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DESCRIPTION | REFERANCE |
| Acetin | Naturally occuring. Causes duonetic fields, resulting in equipment failures. | DS9: Paradise - Acetin deposits in the swamp beds near Alixus' community prevented equipment from operating. |
| Acetylcholine | Naturally occuring. In real life, a neurotransmitter produced by the brain. | DS9: Melora - Bashir used
a medication designed to increase acetylcholine absorption to increase
Melora's tensile muscular strength, thus enabling her to walk.
Voyager: The Chute - Increased amounts of acetylcholine in Kim's nervous system caused him (and others in the prison camp) to exhibit erratic behaviour. |
| Acid Dichloride | Artificially generated by crew. Gaseous chemical. Toxic to humans, essential to advanced humans. In real life, acid dichloride is impossible as chlorine and hydrogen combine in a 1:1 ratio, and chemicals tend to separate into the lowest possible number of atoms. Acid "di"chloride would be H2Cl2, and this would break down into HCl: hydrochloric acid or (when a gas) hydrogen chloride. | Voyager: Threshold - The Doctor determines that the evolved Tom Paris requires acid dichloride gas to breathe. |
| Actinides | Naturally occuring. Radioactive compounds generally found in uranium ore. Actinides are known to interfere with Federation sensors. | TNG: The Mind's Eye - The crew of the Enterprise encountered these in the Ilkalian asteroid belt. The actinides made it difficult to locate the Kriosian rebels. |
| Amniotic Fluid | Naturally occuring. In real life, protects embryos from disease while in the womb. | TNG: Genesis - Cured the outbreak of Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome. |
| Anestizene | Artificially generated by crew. A general anesthetic. | DS9: The Siege - Terrorists
flooded the station's conduits with concentrated anestizene gas to try
to kill the crew.
TNG: Rascals - Ro suggests using anestizene gas to knock out the Ferengi. Unfortunately, Picard points out that it's not possible since computer control has been locked out. |
| Antichroniton | Artificially generated by crew. Cancels out chroniton particles. | Voyager: Before and After - When Kes was irradiated with chronitonn 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. |
| Antigraviton | Artificially generated by aliens. Apperently 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. | TNG: Attached - Was used by aliens to delfect a transporter beam to a new set of co-ordinates. |
| Antilepton Interference | Artificially generated by aliens. Prevents communications. | DS9: Emissary - Gul Jassad's fleet flooded subspace with antilepton interference. |
| Antimatter | Artificially generated by crew; naturally occuring in real life. Matter whose electrical charge properties are the opposite of "normal matter." It is not well understood why the universe is made overwhelmingly of matter yet most reactions which produce particles produce matter and anti-matter equally. The imbalance could have started as a minor percentage in the early moments of the big bang, with resulting annihilation keeping the excess only (the rest is the photon background). | ALL - Used to power the warp engines on Federation (and other) vessels. It's mentioned in countless episodes in all the series. |
| Antineutrino | Naturally occuring. In real life, a byproduct of beta decay. | Voyager: Prime Factors - After B'Elanna installed the Sikarian 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. |
| Antineutron | A real particle; the antimatter version of a neutron. | Movie: IV: Voyage Home - Computer prompts Spock to "adjust the sine wave in the gravity envelope so that antineutrons may pass but antigravitons cannot". |
| Antiproton | Naturally occuring. Also generated by ships; can penetrate Romulan cloaking devices. In real life, the antimatter version of a proton. | DS9: The Search, Part 1 and Defiant
- Used by Jem'Hadar in "The Search" and by the Cardassians in "Defiant"
to detect the cloaked Defiant.
TOS: The Doomsday Machine - Comm. Decker called the Doomsday Machiine's weapon an antiproton beam - "absolutely pure!" TNG: Face of the Enemy - Enterprise D used it to determine who destroyed the smuggler's ship. TNG: Silicon Avatar - Crystalline Entity is tracked by gamma radiation from antiproton decay. Voyager: The Threshold - Used to slow down the mutation of Lt. Paris' DNA. Movie: First Contact - The navigational deflector of the Enterprise-E normally stores a large number of antiprotons. |
| Antitime | Naturally occuring. Analagous to "antimatter" but for time, not matter. | TNG: All Good Things - Produced as a result of the time rupture, which was caused by three dechyon beams from different timeframes intersecting. |
| Anyon | Artificially generated by crew. Caused by the interaction between phased and normal matter. In real life, an anyon isn't a real particle, it's a theoretical construct formed by confining a normal fermion (and possibly boson) to a two-dimensional region. The exchange arguments which lead to the parity operator eigenvalues being +-1 no longer apply, and these theoretical constructs can have arbitrary quantum phase changes under exchange. | TNG: The Next Phase - Data hypothesised that the bursts of anyons were caused by phased matter. When Geordi and Ro set off a disruptor on overload, a huge burst of anyons were detected, leading Data to sweep the area with amnions and save Geordi and Ro. |
| Argine | Origin unknown. Function unknown. | DS9: The Nagus - Used in the construction of Ferengi Locator Bombs. |
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| Baryon | Naturally occuring. In real life, "heavy" particles like protons, as opposed to "light" particles (leptons) like electrons. In TNG, something else. | TNG: Starship Mine - Ship needed to undergo a "baryon sweep" to remove the accumulation of these particles. |
| Berthold Radiation | Artificially generated by aliens. Unknown purpose. | TNG: Deja Q - A method employed by the aliens to scan the enterprise D when the aliens were looking for Q. |
| Berthold Rays | Naturally occuring. Nature unknown. Harmful or fatal to humans. | TOS: This Side of Paradise - The emotion-affecting spores granted iimmunity to Berthold rays, allowing a colony to survive. |
| Bicaridine | Artificially generated by crew. A painkiller. | TNG: The First Duty - Wesley Crusher is allergic to metorapan treatments, so he is treated with a bicaridine substitute instead. |
| Bilitrium | Naturally occuring. A rare crystalline element which can be an incredible source of energy if hooked up to an anti-matter converter. | DS9: Past Prologue - Tahna Los had purchased a cylinder of bilitrium from the Duras Sisters in an effort to destroy the wormhole. |
| Biogenic Field | Naturally occuring. Lethal to humans. | Voyager: Sacred Ground - A biogenic field was present at one of the religious shrines of the Nikani. |
| Bitrium | Naturally occuring. Nature unknown. | TNG: The Silicon Avatar - Bitrous fibers were found on planet affter crystalline entity had left. The crew theorized that bitrium was a byproduct of the consumption of biological matter. |
| Boridium | Artificially generated by crew. Used as a power generator or convertor in compact machines and devices. | TNG: The Quality of Life
- The Exocomps are equipped with boridiuum power generators. Dr. Farillon
attempts to destroy some of these Exocomps by overloading these generators.
