1:[2,#B]@1Yadozi Desert@2A legendary dry environment. Odo compared the possibilty of Dax being infatuated with Quark as being as likely as finding a drink of water in the Yadozi Desert. (“A Man Alone” [DS9]).
~1:[2,#B],10:[2,#B],74:[1,#I],80:[2,#B],82:[13,#I],95:[2,#BI],97:[4,#I],101:[2,#BI],103:[6,#I]@1Yale, Mirasta@2(Carolyn Seymour). Minister of Science on planet Malcor III. Yale supervised her planet's development of warp-drive technology and was a strong advocate of her people's space exploration programs in 2367. Prior to the construction of the first warp-powered spacecraft, the discovery of a covert Federation presence on Malcor III led the conservative Malcorian government to delay the planet's space program. Yale chose to leave her planet and explore space aboard the Enterprise -D. (“First Contact” [TNG]). SEE: first contact. Carolyn Seymour has not only played a Malcorian, but two Romulans. She portrayed Subcommander Taris in “Contagion” (TNG) and Commander Toreth in “Face of the Enemy” (TNG).
~1:[2,#BI],3:[1,#I],9:[3,#B],21:[1,#I],29:[1,#I],37:[1,#B],77:[1,#I],87:[2,#I],90:[51,#I],144:[30,#I],175:[43,#I],220:[30,#I],251:[21,#I]@1Yamato, U.S.S.@2Galaxy -class Federation starship commanded by Captain Donald Varley. Starfleet registry number NCC-71807. A sister ship of the Enterprise -D. (“Where Silence Has Lease” [TNG]). The Yamato was destroyed in 2365 by an ancient Iconian computer software weapon that caused the failure of the ship's antimatter containment system, resulting in the ship's explosion and the loss of all hands. The software weapon had also been responsible for a series of other malfunctions aboard the Yamato including the failure of a shuttlebay forcefield. (“Contagion” [TNG]).
Although the Yamato's registry number was established in “Contagion” to be NCC-71807, an earlier, incorrect number was given in “Where Silence Has Lease,” when an illusory version of that ship was seen. An early draft for that episode gave the number as NCC-1305E, which didn't fit into the numbering scheme developed for starships in The Next Generation. Mike Okuda wrote a note to the producers, requesting the number be changed, but didn't send the memo because a later draft of that script dropped the reference to the Yamato's registry number. Mike wasn't aware that an even later draft of the script restored the scene and the incorrect number. By the time he found out (when he saw the completed episode on the air), he had already prepared the markings for the U.S.S. Yamato saucer, for the scene when that ship blew up in the episode “Contagion” (TNG). Named for the Japanese World War II battleship. The dedication plaque for the bridge of the Yamato bore a motto from Thomas Jefferson: “I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
~1:[1,#BI],2:[1,#B],10:[1,#B],12:[1,#B],17:[1,#I],24:[1,#B],32:[3,#B],52:[1,#B],63:[2,#B],66:[1,#I],70:[1,#BI],71:[1,#B]@1yamok sauce@2Cardassian foodstuff and condiment. On stardate 46844, Ferengi tradesman Quark had 5,000 wrappages of yamok sauce, a considerable surplus since his Cardassian clientele had fallen off sharply when station Deep Space 9 was taken over by Starfleet. Quark didn't know what to do with the stuff, so his nephew Nog used it in a business venture (“Progress” [DS9]). The Cardassian, Aamin Marritza, liked yamok sauce on his sem'hal stew. (“Duet” [DS9]).
~1:[1,#B],6:[1,#B],10:[1,#B],18:[1,#B],28:[3,#B]@1Yanar@2(Rosalind Ingledew). Daughter of Debin from the planet Altec. Yanar had been secretly engaged to marry Benzan of Straleb, and nearly triggered a breakdown of the Coalition of Madena when she accepted the Jewel of Thesia from Benzan as a pledge of marriage. (“The Outrageous Okona” [TNG]).
~1: [1, #b], 9: [2, #b], 43: [3, #b], 48: [2, #bi], 53: [1, #b], 72: [1, #i], 79: [1, #i]@1Yangs@2One of two ethnic groups on planet Omega IV who, centuries ago, fought a terrible bacteriological war. The few survivors of the conflict lived because they happened to have powerful natural immunity, and had extraordinarily long life spans. In 2268, Starfleet captain Ronald Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter sided with the Kohms, ancient enemies of the Yangs, supplying the Kohms with phasers that proved devastating in their technologically primitive conflict. Enterprise personnel, investigating the disappearance of the Exeter, theorized that the Yangs were culturally similar to Earth's 20th- century “Yankees,” based on their worship of such icons as the American flag and the United States' Constitution. (“The Omega Glory” [TOS]).
