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buffer; plasma grid; polycomposite; power conversion level; his own people, on stardate 48521 she impersonated Kira Nerys Prak, DaiMon; Rabal, Dr.; reconnaissance probe; second offi- and pretended to be trapped on a distant moon with Odo. (“Heart cer; Serova, Dr; ship's log recorder; Spot; structural breach; of Stone” [DS9]). She boarded the Starship Defiant on stardate subspace phenomena; tetryon; thermal stabilizers; verteron 49962 .4 to escort Odo to the Founders’ homeworld to be judged mines; warp field coils; warp field effect; warp speed; weath- by the Great Link. The Great Link judged him and made him a er control matrix. human being. (“Broken Link" [DS9]). Salome Jens previously portrayed the ancient humanoid in “The Chase” (TNG). forced neutrino inverter. Explosive device, In 2371, a forced neutrino inverter was used in the bomb that destroyed Retaya's Founders’ homeworld. Sunless Class-M planet located someship. (“Improbable Cause” [DS9)). where in the Omarion Nebula in the Gamma Quadrant. The planet was the home of the reclusive civilization of shape-shifters forced plasma beam. Destructive energy source used in Borg known as the Founders and the central planet of the Dominion. and Ferengi handheld weapons. (“Descent, Part |" [TNG]). (“The Search, Part |" [DS9]). In 2371, the Tal Shiar and Obsidian Order launched a massive attack against the Founders’ homeFord pickup truck. Ancient wheeled, internal-combustion vehicle world, bombarding the planet's surface with a fleet of 20 starused on Earth during the 20th century. Manufactured by the Ford ships. Neither attacker realized that the Founders had evacuated Motor Company of North America, used to transport small to the planet, or that they had a fleet of 150 Jem'Hadar ships waiting medium payloads across land distances of several kilometers, to destroy the invaders. (“The Die is Cast" [DS9)). SEE: Lovok, often for light industrial or agricultural applications. A Ford pickup ~~ Colonel; Tain, Enabran. truck, manufactured in 1936 and owned by Jack Hayes, was captured in 1937 by the Briori, who transported the vehicle and Hayes Founders. Ancient civilization of shape- : to the Briori homeworld in the Delta Quadrant. Hayes's vehicle was shifters, the architects of the Dominion in abandoned in orbit above the Brion planet, where it was discov- the Gamma Quadrant. Long ago, the ered by the Starship Voyager in 2371. (“The 37's” [VGRY). Founders explored the galaxy, but | found themselves to be feared, A Forlat lll. Class-M planet that was attacked by the Crystalline hunted and killed by the solids, Entity. Colonists on the planet fled into caves in an attempt to their term for non-shapeescape the entity, but that did not protect them. (“Silicon Avatar" shifters. Out of self-defense, [TNG]). the Founders retreated to a planet in the Omarion formazine. Federation standard stimulant, often administered by Nebula. From this locahypospray. After the Enterprise was commandeered by the tion, the Founders estabKelvans in 2268, Dr. McCoy convinced Hanar that his body lished the Dominion, through required vitamin injections, but instead delivered doses of for- which they controlled hundreds mazine, causing all-too-human emotional irritation. (“By Any of planets throughout the Gamma Other Name" [TOS]). Quadrant, imposing order through ruthless violence and fear. Although isoForrester-Trent Syndrome. Degenerative neurological disorder. lated, the Founders did not lose their Itis very rare, but if left untreated, can result in paralysis and even curiosity about the universe. They sent a death. The syndrome is usually hereditary but can be activated hundred infant members of their species across the galaxy, by a random mutation. A neurostabilization regimen can stabilize implanting in each a powerful desire to return home, so that the or reverse the disease. Jason Vigo was diagnosed as having Founders could learn about distant places. Deep Space 9 securiForrester-Trent in 2370, caused when Bok secretly resequenced ty chief Odo was one of these infants. The Founders had a strong Vigo's DNA to make him appear to be Picard's genetic progeny. family link to each member of their species, and it has been said (“Bloodlines” [TNG]). that no shape-shifter has ever killed another. (“The Search, Parts | 'and II" [DSS]). Another of these changeling infants ended up on “Forsaken, The.” Deep Space Nine episode #17. Teleplay by Deep Space 9 in 2373. Odo began to rear the infant, until it died Don Carlos Dunaway and Michael Piller. Story by Jim Trombetta. of radiation that it had been exposed to while in space. SEE Directed by Les Landau. Stardate 46925.1. First aired in 1993. changeling infant. (“The Begotten” [DS9)). The Founders’ ability Ambassador Lwaxana Troi visits Deep Space 9 and takes a fancy to assume the shape of an object is so complete that a Founder to Security Chief Odo. GUEST CAST: Majel Barrett as Troi, in the guise of an individual of another species is virtually undeLwaxana; Constance Towers as Taxco; Michael Ensign as Lojal; tectable, even with sophisticated scanning equipment. Should, Jack Shearer as Vadosia; Benita Andre as Anara. SEE: adaptive however, a piece of a Founder's body be separated from the main interface link; Anara; Andevian II; Arbazan; Betazoids; bipolar body mass, the separated piece reverts to its normal gelatinous torch; carbon reaction chambers; Cardassian operation state. (“The Adversary” [DS9)). Starfleet phasers set to a force of guidelines; Corado | Transmitter Array; corundium alloy; Dax, 3.5 were sufficient to force a Founder to revert to a gelatinous Curzon; Dopterian; electroplasma system; emulator module; state. (“Homefront [DS9)). Founders also revert to a gelatinous Ferengi; fusion reactor; isolinear rods; laser-induced fusion; state upon death, (“Apocalypse Rising” [DS9]). SEE: morLojal; Nehru Colony; New France Colony; Odo; Pup; recali- phogenic enzyme. bration sweep; root canal; Taxco; toranium; Troi, Lwaxana; The Founders used a warrior species called the Jem'Hadar turbolift; Vadosia; Wanoni tracehound. to force compliance of the various members of the Dominion. (“The Jem'Hadar" [DS9]). The Founders maintained control of the fortanium. Substance used in construction of the D'Arsay powerful Jem Hadar through the use of genetic engineering, Archive. (“Masks" [TNG]), altering Jem'Hadar physiology to be dependent on ketracelwhite (also known simply as “white,” an isogenic enzyme), a ~~, Founder Leader. (Salome Jens). Member drug that only the Founders could supply, through their agents, of the Founders. This metamorphic individ- the Vorta. (“The Abandoned,” et al. [DS9]). Some Vorta agents }) ual assumed a female humanoid form in suspected that even this extreme measure may not have been 2371 to greet Odo when he retumed to the sufficient to control the Jem’Hadar's powerfully violent tendenVV Founders’ homeworld. She instructed him cies. (“To the Death” [DS9]). Most Jem'Hadar spent their entire in the ways and history of her people. She lives without meeting a Founder. To them, the Founders were ~ also told Odo of his origin. (“The Search, thought of as myths (“Hippocratic Oath” [DS]) or even gods. (“To > Parts | and II" [DS9)). To learn why Odo the Death” [DS9)). On stardate 50049.3, a Founder was mortally chose to live among the solids rather than injured when a Jem’Hadar ship crash-landed on planet Torga IV.