DS9: Babel - The Aphasia-inducing device has a di-boridium core which hints at possible Cardassian manufacture, but was actually created by the Bajoran Underground during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. |
| Brill Cheese | Origin unknown. Contaminated cheese with a virus. | Voyager: Learning Curve - A contaminated piece of cheese threateened the entire USS Voyager. |
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| Calendenium | Naturally occuring. chemical, possibly an element. | TNG: Night Terrors - combined with hydrogen released by the Enterprise by the alien ship in order to produce a massive chemical explosion to free both vessels from the Tychon rift. |
| Carbon Neutronium | Artificially generated by aliens. | TNG: Relics - The shell of the Dyson sphere was composed of it. A phaser blast was ruled out as an option to get out of the sphere because it would be ineffective. |
| Carbrodine | Origin unknown. When mixed with infernite, becomes explosive. | DS9: In the Hands of the Prophets - Used by Neela to destroy Keiko's schooolroom. |
| Cast Rodinium | Naturally occuring. The hardest substance known to Federation science. | TOS: Balance of Terror - The outer protective layers of Federation outposts along the Romulan neutral zone are composed of this material. However, even with an outpost buried miles underground, it provided insufficient defense against the Romulan energy weapon. A piece of the destroyed shield was crushed by Spock. |
| Chemicite | Origin unknown. A highly explosive compound, dangerous to transport, can be sold for a good profit on Orion. | DS9: Little Green Men - A cascade reaction in the chemicite caused Quark's shuttle to be flung through time. |
| Chroniton | Artificially generated by aliens and crew. Involved in time travel and in cloaking; exact nature unknown. | DS9: Past Tense - Used to
travel back to 21st-century Earth.
TNG: The Next Phase - Chroniton particles from a malfunctioning cloaking device cause Geordi and Ro to be phased so they can pass through walls (not floors). DS9: Visionary - Sent O'Brien back and forth in time whenever a cloaked warbird came near DS9. Voyager: Before and After - When Kes was irradiated with chronitonn particles from the Krenim and later subjected to a biotemporal field, she began to shift backwards in time. |
| Chronometric Particle | Artificially generated by aliens. Involved in time travel. | Movie: First Contact - The
Borg used them to travel back in time. The Enterprise-E used them to travel
forward in time.
DS9: Trials and Tribble-ations - O'Brien reads chronometric particles aaround the Defiant just before it is pulled back in time by the Orb. |
| Cobalt Dinitrate | Artificially generated by crew. A chemical compound that is considered a biogenic weapon. Cobalt dinitrate is harmless to most humanoids but is lethal to Cardassians. | DS9: For the Uniform - The Maquis, under the leadership of Mr. Eddington, contaminated Cardassian colonies in the demilitarized zone with cobalt dinitrate to force them to abandon the planets. |
| Corbomite | Artificially generated by Captain Kirk. A fictional substance which supposedly reflects weapon fire back at the attacker. | TOS: The Corbomite Maneuver
- Kirk tells the First Federation captaiin that the Enterprise is equipped
with corbomite, a bluff that prevents the alien from firing his weapons.
TOS: The Deadly Years - Kirk uses the same ploy to escape romulans!! |
| Cordrizene | Artificially generated by crew. A drug. | TOS: City on the Edge of Forever - McCoy accidentally injects himself witth a huge dose, goes insane, and beams down to a planet where he, Kirk and Spock enter a time travel portal. |
| Cormoline | Naturally occuring. Rich deposits of this compound are found on the Kazon-Ogla Homeworld, which they use for barter with the other Kazon sects. | Voyager: Caretaker |
| Corodum | Artificially generated by crew. Used in thruster packs. | TNG: Disaster - Geordi and Beverly had to get rid of the containers of corodum, because the plasma fire was overheating them. They opened the cargo bay doors, and released the containers into space. |
| Cosmic String | Naturally occuring. A string of particles with gravitational forces that are the strength of a black hole. | TNG: The Loss - A flurry of energy based entities surrounding the Enterprise D were headed for it, dragging the ship toward certain destruction. These creatures disabled counselor Troi's empathic powers for a time. The cosmic string was home to them. |
| Cryptobiolin | Artificially generated by aliens. An alien equivalent of steroids. | TNG: The Hunted - During a checkup on Roga Danar, Beverly discovered high levels of cryptobiolin and other drugs in Danar's body. |
| Cyanoacrylate | Naturally occuring. In real life, cyanoacrylate ester is a fast-bonding glue (e.g. Crazy Glue.) | TNG: The Child - According to Data, Eichner radiation, which caused genetically altered spores in stasis cage to expand uncontrollably and threaten Enterprise, is released by "certain cyanoacrylates." |
| Cyrillium | Naturally occuring. Occurs in nebulae/gaseous anomalies in Delta and Alpha quadrants. Highly combustible. | Voyager: Flashback - Collected by Voyager for use as an energy source; used by Sulu to disable Klingons. |
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| Dark Matter | Naturally occuring. Causes phase shifts in normal matter. | TNG: In Theory - Opened the wall for Spot to escape, wrecked the conference room, and dematerialized part of the floor, causing the death of a crewmember who was standing on the "hole." |
| De Broglie Waves | Naturally occurring in real life -- in modern physics, a representation of ordinary matter as waves rather than particles. In Star Trek, artificially generated by aliens; a side effect of cloaking devices. | TOS: Balance of Terror - In James Blish's novel adaptation, the crew tracked the Romulan Warbird by sensing these waves. (In the aired episode, Spock used "motion sensors" to track the ship. |
| Dechyon | Artificially generated by crew. In real life, dechyons are the class of particles that travel below the speed of light (i.e., the opposite of tachyons.) | Voyager: Parallax - Used
to open a fissure in an event horizon (no, that concept doesn't make any
sense to me either.)
TNG: Cause and Effect - The crew detected these particles as remenants 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. |
| Delta Rays | Naturally occuring. Type of radiation produced by older engines; exists 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. | TOS: The Meangerie part I
- Was emitted from a broken piece of an old class-J starship. Christopher
Pike, former captain of starship Enterprise was overexposed in that accident
leaving him in a "wheelchair."
DS9: Visionary - O'Brien absorbed a heavy dose of delta radiation, which allowed the tetryon emissions from the Romulan warbird to shift him through time. |
| Dermateralean Plasticine | Artificially generated by aliens. Used in cosmetic surgery. | DS9: Duet - Marritza was using the plasticine to preserve his appearance as Gul Darhe'el. |
| Deuridium | Naturally occuring. Found as deposits in asteroid fields. | DS9: The Passenger - The Kobliad need deuridium to stabilize their cell membranes in order to survive. |
| Deuterium | Naturally occuring. Isotope of hydrogen, having twice the mass of ordinary hydrogen, also called heavy hydrogen. | TNG: Phantasms - Used to power the warp core. Deuterium and antideuterium are combined to provide energy. |
| Diburinium | Origin unknown. A metallic substance. | TOS: By Any Other Name - The substance used by the Kelvin to imprison Captain Kirk and company in the cave was described by Spock as "similar to diburinium, but much denser." |
| Diburnium-osmium Alloy | Artificially generated by aliens. A substance highly resistant to energy and radiation. | TOS: That Which Survives - An artificial planet was made of this substance. The Kelandans were the race responsible. |
| Dicoromium | Naturally occuring. An element that makes up part of the molecular structure of a gaseous creature, possibly allowing the creature to exist in a state on the border between matter and energy and avoid weapons fire by moving itself through time. | TOS: Obsession - Kirk encounters the gaseous creature while prospecting for tritanium deposits. It gives of a sickly sweet odor, which Kirk recognizes from another encouter with the creature 11 years before - an encounter that resulted in the death of then Lieutenant Kirk's commanding officer, Captain Garrovick, and a consequent load of guilt. Kirk and Garrovick's son destroy the creature with an anti-matter bomb, since it is immune to phasers and photon torpedoes. |
| Dicosilium | Origin unknown. Optic material used to build lenses and mirrors. | TNG: A Matter of Perspective - Used to build Krieger wave generator.< |
| Dilithium | Naturally occuring. Focuses energy into highly concentrated form. Necessary for the operation of warp drives, and a vital part of a starship's power system. | TOS: most - Cracked, running
out, etc.
