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(“Family Business” [DS9]) FGC-13 cluster. Stellar cluster near the Amargosa Diaspora. The Ferenginar has an extremely Enterprise-D charted FGC-13 in 2369. (“Schisms” [TNG]). wet climate, so much so that the Ferengi language has FGC-47. Nebula that is home to a life-form based on cohesive 178 different words for rain. plasma strands that feed on the gravity fields generated by the They also have no word for neutron star at the center of the nebula. The Enterprise-D crisp. (“Let He Who Is With- explored FGC-47 in 2368, when it made contact with the lifeout Sin..." [DS9)). A terrible forms living there. (“Imaginary Friend” [TNG)). SEE: Isabella. FGC financial decline struck probably stands for Federation General Catalog, a variation of a Ferenginar in the mid-24th real astronomical text, the New General Catalogue (NGC), by J. L. century, causing rampant E. Dreyer, first published in 1888. inflation and currency devaluation. This catastrophe became known as the Great Monetary Collapse. (“Homefront" [DS]). Ficus Sector. Destination of the colony ship S.S. Mariposa, launched from Earth in 2123. The Mariposa settled colonists on Fermat's last theorem. A mathematical puzzle devised by 17th- planet Bringloid V and later crashed on the planet Mariposa century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665), while settling a second group of colonists. (“Up the Long Ladder” who claimed to have developed a proof for the theorem that there [TNG]). 1s no whole number N where X to the Nth power, plus Y to the Nth, equals Z to the Nth, where N is greater than 2. Following Fermat's field coils. SEE: warp field coils. death, his notes indicated he had devised a “remarkable proof” of the theorem, but no one has yet been able to figure out what it field diverters. Device utilized to isolate areas of starships from might have been, including amateur scientist Jean-Luc Picard. the decontaminating plasma field of a baryon sweep. Field (“The Royale" [TNG]). After the episode was produced in 1989, a diverters were used to protect the ship's computer core and Princeton University professor, Andrew Wiles, developed a proof bridge. Multiple diverters on a starship required synchronization of Fermat's theorem in order to be effective. (“Starship Mine" [TNG]). Fermi, Shuttlecraft. Enterprise-D shuttlecraft #09, destroyed in field docent. In the Trill initiate program, a joined Trill who shep2369 after being enveloped by a molecular reversion field that herded a host candidate through a field training program, allowreduced its crew to children. (*Rascals” [TNG]). Named for Enrico ing the candidate to observe the activities of a joined Trill over a Fermi, the 20th-century Italian-American physicist who devel- two-week period. (“Playing God" [DS9)). SEE: Arjin; Dax, oped the first nuclear fission reactor. Curzon; Dax, Jadzia. Ferris, Galactic High Commissioner. (John Crawford). field training. Educational class taught in a real work environFederation bureaucrat who was assigned to the Enterprise to ment, not in a classroom. Lieutenant Tuvok offered field training oversee the delivery of medical supplies to planet Makus Ill for to former Maquis members of the Voyager crew in late 2371. The transfer to the New Paris colonies in 2267. Ferris opposed asci- class was intended to help those crew members adjust to entific shuttle mission just prior to the transfer, on the grounds that ~~ Starfleet discipline. The course included physical training, acadeit might delay the transfer. Ferris's objections were borne out when mic studies, and simulated tactical situations. Four former the shuttlecraft was lost during the investigation, but the Magquis crew members took the course: Kenneth Dalby, Mariah Enterprise was able to make the Makus Ill rendezvous after recov- Henley, Gerron, and Chell (“Learning Curve" [VGR]). ering most of the shuttle's crew. (“The Galileo Seven" [TOS]. Fifth House of Betazed. A family that is still considered someferroplasmic infusion. Procedure by which high energy plasma, thing of royalty to the inhabitants of Betazed. Ambassador directed through an infusion device, is injected into a planetary Lwaxana Troi was a daughter of the Fifth House. (“Haven” body. Ferroplasmic infusion was used by the crew of the [TNG]). Enterprise-D in 2370 in order to re-liquefy the mantle core of planet Atrea IV. (“Inheritance” [TNG]). Filian python. Type of large snake that burrows in the ground. (“The Begotten" [DS9)) Fesarius. Flagship of the First Federation, commanded by Balok. Following first contact with the Fesarius by the original Enterprise filter masks. Protective breathing device intended to protect in 2266, crew member Lieutenant Bailey remained with Fesarius against the debilitating effects of the zenite gas found in the Commander Balok as a cultural envoy. (“The Corbomite Maneu- mines on planet Ardana. (“The Cloud Minders” [TOS]). ver” [TOS)). Miniature designed by Matt Jefferies. Fima system. Planetary system in the Delta Quadrant. The Festival of Lights. Celebration held during Ha'mara, the Bajoran Enaran people maintained a colony in the Fima system. holiday held on the anniversary of the Emissary's arrival. (“Remember” [VGR]). (“Starship Down" [DS]). Fina Prime. Planet in the Delta Quadrant. An outbreak of the Festival. Also known as the Red Hour on planet Beta lll. (“Return deadly Viidian phage struck planet Fina Prime in 2372. of the Archons” [TOS)). (“Lifesigns™ [VGRY]) Feynman, Shuttlecraft. — Finagle's Folly. Beverage concocted Enterprise-D shuttlecraft. 1701-0 / by Dr. McCoy, who claimed he The Feynman was taken by / = was famous for the libation Captain Picard, Dr. Crusher, and i ( = |___ g “from here to Orion.” (“The Lieutenant Worf to planet Torman = Ultimate Computer” V. (“Chain of Command, Part |" fe —— — [TOs]. [TNGI]). The shuttiecraft Feynman was named for Dr. Richard Finagle's Law. “Any Feynman (1918-1988), noted home port the ship makes Nobel physicist and bongo player. _—y will be somebody else's ... not The name was misspelled as Feyman | mine." Kirk quoted Finagle's Law to Spock on the shuttle's exterior because of a when they received a message diverting them mistake made in the art department. from Vulcan to planet Altair VI. (“Amok Time" [TOS]).