[ Anyon
][ Baryon
][ Berthold
][ Bosons ][ Chroniton
][ Chronometric
][ Dekyon
][ Delta
][ Duderon ][ E
]
[ Eichner
][ Electron ][ Epsilon
][ Gamma
][ Geodesic
][ Graviton
][ Hyperon
][ Ionogenic
][ Kedion
]
[ Kinoplasmic
][ Lepton
][ Magneton
][ Meson
][ Metaphasic
][ Metreon
][ Muon
][ Nadion
][ Neutrino
]
[ Neutron
][ Nucleogenic
][ Nucleonic
][ Omega
][ Omicron
][ Photon
][ Photonic
][ Polaric
][ Polaron
]
[ Positron
][ Protomatter
][ Proton
][ Pyritic
][ Quark ][ Radiogenic
][ Tachyon
][ Terracon
][ Teryon
]
[ Tetryon
][ Thermionic
][ Theta
][ Thoron
][ Vertion
][ Verteron
][ Warp
][ Z
]
Anyon -
Artificially generated by crew.
In the Real world, Anyons are intermediaries between
the boson and fermion states. It turns
out that in
our three dimensional world, particles can only act
as bosons or fermions, but if one confines a
particle
to two dimensions, it can act as any combination
of the two: thus, the idea of an "anyon"
was proposed.
Theoretically the anyon was the particle which
mediates the relationship between between the two quantum
states
(bosons and fermions.) But to everyone's
surprise, the theoretical anyon turned out to be real; it
shows up
in a highly esoteric phenomenon of two-dimensional
surfaces called the Hall effect.
Anyons arise from the interaction between phased and
normal matter, and can be used to disrupt the
phase of matter. (Could phasing then
involve a shift between the fermion state to the boson state, and
vice versa?).
Anyons are harmless to humans.
When he detected bursts of chronitons
caused by the presence of Geordi and Ro in phased form,
Data hypothesized that the bursts of chronitons were
caused by phased matter. Data tried to use
anyons to decontaminate the ship. When Geordi
and Ro set off a disruptor on overload, a huge burst
of chronitons were detected, leading Data to sweep
the area with a sufficiently large flood of anyons
that was enough to bring the two back into phase
with the rest of the crew and the walls of the ship.
The floors apparently exist in several phases at
once.
"The Next Phase" [TNG]
Baryon -
Naturally occurring. In real life, baryons are
the class of the heaviest particles. This class includes
neutrons,
protons
and the heavier, unstable hyperons:
the lambda, sigma, xi, and omega particles,
as opposed to "light" particles (leptons)
like electrons. Baryons consist of three quarks and interact
through the strong force, which holds atomic
nuclei together. The law of conservation of baryons
states that for any interaction of elementary
particles, the sum of baryon numbers remains unchanged.
Federation starships traveling at warp must
periodically undergo "Baryon Sweeps" at facilities such as
the Remmler Array to clear them of an accumulation
of these particles. The process is dangerous to
living tissue and requires a complete evacuation of
space ship personnel.
"Starship Mine" [TNG]
Berthold radiation
-
Naturally occurring / It can be artificially
generated by aliens. Nature unknown. It is harmful and
even fatal to humans over time given high enough
exposures.
Emotion-affecting spores granted immunity to
Berthold rays, allowing a colony to survive.
"This Side of Paradise" [TOS]
Berthold rays were part of the broadband emissions
that aliens used to scan the enterprise D when
they were looking for Q. When asked if it was
lethal, Data said that overall exposure was under
75 rems, a very low intensity - like a soft medical
scan.
"Deja Q" [TNG]
Boson
-
A class of particles whose motion obeys
Bose-Einstein statistics.
Chroniton
-
Artificially generated by aliens and crew. It is
unsure whether this is the same as the chonometric
particle.
These particles are involved in temporal technology
and in phasing / cloaking.
In 2368, while trying to transport back to the ship
after assisting a damaged Romulan vessel, chroniton
particles from their malfunctioning cloaking device
cause Geordi and Ro to become phased. The two
became invisible and could pass through walls (not
floors). Data said that the chroniton emissions
posed no danger to humans but prolonged exposure
could affect some ship's systems. Geordi and Ro
were able to produce a massive surge of Chronitons
by overloading a phased Romulan disrupter pistol
in ten-forward, prompting Lieutenant Commander Data
to flood the space with Anyons
and render
them partially visible
again.
"The Next Phase" [TNG]
In 2371 Chroniton particles caused a transporter
accident which resulted in Captain Sisko, Doctor
Bashir and Lieutenant Commander Dax to be thrown
back in time to 21st century Earth.
"Past Tense" [DS9]
After an accident in which Chief O'Brien of Deep
Space Nine absorbed a heavy dose of Delta
radiation,
Chroniton particles would cause the Chief to make
several short jumps back and forth into the future
whenever a cloaked warbird came near the station.
"Visionary" [DS9]
Chronitons can, potentially, also be used to kill
the Bajoran wormhole aliens.
When Kes was irradiated with chroniton particles
from the Krenim and later subjected to a biotemporal
field, she began to shift backwards in time.
"Before and After" [VOY]
Antichroniton -
Artificially generated by crew. Cancels out
chroniton particles.
When Kes was irradiated with chroniton particles
from the Krenim and later subjected to a biotemporal
field, she began to shift backwards in time. This
was cured by the use of an antichroniton field.
"Before and After" [VOY]
Chronometric
particle -
Artificially generated by aliens. Involved in time
travel. It is unsure whether or not this is just another
name for the Chroniton.
After noticing a temporal signature from the Borg
sphere, high concentrations of tachyons
as well as
chronometric particles indicated that they were
trying to create a temporal vortex to travel backward
in time. The Enterprise-E used them to
travel forward in time.
"First Contact" [ST8]
O'Brien reads chronometric particles around the
Defiant just before it is pulled back in time by the Orb.
"Trials and Tribble-ations" [DS9]
Dekyon (alt.
spelling: Dechyon) -
Artificially generated by crew. In real life,
dechyons refer to the class of particles that travel at or below
light-speed (i.e., the opposite of tachyons.)
In 2369 the Enterprise-D crew detected changes in
the Dechyon field which proved that they were
trapped in a temporal loop. The crew detected
these particles as remnants of each "causality loop"
and Data used them to send a message into the next
loop, which allowed them to break this most
vicious
cycle.
"Cause and Effect" [TNG]
Three dekyon beams intersecting from different time
periods can cause a time rupture, allowing
anti-time to intrude into our normal-time universe.
"All Good Things" [TNG]
USS Voyager used a Dechyon beam to open a fissure in
the event horizon of a class 3 singularity;
Used to open a fissure in an event horizon.
"Parallax" [VOY]
Delta rays -
Naturally occurring in real life / artificially
created in Trek. In real life Delta-rays refer to moderate-
energy electrons which have been kicked off a
nucleus by the passage of a nearby high energy charged
particle.
