Editing Cloaking device (section)

===The Interphase cloaking device=== 
 
The [[Treaty of Algeron]] did not stop Starfleet Intelligence from secretly and illegally developing the [[Interphase Cloaking Device]], a device which not only rendered a starship invisible, but also allowed it to pass through solid matter unimpeded. The device was lost in 2358 when the testbed vessel, the USS Pegasus was presumed destroyed by a warp core breach in a mutiny by members of the crew concerned about the legality of the test. In 2370, the Pegasus was found not to have been destroyed and the existence of the illegal device was made public to the Romulans. (TNG: "The Pegasus") 

In the early 2360s, the Klingon Empire experimented with interphase cloaking technology but the research was abandoned due to several accidents. 

In 2368 the Romulans also unsuccessfully experimented with phased cloaking technology, developing a prototype. The USS Enterprise-D had received a distress signal from the testbed vessel and Captain Picard ordered an away team sent over to assist. During the mission, due to a malfunction in the device, Ensign Ro Laren and Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge were phase-cloaked during beam-out and rematerialized on different parts of the Enterprise. After attempting to bring them back, the crew gave up, believing them dead. Eventually, Ro and La Forge succeeded in revealing what had happened to them to the crew and Lieutenant Commander Data managed to reverse the effects of the cloak, bringing them back into phase. (TNG: "The Next Phase") 

The Spectre Class Starship was the First Federation Vessel to possess a functional and stable Phase Cloak. The [[USS Spectre (NCC-8741)]] is a ship in the [[52nd Fleet]] and is Commanded by [[Rank|Captain]] [[T'Vhor]]. A newly renegotiated [[Treaty of Algeron]] no longer prevents the pursuit of Cloaking technology by the [[United Federation of Planets]] in the Star Trek :Freedom Universe.


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