TNG 3.01 Evolution
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Wesley is experimenting with "nanites", nanotechnic robots designed to enter cell nuclei for medical purposes, to see if they can cooperate to improve their behavior. He falls asleep and his two test subjects escape their container. Embarrassed, he starts placing Roach Motel(tm)-like traps around the ship, but by then they've found their way to the computer core and are replicating, consuming the isolinear chips and developing a hive intelligence. Dr. ???, a prominent astrophysicist, is skeptical of the crew's findings of the new nanite life form. He tells them he's seen the factory where nanites are manufactured; they're just machines! Desperate to regain computer control in time to complete his life's study a nearby neutron star, ??? kills some of the nanites using a gamma pulse. They respond by taking over the ship. Eventually, Data opens communication with the new intelligence. He allows some of them to enter and interface with his systems (as they were originally designed to do), so that he can be used as a communications channel. ??? apologizes, an agreement is reached, and the nanites rebuild the computer in time to launch ???'s probe. Finally, ??? uses his influence to have a barren asteroid designated the new nanite homeworld. "This ship is -- too confining. We require -- relocation."
TNG 4.01 The Best of Both Worlds, Part II
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While discussing possible strategems against the Borg, Dr. Crusher proposes using their "recent experience with nanotechnology" to breed a form of nanite to attach the Borg collective. The development would take two to three weeks, however.
TNG 7.01 Descent, Part II
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Data's brother, Lore, has been experimenting with converting newly individual Borg into fully artificial lifeforms. He convinces Data to join in the experiments, and to inject "nanofibers" into Geordi's brain. These fibers will learn to emulate his neural firing patterns, leading to a marked increase in cognitive ability -- if he survives.
Star Trek Generations
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In the course of his interrogation of LaForge, Dr.Soran injects a "nanoprobe" into his heart. Upon his return to the Enterprise-D, Dr.Crusher removes it.
DS9 1.8 The Passenger
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An infamous Kobliad scientist is being transported as a prisoner, when he stages his own apparent demise and transfers his consciosness to Dr. Bashir. The instrumentality used is a microscopic (probably nanotech) electrical generator under his fingernail, which during physical contact impresses a copy of his mental patterns onto Dr. Bashir's glial cells.
DS9 1.12 Battle Lines
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Sisko, Bashir, Kira are persuaded to take Kai Opaka through the Celestial Temple into the Gamma Quadrant, where they're forced to crash on a barren moon by its system of weapons satellites - - and the Kai is killed. There they find a colony of prisoners from opposing sides of an ancient war, still fighting and killing each other -- each time to be reborn. Dr.Bashir discovers that microscopic machines, "almost like nanites", infest the moon. They're designed to rejuvenate the dead, so that their torturous prison stay can continue indefinitely. Kai Opaka is also reborn by the devices, and when the others are rescued, she elects to stay with the prisoners and work with them to overcome their hatred.
DS9 2.13 Armageddon Game
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Dr. Bashir and Chief O'Brien are assisting a Gamma Quadrant civilization in safely destroying a (biological?) weapon known as the "Harvesters." Once the weapons are destroyed, the rulers decide to eliminate anyone who knows how to construct them, too.
DS9 (2.24, The Collaborator ?)
** ?
Major Kira is reluctant to allow Vedek Winn off the station, to return to her political machinations on Bajor. She insists that Winn's ship must be scanned for any weapons or contraband, including "a molecular scan for dangerous nanotechnology." She admits she's no expert, but the scan could take weeks.
