel Before Dishonor. Star Trek Online established that Sol has eight planets in the system's description. Both Pluto and the unnamed Starbase 1 planet are represented in-game alongside the other planets, indicating that the two are considered dwarf planets in the 23rd and 25th centuries. According to The Worlds of the Federation, there was a tenth planet beyond Pluto. 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Ducane

Lieutenant Ducane was a 29th century Starfleet officer serving aboard the Federation timeship Relativity under Captain Braxton. He helped recruit Seven of Nine from 2375, almost five hundred years in his past, and assigned her to a mission of identifying the individual responsible for placing a temporal disruptor aboard the , that resulted in the ship's destruction. When it was later discovered that the saboteur was, in fact, a future version of Captain Braxton, he had Braxton arrested and took control of the mission. He then recruited Captain Janeway, as Seven would begin to suffer deleterious effects to her health if she were to make another time jump. Ducane sent Janeway back to 2372, where Braxton initially planted the disruptor, allowing Janeway to change history by preventing Braxton from completing his mission. Ducane then sent both Janeway and Seven back to their proper place and time, warning them not to discuss their experiences with anyone, in accordance with the Temporal Prime Directive. () Appendices Background information Ducane was played by actor Jay Karnes. His costume was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. In one version of the script, he was described as "a young officer in the Starfleet Temporal Integrity Commission. He's dressed in 29th century uniform..." Apocrypha His first name was given as "Juel" in the novel Watching the Clock. The latter indicated that he had been promoted to commander following the events of "Relativity" from his perspective. His last name was spelled "Duquesne" in the sourcebook. External link de:Ducane fr:Ducane it:Ducane Humans Starfleet personnel (29th century) Starfleet sciences personnel

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Desert flyer

The Vulcan desert flyer was a common sight in and around cities during the 2230s. Its primary use was for personal transport and it was related to the hovercar. In 2237, Spock and a Vulcan healer traveled in a desert flyer to the site in the L-langon Mountains where Spock's ailing sehlat I-Chaya lay. () External link Vulcan Vehicles

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The Counter-Clock Incident (episode)

When the Enterprise enters a negative universe, former captain Robert April saves the ship as the crew age backwards. (Series finale) Summary Act One "Captain's log, stardate 6770.3. The is on course for the planet Babel, where ambassadors of all Federation planets are waiting to honor the Enterprises distinguished passenger Commodore Robert April, first captain of the USS Enterprise, and for the past twenty years, Federation Ambassador-at-Large. Now 75 years old, Commodore April has reached mandatory retirement age." Commodore April tells Captain Kirk that no place, wherever he went, has ever felt like home more than the bridge of the Enterprise, a sentiment Kirk can share. April says that he always felt the starship was almost like a child of his and that he was present at the San Francisco Navy Yards while the ship was under construction. McCoy enters the bridge along with Commodore April's wife Sarah accompanying him in the turbolift. McCoy tells Kirk that he was unaware that most of the instruments he uses in sickbay were designed by Sarah. Sarah says that being the first medical officer on a ship equipped with warp drive, she was forced to come up with new ideas constantly. Kirk tells her that her achievements as a medical pioneer are well known. Then McCoy tells her that she is still intelligent and lovely, much like the flower she's carrying, to which Sarah tells McCoy that while flattery will get him everywhere, the flower is dying. Kirk recognizes it as a native of Capella IV and then Sarah explains that it only has a life span of a few hours and that earlier in the day it was still a seedling and within a few hours the flower will be dead. Spock notifies Kirk, per his request, that the ship is within visual range of the Beta Niobe supernova and Kirk orders it put on the viewscreen to show Mrs. April. Spock reassures her that Enterprise is traveling far enough away from the supernova remnant to be safe. April mentions that Kirk was present when the star first started its explosion, which Kirk confirms. Suddenly, the ship's sensors pick up an unidentified vessel on collision course with the Enterprise, traveling at an incredible speed. Kirk immediately orders red alert and then asks Spock how fast the ship is traveling. Spock says it is traveling at a speed which should be impossible to reach, a velocity on the order of about warp 36. April says that no natural phenomenon has ever been recorded traveling that fast. Spock says he believes it to be a ship. Kirk wonders who could have built such an advanced vessel. Spock says that no one they know of could have done so, nevertheless they will collide in just over a minute. Kirk then orders evasive action and the collision is averted. But Spock realizes then that the collision course was only a coincidence and that the alien ship now seems to be on a heading right into the Beta Niobe nova. Kirk tries to warn the alien captain, but there is no response. The Enterprise locks its tractor beam on the ship, hoping to stop it before it enters the nova. Lieutenant Arex reports that the alien ship has dropped to warp 32 as a result of the tractor beam. The other vessel now makes visual contact and the alien captain speaks in a seemingly unknown language. Kirk has Uhura run the message through the universal translator to see if they can find out what she was saying. Uhura reports the translator has discovered the woman's language was, in fact, the same universal language that they all speak, only she was speaking in reverse. Kirk then tells Uhura to play the tape of the message backward and then the message is clear. The alien captain demands release from the tractor beam or she is doomed. Kirk tries to tell her that she is endangering her life by staying on this course but she will not answer. At that moment, Montgomery Scott calls from engineering and tells Kirk the engines are buckling and they can't keep this speed up anymore. Kirk asks Arex how fast they are traveling and he reports Enterprises velocity at warp eleven. Kirk asks Scott for three and a half minutes, based on Spock's estimate