It is a type of radiation produced by older
engines. In an accident involving a broken baffle plate on an
old class-J starship, Christopher pike, the former
captain of starship Enterprise was overexposed to
Delta rays leaving him in a wheelchair for the rest
of his life.
"The Menagerie, part 1" [TOS]
O'Brien absorbed a heavy dose of delta radiation,
which allowed the tetryon
emissions from the
Romulan warbird to shift him through time.
"Visionary" [DS9]
E-band emissions
-
These are electromagnetic signals sometimes emitted
by collapsing protostars. They were used by
the Romulans in late 2367 as a means of secretly
transmitting commands to Geordi LaForge
through his VISOR. Those signals were
delta-compressed on a frequency similar to that of
humanoid
brainwaves.
"The Mind's Eye" [TNG]
Eichner radiation
-
Artificially generated.
Eichner radiation is emitted by subspace phase
inverters. It caused genetically altered spores in a
stasis cage to expand uncontrollably and threaten
the Enterprise. The source of the radiation was
tracked to Ian, Troi's
son.
"The Child" [TNG]
Epsilon radiation
-
Produced by tetryon
reactors.
"The Voyager Conspiracy" [VOY]
Geodesic radiation
-
Radiation dangerous and even fatal to humans
associated with the opening of a Geodesic fold.
"Inside Man" [VOY]
Graviton
-
Artificially generated by crew. A real
particle according to modern physics. The particle responsible
for the gravitational force which exists between all
masses in our universe.
Gravitons can be artificially generated by
Federation starships, and have various uses. Some
artificial
gravity systems operate by creating gravitons.
A "heavy graviton beam" was considered and rejected
as a weapon against the Borg.
"The Best of Both Worlds" [TNG]
Gravitons were used by Enterprise crew to
communicate with the crystalline entity, and used by
the vengeful doctor Mar to destroy the entity.
"Silicon Avatar" [TNG]
In 2368 graviton waves destroyed the USS Vico when
it was surveying the Black Cluster. They
also nearly destroyed the USS Enterprise, because
they were amplified when they interacted with
the power of the ships
shields.
"Hero Worship" [TNG]
Barclay used a graviton field to alter subspace to
take the ship into Cytherian space.
"The Nth Degree" [TNG]
Voyager tried using them to get out of the
Caretaker's beam.
"The Caretaker" [VOY]
Tritium is a mildly radioactive isotope used to
detect where the graviton field was building up.
"Q-Less" [DS9]
Antigraviton -
Artificially generated by aliens. Apparently
can act as "antigravity." In real life, a graviton (which
is still a theoretical particle whose existence
hasn't been proven) is its own antiparticle. That is, an
antigraviton would actually be a normal graviton.
Antigravitons were used by aliens to deflect a
transporter beam to a new set of co-ordinates.
"Attached" [TNG]
Hyperon -
Naturally occurring. Hyperons are a class of
real particles whose name dates back to the days before
quark structure was well known. Leptons
(electrons, muons,
tau and their associated neutrinos)
are
"light", Mesons
are "medium", and baryons
are heavy. When more massive short-lived particles
heavier than the proton
were produced, they were called hyperons. Some examples are the sigma,
lambda, and cascade particles. After quark structure
was understood, the first three names were kept,
but the meaning was changed. Leptons
are the same list as originally, but are understood to be
fundamental particles with no quark structure. Mesons
are quark-anitquark pairs. Baryons
are triplets
of quarks. The term hyperon is still used, but not
so frequently.
Hyperons prevented the use of transporters in the
evacuation of a planet ceded to the Sheliak.
"The Ensigns of Command" [TNG]
Ionogenic particle
-
Artificially generated by crew. Ionogenic
particles can be used to contain certain forms of energy;
Has characteristic 'magnetic flux density'
In 2368 Geordi LaForge used Ionogenic particles in
an attempt to create a containment field. It was a trap for the
"souls" of alien criminals who possessed the bodies
of Enterprise-D crewmembers in an attempt at escape from the
moon they were imprisoned
on. "Power Play"
[TNG]
Kedion -
Naturally occurring. Resets positronic
matrices.
Kedions were used by Commander La Forge and Captain
Picard in 2370 to reboot Data's ethical program after Lore
disabled
it.
"Descent, part 2" [TNG]
Kinoplasmic
radiation -
Origin unknown. Lt. Barclay tells the holodoc that
his headaches are due to "kinoplasmic radiation
oxidizing your brain
cells."
"Projections" [VOY]
Lepton -
Naturally occurring. Leptons are a class
of particles that do not interact by the strong nuclear force.
They are electrically neutral or have unit
charge, and are fermions. Leptons appear not to have any
internal structure. The electron, the muon,
the tau, and three kinds of neutrino are all Leptons.
Although all leptons are relatively light, they
are not alike. The electron, for example, carries a negative
charge, and is stable, meaning it does not decay
into other elementary particles; the muon
also has a
negative charge, but has a mass about 200 times
greater than that of an electron and decays into
smaller particles. Leptons interact with
other particles through the weak force (the force that governs
radioactive decay), and through the
electromagnetic force, as well as the gravitational force.
Wormholes can emit Leptons prior to opening or
changing position.
lepton particle "activity" increased prior to the
wormhole reappearing and shifting its position.
Geordi's visor detected the
"activity". "The Price" [TNG]
Antilepton -
Artificially generated by aliens. Prevents
communications.
Gul Jassad's fleet flooded subspace with
antilepton interference.
"Emissary" [DS9]
Magneton
-
Artificially generated by crew. In real life, it
refers to a quanta of the magnetic dipole moment of a particle.
In short, it's a measurement (like inches or
liters), not a particle, though the name is used for one in Star Trek.
There, it refers to a specific particle which can
be used by sensor systems.
O'Brien picked up magnetons while in the Gamma
quadrant, which led to the discovery of a crashed Jem'Hadar ship.
"Hippocratic Oath" [DS9]
Kira picked up the magneton signature of the
Ravinok's damaged warp nacelle.
"Indiscretion" [DS9]
O'Brien planted a transponder in the magneton
relay of Retaya's ship.
"Improbable Cause" [DS9]
In 2372, Dax speculated that the renegade Jem'Hadar
were using a magneton pulse to cover their tracks; it caused
their
escape ship's ion trail to fade more rapidly than
normal.
"To the Death" [DS9]
In 2374, Kellin, a Ramuran tracer, says that
Chakotay came up with the idea of using a magneton sweep
to disrupt a
runaway's polarization cloak, thereby rendering the
escapee visible.
"Unforgettable" [VOY]
Voyager used a magneton scan to try to pick up any
sign of Janeway's presence on board and to scan for temporal-
phase shifting, chroniton
particles, and field flux.
"Coda" [VOY]
Torres suggests that Chell use a magneton scanner
to degauss the Transporter room rather than the micro-resonator
that he is using; the magneton scanner could
finish the job in five minutes.