~1:[3,#BI],5:[1,#I],7:[1,#B],18:[3,#B],27:[2,#I],45:[2,#B],75:[2,#I],85:[2,#I]@1Yangtzee Kiang, U.S.S.@2Starfleet Danube -class runabout, registry number NCC-72453, one of three runabouts assigned to station Deep Space 9. (“Emissary” [DS9], “Past Prologue” [DS9]). The Yangtzee Kiang was destroyed in a crash on a penal-colony moon in the Gamma Quadrant. Bajoran religious leader Kai Opaka was killed in the crash, although artificial microbes in the moon's environment later restored her to life, for as long as she remained there. (“Battle Lines” [DS9]). The Yangtzee Kiang was replaced on Deep Space 9 by the U.S.S. Orinoco. (“The Siege” [DS9]).
~1:[2,#B],9:[1,#I],13:[2,#B],19:[2,#B],45:[1,#B],90:[1,#I],104:[1,#I],111:[1,#I],143:[1,#B]@1Yar, Ishara@2(Beth Toussaint). The younger sister of Enterprise -D security chief Natasha Yar. Born in the failed Turkana IV colony in 2342, Ishara was orphaned just after birth. Ishara was raised by her sister, Tasha, until she became a loyal member of the Coalition cadre, one of the factions fighting for control of the colony. When Natasha Yar left Turkana IV in 2352, Ishara chose to remain behind because she felt her cadre was her family. Ishara regarded her sister as a coward for leaving Turkana. When the Enterprise -D arrived at Turkana IV in 2367, Ishara acted as liaison between the Enterprise -D crew and the Coalition. The Enterprise -D crew and Data in particular were eager to accept her as a friend, but Ishara used this trust in an unsuccessful attempt to gain a tactical advantage over the rival Alliance cadre. (“Legacy” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],5:[1,#I],15:[2,#B],36:[2,#B],149:[1,#I],163:[3,#B],172:[1,#I],176:[1,#B],195:[2,#B],198:[1,#B],256:[36,#I],292:[3,#BI],295:[8,#I],303:[1,#BI],304:[6,#I]@1Yar, Natasha@2(Denise Crosby). Enterprise -D chief of security under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (“Encounter at Farpoint, Part I” [TNG]).
Ukrainian in descent, Yar was born on a failed Federation colony on planet Turkana IV. Her parents were killed when she was only five, and she spent much of her childhood in a bitter struggle for survival, evading marauding rape gangs and caring for her younger sister, Ishara Yar. One of the few “normal” aspects of her childhood was her ownership of a pet kitten that she protected. (“Where No One Has Gone Before” [TNG]). Tasha escaped from Turkana IV at the age of 15, choosing to join Starfleet. (“The Naked Now” [TNG]).
As a Starfleet officer, she impressed Captain Picard with her courage in rescuing a wounded colonist, making her way through a Carnellian mine field. Thus, Picard requested that she be transferred to the Enterprise -D in early 2364. (“Legacy” [TNG]). While under the inhibition-stripping effects of the Psi 2000 virus, Tasha apparently became intimate with fellow Enterprise -D crew member Data. (“The Naked Now” [TNG]).
Yar was killed in late 2364 while participating in a rescue mission on planet Vagra II. SEE: Armus. Tasha, knowing her line of work entailed considerable risk, left a holographic farewell to her comrades in which she thanked her shipmates for being part of her life. (“Skin of Evil” [TNG]). Data kept a small holographic portrait of Tasha, and he considered it one of his most precious personal possessions. (“The Measure of a Man” [TNG]).
Tasha Yar was first seen in “Encounter at Farpoint” (TNG). Although her character died in “Skin of Evil” (TNG), we saw her holographic portrait in “The Measure of a Man” (TNG), and her alternate-timeline version (SEE: Yar, Natasha [alternate]) in “Yesterday's Enterprise” (TNG). The alternate Tasha's daughter, Sela, was also played by Denise Crosby.
~1:[3,#B],13:[1,#BI],14:[1,#B],26:[1,#I],37:[2,#B],67:[1,#I],86:[3,#B],101:[1,#I],129:[1,#I],147:[1,#I],154:[1,#I],166:[1,#B],192:[1,#I],197:[2,#B]@1Yar, Natasha, (alternate)@2(Denise Crosby). In the alternate timeline created when the Enterprise -C vanished from its “proper” place in 2344 into a temporal rift, Enterprise -D security officer Tasha Yar did not die at planet Vagra II in 2364. Instead, she remained as security chief aboard that ship during a war between the Federation and the Klingons. The alternate Yar was on duty when the Enterprise -C emerged from a temporal rift, and she served as liaison between the two ships, working closely with Lieutenant Richard Castillo, with whom she became romantically involved. When it was learned that the Enterprise -C had to return to the past, the alternate Yar volunteered to return with that ship, despite the knowledge that the mission meant virtually certain death. (“Yesterday's Enterprise” [TNG]). No direct evidence survived of the existence of the alternate Yar (or the emergence of the Enterprise -C) after the return of the Enterprise -C to the past. However, in 2367, a Romulan operative named Sela began a series of covert operations against the Klingon government. Sela was apparently the child of Yar and a Romulan general who had captured the Enterprise -C bridge crew at Narendra III. The Romulan general agreed to spare the bridge crew if Yar agreed to become his consort. Sela was born a year later, in 2345. Sela claimed that the alternate Yar was killed trying to escape when Sela was four. (“Redemption, Part II” [TNG]).
