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Piece of equipment on Class-J Starships. While Captain Pike was inspecting a Class-J Starship that was being used as a cadet vessel when one of the baffle plates ruptured, releasing delta rays that critically injured and disfigured Pike. (TOS: The Menagerie)
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 The Barbara series is a type of Android design by Harry Mudd and made by Androids from the Andromeda Galaxy. The body is covered with a self-renewing plastic over a skeleton of beryllium-titanium alloy. The Barbara series was made to Mudd's personal specifications. None of the android bodies has ever worn out. The estimated duration of the model is 500,000 years. Medi-robots are able to place a human brain within a structurally compatible android body. The androids found humans flawed, and intended to control mankind by serving them. Each android mind is one component of a mass brain linked through a central locus. This is Norman. The Androids said the Makers created them. The Makers were from the Andromeda galaxy. They were humanoid, and robots were common in their civilization. They performed service functions and freed their Makers to evolve a perfect social order. Their home planet's sun went nova and only a few exploratory outposts survived. The Makers all died over the stretch of time. They wouldn't let Harry go. They wanted to study him. Harry declared himself Mudd the First, ruler of the planet. He ordered Norman, the leader of the androids, to get a ship for him. Norman commandeered the U.S.S. Enterprise and brought them to the planet. The crew of the Enterprise, led by Captain Kirk disabled the androids with illogic. The androids were reprogrammed to back to their original purpose which was to adapt the planet for productive use. Mudd was paroled to the android population. He was looked after by 500 androids that look like his wife Stella. (TOS: I, Mudd)
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 Secondary control center on Galaxy-class starships, located in the engineering hull, also called stardrive or battle section. The battle bridge serves as replacement for the main bridge in case of heavy damage or as control center for the engineering section when the Saucer Module (containing the main bridge) is separated from the Stardrive section. The procedure to separate both parts of the ship is called Saucer Separation. (TNG: Encounter at Farpoint)
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In celestial navigation, bearing is a mathematical expression describing a direction in space with relationship to a spacecraft. A bearing measures the angular difference between the current forward direction of the spacecraft and the direction being described. The first number in a bearing describes an azimuth (horizontal angle) in degrees, and the second describes an elevation (vertical angle). For example, bearing 000-mark-0 represents a direction straight ahead, a bearing of 330-mark-15 represent a direction to the port side of the ship, somewhat above the centerline of the vessel. Note: A heading and a bearing only differ in that a heading has no relationship to the current attitude or orientation of a spacecraft while a bearing has.
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A form of particle that can exist only at faster-than-light velocities.
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 A crystalline compound that is an extremely rare energy source, which will become a powerful explosive when it is used in conjunction with an antimatter converter. In 2369, Tahna Los of the Bajoran terrorist group Kohn Ma, used Bilitrium he obtained from the Duras sisters and an antimatter converter he stole from the Cardassians to create a bomb. He intended to collapse the mouth of the wormhole so that Bajor would not need Federation protection. He was thwarted by Kira Nerys. (DS9: Past Prologue)
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Advanced computer technology, based on biological components, also referred to as gel packs. Bioneural circuits are employed in the most recent Federation starships, such as the Sovereign and Intrepid classes. These circuits can organize and process complex information faster and more efficiently than traditional optical processors. This circuit is currently only used as an add-on to the optical data network and not as a replacement.
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Electrical activity generated by an organic lifeform's nervous system. When it is absent it usually means the person is death.
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This is a component of a bio-neural computer system consisting of a flexible, liquid-tight package, containing synthetic neural cells in an gelatinous organic medium. The gel packs were designed for convenient management of the bio-neural circuits and can easily be swapped out when needed. Bio-neural processors are vulnerable to viral and other infections, which can affect systems performance.
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Hospital bed that includes medical sensors and display units for diagnosis and gas and fluid connect points for treatment of patients. The primary biobed, typically located in the center of a starship sickbay, is equipped with an additional overhead sensor cluster and a containment field generator and serves for surgical and other intensive-care procedures.
