1:[2,#B],5:[2,#B],10:[3,#B]@1Finney, Jamie@2(Alice Rawlings). Ben Finney's daughter, named after James T. Kirk. (“Court Martial” [TOS]).
~1:[1,#B],14:[1,#B],16:[2,#B],21:[1,#B]@1finoplak@2A colorless liquid solvent, capable of dissolving Starfleet-issue fabrics, but harmless to bioplast sheeting. Kivas Fajo used one hundred denkirs of finoplak to melt Data’s uniform. (“The Most Toys” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],10:[1,#B]@1Fire Plains@2Particularly inhospitable stretch of land on planet Vulcan. (“Innocence” [VGR]).
~1:[2,#B],9:[2,#I]@1fire ants@2Destructive and venomous mound-building red ants, Solenopsis saevissima, native to Earth, whose bites are particularly irritating to humanoids. (“The Chute” [VGR]).
~1:[4,#B],7:[1,#B]@1fire beast of Sullus@2Creature from Drayan folklore. A popular Drayan folktale told of the fire beast of Sullus. (“Innocence” [VGR]).
~1:[2,#B],6:[1,#B],8:[1,#B]@1fire caves@2Location on planet Bajor where Pah-wraiths were imprisoned. (“The Assignment” [DS9]). Ben Sisko hoped to take his son, Jake, to see the fire caverns in 2369 after the Bajoran Gratitude Festival. (“The Nagus” [DS9]).
~1:[2,#B],10:[1,#B]@1fire snakes@2Reptilian species. Wixiban told Neelix that the Kolaati were as mean as fire snakes. (“Fair Trade” [VGR]).
~1:[1,#B],9:[2,#B],14:[1,#B]@1fireboxes@2Term used by the inhabitants of planet Omega IV to describe Starfleet phasers. (“The Omega Glory” [TOS]).
~1:[1,#B]@1firefighting@2Aboard Federation starships, a variety of systems were used to combat fires. Most habitable areas were equipped with containment field generators used to create a small force field around any fires. This would deprive the fire of atmospheric oxygen, extinguishing it. Handheld extinguishers were also available. In an extreme emergency, some parts of a ship could also be vented into the vacuum of space. (“Up the Long Ladder” [TNG], “New Ground” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],18:[1,#I]@1firomactal drive@2Fictional computer device that Riker made up to confuse the Ferengi who took over the Enterprise -D in 2369. (“Rascals” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],13:[2,#B],18:[2,#B],40:[1,#B],58:[1,#B],71:[14,#I]@1First City@2Seat of government for the Klingon Empire. Located on the Klingon Homeworld, site of the Great Hall. Worf and Picard visited the First City in 2366 to defend Worf’s late father against charges brought by council member Duras. (“Sins of the Father” [TNG]). Worf returned to the First City a year later to support the Gowron regime during the Klingon civil war. (“Redemption, Parts I and II” [TNG]). The skyline of the First City was a matte painting created by Illusion Arts.
~1:[2,#B],11:[1,#BI],18:[1,#B],31:[2,#I],38:[1,#I],39:[2,#B],44:[1,#I]@1First Federation@2Interstellar political entity under whose aegis the spacecraft Fesarius was operated under the command of Balok. First contact with the United Federation of Planets was made with the Starship Enterprise in 2266, at which time Enterprise Lieutenant Bailey remained aboard the Fesarius as a cultural envoy. (“The Corbomite Maneuver” [TOS]).
~1:[3,#B],7:[1,#B]@1First Hebitian civilization@2Ancient people of Cardassia. The burial vaults of the Hebitians were uncovered on Cardassia in the late 2160s. The tombs were said to be magnificent and were reputed to have been filled with many jeweled artifacts, symbols of ancient Cardassian glory. (“Chain of Command, Part II” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],6:[1,#B],22:[2,#B],29:[2,#BI]@1First Meal@2Celebration on planet Meridian, commemorating the Meridian inhabitants’ brief return to corporeal form every 60 years. In 2371, Commander Benjamin Sisko and the crew from the Starship Defiant shared First Meal with the Meridians (“Meridian” [DS9]).