of the time until the alien ship's entry into the supernova. Arex reports that the ship is still increasing speed, now passing warp 14 and then warp 15. Kirk orders Sulu to release the tractor beam because he can't risk the entire crew of the Enterprise to save one person's life, but due to the extreme speed, Sulu cannot disengage it. Kirk is alarmed when the tractor beam won't release, realizing it means that they'll plunge into the supernova along with the alien craft. Spock reports the speed of Enterprise is now at warp 20. Kirk apologizes to the Aprils because it now appears they may not reach Babel. The Aprils tell Kirk that as starship personnel they were always prepared to give their lives in the line of duty and they are still starship personnel. Kirk then realizes that after the alien ship enters the supernova and burns up, it'll break contact with the tractor beam. Spock estimates they'll have little more than twenty-two seconds to change course after the alien ship is destroyed. Kirk calls Scott who tells Kirk the only reason the engines are lasting so long at speeds now exceeding warp 22+ is because of the pull of the alien ship with their own tractor beam. As the alien ship prepares to enter the supernova Kirk has Sulu and Arex ready to change course immediately afterward. As the alien ship disappears in the nova, Kirk tells Sulu to execute the course change, but to the shock of the bridge crew, they are still locked onto the alien ship. Kirk notes that the alien ship might have been able to survive the heat of a supernova, but Enterprise will not. Finally the ship enters the supernova and is tossed about. To Kirk's amazement the ship and crew have survived. Kirk asks Uhura for a visual and when he gets it, he and April are shocked at what they see, white space with black stars and the Enterprise is flying backward through this strange space. Act Two "Captain's log, stardate 6770.6. The Enterprise has passed into the most alien landscape I have ever seen. We are in some reverse universe where black stars shine in a white void. We are still in the tow of the alien ship, both of us having survived the extreme heat of the Beta Niobe nova." Scott calls Kirk and tells him they have had to re-learn how to run the ship as every control is working in reverse. At that moment, Sarah exclaims to Kirk about the Capellan flower she was holding. April tries to calm her and tells her that Kirk surely has other things to worry about currently besides that flower. Sarah tells him that what they're not realizing is that just before they entered this universe it was about to die and now it's in full bloom again and that she can actually feel it getting younger as she holds it. Spock realizes that the flower is not all that's getting younger. The ship's chronometers are also running backward. It seems that the flow of time is reversed in this universe and the longer the Enterprise crew remains here, the younger they will become. Uhura says she now has established contact with the unknown ship. The captain appears and angrily tells Kirk his interference almost killed her. Kirk comments how he can now understand her without the universal translator, which makes Spock realize that in this universe, their brains must also be working backward, so they can now understand the alien captain's language, which is why all systems on the ship seem to be working in the reverse to which they are used to. Kirk introduces himself to the alien captain and explains that they thought that her ship would have been destroyed when she entered the Beta Niobe supernova. The alien captain, a woman called Karla Five, explains that she was observing a dead star, Amphion, becoming a supernova and coming to life and she was accidentally pulled into the star, but instead of being destroyed, she accidentally traveled into "our" universe. April quickly realizes that in this universe, a supernova is a dead star that comes to life and when there are supernovas at exactly the same space in both universes, it's possible to travel between the two universes. Kirk proposes returning the same way but Karla Five tells him that Amphion is no longer a supernova, but has begun its life as a star. She asks Kirk to accompany her back to her planet where hopefully, they will be able to help Kirk and crew find a way home. Having little choice, Kirk agrees. "Captain's log, supplemental. We are proceeding to Karla Five's planet, ." Kirk mentions that he's sure no one will mind growing younger instead of older for a change. April comments that if they stay long enough he will no longer be at the mandatory retirement age. Kirk says that in any case, they have to find a way back home and he asks for suggestions. Spock says that they must reproduce the conditions that brought them into this universe. To return to normal space would mean finding one star dying in "our" universe and one star being born in the negative universe, exploding simultaneously at the same place to create the gateway. Upon arriving at Arret, Kirk, Spock and April prepare to beam down. Scott tells Kirk that they have received coordinates to Karla Five's son's laboratory. Kirk says that while they have no time for children's games, to go ahead and beam them down. When they arrive, they see a child in a playpen and then Karla Five steps up and introduces her son, Karl Four, who happens to be an elderly man. Spock realizes what is happening: "Most logical. If the flow of time is reversed, then one is born at an old age, and dies in infancy. Your descendants are born before you and your ancestors are born after you." Kirk is still dumbfounded at the realization that the child in the playpen is in fact, Karla Five's father. Karl Four tells Kirk that he has been working on a way to get the Enterprise home since Karla told him of their troubles. He then brings up a star map of their galaxy, showing where Arret is at and then the Amphion nova where they entered this universe. Kirk asks Spock if they can compare this to a map of their own galaxy and he says they can. Spock then pulls up a map of the Milky Way (likely downloaded from Enterprises computer) and that Beta Niobe and Earth correspond exactly with Amphion and Arret, respectively. Then he pulls up both maps at the same time (turning the map into various shades of gray) and there are many red dots on the screen which, according to Spock, represent where two stars are in the exact place in each universe but that no pair are novas in both universes. April then suggests bringing a supernova to life prematurely so they would have two such supernovas in the same space. Karla Five points out that Enterprise isn't capable of the speeds she needed