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pasta al fiorella. Food. One of Geordi's favorite dishes. U.S.S. Jenolen in an attempt to keep himself and Matt Franklin (“Birthright, Part |" [TNG]). suspended in the beam until help arrived. The attempt was partially successful: Scott survived for 75 years, but Franklin's patpasta boudin. Spicy Earth pasta dish. Pasta boudin was served tern degraded beyond retrieval. (“Relics” [TNG]). The relays of the at Sisko's, a restaurant in New Orleans. (“Paradise Lost” [DS9]). pattern buffer in the food replicators aboard the Voyager contained bio-neural circuitry. (“State of Flux" [VGR]) Pasteur, U.S.S. Olympic-class Federation medical starship, Starfleet pattern enhancer. Devices used by - - registry number NCC-58928. (In the Starfleet transporter systems to 3 anti-time reality devised by the Q amplify the beam, thereby making A Continuum, the Pasteur was com- personnel transport safer during rel’ I manded by Captain Beverly Picard. atively hazardous situations, as - The ship crossed into the Romulan when beaming through an electrical Neutral Zone in order to investigate storm. Transporter Chief O'Brien an anomaly Jean-Luc Picard believed existed there. While in the used a pattern enhancer to expedite Zone, the Pasteur came under fire by two Klingon attack cruisers. a transporter rescue of an away team The ship suffered a warp-core breach as a result of the attack and ~~ stranded on the moon of Mab-Bu VI was destroyed.) (“All Good Things..." [TNG].) The Pasteur minia- on stardate 45571. Three pattern ture was designed and built by ILM art director Bill George. The enhancers are generally used, ship's dedication plaque bore a quote from the Hippocratic Oath. deployed in a triangular formation, An early version of that plaque indicated the Pasteur as being a amplifying the signal lock on any object contained within the triHope-class vessel. angle. (“Power Play” [TNG]). Pattern enhancers were first used in —— -~ EET a a. Fate un esd * mmm SEES 4 JT Te RR — fu BEET TORRES Ge. A Tre TERR. Accesses Lun ii 1 At SLE > _— \ , —- | wore om mrnen mem p= = Pong [Se TT) “2 I CS —————_— \ ; I i er add ( n "A "nn "@=. E La a — \ LAAT Li "TN ew TN) \ [I + SE Rw Vin [TR] BAL ann Baal ==" - e * \ re Abs wi a, 4 gt = 4 ate EL \ = VERE TE A Re —— am es 3 a wi ' rt a Moan = rd \ pe ~

Patahk. (Steve Rankin). Romulan survivor of the scoutship Pi “Power Play” (TNG) and were also seen in other episodes, includthat crashed on planet Galorndon Core in 2366. Patahk was ing “Ship in a Bottle” (TNG) ,"Frame of Mind" (TNG), and severly injured in the crash, and was brought on board the “Inhentance” (TNG). Enterprise-D for medical treatment. Patahk died for lack of a compatible ribosome infusion. Although suitable ribosomes “Patterns of Force.” Original Series episode #52. Written by were available from Worf, the Klingon declined to make a dona- John Meredyth Lucas. Directed by Vincent McEveety. No startion to yo he viewed as an enemy of his people, and Patahk date given. First aired in 1968. The Enterprise investigates a planhimself Insisted he would not accept such a donation from Worf. et where a sociologist's experiment has gone awry, leaving the Romulan officials maintained that the intrusion of Patahk's ship world with a government patterned after Nazi Germany. GUEST into Federation space was accidental. (“The Enemy” [TNG]). The CAST: Richard Evans as Isak; Valora Noland as Daras; Skip P. character was referred to as Patahk in the script, but the name Homeier as Melakon; David Brian as Gill, John; Patrick Horgan was not spoken in the episode. as Eneg; William Wintersole as Abrom; Gilbert Green as S.S. Major; Ralph Maurer as S.S. Lieutenant; Ed McCready as S.S Patches. Calico cat, pet to young Jeremy Aster when he lived Trooper; Peter Canon as Gestapo Lieutenant; Paul Baxley as First with his parents on Earth. (“The Bonding” [TNG]). trooper; Chuck Courtney as Davod; Bart LaRue as Newscaster; Bill Blackburn, Laskey, Troopers. SEE: Abrom; Daras; Ekos; pattern buffer. Component of a transporter in which a transport ~~ Ekosians; Eneg; Gill, John; Isak; Melakon; Prime Directive; subject's image is briefly stored so that transmission frequency rubindium crystal; subcutaneous transponder; Zeon. can be adjusted to compensate for the Doppler effect caused by any relative motion between the transport chamber and the tar- Pauley, Ensign. Starfleet officer. Pauley returned from the get. Because of the criticality of this subsystem, two buffers must Gamma Quadrant in the disabled runabout U.S.S. Ganges with be operated in synchronization with each other, so that in case of Dax and archaeologist Vash. (“Q-Less” [DS9]). failure of one unit, the beam can be immediately handed off to the backup. Since 2319, pattern buffers have been multiplexed to ~~ Paulson Nebula. Astronomical cloud located in the vicinity of avoid transporter psychosis. In 2369, quasi-energy microbes Zeta Alpha Il. The Paulson Nebula was rich in transuranics, dilithithat were capable of living within a pattern buffer's matter um hydroxyls, and other elements. The Enterprise-D took advanstream were discovered in the Igo Sector. (“Realm of Fear” tage of this to hide from the sensors of the Borg ship in 2366 [TNG]). Montgomery Scott modified the pattern buffers of the (“The Best of Both Worlds, Part I” [TNG])