"Learning Curve" [VOY]
When trying to locate a suspected alien presence
aboard the ship, Paris affirms that the magneton scanner is the
most
thorough scanning device that they have on
board. But it is decided that using this scanner will be
ineffective since the
alien is able to move from person to person.
As a result, Torres devised a magneton flash scan which
involved
reconfiguring every sensor on the ship to emit a
single burst at one moment.
"Cathexis" [VOY]
Meson -
Naturally occurring. Any of a class of
particles believed to participate in the forces that hold nucleons
together in the
atomic nucleus.
Like Leptons,
Mesons can be associated with wormhole activity. Geordi's visor
detected the Meson-particle "activity"
increasing prior to the Barzan wormhole reappearing
and shifting its position.
"The Price" [TNG]
Metaphasic particle
-
Particles, abundant all throughout the Briar
Patch. The rings of the Ba'ku homeworld concentrate
the metaphasic radiation in such a way that it takes
on a regenerative property. The natural aging
process is stopped, and healing effects are
felt. The crew of the Enterprise-E also experienced it.
It even regenerated Geordi's natural eyes, although
the effect didn't last once they left the planet.
The Son'a developed a procedure to collect the
metaphasic particles, but it involved injecting
something into the planet's rings that would cause a
thermolytic reaction. The process, if used,
would render the planet unlivable for
generations. The Son'a technology could not be duplicated
by Starfleet
scientists.
"Insurrection" [ST9]
Metreon -
Naturally occurring / can be Artificially generated
by aliens.
Vulcan scientists have used metreon particles to
make dark matter visible. Trip prepared some
"spatial charges" to spread metreon particles over a
wide area. They were successfully used to
illuminate a dark matter
nebula. "First
Flight" [ENT]
Metreon Radiation was present in an energy barrier
around a planet in the Rutharian sector. When
scanned by the Olympia, it triggered a surge which
disabled the ship's engines and caused it to crash
on the planet. The radiation also somehow caused
subspace signals to and from the planet to shift
three years in
time.
"The Sound of Her Voice" [DS9]
The Haakonians used a "Metreon Cascade", a weapon of
mass destruction, to end their war with
Talaxia by destroying Rynax. Rynax was a
Talaxian moon which contained a colony of 300,000 people
which were killed in the attack. The Cascade
resulted in enormous levels of metreon radiation on the
moon. Rynax is now surrounded by a Metreon
cloud which blocks out the sunlight to this world and
contains metreon isotopes. High levels of
exposure to the isotopes can infect a humanoid with the
disease known as Metremia, a fatal blood disease
that causes its victims' cells to undergo fission.
Many of the survivors of the Metreon Cascade died
later after contracting Metremia. In 2371 Dr Jetrel,
the creator of the Metreon Cascade, died of Metremia
which he contracted after working on the sites of
the Cascade
detonations.
"Jetrel" [VOY]
The NX-01 entered a nebula above a layer of metreon
gas in order to use it to reflect their engine
signature and create multiple sensor ghosts and
false readings.
"E2" [ENT]
Muon -
Naturally occurring. Short-lived and unstable
particle similar to an electron, but with a much greater
mass. Muons are part of the Lepton
family.
The Romulans hid a muon feedback wave inside sensor
return signal of the power transfer beam which
the Enterprise had set up to transfer power to their
ship. It didn't show up on any of the engine displays
on Enterprise and unless someone ran a level 3
diagnostic would never be noticed. This caused the
particles to build up in the Enterprise's dilithium
chamber. It would have caused their engines to
explode had they gone to
warp. "The Next Phase" [TNG]
Nadion -
Artificially generated by crew. Berman and
Okuda's TNG_Technical_Manual identifies "nadion"
particles as the output produced by phasers.
Particle pulse (rapid nadion pulse) is gauged by
Data and LaForge while verifying origin of Type III
phaser rifle, later determined to be Romulan in
origin, in Main Engineering.
"The Mind's Eye" [TNG]
In 2371 Captain Janeway used her phaser to close a a
"temporal rift" artificially generated by the
crew by creating nadion particle feedback
within it. (Torres identifies nadion particle resistance as
the reason why the fissure is closing.)
"Time and Again" [VOY]
Bashir suggested slowing down the progress of the
Founder's disease in Odo with a series of
nadion bursts.
"Extreme Measures" [DS9]
A silver-fluid lifeform on a Demon class planet that
the Starship had landed on attempted to
engulf Voyager. Janeway ordered Tuvok to use a
nadion burst from the phaser emitters to try
to weaken the electromagnetic properties of the
fluid and force it to halt its attack on the ship.
"Demon" [VOY]
Neutrino
-
Naturally occurring / Artificially generated by
crew. Predicted in the 1930's by the physicist
Enrico Fermi, and found in 1956. They are a
real particle with no charge, and until recently thought
to have no mass. Neutrinos are known for their
ability to pass through large amounts of matter.
Stars produce hundreds of billions of neutrinos per
second. Geordi used Neutrinos as a distress
beacon.
"The Enemy" [TNG]
Wesley has to calibrate a sensing device that uses
them. He ignores the device, to flirt with the
crewmember that is helping him, at which point she
says, "Your neutrinos are drifting."
"The Game" [TNG]
In 2365 the Enterprise was able to use a neutrino
beam to destroy a colony of bacteria which were
eating its hull. They were also used to
destroy the same bacteria endangering the Klingon ship with
Riker in its
crew.
"A Matter of Honor" [TNG]
Neutrinos are associated with the opening and
closing of the Bajoran wormhole. "Increased
neutrino emissions" were always seen shortly before
something comes through the wormhole.
All episodes [DS9]
In 2370 Jadzia Dax found that the laws of
probability on Deep Space Nine were being distorted,
affecting the spin of the neutrinos in the
station. The owner of the bar/casino competing with Quark's
had machines to create good or bad luck. Dax traced
all the bad luck happening everywhere on the
station by noticing that the ratio between the two
types of neutrino spins was not 1:1. The other
casino/bar had 98% of all its neutrinos going in one
spin, since it had the objects which were changing
the laws of
probability.
"Rivals" [DS9]
The Starfleet handheld sensor units (ca.2151) can
detect neutrino emissions. The Neutrino emissions
are taken as evidence that there could be an
antimatter reactor nearby.
"Civilization" [ENT]
Dreadnought is able to deflect its image to another
location with a sensor echo, Torres tells Kim to
look for a surge in neutrino emissions within
100,000 kilometers to find its true location.
"Dreadnought" [VOY]
The Romulans use neutrino inverters in
explosive devices; one was in the device that detonated Retaya's
ship when it went into warp. It caused
interference noted in the telemetry of the transponder planted
aboard the
ship.
"Improbable Cause" [DS9]
Antineutrino -
Naturally occurring. In real life, the
antineutrino is the antimatter equivalent of the neutrino, and
can be found as the byproduct of beta decay.
These can be highly harmful to Federation warp cores
- in 2371 after B'Elanna installed a Sikkarian
space "folding" mechanism, the device generated
antineutrino particles as a part of the process of
its normal operation. These particles proved harmful
to the Federation warp core and almost caused
a core breach. Fortunately B'Elanna thought quickly
and phasered the device out of existence before
any serious harm was
done.
