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| - Ketracel-white contaminated with hexatriol could turn Jem'Hadar into zombies. (Star Trek: The Stoneship Files: "Off Coverage")
- Ketracel-white is the Gamma Quadrant name given to the liquid crack abused by the Jem'Hadar.
- Ketracel-white (YrB2CF3H2Au {primary structure} or simply White) was a extremely psycoactive narcotic used by the Founders to ensure the taut and barbaric loyalty of the Jem'Hadar. Ketracel-white was produced in the Alpha quadrant until 2379, when the Son'a were forced by Starfleet Command to stop producing it. The Dominion was believed to continue using Ketracel-White far after the Dominion War had ended.
- thumb|Ein Fläschchen Ketracel-White thumb|Jem'Hadar sind zur Ketracel-White-Ausgabe angetreten Ketracel-White (kurz White) ist eine Droge von welcher die Jem'Hadar abhängig sind, da ihnen ein wichtiges Enzym fehlt. Die weiße Flüssigkeit, die über einen Schlauch in den Hals verabreicht wird, besteht zum Teil aus Yridium-Bicantizin. Außerdem enthält das White alle Nährstoffe, die die Jem'Hadar benötigen, sodass sie nicht zu essen brauchen. Es gibt sehr vereinzelt Jem'Hadar, die von der Droge nicht abhängig sind. (DS9: )
- Without white, Jem'Hadar soldiers would suffer withdrawal symptoms including pain, anxiety, loss of mental control, and inability to shroud; eventually the Jem'Hadar would become insane and kill everything they could, including each other, before their entire genetic structure collapsed. (DS9 episodes: "Rocks and Shoals", "Behind the Lines") Vorta: "First, can you vouch for the loyalty of your men?" Jem'Hadar: "We pledge our loyalty to the Founders, from now until death." Vorta: "Then receive this reward from the Founders, may it keep you strong."
- Without white, Jem'Hadar soldiers suffered withdrawal symptoms including pain, anxiety, loss of mental control, and inability to "shroud"; eventually, the Jem'Hadar spiraled into homicidal insanity. First killing their enemies followed by their allies, they inevitably turned on each other. Ultimately, their entire genetic structure collapsed. (DS9: "Rocks and Shoals") On rare occasions, a Jem'Hadar was born with a genetic mutation which allowed their bodies to produce the white they needed, though most such instances went unnoticed, as the Jem'Hadar with this mutation still took the drug on a regular basis and were unaware that they had no need to. (DS9: "Hippocratic Oath") All known attempts to remove this genetically-engineered addiction failed, with the drug itself proving difficult to
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| - thumb|Ein Fläschchen Ketracel-White thumb|Jem'Hadar sind zur Ketracel-White-Ausgabe angetreten Ketracel-White (kurz White) ist eine Droge von welcher die Jem'Hadar abhängig sind, da ihnen ein wichtiges Enzym fehlt. Die weiße Flüssigkeit, die über einen Schlauch in den Hals verabreicht wird, besteht zum Teil aus Yridium-Bicantizin. Außerdem enthält das White alle Nährstoffe, die die Jem'Hadar benötigen, sodass sie nicht zu essen brauchen. Die Jem'Hadar werden von den Gründern mit Hilfe dieser Droge in Schach gehalten. Die streng geregelte Ausgabe der Droge wird bei einer Art Ritual von den Vorta durchgeführt. Es gibt sehr vereinzelt Jem'Hadar, die von der Droge nicht abhängig sind. (DS9: )
- Ketracel-white contaminated with hexatriol could turn Jem'Hadar into zombies. (Star Trek: The Stoneship Files: "Off Coverage")
- Without white, Jem'Hadar soldiers would suffer withdrawal symptoms including pain, anxiety, loss of mental control, and inability to shroud; eventually the Jem'Hadar would become insane and kill everything they could, including each other, before their entire genetic structure collapsed. (DS9 episodes: "Rocks and Shoals", "Behind the Lines") The addiction to white also ensured the Jem'Hadars' loyalty to the Founders. (However, for most Jem'Hadar this is unnecessary, as their loyalty was already absolute.) Distribution of the white was controlled by the Vorta, and was dispensed to the Jem'Hadar First in a formal ceremony. (DS9 episode: "To the Death") Vorta: "First, can you vouch for the loyalty of your men?" Jem'Hadar: "We pledge our loyalty to the Founders, from now until death." Vorta: "Then receive this reward from the Founders, may it keep you strong." Early in the Dominion War, the Dominion in the Alpha Quadrant suffered of a white shortage, due to the minefield blocking supplies from the Gamma Quadrant, and because it was not easy to set on new production lines. The Cardassians proposed exterminating some or all of the Jem'Hadar by poisoning the last white supplies. Later, the Son'a used facilities on Devos II to produce large quantities of ketracel-white. (DS9 episode: "Penumbra", Star Trek: Insurrection) On rare occasions, a Jem'Hadar was born with a genetic mutation which allowed his body to produce the white he needs, though such an instance could go unnoticed. The first Jem'Hadar with this condition known to the Federation was Goran'agar. Following the Dominion War Odo searched for Jem'Hadar with the mutation, eventually finding the Jem'Hadar elder, Taran'atar, whom he sent as an envoy to the Alpha Quadrant. (DS9 episode: "Hippocratic Oath"; DS9 - Avatar novels: Book One, Book Two) Starfleet autopsies also led them to believe that some older Jem'Hadar, over ten years old, sometimes developed the mutation to produce white, in small quantities, themselves, as they aged. (DS9 - Avatar novel: Book Two) In the mirror universe, the Jem'Hadar were likewise dependent on the white. (ST - Mirror Universe novel: Rise Like Lions)
- Ketracel-white is the Gamma Quadrant name given to the liquid crack abused by the Jem'Hadar.