~1:[2,#B],5:[2,#B],15:[1,#B],34:[1,#B]@1First One@2On planet Ligon II, title given to a spouse, male or female. Ligonian culture permits polygamous relationships, and a second spouse was called a “Second One.” (“Code of Honor” [TNG]). SEE: Lutan.
~1:[2,#B],4:[1,#B],29:[10,#I],39:[3,#BI],42:[43,#I]@1First Republic@2Ancient Bajoran government. An old library on Bajor containing manuscripts that dated from before the fall of the First Republic was reopened in 2371. (“Explorers” [DS9]). It was not clear if the 800-year-old plans for Sisko’s Bajoran solar-sail vessel were an artifact of the First Republic. It is possible that the First Republic was very much older, since “Ensign Ro” (TNG) implies that Bajoran civilization flourished some 25 millennia ago, and “Rapture” (DS9) establishes that B’hala city disappeared some 20 millennia ago.
~1:[4,#B],6:[4,#B]@1First Rule of Acquisition@2SEE: Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
~1:[2,#B],22:[4,#B],68:[2,#B],140:[2,#B],157:[2,#B],170:[2,#B],176:[2,#B],180:[2,#B],184:[1,#B],199:[1,#B],214:[2,#B],232:[1,#B],281:[5,#I],288:[24,#I]@1first contact@2Sociological term for a civilization’s initial meeting with extraterrestrial life, often referring to first contact with representatives of the United Federation of Planets. First contact is perhaps the most risky and unpredictable of all of Starfleet’s missions, because of the enormous risk of sociological impact for the civilization being contacted. Numerous Federation and Starfleet policies govern the conduct of first contacts. Among these are the Prime Directive, which prohibits interference with the normal development of any society, particularly a culture less technologically advanced than the Federation. (“Tin Man” [TNG]). Under the Prime Directive, first contact is generally avoided until a civilization has attained significant spaceflight capabilities. Another policy calls for covert surveillance of many cultures prior to first contact, enabling Federation sociologists to anticipate probable reactions. This directive was instituted after the disastrous initial contact with the Klingon Empire led to decades of war. (“First Contact” [TNG]). Starfleet’s current first-contact guidelines were written by Captain McCoullough. (“Move Along Home” [DS9]). The first diplomatic first-contact mission from the Gamma Quadrant to pass through the Bajoran wormhole into the Alpha Quadrant was the Wadi gaming delegation that visited station Deep Space 9 in 2369. (“Move Along Home” [DS9]). Earth's first official contact with extraterrestrial life took place on April 5, 2063. Space pioneer Zefram Cochrane, who had just completed his world’s first faster-than-light spaceflight, had attracted the attention of a passing Vulcan survey ship. The ship followed Cochrane back to Earth, landing in the state of Montana in the North American continent, where Cochrane became the first human to officially greet beings from another world. This first contact spawned a new age of peace and progress for Cochrane’s war-torn planet. (Star Trek: First Contact). Other Star Trek episodes and movies have established other alien landings on Earth that predated Cochrane’s contact, but his was the pivotal first contact that changed history.
~1:[2,#B],4:[1,#B]@1first maje@2SEE: maje.
~1:[2,#B]@1fish juice@2Beverage. Cardassians often enjoyed hot fish juice as a morning drink. (“Trials and Tribble-ations” [DS9]).
~1:[3,#B],10:[2,#I],20:[2,#B],41:[1,#I]@1Fisher, Geological Technician@2(Edward Madden). Scientist aboard the original Starship Enterprise. Member of the scientific survey mission at planet Alfa 117 in 2266. While on the survey, Fisher fell and bruised himself and had to be transported back to the Enterprise. Unknown to anyone at the time, Fisher’s uniform was covered with a magnetic ore that caused a transporter malfunction, resulting in the accidental creation of a partial duplicate of Captain James Kirk. (“The Enemy Within” [TOS]).
