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the size of a Sovereign-class ship, and with a hull resistant to sensor scans, the ship had hundreds of redundant environmental systems, energy collectors, and over a hundred airlocks. Though the original twelve aliens that had taken over the ship were killed in the fight with the Enterprise, their offspring attacked the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team from the da Vinci that examined the ship afterward, and killed one of them, 111. The S.C.E. team was forced to destroy the vessel (The Belly of the Beast). The Androssi salvaged a ship similar to the Beast and utilized some of its technology to modify the station Empok Nor as part of an attempt to convert the station into a mobile weapons platform (Cold Fusion).

Biral. Speaker of Eerlik. After the death of First Speaker Ansed, Biral took her place as the head of Eerlik’s government (Fatal Error).

Biron. An overseer for the Androssi. Like all members of the Androssi officer class, Biron’s mandate is to acquire technology for his ship’s Elite sponsor. His method of doing so is generally to exploit other races by fixing—or pretending to fix—their technological problems in exchange for new technology. Biron first encountered the U.S.S. da Vinci on the planet Maeglin. Although details are not known, Biron came away poorly from that encounter. He ordered one of his ship’s Androssi security devices to be calibrated so that it would interfere with the specific combadges of the da Vinci crew if they encountered each other again. He next encountered the da Vinci at Empok Nor, where he was converting the abandoned station into a mobile weapons platform for an unnamed client, who had promised to provide holo-emitters for Biron’s Elite sponsor in return. Unfortunately, he had to cannibalize some of the weapons from his own ship in order to upgrade the station to the client’s specifications, which left his ship more vulnerable to an attack. The da Vinci succeeded in driving him off, though he was able to use a dimensional shift to retrieve all the upgraded components (Cold Fusion).

black-hole propulsion drive. Propulsion system that utilizes dozens of tiny black holes that are dropped into subspace and then returned to normal space a slight distance away, shoving the containment and thus the ship. The ship nicknamed “the Beast” used such a drive (The Belly of the Beast).

Blair, Thomas. Commanding officer of the U.S.S. Defiant. After investigating an attack on a Klingon colony at Traelus II in 2268, Captain Blair took the Defiant to Federation space, along with the web generator that was the only evidence of the Tholian attack on the colony. While being pursued by the Tholians, the Defiant fell into interphase and became trapped, with the crew suffering debilitating neurophysiological effects. Blair was killed by one of his crew while recording a log entry (Interphase Book 1).

Blossom IV. Federation colony. The farming colony was attacked by the ship known as “the Beast.” The enemy vessel did significant damage to the colony, killing a thousand and injuring a thousand more, before it was engaged and defeated by the U.S.S. Enterprise (The Belly of the Beast).

Borg. An immensely powerful civilization of enhanced humanoids. Starfleet’s first contact with the Borg was in 2365, while Sonya Gomez served on the U.S.S. Enterprise as an ensign. (“Q Who” [TNG]) In 2376, the crew of the U.S.S. da Vinci mistook the Omearan pilot named Jaldark Keniria for a Borg and her Starsearcher ship Friend for a Borg ship (Hard Crash).

Brioni Port. Spaceport on planet Eerlik (Fatal Error).

Bynar pair. Term given to two members of the Bynar race who are bonded. Bynar pairs do everything in tandem, including finishing each other’s sentences (“11001001” [TNG]).

Bynars. Humanoid civilization from the planet Bynaus. The Bynars are heavily integrated with a sophisticated planetary computer network. They mostly live in bonded pairings, and have numerical binary designations for names (“11001001” [TNG]). Bynars are also able to interface directly with most computer systems (The Belly of the