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glop-on-a-stick. Star Trek production staff nickname for jumja, a gods when the Vulcan people found the way of peace. The stone food sold on the Promenade on Deep Space 9. (“A Man Alone” had, in fact, been dismantled, with one piece placed in a Vulcan [DS9]). museum. The remaining two pieces were lost and presumed destroyed. In 2369, extremists from the Vulcan isolationist Gloria. (Whoopi Goldberg). Guinan's | movement stole the first fragment and hired Arctus Baran to persona when she participated in one of find the two remaining pieces. Baran raided numerous Romulan Captain Picard's Dixon Hill holodeck archaeological sites throughout the quadrant, and by early 2370, programs. Picard, as Hill, identified had located all three pieces. Baran's employers were prevented Gloria as his cousin from Cleveland from using the device, and later, Vulcan authorities vowed that Guinan, as Gloria, had a great deal of s they would destroy the three pieces of the resonator once and for trouble with the female accoutrements { all. (“Gambit, Part II" [TNG]). (i.e., stockings) of old Earth culture k (“Clues” [TNG]) Golanga. Noted soccer player during the 2360's. He injured his knee in 2366, and though it was replaced with a bioimplant, his glucajen. Pharmaceutical used on Earth in the 21st century asa career suffered. (“Paradise” [DS9]) treatment for hypoglycemia. (“Past Tense, Part II" [DSS)). gold-pressed latinum. SEE: latinum. Glyrhond. River on planet Bajor that defined the border between two villages, the Paqu and the Navot. A treaty signed in 2279 golside ore. Mineral. The Cardassian Central Command mainestablished the river Glyrhond as the boundary between the two tained that the freighter Bok’Nor was carrying 14 metric tons of rival peoples. During the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, the golside ore in late 2370, when in fact it had been carrying illegal river was diverted for mining operations, setting the stage fora weapons to Cardassian colonies in the Demilitarized Zone. bitter dispute over whether the boundary should be the river's (“The Maquis, Part |” [DS9]). former course or its new path. (“The Storyteller” [DS9]). SEE: Varis Sul Golwat, Ensign. Starfleet officer aboard the U.S.S. Voyager in 2373. (“Flashback” [VGR]). Golwat was Bolian. Goddard, Shuttlecraft. Vehicle technically assigned to the Starship Enterprise-D, actually on extended loan to Captain Gomez, Ensign Sonya. (Lycia Naff) Young engineering officer Montgomery Scott. Captain Picard presented the shuttle to assigned to Enterprise-D at Starbase 173. An attractive young Scott in 2369 after Scott's own ship, the Jenolen, was destroyed woman, Gomez specialized in antimatter operations. ("Q Who?" while saving the Enterprise-D. “Relics” [TNG]). The Goddard was [TNG]). Gomez helped devise a means of using the ship's named for American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard (1882- Bussard collectors to create a harmless pyrotechnic display 1945), inventor of the liquid-fueled rocket. when Geordi La Forge was being held captive aboard the Mondor in 2365. (“Samaritan Snare” [TNG)). Although Gomez Goddard, U.S.S. Federation starship, Korolev class, Starfleet was first in “Q Who" (TNG), she apparently transferred to the ship registry NCC-59621, scheduled for a rendezvous with the at Starbase 173 during “The Measure of a Man" (TNG). Enterprise-D shortly after stardate 43421. The rendezvous was postponed after the signing of the Acamarian truce. (“The Gomtuu. An ancient, spaceborne Vengeance Factor” [TNG]). The Goddard was part of the tachyon organism, the last of a species of detection grid during the Klingon civil war of 2367-2368. living spacecraft that shared symbi- < (“Redemption, Part II" [TNG]). The Korolev class was named for otic relationships with their crews spacecraft designer Sergey Paviovich Korolev, a key figure in the Gomtuu's crew died when radiation early Russian space program. from an explosion penetrated its skin. Gomtuu was a social being, and “Goddess of Empathy." A holodeck facsimile of Counselor with no fellow creatures remaining Deanna Troi, created by Reginald Barclay in violation of proto- and with no crew to care for, it became cols against the simulation of real people without their consent. lonely. Wandering aimlessly for mil(“Hollow Pursuits” [TNG]). lennia, Gomtuu finally decided to die at Beta Stromgren. Firstcontact specialist Tam Elbrun, sent to establish relations with gods, Greek. In Earth's ancient Greek culture, a pantheon of dieties Gomtuu (code-named Tin Man by Starfleet), found the living and heroic mortals responsible for the creation of the universe spaceship to be a kindred spirit, and the two new friends went off and for the primal forces of nature. According to the powerful into the unknown together. (“Tin Man" [TNG)) extraterrestrial who called himself Apollo, the mythical figures Agamemnon, Hector, Ulysses, Zeus, Latona, Artemis, Pan, Athena Gonal IV. Planet. Homeworld of the swarming moths that were and Aphrodite were also extraterrestrials who lived on Earth some the subject of Enterprise-D science fair winner Jay Gordon's pro5.000 years ago, where they were regarded as gods and heroic ject in 2368. (“Disaster” [TNG]). figures by the ancient Greeks. (“Who Mourns for Adonais?" [TOS]). Gorad. Uncle of Quark. Quark owed Gorad a large sum of money. Gol, Stone of. Ancient Vulcan arti- (“Body Parts” [DS9)) fact, a powerful weapon dating back to the Time of Awakening, some Sd Goran'Agar. (Scott MacDonald) 2,000 years ago. Long thought to be } Oh Jem'Hadar soldier whose genetic mere legend, the stone was a psion- \ makeup included a random mutaic resonator that operated by focus- tion that made him able to survive ing and amplifying telepathic energy, » | A | without ketracel-white, a drug on enabling its bearer to kill by telepa- - . which all other Jem'Hadar were thy, turning an opponent's violent ‘ od dependent. In 2368, Goran'Agar thoughts and emotions against him ba 1 40 was the only survivor of a ship that The Stone of Gol was actually three Lv, crashed on planet Bopak Ill. After his interlocking artifacts covered with ancient Vulcan glyphs and on PN supply of ketracel-white ran out, he symbols. These writings mostly warned of death to anyone who BE earned that he was not dependent opposed the stone, but one set of three glyphs showed the sym- on the drug. He believed that somebol for war and the symbol of the god of death, separated by the thing in the environment on Bopak Ili symbol for peace. According to legend, it was destroyed by the had cured him, so four years later, he