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These are cybernetic implants such as those surgically imbedded into the bodies of the Borg. They serve to enhance the physical abilities and synthesize any organic molecules needed by their biological hosts. The Borg are dependent on these implants and will die when the biochip is removed.
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A force field which is used for containment of infectious material aboard Federation Starships. A level 4 quarantaine involves using a biocontainment field.
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Part of the transporter system that is designed to scan an incoming transporter beam prior to materialization and to recognize and filter out potentially hazardous viruses and bacteria from the matter stream. The biofilter is normally used only in transport to the ship. It can be programmed against a wide range of disease organisms, but is only effective against organisms so programmed.
Biofilters are also used in replicators to automatically screen out contaminants from replicated foods. (DS9: Babel)
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An extremely deadly biological weapon, which it illegal under interstellar treaties. The components needed to construct these kind of weapons include biomimetic gel, retroviral vaccines, isomiotic hypos and plasma flares.
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A dangerous and highly illegal substance, which is needed to create biogenic weapons. The sale of it is forbidden by Federation law. When handled incorrectly it can be very hazardous. Starfleet recommends using Starfleet issue L-647-X-7 containers for transport.
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Starship type employed by Species 8472. These ships are made of the same kind of biomatter as the species itself.
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A powerful cutting tool.
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A celestial phenomenon, also referred to as black star, or quantum singularity for extremely small black holes, which is caused by the collapse of a neutron star. The gravity well which is generated by the star's collapse becomes so strong that space-normal matter and even light is not able to escape. The radius inside which this effect becomes evident is called event horizon.
Note: Black Hole is also the name for a Ferengi beverage and called so because of it's opaque black color as well as from it's pungent odor.
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 Blast shutters seal off windows on a runabout. They provide additional protection to the occupants of the ship. When the U.S.S. Rubicon investigated a subspace compresion phenomena they lowered the blast shutters when they detected an increase in the Gamma Ray Flux. (DS9: One Little Ship)
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Blast suppressors are used in conjunction with spatial charges. They are used to contain the explosion to the area targeted. The Enterprise NX-01 used spatial charges and blast suppressors in a plan to destroy a Xindi Arboreal kemocite facility. The use of the blast suppressors would limit the damage to the complex, and spare the village around it. (ENT: The Shipment)
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A transporter technique usually employed as an emergency measure, in which all life-forms in a given area are transported as a group instead of each pattern being isolated before transport.
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Aboard Federation starships with the ability of planetfall, blue alert is a state of readiness for landing operations. Blue alert notifies the ship's crew to occupy Code Blue station's and is ordered prior to a starship's landing on a planet and prior to liftoff. A starship commander should not order the start of descent until all decks report that condition blue has been set. (VOY: The 37's)
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A "Parking position" for a drone aboard a Borg cube that serves for regeneration and omnidirectional interconnection. Usually each drone is assigned to a specific alcove.
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The Romulan Drone's power matrix used boridium cells, similar to those used in Romulan mines, but smaller and more sophisticated. (ENT: Babel One)
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The primary command center for starships and other spacecrafts. On Federation vessels the bridge is located on Deck 1, at the top of the primary hull.
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Security detention area, used to detain individuals who are believed to have committed serious criminal offenses or for those believe to pose a serious danger to other people on the ship or to the ship itself. Secure entrance to starship brigs is often provided by a force field door.
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A subspace bubble, which is also referred to as an inverse warp field, which is capable of interfering with the structure of a quantum fissure.
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A small celestial object, similar to a star, except that is has insufficient mass to generate a star's powerful nuclear reactions. A brown dwarf can be difficult to detect across interstellar distances, because it might glow with only feeble infrared light.
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Bussard collectors are large electromagnetic devices, usually attached to the forward end of the warp nacelles, and serve to collect interstellar hydrogen atoms for fuel replenishment. They're also referred to as Bussard ramscoop. The Bussard collector consists of a set of coils which generate a large magnetic field, used to attract interstellar hydrogen gas that can be used as fuel by the ship's fusion reactors.
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