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128 EARTH-SATURN PROBE THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE Earth-Saturn probe. The first successful piloted mission from ultimate in weapons system technology. the Earth to Saturn. The flight was commanded in the early 21stcen- Echo Papa 607 was a small free-flying unit tury by Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher, son of Captain with a powerful energy projector and a John Christopher. (“Tomorrow Is Yesterday” [TOS]) cloaking device. The 607 was designed to be effective against ground personnel as Earth. Third planet in the Sol system, a Class-M world located in ~~ well as deep-space vehicles, and could also Sector 001. (“The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" [TNG]) be programmed for information gathering Homeworld to the human civilization, and location of the Most significantly, the 607 embodied dyFederation Council and the Federation President's office, as namic adaptive design, enabling it to learn well as Starfleet Command. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, during combat situations so that mistakes Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country). Although humans did would not be repeated. An ancient Echo not make official contact with extraterrestrial intelligence until the Papa 607 system was still active on Minos in 21st century, the planet received several visitors from space 2364, when the Enterprise-D investigated before then. Among these was a small Ferengi vessel that landed the disappearance of the U.S.S. Drake there. near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947. (“Little Green Men" The weapon, apparently also responsible for [DS9)). In the past, social inequities plagued Earth. Symptomatic the destruction of the U.S.S. Drake, threatened the Enterprise and were 21st-century relocation camps called Sanctuary Districts, an away team on the planet's surface. (“The Arsenal of Freedom" established in American cities, isolating the homeless, the unem- [TNG]). The miniature of the Echo Papa 607 was built by visual ployed, and the mentally ill from the rest of society. The effects supervisor Dan Curry, using an old L'Eggs pantyhose con Sanctuary Districts bred one of the most violent civil uprisings in tainer and a discarded shampoo bottle American history, known as the Bell Riots, in September of 2024 This bloody revolt changed American public opinion about the echo displacement. Tactical deception technique using a starSanctuaries and forced the people of the United States to finally ship's deflector grid to project false sensor readings to convince begin dealing with their social problems. (“Past Tense, Part I” an enemy that other spacecraft are present. In late 2372, the [DS9)). SEE: Bell, Gabriel; gimme. A very sad chapter in Earth U.S.S. Voyager employed an echo displacement tactic to temhistory was written when the planet suffered its last world war, in porarily give the Kazon the impression that several Talaxian ships 2053. During World War Ill, millions of people perished in a mas- were present. (“Basics, Part I” [VGR]) sive nuclear exchange that destroyed most of the major cities on Earth and eliminated most national governments. A dark decade ECON. Abbreviation for Eastern Coalition. (Star Trek: First ensued, during which most of the planet reverted to barbarism. Contact) This postatomic horror began to ease on April 4, 2063, when space pioneer Zefram Cochrane conducted his planet's first Eddie. (C.J. Bau). Fictitious character, a bartender in a 1930sfaster-than-light spaceflight. Cochrane's flight was directly 1940s nightclub featured in the Dixon Hill stories and holodeck responsible for Earth's first contact with an extraterrestrial civi- representations. (Star Trek: First Contact). This character's name lization, the Vulcans, on the following day. The event gave is from the script. humanity the perspective it needed to begin a remarkable renaissance, bringing a virtual end to war, poverty, and disease over the Eddington, Michael. (Kenneth next five decades. (Star Trek: First Contact).Earth's first world Marshall). Starfleet Security offi- . FF government was established only a few decades later, in 2150. cer who defected to the Maquis. : (“Attached” [TNG]). In the 24th century, Earth is virtually a par Lieutenant Commander Michae| SEE | : adise, with no poverty, crime, or war. (“The Maquis, Part 11" [DS9]). Eddington was assigned to Deep ow opr = SEE: Paris; San Francisco. Mostly harmless. Space 9 in 2371 because Starfleet Command did not have full ’ confidence in Odo. (“The Search, Parts | and II" [DS9]). When Commander Sisko defied Admiral Toddman's orders and embarked upon a rescue mission in 2371 during the joint Romulan and Cardassian attack on the Founders’ homeworld, Eddington sabotaged the Defiant’s cloaking device. He explained that he was - H working under Toddman's direct orders to prevent an unauthool | rized expedition. (“The Die is Cast" [DS9)). In 2372, Eddington iy - s ] A was discovered to be an agent of the Maquis when he hijacked 2 a i iil — 12 Federation industrial replicators destined for Cardassia. (“For ames [T) Ly — the Cause” [DS9]). Eddington subsequently fied Starfleet authorpe ities and, in 2373, organized a Maquis offensive using biogenic — weapons against the Cardassian colonies on Veloz Prime and Quatal Prime. Eddington was also responsible for an attack that disabled the Starship Malinche. Benjamin Sisko, determined to stop his former friend, scattered toxic trilithium resin into the atmosphere of Solosos lll, rendering it uninhabitable. Eddington Eastern Coalition. Loose alliance of eastern powers that existed surrendered to Starfleet authorities when Sisko threatened to do on Earth after that planet's World War lll. The Eastern Coalition the same to Tracken Il. As a leader of the Maquis, Eddington enviwas often adversarial towards the powers controlling North sioned himself as Valjean, the heroic character of a novel entitled America. (Star Trek: First Contact) Les Misérables, which was Eddington's favorite book (Eddington saw his former friend Sisko as Javert, the inflexible Eblan. (Charles Parks). Bajoran national who resided at station police inspector in the same book.) (“For the Uniform" [DS9)) Deep Space 9 in 2370. Eblan recognized Kubus Oak on DSS Eddington first appeared in “The Search, Part |" (DS9) when Kubus sought to return to Bajor. (“Collaborator” [DS9]) Eblan’s name was not mentioned in dialog, but appeared only in Eden. In Earth mythology, a beautiful garden at the beginning of the script. time. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier). SEE: Sha Ka Ree. Others held Eden to be a mythical planet of extraordinary beauty and Echo Papa 607. An automated weapons drone system created peace. Noted scientist Dr. Sevrin led a group of followers on a by the now-dead arms merchants of planet Minos, built for use quest in 2269 to find planet Eden. They found a planet matching during the ancient Erselrope Wars. Billed by the Minosians as the this description in Romulan space, but later found the plant life