Object
Galactic Zoological Catalog
A comprehensive Starfleet-era taxonomic reference—accessible as a holo-database or bound compendium—cataloging known sentient and non-sentient life across star systems. Dense entries include specimen plates, behavioral notes, classification keys, and cross-referenced star-chart loci. Dr. Pulaski scrolls its entry fields with clinical certainty, invoking the catalog’s silence to deny institutional precedent for the creature’s reported biology.
2 appearances
Purpose
To provide medical, scientific, and command personnel with authoritative classification and identification data for life-forms encountered across the galaxy.
Significance
Functions as an institutional oracle whose absence of an entry becomes argumentative ammunition: Pulaski uses the catalog to assert there is no recognized precedent for the shape‑shifting protector, sharpening the conflict between bureaucratic classification and the creature’s asserted sovereignty and maternal motives.
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