15.10 Page 431

424 RuwoN THE STAR TREX ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE

Rutledge responded to a Cardassian attack on the Federation rybo-viroxic-nucleic structure. Long organic compound that is outpost at Setlik Ill, but was too late to prevent the massacre. one of the key factors in development during puberty of many (“The Wounded" [TNG]). In early 2373, the Rutledge and the humanoids. As such life-forms grow older, RVN takes on addiStarship Tecumseh were ordered to conduct a counterattack tional viroxic sequences. When Captain Picard and the other against Klingon forces in the Archanis sector. (“Nor the Battleto members of the Shuttlecraft Fermi passed through a molecular the Strong” [DS9)). reversion field while returning to the Enterprise-D on stardate 46235, O'Brien had difficulty getting a transporter lock on the Ruwon. (Jack Shearer). Leader of a crew because the field was masking part of their patterns. The Romulan delegation sent to station Deep transporter therefore only registered part of the RVN patterns, Space 9 in 2371 to receive Starfleet's lat- leaving oft key sequences, and thus, the shuttle’s crew was est intelligence on the Dominion. The transformed to children. A record of the shuttle crew's RVN patdelegation had secret orders to destroy terns was in the transporter pattern buffer, making it possible to the Bajoran wormhole in order to pre- restore the lost viroxic sequences during the transport process, vent a feared Dominion invasion of the (“Rascals" [TNG]). Yeah, well, we don't think it makes much Alpha Quadrant, and to destroy Deep sense, either. Space 9 as well. ("Visionary" [DS9]). Jack Shearer also played Admiral Strickler in ryetalyn. Rare mineral substance. Ryetalyn was used to cure “Non Sequitur” (VGR) and Admiral Hayes in Star Trek: First Rigelian fever, a deadly disease that infected the crew of the Contact Starship Enterprise in 2269. A deposit of ryetalyn was found on a small planetoid in the Omega system that belonged to Flint. RVN. SEE: rybo-viroxic-nucleic structure. (“Requiem for Methuselah” [TOS]).