1:[2,#B]@1ear-lift surgery@2Cosmetic surgery performed on Ferengi to make their earlobes firmer. In 2374 Ishka traveled to Vulcan for cosmetic ear-lifting surgery to improve her looks. (“The Magnificent Ferengi” [DS9]).
~1:[1,#B],32:[2,#B],36:[2,#B],42:[2,#B],44:[12,#I],89:[1,#B],112:[2,#B],149:[2,#B],187:[3,#B],210:[3,#B],250:[2,#B],277:[2,#B],284:[1,#B],316:[4,#I],355:[3,#B],358:[2,#I],360:[1,#B],425:[1,#B],471:[3,#B],504:[1,#B]@1Earth@2Third planet in the Sol system, a Class-M world located in Sector 001. (“The Best of Both Worlds, Part II” [TNG]). Homeworld to the human civilization, and location of the Federation Council and the Federation President’s office, as well as Starfleet Command. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country). Although humans did not make official contact with extraterrestrial intelligence until the 21st century, the planet received several visitors from space before then. Among these was a small Ferengi vessel that landed near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947. (“Little Green Men” [DS9]). In the past, social inequities plagued Earth. Symptomatic were 21st-century relocation camps called Sanctuary Districts, established in American cities, isolating the homeless, the unemployed, and the mentally ill from the rest of society. The Sanctuary Districts bred one of the most violent civil uprisings in American history, known as the Bell Riots, in September of 2024. This bloody revolt changed American public opinion about the Sanctuaries and forced the people of the United States to finally begin dealing with their social problems. (“Past Tense, Part I” [DS9]). SEE: Bell, Gabriel; gimme. A very sad chapter in Earth history was written when the planet suffered its last world war, in 2053. During World War III, millions of people perished in a massive nuclear exchange that destroyed most of the major cities on Earth and eliminated most national governments. A dark decade ensued, during which most of the planet reverted to barbarism. This postatomic horror began to ease on April 4, 2063, when space pioneer Zefram Cochrane conducted his planet’s first faster-than-light spaceflight. Cochrane’s flight was directly responsible for Earth’s first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, the Vulcans, on the following day. The event gave humanity the perspective it needed to begin a remarkable renaissance, bringing a virtual end to war, poverty, and disease over the next five decades. (Star Trek: First Contact).Earth’s first world government was established only a few decades later, in 2150. (“Attached” [TNG]). In the 24th century, Earth is virtually a paradise, with no poverty, crime, or war. (“The Maquis, Part II” [DS9]). SEE: Paris; San Francisco. Mostly harmless.
Addendum: Third planet in the Sol system. Millions of years ago, Earth was dominated by a wide variety of reptilian life-forms, including those later known as dinosaurs. Most dinosaurs became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period some 60 million years ago. However, some hadrosaurs survived on an isolated land mass, where they evolved into an intelligent species that eventually became known as the Voth. Although the Voth homeland on Earth was eventually destroyed, the technologically advanced Voth had by that time developed spaceflight capability, and survived by traveling into space. They eventually settled in the Delta Quadrant of the galaxy, where they lost all records of their origin. SEE: Distant Origin Theory. (“Distant Origin” [VGR]). In the 24th century, Earth was home to many species such as Bolians, Vulcans, and Ktarians. (“Hope and Fear” [VGR]). Earth suffered a major attack by the Breen in 2375 when the Dominion war reached into the heart of Federation space. The city of San Francisco, headquarters for the Starfleet, suffered massive damage and loss of life in the attack. (“The Changing Face of Evil” [DS9]).
~1:[2,#B],9:[2,#B],22:[2,#BI],38:[8,#I]@1Eaton, Julius@2(Alexander Siddig). Twentieth-century Earth writer of science fiction and fantasy. Eaton was a staff contributor to the pulp magazine Incredible Tales. Eaton was married to Kay Eaton, a fellow writer. (“Far Beyond the Stars” [DS9]). Alexander Siddig also played Dr. Julian Bashir on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
~1:[2,#B],10:[2,#B],19:[2,#BI],77:[14,#I]@1Eaton, Kay@2(Nana Visitor). Author who in 1953 wrote science fiction and fantasy stories for the pulp magazine Incredible Tales. Eaton resided in the Earth city of New York and was married to Julius Eaton and worked under the pen name of K.C. Hunter. Eaton used the sexually ambiguous pseudonym to conceal her gender because Earth society of that day did not give equal respect or equal pay to women writers. (“Far Beyond the Stars” [DS9]). Nana Visitor also played Kira Nerys, although Kay did not have a wrinkled nose.
