Weather control grid
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- Federation term for satellite networks used to manipulate planetary weather (TNG: "The Mind's Eye", "True Q", "Sub Rosa", "Force of Nature"; Short Story: "The Slow Knife"; DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin...")
- Primary purpose is to avert major loss of life from significant meteorological events by dispersing them safely during early stages of their manifestation (TNG: "True Q")
- By 24th century, local weather control grid considered standard part of planetary colonization efforts from first settlement (Short Story: "The Slow Knife")
- Potentially derived from Risan technology, as the Risan control grid existed pre-Federation (ENT: "Two Days and Two Nights")
- Federation planets known to have weather control grids installed:
- Caldos II (TNG: "Sub Rosa")
- Earth (TNG: "True Q"; TNG Novel: The Light Fantastic)
- Developed and activated c.2190s (TNG Novel: The Light Fantastic)
- Galor IV (Novel: Immortal Coil)
- Hekaras II (TNG: "Force of Nature")
- Risa (TNG: "The Mind's Eye"; DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin..."; SCE Short Story: "Paradise Interrupted"; NF Novel: Renaissance)
- In place by 2150s (ENT: "Two Days and Two Nights")
- Setlik III (Short Story: "The Slow Knife")
- Non-Federation planets known to have an analogous system:
- Ab-Tzenketh (Novel: Rough Beasts of Empire)
- Bajor (TLE Novel: Day of the Vipers)
- Reference is c.2323, prior to the Bajoran Occupation
- Danter (NF Short Story: "A Lady of Xenex")
- Eerlik (SCE Short Story: "Fatal Error")
- Femra (VOY Novel: Acts of Contrition)
- Described as common for the agricultural planets of the Confederacy (VOY Novel: Acts of Contrition)
- Pheben III (KE Novel: A Burning House)