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ripped away from them during Pon farr, Porter. (Clayton Murray). Citizen of the American nation on 20thevery seven years of their adult life. The J century Earth. In 1996 Porter was a member of an antigovernindividual experiencing Pon farr will stop 1 ment militia cell located in a house 30 kilometers northeast of eating and sleeping if not allowed to ¥ ' Phoenix. (“Future's End, Part II" [VGR]) return home to take a mate. (“Amok 13 Time" [TOS]). During Pon farr, the brain is p< x » Portland, U.S.S. Federation starship, Chimera class, Starfleet thrown into a neurochemical imbalance s registry number NCC-57418. The Portland, along with a that can be fatal if the mating drive is not ~ Cardassian cruiser, searched the Algira sector for Odo and acted upon. The Vulcan telepathic mating bond draws mated Garak, when their runabout became missing in 2371 during the couples irresistibly together during Pon farr. (“Blood Fever” Romulan and Cardassian attack on the Founders’ homeworld [VGRY). Spock underwent Pon farr in 2267, when he returned to (“The Die is Cast” [DS9]) Vulcan, only to be spurned by his betrothed, T'Pring. (“Amok Time" [TOS]). SEE: Plak-tow. Spock again experienced Pon farr positron beam. Energy beam consisting of a stream of positron when his regenerated body was undergoing hyperaccelerated particles. In 2293, to evade Kang's battle cruiser, Captain Sulu growth on the Genesis Planet in 2285. Spock was fortunate that ignited sirillium in the Azure Nebula using a positron beam moduSaavik, a Vulcan female, was also present. (Star Trek lll: The lated to a subspace frequency. (“Flashback” [VGR]) Search for Spock). Tuvok married T'Pel shortly after entering Pon farr in 2304. (“Flashback™ [VGR]) positronic brain. An extremely advanced computing device that uses the decay of pool. Traditional Earth game of billiards, Tom Paris's holodeck re- positrons to form sophisticated neural netcreation of Chez Sandrine featured a pool table. Paris's program work systems. Long thought to be impossiincluded great pool players of the past. Various members of the a ble, the positronic brain was first postulatVoyager crew played pool in Paris's program during their off-duty ed in the 20th century by Isaac Asimov hours. Captain Janeway was an accomplished pool player. (“The bs and finally made practical in the 24th cenCloud” [VGR]). SEE: Gaunt Gary. tury by Noonien Soong. Positronic brains - were used in Soong’s androids, Data and Porakan eggs. Eggs from an oocytic animal indigenous to plan- Lore. (“Datalore™ [TNG]). A significant et Porakas IV in the Delta Quadrant. Neelix prepared Porakan advance in submicron matrix transfer techeggs as a breakfast food on the Voyager. He prepared them with R—. nology was introduced at a cybernetics alittle dill weed and a touch of rengazo. (“Flashback” [VGR]) conference in 2366, permitting Data to pro1 gram a new positronic brain, which he used Porania, Legate. Bureaucrat within the Cardassian govern- as the basis for his construction of his daughter, Lal. (pictured) ment. In 2368, Legate Porania was surprised at Enabran Tain's (“The Offspring” [TNGI). Although positronic computing remains retirement from the Obsidian Order. (“The Die is Cast” [DS9]). purely hypothetical, positrons do exist. They are subatomic particles virtually identical to normal electrons, but with opposite elecport. Ancient nautical term referring to the left side of a ship, as tromagnetic properties. An electron has a negative charge, and a opposed to the starboard (right) side positron has a positive charge. Positrons were the first known particles of actual antimatter to be observed in the laboratory. Porta, Vedek. (Robert Symonds). Bajoran 0) Deep Space 9. When Akorem Laan briefly aged portions of a biological brain. A patient given such an _ monk who served at the temple on station positronic implant. Artificial cybernetic replacement for dam. | assumed the role of Emissary in 2372 and implant can exhibit dramatic personality changes. The magnitried to reinstate Bajor's caste-based tude and scope of these changes are a function of which areas vh D’jarra system, Porta killed a fellow monk and how much of the brain is replaced. Vedek Bareil was given a “5 who belonged to an “unclean” caste positronic implant after vasokin treatments damaged his brain in (“Accession” [DS9]). 2371. (“Life Support” [DS9)). Portal. (Darryl Henriques). The last postatomic horror. A period of 21st-century Earth history, during remaining protector of the once-grand which Earth recovered from the World War Ill nuclear conflict of Tkon Empire, Portal 63 had been sta- 2053. Much of the planet reverted to barbarism during this peritioned on the planet Delphi Ardu during od. (“Encounter at Farpoint, Part I" [TNG]). Humanity's first conthe Tkon age of Bastu, at least 600,000 tact with an extraterrestrial civilization in 2063 marked the beginyears ago. Remaining in some kind of sus- ning of the end of the postatomic horror. (Star Trek: First Contact). pension or stasis in the intervening millen- “Encounter at Farpoint” suggests that the postatomic horror lastnia on a deserted outpost, Portal was ed until at least 2079, so the renaissance wrought by contact with unaware that the Tkon Empire had col- the Vulcans did not happen instantly. lapsed, until he was awakened by the presence of Ferengi and Federation | postcellular compounding. Method by which the lyaaran peospacecraft near his planet. (“The Last - ple reproduced, using a natal pod. Using this method, the Outpost” [TNG]). Actor Darryl Henriques also played Romulan lyaarans emerged as fully grown adults. (“Liaisons” [TNG]). It's ambassador Nanclus in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. probably just as well that the episode didn't make clear just how this worked. Portas V. Planet near the Demilitarized Zone that was the site of a Breen settlement. (“For the Uniform” [DS9]) postcentral gyrus. Part of the Cardassian brain. The special cranial implant that Garak was given when he was in the Porter, Paul. (Eric Steinberg). [i dl} » Obsidian Order was located in the postcentral gyrus. (“The Starfleet officer assigned ~ Wire" [DS9)). to the engineering section of | bY the Enterprise-E in 2373 i] 5 postmortem resuscitation technique. Starfleet medical protoPorter was captured and ' cols used to revive patients who, in an earlier age, might have assimilated by the Borg when J been considered to be clinically dead. (“Emanations” [VGRY]) they attempted to take over Ww i the ship. (Star Trek: First 4G my pot roast. Traditional Earth meal made from simmered beef. A Contact) i meal of replicated pot roast was ruined aboard the Starship