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THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE VERIDIAN SYSTEM 543 aired in 1989. A beautiful young woman is actually an old weapon Venus drug. An illegal substance of death whose mission is to exact revenge on a nval clan. The believed to make women more + ate Sam Rolfe developed The Man From U.N.C.L.E. television beautiful and men more handsome "Y series in the early 1960s. GUEST CAST: Lisa Wilcox as Yuta; Joey and attractive to the opposite sex Aresco as Brull; Nancy Parsons as Marouk; Stephen Lee as Although the drug appeared to be Chorgan; Marc Lawrence as Volnoth; Elkanah Burns as highly effective when used to + Temarek. SEE: Acamar Ill; Acamar system; Acamarians/ enhance the appearance of Mudd's Gatherers; Artonian lasers; Brull; Chorgan; Gamma Hromi Il; women, it was later noted that a + + Goddard, U.S.S.; Hromi Cluster; Marouk; microvirus; norani- placebo dose (consisting of inert Temarek; Tonkian homing beacons; Tralesta; Volnoth; Yuta. ingested by Eve McHuron, suggest- ' um alloy; parthas a la Yuta; Penthor-Mul; Starbase 343; gelatin) had a similar effect when ing that belief in oneself is still the 4 Ventanian thimble. An archeological artifact from the most effective enhancement of all Lapeongical period of Ventanian history. Captain Picard kept one (“Mudd's Women" [TOS]) on his ready-room desk. He was impressed that Kamala, the empathic metamorph from Krios, recognized it, just as she Venus. The second planet in the Sol system. In 2371 several terknew he would be. (“The Perfect Mate" [TNG]) raforming stations were in operation on Venus. (“Past Tense Part I” [DS9]). During Chakotay's first year at the academy, he Ventax ll. A Class-M planet that, a millennium ago, suffered from trained as a pilot for a couple of months on Venus to learn how to terrible wars and environmental havoc. According to Ventaxian handle atmospheric storms. (“Future's End, Part II" [VGR)) legend, this dark age was ended by the Contract of Ardra, in which the mythic figure Ardra agreed to grant a thousand years of peace Verad. (John Glover). Trill initiate whose and prosperity in exchange for the population delivering itself into application for joining with a Trill symbiont a slavery at the end of the millennium. Federation anthropologist Dr. was rejected by the Symbiosis Evalu- / Howard Clark issued a distress call from Ventax Il in 2367 whena ation Board. Although 90 percent of all con artist identifying herself as Ardra attempted to collect on that initiates are similarly rejected, Verad refused Ee n contract. First contact with the Ventaxians had been made in 2297 to accept this decision and attempted to by a Klingon expedition. (“Devil's Due” [TNG]) steal the Dax symbiont from Jadzia Dax Lie in 2370. Verad was nearly successful in H executing an elaborate scheme in which [REE Gg » he employed Klingon mercenaries to r commandeer station Deep Space 9 and ) - 4 forced station medical personnel to sur- - E a 4 gically transfer the symbiont from Jadzia » at Wed . to himself. The surgical procedure was f 1 AS f — completed, but station personnel regained ' control of the facility and reversed the procedure before Jadzia iY Rad I suffered permanent injury. Verad had hoped to escape into the F < ts L Gamma Quadrant with his companion, Mareel, but Mareel's tats S I. — realization that Verad Dax was not the same man she had earlier \ SANE loved contributed to his downfall. Although the removal of the - SN ‘X) symbiont left Verad mentally incapacitated, Mareel said she would sx 2 } NN care for him for the rest of his life. (“Invasive Procedures” [DS9)) [" . . Verath. Star system. A statue from the Verath system was auc tioned off at Quark’s bar by archaeologist Vash in 2369. Vash ventral impeller. Propulsion device mounted on the bottom of explained that the civilization of the Verathans reached its height Jem'Hadar warships, presumably used for planetary landing 30,000 years ago and conducted trade to other systems through and takeoff. (“The Ship” [DS9]) an interconnected communication network. (“Q-Less” [DS9)])

Venture, U.S.S. Federation starship, Galaxy class, Starfleet reg- Veridian Ill. Uninhabited Class-M planet in the Veridian sysstry number NCC-71854. The U.S.S. Venture was the lead ship tem. In 2371, the nexus energy rib- Pa in the relief force of starships sent by Starfleet in 2372 to help sta bon passed very near to Veridian ll 4 tion Deep Space 9 deal with the Klingon invasion of Cardassian ~~ For this reason, Dr. Tolian Soran space. Admiral Hastur led the relief force and used Veridian lll as the launch site for Fs “, probably embarked on the Venture TTT TT his trilithium probe, used in his [+ o& ! (“The Way of the Warrior" [DS9]) ® GT unsuccessful attempt to extinguish ’ ostles soe the Veridian star. The Saucer Module F) P— fo road of the Starship Enterprise-D crash(————c I» 7. > PANY landed on the surface of Veridian Ill in the incident, which also = pe [ab aT Wr) claimed the life of former Enterprise Captain James T. Kirk 1 — i a BE Captain Kirk is buried on a mountaintop on planet Veridian Ill \ Aa =i) : & tol (Star Trek Generations). The mountaintop scenes in Star Trek I} Tap HE {J AT ™ he) 3 5 Generations were filmed at a location called the Valley of Fire EE i : JE @5 i i iE near Las Vegas, Nevada [ 5 te oe Pm A) b of i Veridian IV. Class-M planet in the Veridian system which, in 1 / S— = : % 4 2371, supported a pre-industrial humanoid society with a popu pu: TR » of lation of 230 million. (Star Trek Generations). = 5 A) Y " Fi -— Nee 4 Veridian system. Star system with four planets orbiting the star li LP Veridian. Two planets in the system, Veridian Ill and IV, were pel » 4 Class-M worlds. The nexus energy ribbon passed through the Ee Veridian system in 2371. (Star Trek Generations)