TNG: Relics - La Forge states to an out-of-time Mr. Scott that they recomposite the dilithium inside the reaction chamber. Only after Mr. Scott erroneously states that dilithium crystals are going to fracture. |
| Displacement Wave | Artificially generated by aliens. Moves objects at high warp speed. | Voyager: The Caretaker - Used by caretaker to bring ship to Delta Quadrant. |
| Dolamide | Origin unknown. Used in power generators, reactors, and short-range transporters. If pure enough, it can be made into weapons. | DS9: Dramatis Personae - Kira refuses a Valerian transport carrying dolamide to dock with the station under the suspicion that they are trading with the Cardassians. |
| Duranium | Artificially generated by crew. A hard metal alloy. Often used for ship's hulls. | DS9: The Emissary - Duranium
shadows were used to create an illusion of photon torpedo launchers on
DS9. This effect is also known as "Quaker Guns" in the DS9 novel _The Way
of the Warrior_.
DS9: Captive Pursuit - Used in construction of access tunnels on DS9; impervious to normal sensors. TNG: Hollow Pursuits - O'Brien tested the transporter with a container made of pure duranium. The container rematerialized as molten goo. |
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| E-band radiation | Naturally occuring. Emitted by collapsing stars; can also be used as a means of communication. | TNG: The Mind's Eye - Data detected E-band rays and traced them to Geordi, who was brainwashed to kill Governer Vagh. |
| Eichner Radiation | Artificially generated by aliens. | TNG: The Child - Caused genetically altered spores in stasis cage to expand uncontrollably and threaten Enterprise. Tracked to Iain, Troi's son. |
| Electrophoretic Energy | In real life, electrophoresis is a process by which proteins are identified by putting them on a gel and running an electric current through the gel, then staining the gel and measuring how far the proteins moved in comparison to a group of standard proteins that were also put on the gel (bigger proteins move slower, in general.) | Voyager: The Elogium - It was generated by space-dwelling lifeforms, but caused Kes to prematurely enter the Elogium (puberty.) |
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| Felicium | Naturally occuring. A substance produced from plants by the people of Brekka and exported to Ornara. | TNG: Symbiosis - Felicium is Brekka's sole export. It was once used to cure a deadly plague. Now, everyone on Ornara is addicted to it. |
| Fistrium | Naturally occuring. Refractory metal found in caves of Melona IV. | TNG: Silicon Avatar - Data thought the prescence of fistrium and kelbonite prevented the Crystalline Entity from scanning the caves. |
| Fluidic Space | Naturally occuring. A parallel universe near our own composed entirely of a biological fluid. | Voyager: Scorpion, Part 2 - Species 8472 exists in fluidic space aand attacked the Delta Quadrant following a failed Borg invasion into their territory. Voyager was brought to fluidic space by Seven of Nine in order to force their cooperation. |
| Fortanium | Naturally occuring. | TNG: Masks - Used in the composition of the informational archive at the comet's core. |
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| Genesis Wave | Artificially generated by crew. An energy wave that has the effect of rapidly terraforming planets and nebular matter. | Movie: The Wrath of Khan; The Search for Spock - The Genesis Device, invented by Carol and David Marcus, was sought by Khan Singh as a weapon to be used to destroy Admiral Kirk and the Enterprise NCC 1701. Ultimately, the device was activated, destroying the USS Reliant, killing Khan, and creating the Genesis Planet from matter in the Mutara Nebula. Because of the unusual properties of the planet, the body of Spock was brought back to life after he'd been killed saving the Enterprise. |
| Gold-pressed Latinum | Origin unknown. A non-replicatable material, typically pressed into bars, like gold. | DS9: Most - The Ferengi use bars or strips of gold-pressed latinum as their currency. |
| Graviton | Artificially generated by crew. Generated by Voyager. (A real particle according to modern physics.) | Voyager: The Caretaker -
To try and get out of the Caretaker's beam.
TNG: The Best of Both Worlds - A "heavy graviton beam" was consideredd and rejected as a weapon against the Borg. TNG: Silicon Avatar - Used by Enterprise crew to communicate with the crytalline entity. Used by vengeful doctor to destroy the entity. TNG: Hero Worship - Graviton waves destroyed the Veco when it was surveying a region of space. Reacted with all power output by ships and magnified it. TNG: The Nth Degree - Barclay used a graviton field to alter subspace to take the ship into Cytherian space. |
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| Holomatter | Artificially generated by crew. A simulation of matter using force field and holo-imaging technology within a chamber known as a "holodeck". Under certain circumstances, holomatter can take on all the recognized features of life forms; however, all holomatter disintegrates when removed from the holodeck. | TNG,Voyager,DS9: Too numerous to list - Training, recreation and entertainment for the crew. Some medical applications. On board the "Voyager", due to the death of the Chief Medical Officer, a holomatter "doctor" has been designated as the de facto CMO. |
| Hyperon | Naturally occuring. 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. After quark structure was understood, they 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. | TNG: The Ensigns of Command - Obstacle preventing the use of transpoorters in the evacuation of a planet ceded to the Sheliak. |
| Hytritium | Naturally occuring. Only known cure for tricyanate contamination of water supplies. Highly volatile. | TNG: The Most Toys - Used to explode a shuttlecraft so that Kivas Fajo could kidnap Data without suspicion. |
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| Ilium 629 | Naturally occuring. A by-product of the geological decay of dilithium. | TNG: Pen Pals - Traces of ilium 629 were found on the planet Drema IV, leading to the discovery of unusual dilithium deposits in the planet's mantle. The dilithium transformed the planet's geological heat into mechanical stress, resulting in significant tectonic instabilities that nearly destroyed the planet. The geological instabilities were neutralized by the use of resonator probes launched from orbit. |
| Infernite | Origin unknown. When mixed with carbrodine, becomes explosive. | DS9: In the Hands of the Prophets - Used by Neela to destroy Keiko's schooolroom. |
| Inversion Nebula | Naturally occuring. A nebula composed of plasma strings that is apparently beautiful to look at. Nebulas of this kind do not exist in the Alpha quadrant. They are apparently relatively unstable, requiring an outside influence to stay stable. | Voyager: Alter Ego - Voyager monitored an inversion nebula for several days observing a number of plasma string flare-ups. |
| Invidium | Origin unknown. Unknown origin. Used in medical containment fields the previous century. No longer used. Causes adverse reactions with equipment. If brought to -200 Celsius, it becomes inert. | TNG: Hollow Pursuits - It was in spread into the ship when a broken seal on the Michelaks' medical sample container. Laforge said, "Duffy and O'Brien picked up the broken canister and became contaiminated." It affected the magnetic capacitors on the anti- matter injector and an un-named component in the transporter. |
| Iogenic Particles | Artificially generated by crew. Has characteristic 'magnetic flux density'. | TNG: Power Play - Used to create a containment field for the 'spirits' of alien escapees of a penal colony when they attempted to possess the crew. |
| Ion | Naturally occuring. An atom or group of atoms that carries a positive or negative electric charge. | TOS: Spock's Brain - Used to propel the space ship that carried descendants of an advanced civilization who boarded the Enterprise and stole Spock's brain. Scotty marveled at its design at first sight, saying that "they could teach us a thing or two." |
