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88 CONSTRUCTION MODULE THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE containment breach. A failure of the magnetic containNCEE BD = an ment fields in a starship’s antimatter storis Ce ——— V4 eA age pods or warp drive system, ~ _ Me —— generally occurring when field Vi Sr ——— containment fell below 15 percent of = — normal. A containment breach is a serious mal——, function, probably resulting in destruction of the spacecraft. A (“Disaster” [TNG]). SEE: antimatter containment. 3 Jom ——___ i containment field. Specially shaped force field used a to isolate dangerous materials such as antimatter or biohazard specimens. Containment fields were used In antimatter storage GE ae —— { pods to protect a ship against contact with the extremely volatile antimatter. Somewhat different containment w & fields were used for quarantine isoEY lation and for containment of dana = gerous biological specimens. SEE: - = =@ 5 | NB B antimatter containment. The con= = ‘. tainment fields used in the warp ae we = ys drive on the original Starship Enterprise needed to be phase» locked within 3 percent in order to avoid instability, but by the time of the re ——————— Enterprise-D, multiphase containment en a 4 ? fields were able to operate considerably above that value. (“Relics” [TNG]).

Contract of Ardra. A thousand-year-old agreeConstitution class starship ment that, according to legend, was made between the Refit configuration ancient Ventaxians and the mythical figure, Ardra. The contract promised a millennium of peace and prosperity for the people of Ventax Il in exchange for the population delivering itself into slavmuch lower number, NCC-1017, (obviously because it was a sim- ery at the end of the thousand years. (“Devil's Due” [TNG]). ple rearrangement of the decal sheet from the AMT Enterprise model kit) and the Republic was designated as NCC-1371. These control interface. User-operated panel permitting input into a data points suggest the Constitution-class ships had registry = computer or other system. A control interface, such as those found numbers that not only varied widely in range, but also could not on a Starfleet food replicator, generally permits display of feedbe sequential. Modelmaker Greg Jein (through an amazingly back information to show the results of the inputted command. complex and admittedly only barely logical means) managed to Control interfaces varied very widely with different cultures (based match up the various Constitution ships with the starship status heavily on their technological capabilities and system needs) and chart in Commodore Stone's office in Starbase 11, seen in “Court could include vocal, visual, and sensor-based commands and outMartial” (TOS). Most of these registry numbers are from Greg's put. (“Fair Trade" [VGR]). SEE: LCARS. conjectural list, although several are from various Starfieet charts and readouts in Star Trek VL. A few of the Constitution-class ships Controller. Sophisticated comlisted above are not from any episode or movie, but are from the ~~ puter system that controlled original Star Trek production office's starship list in Stephen the subterranean environmental - Whitfield's book, The Making of Star Trek. for Eymorg women of planet re ['Y Sigma Draconis VI. The heart . construction module. Remotely controlled robotic device used of the Controller was a biologfor construction in free space. Construction modules were used ical humanoid brain, which in 2367 to attach small propulsion units to a dangerously required periodic replacement. radioactive spacecraft in orbit of Gamelan V in the hopes that Spock's brain was stolen by the they could push the craft into the Gamelan sun. The attempt, inhabitants of Sigma Draconis | engineered by Enterprise-D personnel, was unsuccessful. VI in 2268 to be used as the (“Final Mission” [TNG]). new Controller. When Spock's brain was returned to his body, the Controller was no longer able to regulate the environment and the “Contagion.” Next Generation episode #37. Written by Steve population had to move to the surface. ("Spock's Brain." [TOS)). Gerber & Beth Woods. Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan. Stardate SEE: Teacher. 42609.1. First aired in 1989. An ancient computer software weapon destroys the Starship Yamato and threatens the “Conundrum.” Next Generation episode #114. Teleplay by Enterprise-D and a Romulan ship. Picard first orders “Tea, Earl Barry Schkolnick. Story by Paul Schiffer. Directed by Les Grey, hot” in this episode. GUEST CAST: Diana Muldaur as Landau. Stardate 45494.2. First aired in 1992. Contact with an Pulaski, Dr. Katherine; Thalmus Rasulala as Varley, Captain alien probe leaves the Enterprise-D crew with amnesia, so they Donald; Carolyn Seymour as Taris, Subcommander; Dana have no way of knowing if Starfleet orders to attack a space Sparks as Williams; Colm Meaney as O'Brien, Miles; Folkert station are genuine. GUEST CAST: Erich Anderson as MacDuff, Schmidt as Doctor. SEE: antimatter containment; archaeolo- Commander Keiran; Michelle Forbes as Ro Laren; Liz Vassey gy; “Demons of Air and Darkness”; Denius Ill; Dewan; as Kristin; Erick Weiss as Crewman; Majel Barrett as Computer Dinasian; Galaxy-class starship; Haakona; Iccobar; Iconia; voice. SEE: Cirrus IV; Cliffs of Heaven; crew manifest; Iconian computer weapon; Iconian gateway; Iconians; mag- el-Mitra Exchange; Emerald Wading Pool; Epsilon Silar sysnetic seals; Picard, Jean-Luc; Ramsey, Dr; Romulan Neutral tem; hippocampus; Kriskov Gambit; La Forge, Edward M.; Zone; Taris, Subcommander; Varley, Captain Donald; Lysia; Lysian Central Command; Lysian Destroyer; MacDuff, Yamato, U.S.S. Commander Keiran; Ode to Psyche; photon torpedo; Ro