Sand is a type of material substance defined as being finely crushed mineral fragments occurring on planetary surfaces.
History and specifics
Sand differs from soil in that it is exclusively rocky mineral substances, without considerable organic materials as are found in soil, although soil will generally have some sand content.
On the holodeck of the Federation starship USS Cerritos in the year 2380, D'Vana Tendi noticed the beach sand in Beckett Mariner's holoprogram, having never seen anything like it. When asking about it, Ensign Brad Boimler noted that it "got everywhere" and gave him a rash. He was surprised when Mariner informed him that only he got rashes from sand, and not everyone else. (LD episode: "Second Contact")
Patterns of colored sand can be used as part of a meditation technique. Alternating colors and densities can be used to make art such as a sand garden, and then considered during meditation. This is due to the ephemeral quality of the composition - while time consuming to make and beautiful to enjoy, the sand garden cannot be maintained for long periods of time due to the shifting nature of the material on surfaces subject to turbulence or even air movement. The replicator on the Cerritos could make colored sand for this type of activity. (LD episode: "Moist Vessel")
Appendices
References
- TOS episode: "Whom Gods Destroy"
- TAS - Log Four novelization: The Terratin Incident
- TAS - Log Five novelization: The Jihad
- TAS - Log Ten novelization: The Slaver Weapon
- TOS novel: Demons
- TOS novel: The Ashes of Eden
- TOS - Vulcan's Soul novel: Exiles
- TOS - The New Voyages 2 short story: "Snake Pit!"
- TOS - Star Trek II Short Stories short story: "The Secret Empire"
- TOS short story: "The Trouble with Jones"
- TOS short story: "Sundering"
- TOS short story: "Memoriam"
- TOS comic: "No Time Like the Past"
- TOS comic: "Terminally Yours"
- TAS comic: "The Scheimer Barrier"
- TOS video game: The Kobayashi Alternative
- TOS video game: The Promethean Prophecy
- TNG novel: Shadows Have Offended
- TNG - Myriad Universes novella: Brave New World
- DS9 episode: "Emissary"
- DS9 novel: A Stitch in Time
- DS9 short story: "Lost and Founder"
- VOY novel: The Garden
- VOY novel: Pathways
- VOY novel: Atonement
- VOY novel: Architects of Infinity
- ENT episode: "Broken Bow"
- ENT novel: By the Book
- ENT novel: Daedalus
- ENT - Rise of the Federation novel: Live by the Code
- DSC novel: The Enterprise War
- LD episode: "Second Contact"
- LD episode: "Moist Vessel"
- GKN novel: Honor Bound
- NF - Excalibur novel: Renaissance
- NF novel: Treason
- ST - The Fall novel: Revelation and Dust
- ST - The Fall novel: The Poisoned Chalice
- ST - New Worlds, New Civilizations short story: "Tempered by the Forge"
- ST - New Worlds, New Civilizations short story: "Ashes, Ashes"
- ST comic: "A Savage World of Glass and Bone, Part 1"
- ST comic: "A Savage World of Glass and Bone, Part 3"
- ST comic: "A Savage World of Glass and Bone, Part 6"
External links
- Sand article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Sand article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.