Ablative armor
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Hull armor utilized on the most recent Starfleet vessels such as the U.S.S. Defiant class and the U.S.S. Prometheus. Ablative armor is an additional reactive plating imposing a counterforce to incoming weapon fire, thereby dissipating its energy.
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ACB
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Acronym for Annular Confinement Beam, a spatial matrix generated by the primary energizing coils of a transporter system. The ACB determines the geometry for the subsequent scanning and dematerialization process.
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Accelerated critical neural pathway formation
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Enhancement of human brain functions through genetic encoding. Julian Bashir's brain was improved at the age of six. The procedure, like many other forms of genetic engineering, is outlawed in the Federation.
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Airlock
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Area on a starship or space station which can be pressurized and depressurized to provide controlled access to open space or to docked vessels. An airlock consists of at least one chamber with one inner and one outer door. The Cardassian airlocks at Deep Space Nine have two chambers.
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Alternative timeline
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Any timeline which is different from the currently valid
timeline, in particular a timeline which does not exist any more because
of a time travel or another method to alter history.
An alternative timeline is equivalent to the "normal" course
of time, since only an external observer not affected by timeline changes
is able to perceive the difference (see Ex Time Travel - General Considerations).
The concept is similar to a parallel universe, still, parallel timelines
depend on one another which inevitably leads to paradoxes.
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Android
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Humanoid robot, basically consisting of a computer system, actuators and sensors inside a human-like body. Androids are intentionally designed this way so as to work in the same environment and to perform similar tasks as humans. Lt. Cmdr. Data is the only android so far who has been legally acknowledged as a sentient lifeform in the Federation.
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Antigrav
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Anti-gravity units that allow to handle heavy cargo. Antigravs
are available as hand-held devices and in form of pallets (see also gravity
generator).
Antigravs are probably based on the same principle as the gravity generators
on starships. Either antigravs generate a reverse gravity field that compensates
for the existing natural or artificial gravity, or they are capable of
shielding a volume from gravity.
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Antimatter
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Complementary form of matter in which the single particle has the same mass but reversed charge. The mutual annihilation of matter and antimatter releases an enormous amount of energy and is employed to power a starship's systems (see warp core).
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Antimatter generator
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Device located on deck 42 on a Galaxy-class vessel which
serves to generate antimatter for the warp drive in case the ship cannot
be resupplied in a refuel facility. In normal operation mode onboard antimatter
generation is not efficient.
It is obvious that more energy is necessary to produce antimatter than
the energy content of the obtained antimatter. The only reason for this
energy conversion is that the matter/antimatter reaction provides much
more power (energy per time) than a fusion reaction. This power is required
for the warp drive, while the other ship systems may alternatively be
powered by the impulse (fusion) reactor. It remains unknown whether other
starship classes have antimatter generators too.
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Antitime
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
A concept of time running in reverse direction. Time and
antitime are supposed to act like matter and antimatter, causing a breach
in space-time upon their collision.
It seems Q intentionally created antitime to fool Picard in TNG: "All
Good Things". The theory of antitime does exist in real world physics,
yet, it is mere speculation when it is supposed to occur (possibly in
a contracting universe or in the center of a black hole) and what the
impact will be.
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Assimilation
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Borg term for forced integration of lifeforms and technology
into their Collective. For humanoids, assimilation implies transformation
into a drone, thereby completely losing their individuality. Nanoprobes
injected into the body are key components in this process. Technology
is assimilated by combining and gradually merging existing Borg and new
technology.
The difference between the human research approach and the assimilation
concept becomes most obvious in VOY: "Scorpion". The mighty
Borg Collective is helpless against Species 8472 that cannot be assimilated,
while a few people on a small starship find a solution through extensive
research.
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Astrometrics
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Stellar cartography lab aboard a Federation starship, employed
to chart regions of space and to determine the ship's position.
The department on the Enterprise-D was called "stellar cartography",
while it's "astrometrics" on Voyager. It can be supposed that
both are synonymous.
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Atmospheric system
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Part of the life support systems that provides breathable air and comfortable temperature and humidity on a starship. Class-M atmosphere is the standard setting on Federation starships, implying 26°C temperature, 45% relative humidity and 101kPa air pressure with a composition of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 1% trace gases. Part of the starship volume can be switched to other environmental conditions. Oxygen is produced by photosynthetic processing of CO2.
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Auto destruct
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Extreme measure to prevent a starship from being captured
by an enemy, also referred to as self destruct. The auto destruct can
be initiated by the captain, acknowledged by voice recognition and personal
command code. In most cases it is necessary that the first officer or
other senior officers confirm the auto destruct. A silent count-down can
be selected in order not to warn enemy forces that are already aboard.
It seems Capt. Janeway was the only starship captain who is authorized
to destroy her ship all alone (VOY: "Dreadnought", "Deadlock").
Picard had to wait until "Nemesis".
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