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78 CLASS8 PROBE THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE class-8 probe. An instrumented claymore. Two-handed sword with a double-edged blade, used sensor probe similar to a photon by Scottish Highlanders in the 16th century on Earth. Chief torpedo designed for extended Engineer Montgomery Scott found a claymore in the armory flight at high warp speeds. when all the phasers were changed to swords by the Beta XII-A Although barely large enough to entity. (“Day of the Dove” [TOS)). hold a person, a class-8 probe was modified to carry a single pas- cleaning processor. Part of a starship’s solid-waste-recycling senger when Special Federation Envoy ~~ system. The processor was used for sterilization and recycling of K’Ehleyr was launched in the coffinlike missile for emergency trans- clothing. (“In Theory” [TNG]) port to the Enterprise-D in 2365. (“The Emissary” [TNG]) Cleary. (Michael Rougas). Engineering technician aboard the class-J cargo ship. A small, antiquated cargo vessel. Harcourt refitted Starship Enterprise when the ship intercepted the V'Ger Fenton Mudd was piloting a class-J ship when he became entity in 2271. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) caught in an asteroid belt before being rescued by the Enterprise in 2266. (“Mudd's Women" TOS). clematis. Perennial flowering vine originating on Earth. In 2372 Paris and Torres experimented with a clematis and two other Class-K planet. Planet adaptable for humans by the use of pres- plants in order to find a way to separate Tuvok and Neelix, who sure domes and life-support systems. After the Enterprise was had become merged by a transporter accident. (“Tuvix" [VGR]) sabotaged by the android Norman in 2267, the starship was brought to a K-type world informally known as the planet Mudd. Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. “I, Mudd" [TOS]). SEE: planetary classification system. (Jerry Hardin). (1835-1910). Noted 19th-century American author and Class-L planet. A barely inhabitable planet, with a thin atmos- humorist, famous for many classic phere and extreme temperatures. Odo and Quark, after the sabo- novels written under the pen name tage of their runabout, were forced down on a Class-L planet Mark Twain. Data, traveling in Earth's (“The Ascent” [DS9]). past, met Clemens at a literary reception hosted by Guinan, who spent Class-M planet. Designation for small, rocky terrestrial worlds some time on Earth during her with oxygen-nitrogen atmospheres.(‘The Cage" [TOS]). SEE: younger days. (“Time's Arrow, Part I planetary classification system. A [TNG]). Clemens was noted for his Class-M planet generally has nucle- bitingly satiric pessimism toward ogenic particles in its atmosphere; lack ) humanity, but this attitude may have of nuclengenic particles would result in £ a. LU been softened somewhat when he an absence of precipitation and surface A “3 briefly visited the 24th century and water. (“Caretaker [VGR]). The Star (% : 2 - witnessed the future of humanity as i Trek format calls for most stories to | - 4 exemplified by the crew of the Starship Enterprise-D. (“Time's involve missions to Class-M planets, \ “ei Arrow, Part II" [TNG]). The book about time travel that Clemens since showing non-Earthlike planets describes to the reporter is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's would be far more costly. While this is Court, first published in 1889. probably unrealistic from a scientific point of view, it is a key reason for making the production of Star Trek practical on a television Clement, U.S.S. Federation starship, Apollo class, Starfleet regbudget. istry number NCC-12537. A rendezvous with the Clement and the Enterprise-D in 2370 was canceled when the Enterprise-D was class. Ancient naval term used to describe a group of ships shar ordered to the Argaya system. (“Lower Decks" [TNG]) ing a basic design. Generally, a class of ships is named by Starfleet after the first ship of that type built. For example, the ~~ Clemonds, Sonny. (Leon Rippy) Country-and-western singer Constitution class (to which the original Enterprise belonged) from late 20th-century Earth. Clemonds died of emphysema and was named after the Starship Constitution. Other classes of extensive liver damage, but had arranged for his body to be cryoStarfleet ships have included Galaxy class, Excelsior class, genically stored aboard an orbital satellite. He was revived in the Miranda class. Oberth class, Nebula class, Sovereign class, year 2364 aboard the Enterprise-D and later returned to Earth Soyuz class, Daedalus class, and Ambassador class. The most aboard the U.S.S. Charleston. (“The Neutral Zone" [TNG]). SEE recent ship to bear the name Enterprise has been designated a cryonics; cryosatellite Sovereign-class starship. Note that several graphics, readouts, and charts used in various episodes and movies have listed numer- ~~ Clendenning, Dr. A resident of the Omicron Theta colony, killed ous other ship classes in an subtle effort to suggest that Starfleet by the Crystalline Entity’s attack in 2336. Clendenning used has a wider range of ship designs than the studio can actually afford gamma radiation scans to detect decay by-products from the to build and photograph for the show. Unfortunately, models or entity's antiproton trail. Data, who had records and memories blueprints do not exist for most of these (since they haven't been from Clendenning and the other colonists, was able to build upon seen), although an occasional conjectural design will show up in Clendenning’s work when searching for the entity in 2368. graphic readouts or as a desktop display model, used as set deco- (“Silicon Avatar” [TNG]) ration. Several such designs, in the form of “study models,” were used in the “graveyard” scene in “The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" Cleponji. An ancient Pro- 4 i (TNG), and in the junkyard of “Unification, Part I" (TNG). Some con- mellian battle cruiser dis- 2 ~ Jectural class designations include Apollo, Cheyenne, Deneva, covered intact in the aster- \ Freedom, Hokule'a, Istanbul, Korolev, Merced, New Orleans, oid belt near Orelious IX by J p— Niagara, Renaissance, Rigel, Wambundu, and Yorkshire. SEE: the Enterprise-D in 2366. oo pn starships; planetary classification system. Although the war between A — ” the Promellians and the ‘ 71 - claustrophobia. Morbid fear of enclosed or confined spaces Menthars had destroyed 7 o Elim Garak suffered from an acute case of claustrophobia. (“By both civilizations a thousand [IRS Inferno’s Light” [DS9)) years ago, the Cleponji sur- N vived in nearly perfect condiclavisoa berry. Small succulent fruit sometimes used as a sea- tion, surrounded by the deadly aceton assimilators that killed its soning on salads. (“Business As Usual” [VGR]) crew. The Cleponyji was destroyed by the Enterprise-D in a torpedo