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of a child, she had difficulty communicating with ship's person- - bodies so that they lacked the ability to pronel. (“Imaginary Friend” [TNG]). SEE: noncorporeal life. B duce isogenic enzymes, without which the Te. Jem'Hadar circulatory system would fail. The Isak. (Richard Evans). Zeon member of the underground on plan- - Jem'Hadar were totally dependent on the et Ekos. In 2268, Isak was held captive by that planet's Nazi-style Vorta, who acted as agents for the Founders, regime, along with Kirk and Spock. Isak and his brother, Abrom, ol for supplies of the chemical, which they proaided Kirk and Spock's efforts to locate the Federation cultural a vided in the form of ketracel-white, an addicadvisor, John Gill. (“Patterns of Force" [TOS)) 3 tive drug (also known simply as “white”) and Td the Vorta used this to control the dangerously Ishan Chaye. Bajoran national. Ishan, who was born in 2329, warlike Jem'Hadar. (“The Abandoned" [DS9], came from Rakantha Province on Bajor and was an electronics “Hippocratic Oath" [DS9]). engineer. In 2367, Ishan Chaye, along with Jillur Gueta and Timor Landi, was wrongly accused of attempting to assassinate Gul isograted circuit. Computer chip technology that permitted Dukat on station Terok Nor. The three were executed after a cur- manufacture of numerous electronic circuit components as a sory investigation by Odo, Terok Nor's chief of security. (“Things single unit. The isograted circuit was a key development in the Past” [DS9)). dawn of Earth's computer age in the 20th century. Henry Starling of Chronowerx corporation introduced the first isograted circuit Ishan. (Bruce Bohn). A member of the Sakari, a people discov- on Earth in 1969. It was not realized that this revolution in microered by the crew of the Starship Voyager on stardate 50537 ona computer technology was derived from 29th-century technology planet in the Delta Quadrant. His name, not mentioned, is from that Starling had found in 1967 on the Federation Timeship Aeon. the script. (“Blood Fever” [VGR]). (“Future's End, Part I” [VGR)]). Ishikawa, Hiro. Father to Starfleet botanist Keiko O'Brien. Keiko isolation protocol. A series of emergency procedures employed considered naming her first child after Hiro, although her hus- aboard Federation starships in the event of a hull breach in part of band, Miles, wanted to name the child after his father, Michael the ship. Isolation protocol procedures include computer-conO'Brien. (“Disaster” [TNG)]). Little Hiro, or Michael (depending on trolled closure of emergency bulkheads in the turboshafts to prewho you asked), ended up being little Molly. vent uncontrolled atmospheric loss. Isolation protocol was invoked on stardate 45156, when the Enterprise-D was damaged Ishikawa, Keiko. Starfleet botanist. Birth name of the future Mrs. by contact with quantum filaments. (“Disaster” [TNG]). Keiko O’Brien. (“Data's Day” [TNG]). isolinear coprocessor. Computing device employing isolinear Ishka. (Andrea Martin). Mother of Quark elements, such as those used aboard Deep Space 9. Technician LE and Rom, widow of Keldar, daughter of Neela planted a subspace device integrated into an isolinear A Adred. Ishka was a headstrong, enterpris- coprocessor in Security. This disabled the weapon detectors on N = ing Ferengi female, and broke with Ferengi the Promenade. With the weapon detectors off-line, the phaser — tradition in several ways. She never liked to Neela carried to assassinate Vedek Bareil did not register. (“In the J S—- chew food for her sons, she talked to Hands of the Prophets” [DS9]). SEE: isolinear rods. : — strangers, and she even wore clothes and earned profit. The Ferengi Commerce isolinear optical chip. Sophisticated information storage and Authority discovered her business activi- processing device used aboard 24th-century starships. ties in 2371, and tried unsuccessfully to halt Composed of linear memory crystal material, the isolinear chip them (“Family Business" [DS9]). Emmy came into general use around 2349, and was used for both inforA Award winner Andrea Martin is well-known mation storage and data processing. Within larger computing for her comedy work on the various devices, isolinear chips are often housed in wall-mounted racks, “Second City" television series. SEE: Moogie. permitting computer access to dozens, even hundreds of chips at one time. (“The Naked Now" [TNG]). Isolinear chips replaced isik. Monetary unit. Used by Alsia and Martus Mazur in their older, less efficient duotronic enhancers aboard Federation business dealings. (“Rivals" [DS9)). starships around the year 2329. (“Relics” [TNG]). While under Romulan control in 2367, Geordi La Forge altered several isolinIsis. (Voice by Barbara Babcock). Life- ear chips to permit unauthorized use of the cargo transporter to form of unknown extra-terrestrial ori- beam weapons to planet Krios. He programmed the chips to gin. Isis took the form of a black Earth delete all operator commands once the transport was complete, cat, and accompanied Gary Seven to , effectively erasing any record of the use of the transporter. (“The planet Earth in 1968. Isis could also H Mind's Eye” [TNG]). transform herself into a humanoid Y 4 woman. (“Assignment: Earth” [TOS]) - Isis was apparently intended as a continuing character in the proposed ~ <& series Assignment: Earth. SEE: Mea 3. eo 0 BY qd 7 isoboramine. In Trill physiology, a vital neurotransmitter chemi- n % cal that mediates the synaptic functions between the Trill — Bg . humanoid host and the symbiont. Should isoboramine levels fall \ - below 40 percent of normal, the symbiont is removed to protect > ) . 7A LN SS it, even though this results in the death of the humanoid host. H > WR Ne (“Equilibrium™ [DS9]) b 1" J -— NN Fes RR isocortex. The extreme outer layer of the cerebral cortex in a EY Thais ARR 5 humanoid brain. Captain Picard suffered synaptic failure in his oof 14g alt" kr he "NN NN isocortex during his exposure to the Kataan probe in 2368. (“The Be CE RAE . - ~~ 3 Inner Light” [TNG]). g si eel 5% o 4d ~~ isogenic enzyme. Biochemical substance crucial to Jem'Hadar ail Ty TY physiology. The Founders genetically altered the Jem'Hadar's Lt — . .