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After being held prisoners by a group of Jem'Hadar led by _ ogist Roger Korby, who used Ruk to build additional Goran'Agar, Bashir and O'Brien returned to station Deep Space » androids. Ruk was eventually destroyed by Korby 9 aboard the Rubicon. ("Hippocratic Oath” [DS9]). The Rubicon od when the old android rediscovered his survival replaced the Mekong, lost in “The Die Is Cast" (DS9). The °° » instinct. (“What Are Little Girls Made Of?" [TOS]). Rubicon was named after the river in Italy that was of strategic $= Actor Ted Cassidy was also famous for his role of importance to Caesar in 49 B.C. ) Lurch in the Addams Family television series. SEE: Homn. Rubicun lll. Class-M planet in the Rubicun star system and home to the Edo civilization. The Enterprise-D visited Rul the Obscure. One of the bidders at an auction at Rubicun Il in 2364 for R&R, but their mission turned to crisis Quark's bar in 2369. Rul bought an artifact brought back when Wesley Crusher broke one of the Edo laws and was by Vash from the Gamma Quadrant. (“Q-Less" [DS9]). sentenced to death. The boy's life was saved at the expense of the Prime Directive. (“Justice” [TNG]). One location used for film- Rules of Acquisition. SEE: Ferengi Rules of Acquisition. ing parts of Rubicun IlI's exteriors was the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys, California, the same locationused “Rules of Acquisition.” Deep Space Nine episode #27. Teleplay for Starfleet Academy in the episode “First Duty” (TNG) and by Ira Steven Behr. Story by Hilary Bader. Directed by David Starfleet Command in “Homefront” (DS9). Other Rubicun Ill exte- Livingston. No stardate given. First aired in 1993. Quark is riors were filmed at the Huntington Library in Pasadena. recruited by the grand nagus for important negotiations in the Gamma Quadrant. Quark takes his newest waiter, Pel, with him, Rubicun star system. Planetary system adjoining the Strnad unaware that he is really a she. This episode marks the first system and containing the Class-M planet Rubicun lll, home to appearance of a Ferengi female. SEE: Andorian transport; the Edo civilization. (“Justice” [TNG]). SEE: Edos. brizeen nitrate; Dax, Curzon; Dominion; Dosi; Ferengi; Ferengi Rules of Acquisition; flaked blood fleas; Gramilian rubindium crystal. Component of a subcutaneous transponder. sand peas; Hupyrian beetle snuff; Inglatu; Karemma; Kirk and Spock, imprisoned on a mission to planet Ekos in 2268, Kibberian fire diamonds; lokar beans; Maihar'du; Pel; Quark; removed their transponders so that the rubindium crystals could ~~ Replimat; tongo; tube grubs; tulaberry wine; Zek, Grand be used as a crude laser. (“Patterns of Force" [TOS]). SEE: Nagus; Zyree. transponder, emergency. “Rules of Engagement.” Deep Space Nine episode #90. Story Ruby. (Hillary Hayes). Attractive woman who was a character in by Bradley Thompson & David Weddle. Teleplay by Ronald D. the Dixon Hill stories. Ruby was a friend and sometimes com- Moore. Directed by LeVar Burton. Stardate 49665.3, First aired panion of Dixon Hill. (Star Trek: First Contact). Named for Ruby in 1996. Lieutenant Commander Worf is accused of firing on a Moore, wife of Star Trek: First Contact cowriter Ronald D. Klingon transport vessel, killing all aboard. A hearing convenes Moore. on Deep Space 9, where it is learned that the incident was a setup by the Klingons to disgrace the Federation and gain addiRudellian brain fever. Type of illness. Miles O'Brien feared his tional Cardassian territory. GUEST CAST. Ron Canada as wife had been stricken with Rudellian brain fever upon returning Ch'Pok; Deborah Strang as T'Lara; Christopher Michael as from planet Bajor in 2373. (“The Assignment” [DS9]). Helm officer. SEE: Ch'Pok; Galorda Prime; holodeck and holosuite programs; Klingon Empire; O'Brien, Miles; Pentath Rudellian plague. Disease. The Cardassian colony on planet lll; Pentath system; Rudellian plague; Sompek; T'Lara; Tong Pentath Ill was afflicted by Rudellian plague in 2372. (“Rules of Vey; Worf. Engagement” [DS9]). rulot seeds. Agricultural product used by Cardassians. (“The Rudman, Commander. Officer on the Starship Merrimac. Homecoming" [DS9]). (Birthright, Part I” [TNG)). Rumarie. Ancient pagan Vulcan festival. The Rumarie was last Rugal. (Vidal Peterson). Cardassian nation- celebrated over a millennium ago. (“Meld" [VGRY]). SEE: Rillan al al born in 2358, the son of Kotran Pa'Dar. grease. "Gambit, Part Il" (TNG) establishes that the Vulcan Time a In 2362, while a child living on planet Bajor, of Awakening was about 2,000 years ago, so it might seem that Bo Rugal was believed killed in a terrorist this holdover from the old Vulcan ways survived a thousand years = attack. Unbeknownst to Rugal's father, the after the time of Surak. an child was taken to the Tozhat Resettle\ £ ment Center where he was adopted by Rumpelstiltskin. (Michael John Proka Migdal. Raised in Bajoran culture, Anderson). Character who reputedly Rugal was taught to hate Cardassians. In > spun straw into gold in an ancient 2370, his biological father learned Rugal Earth fairy tale. In 2369, unknown was alive, and sought custody of the boy. aliens from the Gamma Quadrant PP Benjamin Sisko, arbitrating the dispute, ™ “dll created a replica of Rumpelstiltskin Te. ruled that Rugal was a victim in the affair on station Deep Space 9. The charand awarded custody of the boy to Pa'Dar, k [Wl acter was drawn from the imagination despite Rugal’s wishes to remain with his adoptive parents » of Chief Miles O'Brien, who had (“Cardassians” [DS9]). Vidal Peterson previously portrayed the B been reading a bedtime story to his Romulan boy D'Tan in “Unification, Part II" (TNG). daughter, Molly, on stardate 46853 The alien version of Rumpelstiltskin Rugalan fever. Deadly disease. Audrid Dax's daughter, Neema, } was created so that the aliens could spent two weeks in the hospital with Rugalan fever over two hun- better study humans. (“If Wishes dred years ago. (“Nor the Battle to the Strong” [DS9)). & Were Horses” [DS9]). SEE: Bokai, Buck. Ruijian. Planet. Location of a steeplechase that Curzon Dax and Benjamin Sisko once attended, where they met two Ruji twin sis- runabout simulation. Holographic re-creation of a Starfleet runters and had a swell time. (“A Man Alone” [DS9)). about, used for training purposes. (“Facets” [DS9]). Ruk. (Ted Cassidy). Sophisticated android built millennia ago by runabout. Generic term for small Federation starships used the Old Ones of planet Exo lll. Ruk was discovered by archaeol- for relatively short-range interstellar travel. Resembling an