1: [3, #b], 71: [1, #i], 90: [3, #b], 190: [2, #b], 278: [2, #i], 309: [1, #i], 311: [47, #i]@1cloaking device, Romulan@2The first known example of a practical cloaking device was on a Romulan Bird-of-Prey that crossed the Romulan Neutral Zone in 2266. (“Balance of Terror” [TOS]). An improved cloaking device used by Romulan warships in 2268 was of sufficient concern to the Federation that Kirk and Spock were sent on a covert mission into Romulan territory to steal one such unit for analysis by Starfleet scientists. (“The Enterprise Incident” [TOS]). SEE: Romulan commander. Although the Romulans continually improved their cloaking technology, Federation innovations such as the tachyon detection grid technique developed by Geordi La Forge in 2368 served to reduce the tactical effectiveness of cloaked ships. (“Redemption, Part II” [TNG]). Vessels employing a Romulan cloaking device could sometimes be detected with an antiproton beam. (“Defiant” [DS9]). A cloaked ship radiated a slight subspace variance that was sometimes detectable at warp speeds. Before transporting or using weapons, the cloaking device had to be deactivated. (“Balance of Terror” [TOS]; “The Search, Parts I and II” [DS9]). Defensive shields were also inoperative when a ship was cloaked. (“Face of the Enemy” [TNG]). An experimental cloaking device, based on an interphase generator, was developed by Romulan scientists and tested in 2368. (“The Next Phase” [TNG]). Possession of a cloaking device is illegal under Bajoran law. Despite this, Quark offered a small cloaking device for sale in 2370, but eventually gave it to Professor Natima Lang so that she and her colleagues could escape capture by Cardassian authorities (“Profit and Loss” [DS9]). In early 2371, the Federation and the Romulan Empire entered into an agreement granting Starfleet the use of a single Romulan cloaking device for use aboard the Starship Defiant. Use of this cloaking device was restricted to the Gamma Quadrant and then only in exchange for all of Starfleet's intelligence reports on the Dominion. SEE: T'Rul. (“Defiant” [DS9]). “The Pegasus” (TNG) establishes that the Federation relinquished the right to develop or use such devices under the Treaty of Algeron. Additionally, Gene Roddenberry once indicated that “our people are scientists and explorers — they don't go sneaking around.” We therefore assume Starfleet has a policy against such things.
~1:[1,#B],15:[1,#I],25:[2,#I],62:[1,#I],100:[1,#I],109:[3,#I],114:[11,#I],127:[1,#I]@1coffee@2Aromatic beverage made from ground, roasted seeds of an Earth tree of genus Coffea. Often served hot and enjoyed as a mild stimulant. Starship Enterprise captain James T. Kirk enjoyed coffee (“The Corbomite Maneuver” [TOS]; “The Trouble with Tribbles” [TOS]), as did Dr. Leonard McCoy (“City on the Edge of Forever” [TOS]). The beverage was a favorite breakfast drink of Enterprise -D captain Jean-Luc Picard and Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher. (“Attached” [TNG]). Miles O'Brien preferred a Jamaican blend of coffee, double strong, double sweet. (“Whispers” [DS9]). Geordi La Forge liked his coffee iced. (“Aquiel” [TNG]). Coffee was Voyager captain Kathryn Janeway's favorite drink. (“The Cloud” [VGR]). Members of the Star Trek art departments regard coffee as the true power source for the Starships Enterprise and Voyager.
~1:[2,#BI],3:[1,#B],6:[1,#I],14:[3,#B],18:[1,#I],26:[1,#B],30:[2,#B],50:[1,#I],54:[1,#I],61:[1,#I],65:[2,#B],79:[2,#I],82:[6,#I],89:[4,#I],94:[7,#I],103:[16,#I],120:[4,#I],124:[2,#B],126:[3,#I]@1Constellation, U.S.S. (TOS)@2Federation starship, Constitution class, Starfleet registry number NCC-1017, commanded by Commodore Matt Decker. The Constellation was heavily damaged in 2267 near system L-374 by an extragalactic planet killer weapon. The planet killer destroyed the planets in system L-374, including a planet where the crew of the Constellation had taken refuge. Enterprise personnel programmed the hulk of the Constellation to self-destruct its impulse drive inside the planet killer, destroying the robotic weapon. (“The Doomsday Machine” [TOS]). The miniature Constellation, identical in design to the original Enterprise, was an AMT plastic Enterprise model kit, appropriately burnt and scorched. The Starship Constellation was presumably replaced by a starship of a new design that was the prototype for the Constellation class, of which Picard's U.S.S. Stargazer was a member.
