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Grant, Cary. (1904-1986). Twentieth-century Earth entertainer, extinction of the Founders if not for the efforts of Dr. Julian Bashir, noted as an actor who played romantic lead characters in two- who extracted information from the mind of a Section 31 operative, dimensional noninteractive motion pictures. Grant appeared ina making a treatment possible. (“Extreme Measures” [DS9]). The variety of films including To Catch a Thief and North by Founders were cured shortly after the end of the Dominion war Northwest. In an alternate timeline, B'Elanna Torres and Harry when Odo returned home to his people, spreading Bashir's cure Kim played a trivia game in which one question concerned lead throughout the Great Link. (“What You Leave Behind” [DS9]). actor Grant in To Catch a Thief. (“Year of Hell, Part I" [VGR]). Great Material Continuum. In Ferengi mythology, the force that grapok sauce. Klingon condiment. (“Sons and Daughters” [DS9]). binds the universe together. The Ferengi people hold that each part of the universe is filled with too much of one thing and not enough gravistie fluctuation.® Spatial distortion phenomenon. of another. They believe the Great Continuum flows through them ravimetric fluctuations can occur in proximity to a quantum sin- all like a mighty river, from “have” to “want” and back again, and if gularity, (Scorpion, Part I" [VGRY]). one navigates the river with grace and entrepreneurial skill, their ship would be filled with everything they desired. Also called the gravimetric shear. Deformation of a solid body by differential Great River. (“Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" [DS9)). variations in a local gravitational field. (“Drone” [VGRY]), Great River. SEE: Great Material Continuum. gravimetric torpedo. Sophisticated energy weapon. Captain Kathryn Janeway of the U.S.S. Voyager used a gravimetric torpe- Great War. Armed conflict between the Vaskan and Kyrian peodo on stardate 51781 to destroy about 200 million Omega mole- ples in the Delta Quadrant in 2374. Radical Kyrians, who had felt cules. (“The Omega Directive” [VGR]) oppressed by the Vaskans for years, attacked the U.S.S. Voyager in 2374, while Voyager personnel were conducting trade negotiagraviton stabilizer. Component in an artificial gravity generator. tions with Vaskan ambassador Daleth. That event touched off (“Treachery Faith, and the Great River" [DS9]). armed conflict between the Vaskans and the Kyrians. Even after the end of the war, resentment and inequalities marred relations graviton.* Elementary particle, a quantum unit of gravitational between the two cultures for centuries. Finally, in the late 31st force. An interdimensional rift can be created by directing a century, historical evidence, in the form of the Voyager's specifically modulated resonant graviton beam into space. Emergency Medical Hologram backup module, became avail(“Scorpion, Part II" [VGR]). able. The evidence shed new light on the war's beginning, allowing the opening of a new dialog between the Kyrians and the gray mode. Starship operational protocols designed for severe Vaskans, leading in less than six years to a new era of harmony energy conservation. In gray mode, power to nonessential decks between the two former enemies. (“Living Witness" [VGR]). and systems was discontinued, and remaining systems were operated at 20 percent. Voyager entered gray mode in late 2374 when grint hound. Four-legged Klingon animal. (“Time's Orphan” [DS9]). its supply of deuterium was almost exhausted. (“Demon [VGRY). groat. The grain of a cereal grass widely cultivated on Bajor and Gray's Anatomy. Classic medical reference textbook on the providing a flour used for baked goods such as bread and pastries. anatomical structure of humans from planet Earth. Written by Dr. (“His Way" [DS9)). Henry Gray, first published in noninteractive hard-copy form in 1858. (“Message in a Bottle” [VGRY]). groatcakes. Bajoran breakfast food. Leeta loved syrup of squill on her groatcakes. (“The Magnificent Ferengi” [DSS]). Grease Monkey. Holographic program created by Thomas Paris. Set in the American nation on Earth's North American continent Guiding Tree. In Talaxian mythology, a large, beautiful tree during the late 20th century, the program featured are-creationofa standing at the center of the Talaxian afterlife deep in the Great personal vehicle maintenance and storage facility known in the ~~ Forest. Talaxians believe the tree is there to help the dead find vernacular as a “garage.” In the garage was a wheeled land vehicle their way when they first arrive and it is the gathering place for all called a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro. Paris (and, evidently, inhabitants of one's ancestors and loved ones. (“Mortal Coil” [VGR]). of the actual 20th century) derived enjoyment from adjusting the mechanical workings of the vehicle in hopes of increasing the Guill. (Wayne Péré). inhabitant of the Mari homepower output of its internal combustion engine. The title refers to world. Guill was a merchant who sold hardware at a the tendency of one engaged in such work to become covered marketplace. Guill, in violation of Mari law, also with a viscous fluid lubricant called grease. (“Vis a Vis" [VGRY]). trafficked in illicit mental imagery. In 2374, Guill provoked visiting crew member B'Elanna Torres by Great Forest. Promised place of the afterlife in Talaxian mythol- bumping into Frane, an accomplice, provoking vioogy. The Great Forest was a beautiful place filled with sunlight lent thoughts that Guill harvested for sale on the where the departed will reunite with their ancestors and everyone black market. (“Random Thoughts” [VGR]). who has ever loved them. At the heart of the Great Forest was the Guiding Tree. (“Mortal Coil" [VGR]). gumbo.” Traditional Earth dish, a featured item on the menu at Sisko's restaurant. Joseph Sisko's recipe for gumbo was perhaps Great Link.” A communal joining of the Founders’ civilization in his most closely guarded secret. (“Image In the Sand" [DS9]). the Gamma Quadrant. In their common fluid form, the Link was a vast sea of undulating, viscous orange liquid. The purpose of the gyrodyne. Energy-producing device employed in Jem'Hadar Link was not the exchange of information, but rather a merging of attack ships. (“Rocks and Shoals" [DS9]). thought and form, as well as idea and sensation. While on their homeworld, the Founders preferred to exist in the Link, but they occasionally took other forms. (“Behind the Lines” [DS9)). In early 2375, a serious epidemic spread throughout the Great Link. (“Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" [DS9)). The disease, it was later learned, was a morphogenic virus intended to exterminate the entire Founder race. The Federation's shadowy Section 31 had deliberately infected Odo with the genocidal weapon, knowing that Odo would inadvertently spread the disease throughout the Great Link. (“When it Rains..." [DS9]). The genetically engineered disease was regarded as incurable and probably would have resulted in the