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How do USS Enterprise Crew members receive emails or other forms of personal messages?
Given that the location of the USS Enterprise seems to be at least slightly classified (and when they're on fleet maneuvers, very classified), you'd probably need to send your letter in electronic ...
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What was the probe in Star Trek 4?
It appears that there was a sequel novel Probe that gives some more background about the "Whale Probe".
Kirk and his crew later discover that the Probe was created by beings that resembled ...
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Is Geordi La Forge having an affair?
Let's start with the most important tidbit of information:
Star Trek: TNG novels are not canon.
The stories you read in the novels are not considered "this is how things are in the Star Trek ...
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Is there any Star Trek material set after Nemesis?
The new 2020 series Star Trek: Picard starts after Picard's retirement as an admiral, and Data's death (in Nemesis) as a past fact is mentioned.
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What was the probe in Star Trek 4?
Once the whales are brought back from the past, they are able to communicate with the probe and send it on its way. Creating this sequence created some behind-the-scene's controversy. Nimoy explains:
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Which Star Trek novel featured disgusting bag-like aliens?
The Three-Minute Universe - Book 41 of the series, which I originally found by my search taking me here.
The Sackers may be the most hated race in the galaxy, so repugnant that their mere ...
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What did the probe and the whales say to each other?
For completeness, I do have a copy of the novel Probe mentioned by N_Soong in a comment. What it has to say is fairly little, but consistent with the STIV novelization. From the prologue:
In the ...
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Which actors from the original Star Trek pilot "The Cage" appeared in later Star Trek media?
Excluding 'The Menagerie: Parts I & II' (which includes archival footage of 'The Cage') a number of actors appeared in both the pilot episode and other episodes of Star Trek.
Leonard Nimoy ...
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Is there any example of a vessel colliding with a cloaked object?
In Star Trek IV, a whaling ship in 1984 attempts to fire a harpoon and, to the shock of its crew, their harpoon bounces off of a cloaked Klingon Bird of Prey (skip to 2:15) captained by James T. Kirk, ...
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How do the Xindi fit in with the humanoid origin theory presented in “The Chase”?
The "seed code" seems to push individual species toward a humanoid shape and size. This doesn't, however, preclude other forms being chosen by evolutionary pressure and natural selection. On Earth, ...
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What happened to Captain Kirk's body?
In Picard S3E6: The Bounty Raffi finds Kirk's body amongs the artifacts on Daystrom Station
This is consistent with the other answers being the official story, since anything on Daystrom is highly ...
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What did Janeway do with the 29th century tricorder she took?
TV Canon
We don't know.
On the one hand, Janeway is almost pathetically eager to follow the Temporal Prime Directive and return to the Delta Quadrant with Braxton (instead of just performing a few ...
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Is there a canon explanation for the NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise name?
The Memory-Alpha article on OV-101 (Enterprise) says this in the Apocrypha section:
The novel A Flag Full of Stars states that she instead was named for the World War Two aircraft carrier because ...
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Was Geordi and Data's "invasive program" to annihilate the Borg ever attempted again?
Main Canon
In a word, no (or possibly maybe). Admiral Nechayev is certainly adamant (in TNG: Descent) that should the opportunity present itself again to commit genocide that Picard should take it. I ...
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In the Star Trek novel "I.Q", was there a subtle reference to the Star Wars universe?
According to Peter David this is entirely coincidental. To quote him
We turned in the MS [manuscript] like a year before "Phantom Menace," so no. Just coincidence.
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How do USS Enterprise Crew members receive emails or other forms of personal messages?
In the instances where someone aboard the Enterprise sent a message to someone else, they did not seem to use anything like an email address. Rather they would simply say to the computer "Prepare a ...
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Were any resources from Deep Space Nine utilized in the search for Voyager?
I'm answering by only having seen the relevant TV shows, I know nothing about the expanded universe of the novels, comics, and so on.
And I'm mainly going by memory, it's been a while since I have ...
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Do Chief Miles O'Brien and Doctor Julian Bashir ever meet again after the series ends?
Yes, they do meet again, albeit briefly, in the DS9 Relaunch Novel "Star Trek: The Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn". Please be warned that the following answer is so ridiculously loaded with spoilers that ...
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Why didn't the mirror universe's tech progress past the main timeline's?
In the novels (specifically Age of the Empress and the short story "Nobunaga"), the Empire tried to reverse engineer the Defiant, but was unable to make much progress for a number of reasons: the ship ...
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Is there a Star Trek audio book read by Brent Spiner?
Nope.
I Tweeted him about it. His answer:
No
tombquestwiki: Hey @BrentSpiner! :) I'm a member of a #ScienceFiction & #Fantasy online community, and one of our members is wondering if you've ever ...
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Is there an in-universe explanation for the difference between Orion males and females?
Usually female Orions are depicted as sensual and voluptuous, while males as strong and muscular; I won't exactly use such terms as as "grace" and "brutishness" to describe them, and the sexes don't ...
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Are remnants of the Husnock civilization ever found?
The legacy of the Husnok is explored in the upcoming Star Trek Titan novel Fortune of War by David Mack. From Amazon.com:
Twenty years have passed since the interstellar scourge known as the ...
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Do the post-Nemesis Star Trek novels reference the destruction of Romulus?
I had a look at the article on Hobus on Memory Beta:
In 2388, Admiral Kathryn Janeway flew the first survey mission of the Hobus Nebula aboard a variant of the Delta Flyer with a crew of volunteers....
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Was Jake Sisko the author of anything other than "Anslem"?
Within the main timeline, we don't see him complete Anslem, nor do we learn if he wrote anything else besides some articles for the Federation News Service, a short story called "Past Prologue&...
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Story Identification: Star Trek TOS novel about planet where technology doesn't work
This is Star Trek: Sanctuary (1992) by John Vornholt.
The planet Sanctuary – A fabled world in unexplored space which is
thought to be the last refuge of the persecuted, home to both the
justly ...
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What was the probe in Star Trek 4?
In the movie, Spock asked Uhura to fine-tune the probe's transmissions, and ultimately it gave out the "whale songs".
Since at that time, about 2286, the whales had been long extinct, Spock deduced ...
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In the Star Trek novel "I.Q", was there a subtle reference to the Star Wars universe?
No evidence
Note that The Phantom Menace was released theatrically on 19 May 1999 in most locations, while the audio book version of I, Q was first released in September 1999.
This means that the ...
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What was the probe in Star Trek 4?
I have a theory about the Star Trek 4 probe....
I don't think the probe "lost contact" with the whales. That would imply that the probe has been to Earth before and there would be some sort of ...
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What happened to the Calamarain and the shuttle?
Shuttle
The shuttle Sakharov was apparently returned to the ship's shuttle bay where it continued to perform service until at least 2369. It was seen again in Chain of Command, Part II where it was ...
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