Kent State University was an institution of higher learning in Kent, Ohio on Earth, founded in the year 1910. Kent State was infamous for an incident on 4 May 1970, when troops of the Ohio National Guard fired weapons at students protesting the war in Southeast Asia, killing four and wounding nine.
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Curtis Wellborn, a student at Illinois State University, evoked the tragedy at Kent State several months later, during a similar tense confrontation between student protesters and armed Guardsmen on the ISU campus. (TOS - Assignment: Earth comic: "My Name Is Legion")
Some time before 2372 scientists at Kent State performed an experiment where they duplicated a single piece of matter via a divergence of subspace fields. These scientists were unable to successfully do the same with antimatter. Starfleet Captain Kathryn Janeway had been aware of the experiment and results. (VOY episode: "Deadlock")
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- Kent State University article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Kent State University article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Kent State shootings article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.