~1:[1,#B],11:[1,#B],14:[2,#B],24:[1,#I]@1Yareena@2(Karole Selmon). Wealthy land owner and wife of leader Lutan on planet Ligon II. Yareena was nearly killed in ritual combat with Enterprise -D security chief Yar in 2364 when both became involved in a local power struggle. (“Code of Honor” [TNG]).
~1:[1,#B],8:[1,#B],10:[1,#B],33:[2,#B]@1Yareth@2(Leslie Engelberg). The daughter of the Rakhari fugitive Croden. When Croden was convicted of crimes against the Rakhari state, Croden hid her in a stasis chamber on an asteroid in the Chamra Vortex so that she would not be executed with the rest of his family. She remained in stasis until 2369, when with the assistance of Odo, she was freed. (“Vortex” [DS9]).
~1:[1,#B],12:[1,#B],29:[1,#B],54:[1,#I],67:[1,#I],89:[20,#I],109:[1,#BI],110:[8,#I],118:[1,#BI],119:[13,#I],132:[3,#BI],135:[19,#I]@1Yarnek@2(Janos Prohaska, voice of Bart LaRue). Rock creature from planet Excalbia who, in 2269, conducted an experiment to examine the human philosophies of “good” and “evil.” The Excalbians created replicas of several historical figures falling into either category, placed them into a conflict, then observed the results. Included among the combatants were Enterprise officers Kirk and Spock. Good eventually did triumph over evil, allowing the Enterprise to be set free, but Yarnek promised that other cultures would be tested in the same manner. (“The Savage Curtain” [TOS]). Yarnek's name was never mentioned in the aired episode and was obtained from the script. Janos Prohaska also played the Horta in “Devil in the Dark” (TOS) and the mugato in “A Private Little War” (TOS). Bart LaRue supplied the voice of the Guardian of Forever in “City on the Edge of Forever” (TOS) and played the Roman television announcer in “Bread and Circuses” (TOS).
~1:[1,#B],10:[1,#B],14:[16,#I]@1Ya'Seem@2Archaeological discovery first uncovered by the renowned scientist M'Tell. (“The Chase” [TNG]). Unfortunately, the episode does not make clear what Ya'Seem is or why it was so important.
~1:[4,#B],16:[2,#B],25:[3,#B]@1Yash-El, night blessing of@2“Dream not of today.” This ancient saying was a question that Jean-Luc Picard missed on his final archaeology exam under Professor Richard Galen. (“The Chase” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],41:[2,#B],47:[13,#I]@1Yeager loop@2An aerobatic maneuver executed by five single-pilot spacecraft. Starting in a Diamond Slot formation, the five ships would perform an Immelmann turn in concert. The Yeager loop was used as a demonstration of piloting prowess by cadets at Starfleet Academy. (“The First Duty” [TNG]). Named for one of Chuck Yeager's most famous flight maneuvers, see next entry.
~1:[2,#B],34:[2,#I],40:[2,#B],43:[2,#B]@1Yeager, Chuck@2Aircraft test pilot on planet Earth, the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound. Yeager accomplished this feat on October 14, 1947, in a rocket-powered craft called the Glamorous Glennis. Commander La Forge likened Dr. Ja'Dar's revolutionary soliton wave rider experiment in 2368 to Yeager's historic achievement. (“New Ground” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],37:[2,#B]@1Yellow Alert@2A state of significantly increased readiness aboard Federation starships and other vessels. In the event of an actual or imminent emergency, the commanding officer can order the state of readiness increased even further to Red Alert.
~1:[1,#BI]@1yIntagh@2A Klingon expletive. (“Redemption, Part I” [TNG]).
~1:[2,#B],29:[11,#I],43:[23,#I]@1yominium sulfide@2Chemical compound with the molecular formula K4Ym3 (SO73 Es2). The makeup of this substance was a question in Spock's memory test during his reeducation in 2286. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home). Yominium was the “invention” of Star Trek IV associate producer Kirk Thatcher, who named it for Leonard Nimoy (spell it backward). Yes, we know the formula is inconsistent with a sulfide.
