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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Middy Seafort: [QB] For all interested, I happen to have the FASA Star Trek: TNG Manual nearby on my bookshelf. Here is the excerpt regarding the Medusan navigators: [QUOTE] [b]Interactive Navigational Control System[/b] The Interactive Navigational Control System is a highly controversial emergency system because it depends on the use of Medusan navigators. A highly intelligent race who long ago evolved into a noncoporeal form, Medusans are known throughout the Federation as mathematical and navigational experts without equal. In the last several decades, cultural and technological advances have made it possible to recruit these exotic lifeforms to operate as onboard navigators in direct, symbiotic relationship with the ship's artifical intelligence computer systems in case of emergency. Should normal navigational procedures become impossible for any reason, the ship's Medusan navigator can link directly into the ship's navigational system to provide "single-handed" control of all helm and navigational system controls. Though many within the Federation question the moral implications of such a move, the onboard presence of a Medusan Specialist (who holds the honorary rank of Lieutenant Commander aboard ship) has produced no serious problems to date. Because the sight of Medusan physiology produces violent psychosis and paranoia in humanoid life forms, the Medusan must be housed in a specially prepared environment chamber that is off-limits to others. pg. 60, Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual, published 1988 by the FASA Corp. [/QUOTE]There is also a graphic of the INCS on page 70 of the manual, however, I am not able to post images as I don't have an image host. The graphic does not have any information on what deck the INCS and Medusan habitat are on. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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