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THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE "ODE TO PSYCHE" 333 Ensign; Majel Barrett as Chapel, Christine. SEE: antigrav; cor- Array, where she helped them develop their drazine; Cygnian Respiratory Diseases, A Survey of; dikironi- latent psychokinetic powers so that they could ~~ um cloud creature; dikironium; Farragut, U.S.S.; Garrovick, join her in Exosia. SEE: Suspiria’s Array. $ Captain; Garrovick, Ensign; Kirk, James T.; Rizzo, Ensign; (“Cold Fire” [VGR]). The Caretaker died in v Theta VII; Tycho IV; Yorktown, U.S.S. 2371, at which time the city had enough energy stored to provide for the a Obsidian Order. The ruthless and frighten- Ocampa people until 2376. f ingly efficient Cardassian internal security (“Caretaker” [VGR]). The police. The Obsidian Order maintained an Ocampa bury their dead beneath the soil and elaborate network that kept virtually every believe that their comra or spirit is released into Cardassian citizen under surveillance. the afterlife. (“Emanations” [VGR]). SEE: Enabran Tain was once the head of the elogium; Kes (pictured). morilogium; Obsidian Order, but was retired by 2370. Ocampa planet. (“The Wire" [DS9)). The Cardassian military and the Obsidian Order were under the polit- Ocampan prayer taper. Traditional candles ical authority of the Detapa Council used by the Ocampan people in meditation. However, in practice, each entity acted inde- Kes used Ocampan prayer tapers in 2372 pendently. The Order was explicitly forbid- when she mourned the loss of Tuvok and den from having warships or other any other Neelix, who ceased to exist when they military equipment. (“Defiant” [DS9]) become merged into Tuvix. (“Tuvix" [VGR]). Nevertheless, in 2371, the Obsidian Order combined forces with the Romulan Tal Shiar Oceanus IV. Federation planet. The to assemble a massive fleet in the Orias sys- Enterprise-D was assigned to a diplomatic tem in preparation for a covert first-strike mission at Oceanus IV following its assignmission against the Founders of the ment at the Phoenix Cluster in 2368. (“The Dominion. The operation was masterminded Game" [TNG]) by former Obsidian Order head Enabran 2 Tain, who emerged from retirement in order Ocett, Gul. (Linda to lead the attack. The joint fleet: was Thorson). Commander of ambushed by 150 Jem'Hadar ships hiding a Cardassian Galor-class in the Omarion Nebula, resulting in the anni- warship. Ocett partici- E 9 hilation of all attacking ships. The debacle pated in the discovery of H effectively eliminated the Obsidian Order as a four-billion-year-old _ 4 > a viable military force in the Alpha Quadrant, genetically encoded y substantially weakening the Cardassian empire as a whole. message from an ancient humanoid species. —— (“Improbable Cause” [DS9)). SEE: Garak, Elim; Lovok, Colonel. (“The Chase" [TNG]). SEE: Galen, Professor 4 - Also that year, operative Entek masterminded a plot to expose Richard; humanoid life. Legate Ghemor, a high-ranking member of the Central Command, as being aligned with the Cardassian underground ocular implant. Cybernetic optical device that could be surgical movement. (“Second Skin" [DS9]). The Obsidian Order ly implanted to give sight to a blind person. By stardate 50893, opposed the peace treaty that Cardassia signed with Bajor in Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge had been given ocular 2371. ("Destiny” [DS9]). In 2373 it was learned that a few implants to replace his VISOR Although the implants were much Cardassians had survived the disastrous attack in the Omarion smaller than his VISOR they still afforded La Forge an equally Nebula and were being held captive by the Jem'Hadar on an wide range of sensory information. (Star Trek: First Contact). asteroid in the Gamma Quadrant. (“In Purgatory’s Shadow" [DS9)). The Obsidian Order was first mentioned in “The Wire” Odan, Ambassador. (Franc (DS9). Luz). A highly respected Federation ambassador and Ocampa planet. Fifth planet in the =, mediator. Odan was instruOcampa system, located in the mental in negotiating a peace Delta Quadrant, and homeworld to re’ treaty between the two moons the Ocampa people. The surface of of planet Peliar Zel in 2337, In the Ocampa planet was ecologically . 2367, Odan was again asked ~ “devastated a millennium ago when a | to mediate a dispute between Fa J group of explorers from another < 4 the Alpha and Beta Moons, galaxy accidentally stripped the planet's atmosphere of nucle- ) 4 but was injured while en route ogenic particles. Even today, the surface of the Ocampa planet to the conference, which was remains a desert. (“Caretaker” [VGR]). later held aboard the ey Enterprise-D. It was not generOcampa. Humanoid civilization from the Delta Quadrant. The ally known that Odan was a Ocampa have a life span of about nine years. Ocampa communi- Trill, a member of a joined species. The symbiont known as cate telepathically, as well as verbally. Legend has it that the Odan was relatively unharmed, but the humanoid host was fatalancient Ocampa possessed even more extraordinary telepathic ly injured. Commander William Riker volunteered to serve as a and mental powers. Ocampa civilization was nearly destroyed a temporary host for the symbiont, long enough for the ambasthousand years ago, when their planet suffered a major ecological sador to mediate the peace talks Following the negotiations, catastrophe, accidentally triggered by intergalactic explorers. The Odan was successfully transferred into a new host body and explorers accepted responsibility for this disaster and left two of returned to her homeworld on a Trill vessel. During the mission, their kind behind to care for the Ocampa people. One, who Odan became romantically involved with Beverly Crusher. (“The became known as the Caretaker, created a subterranean city for Host" [TNG]). Nicole Orth-Pallavicini played Odan’s new host. the Ocampa. For over five hundred Ocampa generations, the Caretaker provided power for the city from his space borne Array, Ode to Psyche. One of the six great odes written in 1819 by the while protecting the Ocampa from intruders like the Kazon-Ogla. English poet John Keats (1795-1821). Deanna Troi gave William (“Caretaker” [VGR]). In 2072, Suspiria, the Caretaker's mate, took Riker an old hardbound copy of this book. She inscribed it, “To some two thousand Ocampa individuals with her to a second ~~ Will, all my love, Deanna.” (“Conundrum” [TNG]).