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 mirrors to magnify an object many times more than it actually was.
The apothecary Riaan, an Akaali, used two microscopes in her shop when Jonathan Archer and T'Pol, disguised as Akaali, visited her. ()
Doctor Phlox usually used a microscope on board . (, et al.)
A microscope of the same type as seen aboard Enterprise was also in use in the infirmary aboard the Earth Cargo Service freighter in 2151. ()
The Arctic Archaeology Team used a microscope where they found nanoprobes. ()
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 in 2266, Doctor Leonard McCoy used a microscope to analyze tissue samples 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 Noonien 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 Kingsley, used microscopes in their investigations. ()
Science labs aboard starships had microscopes. Wesley Crusher used one while doing experiments on nanites. ()
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. ()
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 fingernails. 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 gifted it to her during her childhood. (, , , )
== See also ==
* Microscope laser
* Nano-imaging camera
* Portable electronic microscope
* Proton microscope
* Scope
* Telescope
== Background information ==
In the first draft script of , a microscope was used by Captain Kirk. However, in a memo from Robert H. 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".
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