in order to cross the dimensional barrier, which Kirk agrees. Karla says they are welcome to her ship, but Kirk tells her he has a crew of 430 and her ship would only fit a few people. Spock says that while they can't use her ship for transportation, they could use it as an unmanned ship with their tractor beam attached. April thinks it would work since that's how they got here to begin with. Kirk says that while it should work, he worries that any miscalculations anywhere along the way and they will plunge tail first into a supernova. Act Three "Captain's log, stardate 6770.1. Time continues to flow backward for us. We have set course for a dead star, in this antimatter universe, that corresponds with the nova Minara in ours. We're being pulled by Karla Five's unmanned vessel which is equipped with enough positive matter armament to ignite the dead star into life..." Kirk tells April they may get him to Babel after all. April says that while he'll be pleased to return to their proper universe, he isn't so enthusiastic about getting to Babel as it only means the end of his career. Karla Five then contacts Kirk and wishes him well even though the outcome will remain completely unknown to her. Kirk says that they'll either burn to a crisp or escape into their universe, but either way she will will never hear from them again and then he thanks her for the sacrifice of her ship. Karla tells them it is a small sacrifice to make and wishes them success. Sulu reports the tractor beam is on and stable. Arex says they're matching the speed of Karla Five's vessel. Kirk asks Spock how long they have until the youngest crew member reverts to the time of birth. Spock says that while that's just under nineteen minutes away, long before that, the crew will all be children and that also means they are losing their knowledge at an alarming rate and that it is possible that before they reach the dead star, they may no longer be able to control the Enterprise. Kirk asks Sulu how their course is and Sulu has no idea what he's doing there or what all that equipment is. Kirk has Arex take over for Sulu and tells Uhura to report to navigation but she has no idea what she's supposed to do with her controls either. Kirk then asks Spock if he can fill in for Sulu and Uhura. Spock says that he can, but wonders who will fill in for Kirk. He asks Kirk at what age did he become a starship captain and what age did he enter Starfleet Academy. Spock says that because as a Vulcan, his aging process is much slower so he'll be able to retain command longer than anyone else, but that even Spock will become too young to know what to do. "Captain's log, supplemental. We have eleven minutes of real time left to reach the dead star, but all around my crew are turning into children, unable to operate the ship." With Spock at the helm, he tells Kirk they have just over ten minutes left to reach the dead star and that they will need to disconnect the tractor beam at the right time. When that statement confounds Kirk, Spock realizes he must assume command. At that point, April, who, along with Sarah, have reverted into healthy young adults, tells Spock that while he's here he is senior officer and that, while he hates to pull rank, the fact is that Spock won't be able to maintain command long enough to get the ship home. Spock relents and offers Commodore April command of the ship, to which April replies, "Commodore? I'm Captain April, Mr. Spock." At that point Sarah realizes that she and Robert are the only two adults left on the bridge as the crew have all reverted to teenagers and children. Robert tells Sarah to keep the children safe and asks Spock if he can still follow orders. Spock says he can and so April sends him back to navigation and April sits down in his old command chair. Spock says the dead star is directly ahead. April tells Spock to arm Karla Five's ship and he does so. Then just as it comes time for the detonation, Spock becomes too little to reach the controls and so April detonates Karla Five's ship, triggering the supernova, which the Enterprise passes through, and they make it home to "our" universe. Sarah asks Robert what they will do with the crew now that they're all children. April says they can use the transporter to restore the crew as the transporter retains a memory of their original molecular structure. Sarah tells Robert they could stay young and live their lives over again and that Robert could be a starship captain again. Robert says that would be such a blessing if the life one leads has left one unfulfilled, but since his life has been full, Robert says he doesn't want to stay young and he couldn't improve one bit on the life they had together. He moves over to his wife and gives her a kiss. Later, after everyone has been restored, Kirk tells the Aprils that they've received a message from the Federation that should make them happy and has Uhura relay a message: "In view of Commodore April's heroic actions aboard the USS Enterprise this stardate, we are reviewing his mandatory retirement and will consider his appeal to remain Federation ambassador-at-Large." April is pleased and comments that just because someone is 75 years old, doesn't mean they are ready to stop giving service to the galaxy. Kirk notices that Sarah's flower has blossomed again. She says that their trip into the negative universe gave the flower a second life and it gave all of them as well, a second life. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2270 Memorable quotes "No matter where I've traveled in the galaxy, Jim, this bridge is more like home than anywhere else." "Yes, Commodore, I know the feeling." "To me she was always like my child. I was there in the San Francisco Navy Yards when her unit components were built." - Robert April reminisces about the Enterprise with Kirk "Captain Kirk, the Capellan flower." "I'm sure Captain Kirk has other problems besides your flower, dear." "You don't understand. Before we entered this universe it was about to die and-and now it's in full bloom again." "How is that possible?" "It's as if it were growing younger again. I-I can almost feel it while I-I'm holding it." - Sarah April, Robert April, and Kirk "In her universe a nova is a dead star which comes to life. And when the explosions of a nova in her universe and one in our universe occur together it's possible to travel between the two universes." "Then we must return the same way, through the two novas." - Robert April and Kirk "We could remain forever awed with the differences between our universes, Karla Five, but we must discover a way to return to our positive matter universe." - Kirk "We will need to disconnect the tractor