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THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE T0 THE FUTURE SUPPLEMENT URILASH 875

ultritium.* Chemical explosive. During the other Alpha Quadrant powers to defend itself in a costly, brutal Cardassian occupation of Bajor, the war against an invasion by the Dominion of the Gamma Bajoran resistance had access to ultritium Quadrant. (“What You Leave Behind" [DS9)]). resin, which they used for terrorist actions, such as an attempt to assassinate Gul Dukat in 2346 at station Terok Nor. YN (“Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" [DS9]). Benjamin Sisko's 74 38 2 NY crew used a bomb containing 90 isotons of enriched ultritium to “a AGA destroy a ketracel-white storage and distribution facility deep \V . + 93 ) v within Cardassian space in early 2374. (“A Time to Stand” |[DS9]) W ye y M Jean-Luc Picard brought ultritium explosives down to the Ba'ku N, At YC 4 4 homeworld in 2375 to use in preventing the planet's inhabitants TW (> from being forcibly removed by the Son'a. (Star Trek: Insurrection). EE umpire. In the ancient EEE ——— UNITED FEDERATION OF PLANETS Earth sport of base- i T— | ball, an umpire was a rm i T- | referee, responsible ST United States of America.” Republic on planet Earth, founded for interpreting rules IT | in 1776. The American nation was a major participant in the planas they applied to a WEEE — Jet's brutal second world war during the 20th century, providing specific game. In rn LJ 7) I! military strength to the Allied Forces in such operations as the baseball, touching the - [* liberation of France from Nazi Germany. (“The Killing Game, Parts umpire is grounds for == TE - | and II" [VGR]). SEE: Allied Forces; Apollo 11; French ejecting a player from TE Resistance; Kennedy, John F.; World War II. the game. Odo served Pg - as umpire in the base- \ - universal translator.* Sophisticated computer device capable of ball game between the \\ ¢ real-time conversion of a given language into nearly any other Logicians and the yo = language. The universal translator was incapable, however, of Niners in early 2375, o J translating a spoken language that employed sound triaxilation, when he had to en- r rT — - used by a cytoplasmic species encountered by the Starship force that rule twice. - ~ R a Voyager in 2375. (“Nothing Human" [VGRY) (“Take Me Out to the Holosuite” [DS9]). 'd upturned. The Vori and the Kradin people believed that after they died their spirits would descend to the afterlife, which they “Unforgettable.” Voyager episode #90. Written by Greg Elliot & called the gloried Wayafter, but only if their bodies were lying face Michael Perricone. Directed by Andrew J. Robinson. Stardate down. The greatest desecration to the Vori or Kradin dead was to 51813.4. First aired in 1998. Chakotay is captivated by a beautiful “upturn” the body, so that the deceased could not go to the woman who claims they've met before, but she is from a planet Wayafter. During their extended war, the Vori and the Kradin whose people cannot be remembered by outsiders. GUEST CAST: accused each other of dishonoring each other's dead in this fashVirginia Madsen as Kellin; Michael Canavan as Curneth; Chuck ion. (“Nemesis” [VGR]). Magnus as Resket. SEE: almond pudding; Chakotay; Curneth; herbal tea; ice cream; Kellin; magneton scan; Mikah; neurolyt- Ural Mountains. Spectacular geological feature in Russia on ic emitter; polarization cloak; proton weapon; Ramura; Earth. When Worf was a boy, his father used to take him and his Ramuran tracer ship; Ramurans; Resket; soy meal; tracer. brother, Nikolai, on camping trips in the Ural Mountains. (“Change of Heart" [DS9)). Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Nation-state on 20thcentury Earth, a bold attempt to provide its working people with ~~ Uri'lash. (Sylvain Cecile). Tall humanoid who acted as a traditional the economic benefits of a communal society without arbitrary ~~ Hupyrian servant to Brunt during the brief time in 2374 when Brunt class stratification. Although the experiment proved unsuccess- was acting grand nagus of Ferenginar. (“Profit and Lace" [DS9]). ful, the Soviet Union was responsible for Earth's first voyages into space, including the historic flight of Yuri Gagarin on the Vostok | spacecraft in 1961 and the remarkable Mir orbital station in the 1980s and 1990s. The Soviet Union was often at political and military odds with the United States of America, and the Soviet government expended considerable energy to gather intelligence data on the American republic, even going so far as to construct replicas of American cities where Soviet secret agents could be trained to infiltrate American society. U.S.S. Voyager captain Kathryn Janeway observed that Species 8472 had done much the same thing in 2375 when they created a duplicate of Starfleet Headquarters in the Delta Quadrant. SEE: Terrasphere £. (‘In the Flesh” [VGR]). The dedication plaque for the U.S.S. Tsiolkovsky, seen briefly in “The Naked Now" (TNG), indicated that the ship had been built at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the U.S.S.R. The plaque, made in 1987, failed to anticipate the collapse of the Soviet Union just a few years later, but was intended to commemorate the extraordinary achievements of the Russian people in the exploration of space, as well as the pioneering vision of Russian theoretician Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.

United Federation of Planets. * Interstellar alliance located mostly in the Alpha Quadrant of the galaxy. The late 24th century was a time of great adversity for the Federation. After having survived assaults by the Borg, the Federation allied itself with