Android
An android is a mechanical life form. It looks like humans, acts, reacts, thinks and learns like humans. It is a computerised life form. An example of an android is Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. This character, Data, do not have any emotions but he is equipped with one. He is always trying to learn from and understand human nature.

Annular Confinement Beam
This beam maintains a lock on the person or thing being transported, telling it what to tranport and what to leave behind. It also helps to keep the person or thing in one piece.

Biochips
Cybernetic implants surgically embeded into bodies of the Borg. They enhance their physical abilities and synthesize any organic molecules needed by their biological tissues. The Borg would die if the biochips were removed.

Bio-neural Gel Packs
Biological computer processor, involving data transmission with neurons. Gel pack technology is more efficient than traditional optical data transmission. The USS Voyager was the first ship to be equipped with this technology. A gel pack contains a gelatinous organic medium. But this new technology is vunerable to viral and bacterial infections.

Chronitons
Particles that are in a state of temporal flux. These are used to create a temporal vortex to allow time travel. These are also used in cloaking devices.

Chroniton Torpedo
Chroniton Torpedos were used by the Krenims in the episode, "Year of Hell" on Star Trek Voyager. These torpedos exist out of the the space time continuum which allows the penetration into shields.

Cloaking Device
A cloaking device is invisible to the naked eye and sensors. An energy screen is formed by generator coils. Particles and radiation are bent around the ship, making the ship undetectable. Particles cover a longer way because of their bending. To mask any energy emissions from the ship itself, the ships systems are powered by 'nullifier cores', which dissipate the energy that is used.

Cochrane
Unit of subspace distortion named after Zephrem Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive. 1 cochrane is the distortion required to propel a ship at lightspeed (warp 1), to travel at warp 2 (10 times the speed of light), a distortion of 10 cochranes is required. On Star Trek Voyager 'cochrane' is also used for the intensity of matter/antimatter-reaction.

Comm-link
It is a communication link made by commbadges.

Computers
The computers have voice and manual interface. It uses the LCARS operating system to run. Only TNG, Voyager and DS9 uses this system. The Enterprise has three main computers. They are vertical cylinders, about 8 decks high, and located on opposite sides of the saucer. The third computer is located in engineering, and is smaller than the other two cores. In case of total computer failure, The Optical Data Network, (ODN) has enough processing power on its own to take over limited control of the ship in case of a complete computer failure. The displays use 'nanoprocessors' - cell sized mechanical computers - to display information. The three main computer cores are equipped with low level subspace field generators. This allows signal propagation within the cores at faster-than-light (FTL) speeds. Other new technology of computers are thereflex-quintronics used by the Defiant and Gel Packs used by the Voyager.

Containment Field
A specially shaped forcefield used to isolate dangerous materials like antimatter or biohazard specimens. Containment fields are used in antimatter storage pods to protect a ship against contact with the extremely volatile antimatter.

Disruptor
A disruptor is used to disrupt the molecular structure of an object.disrupts the molecular structure of an object.

Emergency Medical Hologram
The Emergency Medical Hologram is holographic, computer operated medical officer used when the resident doctor or medical officer is not available. It acts like a real human being.

Fusion Reactor
Used as energy source and propulsion system. A fusion reactor brings light atoms together, which produces heavier atoms and large amounts of energy. The usual fuel is -> deuterium or normal hydrogen, which fuse to helium. Starships have fusion reactors for auxillary power and impulse drive (max. cruising speed: 150,000 km/s - half lightspeed).

Holodecks
It is a personal recreation facility on a starship for the crew. The walls generate holographic images which appear to extend for an unlimited distance. Holograms can be augmented with force beams to simulate solid, tangible objects. Holograms and force beams can be augmented with replicator technology to provide actual substance. There are forcefield beams to keep the object from disintegrating. When an object changes status, the type of simulation is also changed- walls, hologram, holodeck matter or force beams. There's also a forcefield treadmill to help allow the person to go for what may seem a long distance.

Holomatrix
Combination of all computer (sub)routines from a hologram. The holomatrix forms the personality (if a person is simulated), appearance and function of a hologram.

Holosuite
Small holodeck for personal use.

Impulse Drive
Newtonian propulsion for speeds lower than -> lightspeed. Federation starships use -> fusion reactors as impulse drive. Deuterium is injected into a reaction chamber (Enterprise-D's main impulse engines has six reaction chambers per engine). The deuterium is heated to several million degrees Celsius by laser induction, which initiates fusion reactions. The deuterium fuses in the reaction chamber to helium. The helium plasma is then accelerated by the accelerator, which injects the plasma into the driver coils. These coils are almost the same as -> warp coils, but only smaller (6.5x5.8 metres, 19.5x17.4 feet). The accelerated plasma interacts with the surface of the inner coil hull, creating a subspace field, just like what happens in the warp coils. The subspace field reduces the mass of the starship, which causes the impulse drives less mass to push around. The final stage is the vectored exhaust director. The VED consists a series of moveable vanes and channels to expel exhaust products in a controlled manner, which makes it possible to steer the ship.