beam at the appropriate time." "Tractor beam? How do we do that, Spock?" "Captain, I must assume command." - Spock, as he and Kirk begin to de-age into children at a critical moment "Our trip into the negative universe gave it [the flower] a second life. It gave all of us a second life." - Sarah April (last line of the series) Background information Story and script Although the writing of this series finale is attributed to John Culver, that was actually a pseudonym used by writer Fred Bronson when he wrote the episode. This was the second installment which Bronson wrote for Star Trek as well as the second he submitted using a pen-name, his first having been an undeveloped episode entitled "War Game". (Starburst Special #29, p. 55) At the time, Bronson was the NBC publicist assigned to and was also a veteran Star Trek fan. The reason he chose to be credited with the pseudonym John Culver is because Bronson – who grew up in Culver City, California – was worried that someone might think it improper for him, as an NBC employee, to write for one of the network's shows, although he was also aware that NBC corporate policy allowed for that. After Bronson told everyone about his writing, nobody at NBC had a problem with it, anyway. (TAS DVD text commentary) During his work as a publicist for the animated Star Trek, Fred Bronson occasionally spoke to Lou Scheimer about the possibility of him writing an episode of TAS. Bronson's chance to do so came with this episode. (TAS DVD text commentary) As a Star Trek fan, Fred Bronson delighted in adding aspects to this episode for fellow enthusiasts to enjoy. These facets include the Beta Niobe supernova as well as several elements that had previously been considered but were never fully developed before. (TAS DVD text commentary) Prior to the writing of this episode – with its youthful depictions of the series' regular characters – child equivalents of the characters had been conceived as regular fixtures of the animated Star Trek series, before that concept was scrapped. (The Art of Star Trek, pp. 42 & 43) The name Robert April was taken, for use in this installment, from Gene Roddenberry's files. () It originates from the first Star Trek pitch, Roddenberry's document Star Trek is.... Early drafts of the original pilot script for also listed the captain as having that name, although this was changed in subsequent drafts of that episode's script and various names were temporarily considered before Christopher Pike was chosen, James R. Kirk debuting in the second pilot episode, , and Pike eventually reappearing in the original series two-parter and "Part II". The text commentary for this episode, written by Michael and Denise Okuda, states, "In writing 'The Counter-Clock Incident', Fred Bronson wondered if he might bring to life the original name of the Enterprise captain. Although 'The Menagerie' established that Kirk's predecessor was Christopher Pike, Bronson felt that there might have been at least one other captain before Pike. And April seemed a perfect name for that never-before-seen commander. Bronson checked 'The Menagerie' carefully. He was relieved to find that nothing in the episode suggested that there hadn't been another captain before Pike." In addition to featuring April here, Bronson also set the age of mandatory retirement from Starfleet as seventy-five years old since, at the time of writing this installment, he believed it to be a suitably advanced age. (TAS DVD text commentary) The name Arret had previously been used for a planet in , though only in an early script draft for that episode and not in the final version of the installment. (TAS DVD text commentary) The name Arret is also "Terra" spelled backwards. It is not clear exactly why, when the Enterprise is hurrying towards a nova so it can return to "our" universe, the rate at which the persons aboard the ship are becoming younger speeds up. By way of explanation, Fred Bronson stated, "In our universe, the faster you travel, the slower you age (as Einstein told us). In the reverse universe, the faster they travel, the faster they age--or in this case, grow younger. There was an explanation written into the original script, but of course the show is only 21 minutes long on the air, so quite a bit was cut." Production Robert April's Starfleet dress uniform was based on similar costumes used in numerous episodes of the original Star Trek series (beginning with ). (TAS DVD text commentary) The text commentary for this episode regards the elaborate alien laboratory shown here as being one of several sets that were visualized for the animated series but would have been highly expensive to create for a contemporaneous live-action production. The commentary goes on to say that the lab's equipment would have been extremely costly, if built from scratch, and that Hollywood prop rental companies of the 1960s and 1970s had very few high-tech components that could be modified for such use. Depicting officers having been reduced to children, such as in this episode, is another aspect of the outing that the text commentary cites as being a lot more expensive to do in live action than in animation. Even though new character drawings of younger crew members were not exactly free, they cost much less than if additional actors had been hired and provided with costumes and makeup. The shot of the Enterprise and Karla Five's vessel flying right-to-left across the screen, during the countdown before escape from the reverse universe, is an example of a shot that used a smaller version of the Enterprise painting cel than was usual for the series. The actual escape from the reverse universe incorporates two shots (one a panning close-up zoom across the ship's primary hull, and the other an Enterprise flyby shot) that were created with a method called , which involved film of the original series ship in flight being projected onto an animation cel, on which an animator would then trace the image, drawing a series of illustrations. Although the technique was expensive, the cost was deemed acceptable, since such rotoscoped shots were used many times throughout the series. (TAS DVD text commentary) Continuity and trivia The idea of crew members being transformed into children was revisited in . This is one of two Star Trek finales to not have the last line delivered by the captain of that respective series. Here, it is delivered by Sarah April. (The other is , where the final line is delivered not by Benjamin Sisko but by Quark.) Commodore April refers to Kirk's previous mission to Beta Niobe, which occurs in . Kirk later refers to Minara, a star referenced in . This is the third of four episodes to reference the planetoid