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Science and Technology List

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Guardian of Forever [1] More than a hundred years after its discovery, the Guardian of Forever remains an almost total mystery. Discovered by Captain Kirk in 2267, the Guardian was located on an uninhabited planet. It was roughly ring-shaped, approximately three metres in diameter. Sentient and apparently highly intelligent, the Guardian spoke in fairly ambiguous terms, claiming that its answers were being tailored to the level of Human understanding. It claimed to simultaneously be both a device and a life form and said it was "its own beginning", possibly indicating that it had somehow evolved by itself rather than having been constructed by others. Although it was located the middle of ruins which dated back one million years, the Guardian claimed that it had been awaiting a question since "before your sun burned hot in space", a span of some five billion years. It therefore seems that the city was built around the Guardian rather than vice versa.

The Guardian could show images of distant times and places, and was apparently designed to act as a portal which allowed travel to those locations. Several Enterprise crew members used the Guardian to travel to 1930s Earth and return safely.

Many questions remain concerning the Guardian, not least that of who might have built it. If its claim as to how long it had awaited a question is correct, it would pre-date even the Progenitors by at least a billion years, and may in fact be the oldest entity in our universe. Given its tendency to talk in riddles it seems unlikely that the Guardian will be more forthcoming about itself in the future. [1]
Gravity generator [2] Device which creates artificial gravity within a spacecraft or station. Federation gravity generators are immensely reliable, often functioning even in the event of total power failure. [2]
Gravity Boots [3] Gravity boots allow the user to work normally is zero or very low gravity situations. Pairs of gravity boots were used by the Federation conspirators to board and kill Chancellor Gorkon on board his flagship when the gravity had been taken out by photo torpedoes fired by a cloaked Bird of Prey. [3]
Graviton stabiliser [4] Device used aboard Federation starships. A ship could not function without a graviton stabiliser. In 2375 the Defiant's stabiliser failed, forcing Nog to engage in various trades to acquire a new one. [4]
Graviton Relay [5] Element of a Federation Starship. Graviton relays can make a small noise when a turbolift passes by them; Ensign Gilmore found the sound distressing as it reminded her of an interspatial fissure opened. [5]
Graviton Ellipse [6] Type of spatial anomaly, the first encountered by Humanity. Graviton ellipses are extremely old, and tend to contain large numbers of objects which have been scooped up into them over billions of years. [6]
Gravitic Calipers [7] A tool used by the Federation in the 2260s. In 2265 Cervantes Quinn falsely claimed that his cargo included gravitic calipers. [7]
Gravimetric waves [8] Effect associated with certain types of anomaly in the Delphic Expanse. [8]
Gold [9] A metallic element, gold was considered to be very valuable in many cultures, including 20th century Earth. [10] Fort Knox in the US was widely known on the planet as a storage location for over fifty metric tons of Gold, valued at over nine trillion U.S. dollars. When the new world economy took shape in the late twenty second century the Gold became valueless and Fort Knox was turned into a museum. In 2365 some Ferengi attempted to steal the Gold from Fort Knox, though the attempt failed. [11]

Whilst Gold became worthless on Earth in the late 2100s, in 2266 it still retained some value amongst Humans on other Federation worlds, though Latinum crystals were worth thousands of times as much as the equivalent weight of Gold. [12] The planet Janus IV was a major source of Gold once the miners were able to access it thanks to the assistance of the Hortas living on the planet. [9]

By the year 2364 the Ferengi still considered Gold to be valuable. [13] In 2366 Daimon Goss offered a quantity of Gold to the Barzan as part of his bid to gain control of their wormhole. [14] However, by 2374 Gold had lost all value with the Ferengi and was considered worthless. [15] It still found use, however, as the Ferengi took to using Gold to suspend the highly valuable liquid latinum. Such 'Gold-pressed Latinum' was a standard currency amongst the Ferengi, as well as being widely used by other cultures. [15]

Genetic engineering [16] The modification of the genetic code of an organism. [16] Genetic engineering is illegal in the Federation, or at least on Earth. [17]
Genesis Device [18] Created by a team under the leadership of Dr. Carol Marcus, the Genesis effect is a method of reorganizing the molecular structure of matter at a subatomic level with life generating results.

Dr. Marcus planned to carry out the project in three stages. Her team successfully achieved stage one within a laboratory prior to 2284. Stage two was planned to take place underground on a lifeless planetoid, and once the Federation granted approval the Regula asteroid was chosen. A space laboratory, Regula I, was orbited around the planetoid and a Starfleet engineering team spent ten months in spacesuits tunnelling out a test site. After a year of development work the team proceeded with the second phase test. The stunning potential of the device became clear; within the space of a day it hollowed out an underground cave several cubic kilometres in size. Lifeforms rapidly developed within the cave, creating an entire ecosystem from scratch. [18]


Starfleet assigned the USS Reliant to the project in order to find a test site for phase three of the project. Dr. Marcus planned to try the process on a planetary scale, and set out to build a torpedo-like Genesis device which would be launched at a lifeless moon or other body. The detonation would begin a chain reaction that would rapidly spread across the entire surface, turning a dead world into a living breathing planet capable of sustaining whatever life forms were deposited on it.