~1:[1,#B],9:[2,#B],24:[2,#B]@1fistrium@2Refractory metal found in caves on planet Melona IV. Data speculated the presence of fistrium and kelbonite made it impossible for the Crystalline Entity to scan into the caves where the colonists hid. (“Silicon Avatar” [TNG]).
~1:[1,#B],35:[3,#B],88:[2,#B],112:[25,#I]@1fizzbin@2Fictitious card game, supposedly played on planet Beta Antares IV, but in actuality a product of James Kirk’s imagination. Kirk fabricated the game to confuse the guards holding the landing party on planet Sigma Iotia II, allowing the landing party to escape. According to Kirk, fizzbin was played with a standard terrestrial deck of cards, but had terribly complicated rules that changed on Tuesdays and involved such things as half-fizzbins, sralks, and, of course, the astronomically improbable royal fizzbin. (“A Piece of the Action” [TOS]). SEE: corbomite, Iotians. Ferengi entrepreneur Quark tried to entice Deep Space 9 security chief Odo into playing the fictitious game in 2373. (“The Ascent” [DS9]). It seems unusual that Quark would know of Kirk’s bluff, but then again, maybe Quark (like Sisko) was a fan of the legendary starship captain.
~1:[2,#B],7:[2,#BI],38:[1,#I]@1Flaherty, Commander@2First officer of the U.S.S. Aries. Flaherty possessed uncanny linguistic skills, speaking over forty languages, including Klingon, Romulan, Giamon, and Stroyerian. Flaherty would have been Riker’s first officer if he had accepted command of the Aries in 2365. (“The Icarus Factor” [TNG]).
~1:[3,#B],11:[1,#B]@1flaked blood fleas@2Ferengi delicacy. A favorite of Grand Nagus Zek. (“Rules of Acquisition” [DS9]).
~1:[1,#B]@1flan@2Earth dessert comprised of a molded custard topped with caramel syrup. (“Whispers” [DS9]).
~1:[1,#B],43:[4,#B],65:[1,#I],73:[2,#BI],93:[3,#B]@1Flavius@2(Rhodes Reason). Popular gladiator in the brutal televised Roman arena battles on planet Eight Ninety-Two-IV. Known in the arena as Flavius Maximus, he rejected the Roman culture of the planet and refused to kill when he heard the words of the Children of the Sun, choosing to live in a cave along with other believers. He was captured in 2267, along with the Enterprise landing party investigating the fate of the S.S. Beagle crew. Flavius was killed trying to prevent the televised execution of James Kirk. (“Bread and Circuses” [TOS]). SEE: Eight Ninety-Two-IV, Planet.
~1:[2,#B],9:[2,#B]@1Flaxian assassins@2Professional killers, sometimes employed by the Tal Shiar. (“Improbable Cause” [DS9]).
~1:[2,#B],28:[1,#I],37:[2,#I]@1Fleet Museum@2Starfleet facility honoring the people and vehicles that went boldly where none had gone before. One of the great ships on exhibit there is a Constitution -class vessel, a near duplicate of the original Starship Enterprise. (“Relics” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],5:[2,#B],19:[1,#I],29:[3,#B]@1fleet captain@2Starfleet rank. Christopher Pike was promoted to fleet captain after the end of his tenure as Enterprise commander. (“The Menagerie, Parts I and II” [TOS]). Captain Garth of Izar also served as fleet captain. (“Whom Gods Destroy” [TOS]).