"Prime Factors" [VOY]
Neutron -
Naturally occurring. Neutrons are neutral particles
which, along with protons, are constituents of
atomic nuclei. They have a mass of approximately 1
a.u., and zero charge. Neutrons not contained
within a nucleus are unstable, decaying with a half
life of approximately 13 minutes. Isotopes differ
from the standard form of an element by having more
or less neutrons in their nucleus, altering the
mass of the atom but leaving its chemical properties
unchanged. In the late 2200's the Klingons
produced a prototype Bird of Prey which could fire
whilst cloaked; but the vessel gave off a surge of
neutron radiation just before it fired a photon
torpedo, but this was insufficient to render the vessel
detectable at anything other than extreme close
range.
"The Undiscovered Country" [ST6]
Protostar neutron burst - SEE: Agosoria,
Great Plume of.
"Cold Front" [ENT]
Antineutron -
A real particle; the antimatter version of a
neutron. Antineutrons have the same mass, spin, and rate
of decay as the normal particle. They are sometimes
produced in the collisions of antiprotons with
protons, and they possess a magnetic moment equal
and opposite to that of the neutron.
Certain configurations of gravity fields allow
antineutrons to pass through whilst stopping
antigravitons -- During the retraining of his mind,
the computer prompts Spock to "adjust the sine
wave in the gravity envelope so that antineutrons
may pass but antigravitons cannot"
"Voyage Home" [ST4]
Nucleogenic
particles -
Naturally occurring. These are not actually
subatomic particles but refer to dust or other particles
in an atmosphere which attract water vapor, causing
rain or other precipitation to form.
The Ocampa homeworld's atmosphere didn't have any,
which accounted for its desolate condition.
"Caretaker" [VOY]
Nucleonic particles
-
Naturally occuring / artificially generated by crew.
They could refer to atomic nuclei. (Nucleons are
the constituent particles of atomic nuclei -
protons, or neutrons).
Communications technology -
Nucleonic particles are associated with certain
forms of communications technology. In 2368 a
Kataran probe used a nucleonic beam to penetrate the
shields of the Enterprise-D, implanting
artificial memories within Captain Picard.
"Inner Light" [TNG]
Navigational Hazard -
When Enterprise entered a polaric
field its intakes became flooded with nucleonic particles. This
caused injector flares and a primary injector
failure. It could have triggered a system-wide overload,
but as it was it damaged the ship extensively which
required weeks to repair.
"Similitude" [ENT]
In 2371 Voyager detected damage to a Kazon vessel
due to nucleonic particle fluctuations. The vessel
was eventually discovered to have been
catastrophically damaged when a makeshift copy of one of
Voyager's food replicators made from stolen
Federation technology exploded.
"State of Flux " [VOY]
Alien life form -
Nucleonic particles were used to make a suture to
seal up the punctured nebula creature.
"The Cloud" [VOY]
Omega particle
-
Artificially generated. Not the same as the
real life omega particle, which is a hyperon.
Omega is the
last letter of the Greek alphabet. It is the symbol of the most
powerful substance known
to
either the Federation or the Borg. Federation cosmologists had a
theory
that Omega once existed in nature for an
infinitesimal amount of time
at the exact moment of the Big Bang; some of them
claimed that
Omega was the primal source of energy for the
explosion that began
the universe. Omega is a very unstable,
macromolecular substance.
A single molecule contains the energy of an entire
warp core. In
theory, a small chain of Omega molecules could feed
energy to an
entire civilization. Both the Federation and
Borg were intrigued by this fact and tried to use it
as power source. Omega was first synthesized
in the 2270's (over a 100 years ago) by a Starfleet
physicist named Ketteract; Ketteract managed to
synthesize a single molecule particle of Omega
but it only existed for a fraction of a second
before it destabilized and destroyed the research station,
killing 127 leading scientists, and causing subspace
ruptures extending out several light years; an
unexpected secondary effect of Omega is that it
destroys subspace making it impossible to create
a stable warp field. For this reason warp
travel is now impossible in the Lantaru sector (a sector
is approx. 20 lightyears), (in theory, the chain
reaction of involving a handful of Omega molecules
could destroy subspace in an entire quadrant). These
facts caused the Federation to create the
'Omega Directive' which mandates that starship
captains must destroy Omega immediately when
they encounter it. Janeway says that Omega is
a threat to the entire galaxy and that only starship
captains and federation flag officers have been
briefed on this threat; the Borg discovered Omega
229 years ago after assimilating 13 different
species; It began with Species 262, they were primitive
but their oral history referred to Omega as a
powerful substance which could burn the sky; The Borg
were intrigued which led them to Species 263 who
believed that Omega was a drop of blood from
their creator. They followed this trail for
many years before assimilating a species with useful
scientific data. The Borg synthesized a single
Omega molecule, but it became unstable after one
trillionth of a nanosecond
(0.000000000000000000000000001 seconds), destroying 29 Borg
vessels
and killing 600,000 drones. The Borg stopped
the experiments because there wasn't enough boronite
ore left to synthesize another molecule.
However, Omega still symbolizes perfection to the Borg
(Seven says that Omega is infinitely complex, yet
harmonious; Janeway called it 'The holy grail of
the Borg'); Particle 010 is the Borg
designation for Omega; every drone is aware of Omega and has
been instructed to assimilate it at all costs.
Voyager's sensors detected the Omega phenomenon
within 1.2 light years; the instructions in the
secured file ordered Janeway to implement the Omega
Directive; Seven determined that there may have been
hundreds of Omega particles within 10 light
years of Voyager; The planetary experiment they
found there in the Delta Quadrant destroyed
300,000 square kilometers (450,000 sq. miles), but
the Omega molecules remained stable, which
was a breakthrough in Omega-physics. The aliens used
a harmonic field of 1.67 terahertz (equivalent
to Omega's atomic resonance), which forced the Omega
molecules to remain stable. The aliens
stabilized 200 million Omega molecules - in theory,
enough to destroy subspace in the entire galaxy;
the Omega molecules were transported to the Cargo
Bay; Seven neutralized some of the molecules;
Omega began to stabilize right before Voyager
jettisoned the harmonic chamber; the remaining Omega
molecules were destroyed by a specially modified
high-yield gravimetric torpedo.
"The Omega Directive" [VOY]
Harmonic resonance chamber -
Containment device designed by the Borg to hold and stabilize an
Omega molecule. In 2374, on stardate 51781,
Seven of Nine constructed a harmonic resonance chamber
to contain the Omega molecules created in the Delta
Quadrant by Dr. Allos. She modified the chamber
to emit an inverse frequency that will dissolve
Omega's interatomic bonds; Janeway tells Seven to
increase the harmonic resonance of the chamber so
that the molecules will be neutralized more quickly;
Chakotay decompresses the Cargo Bay so that the
harmonic chamber is jettisoned into space.
