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  2. List of Star Trek regions of space - Wikipedia

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    The series of novels known as Star Trek: The Q Continuum explain the two barriers, stating that they were created by the Continuum 600,000 years ago, to keep one omnipotent being (known as "The One", which is the same alien encountered in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier) sealed away at the center of the Galaxy, and to keep another (known as "0 ...

  3. Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula - Wikipedia

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    Potential hazards on planetary excursions include running out of fuel, dangerous weather conditions, and hostile alien lifeforms. [2] [6] The locations of uninhabited earth-like planets may be logged for recommendation to Interstel as potential colony worlds in return for a substantial monetary reward. [7]

  4. Gorn - Wikipedia

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    In this continuum, the Gorn Confederation is a powerful empire located coreward of the Romulan Star Empire, also bordering the United Federation of Planets and the Interstellar Concordium. It comprises three genetically related races, each from a neighboring star system, known as Ghdar I, Ghdar II and Ghdar III.

  5. List of Star Trek aliens - Wikipedia

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    As such, they were forced to be permanently confined to a penal settlement on an Angosian moon. A non-canon novel trilogy, Star Trek: The Q Continuum, shows that the Angosians have had some success in later efforts to reintegrate the soldiers, as one now serves on the Enterprise-E. Antedean: Antede III "Manhunt" (TNG)

  6. Ferengi - Wikipedia

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    Ferengi makeup design and uniform from Star Trek: The Experience. The name Ferengi was coined based on the originally Persian Ferenghi (compare older Feringhee), a term used in various languages throughout Asia and Ethiopia meaning "foreigners" or "Europeans", itself descending from the word farang which referred specifically to Franks and gradually expanded in meaning. [1]

  7. Science and Technology Facilities Council - Wikipedia

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    Dr Brian Bowsher, former CEO of the National Physical Laboratory and member of STFC's Council was the last CEO of the STFC before it was subsumed into UK Research and Innovation, a division of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. In 2018, Professor Mark Thomson was appointed as the first Executive Chair of STFC under UKRI.

  8. Weapons in Star Trek - Wikipedia

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    They are depicted as muzzle-loading muskets, to fit with the American Civil War-theme used by the Q Continuum as a concession to the human characters' limited perceptions. Presumably, their actual form would be as incomprehensible to non-Q as the Continuum itself. The use of the weapons caused stars to go supernova as a side effect in normal ...

  9. James Clerk Maxwell Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The older continuum single pixel UKT14 bolometer receiver was replaced around 1995 by the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA). This instrument operated simultaneously at wavelengths of 450 and 850 micron (with 91 and 37 pixels, respectively), and was sensitive to the thermal emission from interstellar dust .