~1:[2,#BI],6:[1,#I],13:[1,#I],28:[1,#I],35:[2,#B],43:[1,#I],63:[2,#B],72:[2,#B],80:[1,#I],90:[1,#I],97:[1,#I],101:[1,#I],113:[1,#I],115:[12,#I]@1Fleming, U.S.S.@2Federation medical transport, Wambundu class, Starfleet registry number NCC-20316. The Fleming disappeared in the Hekaras Corridor in 2370. At the time of her disappearance, the Fleming was carrying a rare and valuable biomimetic gel. It was initially feared that the Fleming might have been hijacked for this cargo, but the ship was discovered within the Corridor, disabled by a Hekaran verteron mine. Unfortunately, almost immediately following its discovery, a subspace rift formed within the Corridor, and the Fleming was trapped within the rift. The crew of the Enterprise -D was able to beam the Fleming personnel onto the Enterprise -D, but the ship itself was lost. (“Force of Nature” [TNG]). The Fleming was named for Sir Alexander Fleming, the British bacteriologist who discovered penicillin.
~1:[2,#B],3:[1,#I],14:[2,#B]@1Fletcher, Ensign@2Enterprise -D engineering crew member. During the ship’s mission to the Typhon Expanse in 2368, Fletcher was working with Commander Geordi La Forge on a catwalk over the warp core when La Forge became dizzy. Fletcher caught La Forge before he tumbled off the catwalk. (“Cause and Effect” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],16:[1,#B],18:[1,#B],48:[3,#BI],51:[5,#I],57:[2,#I],64:[6,#I],70:[2,#BI],72:[19,#I],94:[2,#BI],96:[5,#I]@1flight controller@2Aboard more recent Starfleet vessels, the control station and officer responsible for both helm and navigator functions. The flight controller (or conn) is the pilot of the ship. Conn is one of two freestanding consoles located ahead of the captain’s chair on many starship bridges. Geordi La Forge served as conn aboard the Enterprise -D during Star Trek: The Next Generation's first season, to be replaced by Wesley Crusher during the second and third seasons. Since then, a variety of supernumeraries and guest performers filled that duty. On Star Trek: Voyager Thomas Paris filled the duties of conn.
~1:[2,#B],44:[2,#I],64:[1,#BI],68:[7,#I],85:[2,#B],87:[1,#I],89:[5,#I],97:[6,#I]@1flight recorder@2Data storage system aboard starships that records critical information and images from various locations in the ship, intended for use after a major accident, to reconstruct the events leading up to the incident. Spock’s death in 2285 was recorded by the U.S.S. Enterprise flight recorder, and the playback of those images led Sarek and Kirk to believe Spock had placed his katra in McCoy’s consciousness. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock). In earlier ships, the flight recorder was also called a recorder marker. The Enterprise flight recorder computer voice in Star Trek III was provided by producer-writer Harve Bennett.
~1:[1,#B],10:[1,#B],87:[2,#B],139:[2,#B],143:[2,#I]@1Flint@2(James Daly). A nearly immortal human from planet Earth, born in Mesopotamia in 3834 BC. Flint was blessed with instant tissue regeneration, which allowed him to live through disease, war, accidents, and other calamities that killed other men. Flint soon learned to conceal his nature, living part of a life, marrying, pretending to age, then moving on before his immortality was suspected. During his life, his identities included Solomon, Alexander, Lazarus, Methuselah, and Johannes Brahms. In 2239, under the name of Brack, Flint purchased planet Holberg 917G, on which he built a castle where he could live undisturbed. Flint grew weary of his solitude and sought a companion who would be as immortal as he. His solution was to construct an android who would be his perfect woman. After several attempts, Flint created an android he called Rayna Kapec. When the Starship Enterprise visited Flint’s world in 2269, Flint deliberately allowed Rayna to interact with James Kirk, in hopes that Kirk would stir emotions in Rayna that would permit her to love Flint. Unfortunately, he was too successful. Rayna fell in love with Kirk, then died because she could not bear to hurt Flint. Shortly thereafter, Flint learned that he, too, was slowly dying because he had left the complex balance of Earth’s environment. Flint said he would devote the remaining portion of his life to the betterment of the human condition. (“Requiem for Methuselah” [TOS]).
