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Engineering Database
Topic Started: May 2 2008, 10:18 PM (266 Views)
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Ablative Armor
An outer hull layer on some Federation starships that is designed to vaporize under weapons fire, thereby dissipating energy and protecting the ship's interior.
The prototype ships Defiant and Prometheus were equipped with ablative armor.


Adaptive Interface Link
A connection between computer systems of different origins. An adaptive link is necessary when attempting to transfer data or functionality between to disparate types of equipment. In 2369, such a link was used to download data from an alien space probe to the computers on station Deep Space Nine.


Antigrav
Anti-gravity repeller technology used in hand-held grips or pallets to allow handling of overly massive cargo, and in medical rehabilitation therapy.


Antilepton Interference
Type of particle field that can interfere with subspace radio. In 2369, Cardassian forces jammed subspace communications between Deep Space Nine and Starfleet with antileptons.


Anyon Emitter
Tool used by Starfleet Engineering personnel. In 2368, Lieutenant Commander Data used a modified anyon emitter to remove chroniton particle contamination caused by a Romulan interphase generator from the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D. The emitter was also used to return Chief Engineer La Forge and Ensign Ro to normal space from the phased condition in which they had been inadvertently trapped.


Argus Array
Located three light-years from Cardassian space, this huge subspace radio telescope stopped transmitting data in 2367 and the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D subsequently investigated. A Cytherian probe was determined to be the cause of the array's malfunction.


Atmosphere Conditioning Pumps
Component of the life support system of a starship. While under the control of Noonien Soong in 2367, Lieutenant Commander Data overrode seven independent safety locks and reset the pumps supplying the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D to operate in negative mode. Thie resulitng vaccuum forced the bridge crew to evacuate.


Autosequencers
Part of the transporter system which regulates the actual transporter process. When Ambassador T'Pel was apparently killed in a transporter accident in 2367, one suspected cause of the mishap was an autosequence malfunction.


Bio-Neural Gel Packs
Advanced Federation technology which adds synthetic neural cells to a soft-sided circuitry module, designed to organize information more efficiently and speed up response time. The new feature is standard on Intrepid-class starships such as the U.S.S. Voyager. Their organic elements are, however, subject to damage from organic infection.


Bipolar Torch
Cutting tool used by personnel on Deep Space Nine. In 2369, a torch was used to cut through the toranium metal inlay on one of the station's doors.


Broad-Spectrum Warp Field
A subspace bubble which may be found to interfere with the structural integrity of a quantum fissure. In 2370, the Enterprsie-D's shuttlecraft Curie used such a field to seal a quantum fissure.


Bussard Collectors
Component of the warp drive nacelles of Federation starships, name for a 20th century Terran physicist who first theorized their operation. Located at the front of the nacelle, the collectors generate large electromagnetic fields that attract the hydrogen gas found in interstellar space which is then used for fuel by the vessel's fusion reactors.


Cloaking Device
Technology of Romulan origin, first described in 2266, that can generate an energy screen to render a target object — usually a spacecraft — relatively invisible to sensors.
Due to their immense power drain, cloaking generators have usually prohibited simultaneous use of other major systems such as weaponry, shields or warp drive.
Although common to Klingon ships as well since the short-lived alliance with Romulus in the 2260s, Federation vessels have agreed to forego use of cloaks under the Treaty of Algeron, except in the case of the U.S.S. Defiant, which utilizes such a device by special arrangement.


Coil Scanner
When modified, the unit can detect a quantum resonance oscillator.


Containment Field
Forcefield used to isolate hazardous materials, measured by levels of power cohesiveness. Containment fields are routinely used to hold antimatter fuel within its storage pods. Also used in quarantine situations and to isolate dangerous biological materials.


Deflectors
Manipulatable energy forcefield or shield that can be generated around space vessels and other facilities for protection from natural hazards and enemy weaponry.
Transporters are generally not useable when deflector shield are in place.


Differential Magnetometer
Mechanisms used to fine-tune interpretations of magentic scans. One device used by the U.S.S. Rio Grande in 2369 to search for the Yangtzee Kiang was mounted on probes to pick up magnetic deflections from the Yangtzee Kiang's hull which had crashed on a moon's surface.


Dilithium
Crystalline substance used in warp propulsion systems to regulate the matter/antimatter reactions that provide the energy necessary for faster-than-light speed.
Naturally occurring dilithium is extremely rare and is mined on only a few planets, such as Coridan, Troyius and Rura Penthe.