_Federation_
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
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At some time prior to the TOS era, an alien race called the Grigari offered "eternal life to the worlds of the Federation" with their medical nanotechnology. It was found to be hideously flawed; the machine-organic connection was imperfect, so the machines continually moved forward, replacing necrotic tissue with steel. The Grigari departed, but a quadraleptic Colonel Adrik Thorsen, obsessed with revenge on Zefram Cochrane , seeks them out. By 2270, Thorsen is barely human, with arms that subdivide (as with a Moravec bush robot) into the nanometer realm, and the ability to dispatch subunits to infiltrate Starfleet computers and archives. Other references in the novel: By 2078, the new human extrasolar colonies were developing specialities, such as "molecular computer farms" in Wolf 359's Stapledon Center. When the Enterprise-D acquires an apparent Preserver artifact with complex mathematical diagrams engraved in it, Picard is reminded of recordings on early Terran space probes: analog audio and video disks, then diffraction bars, and finally "molecular bristle tubes." Data and Wesley probe the inscriptions with "elaborate molecular probes," and Wesley suggests creating a specialized form of nanite to examine its interior.
TOS _Crossroads_
???
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In the future, "the plague" rips through the Federation and other civilizations. A corporate group called Starfield develops "wiring," a form of "non-ferrous nanotechnology" that interfaces with the spinal cord and psionic centers of the brain, controlling the disease. When damaged, wiring regrows its fibers, drawing minerals from the blood. Starfield evolves into The Consilium, an ostensibly peaceful company that in reality controls Starfleet and the Federation via the wiring of officers and officials. Rebels escape into the past through the spatial anomaly known as the Crossroads, and encounter Capt. Kirk and the _Enterprise_. They don't know exactly who, but the person whose work led to wiring and Starfield is onboard, and they mean to stop him.
TNG _Vendetta_
Peter David
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Several months after "The Best of Both Worlds", the Borg have
returned to Federation space, more cautiously and with additional
ships. Geordi is astonished when Riker tells him that the
Federation Council has assigned legal advocates to the Nanites,
so they're no longer available as weapons. In defense of the
decision, Riker references the recent legal decision that Data
was an independent life form with self-determination ("The
Measure of a Man"), and that the Borg could possibly even
assimilate the Nanites' abilities.
TNG _Dark Mirror_
Diane Duane
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The Mirror Universe introduced in the TOS episode "Mirror Mirror" is preparing to invade us. Captain Picard manages to infiltrate the mirror-Enterprise-D. He acquires a poorly-guarded container of non-sentient nanites from their Sickbay, and programs them to search out and slowly consume their computer core.
Project G.eeK.eR
(First broadcast 9/21/1996)
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Geeker, Lady MacBeth and Noah escape to Space Station Zebra. Zebra maintains its independence from Moloch-dominated Earth using its "nanosynthesizer", a device that consumes cosmic dust, converts it to elementary particles, then reconstructs them into food, clothing and machinery. Moloch sends "Larry," an artificially-engineered intelligent strain of the common cold, to take over the refugees on Zebra and recapture Geeker. In fact, all Larry wants is to exist without the need to infect host bodies. Geeker happily obliges by dividing himself into billions of tiny duplicates to construct a micro-city for the Larry germs, complete with a tiny nanosynthesizer. Geeker and company flee Zebra to lead away Moloch's space forces. Larry comes to their aid with thousands of tiny nano-manufactured space battleships. Moloch's forces depart when Geeker apparently surrenders himself -- actually a (non-nano) decoy duplicate. He, Becky and Noah depart, and Zebra is left secure. -----------------------------------------------------------------------Appendix 4 - Foreign Language Section (non-English)
[Foreign language entries are OK *if* you send me the text to be included _verbatim_. An English translation of the title would be nice. Note that this list is represented in standard 7-bit (128 character) ASCII. -ASN]
++ Danish ++ ============================================
"Den perfekte verden" (The perfect world)
"Udkig" (Outlook) no. 3, 1985
Arne Herlov Petersen
"N{ste kasse til Singapore" (Next box to Singapore)
"Udkig" no. 4, 1988
Arne Herlov Petersen
"Haabet er groent" (Hope is green)
collection, 1991
Arne Herlov Petersen
Can someone please clarify which of his books have been translated into English, and, if the subject matter is plain biology, micro machine or "nano a la Drexler". One book that has been mentioned is Peace on Earth, English version C1994.