~1:[1,#B],25:[1,#B],38:[1,#I],45:[2,#B]@1flintlock@2Primitive, muzzle-loading weapon that used an explosive charge to propel a small projectile. Klingon agents gave several flintlocks to the village people on Tyree's planet in 2267, upsetting the balance of power in that society until Enterprise personnel provided similar weapons to Tyree’s hill people. (“A Private Little War” [TOS]).
~1:[1,#B],7:[2,#B]@1flitterbird@2Avian life-form indigenous to planet Rhymus Major. (“Profit and Loss” [DS9]).
~1:[1,#B],13:[1,#B]@1floater@2Small hovercraft used for recreational transportation. Floaters were popular on planet Risa. (“Let He Who Is Without Sin…” [DS9]).
~1:[1,#B],14:[2,#B]@1flop@2Slang expression for a place to sleep, used by workers during Earth’s Great Depression of the 1930s. (“The City on the Edge of Forever” [TOS]).
~1:[2,#B],8:[1,#I],42:[1,#I],68:[2,#B],85:[4,#B],89:[20,#I]@1Flores, Marissa@2(Erika Flores). Daughter of an Enterprise -D crew member. Marissa was one of the winners of the primary-school science fair held aboard the ship in 2368. As a prize for her accomplishment, Marissa was awarded a tour of the Enterprise -D, personally conducted by Captain Picard. Marissa’s tour was delayed when she was trapped in a turbolift with the captain when the starship struck a quantum filament. Picard gave Marissa the honorary title of “Number One” during their escape. (“Disaster” [TNG]). SEE: Gordon, Jay; Supera, Patterson. Marissa’s last name was not given in dialog, but was printed on the plaque that the kids gave the captain.
~1:[1,#B],31:[2,#B]@1floriculture@2Cultivation of flowers or ornamental plants. Former Maquis crew member Lon Suder acquired an appreciation of floriculture from his brief mind-meld with Lieutenant Tuvok. (“Basics, Part I” [VGR]). SEE: Tuvok orchid
~1:[2,#B],12:[19,#I],35:[1,#I]@1flux capacitance@2A measurable physical property of energy flow. (“Prototype” [VGR]). This is a tip-of-the-hat reference to the flux capacitor, the key component in the time-traveling DeLorean automobile from Universal’s Back to the Future movies.
~1:[2,#B]@1flux generator@2Science and engineering instrument. A flux generator was located in the science lab on station Deep Space 9. (“Second Sight” [DS9]).
~1:[2,#B]@1flux spectrometer@2Sensor device used aboard Federation starships. (“Cause and Effect” [TNG]).
~1:[1,#B],10:[1,#B],31:[2,#B],43:[1,#I],66:[1,#I]@1foil@2Ancient weapon used in the Earth sport of fencing, it has a flexible, rectangular blade about one meter in length and a bell guard to protect the hand. Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu owned a foil, much to the chagrin of his fellow Enterprise crew members. (“The Naked Time” [TOS]). Captain Picard enjoyed the sport and instructed Guinan in the use of the foil during the Enterprise -D’s mission in the Argolis Cluster in 2368. (“I, Borg” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],20:[1,#B],27:[1,#B],43:[1,#B],47:[2,#B],59:[2,#B]@1folded-space transport@2Technology by which objects of almost any size could be transported across incredible distances almost instantaneously. The Sikarians used this technique in their spatial trajector, which permitted instantaneous travel across distances as great as 40,000 light-years. (“Prime Factors.” [VGR]). The Ansata terrorists of planet Rutia IV developed a cruder implementation of folded-space transport based on the Elway Theorem. (“The High Ground” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],7:[3,#B]@1Folnar III@2Planet. Origin of the Folnar jewel plant. (“Dark Page” [TNG]).
