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SA. See subspace accelerator.
S.C.E. See Starfleet Corps of Engineers.
Saber-class ship. Type of Federation starship. With a crew complement of approximately forty, the Saber-class ships are 190 meters long and are equipped with two shuttlecraft. Top speed is warp 9.7 for twelve hours. Many Saber-class ships have been assigned to the Starfleet Corps of Engineers (The Belly of the Beast). Saber-class ships in service include the U.S.S. Yeager (Star Trek: First Contact), the U.S.S. da Vinci (The Belly of the Beast), the U.S.S. Musgrave (Interphase Book 1), the U.S.S. Marco Polo, and the U.S.S. Mercury (Star Trek: The Next Generation: Gateways Book 3: Doors Into Chaos). The Saber-class was first seen in Star Trek: First Contact in the form of the Yeager, which was part of the armada that faced the Borg. It was chosen for the S.C.E. due to its small size and maneuverability.
Salek. First officer of the U.S.S. da Vinci, commanding officer of the ship’s Starfleet Corps of Engineers team. A Vulcan, Commander Salek served on the da Vinci during the Dominion War. He was killed on a mission, and replaced by Commander Sonya Gomez (The Belly of the Beast). sañuul. Word for “curse-lifter” in the Nalori language. Some members of the subspace accelerator team on Sarindar started referring to Commander Sonya Gomez as “Sañuul” after she fixed the antigrav units and then later killed a monster shii, despite her attempts to discourage it (Invincible Book 1). When a second monster shii appeared and began killing more and more members of the team, they stopped calling her that (Invincible Book 2).
Saolgud. Worker on the subspace accelerator project on Sarindar. He was killed by the first monster shii (Invincible Book 1).
Sarimun. Alien race. The Sarimun and the Omearans fought a war that the Omearans won, but which left them devastated, leading to their sending Starsearchers on exploratory missions (Hard Crash).
Sarindar. Planet in the Nalori Republic. Sarindar is a world with heavy concentrations of chimerium. The high concentration of this mineral also makes it nigh unto impossible to use transporters or sensors. In addition, Sarindar’s sun puts out interference that renders stratospheric electromagnetic activity null except for once every fourteen hours. The planet is crystalline in nature, and the planet is populated by silicon-based life. The clouds are reddish-purple, and the sky is orange. Among the native animal life forms are shii, meir, and kliyor. The plant life is photosynthetic living crystal, and the ground is made up of similar substances, ranging from diamonds to quartz to topaz to amethyst. This topography makes the use of light-based energy weapons tantamount to suicide. In 2375, the Nalori started a project to construct a subspace accelerator on Sarindar that would allow them to mine the chimerium (Invincible Book 1). An alien race known only as “the owners” travelled to Sarindar some time in the past to conduct an archaeological expedition. They died out, apparently of an illness, but two machines equipped with chameleon circuits that they brought along to gather food for them remained. These machines took on the form of shii. Since the owners ate the cranial matter of other animals, the faux shii killed any visitors to Sarindar by decapitation, an eerie similarity to the Nalori legends of the monster shii. The creatures were killed by Commander Sonya Gomez, thus allowing the construction of the SA to continue (Invincible Book 2).
scattering field. Energy field that disrupts phasers and other energy-based weapons. During the Dominion War, Sonya Gomez found a way to minimize the effects of a Breen scattering field on Starfleet hand phasers, and was able to repeat the trick on Eerlik’s moon against a similar field generated by Ganitriul (Fatal Error).
Scott, Montgomery. Also known as “Scotty.” Former chief engineer of the U.S.S. Enterprise,