| rdfs:comment | - The embryonic lifeform was the name given to an energy creature from the Gamma Quadrant by Starfleet. The species start their life in a crystalline form. Vash discovered what she thought was a crystal made of Promethean quartz during her time in the Gamma Quadrant with Q. When Vash was found by the crew of the USS Ganges, she was brought to Deep Space 9. The energy creature caused a power drain on the runabout, and when Vash and Quark held an auction, did the same on Deep Space 9. Benjamin Sisko and his crew were able to identify that the crystal was the cause before the station was destroyed and transported the crystal into space, where it changed form and entered the Bajoran wormhole, returning to the Gamma Quadrant. (DS9 episode: "Q-Less")
- The creature, in the form of a crystal, was one of a number of artifacts that Vash brought back through the wormhole and subsequently attempted to sell at auction in Quark's. Vash was apparently unaware that the crystal was a lifeform. The Deep Space 9 assay office clerk thought that the crystal was Promethean quartz, but Vash pointed out that the molecular density and refraction index were much higher. At the auction, the crystal received bids in excess of one thousand bars of gold-pressed latinum, before Q started to make a mockery of the event and bid ridiculous sums up to one million bars.
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| abstract | - The embryonic lifeform was the name given to an energy creature from the Gamma Quadrant by Starfleet. The species start their life in a crystalline form. Vash discovered what she thought was a crystal made of Promethean quartz during her time in the Gamma Quadrant with Q. When Vash was found by the crew of the USS Ganges, she was brought to Deep Space 9. The energy creature caused a power drain on the runabout, and when Vash and Quark held an auction, did the same on Deep Space 9. Benjamin Sisko and his crew were able to identify that the crystal was the cause before the station was destroyed and transported the crystal into space, where it changed form and entered the Bajoran wormhole, returning to the Gamma Quadrant. (DS9 episode: "Q-Less") In 2374, when Sisko reminded Vash of the auction five years earlier, Vash claimed that the artifacts weren't stolen. Sisko mentioned the crystalline offspring of the energy creature, forcing Vash to admit that not all of the artifacts had been rightfully obtained. (DS9 - Millennium novel: The Fall of Terok Nor)
- The creature, in the form of a crystal, was one of a number of artifacts that Vash brought back through the wormhole and subsequently attempted to sell at auction in Quark's. Vash was apparently unaware that the crystal was a lifeform. The Deep Space 9 assay office clerk thought that the crystal was Promethean quartz, but Vash pointed out that the molecular density and refraction index were much higher. At the auction, the crystal received bids in excess of one thousand bars of gold-pressed latinum, before Q started to make a mockery of the event and bid ridiculous sums up to one million bars. Unbeknownst to the crew, the presence of the crystal on the station was the cause of an unexplained series of massive power drains, and the source of a graviton field that was pulling the station toward the Bajoran wormhole. Before the auction could end it was interrupted by Commander Sisko and the senior staff, who had discovered that the crystal was the source of the problems. At Sisko's command, the crystal was beamed 500 meters off the docking ring, where it metamorphosed into a spaceborne lifeform. The lifeform flew into the wormhole and, presumably, back into the Gamma Quadrant towards its home. (DS9: "Q-Less") The creature was referred to as "the embryonic lifeform" by Sisko in his closing log narration. The word "embryonic" was not capitalized in the script, so was likely intended merely as a description rather than a name. The script directed that the optical shot depicting the spaceborne form of the creature should show a "winged energy creature". The crystal prop first appeared in TNG: "Angel One" as an Albeni meditation crystal. The "space-born entity jelly model" (measuring 29½" × 22" × 1½") sold in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction for $410.00. [1]
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