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by **Untouchable** on Thu May 11, 2006 10:55 am

Quadrotriticale

KWAH-droh-trih-tih-KAY-lee - noun. Genetically engineered grain developed on Earth from a four-lobed hybrid of wheat and rye. Quadrotriticale was the only Earth grain that would grow on Sherman's Planet.

by **Untouchable** on Thu May 11, 2006 10:58 am

Tycho City

TIE-koh SIT-ee - noun. Large environmentally contained settlement on Luna, Earth's moon, which was visible from Earth with the naked eye. Red Squad member Dorian Collins grew up in Tycho City.

by **Untouchable** on Sat May 13, 2006 10:32 am

Astrometrics Lab

AS-troh-met-riks LAB - noun. Area of a starship where information about stars and their locations are stored and can be projected on a screen Seven of Nine upgraded Voyager's Astrometrics Lab to include navigational data collected by the Borg.

by **Untouchable** on Sun May 14, 2006 1:13 pm

Airponics bay

ayr-PAHN-iks bay - noun. Compartment aboard a starship dedicated to plant cultivation using a moist air medium rather than soil. The Airponics bay on Voyager was maintained by Kes, who used it to supplement the crew's food supply.

by **Untouchable** on Tue May 16, 2006 10:37 am

Dabo

DAH-boh - noun. Casino game popular in Ferengi-owned establishments, similar to the Terran game of roulette. Wagers you commonly hear in dabo include "double down" and "triple over."

by **Untouchable** on Wed May 17, 2006 12:29 pm

Stardate

STAR-dayt - noun. Timekeeping system used by Starfleet to provide a standard galactic temporal reference.

by **Untouchable** on Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:58 pm

Latinum

LAT-in-um - noun. A valuable liquid metal, commonly suspended in gold-pressed ingots, used as a medium of monetary exchange in parts of the galaxy. "You only get one shot at the latinum stairway and if you miss it, you miss it." --Quark

by **Untouchable** on Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:37 am

Daystrom Institute

DAY-strum IN-stih-toot - noun. Major technological research center named for 23rd-century computer scientist Richard Daystrom. Leah Brahms, one of the designers of the Enterprise-D, was a graduate of the Daystrom Institute.

by **Untouchable** on Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:44 pm

Tricorder

TRI-cohr-duhr - noun. Portable instrument used for a variety of scientific and medical purposes, mainly scanning and analyzing of lifeforms and materials. Jadzia Dax loved the classic 23rd-century design of the tricorder.

by **Untouchable** on Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:25 am

Dataport

DAY-tuh-port - noun. Device implanted in a person's brain that allows direct interface with a computer system. Arissa used her dataport to try to break into DS9's computer, but Odo's security protocols generated some nasty feedback.

by **Untouchable** on Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:50 am

Cytokinetic Injection

SIE-toe-kihn-eh-tik in-JEK-shun - noun. Compound invented by Voyager's EMH to be given to members of Species 8472. The cytokinetic injection reverses the isomorphic injections that had allowed Species 8472 to disguise themselves as human.

by **Untouchable** on Sat Feb 03, 2007 5:28 pm

Quadrant

KWAHD-runt - noun. In interstellar mapping, one-fourth of the Milky Way galaxy, with the divisions labelled Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta. Most of the Federation is located in the Alpha Quadrant.

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