"The Omega Directive" [VOY]
Omicron particles
-
Naturally occurring / Artificially generated by
aliens.
Omicron particles are associated with some forms of
holographic technology. Emitted by holographic
generator. The projections/people were "made
of" them.
"Shadow Play" [DS9]
A possible alternative power source for Federation
starships, omicron particles were detected in 2371
within a nebula by the crew of Voyager. The
particles turned out to be part of the circulatory system
of the nebula, which was a living being.
"The Cloud" [VOY]
Chakotay was conducting a survey mission to a planet
with a high concentration of omicron particles
in the atmosphere when his shuttle came under
attack.
"Nemesis" [VOY]
Dr. Phlox discovered that the intramolecular
processors of Borg nanoprobes are vulnerable to
omicron
radiation.
"Regeneration" [ENT]
Photon -
A quantum of electromagnetic radiation. The wave and
particle behaviour displayed by photons led to
the development of quantum theory on Earth.
They are the particles that carry electromagnetic energy.
Forms of electromagnetic energy are arranged in a
spectrum - from low energy to high energy, they are:
ELF radiation (Extreme Low Frequency)........
Radiowaves....................................................
Microwaves....................................................
Infrared-radiation............................................
Visible
light.....................................................
Ultraviolet
radiation.........................................
X-rays............................................................
and Gamma
radiation......................................
Often when people speak of photons, they are only
talking about the visible light range, but in actuality
it can refer to any part of the whole
electromagnetic spectrum.
Voyager sets off 3 photon bursts so that it will
look like 3 new stars have appeared in the Eastern
sky of
Takar.
"False Profits" [VOY]
Weapons -
Photon grenade - If the temporal core of the time-ship is
offline, the ship's shields are incredibly weak
and a photon-grenade could penetrate the hull.
"Year of Hell, part 2" [VOY]
The protesters that storm the Museum of Kyrian
Heritage are using photon grenades.
"Living Witness" [VOY]
Photon torpedoes -
Photonic energy
-
This appears to be a bound form of light that exists
in a self-sustaining matrix, and so, can usually
be controlled. Photonic energy finds uses in
holo-matrices, weapons, and other tech, and even some
life-forms are composed of it.
Weapons -
Seven is able to modify an explosive device to emit
a photonic burst; this burst will be harmless to
organic tissue but should disrupt all holo-activity
within 20 meters.
"The Killing Game, part 2" [VOY]
Renegade Jem'hadar steal a Photonic amplifier.
"To the Death" [DS9]
Voyager's EMH daydreams about inventing a photonic
cannon which can destroy a borg sphere; When Hierarchy
assault ships threaten Voyager the EMH claims it is
impervious to sensors so they can not scan for it.
"Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" [VOY]
Photonic energy beings attack from subspace using photonic
charges.
"Bride of Chaotica!" [VOY]
Paris tests a Photonic pulse weapon for
possible use in defending against the Hirogen. Later, Kovin
used a photon pulse to cause Voyager's sensors to go
offline.
"Retrospect" [VOY]
Lifeforms -
Holograms are sometimes considered to be photonic
lifeforms, particularly if they are proved to be
sentient. Minute quantities of photonic energy
escaped from the containment field when it was
beamed aboard Voyager. This energy finds its
way into the holodeck and other ship's systems.
Voyager discovers that this energy was really a
lifeform. The photonic energy life forms are trying
to return to the photonic lattice near the protostar
they were beamed away from.
"Heroes and Demons" [VOY]
Polaric
ion / Polaron -
Artificially generated.
Polarons exist in the real world - In condensed
matter physics, a polaron is a type of mobile crystal defect
consisting of an electron coupled to an induced
lattice polarization. However, in Star Trek, it would appear
that Polaron is short for Polaric Ion -
completely different from the real world polaron. It would appear
that
the term 'Polaric ion' is used more often
in the context of high-density (or high-energy) polarons even though the
two terms seem interchangeable. Even if
they are not the same particle there is clearly some relationship
between the two (In "Favorite Son" [VOY] the
presence of a polaron grid is said to increase polaric density).
A Navigation Hazard -
When Enterprise entered "some kind of polaric field"
(of unknown composition, 11,000km wide) its
intake manifolds were flooded with nucleonic
particles causing injector flares and a primary injector
failure. It could have resulted in a
system-wide overload. As it was, it severely damaged the ship
such
that it could take weeks to
repair. "Similitude" [ENT]
Used as a Power generation system -
Used as a very unstable power generation system - so
unstable in fact that a Polaric Test Ban Treaty was signed with
the Romulans to prohibit experiments with polaric
ions. The treaty was established after a Romulan research colony
was nearly destroyed on Chaltok 4 during the testing
of a polaric ion device.
Voyager discovered a planet that was powered by this
type of energy; the planet seemed to have been destroyed by
a massive polaric detonation, which killed all life
and vegetation on the planet's surface. The chain reaction in
subspace
that destroyed the planet was very likely ignited by
the detonation of one or more polaric ion devices. When Janeway
and Paris become trapped in one of the many subspace
fractures on the planet the Voyager crew tries to use a polaric
generator to rescue them; the generator used
polaric energy to open the fractures but it burns itself out after 30
seconds.
"Time and Again" [VOY]
Paris uses a spare polaric modulator from
Voyager's impulse drive to act as a carburetor on Steth's ship.
"Vis A Vis" [VOY]
Used for Scanning and to Detect camouflaged
vessels -
Kim had been running a polaron scan with a scanning
beam sweeping a radius of a quarter million kilometers when
he first intersected the time stream. When the
time stream was scanned with polarons, it partially caused a distortion
of the space-time
continuum.
"Non Sequitur" [VOY]
Tuvok uses a polaron burst in order to get visual
contact with the ship that Paris suspects is in low orbit around the
planet; the polaron burst reveals that the
ship is Kazon.
"State of Flux" [VOY]
The Borg use polaron beams for scanning. The
Swarm also use polaron beams, they use them to set the shielding of
a ship at a rotating modulation, which makes the
ship easier to detect. One of the Swarm that was attached to
Chardis'
ship, hit Voyager with some kind of polaron burst
which changed Voyager's shield polarity so that they could be
detected by the rest of the
Swarm. "The Swarm" [VOY]
Seska sent out polaron pulses so that they could
locate Chakotay's shuttle.
"Maneuvers" [VOY]
Used to Hide vessels -
Kira used a polaron field to mask the engine
emissions of the runabout she took from DS9.
"The Darkness and the Light" [DS9]
Communication -
The Swarm use polaron beams as some kind of lattice,
connecting each of their ships with one another.
"The Swarm" [VOY]
Seven and Tuvok emit a polaron pulse from the
shuttle in order to prevent further degradation of the signal from the
relay
station.
"Hunters" [VOY]
Associated with Translocation device -
Torres detected a buildup of polaron particles a few
seconds before a member of the crew disappeared. The
particles were caused by the Nyrian translocation
device.
