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Androssi Protocol 2. Security procedure initiated by Lt. Commander Domenica Corsi of the U.S.S. da Vinci. This is a fallback in case Androssi Protocol 1 fails. It entails setting phasers on random settings and frequencies until one is found that can disrupt Androssi technology (Cold Fusion).

Androssi security device. A circular device, known among the Androssi as a panshar, that, like much Androssi technology, employs dimensional shifts. When activated, the device fires electrical bursts at opponents that cause damage to the central nervous system. Such damage is greater to Bolians than to humans. The device can be disrupted by phasers on a particular setting (Cold Fusion).

Anilegna. Worker assigned to the subspace accelerator project on Sarindar. Anilegna was killed by the second monster shii (Invincible Book 2).

annular confinement beam. A cylindrical force field used in transporters to ensure that a person being transported remains within the beam (“Power Play” [TNG]). A larger-scale version of the ACB was used on the subspace accelerator on Sarindar. This ACB was designed to clear a path of vacuum through the atmosphere. The power needs of the ACB are such that increases in size mean that its power output is increased logarithmically proportional to that size. The original design of the Sarindar ACB only increased the power exponentially, a potentially devastating error caught by Commander Sonya Gomez (Invincible Book 1). Gomez used the ACB to destroy the second monster shii (Invincible Book 2).

anprat. A delicacy on the Androssi homeworld that Overseer Biron is particularly fond of (Cold Fusion).

anril torpedo. Type of weapon that is capable of completely disrupting deflector shields, making it impossible to reconstitute immediately. Overseer Biron’s Androssi ship was equipped with two anril torpedoes, one of which was used against the U.S.S. da Vinci at Empok Nor (Cold Fusion).

Ansed. The First Speaker of Eerlik. The head of Eerlik’s government, Ansed had to guide her people when Ganitriul, the computer that ran all functions on Eerlik, was sabotaged by Pevvni Purists. Ansed found the need to walk places, to open doors manually, and to be subject to uncontrolled weather patterns to be quite a hardship. Ansed was born on Maryllo Island. She was killed by Undlar, the leader of the Purists (Fatal Error).

Archimedes, Shuttlecraft. Shuttlecraft assigned to the U.S.S. da Vinci (Fatal Error). Named after the famed Greek mathematician.

atonal minimalist. Subgenre of Sinnravian drad music. Blee Luu is one of its purveyors (Cold Fusion).

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Barbanti. Chief engineer of the U.S.S. Sugihara. Lieutenant Barbanti thought that Lieutenant Nog’s plan to tow Empok Nor with nine ships was “categorically insane,” and refused to accept any responsibility for it if Captain Janna Demitrijian went along with it (Cold Fusion).

Barnak, Jil. Chief engineer of the U.S.S. da Vinci. Lieutenant Barnak is an Atrean (The Belly of the Beast). When the Androssi security device was discovered to interfere with all the da Vinci crew’s combadges, Barnak had new ones replicated for the entire crew, which worked on different frequencies and would be less affected by the interference (Cold Fusion).

Bashir, Julian. Chief medical officer of Station Deep Space 9. Bashir was second in his Starfleet Medical Academy class, behind Dr. Elizabeth Lense (“Explorers” [DS9]).

“Beast, the.” Nickname given by the crew of the U.S.S. da Vinci to a large, round ship. The ship had two rings circling the outer hull—one across its equator, the other across its poles—that served as observation ports and were made of a material that is transparent from the inside. The Beast travelled via a black-hole propulsion drive. Believed to be a cruise ship originally, run by a humanoid race, it was taken over by insectoid aliens who were breeding in the engine core. They attacked the colony at Blossom IV, and were defeated by the U.S.S. Enterprise and examined by the da Vinci. More than a thousand times