| Ionic Pulse | Artificially generated by crew. Presumably, a bunch of charged atoms. | Movie: Generations - An ionic pulse generated by the navigational deflector was used to trigger the cloaking device of L'ursa and B'etor's ship so their shields would drop and the Enterprise could destroy them. |
| Iridium | Naturally occuring. A heavy element of the platinum group. | TOS: Requiem for Methesulah - The iridium rendered the Ritalin inertt and therefore unusable in combating an epidemic that the crew was trying to prevent on another planet (see Ritalin.) |
| Isoboromine | Naturally occuring. A neurotransmitter in Trills which maintains the link between symbiont and host. If its level gets too low, the symbiont must be removed or it will die. | DS9: Equilibrium - Dax had a low isoboromine count from the hallucinations of Joran Dax. |
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| Jakmanite | Naturally occuring. Like invidium, jakmanite cannot be detected by internal sensors. Exists in oxygen environment, and like invidium, can alter advanced structures like glass. | TNG: Hollow Pursuits - Duffy ruled jakmanite out as a possible cause of the problems experienced by the Enterprise crew. |
| Jevonite | Naturally occuring. Valuable gemstone found on Cardassia. | TNG: Chain of Command Part II - Ancient jevonite artifacts found on Caardassia were sold or stolen by the army to finance the war effort. |
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| Kayolane | Artificially generated by aliens. A sedative. | TNG: Identity Crisis - Beverly inoculates Leijten with kayolane after the latter's blood chemistry changes and after she exhibits strange behavior. |
| Kedion | Naturally occuring. Resets positronic matrices. | TNG: Descent, Part 2 - Used by Commander La Forge and Captain Picard to reboot Data's ethical program after Lore disabled it. |
| Kelbonite | Naturally occuring. Refractory metal found in caves of Melona IV. | TNG: Silicon Avatar - Data thought the prescence of kelbonite and fistrium prevented the Crystilline Entity from scanning caves. |
| Ketracel White | Artificially generated by aliens. A vital, isogenic enzyme needed for the survival of the Jem'Hadar. The enzyme can only be provided by the Founders, and currently cannot be reproduced by the Federation. The Founders engineered the Jem'Hadar's addiction to this enzyme to ensure their loyalty to the Dominion. | DS9: The Abandoned - Bashir
is unable to reproduce the enzyme for the Jem'Hadar boy.
DS9: Hippocratic Oath - Goran'Agar has succeeded in fighting his addiction for the enzyme and surviving. The Vorta are established as administrators of ketracel white for the Jem'Hadar. DS9: To the Death - Weyoun (a Vorta) administrates the enzyme to First Omet'iklan and the other Jem'Hadar before an upcoming battle with Dominion Rebels. DS9: The Die is Cast - Enabrum Tain notes that the destruction of the Founders and their homeworld means that the Jem'Hadar will be cut off from their only source of ketracel white, thus leading to the collapse of the Dominion. Unfortunately, Tain and his armada walk into a trap as the Founders have abandoned their homeworld, and his armada is ambushed by Jem'Hadar warships. DS9: A Time to Stand - Weyoun tells Dukat that supplies of Ketracel White are needed. Sisko and company are assigned in a Jem'Hadar Warship to destroy a vital Ketracel White Depot. A ship ahead of them beams down 110 empty canisters, and receives 110 full canisters of Ketracel White. Sisko's ship beams down 84 empty canisters (all fit with time bombs) to destroy the depot. DS9: Behind the Lines - Due to an increasingly short supply of ketracel white, Damar secretly proposed poisoning the remaining supply before it ran out and the Jem'Hadar ran amok. |
| Kinoplasmic Radiation | Origin unknown. | Voyager: Projections - Lt. Barclay tells the holodoc that his headaches are due to "kinoplasmic radiation oxidizing your brain cells." |
| Kironide | Artificially generated by aliens. Induces telekinetic powers. | TOS: Plato's Stepchildren - Platonians used it to hold Enterprise crew captive and force them to perform for their amusement. McCoy synthesized the chemical so crew could escape. |
| Koranium | Origin unknown. Subspace element used in Klingon warp drives. | DS9: Blood Oath - Mentioned briefly as being a part of warp drive in the injectors. |
| Krieger Waves | Artificially generated by aliens. Nature unknown. Eats holes in walls and decks; destroys space station. | TNG: A Matter of Perspective - An attempt is made to fashion a power generator using these waves. |
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| Lepton | Naturally occuring. - particle "activity" increased prior to the wormhole reappearing and shifting its position. | TNG: "The Price" - Geordi's visor detected the "activity". |
| Lucrovexitrin | Origin unknown. Highly toxic; alters molecular structure when it comes in contact with glass. Exists in a Nitrogen-Oxygen atmosphere. | TNG: Hollow Pursuits - Ruled out by Wesley Crusher as being the cause of the injectors failing, "Selgnineam and lucrovexitrin are highly toxic." |
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| Magneton | Artificially generated by crew. In real life, a quanta of the mangetic 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. | Voyager: Cathexis - Used
to scan the ship for the disembodied aliens and crew.
DS9: Hippocratic Oath - Picked up by O'Brien while in the Gamma quadrant, leading to the discovery of a crashed Jem'Hadar ship. |
| Meranium | Artificially generated by aliens. A metal alloy. Its melting point is 2014 degrees Fahrenheit. | TNG: The Vengeance Factor - The away team fired their phasers intoo the meranium alloy, causing a smoke screen. |
| Merculite | Artificially generated by aliens. An explosive material used in out-of-date rockets which are no match for Federation weaponry. | TNG: Suddenly Human - Captain
Endar threatened to use them against the Enterprise if Picard did not release
his adopted son, Jono. Riker remarked, "shades of Gulliver."
TNG: Heart of Glory - The Klingons who had stolen the ship "Batris" used merculite rockets to destroy a pursuing Klingon ship. |
| Meson | Naturally occuring. - particle "activity" increased prior to the wormhole reappearing and shifting its position. | TNG: "The Price" - Geordi's visor detected the "activity". |
| Metaphasic Shield | Artificially generated by crew. A subspace technology which involves generating metaphasic properties - results in a low intensity, non-propulsive subspace field similar to a warp field. | TNG: Suspicions - Developed
by Ferengi scientist Dr. Reygar to encapsulate a vessel from the extreme
radiation and heat generated by stars. This allowed the Shuttlecraft Justman
to enter the star Veytan's corona.
TNG: Descent Part II - Allowed the Enterprise to enter the corona of a star to save the damaged ship from being destroyed by a Borg ship. |
| Metrion | Artificially generated by aliens. High levels of exposure can infect a humanoid with nitremia, a blood disease that causes its victims' cells to undergo fission. | Voyager: Jetrel - The Hakonians used a "Metrion Cascade" to conquer Rynax, a Talaxian moon. |
| Muon | Naturally occuring. Short-lived subatomic particle classified as a lepton. | TNG: "The Next Phase - The power feed to the Romulan vessel was altered by the Romulans to build up in the Enterprise's engine core. This would lead to a catastrophic explosion that would destroy the Enterprise. |
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| Nadion | Artificially generated by crew. Berman and Okuda's TNG Technical Manual identifies "nadion" particles as the output produced by phasers. | Voyager: Time and Again
- Janeway closes a "temporal rift" artiffically generated by the crew by
firing her phaser at it. (Torres identifies the "nadion particle feedback"
as the reason why the fissure is closing.)