"Displaced" [VOY]
Used as a Weapon -
Polaron radiation is fatal to anyone exposed more
than once. Starfleet Science believed that it would destabilize
Changeling physiology, causing them to revert to
their gelatinous state.
"Apocalypse Rising" [DS9]
Four 'modified' polaron emitters were
supplied to Capt. Sisko and his strike force for use while infiltrating
Klingon
Military Headquarters at T'Gykor to expose the
Dominion changeling believed to be masquerading as a senior official
in the Klingon government (i.e., Chancellor Gowron).
When activated in concert, the emitters would cover
13000 cubic meters and would force a changeling to
revert to a gelatinous state. A changeling impersonating General
Martok was later discovered to be the actual
Dominion operative.
"Armageddon Game" [DS9]
In the sport known as Tsunkatse, polaron disruptors
are used which deliver a bio-plasmic charge when they come in
contact with one's opponent's target sensors.
"Tsunkatse" [VOY]
Voyager detects a high-density polaron grid
surrounding the planet Taresia when they return from their negotiations
with the Nasari; a network of satellites has been
activated in order to maintain the grid; the polaric density is
too high
for Voyager to get
through.
"Favorite Son" [VOY]
Voyager sends out a high energy polaron pulse
to disable Braxton's subatomic disrupter weapon; the pulse knocked
his navigational system off
course. "Future's End, part 1" [VOY]
Phased Polaron -
A phased polaron beam was used by the Jem'Hadar to
penetrate the shields of the USS Odyssey.
"The Jem'Hadar" [DS9]
Positron
-
Naturally occurring. Positrons are the
real antimatter version of an electron, one of the particles which make
up atoms. They are subatomic particles
virtually identical to normal electrons, but with opposite
electromagnetic properties. An electron has
a negative charge, and positron has a positive charge.
Positrons were the first known particles of
actual antimatter to be observed in the laboratory.
When normal scans prove ineffective against the
alien probe, Geordi tells Barclay to "try a positron scan."
"The Nth Degree" [TNG]
Ensign Tuvok proposes that if they modify a positron
beam to a subspace frequency, so that it will trigger a
thermochemical reaction in the sirillium.
"Flashback" [VOY]
Positronic Technology -
It is unknown whether the term "positronic" actually
means that the circuitry really contains or
uses positrons in a unique way. The term
was originally used in the context of a robot's brain by
the 20th century science fiction writer, Isaac
Asimov, who (according to his essay, "Cybernetic
Organism") used it because the then newly-discovered
positron was similar to an electron, but
"positronic" sounded more exotic than "electronic."
The away team mentions that Dr. Soong wanted to make
Asimov's dream of a positronic brain
a reality. Lore later confirms that this is
the nature of his brain and Data's.
"Datalore" [TNG]
A significant advance in submicron matrix transfer
technology was introduced at a cybernetics conference in 2366,
permitting Data to program a new positronic brain,
which he used as the basis for his construction of his daughter,
Lal.
"The Offspring" [TNG]
The technology is not yet widespread, but positronic
systems can be used to keep the brain of an injured person
functioning. Bashir was forced to replace the
left half of Bareil's brain with a positronic implant; when the other
half
as well proved irreversibly damaged, Bashir refused
to replace it too.
"Life Support" [DS9]
Protomatter
-
Origin unknown. An unstable form of matter used by
David Marcus as a short cut in the construction of the Genesis
Device. Because of the instability of
protomatter, the Genesis Planet began to age geologically at an
accelerated rate.
The resurrected Spock-child also began to age very
rapidly, allowing Spock to regain his katra at about the same
age as he was when he
"died".
"The Wrath of Khan" [ST2]; "The Search for Spock" [ST3]
Protomatter was a substance Seyetik used in the
probe from USS Lexington to reignite the dead star, Epsilon 119.
"Second Sight" [DS9]
Protomatter is used in a high-yield implosive
device which leaves little trace evidence. It was used to destroy
the
Bok'Nor.
"Maquis, part 1" [DS9]
A bomb containing trilithium, tekasite, and
protomatter was intended to be used by the Bashir Changeling to destroy
the Bajoran
sun.
"By Inferno's Light" [DS9]
Voyager detected a class 1 nebula with traces of
proto-matter inside. Neelix says that it is one of best energy
sources
in the Quadrant and one of the most sought after
commodities. As he has the experience Chakotay invites him along
on an away mission in a shuttle to collect a sample
of proto-matter. The proto-matter sample that they collect
destabilizes before they get it back to
Voyager. Torres finds a small phase variance in the transporter
log that is
responsible for igniting the proto-matter; she
remodulates the transporter beam in order to compensate for this
variance.
"Mortal Coil" [VOY]
Proton -
Naturally occurring. Baryon
with a virtually infinite life span. Along with neutrons,
protons make up the nuclei
of atoms, and are present in all atomic nuclei.
Used to Control Antimatter Leak -
Torres wants to infuse the warp core with repeated
proton bursts in order to stop the leak of antimatter -- Voyager is
being rocked by proton bursts but they don't know
where they are coming from since Torres never even started the
procedure; the bursts seem to be originating from
with in the ship; the bursts are weakening the structural integrity of
the hull; Janeway of the duplicate Voyager stops the
proton bursts when she learns that they are damaging Voyager.
"Deadlock" [VOY]
A Danger to the Ship -
When Q(uinn) is trying to hide from Q, he reduces
Voyager down to subatomic size and sent the ship back in time,
not long after the Big Bang, where it is attacked by
protons. Capt. Janeway suggested emitting negative ions to help
repel the protons. Since opposite charges
attract, this would appear to have been the wrong course of action.
She should have had them emit positive ions to
repel the protons.
"Death Wish" [VOY]
Kim says that he has detected random proton bursts
from the binary pulsars and that a strong burst could knock out
one of Voyager's shields; Voyager circles the
pulsars at a distance of 90 million kilometers in order to avoid the
bursts.
"Scientific Method" [VOY]
Use as a Weapon -
One of the things that the Kazon Ogla use on Tarok
in their training exercises is a Proton beam.
"Initiations" [VOY]
Kellin works with Seven and Kim to develop a defense
against the Ramuran's proton weapons; Kim says that the
proton-based particle beam is very tightly focused
and is like being hit with thousands of needles; it can penetrate
any shield even if the modulations are changed;
Kellin says that the trick is to scatter the beams a little to make it
harder to penetrate the
shields.
"Unforgettable" [VOY]
Antiproton -
Naturally occurring /Artificially generated; In
real life, it is the antimatter version of a proton.
The Enterprise-D tracked the Crystalline entity by
detecting gamma radiation from antiproton decay. Its not
really
likely that they were using antiproton decay to
track the entity, since antiprotons, if they decay at all, have an
extremely long half-life. Perhaps they
meant to say they were tracking the gamma radiation from when the
antiprotons annihilated normal matter.
"Silicon Avatar" [TNG]
Used in scanning systems - .