~1:[1,#BI],7:[1,#B],12:[1,#I],58:[1,#B],60:[34,#I],96:[9,#I]@1Yonada@2Multigeneration spaceship built by the Fabrini civilization 10,000 years ago. Yonada, which was built inside a large asteroid, was a slower-than-light ship designed to transport part of the Fabrini civilization to a “promised world” when their home sun went nova ten millennia ago. (“For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” [TOS]). SEE: Natira. Yonada was expected to reach its final destination in late 2269. Kirk promised McCoy that they would be there for the arrival, but since this would have been just after the end of the original Star Trek series, we do not know if they made it.
~1:[2,#BI],3:[1,#B],6:[1,#I],13:[1,#I],20:[1,#I],30:[2,#B],33:[1,#I],42:[1,#I],50:[3,#B],58:[1,#I],83:[6,#I],90:[2,#B],92:[4,#I],97:[34,#I],132:[2,#I],136:[19,#I],157:[12,#I],170:[5,#I],177:[6,#I],184:[18,#I],204:[6,#I],213:[5,#I],219:[20,#I],240:[20,#I],261:[10,#I]@1Yorktown, U.S.S. (TOS)@2Federation starship, Constitution class, Starfleet registry number NCC-1717. The Yorktown was scheduled to rendezvous with the Enterprise in 2268 to transfer critically needed vaccines for planet Theta VII. The Enterprise was unable to make the rendezvous with the Yorktown until the investigation and destruction of the dikironium cloud creature was complete. (“Obsession” [TOS]).
The Yorktown was disabled by an alien space probe approaching Earth in 2286. The ship's chief engineer rigged a makeshift solar sail to provide emergency power. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home). SEE: Probe, the. The captain of the Yorktown, seen on a communications viewer in Starfleet Command, was played by Vijay Armitraj. His character's name, according to the script, was captain Joel Randolph. Also seen on one of the big Starfleet screens was Go-Gos singer (and Star Trek aficionado) Jane Wiedlin, who played an alien communications officer. According to the script, she was officer Trillya of the Starship Shepard, but this was not established in the final version of the film.
Yorktown was the original name of Star Trek's spaceship, before the ship was called Enterprise, from Gene Roddenberry's first draft of the series outline written in 1964. Roddenberry reportedly suggested that the second Starship Enterprise, NCC-1701-A, launched at the end of Star Trek IV, had previously been named the Yorktown, since it seems unlikely that Starfleet could have built an all-new ship so quickly. If this was the case, the Yorktown may have made it safely back to Earth and been repaired and renamed, or perhaps there was a newer, replacement Yorktown already under construction at the time of the probe crisis.
~1:[3,#B],47:[6,#I]@1Yosemite National Park@2One of the most beautiful places on planet Earth, set aside as a nature preserve in 1890. Yosemite was a favored shore-leave spot for Captain Kirk, and he was joined by there by shipmates Spock and McCoy for a camping expedition in 2287. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier).
~1:[2,#BI],5:[1,#BI],6:[1,#B],11:[1,#I],21:[2,#B],30:[2,#B],42:[2,#B],71:[8,#I]@1Yosemite, U.S.S.@2Federation starship, Oberth class, registry number NCC-19002. The Yosemite was severely damaged while conducting a study of the plasma streamer between a binary star pair in the Igo Sector in 2369. During transport of plasma samples to the ship, quasi-energy microbes caused an explosion of a sample container, resulting in severe damage to the ship and the death of at least one crew member. (“Realm of Fear” [TNG]). The ship was named for Yosemite National Park.
~1:[2,#B],13:[2,#BI],21:[2,#B]@1Yoshimitsu computers@2Some 225 of these devices were carried on board the S.S. Mariposa when it set out for the Ficus Sector in 2123. (“Up the Long Ladder” [TNG]).
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~1: [1, #b], 15: [1, #b], 140: [1, #b]@1Yuta@2(Lisa Wilcox). An Acamarian and member of the clan Tralesta, she was Sovereign Marouk's chef and chief food taster. Yuta was the last surviving member of the Acamarian Tralesta clan that had been massacred in 2286 by the rival Lornak clan. Though she appeared to be a woman in her twenties, her body had been altered to dramatically reduce her rate of aging so that she could exact revenge against the Lornaks. Her body was infused with a genetically engineered microvirus that was harmless to all except the members of the Lornak clan.
Over the next century, Yuta was successful in murdering nearly all members of the Lornak clan by exposing them to this microvirus. Commander Riker was attracted to her, but after determining her true purpose, he was forced to kill her to prevent her from assassinating Chorgan, the Gatherer Leader and the last member of the Lornak clan. Yuta's victims included Volnoth and Penthor-Mul. (“The Vengeance Factor” [TNG]).
~1:[1,#B],7:[2,#B],11:[1,#B]@1Yutan@2(Gary Pillar). Member of the hill people tribe on Tyree's planet. (“A Private Little War” [TOS]).