Dilithium Chamber Hatch
Exterior door of the matter/antimatter reaction chamber, part of the warp drive of a starship. The hatch gives crewmen access to the dilithium crystal articulation frame when the frame requires service or the crystals need replacing.


Dilithium Crystal Articulation Frame
Component of the warp drive system of a starship that holds the dilithium crystals suspended in the drive's matter/antimatter stream, where the crystals can regulate the matter/antimatter reaction.


Dynoscanner
A type of sensor that can establish the presence of low-level molecular activity.


Electroplasma System - EPS
The common Federation power-distribution network, abbreviated EPS. Located on the power transfer conduits. Small quantities of drive plasma can be diverted through the taps to generate electricity for use by ship systems.


Electroplasma System Taps
Component of Federation starship warp drives located on the power transfer conduits. Small quantities of drive plasma can be diverted through the taps to generate electricity for use by ship systems.


Emergency Hand Actuator
Manual hand crank for emergency use aboard Federation starships. The crank, located next to a door within an access panel, can be used to force an unresponsive door to open.


Energy Distribution Net
Generic nomenclature for the Cardassian shipboard equivalent of Starfleet's electro-plasma system: the shipwide power system.


Environmental Suit
Sealed protective clothing worn by Starfleet personnel in hostile environments.


Flight Recorder
The recorder stores data and visual records from critical areas on a ship. It is intended for use by investigators to gather evidence in the event of an accident involving or aboard the ship.


Gravitational Unit
Mechanism used to generate artificial gravity aboard starships. The unit aboard the Klingon ship Kronos One was disabled as part of the scheme to assassinate Chancellor Gorkon in 2293.


Gravitic Sensor Net
Sensor network for the detection of cloaked vessels. The Federation employed such nets with moderate success near the Romulan Neutral Zone.


Graviton
Elementary particle of matter that transmits gravitational energy.


Graviton Field
Component of a tractor beam that enhances the structural strength of an object undergoing towing. In 2369, Deep Space Nine was endangered by an unknown life form contained inside an alien artifact that was capable of generating graviton fields. The crisis was resolved when the artifact was transported off the station, allowing the life form to emerge and disappear into the Bajoran wormhole.


Graviton Field Generator
One component of forcefield and artificial gravity generators. In 2368, a Romulan vessel was forced to eject its warp core when a phase technology trial caused the graviton field generator aboard ship to depolarize.


Heisenberg Compensators
Part of the transporter that permits the derivation of positional data and precision vectors of particles on a subatomic level.


Holodeck
The generic name, especially in use aboard Federation starships, for the "smart" virtual reality system as evolved by the 2360s — a technology that combines transporter, replicator, and holographic systems.
The programs, projected via emitters within a specially outfitted but otherwise empty room, can create both "solid" props and characters as well as holographic background to evoke any vista, any scenario, and any personality — all based on whatever real or fictional parameters are programmed.
While personal holoprograms relieve the stress and isolation of shipboard life for crew personnel, Holodecks are also used for tasks ranging from scientific simualtion to tactical or even covert training. Off starships, many commercial users have equipped facilities with so-called Holosuites.


Holodeck Imaging Processor
The technology in a holodeck system which produces the visual imagery.


Holodeck Matter
A form of matter created in holodeck simulations. This type of matter is only stable within the confines of a holodeck. If removed from the holodeck, objects made of this material collapse into energy and are destroyed.


Hologenerators
Equipment used by a holodeck to create holographic images. In 2369, Quark mentioned to Security Chief Odo that he would like to expand the size of his bar so that he could use the bar's existing hologenerators to add more holosuite facilities.


Hologram Generator
Device used to conceal anthropological teams and their survey sites from native planetary life forms, so that the anthropologists can make observations without being detected. In 2366, the generator at a Mintaka III station failed, caused cultural contamination when the Mintakans captured a member of the anthropology team stationed on that planet.


Holographic Information Module
Device which can store and transmit holographic information. Data discovered such a module in the cranium of his "mother" which transmitted a message from his creator, Dr. Noonien Soong. Soong asked that his wife not be told the reality of her situation -- that her consciousness had been transferred into the body of an artificial lifeform.


Imaging Scanner
Device within a transporter that creates a molecular-resolution image of the individual being transported, and allowing for creation of a rematerialization matrix. Transporters use redundant scanners, allowing the system to ignore one scanner if its results disagree with the others.


Impulse Drive
Propulsion system used aboard spacecraft for travel at subwarp speeds, employing traditional Newtonian action-reaction thrust physics. Full impulse speed is about one-quarter light speed, sufficient for interplanetary travel. Aboard Federation starships, fusion reactors power the engines using deuterium fuel to create helium plasma. Overload of an impulse engine on the damaged U.S.S Constellation, a Constitution-class starship, was once rated at 97.835 megatons.