~1:[4,#B],8:[2,#B],12:[2,#I],45:[1,#B]@1Echoes of the Void@2Concerto written by Harry Kim aboard the Starship Voyager in 2375. Kim, who performed the piece on his clarinet, was inspired to write “Echoes of the Void” when the ship traveled through the seemingly endless expanse informally known as the Void in the Delta Quadrant. (“Night” [VGR]).
Addendum: Starfleet officer who joined the Maquis terrorist group. Eddington married fellow Maquis member Rebecca Sullivan in 2373. Two weeks later, he was arrested by Starfleet authorities. He was released several months later when it was feared that Eddington’s Maquis group had engineered a devastating missile attack against Cardassia Prime, an attack that could have drawn both the Cardassians and the Federation into an all-out war. Captain Benjamin Sisko transported Eddington to the Badlands to persuade him to provide information on the suspected sneak attack, but learned that there was in fact no attack in progress. The apparent attack was a fake engineered by Eddington’s wife. Once in the Badlands, Eddington was killed by Jem’Hadar troops while helping Sisko evacuate the surviving members of Eddington’s Maquis group from planet Athos IV. Rebecca Sullivan was among the survivors. (“Blaze of Glory” [DS9]).
~1:[1,#B],18:[1,#B]@1Eelwasser@2Brand name of a popular Ferengi beverage sold on Ferenginar and elsewhere. Eelwasser’s chief competitor was Slug-o-Cola. (“Profit and Lace” [DS9]).
~1:[3,#B],5:[2,#B]@1Eight-four-seven-two (8472), Species@2SEE: Species 8472.
~1:[2,#B],41:[2,#B],45:[1,#B],92:[3,#B],96:[3,#B],103:[1,#B],170:[2,#B]@1Einstein, Albert@2(Jim Morton). Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist (1879-1955), regarded as one of the greatest scientific minds of 20th-century Earth. Einstein postulated the theory of relativity and spent much of his later life attempting to unify relativity with quantum mechanics. Reginald Barclay, using his Cytherian-enhanced intelligence, spent a night in 2367 discussing grand unification theories with a holodeck simulation of Albert Einstein. (“The Nth Degree” [TNG]). The holographic Einstein was later enlisted by Data in a customized holodeck program that allowed him to play poker with such scientific luminaries as Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, and Professor Stephen Hawking. (“Descent, Part I” [TNG]).
Addendum: Theoretical physicist on 20th-century Earth. Einstein’s work contributed significantly to the invention of deadly nuclear fission weapons by his people. Einstein regretted his role in developing the atomic bomb for the remainder of his life, despite the fact that its use was instrumental in ending Earth’s devastating second world war in 1945. In 2374, Starfleet captain Kathryn Janeway, wrestling with the discovery of the incredibly destructive Omega molecule, came to understand how Einstein must have felt about the atomic bomb. (“The Omega Directive” [VGR]).
~1:[2,#B],20:[1,#B]@1El Gatark@2Region of space in Federation territory. El Gatark was held by enemy forces in 2374 during the Dominion war. (“Valiant” [DS9]).
~1:[1,#B],4:[1,#B]@1Elder@2In the Jem’Hadar culture, a title conveying great honor, bestowed upon a soldier who has survived to the advanced age of 20. (“To the Death” [DS9]). Ixtana’Rax was an Elder. (“One Little Ship” [DS9]).
~1:[3,#B]@1electron resonance scanner@2Medical imaging device. In 2374, the Doctor used an electron resonance scanner to help determine that genetic tags had been secretly placed in the crew by the Srivani. (“Scientific Method” [VGR]).
~1:[1,#B],27:[1,#B]@1eliminator@2In Ferengi society, an individual who earns his living by murdering people in exchange for payment. Eliminators are generally regarded by some as being psychopathic. Leck was an eliminator. (“The Magnificent Ferengi” [DS9]).
