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Metron Consortium. Business organization that sometimes planet. The terraforming project on Velara lll threatened the lives dealt in sophisticated weapons. (“Business As Usual” [DS9]). It of these entities by altering the subsurface water table. (“Home seems odd that the Metrons, who abhorred violence in “Arena” Soil" [TNG]). (TOS) would deal in weapons. microcellular scan. Detailed sensor readings of the microscopic Metron. (Carcle Shelyne). Highly advanced functions within living cells. Dr. Crusher ran a microcellular scan civilization, apparently humanoid, of on Reginald Barclay, while diagnosing his case of Urodelean flu fo. unknown origin, possessing great powers. on stardate 47653. “Genesis” [TNG]). - The Metrons intervened in a conflict between the original Enterprise and a Gorn ~~ microcentrum cell membrane. Physical characteristic of cell ship in 2267. The two ships had been structures in certain life-forms. Microcentrum cell membranes involved in a territorial dispute over planet are often seen in shape-shifers. Life-forms with microcentrum Cestus lll. Seeking to avoid unnecessary cell membranes are often unaffected by triolic waves. (“Time's unpleasantness in their space, the Metrons ~~ Arrow, Part I” [TNG]). sent Enterprise Captain Kirk and the Gorn ; ship commander to an artificial planetoid, ~~ microcircuit fibers. An element of Borg technology, designed to where they were expected to fight to the be implanted into humanoid tissue during the assimilation death. Kirk won the fight, but declined to process. Microcircuit fibers were implanted into Jean-Luc kill his opponent, prompting the Metrons ~~ Picard's body when he was abducted and surgically altered by to reevaluate their opinion of humankind. the Borg in 2366. Infiltration of the fibers into Picard’s healthy tisA Metron representative said they had sue around the Borg implants caused changes in the cellular DNA 2 SAN not expected Kirk to demonstrate the around the implants and made surgical removal impossible while advanced trait of mercy, and said that they the implants were active. (“The Best of Both Worlds, Part II” were so impressed they might wish to con- [TNG]). tact the Federation in just a few thousand years. (“Arena” [TOS]). microdyne. Measurement of force, one-millionth of a dyne. mev yap. Klingon for “stop.” (“Reunion” [TNG]), (“Looking for (“Playing God" [DS9)). par'Mach in All the Wrong Places” [DS9)). microfusion initiator. Reactor component. Renegade Jem'Hadar MEV. Unit of electromotive force measure; abbreviation for one soldiers stole microfusion initiators to reactivate an Iconian gatemillion electron volts. (“Before and After" [VGR]). way found on planet Vandros IV. (“To the Death” [DS9]). mevak. Klingon dagger used in such ceremonies as the Mauk- micron. Unit of length measure, one-millionth of a meter. to'Vor ritual. (“Sons of Mogh™ [DS9]). (*Macrocosm” [VGRY). Meyers, Annie. (Joy Garrett). Computer-generated character microoptic drill. A handheld piece of Starfleet equipment used from Alexander Rozhenko's holodeck program Ancient West. to produce extremely small, precision holes. Commander La (“A Fistful of Datas" [TNG]). Forge and Ensign Ro used a microoptic drill to create an observation hole in the ceiling of the Ten-Forward Lounge on stardate Mickey D. (Gregory Beecroft). Character in the novel Hotel 45571 when Ux-Mal terrorists were holding Enterprise-D personRoyale, a nefarious lothario who murdered a hotel bellboy to nel hostage there. (“Power Play” [TNG]). enforce his authority. (“The Royale" [TNG]). microprobe. Small free-flying unpiloted instrument package used micro-wormhole. A wormhole by Starfleet scientists for remote sensing studies. Microprobes whose singularity has mostly dissi- measured only a few centimeters in diameter. In 2371, a micropated, leaving an extremely narrow probe launched by the Starship Voyager into a micro-wormhole passageway through subspace. A ~ became trapped in gravitational eddies within the wormhole. micro-wormhole was discovered in § The Voyager crew used the probe as a communications relay to 2371 by the crew of the Starship the science vessel Talvath. (“Eye of the Needle” [VGR]). Voyager. One terminus of this worm- a . hole was in the Delta Quadrant, Ji 4 ’ microreplication system. Device permitting an exocomp to while the other was situated across fabricate virtually any tool required for an engineering servicing the galaxy in Sector 1385 of the Alpha Quadrant. This particular task. The microreplicator creates a new circuit pathway whenevwormhole also traversed a temporal distance of 20 years, so the er an exocomp performs a task it has never done before. (“The Alpha Quadrant terminus was in the year 2351. A microprobe Quality of Life” [TNG]). lodged in the wormhole made it possible for the Voyager crew to contact the Romulan ship Talvath in the Alpha Quadrant. (‘Eye of microscopic generator. Nanotech device used by the criminal the Needle” [VGR]) Rao Vantika to transfer his consciousness into the body of Dr. Bashir, thereby continuing his existence. (“The Passenger” microbiotic colony. A rare subatomic life-form, analogous to [DS9)). SEE: glial cells; synaptic pattern displacement. carbon-based bacteria. A microbiotic colony was responsible for significant structural damage to the Klingon vessel Pagh and the microtomographic analysis. Imaging technique using a series Enterprise-D. A tunneling neutrino beam was found to be effec- of microscopic narrow-beam X-rays to derive information on a tive in removing these dangerous organisms from both ships. (“A molecular scale. Microtomographic analysis, along with mass Matter of Honor” [TNG]). spectrometry, of the Enterprise-D dilithium chamber hatch helped determine that the explosion suffered by the ship in 2367 microbrain. Silicon based intelligent life-form indigenous to was the result of a flawed hatch cover and not sabotage. SEE: planet Velara Ill. The microbrains were nonorganic entities that neutron fatigue. (“The Drumhead” [TNG]) lived in the soil, in the moist region just above the water table, Using energy absorbed from sunlight. the microbrains, which ~~ microvirus. A genetically-engineered microorganism designed resembled tiny sparkling crystals, used groundwater to form to attack only cells with a specific DNA sequence. One such electrical pathways that served as its consciousness. The life- organism was designed to attach itself to parasympathetic form was named “microbrain” by Enterprise-D personnel investi- nerves and to block the function of the enzyme cholinesgating the now-defunct Federation terraforming station on the terase, thus blocking autonomic nerve impulses, but only of