~1:[1,#B],37:[3,#B],78:[2,#B],86:[3,#B],111:[2,#B],119:[1,#B],148:[8,#I],157:[1,#I],158:[3,#B]@1cordrazine@2Extremely powerful pharmaceutical stimulant used by Federation medical personnel. Dr. McCoy prescribed 2 milliliters of cordrazine to Lieutenant Sulu, who suffered serious electrical burns when the ship was investigating time-distortion waves in 2267 near the Guardian of Forever. Another time wave caused McCoy to receive an accidental overdose of cordrazine, whereupon he experienced extreme paranoid delusions and fled to a planet's surface. (“The City on the Edge of Forever” [TOS]). McCoy also used cordrazine to revive Ensign Rizzo when he was attacked by the dikironium cloud creature. (“Obsession” [TOS]). Dr. Beverly Crusher used 25 milliliters of cordrazine in a last-ditch effort to save Worf's life when his body rejected genetronic replication therapy in 2368. (“Ethics” [TNG]). SEE: tricordrazine. In 2371, Dr. Julian Bashir used cordrazine when fighting to save Vedek Bareil's life after Bareil was injured in an explosion aboard a Bajoran transport. (“Life Support” [DS9]). Cordrazine was also mentioned in “Distant Voices” (DS9). The Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram used 2 milliliters of cordrazine to revive Harry Kim after he died on the Vhnori homeworld in 2371. (“Emanations” [VGR]).
~1:[2,#B],20:[2,#B],31:[2,#I],45:[2,#B]@1cortical stimulator@2Medical resuscitative device. Captain Jean-Luc Picard was treated with a cortical stimulator following his exposure to the Kataan probe on stardate 45944. (“The Inner Light” [TNG]). In 2371, U.S.S. Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram used two of cortical stimulators to return Commander Chakotay's bio-neural energy to his body. (“Cathexis” [VGR]).
~1:[6,#BI],17:[2,#I],20:[2,#B]@1Cygnian Respiratory Diseases, A Survey of@2A computer disk in the medical library of the original Starship Enterprise. When Ensign Garrovick refused food shortly after stardate 3619, Nurse Chapel showed him the disk, telling him that it contained an order from Dr. McCoy to eat. (“Obsession” [TOS]). Dr. Julian Bashir studied a 24th-century edition of the survey in 2371 while preparing for a visit by his medical school class valedictorian, Dr. Elizabeth Lense. (“Explorers” [DS9]).
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Creation. Data was built around 2336 by the reclusive scientist Noonien Soong and his wife, Juliana Soong at the Omicron Theta colony. Data was actually the fifth positronic android constructed by Soong; the first three were unsuccessful. (“Inheritance” [TNG]). The fourth, the first to become functional, was known as Lore. (“Datalore” [TNG]). SEE: Soong-type android. After Lore's behavior forced Soong to disassemble him, Soong pursued the idea of manufacturing an android free of emotions. Soong hoped this new android would not exhibit the dangerous cruelty shown by Lore. Juliana had wanted Data to have a female form, but Noonien, as before, created Data in his own image. Following his activation, Data was much like a baby, though he was made in the form of a full grown adult. Data had difficulty learning basic social skills, and “social niceties” had to be built into his programming. SEE: modesty sub-routine. In addition, a creative capacity was also programmed into Data by Mrs. Soong, who reasoned that without emotions, the android would need another way to express himself. After this initial period, Data was thought unsuccessful and was deactivated. (“Inheritance” [TNG]). He was programmed with the logs and journals of the Omicron Theta colonists in an effort to help Data function better in human society. (“Datalore” [TNG], “Silicon Avatar” [TNG]). Unfortunately, before Data could be reactivated, the Crystalline Entity attacked the colony, and Soong and his wife Juliana, were forced to abandon their work. Fearing that when reactivated, Data might behave as Lore did, Juliana made Dr. Soong leave Data at the colony site. (“Inheritance” [TNG]). Data remained in a dormant condition underground, where he was discovered in 2338 by the crew of the Starship Tripoli. Data subsequently joined the Starfleet and eventually became operations manager aboard the Enterprise -D. (“Datalore” [TNG]).
