Isolinear chip

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  • Portable isolinear information storage technology
    • Encodes information optically
  • First implemented c.2330 (TNG: "Relics")
  • Storage capacity
    • One chip sufficient to store a single replicator pattern and associated metadata (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
  • Most Federation and Starfleet technology functions via information and/or programming codes encoded on individual isolinear chips installed in a fixed array (TNG: "The Naked Now")
    • Allows for hotswapping of software components as needed
    • Possibly further indicative of incredibly modular program design as described in computer science
  • Authentic Starfleet materiel marked with embedded nanomarkers (TNG Novel: A Time to Heal)
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