Antiprotons are used by Jem'Hadar to detect the
cloaked Defiant.
"The Search, part 1" [DS9]
And again by the Cardassians to detect the cloaked
Defiant. It would seem to be standard practice for the Dominion
to use antiproton beams to penetrate cloaking
devices.
"Defiant" [DS9]
The navigational deflector of the Enterprise-E
normally stores a large number of antiprotons.
"First Contact" [ST8]
Used in a Weapon -
In 2267 the Enterprise fought an alien war machine
which fired a beam of absolutely pure antiprotons capable of
cutting through an entire planet. Comm. Decker
called the Doomsday Machine's weapon an antiproton beam -
"absolutely
pure!"
"The Doomsday Machine" [TOS]
Enterprise D used it to determine who destroyed the
smuggler's ship and detected antiprotons as a residual trace of
Romulan disruptor fire in
2369. "Face of
the Enemy" [TNG]
Medical Uses -
Voyager's EMH used antiprotons to slow down the
mutation of Lt. Paris' DNA and to cure Paris of the genetic
mutations which occurred after his Warp 10 flight.
"Threshold" [VOY]
Pyritic -
The cover story that Dr. Fer'at used to examine
Archer was that the Vulcan research team had detected
traces of pyritic radiation in the Xindi
probe-weapon debris. Supposedly Starfleet didn't catch it because
Vulcan technology was more advanced than
theirs. Anyone who got close to the wreckage needed to
be treated, and Dr. Fer'at was there to determine
the extent of their exposure. The examination shouldn't
have taken long. Some of the symptoms he
mentioned were nausea, dizziness, and numbness in the
extremities.
"The Expanse" [ENT]
Radiogenic
-
Voyager encounters a T class gas giant. One of
its orbital rings is radiogenic. They collected radiogenic
particles from the ring to use in reinitializing the
Delta flyer's warp core. A phaser volley was enough
to set off a chain reaction in the radiogenic
particles allowing the flyer to escape.
"Good Shepard" [VOY]
Tachyon -
Naturally occurring / Artificially generated by
crew. (Postulated by some real physics theories.)
Refers to a class of particles which travel at
greater than the speed of light (FTL).
Used to detect cloaked ships (in particular, to
penetrate Romulan cloaks) -
Geordi LaForge devised a technique using a network
of active tachyon beams to detect cloaked Romulan ships passing
through the net. It is called a Tachyon
detection grid. The grid required about 20 starships in order
to be tactically
effective, and was successfully used in 2368 to
detect a convoy of Romulan ships passing through the Neutral Zone
on a covert mission to supply the Duras family
forces in the Klingon civil war.
"Redemption, part 2" [TNG]
When told by a disguised Troi to cross the Neutral
Zone, Commander Toreth opposed her by speculating that the
Federation may have set up a tachyon net to detect
Romulan ships crossing the neutral zone.
"Face of the Enemy" [TNG]
When set up at a location in space, a tachyon net
gives warning of the approach of cloaked ships.
"Apocalypse Rising" [DS9]
Tachyon scanners are used by the Dominion to
detect cloaked ships.
"Once More Unto the Breach" [DS9]
When Tuvok becomes confused about what time period
he is in, he suggests that Voyager conduct a tachyon sweep
of the nebula since this would reveal the presence
of cloaked Klingon ships.
"Flashback" [VOY]
The sensor net uses a series of interlaced tachyon
beams; Voyager is able to adjust their shields to refract the beams
around the ship so that they can get past the net
without disrupting it. The shuttle wasn't able to detect the
alien ship
since they had crossed into a tachyon field.
"The Swarm" [VOY]
Used as a Weapon -
Torres says that if they can provoke Dreadnought to
fire its thoron
shock emitter at full power, it may destabilize its
reactor core for 30 seconds and a single sustained
tachyon beam might penetrate the core and destroy it.
"Dreadnought" [VOY]
Chakotay and Janeway use a tachyon burst to try to
disperse the temporal field; this seems to succeed when the
Vidiian ships
disappear.
"Coda" [VOY]
FTL travel -
A tachyon eddy in the Denorios Belt damaged Sisko's
lightsail ship, the Baraka, knocking it off course and propelling
it into warp. It ended up in the Cardassian
system. These naturally occurring tachyon eddies are believed to
have
assisted ancient Bajoran lightsail vessels in
crossing interstellar distances, and are presumably how the ancient
Bajorans
had gotten as far as Cardassia 800 years ago.
"Explorers" [DS9]
Used in Transwarp -
Seven set up the parameters for the tachyon burst
that they'll need to create a transwarp conduit.
"Day of Honor" [VOY]
Indication of Temporal anomalies or Time travel
-
Paris detects tachyon emissions coming from a truck
leaving Chronowerx and believes that Starling is moving the
timeship; they discover that a temporal transponder
was set to give off the tachyon emissions and that the timeship
is not really in the
truck.
"Future's End, Part 2" [VOY]
To Archer, Silik claims he's detected "tachyon
radiation", and because the NX-01 has no systems that emit it, he
knows another temporal agent must be present.
"Cold Front" [ENT]
After noticing a temporal signature from the Borg
sphere, high concentrations of tachyons as well as
chronometric
particles indicated that they were trying to create a temporal
vortex to travel backward
in
time.
"First Contact" [ST8]
Used to scan space-time anomalies -
Carey sends out a tachyon signal to try to scan the
quantum singularity, but all he gets back is static.
"Parallax" [VOY]
Inverse Tachyon -
An "inverse tachyon beam" was used to probe a
space-time anomaly, and ultimately resulted in its creation.
Inverse tachyon beams can have a harmful effect on
the space time continuum.
"All Good Things" [TNG]
Beta Tachyon
(used to enter Q continuum) -
Miss Q tells Torres to remodulate the shields to
emit a beta tachyon pulse.
"The Q and the Grey" [VOY]
Terracon
-
Artificially generated. Nature unknown.
Terracon particles are used by archaeologists, as their decay
profiles can allow the authenticity of ancient
artifacts to be determined.
Whilst searching through the stolen artifacts,
Captain Picard used the decay profile of terracon particles
in the pieces to search for the Stone of Gol.
"Gambit" [TNG]
Teryon (alt. spelling:
Terrion) -
Artificially generated.
Particle used in some weapon systems. Captain
Jean-Luc Picard was badly wounded by a compressed
Teryon beam in 2369, almost killing him.
"Tapestry" [TNG]
Tetryon (alt.
spelling: Tetrion) -
Artificially generated. They appear to be the
main mediating particles of subspace interactions with
normal space. They can exist only in subspace,
and become unstable in normal space.
Connection to Subspace -
In 2369 Tetryons were discovered on board the
Enterprise-D, helping to prove that an alien race living within a
subspace domain was abducting members of the crew.
"Schisms" [TNG]
Used in Cloaking devices -
Sisko told the Romulan delegation that they had
traced the tetryon emissions from an orbiting Warbird poised to attack
the
station.
