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3 “Demon.” Voyager episode #92. Teleplay by Kenneth Biller. Story » EN, by Andre Bains Directed by Anson Williams, No stardate pi, so « given. First aired in 1998. On a planet with an extremely hostile a [Sm — environment, the Voyager crew discovers a living liquid life-form £ Td LJ] LA that is evolving by creating exact copies of ship's personnel. » | L— a Duplicates of the entire crew remain on the planet after the ship [ —. EEE departs. GUEST CAST: Alexander Enberg as Vorik; Susan Lewis — — (A ] as Transporter technician. SEE: antigrav; Demon-class planet; hh MPP —— I SPOT I dermalplast; deuterium; gray mode; Jirex; mimetic life-form; LE) — —— ry Nozawa; planetary classification system: Class-Y; thermionic h — [ - - radiation. —— en —— Denevan crystals. Contraband material. It was a Federation . ws crime to possess or sell Denevan crystals. In late 2374, Quark i made a profit of 200 bars of latinum when he sold Denevan crystals to a Nausicaan entrepreneur. (“The Sound of Her Voice' em iossD = — Fe mi ~~ derada. Board game. Derada was a complex and subtle game of = Zee == strategy played with eight pieces on each side on a board with EE sixteen spaces. Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres played derada —— while traveling through the Void aboard the Voyager in 2375 (“Night" [VGRY) Delta Flyer. Advanced shuttlecraft designed and built by the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager in early 2375, The Deita Flyer featured dermalplast. Medical preparation used to treat chemical burns. ultra-aerodynamic contours, retractable nacelles, parametallic Demon” VGA) hull plating, a tetraburnium alloy hull, unimatrix shielding, and a Borg-inspired weapons systems including photonic missiles. Derna. Planetoid The fourth satellite orbiting the planet Bajor. In (“Extreme Risk" [VGR]). The ship also employed duranium con- arly 2375, Derna was uninhabited. During the Dominion war, struction in its hull. (“Once Upon a Time" [VGR]). Thomas Paris, the Bajoran Chamber of Ministers gave the Romulans permission who was responsible for the basic design of the spacecraft, 10 Set up a hospital facility on Derna at the request of Senator incorporated ancient control levers and meters from his Captain Cretak. In addition to the hospital, however, the Romulans also Proton holoprogram into the Delta Flyer's pilot control console deployed 7,000 plasma torpedoes on Derna, raising serious because he wanted to feel the ship he was piloting. Numerous Bajoran questions about Romulan intentions. (“Image in the other Voyager crew members collaborated on the Flyer's design Sand" [DSQ]). The Bajoran Militia subsequently blockaded Derna, and construction. On its first mission, the shuttle entered the Preventing Romulan access to the planetoid until the Romulan atmosphere of a gas giant planet on a mission to retrieve government agreed to remove the weapons. (“Shadows and Voyager's advanced multispatial probe. SEE: Captain Proton, Symbols” [DS9)) The Adventures of. (“Extreme Risk" [VGRY]). The Delta Flyer was y seriously damaged during an ion storm when it was forced to Destiny, U.S.S. Federation starship. In late 2374, shortly after the make its first planetfall. The shuttle and its crew were trapped ina death of Jadzia Dax, the Destiny was assigned to transport the cavern under tons of rock, but both survived due to the robust ailing Dax symbiont from Deep Space 9 back to Trill. Along the construction techniques employed in the vessel. (“Once Upona Way. Dax took a turn for the worse. Ensign Ezri Tigan was the only Time" [VGRY). The Delta Flyer was designed by series production Trill aboard the vessel, and became the new Ezri Dax. (“Shadows designer Richard James and senior illustrator Rick Sternbach. and Symbols” [DS8]). The Destiny returned to Deep Space 9 in early 2375 before joining the Seventh Fleet at Kalandra. Dax was to have rejoined the ship's crew but she opted instead to accept a posting to Deep Space 9. The Destiny was commanded by Captain Raymer. (“Afterimage” [DS9]). Destiny is also the name of the United States’ scientific lab module for the International Space Station.

‘ deus ex machina. Latin for “god from the machine." Deus Sg ex machina was a literary device used by some ancient Earth playwrights wherein, at the end of a > play, characters would be helped out of pm— Pa, (= 3 their terrible plights by a god descendar ge" > _ ing from the heavens. SEE: “Dicre tates of Poetics.” (“Worse < > Case Scenario” [VGR)) N ry hv M \ deuterium injector. » -~ Component of a Starfleet starship's warp propulsion system. (“One Little Ship” [DSQ]). delta radiation.* Form of energy. —~— “Dictates of Poetics.” Essay Exposure to delta radiation can weaken such by T"Hain of Vuican, a guide to metals as viterium. (“ Valiant" [DS9)). dramatic writing. "Dictates of Poetics" proffered that a charDemon-Class planet. Informal name for a Class-Y world. SEE aby Bactions fst ow oes In ll ificati b =Y. (“ in" on A planetary classification system: Class-Y. (“Demon” [VGR]) traits, ("Worse Case Scenario” [VGR])