~1:[2,#B],15:[2,#I],62:[2,#B]@1Ellison, Ralph@2Twentieth-century Earth writer who won prominence with his first and only novel, Invisible Man (1952). The book was the powerful story of an African-American man who traveled from the southern region of his country to a northern community called Harlem, where he fought for social justice against racial discrimination, only to be ignored by those he’d hoped to help. Benny Russell drew inspiration from Ellison’s work. (“Far Beyond the Stars” [DS9]).
~1:[1,#B],15:[1,#B],41:[3,#I]@1Ellora@2Humanoid civilization. The Ellora were conquered early in the 24th century by the Son’a. By the late 24th century, the Ellora were integrated into Son’a society as a labor class. Elloran women were indentured as servants on Son’a spacecraft. (Star Trek: Insurrection).
~1:[2,#B],8:[1,#B],45:[1,#B],61:[2,#B],90:[1,#I]@1Emck, Controller@2(Ken Magee). Master of a Malon export vessel that operated in the eleventh gradient. Emck engaged in the highly profitable business of disposing of his nation’s toxic antimatter waste products by dumping them into a region of space informally known as the Void. Unfortunately, this practice produced high levels of hazardous theta radiation, which was severely deleterious to night beings living in the Void. When Emck learned of this, he elected to continue dumping anyway, until he was forced to discontinue the practice by the Federation starship Voyager. (“Night” [VGR]).
~1:[5,#B],18:[3,#B],53:[1,#I],75:[1,#B],77:[1,#B],124:[1,#I],132:[1,#B],155:[2,#I]@1Emergency Medical Hologram backup module@2(Robert Picardo). Redundant EMH program unit carried by some Federation starships. The Emergency Medical Hologram backup module was intended to provide medical services for the ship’s crew in the event that the main EMH program was damaged or destroyed. The EMH backup module from the Federation starship Voyager was stolen by followers of Tedran in the Delta Quadrant in late 2374. The module was subsequently lost for several centuries. Kyrian historian Quarren discovered the unit in 3074 under ruins in Kesef. Once reactivated, the backup holographic doctor served as an eyewitness to a critical period in ancient Kyrian history. Quarren and other Kyrian scholars were startled to learn that Kyrian assumptions about the 24th century were seriously mistaken. Voyager's backup EMH later served the Kyrian and Vaskan people as Surgical Chancellor, a post he held for many years. Eventually, curious as to the fate of his friends on the Starship Voyager, whom he missed very much, the backup EMH took a small craft and set course for the Alpha Quadrant. (“Living Witness” [VGR]).
~1:[3,#B],16:[2,#BI],24:[2,#BI],30:[1,#I]@1Emergency Medical Hologram-2@2(Andy Dick). Experimental holographic program. EMH-2 was a prototype installed aboard the U.S.S. Prometheus in 2374 for field tests. When Starship Voyager's EMH arrived on the Prometheus, EMH-2 believed himself to be a more advanced hologram, but quickly realized that he needed help to defeat invading Romulans. (“Message in a Bottle” [VGR]).
