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Orion Press Lexicon 2010 a Guide to the Orion Universe
recreation deck: a large recreation room located near the rear of
Deck 6 and 7 on the up-rated Constitution II-class starships; Admiral
Kirk briefed the crew of the Enterprise about V’ger in this area of the
ship (source: Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry,
TMP)
recreation room: any of the large areas on Constitution-class
starships which provide recreational facilities for the crew; some
recreation rooms have limited holographic capabilities, allowing the
creation of sound effects and some holographic imaging (although the
selection of scenery is quite limited); most rec rooms are equipped
with tables, chairs, food dispensers, board games (such as Tri-D
chess and Tri-D checkers) and a large number of periodicals (source:
“Charlie X” by D.C. Fontana, TOS1)
Recreation Room 1: located on Deck 3 (source: “Fairy Tale
Ending” by Joanne K. Seward, OAB)
Recreation Room 2: located near the V.I.P. suite on Deck 5
(source: “The Emancipator of Trill” by D.G. Littleford, OAB)
Recreation Room 3: one of the recreation rooms aboard
Constitution-class starships; while a group of cadets came
aboard in 2268, it became their territory; the senior and junior
officers began to avoid it (source: “Fairy Tale Ending” by Joanne
K. Seward, OAB; “Fire in the Shadows” by Bonnie Reitz, OAD)
Recreation Room 5: in 2266, during the Psi 2000 virus crisis,
someone set up the food processors so they would be pumping
out popcorn, and Angela Moretti did a striptease on a table;
located on Deck 7 (source: “Conversion” by Cathy German,
OAB; “Persephone’s Dance” by Mike Bagneski, OAB)
Recreation Room, Area 39: in Constitution-class heavy
cruisers, it is located in the engineering hull near the gymnasium
(source: “The Practical Joker” by Chuck Menville, TAS2)
Rectyne: a Klingon class M colony planet noted for its unique
lifeform, the monopod (source: “The Icarus Factor” by David Assael
& Robert McCullough, TNG2)
Rectyne – monopod: a single-footed animal form that can grow
as large as an elephant (source: “The Icarus Factor” by David
Assael & Robert McCullough, TNG2)
recycler: device in which clothing on the Enterprise is recycled
(source: Drink Deeply by Elizabeth Knauel and Nomad, OAA)
Red Alert: a call for a starship crew to bring themselves to a state of
maximum readiness, generally issued during an emergency or an
encounter with a potentially lethal situation (source: “The Corbomite
Maneuver” by Jerry Sohl, TOS1)
Red Cloud, U.S.S., NCC-2707: a Federation tactical cruiser,
commanded by Captain Thrax K’al Kevaran during the 2260’s, while
he was working with two members of the Shuul race and Starfleet
Engineering to develop crystalline technology (source: “The Tholian
Contact” by Jim Ausfaul, OAB)
Red Cross: see “Interstellar Red Cross”
Red Dragon, The: a nightclub in Kurlin, a city on Lovely II (source:
“The Strange Case of Under-Secretary Lynch” by Anna Perotti, OAD)
red dwarf: a small M-class star; has a low surface temperature, 2,000
to 3,000 degrees Celsius, and a diameter about half that of Sol;
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf (source: inkido.indiana.edu website)
“Red Hour, The”: a period where the Landru supercomputer of C-
111 Beta III allowed the inhabitants of the planet to run amok (source:
“Return of the Archons” by Boris Sobelman, TOS1)
Red Jack: a murderous entity that fed on the terror of its victims; it
was comprised of energy, and was capable of taking over the bodies
of others to accomplish its goal of murder; the entity was believed to
be responsible for the “Jack the Ripper” murders in London (from
whence it received its name), the deaths of seven women in
Shanghai, China in 1932, the death of five women in Kiev in 1974,
eight murders in the Martian Colonies in 2105, ten murders on Alpha
Eridani II in 2156, as well as those committed by Kesla on Deneb II
and Beratis on Rigel IV from which it traveled to Argelius II; it was
detected by the crew of the Enterprise in 2267 when Chief Engineer
Scott was accused of murdering a woman that the Red Jack entity
had killed using its identity of City Administrator Hengist; once the
nature of the entity was discovered aboard the Enterprise, it was
relatively quickly contained and beamed into space in a high-dispersal
pattern, resulting in its destruction (source: “Wolf in the Fold” by
Robert Bloch, TOS2)
Red Priority: term designating important mission within the Romulan
Fleet; in 2281, Tactius claimed that the mission for the Romulan
Ascendant ship was red priority – nothing should interfere with its
completion (source: “Romulus Ascendant” by David Landon, OAE)
“Red Two Message”: issued from Starfleet Command; combined
with Code Factor One, it indicates that all Federation starships should
assume invasion status and be prepared to engage the enemy
(source: “The Alternative Factor” by Don Ingalls, TOS1)
red-zone proximity: status which arises whenever there is a potential
for an uncontrolled explosion of the matter/antimatter engines; usually
caused when the electromagnetic shielding begins to deteriorate due
to a lack of power; the deterioration of the shielding will last only four
hours, during which time the nacelles can be jettisoned and the ship
moved to safety under impulse power or thrusters (source: “The
Savage Curtain” by Gene Roddenberry & Arthur Heinemann, TOS3)
Redjac: see “Red Jack”
“redshirts”: slang expression for security officers, stemming from the
time from 2265 until 2271 when they wore bright red tunics (source:
“The Redshirt” by Ann Zewen, OAB)
reduced-gravity handball: see “low-gravity handball”
Reese, _____, Deputy: a Human male; a deputy law enforcer in the
T’van valley on Tantua; he also takes credits under the table for Ostyr
Tyro; he killed Rafe Cardoza when the youth attacked Sheriff Chip
Terry for turning a blind eye to Cestyr Tyro’s burning down of the
Cardoza estate; he died in the Madman’s Marsh (source: The
Children of Haole by Donna S. Frelick, OAH)
_____, Reed: a Human male; pornographic holovid star in the late
2250's; he preferred brunettes to blondes (source: Remember the
Hood by Nomad & Elizabeth Knauel, OAA)
Reeves, _____: a Human male; Shuttle Deck One Flight Officer
aboard the Enterprise-B in 2295; in September, he angered Captain
Chekov by objecting to Spock taking one of the Tai/A’Tai warp shuttle
and sleds back to Vulcan (source: Insanity’s Child by Randall
Landers, OAL)
Reformation, Vulcan: see “Vulcan Reformation”
refresher: 23 rd century euphemism for the water closet or restroom
(source: “Never Forget” by Nomad and Elizabeth Knauel, OAJ)
refreshment center: a “super-coffee-and-danish machine” which
dispenses snack foods to bridge personnel; can be found on most
smaller starships (source: “Ad Astra Per Aspera” by Randall Landers,
OAE)
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