Technology of the week

A technology of the week is a technology that only appears in a single episode of Star Trek. Many of these technologies are actually understood by the Federation and would be extremely useful in situations encountered in later episodes, but they are never mentioned again.

Examples

• Kironide (TOS "Plato's Stepchildren")
• Aceton assimilator (TNG "Booby Trap")
• Anestazine (TNG "The Hunted")
• Dimensional inverter (TNG "The High Ground")
• Exocomps (TNG "The Quality of Life")
• Phase cloak (TNG "The Pegasus")
• Subspace transport (TNG "Bloodlines")
• TR-116 sniper rifle (DS9 "Field of Fire")
• Warp 10 propulsion (VOY "Threshold")
• Duonetic energy fields (DS9 "Paradise")

See Also

• Alien of the week