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in 2079 or if a 53rd state was added then. That year does appear only by living together. GUEST CAST: Diana Muldaur as Pulaski, to coincide with the end of the World War lll nuclear holocaust. Dr. Katherine; Barrie Ingham as Odell, Danilo; Jon De Vries as Granger, Walter; Rosalyn Landor as Odell, Brenna; Colm units of measure. SEE: AMU; AU; baktun; denkir; gigajoule; Meaney as O'Brien, Miles SEE: Bringloid V; Bringloidi; gigaquad; GSC; isoton; kellicam; kellipate; kilodyne; kilo- chech’tluth; clone; Dieghan, Liam; European Hegemony; quad; kolem; kph; melakol; MEV; microdyne; micron; milli- Ficus Sector; firefighting; Granger, Walter; love poetry, cochrane; onkian; parsec; Ritter scale; selton; terawatt; tes- Klingon; Mariposa; Mariposa, S.S.; Moore, Admiral; Neosipate; trisec; roentgen; warp factor. Transcendentalism; Odell, Brenna; Odell, Danilo; replicative fading; rop’ngor; Starbase 73; tea ceremony, Klingon; Vallis, “Unity.” Voyager episode #59. Written by Kenneth Biller Directed ~~ Elizabeth; World War Ill; Yoshimitsu computers. by Robert Duncan McNeill. Stardate 50614.2. First aired in 1997. Chakotay discovers a colony of former Borg drones who assimi- uridium. Unstable mineral substance. Even in its raw form, uridium late him to save his life. GUEST CAST: Lori Hallier as Frazier, ore could explode if subjected to a strong electrical charge, Riley; Susan Patterson as Kaplan, Ensign; Ivar Brogger as Cardassian mining station Terok Nor, in orbit around planet Bajor, Orum. SEE: axonal amplifier; Borg; Borg collective; processed raw uridium ore using the forced labor of Bajoran prisChakotay; Farn; Frazier, Riley; holodeck and holosuite pro- oners during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. (“Civil Defense” grams: hoverball; hoverball; Kaplan, Ensign; message buoy; [DS9]). We therefore assume that Bajor was a source of uridium Nekrit Expanse; neural transponder; Orum; Parein; ore, although itis not clear if there are any uridium deposits left after Roosevelt, U.S.S. the Cardassian departure from Bajor. The Cardassians used uridium alloy in their starship sensor arrays. (“Indiscretion” [DS9)). universal translator. Device used to provide real-time two-way translation of spoken languages. It operated Urodelean flu. Mild affliction with symptoms that include an by sensing and comparing brain-wave frequencies, imbalance in the K-3 cell count, increased intravascular presthen selecting comparable concepts to use as a basis ] sure, and heightened electrophoretic activity. Most humans have for translation. Kirk used a handheld universal transla- a natural immunity against the disease. Reginald Barclay contor to communicate with the life-form known as the tracted Urodelean flu because the T-cell in his DNA that would Companion in 2267. (“Metamorphosis” TOS). A soft- normally fight off the infection was dormant. Dr. Beverly Crusher ware version of the universal translator was pro- activated his dormant gene with a synthetic T-cell to help him grammed into the Enterprise-D’s main computer. This fight off the fiu. (“Genesis” [TNG]). Well... T-cells are white blood enabled real-time communications with such life- cells, which definitely will not fit inside of genes. Actually, it probforms as the nanites. “Evolution” [TNG]). The com- ably should be the DNA in his T-cell. badges worn by Starfleet personnel in the latter half of the 24th century incorporated miniature universal user code clearance. A password required to access the control translators. (“The 37's” [VGR]). Even smaller versions systems of a starship. (“Hero Worship” [TNG)). SEE: security of the universal translator could be inserted into the outer ear, access code. providing unobtrusive operation. Such devices could, however, be disrupted by exposure to beta radiation. (“Little Green Men" Ustard, Subcommander. Romulan officer who was killed in a [DS9]). The universal translator generally requires an adequate transporter accident during the time that Elim Garak was a garsample of a language in order to establish a translation matrix. dener at the Cardassian Embassy on Romulus. (“Broken Link” (“Sanctuary [DS9)). The universal translator aboard the U.S.S. [DS9)). Voyager had great difficulty in translating the language used by a mysterious civilization called the Swarm in 2373. (“The Swarm” Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards. Starfleet [VGR)). Actually, we figured that Paramount somehow managed shipyards in orbit around the planet to install universal translators in everyone's television receivers, Mars and on the surface of the planwhich could also explain why so many of the galaxy's life-forms et. The Enterprise-D was built there. seem to be speaking English and other Earth languages. Members of the Galaxy-Class Starship Development Project universe, parallel, SEE: mirror universe. team included Dr. Leah Brahms (“Booby Trap” [TNG)). The University of Betazed. Educational institution on planet actual construction of the Betazed:; school at which Deanna Troi studied psychology prior Enterprise-D was superto her joining Starfleet. As a student at the university, she helped vised by Commander Orfil care for Tam Elbrun. (“Tin Man" [TNG]). Quinteros. (*11001001" [TNG]). Lieutenant Com“Unnatural Selection.” Next Generation episode #33. Written by mander Benjamin Sisko John Mason & Mike Gray. Directed by Paul Lynch. Stardate was assigned to Utopia Planitia for some three years following 42494.8. First aired in 1989. Scientists who have genetically the tragic death of his wife aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga in early designed their children for superior immune systems find them- 2367, prior to his assignment to station Deep Space 9 in midselves aging incredibly quickly, the victims of that improved 2369. (“Emissary" [DS9]). While at Utopia Planitia, Sisko particiimmunity. GUEST CAST. Diana Muldaur as Pulaski, Dr. pated In the design of the new Starship Defiant, which was Katherine: Patricia Smith as Kingsley, Dr. Sara; Colm Meaney intended to help Starfleet defend against an anticipated Borg as O'Brien, Miles; J. Patrick McNamara as Taggert. Captain; offensive. (“The Search, Part |” [DS9]). Starfleet records show that Scott Trost as Ensign. SEE: Darwin Genetic Research Station; an accidental plasma discharge occurred while the Enterprise-D Gagarin IV; Gamma 7 Sector; Kingsley, Dr. Sara; Lantree, was being constructed in 2362, and three individuals were killed. U.S.8.; “Linear Models of Viral Propagation”; marker beacon; In 2370 it was learned that Lieutenant Walter J. Pierce had murPulaski, Dr. Katherine; quarantine transmitter; Repulse, dered Marla Finn and her lover, then committed suicide. (“Eye of U.S.S.; Sakharov, Shuttlecraft; security access code; Star the Beholder” [TNG]). In an alternate quantum reality visited by Station India; styrolite; Taggert, Captain; Telaka, Captain L. Worf in 2370, some unknown entity was using the Argus Array to Isao; Thelusian flu; transporter ID trace. covertly survey the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards. (“Parallels” [TNG]). SEE: Martian Colonies. Part of the Utopia Planitia Fleet “Up the Long Ladder.” Next Generation episode #44. Written by Yards on the surface of Mars was very briefly glimpsed as a view Melinda M. Snodgrass. Directed by Winrich Kolbe, Stardate from deep space in “Parallels” (TNG), while Brahms’s drafting 42823.2. First aired in 1989. Captain Picard must persuade two room (presumably in the orbital part of the yards) was re-created vastly dissimilar colonies, each doomed, that they can survive in “Booby Trap” (TNG) and “Galaxy's Child” (TNG).