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52 BORGIA PLANT THE STAR TREX ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE Voyager discovered a planet of former Borg drones that had some- ~~ Bajor in 2370, thereby alerting outsiders to the fact that Li was how broken away from the collective five years ago. Unfortunately, still alive. (“The Homecoming" [DS9]). This character's name was in a free society, the former drones reverted to destructive ethnic never given on air and is from the script. warfare. The survivors asked Voyager personnel to help them reactivate a derelict Borg cube ship in order that a new collective could ~~ Boslic freighter captain. SEE: Rionoj restore harmony to their society. (“Unity” [VGRY]). (In an alternate quantum reality visited by Worf in 2370, the Boslics. Humanoid spacefaring civilization. A Boslic freighter crew of the Enterprise-D did not recover Captain Picard from the docked at station Deep Space 9 in 2372 and contraband was Borg. In yet another reality, the Borg had taken over most of the found aboard the vessel by security officer Kurn. The Boslic Federation, with a heavily damaged Enterprise-D being one of freighter captain pulled out a disruptor pistol and shot Kurn, injurthe few ships remaining. (*Parallels” [TNG]). ing him. ("Sons of Mogh" [DS9)). Writer Maurice Hurley derived the name Borg from the term cyborg (cybernetic organism), although it seems unlikely thata Botany Bay, S.S. Ancient DY-100 space people living on the other side of the galaxy would know of the vessel launched from Earth in 1996. The term. The Borg were first seen in “Q Who" (TNG). Botany Bay was a sleeper ship carrying the former dictator Khan Noonien Singh and Borgia plant. Plant form indigenous to planet M-113. Described his followers, who had escaped from Earth as Carbon Group Il vegetation, it is mildly toxic. Professor after the terrible Eugenics Wars. The Robert Crater tried to convince Kirk and McCoy that Crewman Botany Bay traveled for some 300 years Darnell had died from eating a Borgia plant. (“The Man Trap” with most of its passengers preserved In [TOS)). suspended animation before being discov- I Borgolis Nebula. Blue-tinged gaseous cloud. The Borgolis Mutara Sector in 2267. (“Space Seed” al ered by the Starship Enterprise near the Nebula was studied by Enterprise-D personnel in 2369. Neela [TOS]). The Botany Bay miniature was also Daren recommended that the Spectral Analysis Department used as the freighter Woden in “The Ultimate Computer” (TOS) have more sensor observation time to examine the Borgolis The model was displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Nebula, but sensor-array usage was allocated to Engineering. ~~ Space Museum in Washington, D.C. A conjectural model of the (“Lessons” [TNG]). Botany Bay, built by Greg Jein for a photograph in the Star Trek Chronology, was equipped with several space shuttle-style solid borhyas. In the Bajoran culture, a term for ghost or spirit, (“The rocket strap-on boosters, suggesting how the 1996-vintage Next Phase” [TNG]). spacecraft might have gotten into orbit. The model was seen as a desktop decoration in Rain \ boridium pellet. Small object planted subcutaneously by Robinson's SETI labo- y » Lu) Romulan security forces into prisoners, enabling such prisoners ratory in the 1996 _— "SSS __._— to be located by use of the pellet's energy signature in a manner ~~ scenes of “Future's | similar to that used in a Federation emergency transponder. End, Parts | and II" “Birthright, Part II" [TNG)). IVGRI).

boridium power converter. Component of an exocomp, used Botha. A people who occupy a sector of the Delta Quadrant to provide energy for the device's internal functions. (“The Quality known as Bothan space. (“Persistence of Vision" [VGR]) of Life” [TNG]). Bothan. A member of the Botha civilizaBorka VI. Planet. Deanna Troi attended a neuropsychology sem- tion. Bothans are regarded as a fiercely terinar on Borka VI in 2369. Troi was abducted from the seminar by ritorial society and are endowed with extraRomulan underground operatives who used her in an elaborate ordinary telepathic abilities. Using bio-elecplot to help Romulan Vice Proconsul M'ret defect to the tric energy fields, their psionic skills can Federation. (“Face of the Enemy” [TNG]). SEE: N'Vek, cause mass delusions leading to catatonic Subcommander states. Individuals so affected live out secret desires that are normally suppressed Bortas, I.K.S. Klingon Vor'cha-class attack cruiser. The Bortas deep within their minds. (“Persistence of conveyed Captain Picard's request for Klingon assistance at Vision" [VGRY]). No relation to those who planet Nelvana Ill when the Enterprise-D investigated reports of stole the plans to the second Death Star. a secret Romulan base there. The three Klingon vessels that (Oops, wrong universe!) responded to Picard’s request made it possible for the Enterprise-D to escape without provoking an interstellar war, Bounty, H.M.S. Eighteenth-century British sailing ship famous for despite the hopes of the Romulans. (“The Defector” [TNG]). The the mutiny of its crew in 1789. Dr. Leonard McCoy gave the name Bortas served as Gowron's flagship during the Klingon civil war ~~ “H.M.S. Bounty” to the captured Klingon ship that he and his shipof 2367-68. Worf served as weapons officer aboard the Bortas mates planned to return to Earth in after having disobeyed during the early part of that conflict. (Redemption, Part I" [TNG]). Starfleet orders to save Spock. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home). Boyce, Dr. Phillip. (John Hoyt). Chief medical officer on the original Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike in 2254. Boyce, noting Nd that Pike was suffering from exhaustion fol- ry lowing a mission tc Rigel VII, urged Pike to [FSS relax a bit to avoid burnout. Boyce was of ) Boru, King Brian. Irish king during the time of the Battle of the opinion that there are things a man will A Clontarf. Miles O'Brien claimed to be a direct descendant of tell his bartender that he would never tell his King Boru and played the role of Boru in a holosuite re-creation of doctor. (“The Cage" [TOS], “The Menagerie, the famous battle. (“Bar Association” [DS9)). Part |" [TOS] Borum. (Michael Bell). Internee at the Hutet labor camp. Borum Boyce. Starfleet officer assigned to station Deep Space 9. In arranged to have Li Nalas's earring smuggled back to planet 2372, while serving on the bridge of the U.S.S. Defiant, Boyce