Babel. Introduced in , this location is also referenced in the TAS second season premiere and . The concept of a "negative universe" first appeared in . The idea that the transporter could be used to restore the crew's adult forms was used again in . A similar concept, "anti-time", was later explored in . Reversed aging (adults appear as children, children appear as adults) is also explored in . The Capellan flower from Capella IV is a reference to , which is set both on the surface of Capella IV and in the planet's general vicinity. This is the second of two consecutive installments to feature a Capellan lifeform, as a Capellan power-cat appears in the penultimate episode of TAS, . After the TAS Season 1 episode , this is the second of two episodes to feature a boyhood Spock. noted about Robert April, "When he is a young man he looks remarkably like Captain Kirk." This was the last episode of Star Trek to feature any scenes set in the 23rd century until in 1996. This was the last animated Star Trek production until and , which premiered at the same time, in 2019. Reception and aftermath In their text commentary for this episode, Michael and Denise Okuda enthusiastically describe the reuse of Robert April here as Fred Bronson's "most ingenious original series reference." The Okudas also imply that this facet of the episode inspired them to include the character in the first edition of their , along with a retouched picture of Gene Roddenberry wearing a Starfleet uniform; the image is credited as being a photograph of Captain April. In The Star Trek Files magazine, John Peel critiqued, "Just when you thought Margaret Armen was the worst writer for this series, along comes this story, and proves that it is indeed possible to get worse [....] It is so filled with illogical inconsistencies that it's amazing it ever got filmed." Peel went on to criticize, at length, the parallel universe as not being completely consistent with a reversed timeline, despite the fact it is referred to as another universe whose altered properties include not only reversed time, as Kirk once refers to it as an "anti-matter universe." Peel continued, "The whole story is so much junk. Not only that, the ending is appalling." He complained, specifically, about Robert and Sarah April refusing the prospect of lengthened life, Peel feeling this was far too unlikely for anyone to do. "The logic here is terrible," he remarked. "The use of the transporter to restore someone [...] [is generally] dumb, but this plot adds another thread to that stupidity." Peel expressed criticisms, motivated by puzzlement, about not only the workings of the transporter to reconvert the Aprils and the crew of the Enterprise into their aged selves but also how speeding towards the nova quickened their rate of reverse aging. He concluded, "Okay, let's assume that the approach to the supernova and the increased cosmic whoozits caused it – then reversing their path through the nova to our universe should have reversed the cosmic whoozits also and aged them back to standard, right? Ah, well, who expects any kind of logic from this story?" (The Star Trek Files: The Animated Voyages End, pp. 48-51) The editors of Trek magazine collectively scored this episode 4 out of 5 stars (a rating that they termed "very good"). (The Best of Trek #1, p. 112) In the unofficial reference book Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga (p. 48), co-writers Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross both individually rate this episode 3 out of 4 stars (defined as "good"). In the "Ultimate Guide" published in , this episode was rated 1 out of 5 Starfleet arrowhead insignias and was named the "Worst Episode" of TAS. The magazine commented, "Not even fan-favorite Robert April [...] can save the final episode from its 'reverse time flow' [....] [In the reverse universe] where the old people come from or where one's baby/parents go as they become zygotes is left to the imagination. The reverse aging of the crew provides unintentionally amusing moments as they become too young to know what they're doing." At one point, there was a rumor that this episode – especially its conclusion, showing childhood Enterprise bridge officers – was meant as a pilot for a new animated Saturday morning series entitled The Star Trek Kids and that the proposed series was scheduled for production in . However, this rumor turned out to be exactly that, having no basis in fact. Following this episode's initial airing, it was more than five years before the public release of the next new Star Trek production, . To date, this is the longest period of time in which the franchise lay dormant. This episode was the last non-feature-length series finale in the Star Trek franchise until s finale, , aired on . By or in , Fred Bronson came to realize – despite the age limit at which he set mandatory retirement, here – that a person can still be active at seventy-five years old and that, by the time that this episode is set, an individual could very probably remain working long after that age. (TAS DVD text commentary) Apocrypha This episode was novelized by Alan Dean Foster in the book Star Trek Log 7. The novelization confirms the probability (given their family naming traditions) that Karla Five's father, unnamed in this episode, was called Karl Six, and a line from Karla Five describes her father as having entered "senile infancy." Additionally in the novelization, the Aprils did elect to remain younger and, even after the negative universe was proven to be an alien fabrication, the Aprils were allowed to remain younger even though the Enterprise had not really left its own universe. The novelization also expands on a couple of other scenes that show clearly the differences between the negative universe and "our" universe. Karla Five's description of how she passed through the nova gateway was expanded on slightly. When she mentioned how everything in "our" universe operated reverse to her universe, she mentioned how seeing colored stars against black space was maddening and unnatural. Also, when the landing party prepares to transport down to Arret, Scott attempts to beam them down to the planet and the transporter will not operate. Realizing the conundrum, Spock tells Scott to instead beam them up to the planet and then the transport is successful. Video and DVD releases UK VHS release (CIC Video): Volume 7, catalog number VHR 2557, As part of the The Animated Series LaserDisc collection As part of the The Animated Series DVD collection As part of the The Animated Series Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. 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Braxton