"Visionary" [DS9]
High concentrations of them heralded the approach of
the cloaked Romulan/Cardassian fleet to the wormhole.
"The Die is Cast" [DS9]
A tetryon compositor is a component of the
Defiant's cloaking device, sabotaged by Eddington on
Admiral Toddman's
orders.
"The Die is Cast" [DS9]
Medical -
As far as Bashir could tell, the baby Changeling had
been subjected to a massive amount of tetryon radiation.
"The Begotten" [DS9]
Tetryon reactor -
(nacene): caretaker's array: (powers) - epsilon
radiation: (produces)
"The Voyager Conspiracy" [VOY]
Used in/against Propulsion systems -
The runabout Yellowstone that Kim and Lasca are
working on has tetryon plasma warp nacelles; tetryon
plasma tends
to disrupt subspace; Kim and Paris vent the tetryon
plasma from the Yellowstone in order stall the engines of the starship
chasing
them.
"Non Sequitor" [VOY]
Used in/against Weapon systems -
Jo'Brill had been exposed to a tetryon field just
before his "death" in the metaphasic shielded shuttle.
"Suspicions" [TNG]
Klingon disruptor banks were modulated to emit
tetryon particles and deactivate the Albino's phasers.
"Blood Oath" [DS9]
When tetryon based weapons are fired at an
anti-matter pocket, it produces an electrolytic reaction.
"Bliss" [VOY]
Kim detects a tetryon surge coming from the Nasari
ships and fires on the ship since he believes that the ship is about
to attack Voyager; Janeway sees that Kim's instincts
were right since the tetryon surge matches the energy signature
of the beam that the Nasari ship shot at Voyager.
"Favorite Son" [VOY]
Coherent Tetryon -
Coherent Tetryon beams were used by the Caretaker to
scan over galactic distances. He used one to
scan Voyager before taking it to the Delta quadrant.
"Caretaker" [VOY]
Thermionic
radiation - The planet where Seven finds the deuteerium has
a toxic atmosphere filled
with
thermionic-radiation.
"Demon" [VOY]
Theta (band) radiation
-
Theta band emissions are subspace carrier waves
often associated with background subspace radiation. In 2369,
Starfleet Intelligence was led to believe that the
Cardassians were utilizing theta-band emissions as a delivery system
for a powerful mutagenic weapon. Captain
Picard, who had conducted extensive tests on theta-band emissions
while in command of Stargazer, was the only active
Starfleet officer familiar with those systems.
"Chain of Command, part 1" [TNG]
Thoron -
Naturally occurring. In real life, thorons
are another name for (radioactive) radon-220 atoms, released
by the radioactive decay of thorium.
Elevated thoron emissions accompanied the appearance
of aliens in the Denorios Belt. Dax guessed
that this might indicate the presence of a subspace
rupture.
"If Wishes Were Horses" [DS9]
Chakotay says that the thoron radiation levels of
the shrine are off the scale.
"Sacred Ground" [VOY]
Blocks Sensor Scans -
A thoron field was used by the crew of DS9 as a
shield against Cardassian sensors scans to hide the
true strength of the
station.
"The Emissary" [DS9]
Suder used the Doctor's portable thoron generator to
neutralize the Kazon tricorder's sensors so they
will be unable to detect his presence on
board. It shows up as a thoron particle leak. The Doctor
told
Seska that his thoron-generator was damaged on a
recent away mission and left behind. Seska says that
using a thoron generator to block sensor scans is an
old Maquis trick.
"Basics, Part 2" [VOY]
Medical Uses -
The Doctor uses a portable thoron generator
to treat radiation burns.
"Basics, Part 2" [VOY]
The Doctor tries to break the mind meld by exposing
Tuvok to thoron radiation; the radiation causes
a hidden viral parasite to manifest itself; he
increases the radiation level and is able to destroy the parasite.
"Flashback" [VOY]
Thoron-based weapons -
According to Kovin most hand-held weapons, including
the particle-beam rifle, are thoron based;
Seven says that thorons can be unstable in a weapon.
"Retrospect" [VOY]
(Ilari) Demmas says that if he could get anywhere
near Tiernan, he would use a thoron rifle rather than
the synaptic-stimulator to be absolutely sure that
Tiernan would be dead.
"Warlord" [VOY]
Dreadnought attacks Torres with a thoron shock
emitter (likely to be a Cardassian weapon since
Dreadnought is originally of Cardassian
manufacture).
"Dreadnought" [VOY]
Vertion (alt.
spelling: Verdion) -
Naturally occurring. Generated in the cores or
surfaces of White Dwarfs. (In real life there's no such thing as
a
"white dwarf".)
Made Living Organisms. Was needed for the
Enterprise to 'grow'.
"Emergence" [TNG]
They used a wash of Vertion particles to hide
the Pegasus from a Romulan ship.
"The Pegasus" [TNG]
Verteron
-
Artificially generated. (not the same as 'vertion')
Verterons are highly damaging to subspace equipment;
in 2369 several ships including the Enterprise-D
were disabled by a Verteron pulse from a generator
disguised as a buoy. The pulses were deliberately
caused by a pair of scientists anxious to prove that
warp drive was damaging the fabric of space-time.
"Force of Nature" [TNG]
The presence of Verterons threatened to destroy the
proto-universe.
"Playing God" [DS9]
Keiko explained to her class that the Bajoran
wormhole is made out of Verterons before Vedek Winn
came in to complain about the absence of
"creationist" theory in the classroom.
"In The Hands of the Prophets" [DS9]
Captain Janeway pointed out that because there were
"...verteron emanations, and tunneling secondary
particles. That the phenomenon they were
studying "certainly looks like a wormhole..."
"Eye of the Needle" [VOY]
There was a verteron array on Mars used to deflect
comets and asteroids.
"Demons" [ENT]
Warp particle
-
Artificially generated by crew. Any of several
particles emitted by an active warp drive. Warp particles
can leave a detectable and unique signature behind,
even enabling specific vessels to be identified.
They were used to find evidence of Voyager's path in
the singularity.
"Parallax" [VOY]
Z particle -
Artificially generated; also a real type of
particle. Z particles are one of the carriers of the weak
nuclear force. Today's understanding puts
particles into two basic categories, matter and exchange-
particles. Exchange particles are thrown kind of
like frisbees between matter particles as the generators
of the forces. Photons mediate the
electromagnetic force, gluons mediate the strong force, the graviton
is proposed (not observed) to mediate the
gravitational force. The weak force is mediated by the
W+, W-, and Z particles.
Z-particles are emitted by vessels, especially those
using relatively poor versions of cloaking technology.
A scientist on the Ventax II space station detected
Z-particle emissions which were then used to
determine the location of Ardra's vessel in orbit
around Ventax III by the crew of the Enterprise-D.
"Devil's Due" [TNG]
Z particles can mess up sensor and/or visual
records. LaForge initiated a scan for "Z-Particle emissions"
on the video recording of the Tarchannen III
mission.
"Identity Crisis" [TNG]
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