Impulse Sustainer
Propulsion system used in vehicles such as sensor probes to provide thrust after the probe is launched.


Inertial Dampers
Mechanisms aboard starships to compensate for acceleration forces caused by speed changes.


Interface Probe
A remotely-controlled robotics device that allows work to occur in dangerous environments. The user is able to connect with the probe such that the senses believe the individual is actually in the environment.


Intermix Formula
Mathematical equation used to determine the proper mix of matter and antimatter in the warp core reaction chamber among starship propulsion systems. Artificial wormholes could result if the mix is applied incorrectly.


Internal Power Grid
Synonym for EPS power distribution system aboard Federation starships.


Interphasic Compensator
Hand-held device that, when connected to a starship's warp core, can be used to realign warp coils.


Ion Propulsion
Spacecraft drive system that used magnetic fields to drive electrically charged gases. Ion propulsion was used in Class F shuttlecraft in the 2260s, but its application by a ship from Sigma Draconis VI left Montgomery Scott speechless upon first contact in 2268. Its ion wake was easily detectable.


Isolinear Optical Chip
Information storage and processing media used aboard starships circa 2329, and in general usage since around 2349. The chips are composed of a linear memory crystal material and are often mounted in wall racks containing dozens or hundreds of the devices.

Isolinear chips replaced the duotronic system previously in use on Federation starships.


Jefferies Tube
Traditional name for personnel access conduits aboard Federation starships, usually to allow hands-on contact to critical circuitry and serve as emergency access in times of power outage.


Laser-Induced Fusion
Nuclear fusion ignited by lasers. Such a system is used in the impulse drives of Federation starships as well as for the power reactors aboard Deep Space Nine. Engineering term for controlled nuclear fusion in which the required ignition temperatures created by powerful lasers. Laser-induced fusion is used in the impulse drive engines of Federation starships, as well as in the power supply reactors on Deep Space 9.


Library Computer Access and Retrieval System (LCARS)
Name of the main computer system aboard Federation starships.


Linear Memory Crystal
Component of an isolinear chip. This optically refractive material is a key part of data processing devices.


Magnetic Seals
Part of the matter/antimatter containment system aboard Federation starships. The seals prevent the antimatter from making contacting with the ship's structure and destroying the vessel. The U.S.S. Yamato was destroyed in 2365 when its seals failed. The emergency system that would have ejected the antimatter from the ship in the event of a seal failure also did not function.


Maneuvering Thrusters
Low-velocity propulsion system used by spacecraft. The thrusters are reaction-control jets in docking maneuvers and similar situations for precision positional and attitude control.


Master Systems Display
A display/control console located in Main Engineering aboard Federation starships.


Matter Stream
A beam of phased/dematerialized matter in a transporter that is sent from the transporter to the destination (or vice versa) that is then reconstituted back into the transported subject.


Matter/Antimatter Reaction Chamber
The actual intermix chamber at the heart of a warp propulsion system, as designed in Federation vessels, where matter and antimatter are safely allowed to react in the most efficient manner. The residual energy, regulated by a dilithium matrix and a series of warp field coils, then creates a subspace field about the vessel for faster-than-light travel. The use of antimatter requires than a series of safety interlocks and magnetic fields protect the entire warp core.


Metaphasic Shield
Type of shield invented by the Ferengi scientist Dr. Reyga in 2369. A metaphasic shield is a series of overlapping low-level subspace fields, which causes the shielded object to partially exist within subspace itself.


Micro-Optic Drill
Handheld engineering tool for drilling tiny precision holes in substances.


Mid-Range Phase Adjuster
A device for compensating for inertial distortion within drive plasma of warp drive systems.


Mnemonic Memory Circuit
Type of computer circuit used in modern databank access.


Nacelle
That part of a starship's hull that houses the warp drives -- usually an outboard pair of symmetrical cylinders or pods, and in Federation designs running parallel to the ship's line of flight.
The nacelles contain subspace field coils and in some cases have Bussard collectors mounted at the fore end.


Neutrino Field
Concentration of neutrino particles.


Nitrium
A alloy used for the interior construction of Federation ships. The alloy is used in areas where an extremely strong radiation resistant metal is needed such as damping field generators, power transfer conduits, and the matter/antimatter reaction chamber.


