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18 ANTHTIME THE STAR TREX ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE

anti-time. An occurrence of multi-phasic temporal convergence. ~~ antigraviton. Elemental particle that carries a charge and spin Anti-time is the opposite of time, in much the same manner as opposite to that of gravitons. Antigraviton particles are generated antimatter is the opposite of matter. If time and anti-time were in a standard tractor beam. The presence of antigraviton partito collide, they would annihilate each other, causing a rupture in cles in a transporter emitter coil would be indicative of a tractor the fabric of space. This phenomenon apparently occurred inthe ~~ beam's use on that transporter beam. (“Attached” [TNG]). SEE: Devron system, where starships from three separate time Kesprytt Ill; Kes; Lorin, Prytt Security Minister; Mauric, perlods—2364, 2370, and 2395—all began 10 scan a temporal Ambassador; Prytt. anomaly with inverse tachyon beams. The anomaly was a temporal paradox apparently created by these beams. Within the antigravity generator. SEE: antigrav. paradox, Captain Jean-Luc Picard found himself traveling between the three time periods, acting and reacting as if he antilepton interference. Energetic particle field that can interfere belonged in each one. The phenomenon was actually caused by with subspace communications. Shortly after the discovery of the Q Continuum, who devised this as a test of mankind, to learn the Bajoran wormhole in 2369, the Cardassians flooded subit humanity (as represented by Jean-Luc Picard) could stretch its space with antileptons to prevent Deep Space 9 from contacting mind to comprehend other levels of existence. Had Picard been Starfleet. (“Emissary” [DS9]). unable to understand the paradox and fix the temporal rift, humanity's fate would have been sealed, but Picard was antimatter containment. In warp drive propulsion systems, successful in restoring the timeline. (“All Good Things...” [TNG])). antimatter containment refers to the use of magnetic seals We assume that the anti-time events in “All Good Things” (TNG) and confinement fields to pravent antimatter from physically should be viewed as alternate quantum realities, but the fact that touching the surface of the storage pod or any other part of the no one except Picard remembered any of the anti-time events starship. Failure of antimatter containment is a catastrophic might lead one to suspect that what we witnessed may have been malfunction, generally resulting in total destruction of the created by Q, strictly for Picard’s benefit. Even if the anti-time spacecraft. The Starship Yamato was destroyed in 2365 when events were “real,” it seems unlikely that the future will unfold in its antimatter containment failed because of the Iconian comthe same manner, since our heroes were determined to change puter weapon. (“Contagion” [TNG]). SEE: antimatter pod. The things. Already, we know that the Enterprise-D will not exist in Enterprise-D suffered several catastrophic losses of antimatter 2395, since we saw it destroyed in Star Trek Generations. containment on stardate 45652 when it repeatedly impacted the Starship Bozeman while both vessels were trapped in a Antica. One of two habitable planets in the Beta Renner star temporal causality loop. (“Cause and Effect” [TNG]). The system. (“Lonely Among Us" [TNG). Enterprise-D almost lost antimatter containment in “11001001" (TNG), “Violations” (TNG), “Cost of Living” (TNG), “Disaster” Anticans. Large, furry, sentient humanoids from planet Antica in (TNG), and “Force of Nature” (TNG). The Starship Enterprise-D the Beta Renner star system. Anticans are a carnivorous species lost antimatter containment in 2371 in a combat situation with a who prefer to eat live meat. The Anticans applied for admissionto Klingon vessel. No crew fatalities resulted due to a successful the Federation in 2364. The Enterprise-D transported their dele- saucer separation maneuver, but the ship's stardrive section gates to planet Parliament to help resolve a long-standing was destroyed in a warp core breach. (Star Trek Generations). In dispute with sister planet Selay as part of the admission process. 2372, while the Defiant was in the Gamma Quadrant to observe (“Lonely Among Us" [TNG]). a subspace inversion of the Bajoran wormhole, a power surge of the ship's warp core threatened to cause a breach. (“The antichroniton. Antiparticle of the chroniton. Chroniton particles Visitor” [DS9]). in the body can be eliminated by exposure to a precisely modulated field of antichroniton particles. (“Before and After” [VGRY). antimatter converter assembly. Component of starship warp drive systems, including those used in Constitution-class vessels antigen. In biology, any foreign substance in a body that triggers ~~ such as the original U.S.S. Enterprise. an immune response. A synthetic antigen developed by Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram in 2373 was successful in combat- antimatter mines. Explosive charges, often used as proximity ing the macrovirus infestation that threatened the ship's crew on bombs. In 2369, a shuttlecraft from the Enterprise-D used antistardate 50425. The antigen was delivered using a plasma matter mines with magnetic targeting capabilities to threaten a grenade that Captain Janeway referred to as an antigen bomb. ~~ Cardassian fleet concealed in the McAllister C-5 Nebula, (“Macrocosm” [VGRY]). (“Chain of Command, Part II" [TNG]). antigrav. Portable device antimatter pod. Magnetic used aboard Federation confinement bottle used starships for handling cargo for the storage of antimatand other items too large ter fuel in a Federation for a single crew member starship. Antimatter pods to carry. Captain Kirk and were designed to prevent Ensign Garrovick used an the highly volitile antimatantigrav to carry an anti- ter from coming into physimatter bomb on planet cal contact with the strucTycho IV on stardate 3619, ture of the spacecraft. In (*Obsession” [TOS]). Two antigravs were used to carry the deacti- an emergency, antimatter pods could be ejected from the vehicle. vated Nomad to the transporter room just prior to that robot's (“The Apple” [TOS)). In late 2372, the crew of the Starship destruction. (“The Changeling” [TOS]). Antigravs were also used for Voyager escaped from a Vidiian attack by ejecting an antimatter handling of Ambassador Kollos's protective container aboard the pod, then detonating it with a photon torpedo. The resulting Enterprise. (“Is There in Truth No Beauty?” [TOS]. Antigravs were explosion was successful in disabling the Vidiian ships. also built into small equipment pallets used for handling cargo. A (“Resolutions [VGR]). graviton inverter circuit was a key component of an antigrav. ("Hollow Pursuits” [TNG]). Antigravs can become unreliable in the antimatter spread. An impressive but harmless series of small presence of high radiation levels. (“Disaster” [TNG]).. When a worker explosive charges deployed from the saucer section of the on station Deep Space 9 injured his back in 2369, Dr. Julian Bashir ~~ Enterprise-D during its engagements with the Borg ship followadvised him to use an antigrav to avoid further problems. (“The ing the battle of Wolf 359 in 2367. The charges were essentially Passenger” [DS9)). Starfleet shuttlecraft were equipped with antigrav fireworks used to cover the departure of a shuttlecraft from the thrusters for emergency landings. (“Coda” [VGR]). saucer section. (“The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" [TNG]).