Braxton was a male Human who lived during the late 29th century who was formerly with the Starfleet Temporal Integrity Commission where he held the rank of captain. In that capacity, he piloted the Federation timeship Aeon and commanded the . Service record The Aeon Braxton was first encountered by the in 2373, when the Aeon arrived in the Delta Quadrant through a temporal rift. Braxton claimed that Voyager had been responsible for the destruction of the Sol system in the 29th century, and had traveled back to prevent that occurrence by destroying Voyager. The Voyager crew was able to counter Braxton's attack, however, destabilizing his temporal rift, into which both ships were pulled. Both ships were subsequently sent back to Earth, the Aeon to 1967, and Voyager to 1996. As the Aeon plummeted towards Earth, Braxton managed to execute an emergency beam out before crash landing in the High Sierras. He was not, however, able to retrieve his ship before it was discovered and stolen by a camper named Henry Starling. Over the next thirty years, Starling would utilize his primitive understanding of the timeship's technology to introduce new computer innovations to the public, constructing a corporate empire and initiating the computer revolution of the 20th century. It was also during the same thirty years that he was able to develop a theory as how the disaster was caused: after Starling stole the timeship, he flew it into the future without recalibrating the temporal matrix which caused the explosion that destroyed the system. Braxton followed Starling's movements, but was never able to reacquire the timeship. Eventually Starling became too powerful, and Braxton was ultimately unable to directly end Starling's threat. He became disillusioned with life among "post-industrial barbarians", and– despite his best efforts to explain his situation to various authorities, notably that of being a timeship captain from the future– he was eventually placed in a mental institution where they "filled [him] with primitive pharmaceuticals." Following his freedom he lived homeless on the streets of Santa Monica, California. There he was still frequented by "damn social workers" offering their advice, and would often fall victim to "greedy people" who were "always trying to steal [his] things." His free time was often spent "putting up literature about the end of the world," and often prompting complaints from locals. Poor treatment at the hands of the authorities, whom he described as "quasi-Cardassian totalitarians", ultimately had left him paranoid and aggressive. When Voyager eventually arrived in Earth's orbit, the ship detected the low frequency subspace readings from Braxton's combadge in the Los Angeles area, and eventually discovered him in his disheveled condition, pushing a shopping cart full of his possessions. After Captain Janeway and Commander Chakotay, from Voyager, followed him to the alley where he lived and confronted Braxton, he blamed Voyager for his predicament, and explained the paradox of their situation and his deduction of Starling's future doings. During their encounter, Braxton was visited by Officer Sims of the Los Angeles Police Department, regarding the placement of this doomsday literature. When Janeway and Chakotay refused to acknowledge Braxton's plea with them to confirm his identity, he fled of foot from the scene with Sims in pursuit. () A short time later, the crew was able to confirm Braxton's theories, and they destroyed the Aeon with a manually-launched photon torpedo just before Starling entered the temporal rift. The end result created a new timeline in which the explosion never occurred, but left the events of the past unchanged. Almost immediately after the collapse of the first Aeons rift, a second rift opened and a second Aeon emerged after the Temporal Integrity Commission sent Braxton to correct Voyagers anomalous presence over 20th century Earth. Initially surprised that the crew of Voyager immediately recognized him, and how, he explained that "he" never experienced "that" timeline. Despite Janeway's plea to return them to the Earth of their own time, as Voyager had been stranded in the Delta Quadrant for two years, Braxton escorted Voyager back to its proper place and time so as to uphold the Temporal Prime Directive. () The Relativity After his thirty-year exile on Earth, Braxton was forced to undergo extensive rehabilitation before he was allowed to return to duty, where after he was given command of the Relativity. In that capacity, he recruited Seven of Nine from the year 2375 to a mission to save Voyager from destruction. Bringing Seven aboard the Relativity, he explained that a saboteur had placed a temporal disruptor aboard Voyager, and that they needed her to identify the individual responsible and prevent the disruptor from destroying the ship. During the course of her investigation, Seven discovered that the saboteur was, in fact, Captain Braxton's counterpart from a future point in time. Braxton's counterpart explained that, in the upcoming few years of Braxton's life, he would be returned to rehabilitation due to suffering from temporal psychosis, and subsequently lost his rank and was forced to retire. Braxton again blamed Janeway for these misfortunes, citing that due to the number of time travel events she caused that he was forced to repair, which included the temporal inversion in the Takara sector, as the cause of his condition. (cf. ) As such, he became determined to wipe Voyager from the timeline. Braxton's future counterpart attempted to convince Braxton to let him proceed and, in light of these revelations, Lieutenant Ducane, relieved Braxton of duty and placed him in the brig "for crimes you're going to commit," before he took over control of the mission. After Seven successfully apprehended Braxton's counterpart, Ducane was still tasked with repairing the damage done to the timeline due to their various temporal incursions. As Seven could not make another time jump without suffering from temporal psychosis herself, Ducane recruited Captain Janeway to complete the mission. In exchange for leniency, Braxton's future counterpart agreed to inform Ducane of the precise time and place where he planted the disruptor. Janeway was then sent to the year 2372, where she was able to apprehend Braxton before he was able to activate the disruptor. This version of Braxton was subsequently transported back to the 29th century, resulting in the existence of no fewer than three versions of him being held in custody, although Ducane assured Janeway that all three of them would be reintegrated in time for him to stand trial. () Appendices Background information Allan G. Royal portrayed Braxton in "Future's End", with Bruce McGill replacing him in "Relativity". Braxton was initially described in the final draft of "Future's End" as being in his "early 40's, wearing a version of Starfleet uniform and combadge that is different and distinct." When he is later encountered in the 20th century, he was described as "a homeless man" [in his] "early 70's, ratty gray beard, longing hair, heavy Winter coat and snow boots, despite the heat. [...] Aged 30 years and looks like hell." External link de:Braxton fr:Braxton it:Braxton Humans Starfleet personnel (29th century) Starfleet command personnel Starfleet captains