Unfortunately, the effect would 'overwrite' any existing life with the new matrix. Aware of the awesome weapons potential of this technology, Dr. Marcus was determined to prevent the test from killing so much as a single microbe. The Reliant was tasked with finding a completely lifeless planet for the stage three test.

Unfortunately, whilst investigating Ceti Alpha V the Reliant was captured by Khan Sing, marooned there by Captain Kirk many years earlier. Khan coerced the crew into revealing the existence of the Genesis project and immediately attempted to capture the device. He was ultimately successful in doing this, but Kirk and the Enterprise lured the Reliant into the Motarra nebula near Regula and crippled it there.

In a last attempt to destroy Kirk, Khan detonated the Genesis device within the nebula. The device performed beyond any previous expectations, completely destroying the nebula and using the matter to create a new planet entirely from scratch. As with the Genesis cave, lifeforms evolved on the planet within a matter of days. [18]


Amazingly, the Starfleet team led by Dr David Marcus - son of the project leader - which went to investigate the planet also discovered that the effect had also regenerated the body of Captain Spock, which had been fired onto the planet after his death. Like the stage two cave on Regula, the Genesis planet itself had a fully developed ecosystem on its surface. It also had an amazingly diverse surface, with every variety of land and weather known to Earth within a few hours walk.

Aware of the Genesis device's potential as a weapon, the Klingons were working to uncover its secrets almost as soon as Khan detonated it. They managed to obtain the original project proposal made by Dr. Marcus, and sent a Bird of Prey to the Genesis planet to capture the technology itself if possible. The ship destroyed the Grissom and captured the landing party led by Dr. Marcus. [19]


It had become clear during the investigation that there was something badly wrong with the planet. Dr. Marcus confessed that he had included protomatter in the device, an unstable substance that had been condemned by every ethical scientist and banned from use. Its presence in the matrix rendered the resulting planet unstable and caused it to ageing at a rapid pace.

Captain Kirk, acting in violation of orders, arrived at the planet only to see the Enterprise disabled and boarded by the Klingons. He destroyed the ship and managed to capture the Klingon vessel, escaping the Genesis planet as it tore itself apart. [19]


Despite almost a century of research, the Genesis device never proved fully successful. However, while it cannot create habitable planets it remains a highly effective weapon of mass destruction. Fortunately, the Federation has never employed such methods and the technology remains unused.
Gallicite [20] A very rare substance, Gallicite can be used to refit the warp coils of an intrepid class Starship; Voyager encountered a deposit of almost a kiloton of the material on Stardate 50537.2. [20] The Nezu operated Gallicite mines on one of their planets. [21] Gallicite deposits are also to be found on Vulcan in the region can release powerful energy discharges if metallic objects are brought near to them. [22]

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References

# Series Season Source Comment
1 TOS 1 The City on the Edge of Forever
2 ENT 1 Broken Bow
3 Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country
4 DS9 7 Treachery, Faith, and the Great River
5 VOY 5 Equinox, Part 1
6 VOY 6 One Small Step
7 Star Trek : Vanguard, Book 1 - Harbinger
8 ENT 3 Harbinger
9 TOS 1 The Devil in the Dark
10 DS9 4 Little Green Men
11 VOY 5 Dark Frontier, Part 1
12 TOS 1 Mudd's Women
13 TNG 1 The Last Outpost
14 TNG 3 The Price
15 DS9 6 Who Mourns for Morn?
16 TOS 1 Space Seed
17 DS9 5 Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
18 Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan
19 Star Trek III : The Search for Spock
20 VOY 3 Blood Fever
21 VOY 3 Rise
22 ENT 4 Kir'Shara
Series : TOS Season 1
Episode : The City on the Edge of Forever
Series : ENT Season 1
Episode : Broken Bow
Film: Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country
Series : DS9 Season 7
Episode : Treachery, Faith, and the Great River
Series : VOY Season 5
Episode : Equinox, Part 1
Series : VOY Season 6
Episode : One Small Step
Novel : Star Trek : Vanguard, Book 1 - Harbinger
Series : ENT Season 3
Episode : Harbinger
Series : TOS Season 1
Episode : The Devil in the Dark
Series : DS9 Season 4
Episode : Little Green Men
Series : VOY Season 5
Episode : Dark Frontier, Part 1
Series : TOS Season 1
Episode : Mudd's Women
Series : TNG Season 1
Episode : The Last Outpost
Series : TNG Season 3
Episode : The Price
Series : DS9 Season 6
Episode : Who Mourns for Morn?
Series : TOS Season 1
Episode : Space Seed
Series : DS9 Season 5
Episode : Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Film: Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan
Film: Star Trek III : The Search for Spock
Series : VOY Season 3
Episode : Blood Fever
Series : VOY Season 3
Episode : Rise
Series : ENT Season 4
Episode : Kir'Shara


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