Nanites

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Submicroscopic robots originally designed to perform medical functions within the bloodstream of a living organism. Such functions can encompass intracellular surgery, eliminating individual disease cells, removing clotted material from a blood vessel, and more.

Manufactured with gigabytes of mechanical computer memory, nanites are designed to work within the cells' nuclei. They are only used during cellular surgeries, and were therefore kept in a nonfunctional state when not in use.

Nanites can be used for a variety of applications as they can be programmed to do virtually anything. At one point, a boy named Wesley Crusher was experimenting with nanites to get them to work together. He accidently programmed them with an artificial intelligence and the ability to replicate. After a misunderstanding that led to the nanites taking over the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, the android Data found a way to communicate with the nanites. They stopped their attack, and were transferred to an unoccupied planet, Kavis Alpha IV, where they founded their own civilization.

It should be noted that only Wesley Crusher's nanites are intelligent. Any nanites used in the future would be normal machines.

Borg nanoprobes are similar to nanites.