Search
Cookie Usage Statistics Colour Key Sudden Death Monthly Poll Caption Comp eMail Author Shops
Ships Fleets Weaponry Species People Timelines Calculators Photo Galleries
Stations Design Lineage Size Charts Battles Science / Tech Temporal Styling Maps / Politics
Articles Reviews Lists Recreation Search Site Guide What's New Forum
Battles
Introduction Enterprise Attack Azati Prime Sphere Bashing Saving Earth Vulcan Civil War Romulan Marauder Empire in Crisis Battle of the Brown Dwarf Altimid Battle Romulan Attack Romulan Attack The Doomsday Machine The Deadly Years The M-5 Debacle The Wrath of Khan Khitomer Crisis The Battle of Minos Wolf 359 Klingon Civil War The Odyssey Death of a Caretaker A Flagship Battle The Omarion Nebula Deep Space Nine Kazon Attack Shattered Mirror Borg / 8472 War The Swarm Sector 001 The Dominion War The Valley of Death The Chin'toka Invasion AR-558 The Chin'koka Retreat Righteous Insurrection Advance on Cardassia Vaadwaur Battle Workforce Incident Reman Nemesis Coppelius battle
☰

Surata IV Microbe Infection

NotesImages
Illness List
Universe : Prime Timeline
Name : Surata IV Microbe Infection [1]

This infection was passed on by being scratched by the thorns of a living vine plant native to Surata IV. The vines benefitted from the infection as the remains of their victims fertilised the soil they lived in. The microbes displayed properties of both a virus and a bacteria. They attached themselves to the great sciatic nerve and multiplied, fusing themselves to the nerves at a molecular level and damaging neural functioning, causing paralysis. Neither surgery nor a transporter biofilter could remove the infection, but they could be counteracted by stimulating negative dreams in the brain, producing chemicals which neutralised the infection. [1]

Colour key

Canon source Backstage source Novel source DITL speculation

References

# Series Season Source Comment
1 TNG 2 Shades of Gray
Series : TNG Season 2
Episode : Shades of Gray

© Graham & Ian Kennedy Page views : 6,694 Last updated : 14 Apr 2014