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Gel pack
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
See bioneural circuit.
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Genesis project
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Ambitious terraforming project at the end of the 23rd
century. Its key component, the Genesis device, was supposed to transform
desert planets into inhabitable Class-M worlds. This process was determined
by a transformation matrix.
The Genesis device is too omnipotent to be true. Not only did it form
a planet out of the gaseous or plasma matter of the Mutara Nebula, also
this planet was immediately turned into a Class-M world and, moreover,
even life was created from inanimate matter ("Star Trek: The Wrath
of Khan"). The Genesis device enables its owner to "play god",
and maybe the Klingon commander Kruge was right to see it as the ultimate
weapon. The amount of energy required exceeds the capabilities of the
small Genesis device by far, so a quantum uncertainty effect like in
the quantum torpedoes might be involved or energy would have to be produced
from part of the reacting matter itself in a kind of chain-reaction.
However, the so-called matrix is much more mysterious. The Genesis process
evidently has several stages that need precise scheduling, which is
supposed to be accomplished by the matrix. Entropy considerations forbid
the shown sequence of events, and it was not controlled from outside
either. At least the instability of the planet in the subsequent movie
"Star Trek: The Search for Spock" is plausible in this respect
and attributed to the explosion of the device within the Mutara Nebula
instead of a planet surface. Anyway, if Federation science had really
developed such divine capabilities, nothing would have been the same
after that. Still, never again this incredible advance was taken advantage
of and it was only mentioned in VOY: "The Omega Directive".
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Genetic engineering
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Generic term for modification of DNA, illegal in the Federation. See also accelerated critical neural pathway formation.
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Grappler
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Early mechanical equivalent to a tractor beam, used on Enterprise NX-01.
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Gravitic mine
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Star Trek Technology
Graviton-based weapon against spacecraft.
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Gravity generator
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Device based on the emission of graviton particles that
provides artificial gravity in normally zero-g environments. Artificial
gravity is an essential life support system on a starship, since it
allows natural walking and working and enables an "upwards"
and "downwards" orientation. Usually a network of gravity
generators is employed, in order to provide a homogeneous gravity field.
In case of an EPS failure, the gravity generators on Federation starships
remain in service for up to 240min.
The existence of gravitons has been confirmed by real world science.
Still, there is no viable theory for generating gravitons without providing
the corresponding mass. Since the distributed gravity generators keep
working even on heavily damaged ships, the loss of artificial gravity
is a very rare failure ("Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country",
VOY: "Prey", ENT: "Unexpected"). Of course, this
is also attributed to a limited special effects budget. There are experiments
in the real world to shield or change gravity with superconductors (external
link).
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