Nucleonic Beam
An energy beam of such low level that it is capable of penetrating shields of Federation starships. A nucleonic beam from the Kataan probe penetrated the U.S.S. Enterprises shield and affected Captain Picard's brain wave patterns.


ODN
Acronym for Optical Data Network. The system of fiber-optics used on Federation starships by the ship's computers for data transmission.


Opti-Cable
The fiber-optic cable used in Federation starship computer systems by the optical data network (ODN).


PADD
Acronym for Personal Access Display Device.
A portable handheld information access device used by Starfleet crewmembers.


Palm Beacons
Similar to high powered flashlights, a palm beacon is a high output, hand held light source used by Federation personnel when on away mission.


Pattern Buffer
Storage area within a transporter where a person's image is held until the transporter's transmission frequency is adjusted to any relative motion between the transporter and the target and the Doppler effect caused by such motion. A critical part of the transporter system, two buffers are in operation simultaneously so that in the event one unit fails, the images of the transport subjects can be moved to the backup buffer.
Pattern buffers were multiplexed beginning in 2319 to avoid causing transporter psychosis in transport subjects.
In 2369, a quasi-energy microbial life form was discovered in the Igo sector that could live in the matter stream within a pattern buffer.


Pattern Enhancer
Portable Starfleet devices used to amplify the signal lock of transporter signals in hazardous conditions, such as electrical storms. Enhancers are typically deployed in groups of three, placed in a triangular pattern around the subjects to be transported.


Phase Buffer
This component of the sensor array in Galaxy-class starships is located in the Jefferies tubes. Misalignment of phase buffers can decrease system efficiency, which is particularly important when traveling in areas containing heavy interference, such as the Hekaras Corridor.


Phase Conditioners
Device that is part of a seismic regulator. Triolic waves will cause conditioners to malfunction.


Phase Decompiler
Engineering hand tool used for repairing plasma distribution manifolds in a conduit.


Phase Discriminator
Device that is a component of various systems and comes in several types. The positronic brain of Lieutenant Commander Data had a type-R discriminating amplifier. The brain of the android Lore had a type-L amplifier. A handheld version was used to adjust an away team from the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D to the time continuum of the Devidians. Starfleet emergency transporter armbands contain a type-7 discriminator. With the discriminator, the armbands can be modified to create subspace forcefields around the wearer.


Phase Transition Coils
Transporter component that converts a person's from matter to energy and back again.


Phase Variance
Fluctations or oddities in natural and artificial emissions.


Phase-Conjugate Graviton Emitter
This engineering device is occasionally employed by tractor beams, allowing them to lift more.


Plasma Infuser
Handheld device used to transfer high-energy plasma.


Plasma Injector
In later centuries, this is the term for the injectors in each nacelle that are fed the warp plasma coming off the warp reactor core in order to fire it through the warp coils.


Progressive Memory Purge
Progressive memory purge is a computer cleansing process, that restores a computer's memory to its original state.


Quantum Phase Inhibitor
Known more commonly as the Tox Uthat, the inhibitor could stop the nuclear reaction that takes place within stars. It was invented in the twenty-seventh century by Kal Dano.


Quarantine Transmitter
Radio beacons aboard Federation starships used to send automated warnings to other vessels in the event that the ship was contaminated in some hazardous fashion.


Ramscoop
Also known as a Bussard collector.


Rematerialization Subroutine
Part of the operating program of a transporter. This subroutine controls the reintegration of transported subjects.


Replicator
Devices derived from transporter technology to dematerialize matter and then reconstitute it in another form.
Replicators, in use since the early 24th century, are most commonly used as food dispensers aboard Federation starships. The menu is only limited by the programming, as opposed to the days of carrying natural or reconstituted foodstuffs with delivery by special turbolifts or transporters.
Generally replicated food and "natural" food taste the same, though some people claim to be able to detect a difference.


Secondary Plasma Conduit
A vital part of a Federation starships warp drive.


Security Bypass Module
Electronic devices used to defeat computer security restrictions and allow access to prohibited area.


Shield Inverters
Part of the shield array systems on Federation starships. In 2368, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D used its shield inverters as part of a plan to remove ionized plasma from the atmosphere of planet Penthara IV.


Shield Nutation
A way varying the shield frequency phase rotation. In 2366, shield nutation was used to increase The U.S.S. Enterprises shield effectiveness against the Borg. This only temporarily worked though as the Borg ships were able to overcome the effects in just a few short minutes.


Shields
Forcefields that protect space vessels from damage by natural hazard or enemy attack. Synonyms include deflectors, deflector shields, or screens. Transporters cannot operate through raised shields.


