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caber toss; Caldos colony; camellia; Crusher, Beverly; deep subspace inversion. Spectacular phenomenon in which subtissue scan; ghost; Howard family candle; Howard, Felisa; space near a wormhole becomes fragmented. The Bajoran Howard, Jessel; Maturin; Quint, Ned; Ronin; noncorporeal wormhole undergoes a subspace Inversion every 50 years. In life; Selar, Dr.; Starbase 621; weather control system. 2372 the staff of Deep Space 9 took the Starship Defiant to the Gamma Quadrant to observe the wormhole undergo this sub-nagus. Ferengi title for the official in charge of commerce in process. It was during that trip that an engine-room accident one district. Quark served under a sub-nagus during his youth. occurred that almost pulled Benjamin Sisko into subspace. SEE: ("Playing God" [DS9)]). Sisko, Jake. (“The Visitor" [DS9]).

subatomic disruptor. Offensive weapon employed by the 29th- subspace phenomena. SEE: Exosia; infinite velocity, theory century Timeship Aeon. Subatomic disruptors cause the molecular of; solanagen-based entities; tetryon; theta-band emissions; structure of the target to come apart. (“Future's End, Part I" [VGR]). verteron; warp field. subspace compression. Phenomenon resulting from differsubatomic particle shower. Potentially hazardous side effect of ential field-potential values in nearby portions of the same warp a near-critical warp-core shock pulse. (“Twisted” [VGRY). field. Subspace compression can cause different parts of an object to have different inertial densities, resulting in structural subcutaneous transponder. SEE: transponder, emergency. strain on the object. In severe cases, subspace compression can tear an object apart at the subatomic level. Depending on relative subdermal bioprobe. Small medical device that could be field symmetries, subspace compression can also cause numerimplanted just under a patient's skin, used to transmit biochem- ous other, often unpredictable, side effects. ("Déja Q" [TNG]). istry readings. (“Sacred Ground” [VGR]). subspace field distortions. Phenomena that generally indicate the presence of a warp-propulsion system. The Cytherian subdermal communicator. Small transmitter/receiver device probe encountered by the Enterprise-D in 2367 did not create implanted under the skin. Benjamin Sisko and Miles O’Brien any detectable field distortions and its method of propulsion (mirror) used subdermal communicators implanted behind their remained a mystery. (“The Nth Degree” [TNG]), ears to keep in contact during their mission to recruit Professor subspace funnel. Subspace link between two points in norJennifer Sisko (mirror) to the side of the Terran resistance. mal space. Geordi La Forge suggested that the trionic initiators (“Through the Looking Glass” [DS9]). in the U.S.S. Hera's warp core might have created a subspace funnel between her last reported position and Marijne VII. subhadar. A rank in the Angosian military. Roga Danar earned (“Interface” [TNG]). the rank of subhadar twice during the Tarsian War. (“The subspace instabilities. Area of weakness in the fabric of norHunted” [TNG]). mal space. Areas demonstrating subspace instabilities were more prone to warp-field effect. (“Force of Nature” [TNG]). subimpulse raider. Two-person interplan- subspace interphase pocket. Localized section of space etary spacecraft used by the Bajoran where subspace intrudes into normal space. In 2370, the runresistance during the Cardassian about Mekong intercepted one such pocket and accidentally occupation of Bajor. Deep Space 8 removed a rapidly expanding protouniverse from the area. officers Kira and Dax used a subim- (“Playing God" [DS9)). pulse raider to reach Bajor during the attempted subspace rift. The extrusion of subspace into normal space coup of 2370. The raider was hit by opposing weapons fire and over a discernible event horizon. The cumulative exposure of crashed, (“The Siege" [DS9]). warp-field energy to susceptible areas of space was thought to cause these rifts to form. (“Force of Nature” [TNG]). sublight. Scientific term describing space-normal speeds, slow- subspace rupture. Huge swirling anomaly that draws surer than c, the speed of light. Sublight speeds do not require warp rounding matter into a central vortex. A subspace rupture was drive, and are generally achieved using impulse power. As a discovered in the Hanoli system in 2169 by a Vulcan ship. An eleresult, sublight travel is subject to relativistic effects such as time vated thoron reading near Deep Space 9 in 2369 was initially thedilation and Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction. Sometimes referred orized by Dax to be a similar phenomenon, but this was later to as space-normal travel. SEE: impulse drive. found to be incorrect. (“If Wishes Were Horses" [DS9)). subspace shock wave. Powerful energy front generated by a submicron matrix transfer technology. Technique for replicat- massive energy discharge. A subspace shock wave was created ing existing neural net pathways in a positronic brain into another when Praxis, a moon of the Klingon Homeworld, exploded in positronic brain. This technology was introduced at a cybernetics 2293, causing severe damage to the homeworld, as well as to the conference in 2366, attended by Data, and led to Data's con- nearby Starship Excelsior. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered struction of his android daughter, Lal. (“The Offspring” [TNG]). Country). The energy wave at the beginning of Star Trek VI was described as a subspace shock wave as a means of “explaining” Subroutine C-47. Computer software on the Enterprise-D how an explosion on Praxis could affect the Excelsior, which was responsible for noncritical systems such as replicator selections presumably several light-years distant at the time, since a slowerand recreational programming. Subroutine C-47 was replaced by than-light shock wave from a conventional explosion would have elements of Data's personal programming during an interface taken many years to bridge that distance. A subspace shock wave experiment in 2369. This caused malfunctions in food replicators, also provides some rationale for why such a powerful explosion Captain Picard's music selections, and the holodeck program failed to totally destroy the Klingon Homeworld, Ancient West. (“A Fistful of Datas" [TNG]). SEE: Spot. subspace transition rebound. Phenomenon associated with the use of folded-space transport devices such as those subsonic transmitter. Electronic device used to generate audio employed by the Ansata terrorists of planet Rutia IV. An adaptive signals of frequencies below the threshold of human hearing. subspace echogram was found to measure the rebound pheSpock used a subsonic transmitter on planet Omicron Ceti lll to nomenon with sufficient accuracy to locate the Ansata headquardrive the spores from the surviving colonists’ bodies in 2267. The ters, despite the fact that folded-space transport was virtually device broadcast an irritating frequency that was described as undetectable with conventional sensors. (“The High Ground” being like itching powder spread on the affected individuals. [TNG]) (“This Side of Paradise” [TOS)). SEE: spores, Omicron Ceti lll. subspace vacuole. Short-lived interspatial passageway. Subspace vacuoles occurred naturally on the Vhnori homeworld, Subspace Relay Station. SEE: Relay Station 47. linking that planet to an area of space near a ringed planet in the Delta Quadrant. (“Emanations” [VGRY]). SEE: spectral rupture; subspace bubble. SEE: static warp shell. Vhnori transference ritual.