TNG: The Mind's Eye - Particle pulse (rapid nadion pulse) gauged by Data and LaForge while verifying origin of Type III phaser rifle, later determined to be Romulan in origin, in Main Engineering. |
| Nanites | Artificially generated by crew. Micro-robots that are bred for specific tasks; able in some instances to reproduce to collectively form a consciousness. | TNG: - Part of Wesley's
science experiment that got loose and eventually developed into an advanced
civilization.
TNG: - Beverly Crusher thought that a destructive breed could be introduced into the Borg collective. |
| Neodilithium | Naturally occuring. A different form of dilithium. | Voyager: Threshold - It was used to take Tom Paris to warp ten, after which he turned into a giant salamander. |
| Neurogenic Field | Naturally occuring. A resident 'field' that forms by a person's brain as part of the thought process. Each person's pattern varies depending on their current thought. | Voyager: Waking Moments - Aliens formed a "collective unconcioussness" by amplifying their neurogenic field and that of the Voyager crew while they slept. Seven of Nine stated that their collective dream was like the Borg consciousness. This was evident to the Doctor in the waking world as every crew member's neurogenic field pattern was identical. |
| Neutrino | Artificially generated by crew. Real particle with no charge, until recently thought to have no mass. | TNG: The Enemy - Used as
a distress beacon.
TNG: The Game - Wesely 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." DS9: Most - "Increased neutrino emissions", always said shortly before something comes through the wormhole. TNG: A Matter of Honor - Used to destroy hull-eating space bacteria endangering *Enterprise* and Klingon ship with Riker in crew. DS9: Rivals - The owner of the other bar/casino 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 changing the probability. |
| Neutron Radiation | Naturally occuring. Neutrons are neutral particles which, along with protons, are constituents of atomic nuclei. Neutrons not contained within a nucleus have a half-life of about 15 minutes. | Movie: Star Trek VI - The improved Bird-of-Prey gave off a surge of neutron radiation just before it fired a photon torpedo. |
| Neutronium | Naturally occuring. Matter composed of densely-packed neutrons, held together by gravity. The material neutron stars are made of. | TOS: The Doomsday Machine
- The Doomsday Machine's hull was compossed of neutronium (which incidentally
would have made it far too massive to ever be able to move).
TOS: Piece of the Action - One of the gansters upon being beamed up to the Enterprise was mad enough to chew it. TNG: Relics - The outer hull of the Dyson sphere was made of neutronium. |
| Nitrium | Naturally occuring. A metal used in an important alloy commonly found in starships. The alloy is used for computers, replicators, stabilizers, ventilators, power transfer conduits, dilithium chamber walls, and life support systems. | TNG: The Cost of Living - Nitrium parasites started feeding on tthe ship's systems after the Enterprise destoyed their nitrium-rich asteroid. The parasites digested much of the Enterprise's nitrium into slime before Data lured them back onto the asteroids of the Peloris Field. |
| Nucleogenic | Naturally occuring. Dust or other particles which attract water vapor, causing rain or other precipitation to form. | Voyager: The Caretaker - The Ocampa homeworld's atmosphere didn't have any, which accounted for its desolate condition. |
| Nucleonic Particle | Artificially generated by crew. Could refer to the nucleus of atoms? | Voyager: State of Flux - Used to detect damage to a Kazon ship at long range -- the damage was later found to have been produced when a stolen Federation replicator exploded. Kim says something like "I am reading nucleonic particle fluctuations from their ship." |
| Nucleonic Radiation | Naturally occuring/artificially generated by crew. Something found in lifeforms. | Voyager: The Cloud - Used to make a suture to seal up the punctured nebula creature. |
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| Omega Particle | Artificially generated by aliens. In the present, an unstable, artificially generated particle that can serve as a virtually inexhaustable power source. The only drawback is that it reacts violently with subspace, making warp travel in the affected area impossible. Thus, after failed federation experiments, it is ordered that it be destroyed by any starfleet ship that encounters it. Even at the expense of abandoning the prime directive. It is thought that they were once naturally occuring, and may have supplied the energy to initiate the Big Bang. It is also known by the Borg as "Particle 256" and is kind of worshipped by them as "perfection". | Voyager: The Omega Directive - As Voyager cruises along, the Omega syymbol is suddenly displayed on all monitors as the computer detects omega, and tells Janeway that the omega directive is now in effect. Some aliens are messing with omega and their experiment has already destroyed subspace in their local system. Voyager then swoops in to destroy omega, even though it means violating the prime directive. Seven builds a containment unit to temporarily hold omega, and just before it is destroyed, manages to do the impossible, and stabalizes it. Seven later says that as she looked at the stabalized particles, for 3.2 seconds she saw "perfection". Thus, she apparently has had her first religious experience. All logs concerning this matter were encrypted. |
| Omicron | Naturally occuring. Created by Space Nebula Creature, used in "circulatory" system. | Voyager: The Cloud - Thought
to be a substitute for anti-matter for the warp drives, as well as fuel
for the replicators.
DS9: Shadow Play - Emitted by holographic generator. The projections/people were "made of" them. Voyager: Nemesis - 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. |
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| Particle Signature | Naturally occuring. A characteristic unique to each universe. | TNG: Parallels - Used to prove that Worf was indeed in an alternate universe and find the correct universe to return him to. |
| Pergium | Naturally occuring. Used to regenerate enviromental controls filters. | Voyager: Fair Trade - Janeway
listed "pergium" as one of the needs that Voyager was to barter for.
Submitted with other requests to the space station's manager.
TOS: Devil in the Dark - The crew beams down to a planet that mines pergium for the Federation, to investigate the recent deaths of several pergium miners. |
| Phospholipid Fibers | Naturally occuring. In real life, phospholipids are fatty acids with phosphate groups attached. They are small and naturally occur only as liposomes and bilayer sheets, and as monolayer spheres called micelles. But they never form "fibers." Phospholipid bilayers are what cell membranes are mostly made of. | Voyager: The Cloud - Torres gave this as a possible identification for the blue material found on the hull. |
| Photochronic | Origin unknown. | TNG: Descent - Used to fuse borg nanocortical fibers. |
| Photonic Energy | Naturally occuring. Emitted from the surface of a protostar. A fancy name for light. | Voyager: Heroes and Demons - The life form that used the holodeck tto kidnap crew members was made up of photonic energy. |
| Plasma | Naturally occuring. A very hot, ionized gas. The atoms in plasma have enough kinetic energy that the electrons are torn from their nuclei, ionizing the gas. | Movie: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Plasma emissions were used to detect a cloaked Klingon Bird of Prey. |
| Polaric Ion | Artificially generated by aliens. Used as a power generation system. | Voyager: Time and Again - Used as a very UNSTABLE power generatiion system which the Voyager crew has to prevent from exploding. |
| Polaron | Artificially generated by crew. Exists 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. | Voyager: State of Flux -
Used to detect a hidden Kazon ship.
