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84 CRYSTALLINE ENTITY THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE

Crystalline Entity. A space- Voyager, Culluh took his infant son and ordered the Kazon to borne life-form of unknown ori- flee. (“Basics, Part II" [VGR]). gin whose structure resembled a large snowflake, hundreds of cultural database. Archive of information stored in computers meters across. The Crystalline on Federation starships. The cultural database contained inforEntity apparently thrived by mation pertaining to the rites and customs of all civilizations absorbing the energy of biolog- $ known to the Federation. (“Sacred Ground" [VGRY). ical life-forms on planets, leav- po - ing behind devastated plane- Cumberland, Acts of. Twenty-first-century legal document relattary surfaces. The Crystalline 2 ing to property nights. Judge Advocate General Phillipa Louvois Entity was responsible for the destruction of the Omicron Theta cited the Acts of Cumberland in her initial ruling in 2365 that the colony (including all inhabitants) in 2336, The androids Dataand android Data was the property of Starfleet and therefore could Lore, who were dormant underground at the time of the attack, not resign or refuse to cooperate in proposed experiments. (“The escaped harm. It was believed that Lore had betrayed the Measure of a Man” [TNG]) colonists to the entity just prior to the attack. (“Datalore” [TNG]). Colony residents Dr Noonien and Dr. Juliana Soong both fled Curie, Marie. Earth physicist (1867-1934), co-discoverer (with during the attack aboard an escape pod, although Juliana Soong Pierre Curie) of radium and polonium. Marie Sklodowska Curie was severely injured. (“Inheritance” [TNG]). In subsequent years, earned two Nobel Prizes for her study of radioactivity. In 2373, Dr. Kila Marr, whose son died at Omicron Theta, studied the Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram incorporated segentity, examining 12 attack sites, including planet Forlat lil. The ments of Marie Curie's personality into his personality improveentity's last attack was in 2368 at the Melona IV colony. Shortly ment project. (“Darkling” [VGR]). thereafter, Marr destroyed the entity with a modulated graviton beam. (“Silicon Avatar” [TNG]) Curie, Shuttlecraft. Type-6 personnel shuttle assigned to the U.S.S. Enterprise-D. In 2370, Lieutenant Worf took the Curie to crystalline emiristol. Solid chemical rocket propellant used in Forcas lil to compete in the bat leth competition there. During his the ancient space probe launched from the Kataan system a return trip, Worf encountered a quantum fissure and caused thousand years ago. It left a radioactive trail that allowed the himself to be propelled into a series of alternate quantum realiEnterprise-D to trace the probe's point of origin. (“The Inner ties. When Worf's quantum shifting was finally discovered, the Light” [TNG]) Curie was used to seal the quantum fissure, by sending the ship back through the rift and emitting a broad-spectrum warp field crystilia. Species of flowering plant found on planet Telemarius (“Parallels” [TNG]). Later that same year Ill. Data presented a bunch of orange and yellow crystilia to = Joret Dal was sent back Lieutenant Jenna D’Sora. (“In Theory” [TNG]). oro -_ across the Cardassian => = | 8 border in the Curie. The Cuellar system. A star system located in Cardassian space. The — ship was not returned Cuellar system was the location of a Cardassian science station | (“Lower Decks" [TNG]) that was destroyed by the U.S.S. Phoenix in 2367. Phoenix cap- - — Named for physicist Mane tain Benjamin Maxwell believed the station to be a military instal- ~ _ — Sklodowska Curie. lation. (“The Wounded” [TNG]). Curtis Creek program. A holodeck program that simulated a eC. Culluh, Jal. (Anthony DelLongis). mountain stream on planet Earth. The program was mentioned Rg FS % First maje of the Kazon-Nistrim. during a virtual reality engineered by Barash on Alpha Onias Ill / o Ea4all In 2371, Culluh helped setup a Barash, as Jean-Luc Riker, told his “father,” William Riker, that Ey deal with Voyager crew member they used to fish in the Curtis Creek program. (“Future Imperfect” Seska, in which Seska agreed to [TNG]). provide Federation replicator technology to the Kazon-Nistrim. Custodian, The. Sophisticated When Voyager personnel discov- computer system built and proered Seska's scheme, she trans- grammed hundreds of centuries ported over Culluh’s ship and ago by the Progenitors of planet escaped. (“State of Flux” [VGR]). Aldea. The custodian provided Later, with the assistance of for virtually all the needs of the I" Seska, Culluh conducted a raid citizens of Aldea, freeing them to on the U.S.S. Voyager, using a Kazon shuttlecraft to pierce the pursue lives of artistic endeavor. hull of the Voyager. The purpose of the attack was to steal a (“When the Bough Breaks" [TNG]) transporter module, so that the Nistrim would then have transporter technology, and thereby gain an advantage over other cutter. Slang term used to refer to a member of an asteroid minKazon sects. Although the raid was successful, the transporter ing team. Cutters split asteroids with phasers so that excavators module was later destroyed. Culluh’s grandfather was first maje could gain access to the asteroid’s interior. (“Nor the Battle to the of the Nistrim when it was powerful, but the sect grew weak Strong” [DS9]). under Culluh's leadership. (“Maneuvers” [VGRY]). In 2372 Culluh accepted a proposal by Starship Voyager Captain Kathryn cyalodin. Poison. The adult members of the Starnes Expedition Janeway to form an alliance, but demanded an exchange of used cyalodin in their mass suicide on planet Triacus in 2268. crew, therefore negating the Faderation offer. Shortly after that, (“And the Children Shall Lead" [TOS)). he reluctantly attended a peace conference on planet Sobras organized by Janeway and Trabe leader Mabus. The meeting cyanoacrylates. Substances capable of generating low levels proved to be a trap devised by Mabus to eliminate the Kazons. of eichner radiation. Cyanoacrylates, which could also stimu(“Alliances” [VGRY]). In late 2372, Maje Culluh and Seska were late growth of some strains of plasma plague, were not normalsuccessful in capturing the Starship Voyager by convincing ly found aboard Galaxy-class starships. (“The Child" [TNG]). Chakotay that Seska's child was his and that it was in danger. Cyanoacrylate is actually a chemical term used to describe sevCulluh and his forces stranded the Voyager crew on planet eral types of fast-bonding adhesives, notably the stuff sold Hanon IV. (“Basics, Part I" [VGR]). Seska’s newborn son was under the brand name “Krazy Glue." The use of this term here actually fathered by Culluh, not Chakotay. After Seska was killed was scientifically inappropriate, but was apparently intended as in an explosion, and Talaxian forces, led by Tom Paris, retook the a gag.