California Institute of Technology
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
The California Institute of Technology (or Cal-Tech) was a university located in California which owns and operates the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Following Rain Robinson's SETI-contact with the USS Voyager in 1996, she e-mailed a friend at JPL, who in turn, called his professor at Caltech, regarding the possibility of extraterrestrial contact.
The Cal-Tech professor, in turn, contacted Henry Starling regarding the possible contact, forcing Starling to downplay the event. After getting off the telephone with the professor, he decided that Robinson was a security threat and that she had to be eliminated. (VOY: "Future's End")
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In the Pocket TNG novel Grounded, Jean-Luc Picard is revealed to have briefly studied at Caltech during his time at Starfleet Academy.
[edit] External links
- California Institute of Technology - official web site
- California Institute of Technology at Wikipedia