~1:[3,#B],7:[2,#B],27:[1,#I],29:[1,#B]@1Folnar jewel plant@2Plant from planet Folnar III that secretes a resin which hardens into a gem. A Folnar jewel plant could be found in the Enterprise -D arboretum. (“Dark Page” [TNG])
~1:[3,#B]@1food and beverages@2See related resource entry.
~1:[2,#B],44:[12,#I],57:[1,#BI]@1food slot@2Part of a food delivery system aboard older Federation starships. Food slots were available in crew recreation and dining facilities, as well as some work areas. (“Tomorrow is Yesterday” [TOS], “The Trouble With Tribbles” [TOS], “And the Children Shall Lead” [TOS]). “Flashback” (VGR) establishes that the food slots in Captain Kirk’s day were not replicators.
~1:[1,#B],4:[1,#B]@1foolie@2Slang on Miri's planet for a game or a practical joke. (“Miri” [TOS]).
~1:[1,#BI],11:[1,#I],19:[3,#B],24:[1,#I]@1foraiga@2A difficult-to-obtain Bajoran delicacy. A buffet held aboard the Enterprise -D on stardate 47941 in honor of Lieutenant Ro Laren featured real foraiga. (“Preemptive Strike” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B]@1foramen magnum@2In humanoid anatomy, the large opening at the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes and joins with the medulla oblongata. The foramen magnum is considered by some to be the focal point of the body’s bio-electric field. (“The Muse” [DS9]).
~1:[2,#B],7:[1,#BI],40:[3,#I]@1Forcas III@2Planet. Site where a bat’leth competition was held in 2370. Lieutenant Worf won Champion Standing at the competition in that year. (“Parallels” [TNG]). Data found the taste of a beige-colored drink from Forcas III to be “revolting.” (Star Trek Generations).
~1:[3,#B],19:[1,#B]@1forced neutrino inverter@2Explosive device. In 2371, a forced neutrino inverter was used in the bomb that destroyed Retaya's ship. (“Improbable Cause” [DS9]).
~1:[3,#B]@1forced plasma beam@2Destructive energy source used in Borg and Ferengi handheld weapons. (“Descent, Part I” [TNG]).
~1:[3,#B],10:[1,#B],54:[2,#B],62:[1,#B],93:[2,#I]@1Ford pickup truck@2Ancient wheeled, internal-combustion vehicle used on Earth during the 20th century. Manufactured by the Ford Motor Company of North America, used to transport small to medium payloads across land distances of several kilometers, often for light industrial or agricultural applications. A Ford pickup truck, manufactured in 1936 and owned by Jack Hayes, was captured in 1937 by the Briori, who transported the vehicle and Hayes to the Briori homeworld in the Delta Quadrant. Hayes’s vehicle was abandoned in orbit above the Briori planet, where it was discovered by the Starship Voyager in 2371. (“The 37’s” [VGR]).
~1:[2,#B],10:[2,#B]@1Forlat III@2Class-M planet that was attacked by the Crystalline Entity. Colonists on the planet fled into caves in an attempt to escape the entity, but that did not protect them. (“Silicon Avatar” [TNG]).
~1:[1,#B],11:[1,#I],16:[1,#B],22:[1,#B]@1formazine@2Federation standard stimulant, often administered by hypospray. After the Enterprise was commandeered by the Kelvans in 2268, Dr. McCoy convinced Hanar that his body required vitamin injections, but instead delivered doses of formazine, causing all-too-human emotional irritation. (“By Any Other Name” [TOS]).
~1:[2,#B],43:[2,#B],54:[1,#B]@1Forrester-Trent Syndrome@2Degenerative neurological disorder. It is very rare, but if left untreated, can result in paralysis and even death. The syndrome is usually hereditary but can be activated by a random mutation. A neurostabilization regimen can stabilize or reverse the disease. Jason Vigo was diagnosed as having Forrester-Trent in 2370, caused when Bok secretly resequenced Vigo’s DNA to make him appear to be Picard’s genetic progeny. (“Bloodlines” [TNG]).
