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THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE-SUPPLEMENT BAJURAN WORMHOLE 583

B'Hala.* Ancient Bajoran city. The Temple Starship Enterprise-E was responsible for preventing the [wr of B'Hala was some 15,000 years old, built attempted abduction, and the U.S.S. Ticonderoga was dison ruins at least 10,000 years older patched to the Ba'ku homeworld in 2375 to facilitate the planet (=) Archae- becoming a Federation protectorate. (Star Trek: Insurrection). The ologists beautiful Ba'ku village was built at Lake Sherwood, north of Los studying Angeles, under the direction of production designer Herman the deeper ruins in 2374 found an Zimmerman, ancient stone inscribed with runes that prophesied the great TERE pT < spiritual conflict called the 7 Ning he NY bo Reckoning (pictured). (“The TR > = - Reckoning” — < - gr CHER Te RR INET B'Moth, I.K.S. Klingon battle cruiser, K'tinga-class. The I.K.S STS gp, > > REET B'Moth was reported missing while on patrol near the Cardassian tT ll Tom, border in 2373. General Martok, in command of the Bird-of-Prey Cee TC Rotarran, found the damaged Ein - a hulk of the 8’Moth and rescued » Na the surviving 35 members of yo a the crew. (“Soldiers of the —ea Empire” [DS9)) pa B'omar Sovereignty. Governing body of the Bomar people 8 : : (“The Raven" [VGRY]) Al od Fa 3 hc gn "NEE # B'omar. Technologically sophisticated humanoid civilization from the Delta Quadrant. In 2374 the B'omar government was willing baby wormhole. Alternate term for a micro-wormhole to permit passage of the Federation starship U.S.S. Voyager ("Displaced” [VGR)) through B'omar space, but imposed such severe limitations on the agreement that Voyager personnel elected to travel around Badlands." Dangerous region of space. In 2374, around stardate the region instead. (“The Raven” [VGR]) 51597.2, covert Starfleet agent Glinn Lasaran beamed an encrypted transmission into the Badlands. Worf and Dax traveled Br'er Rabbit. Fantasy character in the Uncle Remus stories by there in the Shenandoah to receive his message. (“Change of Earth writer Joel Chandler Harris, published in the early 1880s Heart" [DS9)) The character was a clever rabbit who lived in a briar patch in a rural southern community in the American nation. (Star Trek Baduviam tapestry. Multilayered textile art form usually used as Insurrection) a decorative wall hanging. (“Call to Arms” [DS9)). Ba'ku planet. Class-M planet in the Briar Patch region of Bajor.* Class-M planet, homeworld to the Bajoran people. The Federation space. Homeworld of Ba'ku and Son'a people. The fourth moon of Bajor was called Derna. (“Image in the Sand" [DS9]) planet was surrounded by an unusual ring system saturated with metaphasic radiation particles. Unknown to most offlanders, Bajoran Council of Ministers. SEE: Bajoran Chamber of exposure to these particles had the effect of rejuvenating many Ministers. humanoid life-forms, extending their life span for centuries. The Ba'ku planet had concentrations of kelbonite in its mountain Bajoran Gratitude Festival.* Annual Bajoran holiday. At the ranges and had a number of subsurface hydrothermal caverns. In request of the Emissary, the festival was held on station Deep 2375, the world became a Federation protectorate after outlaw Space 9 in 2374, despite the fact that the Federation was in the Starfleet officers attempted to drive off the rightful inhabitantsina middle of the war with the Dominion. The traditional Bajoran bid to take possession of the planet. (Star Trek: Insurrection) greeting during the festival was “Peldor joi!" (“Tears of the Prophets” [DS9)) Ba'ku rhyl. Small animal life-form indigenous to the Ba'ku planet Bajoran impulse ship." Sublight i Artim had a rhyl as a pet that he military spacecraft of Bajoran reg i kept in his pocket. (Star Trek istry. Colonel Kira Nerys used sevInsurrection). eral impulse ships in a blockade of the Romulan fleet in the Bajor sys- A Ba'ku. Humanoid civilization from a planet in the Briar Patch. tem in 2375. (“Shadows and The Ba'ku originally came from a culture on the verge of destroy Symbols" [DS9)) = Ing itself with technologically advanced weapons of war. In 2066, we a small group left their homeworld, colonizing an isolated world in ~~ Bajoran lilac. Variety of floriculture the Briar Patch. The surface of the new Ba'ku planet was bom- indigenous to planet Bajor. They |g ~ barded with metaphasic particles that somehow reversed the were the favorite of Kira Meru, Kira = = effects of aging in many humanoid species. As a result, the Ba'’ku Nerys's mother. (“Wrongs Darker ~ now found themselves to be extremely long-lived and found that Than Death or Night" [DS9)). C0 2 they had the time to devote themselves to art and craftsmanship. lt en x - Ba'ku villagers, who numbered less than a thousand, formed an Bajoran shrimp. Small edible > = intensely insular community. Some Ba'ku, who chose to associ marine decapod indigenous to the ) ate with offlanders, were banished from their homeworld after an green oceans of Bajor. (“You Are \} unsuccessful bid to overthrow the Ba'ku leadership. In 2375 Cordially Invited" [DS9)]) these outcasts, now known as the Son'a, allied themselves with Control interface from a some unscrupulous Federation officials in an attempt to remove Bajoran wormhole.* Subspace Bajoran impulse ship the remaining inhabitants, so that the Son'a could return to the passageway linking the Bajor sector Ba'ku planet and reap the rejuvenating benefits of the metapha of the Alpha Quadrant with the Gamma Quadrant. Millennia ago sic particles. Intervention by Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the the wormhole, known to the Bajoran people as the Celestial