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on the planet to be permeated with deadly acid. (“The Way to eggs with bacon and corned beef hash. Traditional Earth Eden" [TOS]) breakfast foods high in fat. Miles O'Brien enjoyed two eggs over easy, three strips of bacon, and a side of corned beef hash for Edo god. Powerful spaceborne life- breakfast. (“The Assignment” [DS9]) form (or forms) discovered near the Rubicun star system. This immensely eichner radiation. Form of radiation found to stimulate growth of powerful, transdimensional entity certain strains of plasma plague. Eichner radiation can be creatcares for and protects the humanoid 1 ed by a subspace field inverter, and it is also emitted by certain species on planet Rubicun Ill. When ! cyanoacrylates. (“The Child” [TNG]) the Starship Enterprise-D attempted to make contact with the inhabitants eidetic memory. Psychological term referring to an ability to of that planet in 2364, the Edo god recall images in near-photographic detail. Kes had an eidetic warned the ship to leave without interfering with the humanoids it memory. (“Eye of the Needle” [VGR]) called its “children.” The Edo god also requested removal of a Federation colony established in the nearby Strnad star system. Eiger. (Marnie McPhail). Starfleet officer assigned to the (“Justice™ [TNG]) Engineering section of the U.S.S. Enterprise-E. In 2373, Eiger was captured and assimilated by the Borg and later died when Edo. Civilization of humanoids who inhabit planet Rubicun Ill. the ship was retaken. (Star Trek: First Contact). Mamie McPhail Known for a curious mixture of hedonistic sexuality and almost previously portrayed Alcia in “Innocence” (VGR) puritanical respect for their law, the Edo are governed and protected by a transdimensional entity they call their god. SEE: Edo Eight ninety-two, Planet IV. Fourth planet of the Eight Ninety god. Many years ago, Edo society was lawless and dangerously Two solar system; a Class-M world where the survivors of the violent. They eventually adopted a system in which laws were survey vessel S.S. Beagle beamed down after their ship was enforced by a very small number of mediators (law enforcement damaged in 2261. The planet's society was a 20th-century verofficials) who monitored randomly selected areas called punish- sion of Earth's ancient Rome, with video communications, power ment zones. Violation of any law in a punishment zone would transportation, and an imperial government. By 2267, slavery had result in immediate death. Since no one except the mediators existed for two thousand years, and a slave caste developed into would know which area had been selected as a punishment a stratum of society with specified rights under the law. SEE zone, the system served as a strong incentive to obey all laws. Children of the Sun; Marcus, Claudius; Merrick, R. M. (“Bread (*Justice” [TNG]) and Circuses” [TOS]) Edosian orchid. Type of exotic flowering plant. Garak was an Einstein, Albert. (Jim Morton) experienced gardener, and his specialty was Edosian orchids. Nobel Prize-winning theoretical (“Broken Link" [DS9]) Bl physicist (1879-1955), regarded as a Ml one of the greatest scientific minds Edouard. (Jean-Paul Vignon). A holodeck character, the under L of 20th-century Earth. Einstein standing waiter at the Cafe des Artistes in Paris. ("We'll Always postulated the theory of relativity Have Paris” [TNG]) 'y fe ey and spent much of his later life attempting to unify relativity with Edwell, Captain, Federation officer, native of planet Gaspar VII my quantum mechanics. Reginald (“Starship Mine" [TNG)) 3 Barclay, using his Cytherian“ enhanced intelligence, spent a ! Ee'Char. (Craig Wasson). Character in an \ » night in 2367 discussing grand uniartificial reality program created by the fication theories with a holodeck Argrathi government for the punishment of simulation of Albert Einstein. (“The \' convicted criminals. In the program, Ee’'Char Nth Degree” [TNG]). The holoFey was a cell mate who shared a 20-year graphic Einstein was later enlisted ed prison sentence with the convicted crimi- by Data in a customized holodeck ), BR nal. In 2372, Miles O'Brien, sentenced to the program that allowed him to play ll Argrathi punishment, experienced incarcer- poker with such scientific luminaries as Einstein, Sir Isaac ation with Ee’Char. (“Hard Time" [DS9]) Newton, and Professor Stephen Hawking. (“Descent Part I” [TNG]) eel-birds. Creatures from planet Regulus V that must return to the caverns where they hatched to mate every 11 years. Spock men EJ7 interlock. Engineering tool used to open critical system tioned the mating habits of the eel-birds to Kirk in attempting to access panels on Deep Space 9. Neela stole the interlock from explain the Vulcan mating drive, Pon farr. ("Amok Time" [TOS]) Chief O'Brien's tool kit to access restricted areas on the station in an attempt to escape after the planned assassination of Vedek Egg. An instrumented sensor probe, designed by Dr. Paul Bareil. ("In the Hands of the Prophets” [DS9]). Stubbs to record the decay of neutronium expelled during a stellar explosion. Dr. Stubbs, who nicknamed his brainchild “the Ekina. Cargo ship. The Fkina brought Verad and his band of Egg,” worked on it for twenty years before successfully launching thieves to station Deep Space 9 in 2370. (“Invasive Procedures” it from the Enterprise-D at the Kavis Alpha Sector in 2366 [DS9]) (“Evolution” [TNG]). The full-scale egg prop was a modification of the virus containment device originally built for “The Child" (TNG). Ekoria. (Ellen Wheeler). Inhabitant of a planet in the Teplan system located eggs benedict. Traditional Earth breakfast made with cooked in the Gamma Quadrant. Like all on chicken eggs. Although limited to ration packs, Captain Janeway her planet, Ekoria was infected with a - dreamed of having eggs benedict for breakfast. (“Phage” [VGR]). deadly disease known as the blight Besides chicken eggs, it also contains a slice of smoked porcine SEE: Teplan blight. Ekoria’s husflesh, both sitting atop a toasted, round, pasty, ground-grain prod- band was an artist. Before his death — uct known as an “English muffin," the whole of which is smothered in 2371, he painted a mural on a city : under a thick, white blanket of gooey viscous liquid known as building depicting life in happier and “Hollandaise sauce," lightly dusted on top with a pungent red- healthier times, before the blight colored spice. "And we call ourselves civilized?" asks Bob Justman. devastated the Teplan civilization. In