Microscope

A microscope was a scientific instrument designed to allow the viewing of things too small to be seen by normal Human vision. It uses a system of lenses and mirrors to magnify an object many times more than it actually is.

The apothecary Riann, an Akaali, used a microscope in her pharmacy when Jonathan Archer and T'Pol, disguised as Akaali, visited her. 

Doctor Phlox usually used a microscope on board Enterprise. ( et al)

The Klingon scientist Antaak used a microscope during his examinations. 

Doctor Noonian Soong had a microscope in his laboratories on Omicron Theta. The away team of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) visited the left rooms in the colony in 2364. 

Doctor Katherine Pulaski kept a microscope in her office aboard the Enterprise-D when she signed on her duty. 

The Darwin Genetic Research Station on Gagarin IV, headed by Doctor Sara Kingsley, used microscopes in their investigations. 

The science labs aboard starships had microscopes. Wesley Crusher used one during his experiments with nanites. 

Marla Aster kept an old microscope in her house on Earth. 

The medical laboratory aboard the Enterprise-D was equipped with a microscope. 

In 2370, Lieutenant Commander Data created a microscope using multiple lenses when he was stranded on Barkon IV, a planet with a pre-warp civilization, to research the radiation sickness that was spreading among the villagers. 

Doctor Julian Bashir used a microscope in the infirmary on Deep Space 9 in 2369 when he examined the DNA probes he collected aboard the Bajoran transport ship. 

Lieutenant Jadzia Dax used a microscope which was combined with a probe analyzer and a computer display to search the probe she took from under Rao Vantika's fingernails. She found a microscopic generator Vantika used to transfer his consciousness into another person shortly before he died. 

Doctor Julian Bashir used a microscope to identify the shapeshifting locket Odo received from the Rakhari Croden. 

Captain Kathryn Janeway kept a 600-year-old microscope among the decoration of her ready room on board the USS Voyager. Her grandfather gave it to her when she was a child. 

Background
Senior illustrator Rick Sternbach made a sketch for an electronic microscope for use by Doctor Bashir in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode. The prop was not built but Sternbach showed the sketch in the DS9 Season 1 DVD special feature "Deep Space Nine Sketchbook".

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