Microscope A microscope was a scientific instrument designed to allow the viewing of things too small to be seen by normal Human vision . It used a system of lenses and mirror s to magnify an object many times more than it actually was . The apothecary Riaan , an Akaali , used a microscope in her pharmacy when Jonathan Archer and T ' Pol , disguised as Akaali , visited her . ( ) Doctor Phlox usually used a microscope on board . ( , " et al . " ) The Arctic Archaeology Team used a microscope where they found nanoprobe s . ( ) Dr . Arik Soong used a microscope in a lab aboard Malik ' s Bird - of - Prey in 2154 . ( ) Klingon scientist Antaak used a microscope during examinations he conducted . At one point in 2154 , Phlox used Antaak ' s microscope to see Augment DNA was present in a particular Klingon virus . ( ) In a laboratory on Earth Two in 2266 , Doctor Leonard McCoy used a microscope to analyze tissue sample s from diseased members of a landing party which was visiting the planet and included himself . At one point , Spock , who was also in the landing party , referred to the microscope as " a museum piece " and started to describe its specifications , though McCoy interrupted him with an irritated request to be spared the analysis , simply satisfied that the apparatus worked . ( ) Doctor Noonian Soong had a microscope in a series of laboratories he used on Omicron Theta , rooms which were visited by an away team from the in 2364 . ( ) Doctor Katherine Pulaski kept a microscope in her office aboard the " Enterprise " - D when she signed on her duty . ( ) The Darwin Genetic Research Station on Gagarin IV , headed by Doctor Sara Kingsley , used microscopes in their investigations . ( ) Science lab s aboard starship s had microscopes . Wesley Crusher used one while doing experiments on nanite s . ( ) Marla Aster kept an old microscope in her house on Earth . ( ) The medical laboratory aboard the " Enterprise " - D was equipped with a microscope . ( ) In 2370 , Lieutenant Commander Data created a microscope using multiple lenses when he was stranded on Barkon IV , a planet with a pre - warp civilization . Data ' s impetus for creating the device was to use it to research radiation sickness that was spreading among the planet ' s inhabitants . ( ) Doctor Julian Bashir used a microscope in the infirmary on Deep Space 9 in 2369 when he examined DNA probes he had collected aboard a Bajoran transport ship . ( ) Lieutenant Jadzia Dax used a microscope , which was combined with a probe analyzer and a computer display , to search a probe she had taken from under Rao Vantika ' s fingernail s . Dax found a microscopic generator Vantika had used to transfer his consciousness into another person shortly before he died . ( ) Doctor Julian Bashir used a microscope to identify a shapeshifting locket Odo had received from Rakhari individual Croden . ( ) Captain Kathryn Janeway kept a six - hundred - year - old microscope among the decoration of her ready room on board the . Her grandfather had gift ed it to her during her childhood . ( , , , ) Background information . In the first draft script of , a microscope was used by Captain Kirk . However , in a memo from Robert Justman to Gene Roddenberry ( dated ) , Justman suggested omitting the microscope , commenting , " " I wish we could [ . . . ] as I don ' t want to have to design and construct what would appear to be a microscope of the future . " " Senior Illustrator Rick Sternbach made a sketch for an electronic microscope for use by Doctor Bashir in the episode . The prop was not built but Sternbach showed the sketch in the DS9 Season 1 DVD special feature " Deep Space Nine Sketchbook " .