Form and function. Data was based on a sophisticated positronic brain developed by Soong, from concepts first postulated in the 20th century by Dr. Isaac Asimov. (“Datalore” [TNG]). Data's body closely mimicked humanoid form, and contained approximately 24.6 kilograms of tripolymer composites, 11.8 kilograms of molybdenum-cobalt alloys, and 1.3 kilograms of bioplast sheeting. (“The Most Toys” [TNG]). His upper spinal support was polyalloy, while his skull was composed of cortenide and duranium. (“The Chase” [TNG]). Soong went to extraordinary lengths to create a naturalistic human appearance in Data. He gave Data a functional respiration system, although its purpose was primarily for thermal regulation. (Data was in fact capable of functioning for extended periods in a vacuum. [“Brothers' (TNG)].) He gave Data a pulse in his circulatory system that distributed biochemical lubricants and regulated microhydraulic power throughout Data's body. Data's hair was even capable of growth at a controllable rate. (“Birthright, Part I” [TNG]). Data did not require food; he occasionally ingested a semi-organic nutrient suspension in a silicon-based liquid medium. (“Deja Q” [TNG]). Although Data's systems were primarily mechanical, cybernetic, and positronic, sufficient biological components were present to allow him to become infected by the Psi 2000 virus in 2364. While under the influence of the inhibition-stripping effects of that virus, Data apparently became intimate with Enterprise -D security chief Tasha Yar. (“The Naked Now” [TNG]). Data's basic programming included a strong inhibition against harming living beings, but he nevertheless had the ability to use deadly force to protect others. (“The Most Toys” [TNG]).
Data in Starfleet. Prior to his assignment to the Enterprise -D, Data served aboard the U.S.S. Trieste. During this tour-of-duty, the Trieste once fell through a wormhole. (“Clues” [TNG]). Aboard the Enterprise -D, Data served as operations manager, and was in charge of coordinating the many departments aboard the ship. (“Encounter at Farpoint” [TNG]). In 2366, Commander Data was seriously injured trying to save Q from an attack by gaseous creatures called the Calamarain. In gratitude, Q gave Data the gift of allowing Data to experience human laughter for a brief time. (“Deja Q” [TNG]). Data served as father of the bride for the wedding of Miles O'Brien and Keiko Ishikawa in 2367, and found it necessary to learn to dance to fulfill this ceremonial function. (“Data's Day” [TNG]). Data's first opportunity to command a starship came during the Federation blockade during the Klingon civil war of 2368. Data was assigned temporary command of the Starship Sutherland in Picard's armada. As an android, Data encountered a small amount of prejudice among his human crew, but was nevertheless able to lead effectively. (“Redemption, Part II”[TNG]). In late 2368, Data traveled back in time to old San Francisco when bizarre evidence was found suggesting that he had died some 500 years ago. The evidence was Data's severed head, unearthed from beneath the city of San Francisco, where it had been buried for five centuries. (“Time's Arrow, Part I” [TNG]). Back in the year 1893, Data uncovered a plot by aliens from the planet Devidia II who were using the cholera plague of the time to conceal their murder of humans. While attempting to stop the Devidians, Data's head was severed, and his body was sent forward in time, back to 2368. Aboard the Enterprise -D, Geordi La Forge was successful in reattaching Data's head and body. (“Time's Arrow, Part II” [TNG]).
Data and Lore. Upon returning to the Omicron Theta colony site in 2364, Data participated in the discovery and activation of his android brother, Lore. Physically identical to Data, Lore had radically different personality programming, and attempted to commandeer the Enterprise -D before he was beamed into space. (“Datalore” [TNG]). Although Soong was believed to have died at Omicron Theta, he was discovered to have escaped the colony when, in 2367, he remotely gained control of Data, commanding his creation to visit him in his new secret laboratory. There, Soong attempted to install a new chip in Data's positronic brain that would have given Data the ability to experience human emotions. Unfortunately, Lore also responded to Soong's call, and stole the emotion chip from Soong's lab. Dr. Soong died shortly thereafter. (“Brothers” [TNG]). Data began to experience emotions in 2369 when Lore secretly bombarded Data with signals that triggered negative emotions in his positronic brain. Lore used these negative emotions to guide Data into joining him and the Borg against the Federation. When Data realized that Lore was manipulating him and harming the Borg, he was forced to deactivate Lore. Data kept Soong's emotion chip, but was reluctant to install it for fear of causing further harm to his friends. (“Descent, Parts I and II” [TNG]).
Efforts to understand humanity. Data's attempts to understand human nature once included an effort to learn about the concept of humor, which he studied with the assistance of Guinan and a holodeck-created comedian. (“The Outrageous Okona” [TNG]). SEE: Comic, The. Data even tried a beard once, to the considerable amusement of his shipmates. (“The Schizoid Man” [TNG]). Aboard the Enterprise -D, Data shared his living quarters with a cat that he named Spot. Data tried to provide for Spot's well-being, but found it difficult to predict the cat's preferences in food. (“Data's Day” [TNG]). One of Data's more challenging efforts to experience humanity was his attempt to pursue a romantic relationship with Enterprise -D security officer Jenna D'Sora in late 2367. Although D'Sora was attracted to Data, he was unable to return the affection, at least in a manner that she wanted. (“In Theory” [TNG]). Data began to experience dreams in 2369 as a result of an accidental plasma shock received during an experiment. It was later learned that the shock had triggered a program designed for this purpose by Soong, who had hoped the program would be activated when Data reached a certain level of development. Data's initial dreams were of Soong as a blacksmith, incongruously forging the wings of a bird, which Data believed represented himself. (“Birthright, Part I” [TNG]). SEE: painting. Those dreams turned to nightmares while under the influence of interphasic organisms in 2370. (“Phantasms” [TNG]). Later that year, following the Enterprise -D's discovery of the D'Arsay archive, Data's own personality became completely submerged by a series of personas, enacting the mythology of a long-dead civilization. Following the experience, Captain Picard commented that even if Data never become human, he had transcended the human condition by becoming an entire civilization. (“Masks” [TNG]). SEE: Masaka. One of Data's most noteworthy efforts in his quest for humanity was his construction of an android daughter in 2366. Data employed a new submicron matrix transfer technology to allow his own neural pathways to be duplicated in another positronic brain, which he used as the basis for his child. His daughter, whom he named Lal (Hindi for “beloved”), developed at a remarkable rate and showed evidence of growth potential beyond that of her father, even experiencing emotions. Lal died after having lived little more than two weeks, when she experienced a serious failure in her positronic brain. (“The Offspring” [TNG]). In 2371, Data finally decided to install the emotion chip that Dr. Soong had created for him. Although Data had initial difficulty coping with the resulting flood of emotions, a problem made worse when the chip became fused into his neural net, the chip represented a significant step in his quest to become more human. (Star Trek: Generations).
Android rights. The question of Data's sentience, and more specifically whether Data was entitled to civil rights under the Constitution of the United Federation of Planets, was addressed in a number of important legal decisions. The first, in 2341, was rendered by a Starfleet Academy entrance committee that permitted Data to enter the Academy and serve as a member of Starfleet. Several years later, the question was more definitively addressed when Judge Advocate General Phillipa Louvois ruled that Data was indeed a sentient being and therefore entitled to civil rights, including the right to resign from Starfleet if he so chose. As of stardate 42527, Data had been decorated by Starfleet Command for gallantry and had received the Medal of Honor with clusters, the Legion of Honor, and the Star Cross. (“The Measure of a Man” [TNG]). Data first appeared in “Encounter at Farpoint” (TNG). Many fans have noticed similarities between Data and the character, Questor, from Gene Roddenberry's 1974 television movie/pilot The Questor Tapes that featured Robert Foxworth as a humanoid android who searched for his creator while seeking to be human.
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Dax served as a Federation mediator on Klaestron IV during that planet's civil war in the 2330s. He became friends with General Ardelon Tandro and his family while stationed on the planet. Unknown to Tandro, Dax was also engaged in a love affair with Tandro's wife, Enina. Thirty years later, when Jadzia Dax was accused of Tandro's murder, Enina testified that at the time of her husband's death, Curzon Dax was in her bed. (“Dax” [DS9]).
Curzon Dax and Benjamin Sisko were good friends when Sisko was an ensign, a friendship that they maintained for nearly two decades. (“Emissary” [DS9]). Curzon first met Ben Sisko at the Palios Station. They served together aboard the U.S.S. Livingston. (“Invasive Procedures” [DS9]). Curzon Dax knew Benjamin Sisko from before Jake's birth. (“Explorers” [DS9]). He also was friends with Starfleet officer turned Maquis sympathizer, Calvin Hudson. (“The Maquis, Part I” [DS9]). Curzon used to assign Ben Sisko to guide VIP guests while under his command so the Trill wouldn't have to deal with them. (“The Forsaken” [DS9]).
