tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 29 10:56:47 1998
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Re: radan
|I was just watching "Elaan of Troyius." When Spock discovers that Elaan's
|necklace is the source of strange energy readings, Kirk asks, "What kind of
|jewels are in this?" and Elaan responds, "They call them radans."
|
|To Klingons, they are known as {Dom}.
|
|Just in case this question hadn't been satisfactorily answered before.
|
|SuStel
Right. Purely from the gloss in the TKD vocabulary - and not recognizing
the Trek context of the word - I'd always assumed for some reason that
"radan" was a bulk word for "raw dilithium crystal" like English "coal".
However the Okudas' _Star Trek Encyclopedia_ (1st ed. 1994) p. 269 lists:
*radans* Gemstones from planet Troyius. The leader of Troyius
gave Elaan, the Dohlman of Elas, a necklace of radans as a wedding
present in 2368. Chemically, radans were raw dilithium crystals,
and made Troyius a planet of great strategic significance. Elaan's
necklace served as a source of emergency crystals for the Starship
Enterprise when that ship was under attack by a Klingon vessel that
ironically sought to guarantee a supply of radans from Troyius.
("Elaan of Troyius" [TOS]}
Voragh