Klingon word: 'aHDuH Part of speech: noun Definition: prototype Source: qep'a' 27 [2020] _______________________________________________ (qep'a' 2020): The request for this word was: "The first transporter prototypes met with limited success, but later proved indispensable for exploring the galaxy." SEE: 'aH paraphernalia (n) DuH possibility, option, preference (n) SEE ALSO: ngongmeH Duj [experimental ship] (n) (S33) - ngongmeH wa' DujDaq nuHmey nISbe'bogh So'wI' jomlu'pu' [A cloaking device which didn't disrupt weaponry was installed in one experimental ship.] (S33 untranslated) That ship was the Dakronh, Chang's Bird-of-Prey. (ST6) TREK NOTES: "This, ladies and gentlemen, is a phase-modulated energy weapon. It's rated for a maximum power output of five hundred gigajoules. Enterprise was designed to carry three of them. We have one, and it's only a prototype." (Lt. Reed to crew installing the first phase cannon [ENT "Silent Enemy"]) SISKO: Chief, did you ever hear of a TR116 rifle? O'BRIEN: It was a prototype. Developed by Starfleet Security to operate in energy dampening fields or radiogenic environments. SISKO: That's right. Anywhere where a normal phaser would be useless. If I'm not mistaken, the TR116 rifle fired a chemically propelled tritanium bullet. ODO: You say a prototype. Were they ever mass produced? O'BRIEN: No. Starfleet abandoned the TR116 in favor of regenerative phasers. [DS9 "Field of Fire"] -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons