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carbon reaction chambers involve laser-induced fusion. According to Miles O'Brien, it's an inefficient system. This technology is used by the Cardassians. (DS9: The Forsaken)
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Section of a starship which is used for storage of various cargo. Cargo bays can be accessed through docking ports or by cargo transporters.
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While besieged with repair requests, Miles O'Brien grumbled that he wished he'd been assigned to a cargo drone, with no one to bother him. (DS9: Babel)
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Starfleet slang term, referring to the captain's chair on the bridge of a starship and/or the job of starship command.
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Central power linkages are part of a runabout's power system. (DS9: Q-Less)
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Chemical rockets were added to shuttlepod systems to allow one to land in the Forge on the planet Vulcan. (ENT: Awakening)
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Subatomic particle that transmits temporal quanta. Chroniton particles are normally emitted in small quantities through the normal operation of a Romulan cloaking device.
Chroniton radiation is deleterious to living tissue, but it is possible to inoculate against its effects.
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The U.S.S. Voyager used a Class-4 probe in an attempt to distract space dwelling creatures that believed the ship was their mate. (VOY: Elogium)
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A device that generates an energy field to render an object, mostly spacecraft, invisible to the eye and most sensor sytems. Most cloaking devices require a lot of power, and because of that, a cloaked ship cannot use it's weapons. Romulans and Klingons often equip their ships with cloaking technology, cloaking devices in Federation ships are prohibited by the Treaty of Algeron.
On Stardate 1709, the U.S.S. Enterprise encountered a Romulan bird of prey equipped with a cloaking device. This rendered the vessel invisible, however, sensors could track the vessel while it was moving, although sensors were not able to exactly pinpoint the location. Because the cloak required large amounts of energy, the vessel had to de-cloak in order to fire weapons. (TOS: Balance of Terror)
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A coadjutor engagement occurred in the transporter on the U.S.S. Enterprise when Fisher beamed up from Alfa 177. (TOS: The Enemy Within)
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Measure for subspace field stress. The unit is employed to measure the power of a warp drive as well as of other devices which employ a subspace field, such as the impulse drive and the faster than light computer core. The cochrane value equals the velocity ratio v/c for the given warp factor. Warp 1 and v/c=1 is achieved for a subspace distortion of 1 cochrane. Values smaller than 1 cochrane correspond to sublight speed. At Warp 10, finally, the cochrane value becomes infinite, and so does the apparent velocity.
The unit was named in honor of Zefram Cochrane who built the first Terran vessel to achieve warp speed.
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A characteristic fluctuation in the phase of a subspace field generated by a starship's warp engines.
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| Coil assembly | |
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The coil assembly is aart of a starship's warp drive. Trip reconfigured the coil assembly to fake a Klingon warp signature when the Enterprise NX-01 pursued the Augments in Klingon space. (ENT: The Augments)
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Engineering tool that can be used on an injector assembly. (ENT: E2)
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On Tosk's ship, the coladrium flow flows through the arva nodes for fuel replenishment. (DS9: Captive Pursuit)
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Method of shutting down the warp engines and swiftly restarting them. When the Enterprise NX-01 was infected with a Klingon subroutine in 2154, Trip shut down the reactor and reset the algorithms. When the reactor was brought back online, the subroutine was back to normal. (ENT: Divergence)
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 If a communicator signal is left open, it acts as a homing signal. (TOS: This Side of Paradise) A sonic disruption can be created with two communicators. There is only a very slight chance it will work. The sound beams should produce a sympathetic vibration on the weak area of a rockslide. (TOS: Friday's Child)
Personnel subspace communication device, originally hand-held, later in the 24th century integrated in the Starfleet badge (and therefore often called commbadge). The communicator serves to communicate by voice with another person or computer and provides lock-on contact for the transporter.
The commbadge is usually programmed with a crew member's individual bioelectric data, which is verified through a dermal sensor. The communicator will fail if used by an unauthorized person.
The commbadges are programmed to activate automatically when the casing is destroyed, so rescuers can easily locate a seriously injured person.
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Compulsory scan unit was built into the computer banks on the U.S.S. Enterprise. It was used to drive the entity Redjac out of the Enterprise's computers on Stardate 3615.4. (TOS: Wolf in the Fold)
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Data processing, transfer and storage system employed for a wide variety of control purposes, for scientific analysis and as a database. In Federation starships the computer cores are equipped with supspace field generators which enable faster-than-light data processing and transmission. All components of the computer system are connected with each other and with the main computer core by the optical data network. A number of subprocessors is distributed throughout the ship to supply additional computing capacity, improve speed and provide redundancy.
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Condition Blue is another name for a Blue Alert. (VOY: The 37's)
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Device that Vosk used to travel through time. It was a form of stealth time travel and it was a one-way trip. Once in the past, he had to build a conduit with 1944 materials and as a result, the conduit would be enormous. (ENT: Storm Front, Part I) Silik hitched a ride on Enterprise to steal schematics for Vosk's conduit to give to his benefactor. The conduit was destroyed by the Enterprise NX-01. (ENT: Storm Front, Part II)
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| Confinement shields | |
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These shields were used on Deep Space Nine used in case of decompression. (DS9: Q-Less)
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Specially shaped force field used to isolate dangerous materials such as antimatter or biohazard specimens. Containment fields are used in antimatter storage pods to protect a ship against contact with the extremely volatile antimatter.
Somewhat different containment fields were used for quarantine isolation and for containment of dangerous biological specimens.
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 Control chips are a set of isolinear chips that are used to control the ships engines. (TNG: The Naked Now)
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 Deep Space Nine is equipped with control thrusters that stabilize station's position. The control thrusters were used to move the station from it's original location in Bajor's orbit to it's location at the entrance to the Bajoran Wormhole. (DS9: Emissary)
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Jadzia Dax requested a subspace link be established with this array and other outposts to secure historical data on all occurrences of wormhole activity. (DS9: The Forsaken)
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This substance does not exist. Kirk claimed that corbomite was incorporated into all Earth ships. He said it was a material and a device that prevents attacks on them, and that if any destructive energy touches the vessel, a reverse reaction of equal strength is created, destroying the attacker. He said it had been in use for 200 years, and that no attacking vessel has survived the attempt. This claim was a ruse, designed to prevent the destruction of the U.S.S. Enterprise by Balok of the First Federation (TOS: The Corbomite Maneuver) When the U.S.S. Enterprise was under attack by Romulans on Stardate 3579.4, Captain Kirk sent a false message to Starfleet telling them he would self-destruct with a corbomite device that would destroy everything within 200,000 km and result in a dead zone, and advised all vessels to avoid the area for 4 solar years. The Romulans backed off, and the Enterprise escaped. (TOS: The Deadly Years)
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A core driver is a land vehicle used in terra-forming hostile worlds. It enabled colonists to fashion subterranean storage and even in a pinch, residential facilities. It is equipped with a series of rotating proto dischargers, arranged in a large wheel on the front of the vehicle. As the wheel spun, the dischargers literally dissolved the dirt in a widening circle while at the same time hardening the resulting tunnel by reinforcing it's molecular structure to nearly diamond hard durability. Passages, even caves, could be carved out in a matter of minutes. (ST: TNG: Triangle: Imzadi II by Peter David)
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Medical instrument to revitalize neural activity in the nervous system of humanoids in case of severe injuries.
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