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P8 Blue. Noncommissioned Starfleet engineer assigned to the U.S.S. da Vinci as a structural systems specialist. “Pattie” is a member of the Nasat race, an insectoid with eight limbs (The Belly of the Beast). She also has larvae, which can apparently eat anything (Cold Fusion). She can contort herself into a ball-shaped object that only leaves her chitinous armor exposed (The Belly of the Beast). She has a specially designed chair in the da Vinci conference lounge to accommodate her (Fatal Error). Blue’s armor is protection against vacuum (Interphase Book 1). She and Commander Sonya Gomez engineered the warp pulse that got the U.S.S. Defiant out of interphase after it fell further into that interspatial phenomenon following a Tholian attack (Interphase Book 2). She intensely dislikes Sinnravian drad music; her roommate Carol Abramowitz is fond of that type of music, particularly a recording by Blee Luu. Her complaining to temporary first officer Lt. Commander Kieran Duffy got her shift rotation changed so she and Abramowitz no longer were on duty at the same time. When Lieutenant Nog played a Luu recording in her presence, she threatened bodily harm, but Nog was able to engineer a deal that took the Luu recording off Abramowitz’s hands, thus making Blue much happier (Cold Fusion).
panshar. See Androssi security device.
Pe. Language with similarities to the Omearan tongue (Hard Crash).
Pevvni. A group of Eerlikka who colonized the ninth planet in their system in 2326. They were the first Eerlikka to travel offworld, and approval for their colony was only granted after much debate by the Speakers of Eerlik. A group of radical terrorists known as Purists led by Reger Undlar sabotaged Eerlik’s world-running computer, Ganitriul, throwing the planet into chaos in 2376. They were stopped by the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team from the U.S.S. da Vinci, with help from Ganitriul itself (Fatal Error). The Pevvni were named for Joseph Pevney, who directed both “The Apple” and “Return of the Archons,” TOS episodes that featured world-running computers.
photonic grenade. Starfleet weapon. Photonic grenades do no physical damage, but do let off an intense light that can blind most species. Domenica Corsi used a photonic grenade on Eerlik’s moon in order to distract a group of Pevvni Purists and get away from them. The Eerlikka, with their wide eyes, were particularly susceptible to the grenade (Fatal Error).
Picard, Jean-Luc. Commanding officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise and one of the most prominent figures in Starfleet. Picard won the Starfleet Academy Marathon in his first year there in 2324 (“The Best of Both Worlds” Part 2). Captain David Gold was a fourth-year student that year, and was one of the upper-class students whom Picard beat (The Belly of the Beast). Sonya Gomez served under Picard on the Enterprise as an ensign; when they first met after she was assigned in 2365, she spilled hot chocolate all over him (“Q Who” [TNG]). After leading the Enterprise in battle against a large ship dubbed “the Beast” in 2376, Captain Picard lent his chief engineer, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge, and his security chief, Lieutenant Christine Vale, to the U.S.S. da Vinci to aid in the salvage of the ship (The Belly of the Beast). The Enterprise, as well as the Lexington, also responded to the da Vinci’s distress call at Intar to aid against what was believed to be a type of Borg ship, but which turned out to be the Omearan Starsearcher known as Friend. Hostilities with Friend ended, but the Enterprise rendezvoused with the da Vinci anyhow in order to bring La Forge back (Hard Crash).
pilot. Omearans who are modified from infancy to accommodate the links to the bio-mechanical Starsearcher ships. Their arms are altered to allow the arm sheaths to be attached, with their heads altered to accommodate cybernetic cranial implants. Only one in ten thousand Omearans can