- Ketracel-white (YrB2CF3H2Au {primary structure} or simply White) was a extremely psycoactive narcotic used by the Founders to ensure the taut and barbaric loyalty of the Jem'Hadar. Ketracel-white was produced in the Alpha quadrant until 2379, when the Son'a were forced by Starfleet Command to stop producing it. The Dominion was believed to continue using Ketracel-White far after the Dominion War had ended.
- Without white, Jem'Hadar soldiers suffered withdrawal symptoms including pain, anxiety, loss of mental control, and inability to "shroud"; eventually, the Jem'Hadar spiraled into homicidal insanity. First killing their enemies followed by their allies, they inevitably turned on each other. Ultimately, their entire genetic structure collapsed. (DS9: "Rocks and Shoals") On rare occasions, a Jem'Hadar was born with a genetic mutation which allowed their bodies to produce the white they needed, though most such instances went unnoticed, as the Jem'Hadar with this mutation still took the drug on a regular basis and were unaware that they had no need to. (DS9: "Hippocratic Oath") All known attempts to remove this genetically-engineered addiction failed, with the drug itself proving difficult to analyze and replicate by Starfleet methods. (DS9: "The Abandoned") The addiction to white ensured the Jem'Hadars' loyalty to the Founders. However, for most Jem'Hadar, this was unnecessary, as their loyalty was already absolute. Distribution of the white was controlled by the Vorta, and was dispensed to the Jem'Hadar First in a formal ceremony: Vorta: "First [name], can you vouch for the loyalty of your men?" Jem'Hadar: "We pledge our loyalty to the Founders, from now until death." Vorta: "Then receive this reward from the Founders, may it keep you strong." Jem'Hadar bred in the Alpha Quadrant (called "Alphas") occasionally dispensed with the formal ceremony, claiming that their loyalty was shown by their actions rather than their words. (DS9: "One Little Ship") In the event of the death of the Vorta or the detachment of a group of Jem'Hadar from their main unit, the Jem'Hadar First could unlock the white case. (DS9: "Rocks and Shoals", "One Little Ship", "To the Death") Early in the Dominion War, the Dominion suffered from a white shortage due to a minefield preventing the shipment of new supplies from the Gamma Quadrant. The shortage was exacerbated when the primary white storage facility was destroyed by Starfleet. In a secret memorandum, Damar recommended that the last white supplies be poisoned if new supplies could not be procured. (DS9: "A Time to Stand", "Behind the Lines") After Operation Return, the Dominion attempted to acquire the Kabrel system from the Federation under the guise of peace negotiations, as the tri-nucleic fungi on Kabrel I would have enabled them to manufacture an unlimited quantity of white. Later, the Son'a produced large amounts of white for them. (DS9: "Statistical Probabilities", "Penumbra"; Star Trek: Insurrection) The tubes that delivered the white to the Jem'Hadar evolved in design during the third and fourth seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Originally, the tubes were colored black in "The Jem'Hadar" , then white in "The Search, Part I" , then transparent in "The Abandoned" . The tubes remained transparent throughout the rest of the series. They also became more elaborate, however, becoming bigger and mechanized. "It was [at first] supposed to be something that was very subtle, that went into the main blood vein in their necks," recalled Michael Westmore, following his work on season four. "Eventually, it was thought that that was a little boring, so now when we see them, there's an actual motor in their costume which keeps circulating a flow of liquid through the tube. That was added about the third or fourth time they worked." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. 3) Special Effects Supervisor Gary Monak recollected, "Tiny pumps that came out of copy machines seemed to work the best, in terms of the speed and the sound. The first time we had to do a bunch of Jem'Hadar, we got twelve of these pumps from a surplus place, and they all worked fine. But the next time it came up and we needed more, they no longer existed. We had gotten the last twelve pumps that work." Smiling, Monak concluded, "It might be touch and go if they ever send thirty of these guys to us looking for neck pumps." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 268)
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