DS9: The Jem'Hadar - A phased polaron beam was used by the Jem'Hadar to penetrate the shields of the USS Odyssey. Voyager: Non Sequitur - Harry Kim scanned the time stream with polarons, thus partially causing a distortion of the space-time continuum. Voyager: The Swarm - Used by the swarm to interconnect their ships. DS9: Armageddon Game - Four polaron emitters were supplied to Capt. Sisko and his strike force for use while infiltrating Klingon Military Headquarters at Tiger Claw 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 m3 and would force a changeling to revert to a gelatinous state. A changeling impersonating General Martok was later discovered to be the Dominion operative. Voyager: Displaced - 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. |
| Positron | Naturally occuring. Real antimatter version of an electron. | TNG: Most - Data's brain
is "positronic." The term was originally used in the context of a robot's
brain by 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."
DS9: Life Support - "Positronic" brain is used to prolong Vedek Bareil's life. TNG: Datalore - 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. TNG: The Nth Degree - When normal scans prove ineffective against the alien probe, Geordi tells Barclay to "try a positron scan." |
| Preanimate Matter | Naturally occuring. Matter that is very, very, very, close to being classified as a form of life, but doesn't quite make the grade. | Movie: The Wrath of Khan - Chekov said this might be responsible for causing an energy flux in one dyno-scanner. |
| Promethean Quartz | Naturally occuring. Valuable mineral that glows with an internal light. | DS9: Q-Less - Vash discovered a similar geode resembling Promethean quartz in the Gamma Quadrant and nearly destroyed the station with a graviton field. |
| Protomatter | Origin unknown. An unstable form of matter used by David Marcus as a short cut in the construction of the Genesis Device. | Movie: The Wrath of Khan; The Search
for Spock - 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".
DS9: Second Sight (?) - Was used in the probe to rejuvinate sun or (scan it). Used from USS Lexington. |
| Proton | Naturally occuring. Baryon with a virtually infinite life span. Protons occur in all atomic nuclei. | Voyager: Death Wish - Voayger was "attacked by protons" when Q(uinn) sent the ship back in time, not long after the Big Bang, to evade pursuing Q. Capt. Janeway suggested emitting negative ions to help repel the protons. |
| Protoplasm | Naturally occuring. Makes up the interior of cells in living matter. | TOS: "The Immunity Syndrome" - The giant amoeba had an interior consiisting of protoplasm. |
| Psilocynine | Naturally occuring. A neurotransmitter involved in telepathy. | TNG: Eye of the Beholder
- Deanna Troi's levels of psilocynine weere very high after having an empthically
induced hallucination.
TNG: Dark Page - Lwaxana Troi's levels of psilocynine were very high after her work with the Cairn. |
| Pulse Compression Wave | Artificially generated by crew. Used to increase the power of a phaser blast. | DS9: Emissary - Used to increase the power of DS9's phasers against Gul Jassad's fleet. |
| Pyroclastics | Naturally occuring. Rock formed by volcanic activity. A real-life geological term. | Voyager: Macrocosm - The Doctor beamed down to the Garan mining colony to investgate the virus that had plagued them. In the process of scanning the walls granite and pyroclastics were found. |
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| Quadrotriticale | Artificially generated by crew. A "supervariant" of the hybrid grain known as triticale. Triticale is naturally occurring. | TOS: The Trouble With Tribbles
- Kirk and crew were charged with proteccting a shipment of quadrotriticale
against Klingon sabotage. Matters were made worse when the tribbles found
their way into the grain stores.
DS9: Trials and Tribble-ations - Same. |
| Quantum Filament | Naturally occuring. An enlongated subatomic object, hundreds of meters long, but possessing almost no mass. | TNG: Disaster - Caused damage to the ship. Troi asked O'Brien if a quantum filament was a kind of cosmic string; O'Brien said it was something completely different. |
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| Retinox | Artificially generated by crew. Used to improve eyesight. | Movie: The Wrath of Khan - In the beginning of the movie, McCoy ggives Kirk a set of bifocals for his birthday since Kirk is allergic to retinox 5. |
| Riboviroxicnucleic Acid | Naturally occuring. Like DNA, except the number of riboviroxicnucleic acid structures increase as the biological organism ages. In other words, without these structures, we wouldn't be able to "grow up." | TNG: Rascals - Beverly noticed that several riboviroxicnucleic acid structures were missing in Picard, Ro, Guinan, and Keiko. Their original structures were taken from past physical exams and loaded into the Transporter Buffer to allow the four to regain their "adult" age. |
| Ritalin | Naturally occuring. A mineral. | TOS: Requiem for Methesulah - The crew needed it to combat an epidemmic on another planet. |
| Roginium | Naturally occuring. Hardest substance known to science. | TOS: Balance of Terror - Found in the debris of Earth Outpost 4, after it was destroyed by the Romulans. |
| Rubindium | Origin unknown. A nontoxic crystalline substance. |
TOS: Patterns Of Force - Rubindium crystals are component elements of starfleet subcutaneous transponders. Kirk and Spock have these monitoring devices inserted into them, but upon capture they use the crystals to generate a primitive laser. |
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| Salskinum | Origin unknown. Can alter molecular structure when it comes into contact with glass and exist in a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere. | TNG: Hollow Pursuits - Salskinum was not the particle that caused the malfunctions aboard the enterprise. LaForge said: "...yeah, we'd all be dead by now. That leaves Salskinum and Invidium" |
| Sarium | Origin unknown. Can store large amounts of energy. | TNG: In Theory - Sarium was mentioned as being vital to the engines of Federation shuttlecraft. |
| Scalosian Water | Naturally occuring. Causes metabolic acceleration, such that anyone who drinks it begins moving extremely quickly. | TOS: Wink of an Eye - Deela placed the Scalosian water in Kirk's coffee, so as to accelerate him to her "level." |
| Selanogen | Naturally occuring. A substance, as carbon is, upon which a form of life is based. | TNG: Schisms - Trans-dimensional creatures who were abducting members of the crew for medical experimentation were thought by Commander Data to be "selanogen based" and had to create "pockets" in our universe upon which to survive for short periods of time. These pockets can be detected by their emissions of tetryon particles. |
| Selgnineam | Origin unknown. Highly toxic; can alter molecular structure when it comes in contact with glass and exists in a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere. (Try spelling it backwards! This was confirmed by one of the writers at a con.) | TNG: Hollow Pursuits - It was ruled out as the reason that the injectors were locked. LaForge said, "... yeah, we'd all be dead by now. That leaves Salskinum and Invidium." |
| Serotonin | Naturally occuring. A neurotransmitter. In real life, helps the human brain maintain mental equilibrium. | Voyager: The Gift - An increased level of serotonin in Kes' brain leads to her psychokinetic abilities. |
| Soliton Wave | In real life, a wave whose energy doesn't diminish. (More complicated than that, but that's the basic idea.) In Star Trek, an artificially generated subspace effect capable of propelling vessels at warp speeds. | TNG: New Ground - Enterprise participates in a test of their use as a propulsion system. |
| Sorium | Origin unknown. An explosive compound. | DS9: The Nagus - Used in Ferengi locator bomb intended to kill Quark. |
| Sporocystain | Naturally occuring. The Caretaker and his race were sporocystain based lifeforms. | Voyager: Cold Fire - Janeway and the crew tracked down the Caretaker's mate by detecting the sporocystain energy matrix the mate was composed of. |
| Static Warp Bubble | Artificially generated by crew. An anomaly which creates a new universe whose nature can be affected by the individual trapped inside. | TNG: Remember Me - Beverly was stuck in one and Wesley and the Traveler had to get her out. |
| Steelplast | Artificially generated by aliens. A construction material. | TNG: Too Short a Season - In the tunnels of Mordan IV, the away team ran into a dead end, where a tunnel used to be. Geordi's visor indicated the sealent as steelplast, which was recently installed. |
| Styrolite | Artificially generated by crew. A non-opaque particle used in packaging. It is biologically sterile and can be used to package potentionaly biologically hazardous substances. | TNG: Unnatural Selection - To contain a person in suspended animaation for medical examination without threat of contagion. |
| Synthehol | Artificially generated by aliens. An alcohol substitute invented by the Ferengi that permits one to enjoy the intoxicating effects of alcoholic beverages without the deleterious effects. | TNG: Relics - Mr. Scott found syntheholic scotch a poor substitute for the real thing. |
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| Tachyon | Artificially generated by crew. A FTL (or subspace) particle. (Postulated by some real physics theories.) | TNG: Redemption, Part II
- To detect cloaked romulan ships.