~1:[3,#B],15:[2,#I],65:[2,#B],71:[3,#B],75:[2,#B],143:[1,#I],145:[2,#I],159:[1,#I],164:[2,#B],189:[15,#I],236:[2,#BI],290:[1,#B],329:[1,#B],398:[1,#B],496:[1,#I],579:[2,#B],582:[2,#B],592:[2,#B],600:[2,#B],603:[1,#B],622:[1,#I],671:[2,#I],738:[2,#B],784:[1,#I],794:[2,#B],817:[2,#B],826:[1,#I],845:[1,#I],866:[2,#B],894:[2,#B],962:[1,#I],1005:[1,#I],1011:[2,#B],1018:[2,#B],1022:[1,#I],1089:[2,#B],1099:[14,#I],1116:[83,#I],1199:[1,#B],1205:[3,#I],1233:[1,#I],1282:[5,#B],1334:[1,#I],1380:[14,#I],1394:[2,#BI],1396:[2,#I],1442:[1,#B],1475:[1,#I]@1Emergency Medical Hologram@2(Robert Picardo). Holographic program available on some Federation starships, including the U.S.S. Voyager, intended as a short-term supplement to medical personnel in emergency situations. The EMH manifested himself as a humanoid physician, and could treat virtually any injury or known disease, but could function only in areas equipped with holographic projectors. (“Caretaker” [VGR]). The Emergency Medical Hologram was developed at Starfleet’s Jupiter Station and was designed by Dr. Lewis Zimmerman. Lieutenant Reginald Barclay was a member of Zimmerman’s development team, in charge of testing the EMH’s interpersonal skills. (“Projections” [VGR]). The EMH program caused holographic projectors not only to generate an image of a person, but also to create a magnetic containment field, within which electromagnetic energy was trapped, thereby giving the Doctor the ability to physically manipulate real objects such as patients and medical instruments. (“Phage” [VGR]). The Sovereign -class Starship Enterprise -E, launched in 2372, was also equipped with an Emergency Medical Hologram. Enterprise -E chief medical officer Beverly Crusher was not fond of the EMH program, although he proved useful in protecting the ship’s medical staff during the Borg invasion of 2373. (Star Trek: First Contact). Robert Picardo made a cameo appearance as the holographic doctor in Star Trek: First Contact. Zimmerman’s team also worked to develop a more sophisticated version, called the long-term medical hologram (LMH). (“Doctor Bashir, I Presume?” [DS9]).
After the entire medical staff of the U.S.S. Voyager were killed in 2371 during the ship’s rough passage to the Delta Quadrant, the ship’s Emergency Medical Hologram became the only source of medical treatment for the crew. (“Caretaker” [VGR]).
The Doctor was programmed with over five million possible treatments, with contingency options and adaptive programs (“Ex Post Facto” [VGR]) utilizing sophisticated multitronic pathway programming. (“The Swarm” [VGR]). He was programmed with information from 2,000 medical references and the experience of 47 physicians. (“Parallax” [VGR]). The EMH program, which was first activated on stardate 48308, consisted of more than fifty million gigaquads of computer data and was equipped with the medical knowledge of more than three thousand cultures. (“Lifesigns” [VGR]). His knowledge of medical treatments included those based on psychospiritual beliefs such as those employed by some of Earth’s Native Americans. (“Cathexis” [VGR]). The EMH’s programming was extremely sophisticated, permitting him to learn from new data and experiences, and even to be creative. Shortly after stardate 48532, when crew member Neelix’s lungs were removed, the doctor saved Neelix’s life by devising a means of creating a pair of holographic lungs, using the holographic emitters in sickbay. (“Phage” [VGR]). The EMH was definitely capable of independent thought. In 2372, he refused a direct order to separate Tuvix into Tuvok and Neelix. He did so because obeying the order would have required him to take a life, violating his doctor’s oath to do no harm. (“Tuvix” [VGR]).
So sophisticated was the holographic doctor’s program that he was a sentient life-form. He therefore found it frustrating when some members of the Voyager crew treated him as an inanimate computer program. Captain Janeway ordered that the EMH be given control over his own deactivation sequence, in order to avoid the indignity of his being deactivated by others. (“Eye of the Needle” [VGR]). The Doctor’s role as sole medical professional on the ship caused him to undergo significant growth as a sentient life-form. One of his early steps in this growth process was his search for a name for himself. Among the names he considered were Benjamin Spock and Jonas Salk. (“Ex Post Facto” [VGR]). He also thought about Albert Schweitzer. (“Heroes and Demons” [VGR]). Vidiian physician Danara Pel suggested Shmullus, after her beloved uncle. (“Lifesigns” [VGR]). (In one possible future visited by Kes, the holographic doctor aboard the Voyager decided on the name Dr. van Gogh, after being known as Dr. Mozart for a time.) (“Before and After” [VGR].) The doctor was not programmed to bleed or to feel pain. (“Projections” [VGR]). When activated, the Emergency Medical Hologram established communication links with all key areas of the Starship Voyager. He sometimes used this ability to surreptitiously listen to conversations throughout the ship, until Captain Janeway ordered him to refrain from eavesdropping. (“Parturition” [VGR]). The Doctor was sensitive to criticisms that, as a synthetic life-form, he would have difficulties empathizing with the suffering of an organic patient. In order to address this potential weakness, he once programmed himself with a holographic simulation of the 29-hour Levodian flu so that he could experience the disease process. (“Tattoo” [VGR]). His programming did not include the ability to cry. (“Threshold” [VGR]).
