Garden A garden was a space designed for the display and cultivation of plant s and other forms of nature . A person who tended a garden was known as a gardener . ( ; ) In the Jewish and Christian religion s , the Garden of Eden was a garden created by God for the first Human s . ( ) In 2151 , Malcolm Reed compared the speed of " " to a garden snail ' s pace as they had to rendezvous with at their designated coordinates before the shuttlepod ran out of oxygen . ( ) In 2152 , Dee ' Ahn asked both Charles Tucker III and Malcolm Reed if they had seen the subterranean gardens with luminescent plants on Risa before . ( ) Sim , a mimetic simbiot clone who possessed the memories of Charles Tucker III recalled the time Tucker put a garden snake in his sister Elizabeth ' s doll house . ( ) James T . Kirk once compared the planet Neural to the Garden of Eden when he underwent his first planet survey at the rank of lieutenant . ( ) In order to repopulate the surface of Talos IV in 2254 , the Talosian s offered their zoological gardens to Christopher Pike to help him reclaim the planet ' s surface with a variety of plant life . ( ) Elias Sandoval told Captain Kirk in 2267 that when he and his fellow colonists arrived at Omicron Ceti III in 2264 , they had wanted to turn the planet into a garden . However , he had felt that they had wasted three years in pursuit of that . ( ) After discovering Zefram Cochrane on a planetoid in the Gamma Canaris region in 2267 , James T . Kirk asked him how he was able to look like he was thirty - five years old , when he had been missing for 150 years . Cochrane told Kirk that the Companion rejuvenated him , as well as provided him with food , water and gardens . ( ) When Lieutenant Tracey was murder ed on Argelius II in Jaris ' s home , Montgomery Scott was implicated in the murder . James Kirk asked Jaris if there was another entrance into the chamber where Tracey was found dead . Jaris told Kirk that there was a door in the back that led to the garden , but that it had been locked for years . ( ) In 2268 , Odona told Kirk that there was no place she could entirely alone with herself on her homeworld of Gideon due to overpopulation . Odona said that every street , house , beach , and garden was filled with people all the time . ( ) According to Leonard McCoy , one of his great - great - grandfather s had the finest garden in the southern United States of America . ( ) In 2269 , Captain Kirk , Leonard McCoy and Lieutenant Carver were trapped in an urn in a garden on the second planet of the Taurean system , which began to rapidly fill with water from a thunderstorm . Kirk , McCoy , and Carver were saved from nearly drowning by Nyota Uhura who fired on the urn with a phaser to free them . ( ) After beaming down to what they thought was Ceti Alpha VI in 2285 , Captain Clark Terrell of the asked his first officer , Commander Pavel Chekov if he was sure they had arrived at the correct coordinates on the planet , since it was nothing but a barren wasteland . Chekov replied that " " this is the garden spot of Ceti Alpha VI . " " Terrell responded " " I can barely see it . " " ( ) In 2364 , Wesley Crusher accidentally ran into a garden while playing with Edo children on Rubicun III . The punishment for his " infraction " was death . However , he was later saved from execution by the crew of the . ( ) Later that year , Admiral Gregory Quinn apologized to Captain Jean - Luc Picard for making him think that there was a conspiracy within Starfleet Command earlier in the year . Quinn told Picard " " If I led you up the garden path , I humbly ask your forgiveness . " " ( ) In 2365 , an illusion of Data generated by Nagilum asked Captain Picard about the meaning of death . Picard said that some thought of it as changing into an indestructible form , forever unchanging and that their new purpose in the universe was to maintain that form in an Earth - like garden for all eternity . ( ) In 2366 , William T . Riker observed that Kevin and Rishon Uxbridge had a fusion reactor in their home on Delta Rana IV and had nothing to feed themselves other than a garden where they grew their own food . ( ) After being killed in a flight training accident , Cadet Joshua Albert ' s memorial service was held in the west garden at Starfleet Academy . ( ) In the Romulan prison - camp on Carraya IV , the Klingon Toq used a gin ' tak spear as a garden tool , about which Worf was furious . ( ) " Garden " was one of the words used by a Starfleet officer who suffered from the aphasia virus in 2369 . ( ) The Bajoran monastery where Commander Sisko first met Vedek Bareil Antos featured beautiful gardens with bridges over the river s and large statue s . ( ) Deep Space 9 had a hydroponic garden which Captain Benjamin Sisko used to grow vegetable s for a Thanksgiving dinner . ( ) Sisko ' s gardening experience dated back to his childhood when he and his brother s were sent out to his father ' s garden every day to pick vegetables . ( ) According to Jadzia Dax , the Daxes never had much luck with gardens . Tobin Dax tried gardening , but had even less luck with plants than he had with women . ( ) Jadzia did , however , enjoy strolling through gardens such as the one on the planet Meridian . ( ) In his youth , Neelix created a talchok trap and captured one of the creatures in his garden . ( ) In 2371 , there was a garden maintained by the Ocampa on their homeworld in underground caverns . ( ) Kes grew bantan , a vegetable native to the Delta Quadrant , in the ' s hydroponic garden . ( ) In 2372 , Lon Suder suggested to Tuvok that his genetic engineering techniques he developed to create his orchid could be used to make the arponic vegetable garden on " Voyager " more productive . ( ) Tieran , possessing the body of Kes , told in 2373 that every Ilari citizen was to have a garden , as he was intrigued by anything that grew . ( ) While in the company of the Borg Cooperative in 2373 , Chakotay was told by Riley Frazier that the Cooperative grew everything they ate in a garden . Chakotay responded that the food was delicious . ( ) Kira Taban , a Bajoran farmer , was especially proud of his garden which was destroyed by the Cardassian s during the Occupation of Bajor . ( ) Grand Nagus Zek and Ishka enjoyed taking strolls through Ishka ' s garden on Ferenginar . ( ) In 2374 , at the advice of Chakotay , Neelix created his own medicine bundle after he was killed and brought back to life with the help of Borg nanoprobe s . Neelix was having trouble accepting he was dead , as he did not visit the Talaxian afterlife , specifically , " The Great Forest " . Included with his own personal items was a flower grown from Kes ' garden . ( ) In 2376 , Gedrin pointed out to Kathryn Janeway on the destroyed city on the Vaadwaur homeworld where he used to live with his wife Jisa and that they had a garden overlooking the street . ( )