TNG: All Good Things - An "inverse tachyon beam" was used to probe a space-time anomaly, and ultimately resulted in its creation. TNG: Face of the Enemy - When told by a disguised Troi to cross the Neutral Zone, Commander Toreth opposed by speculating that the Federation may have set up a tachyon net (similar to the one used in Redemption, Part II) to detect Romulan ships crossing the neutral zone. DS9: Explorers - Naturally occurring eddies of them propelled Sisko's Bajoran sailing ship into warp. |
| Talgonite | Artificially generated by aliens. A ceramic substance. | TNG: The Inner Light - Used in the construction of the Kataan probe. |
| Tantalus Field | Artificially generated by aliens. Causes disruption of matter, like a phaser, but can be formed at a distance. In Greek mythology, Tantalus was a king who served the flesh of his son to the gods; he was punished with eternal thirst and hunger. | TOS: Mirror, Mirror - The anti-Kirk had a Tantalus field generator in his quarters, and used it to eliminate his rivals without revealing that he was behind their disappearance. |
| Tellerium | Origin unknown. Crystal used to stabilise the harmonic reactions inside the dilithium chamber of Voyager's matter/antimatter power reactor. | Voyager: Resistance - Janeway is wounded while Tuvok and Torres are taken prisioners by the Mokra, a tyranic military regime, during a desperate expedition to find tellerium. |
| Temporal Wake | Artificially generated by aliens. Side effect of time travel; can cause nearby objects to shift in time along with the ship that's generating a temporal distortion. Objects in a temporal wake exist outside a linear timeline. | Movie: First Contact - The Enterprise rode the Borg sphere's temporal wake into the past to keep them from destroying Earth's future. The wake also prevented the Enterprise from ceasing to exist due to the Borg's attack on the Phoenix. |
| Terminium | Origin unknown. A metal alloy. | Movie: The Search for Spock - Used in casing of photon torpedoes. |
| Terracon | Artificially generated by aliens. Nature unknown. | TNG: Gambit - 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. |
| Terrion | Artificially generated by aliens. | TNG: Tapestry - A compressed terrion beam "mortally" wounded Picard at the beginning of the episode. |
| Tetralubisol | Origin unknown. Highly volatile lubricant used on starships. | TOS: The Concience of the King - Lenore Karidian attempted to kill Keviin Riley by poisoning his milk with tetralubisol. |
| Tetryon | Artificially generated by aliens. Subspace particle; shouldn't be found in normal space. (Possibly spelled "tetrion;" I'm using the spelling Tim Lynch used in his synopses.) | TNG: Schisms - Evidence
of the alien abductions.
DS9: Blood Oath - Klingon disruptor banks modulated to emmit tetryon particles and deacivate the Albino's phasers DS9: Visionary - Sisko told the Romulan delegation that they had traced the tetryon emissions from an orbiting Warbird poised to attack the station. DS9: The Die is Cast - Commander Eddington sabotaged the tetryon compositor in the Defiant's cloaking device. Voyager: Caretaker - A coherent tetryon beam was used by the Caretaker to scan Voyager. TNG: Suspicions - Jo'Brill had been exposed to a tetryon field just before his death in the metaphasic shielded shuttle. |
| Thalium | Naturally occuring. Thalium compound is found in rocks. It interferes with Federation sensors. | TNG: Who Watches the Watchers - The Enterprises sensor were unable to locate Palmer, one of the scientists that was assigned to the Mintaka III duckblind. As a result of his falling out of the duckblind due to an explosion, he could not be found. Data speculated this could be due to thalium compound in the surrounding rock face. |
| Thoron | Naturally occuring. Radioactive isotope by-product from the decay of thorium. Thorium is also known as radon-220. | DS9: If Wishes Were Horses
- Elevated thoron emissions accompanied the appearance of aliens in the
Denorios Belt.
DS9: The Emissary - A thoron field was used as a shield against Cardassian sensors by the crew of DS9 to hide the true strength of the station. |
| Titanium | Naturally occuring. Naturally ocurring element, present in limited quantities on Earth. Used in alloys to strengthen metal and in the construction of the "Blackbird" spyplane. | Movie: First Contact - Picard told Lily Sloane that the Enterprise-E was constructed primarily of titanium. Lily responded with astonishment, claiming that it had taken her months just to gather together enough titanium for a four-metre square cockpit for Zefram Cochrane's Warp Drive test ship, the Phoenix. |
| Total Conversion Ray | Artificially generated by aliens. When aimed at a distant point, produces an explosion comparable to a nuclear blast. | TAS: - Part of a spy device that Sulu and party recovered in the animated series. |
| Transparent Aluminum | Artificially generated by crew. Just what the name implies, an invisible metal. | Movie: The Voyage Home - Scotty showed a scientist how to make it, in exchange for a supply of plexiglas to build a whale tank. |
| Trianium | Artificially generated by aliens. Used in fusion-based power sources. | Voyager: The '37s - Kim and Chakotay located the alien stasis chamber by tracking down trianium readings. |
| Triceron | Origin unknown. An explosive compound. | TNG: Reunion - Used in the bomb that exploded during the Sonchi ceremony. |
| Tricobalt | Origin unknown. Presumably something to do with three cobalt atoms. | Voyager: Caretaker - A tricobalt
weapon was used to destroy the Caretaker's array to prevent the Kazon from
getting their hands on it.
TOS: A Taste of Armageddon - While the Enterprise was in orbit it wwas classified destroyed by a tricobalt satellite explosion in the war which is carried on by computers between Eminiar 7 and Vendecar. |
| Tricyanate | Naturally occuring. A toxic, inorganic substance which forms pink crystals. They are difficult and expensive to synthesize. Decontamination of tricyanate in a water supply requires the highly volatile hytritium. | TNG: The Most Toys - Synthesised tricyanate crystals were used to poison the water supply at a Federation colony so that Lt. Cmdr. Data could be kidnapped by Kivas Fajo to add him to his collection of unique items. |
| Trigenic Vapor | Naturally occuring. Contains high levels of proteins and amino acids. It is a vital source of nutrition for specific alien species. At high levels, can cause severe humanoid skin irritation. | Voyager: Parturition - An M class planet named "Planet Hell", whose atmosphere contains high levels of this gas, was encountered by Voyager in their search to replenish their food supplies. |
| Trilithium | Artificially generated by aliens. An advanced form of dilithium? | Movie: ST:Generations -
Used to collapse a star by dampening the energies in its core.
