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Vori. Sentient humanoid civilization that shared a Class-M world ~~ government reaction to the Distant Origin Theory in 2373. SEE: in the Delta Quadrant with the Kradin people. The Vori and the heresy. (“Distant Origin" [VGR]). Kradin declared war on each other around 2364. Each side characterized the other as inhuman beasts, to motivate their citizenry Voth Ministry of Elders. Governing body within the Voth society. to support the war. The Vori, finding it difficult to recruit new sol- The Ministry oversaw matters of the state, especially those diers, conscripted their own people and offworlders through issues dealing with interpretation and challenges to Voth sophisticated mind-control techniques. A new conscript would Doctrine. Minister Odala was the head of the Ministry of Elders in be subjected to elaborate psychometric projections and psy- 2373. Odala, fearful of the social ramifications should the Distant chotropic manipulation, causing the conscript to believe he was ~~ Origin Theory be widely known, censured Professor Forra in the company of Vori guerrillas. In the course of the mind-control Gegen and forced him to renounce his belief in the theory. simulation, the conscript would be led to feel an emotional bond- (“Distant Origin” [VGR]). Ing with his fellow defenders. The conscript would then be made to feel anger when those defenders were brutally killed by the Voth. Technologically sophisticated reptilian Kradin and outrage when the Kradin (apparently) massacred the civilization from the Delta Quadrant. Although Inhabitants of a Vori village. In 2374, Commander Chakotay was -. Voth Doctrine holds that the Voth evolved as so conscripted after crash-landing his shuttle on their world. ’ the first sentient life-forms in their part of the SEE: Vori language terms. “Nemesis” [VGR)]). galaxy, the Voth were actually descended from Earth's dinosaurs, some of whom migratVorik.* (Alexander Enberg). Starfleet officer who served in the oy ed into space millions of years ago. The Voth engineering department of the Starship Voyager. Vorik was a WS = 7 settled in the Delta Quadrant some 20 million member of the development team that designed and built the < years ago, and all memory of their original Delta Flyer shuttlecraft in early 2375. (“Extreme Risk” [VGR]). homeworld has long since been lost. (“Distant Alexander Enberg previously portrayed the similarly named Origin” Naa. SEE: Distant Origin Theory; Ensign Taurik in “Lower Decks” (TNG). Gegen, Forra; hadrosaur; Ministry of Elders; transwarp. Vorta.* Humanoid species, part of the Dominion in the Gamma a a Quadrant. Aeons ago, the Vorta were small, timid apelike forest ea dwellers who lived in hollowed-out trees. One day, a Bel " family of Vorta hid a shape-shifter who mm 3 Ci in was fleeing from a mob of (EERE SHS rm rr A angry “solids.” So grateful ef was the shape-shifter that he Se bagi) promised the Vorta that they would one day . o . nl Voyager, U.S.S.* Federation starship lost in be transformed into powerful beings and that they the Delta Quadrant in 2371. The ship's hull was would become an important part of an interstellar empire. The primarily composed of duranium alloy. (“Drone” [VGR]). The ship shape-shifters, later known as the Founders, made good on this was equipped with two holodecks. (“The Killing Game, Part |" promise when they genetically engineered the Vorta to assist (VGR)]. In early 2374 the ship's inventory included 32 class-6 phothem in ruling the Dominion. This engineering included a compul- ton torpedoes. (“Scorpion, Part II" [VGR]). Shortly after the Voyager sion to worship the Founders as gods. (Treachery, Faith, and the arrived in the Delta Quadrant, ship's security chief Tuvok considGreat River" [DS9]). The Vorta reproduce by cloning and use the ered the merging of the Voyager's crew with Chakotay's Maquis technique to achieve a sort of immortality. Vorta are immune to members to be a possible security risk. Tuvok went so far as to most forms of poison. (“Ties of Blood and Water” [DS9]). Since begin work on a holodeck program, entitled Insurrection Alpha, to the Vorta were genetically engineered by the Founders, they have train junior security personnel to deal with a possible Maquis uprisonly the skills and abilities deemed by the Founders to be neces- ing. (“Worse Case Scenario” [VGR]). The Voyager traveled through sary for their assigned role in the Dominion. For example, the Borg space in late 2373 and early 2374. Passage through this hosVorta were not given an aesthetic sense and are tone-deaf. They tile region was possible because of a risky truce negotiated by have very good hearing but poor eyesight. (“Favor the Bold” Captain Janeway in which the Borg agreed not to assimilate (DS). They have a very limited sense of taste. Kava nuts and rip- ~~ Voyager in exchange for assistance in defending against an invapleberries are the only foods that they really enjoy. (“Treachery, sion by the extradimensional life-form known as Species 8472. Faith, and the Great River" [DS9]). Vorta are expected to kill them- Borg drones, temporarily aboard Voyager as part of the exchange selves if captured by enemies of the Dominion by using a termi- agreement, installed a significant amount of Borg technology into nation implant. (“The Magnificent Ferengi” [DS9], “Treachery, the vessel's systems, some of which was deemed useful and perFaith, and the Great River” [DS9)). mitted to remain, even after the conclusion of the operation. (“Scorpion, Parts | and II" [VGR]). In 2374, an alternate timeline was Vostigye. Delta Quadrant civilization. The crew of the U.S.S. created in which the U.S.S. Voyager was pursued for an entire year Voyager made long-range communications contact with Vostigye ~~ by a Krenim temporal weapon ship. The alternate Voyager was scientists in 2373. Unfortunately, a scheduled rendezvous witha destroyed in a collision with the Krenim ship, triggering a massive Vostigye science space station failed to happen because the sta- temporal incursion that restored the original timeline. (“Year of Hell, tion was destroyed by an astral eddy just prior to stardate Parts | and II" [VGR]). Starfleet Command believed the Voyager to 50836.2. (“Real Life" [VGR]). have been destroyed in the Badlands in 2371. It was not until 2374, when the ship's Emergency Medical Hologram was transported Voth city ship. Huge spacefaring Voth metropolis measuring to the Starship Prometheus by means of a Hirogen relay station, approximately eleven kilometers in length. The ship, which used that Starfleet authorities learned that the ship and crew had sura sophisticated transwarp propulsion system, was large and vived and that they were striving to return home from the distant powerful enough to capture the Federation starship Voyager and Delta Quadrant. (“Message in a Bottle” [VGR]). Starfleet sent a to hold it within its structure. (“Distant Origin” [VGRY]). message in response through the Hirogen relay, but only some of the data were successfully received by Voyager. Those data Voth Doctrine. In the Voth culture, the belief that the Voth were included several personal messages from family and friends of the first sentient beings to evolve In their part of the galaxy. Much ~~ Voyager crew members. (“Hunters” [VGR]). The data also included of Voth culture, including their belief in the legitimacy of their rule an encrypted message from Admiral Hayes, acknowledging of their region of the Delta Quadrant, followed directly from Voth ~~ Starfleet’s awareness that Voyager had survived, but expressing Doctrine. As a result, the Voth government had a strong tendency regret that Starfleet knew of no way to bring Voyager home any to try to suppress any opinions or findings that might tend to faster. (“Hope and Fear” [VGR]). examine or question these beliefs. An example was the strong