The EMH undertook his first away mission on stardate 48693. He was dispatched to the ship’s holodeck to investigate the disappearance of three Voyager crew members. He was successful in interacting with a photonic being that had taken up residence on the holodeck and in gaining the return of the missing crew. His actions during this first contact mission gained him a special commendation from Voyager Captain Janeway. (“Heroes and Demons” [VGR]). On stardate 48892, a surge of kinoplastic radiation caused a malfunction in Voyager’s holodeck circuits, trapping the Doctor in a delusional reality in which he briefly believed he was a real person named Lewis Zimmerman. In this fantasy, the Doctor imagined he was married to a human woman named Kes Zimmerman. (“Projections” [VGR]). In 2372, he fell in love with Vidiian Danara Pel. (“Lifesigns” [VGR]).
The holographic doctor was designed as a short-term supplement for medical personnel, not to be used for more than 1,500 hours. By stardate 50252.3, this limit had been greatly exceeded, and the EMH suffered level-4 memory fragmentation, resulting in rapid deterioration of program function. Rather than re-initialize the EMH, which would caused him to forget everything he had learned, including growth of personality, the Voyager crew instead decided to merge the EMH’s program matrix with that of the Jupiter Station EMH diagnostic program. The matrix overlay process worked to maintain the integrity of the EMH, but his memory was not fully restored. (“The Swarm” [VGR]). When the Voyager visited Earth’s past of 1996, Henry Starling fitted the EMH with an autonomous holo-emitter. When the Voyager’s crew returned to their own time period, the doctor retained the holo-emitter, which gave him the ability to operate outside of sickbay, even in areas without holographic emitters. (“Future’s End, Part II” [VGR]).
In 2373, the Emergency Medical Hologram created a personality-improvement holographic program that incorporated several historic characters’ personalities into his subroutines. Unfortunately, the unsavory side of these characters turned the EMH to evil until B’Elanna Torres purged the personalities from his memory. (“Darkling” [VGR]).
The holographic doctor’s first appearance was in “Caretaker” (VGR). During the early days of Star Trek: Voyager, the show’s producers had planned for the Doctor to choose the name Zimmerman for himself, and scripts for the show’s first season referred to the character as Dr. Zimmerman. By the end of the first season, this plan was changed, and later scripts referred to the character simply as the Doctor, although the scientist who developed the program became known as Lewis Zimmerman, who was also played by Robert Picardo. The holographic doctor’s eventual name, if any, remains a mystery at this writing.
Addendum: Chief medical officer aboard the Starship Voyager. Voyager's EMH was activated on stardate 48315. (“Year of Hell, Part I” [VGR]). The Doctor strove continuously to improve himself and his ability to serve the Voyager crew. In one such effort in 2373, the Doctor devised a custom holodeck program to permit him to experience human family life. He found the program to be surprisingly profound, as he had not anticipated the depth of emotions triggered at the death of a family member. SEE: Belle; Doctor’s family program Beta-Rho. (“Real Life” [VGR]). On stardate 50912, the EMH’s optical sensors were reconfigured so he could see into the microwave range of the electromagnetic spectrum. (“Displaced” [VGR]). In 2374, the EMH traveled to the Alpha Quadrant and was successful in informing Starfleet Command of the fact that the Voyager had not been destroyed three years previously, but had in fact been pulled across the galaxy to the Delta Quadrant. Emergency Medical Hologram programs are not equipped with genitalia; however, the Doctor altered his program to allow for sexual relations. (“Message in a Bottle” [VGR]). It is somewhat unclear with whom he had sex, but speculation might point to Danara Pel (“Lifesigns” [VGR]). The Doctor learned, however, that not all improvements were positive experiences. Around stardate 51658, using a new psychiatric subroutine, the Doctor recovered memories from Seven of Nine’s mind that had apparently been repressed after a traumatic experience. This evidence, which appeared to implicate an Entharan trader of a serious crime, was later found to be erroneous, but resulted in the death of the trader. The Doctor later felt great remorse for his errors in the case, and Voyager captain Janeway expressed confidence that the experience would help him perform his duties with greater wisdom. (“Retrospect” [VGR]).