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Robert April

Robert "Bob" April was a prominent 23rd century Human male Starfleet officer. In 2245, he was given command of the . Captain April's command of the Enterprise came to an end in 2250 where he turned command over to his first officer Christopher Pike. () At some point following his stint as captain of the Enterprise, April was promoted to admiral and for the next twenty years he would be the Federation's ambassador-at-large. (; ) By 2256, however, he was considered one of the most decorated captains in Starfleet history. () Early life April was born in 2195, and later joined Starfleet, and married his wife, Sarah. () Starfleet career Commanding the USS Enterprise During the 2240s, April oversaw the construction of components for a starship at the San Francisco Navy Yards. That vessel eventually became the , which April later commanded from 2245 to 2250. His wife Sarah served as his chief medical officer. () Captain April's first officer was Christopher Pike. () Post-Enterprise Following the end of his five-year mission in 2250, April was promoted to admiral and passed command of the Enterprise to Captain Pike. He then became a respected Federation ambassador-at-large. (; ; ) By 2256, April was one of Starfleet's most decorated captains, ranked among other legends such as Jonathan Archer, Matthew Decker, Philippa Georgiou and his former first officer Christopher Pike. () In 2259, April traveled to Bear Creek, Montana where Pike was staying on Earth to inform him that Pike's own first officer, Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley had gone missing on Kiley 279. () After the Enterprise return from Kiley 279, April informed Pike, Chin-Riley and Spock that he had to use all the pull he had to convince the Federation High Court not to throw them all in jail for violating the Prime Directive on Kiley 279. He also informed the trio that he went to Starfleet's commander-in-chief personally to be read in on the events surrounding the . () On stardate 2341.4, April was tasked with convincing the R'ongovian Protectorate to join the Federation as they controlled a vital piece of territory in between Klingon and Romulan space. () Second chance at life By 2270, April, who retained the rank of commodore, along with his wife Sarah were transported to Babel aboard the Enterprise, where April would retire from Starfleet. During his trip, The Aprils, along with current Captain of the Enterprise, James T. Kirk and his crew would encounter Karla Five and her Reverse universe. That encounter would cause every one to age backwards and cause April and Sarah to age backwards. Following this incident, Exceptional circumstances made Starfleet consider his appeal to have his mandatory retirement rescinded. () Relationships Romances Sarah April It is unknown under what circumstances Robert and Sarah met, but the two would fall in love and get married. In 2270, the two would get a second chance to relive their lives again as the two were now younger. For Robert, however, he didn't want to relive their lives over again, as he couldn't improve one bit on what they had together. () Friendships Christopher Pike April chose Christopher Pike as his first officer. During their tenure aboard the Enterprise together, April learned that Pike never did downtime well. Even after April left the Enterprise and command was transferred to Pike, the two kept a close friendship as Pike called him by his first name "Bob". (; ) Sometime prior to April's promotion, he and Pike took a picture when they were both still wearing an earlier version of the Starfleet uniform. () Key dates 2195: Year of birth 2245: Appointed captain of the 2250 Transfers command of the Enterprise to Christopher Pike Appointed Federation ambassador-at-large 2259: Holds the rank of admiral 2270: Holds the rank of commodore Destined for Babel for mandatory retirement Temporarily suffers from reverse aging and regains command of the Enterprise Appendices Appearances Background information April was voiced by James Doohan in and portrayed by Adrian Holmes in . His was the first character introduced in an animated Star Trek production to later appear in live action. The name "Robert April" originated from the first Star Trek pitch, as the name of the lead character ("Robert M. April"). On StarTrek.com and in the , his name is listed as "Robert T. April". Prior to this, the name "Robert April" was used by Gene Roddenberry for a prison chaplain in two episodes of . The name for the featured Enterprise captain was later changed to "Christopher Pike" for and then to "James T. Kirk" for later episodes. According to the script for "The Counter-Clock Incident", April was described as "a 75-year-old man whose looks belie his age. He has a full head of grey hair; he is rather trim and in good physical condition. He is wearing what we would consider a "fulldress" uniform, more formal than the Enterprise crew." The uses an image of Gene Roddenberry (manipulated from a photo of William Shatner by Michael Okuda) in an early-style uniform to illustrate its entry on April, as does the for its entry on 2245. When "The Counter-Clock Incident" writer Fred Bronson first heard about the prequel premise of , he mistakenly assumed, much to his excitement, that April was prominently featured in the upcoming series. He was later disappointed to discover this was not the case. Added ENT Co-Executive Producer Chris Black, "I was not the uber-fan that would have said, 'Wait, it should have been Robert April." