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Madena, Coalition of. Political entity encompassing planets had cooled to the point of solidifying, threatening the stability of Altec and Straleb in the Omega Sagitta system. Both planets are the planet. These pockets were used as placement points for ferinhabited by the same humanoid species, and the coalition was roplasmic infusion devices used to reliquefy the core of the held power by a precarious treaty. (“The Outrageous Okona" planet. (“Inheritance” [TNG]). [TNG]). Magna Carta. The “great charter” of liberties signed by English Madred, Gul. (David Warner). King John under enormous pressure from English barons on Cardassian officer who interrogated Earth in the year 1215, The Magna Carta, still regarded as a major Enterprise-D captain Jean-Luc milestone in the evolution of law, provided guarantees of due Picard when Picard was captured at process in trials, and strict limitations of governmental power planet Celtris Ill in 2369. Madred over the governed. ("Court Martial” [TOS]). employed physical and psychological torture in violation of the magnascopic storm. Electromagnetic spatial disruption. The Seldonis IV Convention while Enterprise-D passed through a magnascopic storm in the attempting to extract Starfleet Mekorda sector in 2370, when an emergent life-form attached tactical Information from Picard. itself to the ship's computer system. (“Emergence” [TNG]). Although Picard was able to resist, he later confided that he was so magnasite drops. Corrosive compound. Magnasite drops can brutalized by the experience that be used to dissolve duranium. (“Necessary Evil" [DS9]). he would have done anything for Madred, had he not been freed. (“Chain of Command, Part II" magnaspanner. Handheld tool used by Starfleet engineers. [TNG]). David Warner also played St. John Talbot in Star Trek V: (“Tapestry” [TNG]). The Final Frontier and Gorkon in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. magnaton pulse. Electromagnetic energy burst. Renegade Jem'Hadar soldiers used a magnaton pulse to hide their escape mag-lev carriage. Small passenger or cargo vehicle that uses ship's ion trail in 2372, (“To the Death” [DS9]). magnetic leverage to travel up a cable tether connecting the surface of a planet to an orbital station. Used by Nezu colonists inthe magnesite-nitron tablet. Small white disk carried in Dr. McCoy's Delta Quadrant on their orbital tether sysem. (“Rise” [VGR]). medical pouch. When crushed, the tablet explodes into a bright flame, providing a source of illumination. Kirk used a magnesiteMagda. (Susan Denberg). One of Mudd's women. Magda had nitron tablet for illumination in a cave on planet Capella IV on short blond hair and came from the Helium experimental station ~~ stardate 3497. (“Friday's Child" [TOS]). before being recruited by Harcourt Fenton Mudd as a wife for a settler on planet Ophiucus Ill in 2266. Magda later married one of magnesite. Metallic composite containing magnesium carbonthe miners on Rigel XII. ("Mudd's Women" [TOS]). Magda's last ate, MgCO5_ The presence of magnesite ore in the crust of Atrea name was not mentioned in the aired version, but a final draft IV caused a feedback pulse in the drilling phasers used by the script, dated May 26, 1966, listed her as Magda Kovacs. Starship Enterprise-D in 2370. The problem was corrected by adjusting the harmonic frequency of the phaser beam. oro Magellan, Shuttlecraft. Enterprise-D (“Inheritance” [TNG]). Transporters cannot beam through magnewh SEW. shuttle vehicle #15. The Magellan, site-bearing rock. (“Nor the Battle to the Strong” [DS9)]). The - ~ === piloted by Worf, was launched ona Duras sisters illegally extracted magnesite ore from a Pakled ~ rescue mission when Captain Picard mine on planet Kalla Ill. (“Firstborn” tna). Magnesite was used = - was trapped on planet El-Adrel IV in 2368. as a structural material in Federation and Kazon spacecraft conA Tamarian vessel fired on the Magellan, carefully disabling it so struction. (“Initiations” [VGR]). Magnesite can also be used as a that it was forced to return to the Enterprise-D. The Tamarians chemical fuel for cooking. Campers on Earth generally prefer to had sought to isolate Picard and their captain on El-Adrel IV use magnesite fuel instead of wood cut from trees. (“Tattoo” so that they might have a chance to learn to communicate. [VGR])). (“Darmok” [TNG]). The Magellan participated in a rescue mission of the J'naii shuttle Taris Murn in 2368. The Magellan had two ~~ magnetascopic interference. Electromagnetic energy pro1,250 millicochrane warp engines and microfusion impulse duced by unstable protostars. Magnetascopic interference thrusters. Such shuttles are normally unarmed, but can be affects sensor and communication efficiency. (“Preemptive equipped with two phaser type-4 emitters for special mission Strike” [TNG]). requirements. The rescue of the J'naii shuttle was successful, but the Magellan was destroyed in the process. (‘The Out- magnetic boots. Footwear used by starship personnel in cast” [TNG]). The Magellan was named for Spanish navigator weightless conditions to allow a worker to remain attached and Ferdinand Magellan, the first explorer to circumnavigate planet vertical with respect to a floor or other suitable surface. Also Earth. This was the first appearance of the new full-sized shuttle known as gravity boots. Burke and Samno, Federation operaset and model introduced during the fifth season. The ship was tives who murdered Klingon chancellor Gorkon, wore magnetic an extensive modification of the Galileo § shuttle built for Star boots so that they could move freely aboard the Klingon ship Trek V. Designers included Richard James, Nilo Rodis, Herman Kronos One during the assassination. The boots later provided Zimmerman, Andy Neskoromny, and Rick Stembach. The model the means of identifying Burke and Samno as the assassins. (Star was built by Greg Jein. Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country). Magellan, U.S.S. Federation starship, commanded by Captain magnetic constrictors. Component of a starship’s warp core. In Conklin. (“Starship Mine" [TNG]). 2372, Michael Jonas sabotaged Voyager's magnetic constrictors so that they would be forced to vent plasma, severely damaging “Magic Carpet Ride.” Song written by Earth musicians John Kay the inner layer of the warp coils. This damage was designed to and Rushton Moreve and performed by Steppenwolf, originally force Voyager to visit planet Hemikek, where Kazon forces were recorded in 1968. Zefram Cochrane played “Magic Carpet lying in ambush. (“Investigations” [VGRY]). Ride" during his historic first warp flight aboard the Phoenix on April 4, 2063. (Star Trek: First Contact). magnetic leverage. Form of linear propulsion that was used to lift a carriage along a tether cable stretching from a planet's surface magma pockets. In planetary geology, subsurface regions con- up to a station in synchronous orbit. Used by Nezu colonists in the taining molten rock. In 2370, magma pockets in planet Atrea IV Delta Quadrant on their orbital tether sysem. (“Rise” [VGR)).