~1:[2,#B],7:[1,#B]@1emitter stage@2Component of a Federation phaser weapon. (“Soldiers of the Empire” [DS9]).
~1:[1,#B],11:[2,#BI],23:[1,#B]@1Emmanuel@2Starfleet officer. Emmanuel was a crew member on board U.S.S. Voyager. (In an alternate timeline, crewman Emmanuel was killed during a Krenim attack in 2374.). (“Year of Hell, Part I” [VGR]).
~1:[2,#B],29:[2,#B],34:[3,#B],106:[2,#B],130:[2,#B],142:[1,#B],162:[18,#I]@1Empok Nor@2Cardassian space station located in the Trivas system. Empok Nor, which was abandoned by the Cardassian military in 2372, was nearly identical in design to station Terok Nor. A team from Deep Space 9 conducted a salvage mission to Empok Nor in 2373 to obtain abandoned Cardassian hardware for use on the former Terok Nor. As a precaution against such unauthorized intruders, three soldiers of the Cardassian First Order’s Third Battalion were left behind in stasis to defend the station if need be. Their stasis chambers were programmed to revive them if station sensors detected an intruder. The soldiers were treated with powerful psychotropic drugs, giving them a heightened sense of paranoia toward outsiders, making them even more effective at defending the station. (“Empok Nor” [DS9]). SEE: pattern scrambler. Nearly a year later, a team of mercenaries led by Quark met at Empok Nor with a Dominion contingent for the purposes of a prisoner exchange. (“The Magnificent Ferengi” [DS9]). Empok Nor and its interior sets were, of course, re-dresses of standing sets of station Deep Space 9.
~1:[2,#BI],5:[1,#I],23:[1,#B],28:[3,#B],38:[1,#I],49:[1,#I],56:[1,#B],75:[1,#I],85:[1,#I],95:[1,#B],102:[5,#I],109:[15,#I],124:[1,#B],128:[1,#I],157:[1,#I],159:[26,#I],186:[17,#I],207:[22,#I],230:[14,#I],248:[6,#I],255:[9,#I]@1Endeavour, U.S.S.@2Federation starship, Nebula class, Starfleet registry number NCC-71805. It served in Picard’s armada to blockade Romulan supply ships supplying the Duras family forces during the Klingon civil war of 2367-2368. (“Redemption, Part II” [TNG]). The Endeavour was stationed in the Cleon Sector later in 2368 when Enterprise -D crew members were controlled by Ktarian operatives seeking to gain control of Starfleet. Commander William Riker was ordered to pilot a shuttle to the Endeavour to spread the Ktarian takeover. (“The Game” [TNG]). The Endeavor was part of the Starfleet armada that intercepted a Borg cube at Earth on stardate 50893. (Star Trek: First Contact). The Starship Endeavour was named in honor of British explorer James Cook’s flagship and for NASA’s space shuttle.
Addendum: Federation starship. The Endeavour was commanded by Captain Amasov, and was the only starship to survive the disastrous encounter with the Borg at Wolf 359 in early 2367. (“Scorpion, Part I” [VGR]). The Endeavour appears to have been the sole survivor of the battle of Wolf 359, although this was not explicitly established in any episode. We know that the Endeavour was still around in 2373 because it was part of the armada that met the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact. Nevertheless, Amasov’s first-hand experiences with the Borg (from which Janeway read in “Scorpion, Part I”) had to have been recorded before the Voyager departed from Deep Space 9 in 2371, which was before the Borg battle in Star Trek: First Contact. It therefore seems likely that the Endeavour (and Amasov) were also at Wolf 359 in 2367.
~1:[2,#B],7:[1,#B]@1engram transcriptor@2Device used by the Mari Constabulary to record an individual’s thoughts for later examination. (“Random Thoughts” [VGR]).
