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344 P'RANG, |XS. THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE P'Rang, I.K.S. Klingon spacecraft. The Pagh, L.K.S. Klingon K'Vort-class battle cruiser, a large bird-ofP'Rang was ordered to intercept the sleeper prey spacecraft commanded by Captain Kargan. Starfleet offiship T’Ong after command of the T'Ong had cer William Riker briefly served been assumed by Emissary K'Ehleyr. ("The as first officer aboard this Emissary” [TNG]). ship in 2365 as part of an officer exchange program P'Trell, Chirurgeon Ghee. Physician involved in gerontological During Riker's service aboard research on planet Andoria. P'Trell was a Carrington Award the Pagh, an incident with nominee in 2371. (“Prophet Motive" [DS9]). Starfleet was narrowly averted when Enterprise-D personnel Pa'Dar, Kotran. (Robert Mandan). . . helped identify and repair damage Powerful Cardassian civilian leader, from a previously undiscovered subatominstrumental in the decision to with- ) ic life-form that was damaging the hull of draw from Bajor in 2369. In 2362, the Pagh. (“A Matter of Honor" [TNGI) while he was serving as exarch of a # Cardassian settlement on Bajor, pagh. In the Bajoran religion, a person's life-force, from which Pa'Dar's house was destroyed in a one gains strength and courage. Bajorans believe their pagh, or terrorist attack. His wife was killed in life-force, is replenished by the prophets who reside in the the attack, and his son, Rugal, was Celestial Temple. (“Emissary” [DS9)) missing and also believed dead | Unknown to Pa'Dar, Rugal was still Pah-wraiths. Energy-based life-forms that lived in the Bajoran alive, and the boy was ordered to the wormhole. Long ago, the Pah-wraiths were banished by the Tozhat Resettlement Center by Prophets to the fire caves on planet Bajor and forbidden to Gul Dukat, Pa'Dar's political enemy. return. In 2373, a Pah-wraith tried to use Keiko O'Brien in an In 2370, Pa'Dar learned his son was elaborate attempt to kill the Prophets with a beam of chroniton alive in the care of a Bajoran family. particles. Fortunately, the Pah-wraith was driven from Keiko The revelation would have been a political disgrace for Pa'Dar, O'Brien, and the wormhole aliens remained unharmed. (“The except that a custody hearing held aboard station Deep Space 9 Assignment” (DSS). revealed Dukat's plot to embarrass Pa'Dar. Rugal was subsequently ordered returned to the custody of his birth father. Pahash. Cover name used by Chief Miles O'Brien in 2373. Fora (“Cardassians” [DS9]) covert mission to Ty'Gokor, O'Brien was surgically altered to appear Klingon, and he assumed the identity of Pahash, son of Pacifica. Beautiful ocean world, known for warm blue watersand ~~ Konjah. (“Apocalypse Rising” [DS9]). fine white beaches. Pacifica was headed by Governor Delaplane. The Enterprise-D was en route to a scientific mission ~~ pahtk. A Klingon insult. (“The Defector” [TNG], “Sins of the there in 2364 when Captain Walker Keel requested a covert Father” [TNG], “Reunion” [TNGI]). meeting with Captain Picard to discuss Keel's suspicions of a conspiracy to infiltrate Starfleet. (“Conspiracy” [TNG]). An inter- painstik, Klingon. Electronic “cattle prod” used as part of the stellar conference was held there in 2365. Among the participants Klingon Age of Ascension ritual. The use of the painstik is signifwas Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi. Troi was instrumental icant because endurance of physical suffering is considered a in uncovering an Antedean plot to blow up the conference when Klingon spiritual test. O'Brien recalled that he saw a painstik used she discovered that the delegates from planet Antede Ill were in on a two-ton Rectyne monopod, and that the creature jumped fact assassins. (“Manhunt” [TNG]). five meters before dying of excessive cephalic pressures. (“The Icarus Factor” [TNG]). Painstiks were also used in the Sonchi padd. Acronym for the personal access display device; small ceremony to provide “proof” that an individual was dead. handheld information unit used by Starfleet personnel aboard (“Reunion” [TNG]). Commander Troi was under the impression Federation starships. At the time Star Trek: The Next Genera- that painstiks were used as part of a Klingon birthday celebration. tion's padd was designed in 1987, it seemed fairly futuristic, but (*Parallels” [TNG]). as this entry is written, devices—Ilike Apple Computer's Newton personal digital assistant—that do virtually everything a padd can Painter, Mr. (Dick Scotter). Navigator aboard the original U.S.S. theoretically do, are already being marketed as consumer prod- Enterprise. Painter was on duty during the mission to investigate ucts. An electronic clipboard was also used by the Enterprise the fate of colonists on planet Omicron Ceti lll in 2267. (“This crew in the original series, which might also have been a padd Side of Paradise” [TOS]. device, although it was never referred to as such. 3 = - painting. Art form involving SAE the creation of visual images - through the application of ~ re k viscous liquid pigments to a Lo i flat surface. Geordi La Forge fet taught Data how to paint, i = AR causing Riker to comment on ly wo] the irony of a blind man | a teaching an android about a visual art. Although Data's ini= tial efforts at painting were relatively mechanistic because he was concentrating on the techniques of painting, he Paftran. City on the Vhnori homeworld. (“Emanations” [VGR]) eventually gained an awareness of the 4 artistry involved as he became more pagh'tem’far. Bajoran concept of a sacred vision. After experi- comfortable with his own humanity. : encing a plasma burst in 2373, Benjamin Sisko had several (*11001001" [TNG]). A painting class pagh ‘tem far; one vision led him to find the lost city of B'hala. was offered aboard the Enterprise-D in 2366. Captain Picard was “Rapture” [DS9]). one of the students, although his initial efforts may have been