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84 COMPANION THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE between members of a landing party. Communicators also provid- created by the Q Continuum, Admiral Nakamura deployed the ed ameans for a ship's transporter system to determine the exact Concorde, along with 15 other starships, to the Romulan coordinates of a crew member for transport back to the ship. Early Neutral Zone to investigate a Romulan military buildup on their versions of the communicator were compact handheld units witha side of the zone. [*All Good Things..." (TNG)].) flip-up antenna grid. When the communicator was first “invented” in 1964, it seemed incredibly compact and amazingly advanced. Condition Green. Covert Starfleet code used to secretly indiFew would have believed back then that Star Trek would still be on cate on a clear channel that the speaker is being held captive the air when portable cellular telephones, the same size as those ~~ Captain Kirk relayed a Condition Green signal to Mr. Scott when original props, became a reality. Starfleet briefly used wrist commu- Kirk was being held captive on planet Eight Ninety-Two-IV in nicators, but more recent units have been incorporated into the 2267. Condition Green also prohibits the listener from taking any Starfleet insignia worn on each crew member's uniform and havea action such as a rescue mission. (“Bread and Circuses” [TOS)) dermal sensor that can be used to restrict usage to one authorized individual only. Roga Danar, fleeing from security confinement condition blue. SEE: blue alert. aboard the Enterprise-D, successfully bypassed this restriction by using an unconscious security officer's own finger to activate his conference lounge. SEE: observation lounge. communicator. (“The Hunted" [TNG]). The device is constructed of a crystalline composite of silicon, beryllium, carbon-70, and gold. confinement beam. SEE: annular confinement beam. (“Time's Arrow, Part I" [TNG]), SEE: combadge. confinement mode. SEE: isolation protocol. Companion. (Voice of Elizabeth | Rogers). Cloudlike life-form that ’ Conklin, Captain. Starfleet officer. Commander of the lived on a planetoid in the Gamma —1.' Federation starship Magellan. (“Starship Mine” [TNG]). Canaris region. In 2117, the Companion discovered aged scientist conn. Abbreviation for flight controller. Zefram Cochrane drifting in space, near death. The Companion brought Conor, Aaron. (John Snyder). The leader of Cochrane to her planetoid and cared the isolated Genome Colony on Moab IV. for him, rejuvenating his body, giving Like everyone in the carefully planned him effective immortality, but sub- colony, Conor was genetically engineered } jecting him to extreme loneliness. and trained for his specific job. When tidal A od Over time, the Companion grew to forces from a stellar core fragment threatlove Cochrane. In 2267, the Companion abducted Kirk, Spock, ened to disrupt the planet and destroy g McCoy, and Federation Commissioner Nancy Hedford fromthe his colony in 2368, Conor was faced with Enterprise shuttlecraft Galileo to live with Cochrane to alleviate an impossible choice. If he accepted an his isolation. Hedford, terminally ill with Sakuro's disease, offer of help from engineers aboard the agreed to merge with the Companion, becoming a single, human Enterprise-D, he risked serious cultural conindividual. The resulting individual, still in love with Cochrane, tamination of his totally isolated colony. The alternative of rejectremained with Cochrane on the planetoid for the rest of a normal ing outside help would have led to near-certain destruction of the human lifetime. (“Metamorphosis” [TOS]). The Federation colony. Conor chose to allow the Enterprise-D to help, but had to remained unaware of Cochrane's fate and of the existence of the deal with the social consequences of their aid. (“The Masterpiece Companion because of Kirk's promise to Cochrane. The Society” [TNG]). SEE: Bates, Hannah; Benbeck, Martin. John Companion was designed by future Star Wars Oscar-winner Snyder also played Centurion Bochra in “The Enemy” (TNG). Richard Edlund at Westheimer photographic effects company. “Conscience of the King, The." Original Series episode #13 compressed tetryon beam. Energy weapon. A compressed Written by Barry Trivers. Directed by Gerd Oswald. Stardate: tetryon beam was used by the Lenarians to attack an 2817.6. First aired in 1966. Kirk suspects that a distinguished Enterprise-D away team in 2369. Captain Jean-Luc Picard Shakespearean actor may have been an infamous mass murderer caught the full effect of the weapon, which fused the bio-regula- many years ago. The episode's title is a quote from Shakespeare's tor in his artificial heart, damaged his spleen and liver, and nearly Hamlet. GUEST CAST: Arnold Moss as Karidian, Anton; Barbara killed him. (“Tapestry” [TNG]). Security scanners on station Deep Anderson as Karidian, Lenore; Grace Lee Whitney as Rand, Space 9 do not normally detect such weapons. A compressed Janice: William Sargent as Leighton, Dr. Thomas; Natalie tetryon beam weapon was used to attack Quark in 2370. Norwick as Leighton, Martha; Troy David as Maston, Larry; Karl (“Necessary Evil" [DS9]). Bruck as King Duncan; Marc Adams as Hamlet; Bruce Hyde as Riley, Kevin Thomas; Eddie Paskey as Leslie, Mr.; Frank Vince compression phaser rifle. SEE: phaser rifle. as Daily, Jon (voice); Majel Barrett as Computer voice. SEE: Astral Queen; Benecia Colony; “Beyond Antares”; Cygnia Compton. (Geoffrey Binney). Starship Enterprise crew member Minor; Daily, Jon; Hamlet; Karidian Company of Players; who was subjected to biochemical hyperacceleration on planet Karidian, Anton; Karidian, Lenore; Leslie, Mr.; Kirk, James T.; Scalos in 2268 when exposed to Scalosian water. Because the Kodos the Executioner; Leighton, Dr. Thomas; Leighton, Scalosian males were sterile, Compton was to be used for repro- ~~ Martha; Molson, E.; Q, Planet; Riley, Kevin Thomas; Saurian duction, but he quickly sustained cellular damage, resulting in his ~~ brandy; Shakespeare, William; Tarsus IV; tetralubisol; Uhura; death. (“Wink of an Eye" [TOS]). Vulcan lute.

computer core. One of three large, redundant cylindrical cham- consciousness parasite. Noncorporeal life-form that enters a bers aboard a Galaxy-class starship, housing the ship's primary host consciousness just before the moment of death. Once in the computer hardware. The upper core of the Enterprise-D was mind of the individual, the parasite attempts to coerce the host's taken over by sentient nanites when that newly created life-forms consciousness into a matrix where it can be slowly be consumed explored the ship in 2366. (“Evolution” [TNG]). The computer core to sustain the parasite. In 2373, following a near-fatal shuttle set was also used in “The Bonding" (TNG) for Worf and Troi’s talk. crash injury, Kathryn Janeway's cerebral cortex was inhabited by an alien entity. The entity fed a false reality to Janeway, and took comra. Ocampa term for soul or spirit. (“Emanations” [VGR]). the form of her long-dead father in the reality. The entity attempted to convince Janeway to let go of life and enter the matrix in Concorde, U.S.S. Federation starship, Freedom class, Starfleet which his kind lived. They nourished themselves for a long time registry number NCC-68711. (During the anti-time occurrence on the life force of persons who die. (“Coda" [VGR]).