Curzon acted as Jadzia's field docent, and recommended she be dropped from the initiate program because he felt she lacked a sense of purpose. She did not realize until years later that Curzon's harsh evaluation had spurred her reexamine her purpose so that she eventually did win the opportunity for joining. Despite his early opinion of Jadzia, Curzon did not object when, at the end of Curzon's life, Jadzia asked to become the next host of the Dax symbiont. (“Playing God” [DS9]). The true reason for Curzon's recommendation that Jadzia be dropped from the initiate program came to light in 2371. During the time Curzon served as Jadzia's field docent, he fell in love with the young woman. Unable to deal with these inappropriate feelings, and unwilling to admit them to Jadzia, Curzon recommended that she be dropped from the program. Curzon would later admit to feeling so guilty about his actions that he nearly retired from the Trill Symbiosis Commission. Four years after Curzon's death, Curzon's personality reluctantly admitted his feelings toward Jadzia through her zhian'tara ceremony. (“Facets” [DS9]).
When Dax (symbiont) became Jadzia, Sisko was fond of calling her “old man,” despite the fact that Dax's new host was a young woman. (“Emissary” [DS9]). Curzon had learned to play tongo, and was fond of the game, a fondness that Jadzia retained. (“Rules of Acquisition” [DS9]).
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Jadzia had wanted to become a host since she was a child and worked very hard at winning the honor. Neither of her parents nor her sister underwent symbiosis. (“Invasive Procedures” [DS9]). Before joining with the Dax symbiont, Jadzia was a brilliant but shy young woman. She did extremely well in the initiate program, winning Premier Distinctions in exobiology, zoology, astrophysics, and exoarchaeology (“Dax” [DS9]), and even won a third-level pilot certificate. Nevertheless, her training under field docent Curzon Dax went poorly, and Curzon recommended she be rejected for joining. Curzon's harsh evaluation helped Jadzia realize she needed to find her purpose in life before she could be a successful Trill host. (“Playing God” [DS9]). Jadzia did not realize that the reason for Curzon's harshness was the fact that he was in love with her, a most inappropriate situation given their teacher-student relationship. (“Facets” [DS9]). Curzon felt guilty over his treatment of Jadzia, and later consented for her to become the Dax symbiont's next host upon his death in 2367. (“Playing God” [DS9]).
As Jadzia, Dax had been a close friend of Benjamin Sisko, but she noted that such friendships are often difficult to maintain when a Trill has a new host, particularly one of a different gender. (“Emissary” [DS9]). As is characteristic of Trills, Dax's hands are cold. (“A Man Alone” [DS9]).
Although Jadzia believed she was Dax's seventh host, she learned in 2371 of a previously unknown host. This deeply held secret was revealed when Jadzia began experiencing vivid hallucinations and a dangerous drop in her isoboramine levels. These symptoms were found to have been caused by the deterioration of a memory block created by the Trill Symbiosis Commission in 2385 in hopes of suppressing knowledge of the existence of Joran Dax. (“Equilibrium” [DS9]).
In 2370 Jadzia almost died when a Trill named Verad briefly stole her symbiont (“Invasive Procedures” [DS9]).
Later that year, Jadzia honored Curzon's blood oath of vengeance against the Albino and accompanied Kor, Kang and Koloth to Secarus IV to kill him. She battled the Albino but could not bring herself to kill him. (“Blood Oath” [DS9]).
As an attractive woman, Dax drew the attentions of many men, including Dr. Julian Bashir. Dax considered herself above such interests, although she once admitted that she thought Morn was cute. (“Progress” [DS9]). As of 2369, Dax had been attempting to master the Altonian brain teaser for 140 years. (“A Man Alone” [DS9]). Dax was first seen in “Emissary” (DS9).
Jadzia was regarded by her friends as something of a night owl. (“Playing God” [DS9]). She often threw surprise birthday parties for DS9 personnel. (“Distant Voices” [DS9]). Jadzia had several hobbies, including Galeo-Manada style wrestling, and collecting the music of lost composers. She and Ben Sisko played Earth chess together. Jadzia enjoyed the game of tongo. Perhaps as a result of the Dax symbiont's many lifetimes of experience, Jadzia Dax disliked what she regarded as blind compliance to society's norms, and she occasionally enjoyed indulging in “inappropriate” behavior (such as playing tongo) for its shock value. Like Curzon, she had great fondness for Klingon food and Klingon music. (“Playing God” [DS9]).
Dax learned a great deal about her past in 2371 when she underwent her zhian'tara ceremony. In the zhian'tara, a Trill's friends embody the personalities of the symbiont's earlier hosts, giving the joined Trill the opportunity to meet his or her earlier selves. (“Facets” [DS9]).
