Bio-neural gel pack

Bio-neural gel packs were a form of computer technology used by Starfleet and first developed in the early 2370s.

The gel packs formed the basis of the bio-neural circuitry, which was essentially an organic computer system. The packs contained neural fibers surrounded in a blue gel with metallic interfaces on the top and bottom. They helped store more information and operated at faster speeds than isolinear circuitry.

The fibers in an individual gel pack were capable of making billions of connections, thus generating an incredibly sophisticated and responsive computing architecture. This kind of organic circuitry allowed computers to "think" in very similar ways to living organisms; by using "fuzzy logic", they could effectively operate by making a "best guess" answer to complex questions rather than working through all possible calculations. This was due in part to the inherent ability of organic neural systems to correlate chaotic patterns that eluded the capacities of conventional hardware.

The USS Voyager was one of the first starships equipped with the technology. Gel packs could not be replicated. Voyager stored their spare gel packs in engineering locker Gamma 5. 

Like other biological forms, gel packs were susceptible to bacteria and viruses. As such, heating them could remove such infections. 
 * They were infected with bacteria due to cheese created by Neelix.
 * A gel pack in the mess hall was infected with a macrovirus, and led to an outbreak when it ruptured.
 * During a voyage through a Mutara-class nebula, the gel packs began to fail due to subnucleonic radiation.

Bio-neural gel pack sequence 6-Theta-9 was located on Deck 4 of an starship. 

Gel packs could be modified by injecting chroniton-infused serum into the packs in order to return a ship caught in numerous temporal periods, such as caused by a temporal anomaly, to a single temporal period. This process returned the ship to a few seconds before the anomaly occurred. 

When members of the Hierarchy species kidnapped Captain Kathryn Janeway, The Doctor was forced to steal gel packs by posing as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres. However when Janeway was rescued by Lieutenant Tom Paris and Lieutenant Commander Tuvok, the gel packs were returned to Voyager. 

Janeway once commented that a bio-neural gel pack could plot vectors "a bit faster" than Tom Paris. 

Apocrypha
In The Q Continuum trilogy, it is revealed that the Enterprise-E also possesses the gel packs. During the story, Reginald Barclay discovers that the gel packs are capable of absorbing the psionic energy of the galactic barrier, prompting him to suggest that the crew channel the resulting energy into the Enterprise's shields so that they can increase the time that they can remain in the barrier when attempting to hide from the Calamarain.

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