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154 "FINAL MISSION" THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE

“Final Mission.” Next Generation episode #83. Teleplay by Finnegan. (Bruce Mars). Starfleet officer. Finnegan was an upperKasey Arnold-Ince and Jeri Taylor. Story by Kasey Arnold-Ince. classman and arch rival of James Kirk during his academy days in Directed by Corey Allen. Stardate 44307.3. First aired in 1990. 2252, Finnegan delighted in playing practical jokes on Kirk. A repliWesley Crusher must care for Captain Picard when the two are ca of Finnegan was created on the amusement park planet in stranded on a desert planet by a shuttle crash. This was the 2267, giving Kirk the chance to finally best his nemesis. (“Shore episode in which Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher left the seriesas Leave” [TOS]). Actor Bruce Mars also played a New York police a regular. GUEST CAST: Nick Tate as Dirgo; Kim Hamilton as officer in “Assignment: Earth" (TOS). Songi, Chairman; Mary Kohnert as Allenby, Ensign Tess. SEE: Allenby, Ensign Tess; Boothby; construction module; E Finney, Ben. (Richard Webb) Crusher, Wesley; Dirgo; dresci; ermanium; Gamelan V; \ Starfleet officer. Finney was hyronalin; Lambda Paz; Meltasion asteroid belt; Nenebek; y 2 an instructor at Starfleet noncorporeal life; Pentarus Il; Pentarus V; salenite miners; p Academy when James Kirk sentry; Songi, Chairman; sonodanite, | was a midshipman. The two B men were good friends, and final ritual. Drayan ceremony in which elderly Drayans near ’ Ben Finney's daughter, Jamie, death are taken to a sacred moon on which they may die in 1 - was named after Kirk. Later, peace. (“Innocence” [VGRY]) when both were assigned to the U.S.S. Republic, Ensign Finding and Winning Your Perfect Mate. Book written by Dr. 4 Kirk relieved Finney on watch Jennings Rain, an expert in humanoid interpersonal relation- y ~ and found a circuit open to ships. (“In Purgatory’s Shadow” [DS9)) pt the atomic matter piles that might have blown up the ship if it had not been closed. Kirk Finiis'ral. Kriosian term for the final stage in the sexual matura- closed the switch and logged the incident, causing Finney to tion of an empathic metamorph. During Finis ral, the meta- draw a reprimand and then be moved to the bottom of the promorph produces an elevated level of sexual pheromones and is motion list Finney was bitter about the incident for years, extremely vulnerable to the empathic emanations of the opposite although he later accepted a position as records officer aboard sex. The empath's behavior can change frequently to suit the the Enterprise under Kirk's command. In 2267, Finney staged his needs of potential mates. Kamala, an empathic metamorph, was own death in an unsuccessful attempt to frame Kirk for murder. in the final stages of the Finiis'ral when she traveled aboard the (“Court Martial” [TOS)). SEE: ion storm Enterprise-D in 2368 for the Ceremony of Reconciliation between Krios and Valt. Her effect on the male members of the Finney, Jamie. (Alice Rawlings). Ben Finney's daughter, named crew was, to say the least, Interesting. (“The Perfect Mate” after James T. Kirk. (“Court Martial” [TOS)). [TNG]) finoplak. A colorless liquid solvent, capable of dissolving Finn, Kyril. (Richard Cox). The Starfleet-issue fabrics, but harmless to bioplast sheeting. Kivas charismatic leader of the Ansata ter- Fajo used one hundred denkirs of finoplak to melt Data's unirorists on planet Rutia IV in 2366. form. (“The Most Toys" [TNG)) Finn abducted Dr. Crusher and Captain Picard of the Federation Fire Plains. Particularly inhospitable stretch of land on planet starship Enterprise-D in 2366, hop- Vulcan. (“Innocence” [VGRY). ing to force the Federation into becoming involved in the Ansata fire ants. Destructive and venomous mound-building red ants, struggle for independence. A com- Solenopsis saevissima, native to Earth, whose bites are particuplicated man, Finn twisted the larly irritating to humanoids. (“The Chute” [VGRY]). efforts of the crew to rescue Crusher into threats to his cause, and began fire beast of Sullus. Creature from Drayan folklore. A popular to make Dr. Crusher doubt her beliefs about the Federation posi- Drayan folktale told of the fire beast of Sullus. (“Innocence”™ [VGR]) tion on Rutia IV. Finn was killed in 2366 by Alexana Devos when Rutian security forces located the Ansata base with help from fire caves. Location on planet Bajor where Pah-wraiths were Enterprise-D personnel. (“The High Ground” [TNG]). imprisoned. (“The Assignment” [DS9)). Ben Sisko hoped to take his son, Jake, to see the fire caverns in 2369 after the Bajoran Finn, Marla E. (Nora Leonhardt). Gratitude Festival. (“The Nagus"” [DS9]). Starfleet officer who helped build the Enterprise-D at Utopia Planitia fire snakes. Reptilian species. Wixiban told Neelix that the Fleet Yards in 2363. She was Kolaati were as mean as fire snakes. (“Fair Trade" [VGRY). romantically involved with Lieutenant Walter Pierce, but also had an fire suppression system. System aboard starships that autoaffair with another man. Starfleet matically extinguishes flames. (“Deadlock [VGR)). believed Finn had been killed in a plasma explosion at Utopia Planitia fireboxes. Term used by the inhabitants of planet Omega IV to on stardate 40987.2, about a year describe Starfleet phasers. (“The Omega Glory” [TOS]) | prior to the ship's launch. It was not learned until years later that she and her male friend had been firefighting. Aboard Federation starships, a variety of systems killed by Pierce, who had caused the plasma explosion out of were used to combat fires, Most habitable areas were equipped jealousy. (“Eye of the Beholder” [TNG]). Nora Leonhardt was a with containment field generators used to create a small force regular stand-in and extra on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She field around any fires. This would deprive the fire of atmospheric worked as Marina Sirtis's stand-in, and could occasionally be oxygen, extinguishing it. Handheld extinguishers were also availseen as a background Enterprise-D crew member. Of course, able. In an extreme emergency, some parts of a ship could also when Nora was seen on the ship, she could not have been Maria be vented into the vacuum of space. (“Up the Long Ladder” Finn, since Finn was killed before the first episode of the show. [TNG], “New Ground” [TNG]). Finnea Prime. A non-Federation world. Orion Syndicate mem- firomactal drive. Fictional computer device that Riker made up ber Draim had his base of operations on Finnea Prime. ("A to confuse the Ferengi who took over the Enterprise-D in 2369. Simple Investigation” [DS9)) (“Rascals” [TNG]).