~1:[1,#B],8:[2,#B]@1fortanium@2Substance used in construction of the D’Arsay Archive. (“Masks” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],8:[1,#B],21:[1,#B],27:[2,#B],74:[2,#B],94:[2,#I],127:[11,#I]@1Founder Leader@2(Salome Jens). Member of the Founders. This metamorphic individual assumed a female humanoid form in 2371 to greet Odo when he returned to the Founders’ homeworld. She instructed him in the ways and history of her people. She also told Odo of his origin. (“The Search, Parts I and II” [DS9]). To learn why Odo chose to live among the solids rather than his own people, on stardate 48521 she impersonated Kira Nerys and pretended to be trapped on a distant moon with Odo. (“Heart of Stone” [DS9]). She boarded the Starship Defiant on stardate 49962.4 to escort Odo to the Founders’ homeworld to be judged by the Great Link. The Great Link judged him and made him a human being. (“Broken Link” [DS9]). Salome Jens previously portrayed the ancient humanoid in “The Chase” (TNG).
~1:[2,#B],10:[2,#B],14:[2,#B],30:[1,#B],37:[1,#B],46:[2,#B],49:[2,#B],100:[4,#B]@1Founders’ homeworld@2Sunless Class-M planet located somewhere in the Omarion Nebula in the Gamma Quadrant. The planet was the home of the reclusive civilization of shape-shifters known as the Founders and the central planet of the Dominion. (“The Search, Part I” [DS9]). In 2371, the Tal Shiar and Obsidian Order launched a massive attack against the Founders’ homeworld, bombarding the planet’s surface with a fleet of 20 starships. Neither attacker realized that the Founders had evacuated the planet, or that they had a fleet of 150 Jem’Hadar ships waiting to destroy the invaders. (“The Die is Cast” [DS9]). SEE: Lovok, Colonel; Tain, Enabran.
~1:[1,#B],5:[1,#B],10:[1,#B],13:[2,#B],33:[1,#B],50:[2,#B],120:[3,#B],125:[1,#B],197:[2,#B],297:[2,#B],307:[1,#B],342:[1,#B],349:[2,#B],363:[1,#B],468:[2,#B],474:[1,#B],486:[2,#B],496:[2,#B],500:[2,#B],525:[2,#B],537:[1,#B],540:[1,#B],562:[2,#B],573:[2,#B],595:[1,#B],617:[1,#B],649:[2,#B]@1Founders@2Ancient civilization of shape-shifters, the architects of the Dominion in the Gamma Quadrant. Long ago, the Founders explored the galaxy, but found themselves to be feared, hunted and killed by the solids, their term for non-shape-shifters. Out of self-defense, the Founders retreated to the a planet in the Omarion Nebula. From this location, the Founders established the Dominion, through which they controlled hundreds of planets throughout the Gamma Quadrant, imposing order through ruthless violence and fear. Although isolated, the Founders did not lose their curiosity about the universe. They sent a hundred infant members of their species across the galaxy, implanting in each a powerful desire to return home, so that the Founders could learn about distant places. Deep Space 9 security chief Odo was one of these infants. The Founders had a strong family link to each member of their species, and it has been said that no shape-shifter has ever killed another. (“The Search, Parts I and II” [DS9]). Another of these changeling infants ended up on Deep Space 9 in 2373. Odo began to rear the infant, until it died of radiation that it had been exposed to while in space. SEE: changeling infant. (“The Begotten” [DS9]). The Founders’ ability to assume the shape of an object is so complete that a Founder in the guise of an individual of another species is virtually undetectable, even with sophisticated scanning equipment. Should, however, a piece of a Founder’s body be separated from the main body mass, the separated piece reverts to its normal gelatinous state. (“The Adversary” [DS9]). Starfleet phasers set to a force of 3.5 were sufficient to force a Founder to revert to a gelatinous state. (“Homefront” [DS9]). Founders also revert to a gelatinous state upon death. (“Apocalypse Rising” [DS9]). SEE: morphogenic enzyme.