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 646) Unused material for Jonathan Archer's bio, featured in , stated that Archer passed away one day following the christening of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), in 2245. If canonical, it would suggest that April and Archer knew each other. Roberto Orci once revealed he had considered a rogue April as a villain in . Apocrypha In the books and Best Destiny, both written by Diane Carey, it was stated that Captain April was born in Coventry, UK. In developing April for Final Frontier, having only the Animated Series episode as a basis, Carey decided to give him "a warm, funny, visionary personality, and made him a gentle and wise counterpoint to the very volatile and action-oriented George Kirk [... The] idea is that somehow James Kirk is the composite of the better qualities of both April and George Kirk, the visionary wisdom with the proactive reactionary hero." () In the Star Trek: Early Voyages comic series, April made several appearances and was often referenced. The first issue, "Flesh of My Flesh", established that April commanded a USS Tiberius for three five-year missions prior to commanding the Enterprise on his fourth five-year mission and that J.M. Colt and José Tyler served under April on the Tiberius. In the same comic, April walked Christopher Pike to the Enterprise in spacedock, and in another scene, set two years later, it was shown that it was due to April's recommendation that Pike recruited Spock to the Enterprise crew. The fourth issue, "Nor Iron Bars a Cage", stated that April, then a commodore at Starfleet Command, personally reassigned J.M. Colt to the Enterprise to take up her position as yeoman. In the final story in the Early Voyages series, presented in the comics "" and "Thanatos", April, then an admiral, returned to the Enterprise to temporarily take command while Captain Pike conducted an undercover mission. April displayed questionable conduct in the story, but the tale was never concluded, as the series was canceled. The alternate reality version of appears in the IDW comic mini-series Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness. In the new timeline, he was captain of a previous , which existed subsequent to , but prior to the launched in 2258 with as his first officer. While surveying the planet Phaedus IV in 2239, he was declared killed in action, when in reality, he deliberately went against the Prime Directive to assist the planet's inhabitants in an ongoing rebellion until he was discovered by Captain and Commander twenty years later. Additionally, April recalled he had been captain "going on 10 years" in 2239, suggesting his prime reality counterpart would have also achieved the rank of captain in or around 2229, as this occurred before the creation of the alternate reality. April later reappeared in the twentieth issue of IDW's Star Trek: Ongoing comic series, in which Captain Kirk visited April after the events of to let him know that his plan to start a war with the Klingon Empire had failed. The novel Captain to Captain gives his full name as Robert Timothy April. The reference book Star Trek: Federation - The First 150 Years depicts April as the principal designer of the , having grown dissatisfied with current Starfleet vessels' lack of self-sufficiency. The tie-in novel Drastic Measures shows April in the year 2246 aiding the colony of Tarsus IV in the aftermath of Kodos the Executioner's infamous massacre. He is described as having an English accent and already married to his chief medical officer Sarah. External links de:Robert April es:Robert April fr:Robert April nl:Robert April Humans Starfleet captains Starfleet command personnel Starfleet flag officers USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) personnel Ambassadors

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Palis Delon

Palis Delon was a ballerina and Julian Bashir's girlfriend when he was at Starfleet Medical Academy. In his opinion, she was graceful and had "exquisite feet". Her father was the top administrator at a medical complex in Paris and offered Bashir a job there. He promised that within five years Bashir would be the chief of surgery. Bashir declined, choosing his Starfleet career over her, finally accepting a post on Deep Space 9. () de:Palis Delon it:Palis Delon nl:Palis Delon Entertainers Humans

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USS Rubicon

The USS Rubicon (NCC-72936) was a 24th century Federation runabout operated by Starfleet. This ship, a replacement for the , was assigned to Deep Space 9 in late 2371. Commander Benjamin Sisko suggested the name of the river Rubicon for the new runabout, to which Major Kira Nerys remarked that at the rate they went through runabouts it was a good thing Earth had so many rivers. () In early 2372, the Rubicon, carrying Doctor Julian Bashir and Chief Miles O'Brien, was forced down on Bopak III by a subspace magneton pulse. It was discovered that the pulse had been sent by a group of Jem'Hadar on the planet's surface, who were seeking help to combat withdrawal symptoms from their ketracel-white addiction. After some unsuccessful attempts, they were allowed to leave. () Later that year, Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax asked Captain Sisko for his permission to send a science team to a trinary star system. Sisko told her they could take the Rubicon. () On stardate 51474.2, the Rubicon was used to investigate a rare subspace compression anomaly. Due to unexpected circumstances, the Rubicon, with a crew of three (Dax, O'Brien, and Bashir), was forced to re-enter normal space by an alternate path, resulting in the vessel shrinking to a length of 6.5 centimeters. It was later safely reverted to its original size after helping to thwart a Jem'Hadar takeover of the . () The Rubicon, along with the and , evacuated Deep Space 9 prior to the battle of the Reckoning that occurred there in late 2374. () Appendices Appearances (referenced) (referenced) Background information After Sisko tells Kira Nerys to name the ship the Rubicon, Kira remarks that "at the rate we go through runabouts, it's a good thing Earth has a lot of rivers." This was the first dialogue reference to the fact that all the runabouts seen on Star Trek were named after Earth rivers. The stated this runabout was "named after the in Italy that was of strategic importance to Caesar in 49 BC". The Rubicon was introduced after the Mekong was abandoned in battle in . "The Die is Cast" was the phrase said to be uttered by Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon. The Rubicon was Deep Space 9's longest serving runabout after the USS Rio Grande. The studio model of the Rubicon was featured in the Christie's 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection, which sold from US$28,000 ($33,600 with premium). Apocrypha The Rubicon was used by Benjamin Sisko and Elim Garak to travel to Earth in the Hollow Men. The Rubicon was still in service in 2383, at the time of the Star Trek: Typhon Pact novel Raise the Dawn. External link de:USS Rubicon es:USS Rubicon fr:USS Rubicon (NCC-72936) nl:USS Rubicon Rubicon