Federation Starbase / Base Database - Starbase 173

	History:
	Space station facility located in Sector 23, near the Romulan Neutral Zone. Site of legal proceedings establishing the sentience of the android Data. Captain Philipa Louvois served on Starbase 173. TNG "The Measure of a Man" Also Starbase 173, engineering officer Ensign Sonja Gomez was among several new personnel transferred to the Enterprise-D. TNG "Q Who?" Starbase 173 was a re-use of the Regula 1 space station model originally seen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. Star Trek Encyclopedia II