Inertial Dampers
Starship device that protects against the enormous G-forces that occur while the ship accelerates or decelerates. The IDs consist field generators, which produce a forcefield of standard 75 millicochranes, the inertial damping field (IDF). As the ship accelerates or decelerates, the IDF is distorted along a typical force vector. This makes the IDF to absorb the G-forces.

Interdimensional Rift
An interdimensional rift might be an imaginary line that divides two universes, just like the subspace barrier, that divides subspace and normal space-time.

Interphase
A rift in the space-time continuum

Interphase Cloaking Device
Device that allows to travel through solid matter and high energetic energy fields.

Interspatial flexure
Wormhole-like phenomenon in Devore space, in the Delta Quadrant.

Isolinear Optical Chip
Isolinear optical chips are the primary software and data storage medium employed in computer systems employed by the Federation. Isolinear chips work with light signals.

Jefferies Tubes
Corridor system onboard starships, used for repairs in delicate parts of the ship, but also as hiding place in emergency situations.

LCARS
Library Computer Access and Retrieval System is computer operating system on Federation starships.

Magneton
Measurement of the magnetic dipole moment of a particle (you can forget this). In Star Trek, the name 'magneton' is used for a particle. In 'Cathexis' (VOY), magnetons are used to scan a ship.

Matter / Antimatter Reactor
Warp core and power source on starships. Energy is produced by reactions between matter and antimatter particles. Deuterium and anti-deuterium is used in warp cores.

Metaphasic Shields
A subspace technology which involves generating metaphasic properties results in a low intensity, non-propulsive subspace field similar to a warp field.

Mobile Emitter
This technology belongs to the 29th century. Voyager obtained the technology during their stay on 1996 Earth. This technology allows a hologram to go where ever it wants.

Nanoprobes
Microscopic probes developed by the Borg, which attack at a cellular level. Used in the first step of the Borg assimilation process.

Phasers
Disruptor, the most common weapon of the Federation. The phaser array is powered by plasma managed through a series of physical irises and magnetic switching gates. When firing, energy is conveyed from flow regulators to the plasma distribution manifold. The energy is confined for a time between 0.05 and 1.3 nanoseconds, and then released. There are four types of phasers: the - phaser pistol, the phaser rifle, the starship phaser and the phaser cannon.

Phaser Rifle
Rifle that fires a miniature version of photon torpedos. The name 'phaser rifle' is decepting.

Photon Torpedoes
These weapons are classified as semi-autonomous weapons. Matter and antimatter are combined in the reaction chamber. The standard amount of antimatter is 1.5 kilograms. The energy that is released is confined by a forcefield. When the onboard circuitry registrates an impact, the field collapses and the energy is released. Photon torpedos are warp capable, so they can be launched when the fireing is at warp.

Power Transfer Conduits
Conduit system on a starship, which transfers high-energetic plasma from the warp core to the warp nacelles.

Shields
Energy fields used to protect the vessel from physical impacts or energy bursts resulting from natural hazards or enemy attack. Shields absorb the incoming hostile energy in an amount proportional to the level of the shields' energy.

Structural Integrity Field
Forcefield in a starship hull, to increase the strength of the hull. If the structural integrity field collapses, the hull will be comprimised.

Subspace Transporter
Transporter that transports objects/persons through subspace, instead of through normal space. A subspace transporter has a range of several lightyears. Before transporting, the transport subject must be put in a state of quantum flux, which is considered to be very dangerous. It was abandoned by the Federation.Torpedo. Starship weapon that exists as a 'box', charged with a high-energetic charge and is used to disable enemy ships. Torpedos can be fired at warp speed. The Federation uses multiple sorts of torpedos: photon torpedos, quantum torpedos, -> tri-cobalt torpedos, and quad-cobalt torpedos.

Tractor Beam
Beam existing of gravitons, to pull ships or other objects towards the ship who uses it.

Trajector
Transporter device used by the Sikarians. Its maximum range is 40,000 light-years. The trajector uses the principle of space folding.

Transporter
A transporter is used to transport people or objects from one place to another in quick time over long distances. The transporter briefly converts an object or person into energy, beams that energy to another location, and then reassembles the subject into its original form.

Tricorder
Handheld device, used for field measurements. Tricorders can identify things as particles, chemical substances and atmospheric composition. It also has a tactical database. A medical tricorder is identical, but is programmed for use in sickbay and has a small handheld sensor probe.

Turbolifts
Elevator system of starships.