The Founders used a warrior species called the Jem’Hadar to force compliance of the various members of the Dominion. (“The Jem’Hadar” [DS9]). The Founders maintained control of the powerful Jem’Hadar through the use of genetic engineering, altering Jem’Hadar physiology to be dependent on ketracel-white (also known simply as “white,” an isogenic enzyme), a drug that only the Founders could supply, through their agents, the Vorta. (“The Abandoned,” et al. [DS9]). Some Vorta agents suspected that even this extreme measure may not have been sufficient to control the Jem’Hadar’s powerfully violent tendencies. (“To the Death” [DS9]). Most Jem’Hadar spent their entire lives without meeting a Founder. To them, the Founders were thought of as myths (“Hippocratic Oath” [DS9]) or even gods. (“To the Death” [DS9]). On stardate 50049.3, a Founder was mortally injured when a Jem’Hadar ship crash-landed on planet Torga IV. The Jem’Hadar that came to rescue him, having failed in their mission, committed suicide for letting the Founder die. (“The Ship” [DS9]).
In 2371, the Founders learned of Enabran Tain's scheme to attack the Dominion. They took advantage of the situation, staging an ambush in the Omarion Nebula that virtually annihilated the armed forces of the Obsidian Order and the Tal Shiar. The incident substantially reduced the ability of the Alpha Quadrant powers to resist a potential Dominion invasion. (“The Die is Cast” [DS9]). SEE: Lovok, Colonel. The Founders also tried to initiate a war between the Federation and the Tzenkethi, hoping to make the Alpha Quadrant more susceptible to Dominion attacks. (“The Adversary.” [DS9]). Sometime before 2373, the Founders replaced Klingon General Martok, in hopes the Dominion could gain control over the Klingon Empire. In order to reduce suspicions on the ersatz Martok, the Founders, through the Great Link, caused Odo to believe that Gowron, not Martok, had been replaced by a changeling. (“Apocalypse Rising” [DS9]).
In 2373, the Founders entered into an alliance with the Cardassian Union, giving the Dominion a significant foothold in the Alpha Quadrant. The agreement was a source of great concern to many Alpha Quadrant powers, and resulted in the reinstatement of the Khitomer Accords. (“By Inferno’s Light” [DS9]).
~1:[2,#B],27:[3,#B],51:[2,#B]@1Fourier series@2Mathematical method derived by Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830). The system can define any periodic function as a sum of sine and cosine waves. Dr. Noonien Soong utilized a Fourier system to give an appearance of randomness to the eye-blink pattern of his androids. (“Inheritance” [TNG]). Twentieth-century astronomer Rain Robinson used Fourier spectral analysis in her investigation of an extraterrestrial radio source in 1996, although Tom Paris thought her curves didn’t look so good. (“Future’s End, Part I” [VGR]).
~1:[2,#B],8:[1,#B],33:[2,#B]@1Fourth Order@2Cardassian military division posted near Bajor shortly after the Cardassian retreat from that planet in 2369. The Fourth Order was not close enough to prevent Starfleet personnel from claiming the Bajoran wormhole for the people of Bajor. (“Emissary” [DS9]).
~1:[2,#B],5:[2,#B],15:[3,#B]@1Fowla system@2In the mirror universe, star system that was under the jurisdiction of Terok Nor (mirror) in 2370. (“Crossover” [DS9]).
~1:[3,#B],11:[1,#I],21:[2,#B],34:[1,#I],54:[1,#B]@1Fox, Ambassador Robert@2(Gene Lyons). Federation ambassador sent aboard the Enterprise on a diplomatic mission to establish contact with planet Eminiar VII in 2267. Fox disregarded a signal from the planet warning the Enterprise to stay away. When it was learned that Eminiar had been embroiled in a bitter war with neighboring planet Vendikar that had lasted for five centuries, Fox offered his services as mediator. (“A Taste of Armageddon” [TOS]).
