Star Trek: 10 Top Secret Artefacts At Daystrom Station

Daystrom is a name connected to Star Trek right back to its second season and The Ultimate Computer. A key Federation scientist, Richard Daystrom lent his name to an Institute where synthetic life was developed as well as numerous other experimental technologies.

But one part of his legacy was out in the depths of space, Daystrom Station. Viewers had already seen a secret Section 31 base as part of the second season of Discovery, yet during Picard's third season it would be revealed that they were in possession of a lot more.

The location of Project Proteus, the station was used for experimentation on Changeling prisoners of war. Changeling Vadic would return to the station following her escape and steal portal weapons that would be used against the Federation as a distraction from the true purpose of their infiltration, the theft of Picard's biological body. Doctor Altan Soong had sent it there to uncover whether Irumodic Syndrome was the true cause of the admiral's death.

Investigating, Worf, Raffi, and Riker managed to gain access to the station and discovered that portal weapons were just the very pointy tip of the black site's metaphorical iceberg. Alongside encountering visions of crows, Professor Moriarty and a rendition of Pop Goes the Weasel, the trio would take a walk past some of the most potent items ever to have existed within the known universe. From bodies in stasis to deadly machines, here are just some of those artifacts.

The true granddaddy of all Federation made apocalypse inducing machines!

Envisaged as creating life from lifelessness, the brainchild of Carol and David Marcus caused all sorts of galactic upheaval but was almost forgotten as quickly as it had arrived.

Comprising a control unit and a missile to deliver its payload, the only known example of the device was lost in the Battle of the Mutara Nebula when it was activated by one Khan Noonien Singh. Somehow, Section 31 has acquired a second but it could be that they have built it fresh utilising the plans for the original.

At no point in the franchise has it ever been confirmed what happened to Marcus' research and data with at least the presentations and reports from Carol and Jim Kirk likely to have been classified during the 23rd Century. Plus of course, the entire sector knew of Genesis as was noted by Admiral Morrow in The Search for Spock. The Federation Council too viewed the records during the investigation into the incident at the beginning of The Voyage Home and who is to say that among the delegates there weren't members of Section 31? Who's to say that they didn't already have the project data in their possession?