TNG: Starship Mine - Terrorists attempted to steal a canister of trilithium resin to make a weapon. Voyager: The Chute - Paris and Kim are accused of planting a trilithium bomb in a crowded market. In fact, the bomb was placed by a brother and sister duo belonging to the Open Sky terrorist group. |
| Trillium 323 | Naturally occuring. A mineral substance. | TNG: The Price - Used as a bargaining tool in the Chrysalian bid for the Bazaran Wormhole. |
| Trimagnesite | Naturally occuring. A substance that reacts with trevium to produce non-visible, ultra violet radiation. | TOS: Operation -- Annihilate! - Satellites containing trimagnesite andd tritium were placed in orbit over the planet Deneva to destroy creatures that had taken over the bodies of the inhabitants. The ultra-violet radiation that they produced was found to be sufficient only after Spock was blinded by the full spectrum radiation that McCoy was testing. Of course, Vulcans have an extra set of eyelids. |
| Trinimbic Turbulence | Naturally occuring. An atmosphereic phenomenon. Disruptive to transporter technology, Federation targeting systems and apparently too "turbulent" for a shuttle. In real life, -nimbus is a meteorological suffix indicating that a cloud produces rain. | Voyager: The '37s - Prevents beaming to site of in-stasis humans; prevents use of shuttles, so Janeway decides to land Voyager instead. Prevents Voyager from assisting in a small-arms battle by interfering with the targeting systems. |
| Triolic Wave | Artificially generated by aliens. Byproduct of little used Energy production method. Harmful to most life. | TNG: Times Arrow Pt.1 - Cave walls subjected to triolic waves, eventually pointing to inhabitants of Planet Davidia II. |
| Triox | Artificially generated by crew. Concentrated oxygen compound. | TOS: Amok Time - Dr. McCoy said he was going to give Kirk a shot of triox compound to make up for the low level of oxygen in Vulcan's atmosphere. |
| Tritanium | Origin unknown. Extremely hard substance used in construction of starship hulls. 21.4 times as hard as diamond. | TNG: Rascals - La Forge
and O'Brien determine that "something" caused the tritanium to crumble
in their hands while they examined the wreckage of the shuttle from which
Picard and fellow shuttlers emerge as children.
TNG: The Arsenal of Freedom - Found on Minos, a planet of former armmaments dealers throughout the galaxy, by Cmdr. Data and Lt. Yar as a heap of scrap metal amidst thick foliage on the ground. TOS: Obsession - Kirk, Spock, and a security team (most of which ends up dead, natch) find a large deposit of it. Spock phasers off a sample, since it is too hard to cut with tools. |
| Tritium | Naturally occuring. A radioactive isotope of hydrogen with atoms of three times the mass of ordinary light hydrogen atoms. | TOS: Operation -- Annihilate!
- (See trimagnesite.)
DS9: Q-Less - Used by Dax and O'Brien to trace the origins of the gravimetric disturbances. |
| Tryptamine | Naturally occuring. Biological result of exposure to a temporal disturbance - indicated by elevated levels in the brrain. | TNG: All Good Things - Used by Dr. Crusher to determine whether Picard had actually been leaving the Enterprise as he claimed. |
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| Ultritium | Origin unknown. Chemical explosive almost undetectable by transporter scanners. | TNG: Manhunt - Used by the
Antidean delegates in an attempted assassination of everyone at the Pacifica
Conference of 2365.
TNG: The Enemy - Used by Romulans aboard the ship Pi to self destruct at Galorndon Core. DS9: A Time to Stand - Sisko and Company use 90 kilograms of Ultritium concealed in empty containers to destroy a vital ketracel white depot deep in Cardassian Space. |
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| Venderite | Naturally occuring. An extremely valuable element or mineral to the Ferengi. | TNG: Rascals - Rogue Ferengi capture a Science team and the USS Enterprise crew to use them as slave laborers to mine for venderite. |
| Verdion | Naturally occuring. Generated in the cores or surfaces of White Dwarfs. I really wonder if the writers even know what a white dwarf is... | TNG: Emergence - Made Living
Organisms. As mentioned earlier was needed for the Enterprise to grow.
TNG: The Pegasus - They used a wash of Vertion particles to hide the Pegasus from a Romulan ship. |
| Veridium | Artificially generated by crew. Can be detected at great distances, except through a magnetic shield. | Movie: The Undiscovered Country - Spock places a veridium patch on Kirk''s shoulder so the Enterprise can find them upon emergence from the magnetic shield. |
| Verteron | Artificially generated by aliens. Somehow damaging to sub-space equipment (not the same as 'vertion'). | TNG: Force of Nature - A
generator of these, disguised as a bouy, is used by environmentalists to
incapacitate several ships, including the Enterprise.
DS9: Playing God - Threatened to destroy the proto-universe. Voyager: Eye of the Needle - Captain Janeway pointed out that theree were "...verteron emanations, tunneling secondary particles. It certainly looks like a wormhole..." DS9: In The Hands of the Prophets - Keiko was explaining to her class at tthe beginning of the episode that this is what the Bajoran wormhole is made out of before Vedek Winn came in to complain about the absence of "creationist" theory in the classroom. |
| Victurium Alloy | Artificially generated by crew. A very dense metal alloy. | TNG: Hero Worship - Large amounts of it blocked the transporter. |
| Virtual | Naturally occuring. | TNG: The Loss - Caught the Enterprise in their drift towards a "cosmic string". Deprived Counseler Troi of her empathic abilities. |
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| Warp Particle | Artificially generated by crew. Emitted by warp engines. | Voyager: Parallax - Evidence of the Voyager's path in the singularity. |
| Warp Shell | Artificially generated by crew. A field generated by the Enterprise's engines to induce warp travel. | TNG: All Good Things - Picard used static warp shells to seal the temporal rifts in the three time instances. |
| Wormholes | Naturally occuring. A subspace bridge or tunnel between two points in "normal" time and space. Most wormholes are extremely unstable and their end points fluctulate widely across time and space. An improperly balanced warp drive system can create an artifical wormhole that can pose a serious danger to the ship and its crew. | DS9 - The only known stable
wormhole, leading to the Gamma Quadrant, is right next to the station,
lending DS9 its strategic importance to the Federation.
TNG: The Price - The Enterprise-D encountered one and their mission was to study it. Movie: The Motion Picture - The Enterprise gets caught in a wormhoole due to an warp engine imbalance. |
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| Yominium Sulfide | Origin unknown. The name is derived from "Nimoy" spelled backwards. | Movie: The Voyage Home - Spock recalls the chemical formula for yominium sulfide [K4Ym3(SO73Es2)] during a memory test during his re-education of Vulcan. The formula is inconsistent with that of a sulfide. |
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| Z Particle | Artificially generated by aliens; also a real type of particle. Can mess up sensor and/or visual records. In real life: 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 Z0 particles. | TNG: Devil's Due - Scientist
on Ventax II station detected Z-particles coming from Ardra's ship.
TNG: Identity Crisis - LaForge initiated a scan for "Z-Particle emissions" on the video recording of the Tarchannen III mission. |
| Zenite | Naturally occuring. A raw mineral from which a potent compound is derived by the Federation for use in stopping botanical plagues. | TOS: Cloud Minders - Zenite in its naturally found state causes temporary mental impairment when its dust is breathed. Such an effect had profound social implications in separating the Troglite miners from the Stratus city dwellers, an issue which the crew of the Enterprise had to deal with. |