Spatial Orientation Systems
Part of the holodeck computer network. These systems control the orientation of objects created within the holodeck. When character in the holodeck of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D began exhibiting changes in their dominant hands (right-handed characters became left-handed and the reverse), a malfunction in the orientation systems was suspected as the cause of the problem.


Static Warp Bubble
Toroidal, nonpropulsive subspace field. Using Kosinski's warp field equations, Ensign Wesley Crusher created such a bubble in 2367. In an accident, Dr. Beverly Crusher was trapped within it, where her thoughts shaped the reality inside the phenomenon. Since her thoughts at that moment were about lost friends, her universe within the bubble began shrinking until she was the only person remaining. Before the bubble collapsed, Dr. Crusher was rescued by the combined efforts of Ensign Crusher and the Traveler.


Subspace Field Inverter
Mechanism that generates low-level Eichner radiation, a form of energy that stimulates growth in some types of plasma plague strains. Such an inverter is not part of the normal inventory of a Galaxy-class starship.


Subspace Radio
Method of communication that sends electromagnetic signals through subspace, boosting the signal's range and speed to translight velocities. Subspace signals can carry audiovisual data as well as text messages. Within Federation boundaries, a network of relay stations augments subspace communication and amplifying and rerouting messages as needed.


Subspace Resonator
Field manipulation apparatus.


Subspace Transponder
Location beacon used by space vehicles ranging from starships to flight recorders.


Tetryon Particles
A field of subatomic particles that forms when a metaphasic shield is hit by a phased ionic pulse.


Thet-Matrix Compositor
Part of the warp drive on the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D. It recrystallizes dilithium crystals at a rate ten times more efficient than had previously been accomplished on Excelsior-class vessels.


Thoron Emissions
Also known as radon-220. Radioactive isotopes created by the decay of thorium.


Tractor Beam
Graviton force beam used by starships to manipulate objects outside the ship. Tractors are commonly used for towing other vessels and guiding shuttlecraft through landing and launches.


Transporter
Transportation device that converts objects or persons to energy, sends that energy to the destination, and reconstitutes the objects/persons back into matter.
Transporters cannot beam objects through deflector shields.


Transporter Biofilter
Component of a transporter that scans and removes disease and virus organisms from incoming individuals. The biofilter is only effective against known organisms that it is programmed to recognize.


Transporter Carrier Wave
Subspace signal through which a transporter beam is transmitted. With adjustments, Romulan transporters can simulate a Starfleet transporter model's wave.


Transporter Control Module
A Federation engineering device that is at the heart of the transporter. When Kazon-Nistrim, under the direction of Seska, stole one of these modules, the two were able to adapt transporter technology to a Kazon vessel. The module includes a quantum resonance oscillator.


Transporter ID Trace
Data maintained by computers in a Federation transporter system that tracks the identity of any subject beamed through the transporter. The trace provides a mechanism to verify whether or not an individual has actually been beamed through a particular transporter.


Transporter Test Article
Duranium cylinder one meter in height and 25 centimeters in diameter. These cylinders are used as test objects when evaluating a transporter's operation. The test articles can be beamed to a remote location and back, or simply beamed between pads on the same transporter.


Tricorder
Handheld Starfleet device combining sensors, recorders and built-in computing capability. Issued in a variety of models for engineering, scientific and medical uses. As of 2366, the standard model tricorder sensors could not detect subspace phenomena or neutrino particles.


Trilithium Resin
Waste material generated by exposing dilithium to the matter/antimatter reaction within a warp drive's engine core. The material is toxic and unstable, and so is useful only as an explosive.


Tritanium
Exotic metal alloy used in the hulls of Federation spacecraft.


Tritium
A slightly radioactive hydrogen isotope with an atomic weight of 3, hazardous if in high concentrations.


Universal Translator
Device for translation of spoken languages in real-time communication. It operates by scanning brain-wave frequencies and using the results to create a basis for translation.


Viewer
General term for the visual displays found throughout Federation starships.
Viewers come in a variety of sizes, from desktop units to wall-mounted version such as that commonly found on the main bridge of a starship.
Some viewers are equipped to generate three-dimensional images.


Warp Drive
The main propulsion system for most starships that is capable of faster-than-light travel.
The core of the warp drive uses to control the annihilation of matter and antimatter. This controlled explosion is what generates the tremendous power required to warp space and travel faster than light.
On Earth, warp drive was invented in 2063 by noted scientist Zefram Cochrane.


Warp Field Coils
A component of the warp drive system which actually forms a subspace "bubble" that the ship travels in at warp speed.
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