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THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE PICARD DELTA ONE 357 Cluster was, in part, named for the Phoenix Asteroids in John they are not limited by the speed of Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon's film Dark Star. light. The warhead can be removed from a photon torpedo, leaving a ) 3 Phoenix, U.S.S. Federation Nebula- small, high-speed missile that can be », J class starship, Starfleet registry used as an instrumented probe, to h. number NCC-65420. In 2367, the transport small objects (“The Emis- ro == ship was under the command of sary” [TNG]), and even for burials in * Captain Benjamin Maxwell at the space. (Star Trek Il: The Wrath of Khan, “The Schizoid Man" [TNG]) time when Maxwell ordered an Galaxy-class starships are capable of launching up to ten photon unauthorized attack on Cardassian torpedoes simultaneously from a single launch tube. Each torpeforces near Sector 21503. Two do can be independently targeted. (“The Arsenal of Freedom" Cardassian ships and a Cardassian science station were [TNG]). A Galaxy-class starship is normally equipped with 250 destroyed by the Phoenix. Maxwell said his actions were intend- photon torpedoes. (“Conundrum” [TNG]). The U.S.S. Voyager was ed to prove his suspicions that the Cardassians had been plan- equipped with type-6 photon torpedoes. (“Dreadnought” [VGRY). ning a new offensive against the Federation. Maxwell was subsequently relieved of command of the Phoenix. (“The Wounded” photonic being. Noncorporeal, sentient life-form discovered in [TNG]). The dedication plaque for the Phoenix in Maxwell's ready the corona of a protostar in the Delta Quadrant by the crew of the room carried the motto, “There will be an answer, let it be.” The Starship Voyager in 2371. Two of these creatures were accidenPhoenix was the first appearance of a Nebula-class ship. The tally brought to Voyager while gathering energy from a nearby starship was presumably named after Zefram Cochrane's historic protostar. One of the creatures took refuge on the ship's warp ship that first broke the light-speed barrier in 2063. holodeck, where it briefly captured three members of the Voyager crew while trying to communicate with the crew. (“Heroes Phoenix. The first spacecraft launched from Earth to travel ne and Demons” [VGR]). SEE: Beowulf; Grendel. faster than light. The Phoenix was built by noted space 4 \ pioneer Zefram Cochrane and engineer Lily Sloane. It Cp—— photoplasma. Energy signature. A tricorder can be was built from an old Titan V nuclear missile, modified hed programmed to emit a photoplasmic trail to mark a with a small crew cabin and twin warp nacelles. The = path for later backtracking. (“Twisted™ [VGR]). It may Phoenix made its historic first warp flight on April 4, [SRT : be a coincidence, but physicist Harvey P. Lynn, Jr, 2063, piloted by Zefram Cochrane, symbolically rising cad Star Trek's first scientific consultant, who worked with from the ashes of World War lll, ushering in a new era for ra Gene Roddenberry during the early days of the original humankind. The flight of the Phoenix was directly respon- i > ~ Star Trek series, suggested the term “photoplasma” sible for Earth's first contact with extraterrestrials, leading . 1 i for something in the first pilot episode. Although to Earth's recovery from the postatomic horror. The = Roddenberry did not use this particular suggestion at Phoenix later was placed 1 . the time, three decades later, Lynn's \ on display at the i ~ term finally made it to the screen. \ Smithsonian Insti- I wm] = = \ subject of a course ( ™ eel a of planet Cor Caroli V suffered an outtution, and was the ~~ = yrox plague. Disease. The population taught at the Fe break of Phyrox plague in 2366. The epi- \ Starfleet Acad- if fr demic was contained with assistance emy. (Star Trek: bl) i} from Enterprise-D personnel. Starfleet / First Contact). | Command classified the incident as \ The ship was 1 secret. (“Allegiance” [TNG]). \ J named for \ ) { the immortal | physiostimulator. Medical instrument \ J bird from Lr used to elevate metabolic functions in an Egyptian 14 1 impaired individual. (“The Enterprise J § mythology - Incident” [TOS]) oN 4d that periodically was con- ’ / sumed in fire, then arose L pi (rn). Mathematical expression reprePHOENIX from the ashes reborn. senting the ratio of the circumference of a circle over the The Phoenix was designed diameter. An irrational number approximately equal to by Herman Zimmerman and John ~~ 3.1415926535. When the Redjac energy-based creature took Eaves, loosely based on a conjec- over the main computer of the original Starship Enterprise in tural model created by Greg Jein. 2267, Spock forced the creature from the computer by ordering it to compute pi to the last decimal place, a mathematically imposphoretic analyzer. Biomedical analysis device. Dr. Julian Bashir sible task. (“Wolf in the Fold" [TOS]). once asked Odo to pour himself into a phoretic analyzer so Bashir could gain a better understanding of the shape-shifter's Pi. Romulan scoutship that crashed on planet Galorndon chemistry. (“Dramatis Personae” [DS9]). Core, one-half light-year into Federation space, in 2366. The ship was rigged to self-destruct shortly after the crash. Only the photon grenade. Short-range, variable-yield energy weapon wreckage of the ship was racovered, and it was believed the Pi that creates a powerful electromagnetic pulse. At lower settings, may have been on a covert mission in Federation space. (“The it is capable of stunning humanoid life-forms in an enclosed Enemy" [TNG]). The Pi was not seen in “The Enemy," but one area. Photon grenades were considered for use during the might assume it would have been of the same design as the Enterprise-D's rescue mission of Arcos personnel at Turkana IV Romulan scoutship built three episodes later for “The Defector” in 2367, but were ultimately considered ineffective. (“Legacy” (TNG). [TNG]) Picard Delta One. Holodeck computer file, a virtual reality within photon torpedo. Tactical weapon used by Federation starships. which lived the computer intelligences known as Professor Photon torpedoes are self-propelled missiles containing a small James Moriarty and Countess Barthalomew. In the program, quantity of matter and antimatter bound together in a magnetic the Professor and the Countess believed they were exploring the bottle, launched at warp speed at a target. Photon torpedoes are universe together, having escaped the confines of the Enterpriseusually the weapon of choice when a ship is at warp drive, since D holodeck. (“Ship in a Bottle” [TNG])