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M-Class planet. SEE: planetary classifica- M-4. Robot invented by Flint to perform a variety of tasks at his tion system. home on planetoid Holberg 917G. (“Requiem For Methuselah” [TOS)). M'Benga, Dr. (Brooker Bradshaw). Physician aboard the original Starship Enterprise. M-5. (Voice of James M'Benga interned in a Vulcan ward during Doohan). Experimental his medical training. He cared for Spock computer designed in when the Enterprise first officer was criti- 2268 by Dr. Richard cally wounded on Tyree's planet in 2267. E 3 Daystrom. The M-5 (“A Private Little War” [TOS]). M'Benga { multitronic unit was supervised the autopsies surrounding the [Pees oy the most ambitious commysterious deaths of Enterprise personnel . puter complex of its time, and near the Kalandan outpost in 2268. (“That $ was designed with the purpose Which Survives” [TOS)). M'Benga made oA h of correlating and controlling only two appearances on Star Trek. n " every aspect of starship operation. The M-5 multitronic unit M'Char. Klingon bird-of-prey under the command of Commander was built using a technique that Kaybok. The freighter Xhosa was stopped by the M'Char in 2372. allowed human neural engrams to Kaybok intended to board the Xhosa and search it for shape- be impressed upon the computer's shifters, but Captain Sisko, in command of the Defiant, intervened circuits, theoretically giving the and convinced Kaybok to withdraw his vessel. (“The Way of the machine the ability to think and Warrior" [DS9)). reason like a human. Daystrom hoped that the M-5 would prove as M'kemas lll. Planet located in Tzenkethi territory. In 2371, a great an advance as his earlier breakFounder took control of the U.S.S. Defiant and planned to through in duotronics. The M-5 was tested aboard the Starship attack M'kemas Ill in hopes of starting a war between the Enterprise in 2268 in an exercise that allowed the M-5 to conduct Federation and the Tzenkethi. (“The Adversary” [DS9]). routine contact and survey operations, as well as an elaborate war game that involved four other Federation starships. Although iniM'ret, Vice-Proconsul. High-ranking Romulan senator who tial tests were promising, the M-5 demonstrated serious problems defected to the Federation in 2369. M'ret, along with two aides, when it fired full phasers at the Excalibur and the Lexington, was placed into stasis and smuggled in a cargo container aboard killing hundreds of people. Fortunately, the M-5 possessed the Romulan warbird Khazara for transfer to a Corvallen freighter Daystrom's sense of morality, and it later deactivated itself to in the Kaleb sector. Although this plan was not entirely success- atone for the sin of murder, (“The Ultimate Computer” [TOS]) ful, M'ret and his aides were later transported to the Enterprise-D. M'ret’s escape had been engineered by Ambassador Spock, M-9, A type of gestural sign language that is both silent and working with the dissident underground on Romulus. Spock covert. Developed by the Leyrons of planet Malkus IX. Data hoped that M'ret's defection would help establish an escape learned this language form in 2365 for use in communicating with route for thousands of other Romulan dissidents who lived in mediator Riva after his Chorus was killed at planet Solais V. fear for their lives. (“Face of the Enemy" [TNG]). SEE: N'Vek, (“Loud as a Whisper” [TNGI). The hand gestures that Data studied Subcommander. on his computer screen when learning this language were mostly standard American Sign Language symbols. One sign that was M'Tell. Archaeologist noted for the discovery of Ya'Seem, ranked not, however, was the traditional Vulcan salute, which was includamong the greatest findings in her field. (“The Chase" [TNG]). ed to see if anyone would notice. M-1 through M-4. Experimental multitronic computers devel- M24 Alpha. Star system that contained the planet Triskelion; oped by Dr. Richard Daystrom, unsuccessful predecessors to site where several members of the Enterprise were transported in the M-5 computer. (“The Ultimate Computer” [TOS]), 2268. (“The Gamesters of Triskelion" [TOS]) M-113 creature. (Sharon Gimpel) Maab. (Michael Dante). Ambitious warrior The last surviving humanoid inhabi- on planet Capella IV who attempted to 7; tant of planet M-113, an intelligent gain control of the Ten Tribes of Capella by life-form with large suction cups on murdering their leader, High Teer Akaar, in its hands. This individual had caused 2267. Maab had favored selling Capellan the death of Nancy Crater before mineral rights to the Klingons instead of transporting up to the Enterprise, to the Federation. Maab later sacrificed where it was killed when it threatened his life defending Akaar's widow, Eleen, N the life of Captain Kirk. The M-113 against Klingon agent Kras, after discovercreatures possessed an extraordi- ing that the Klingons were without honor by nary hypnotic ability to take on the Capellan standards. (“Friday's Child" [TOS]) appearance of someone known to their prey, and used this ability when hunting in order to obtain Mab-Bu VI. A giant, gaseous planet located in Federation space. the salt they needed to survive. (“The Man Trap” [TOS]). The Mab-Bu VI had a Class-M moon that was recorded in Starfleet M-113 creature is popularly known by many Star Trek fans as the records as uninhabited. The Starship Essex was destroyed Salt Vampire, although this name did not come from the episode above the Mab-Bu moon in 2167 by Ux-Mal criminals who had itself. The creature was designed and built by Wah Chang. Staff been imprisoned on the moon. These same criminals attempted and crew members of the original series called this creature the to escape a second time, in 2368, by commandeering the “Salt Sucker.” Starship Enterprise-D, taking over the bodies of several Enterprise-D personnel including Miles O'Brien, Deanna Troi, and M-113. Class-M planet, the former home of a long-dead civiliza- Data. (“Power Play” [TNG]). tion, now desertlike and nearly barren. Archaeologist Robert Crater spent some five years prior to 2266 studying the ruins Mabus. (Charles O. Lucia). Trabe leader. Mabus grew up on a there, during which time his wife Nancy Crater was killed by the planet where members of the Kazon were imprisoned and perlast surviving native inhabitant of that planet. (“The Man Trap” secuted. He was eight years old when orphaned in the Kazon [TOS)). revolt of 2346. Many years later, he and other Trabe nationals