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Cosmic String Fragment

A swarm of two-dimensional beings, which was 107 km long and one proton wide, with gravitational fields as powerful as a large black hole or 100 smaller stars, was instinctively drawn to a cosmic string fragment. The fragment emitted a characteristic set of subspace frequencies as atomic particles decayed along its event horizon, which were duplicated by the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D‘s parabolic dish to confuse the two-dimensional beings and halt them long enough to break free of their graviton field wake.^[1]

References

• ^[1]TNG-184: The Loss