Star Trek: 10 Most Mind-Bending Spatial Anomalies

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Solve for X, Spock! Solve for X!

BY JACK KIELY
NOVEMBER 14TH, 2023

I mean, duuuuuh! We all know the difference between a cosmic string and a quantum filament. One's a very long anomaly with a lot of mass; the other's a nearly massless very long anomaly. The cosmic string the Enterprise-D encountered housed a group of two-dimensional beings that 'short-circuited' Deanna Troi's brain, and the quantum filament the ship bumped into about a year later saw Data quite literally lose his head.

From that description alone, you might wonder why anyone ventures out of the Sol system in the coming centuries, although Earth and company are hardly a safe-haven, and it wouldn't be much of a star trek if they just stayed at home. Space is a vast and wondrous place, but it is also full of baffling irregularities and aberrations to its continuum that our tiny ape and lizard brains just aren't evolved enough to properly comprehend. Other species like the Vulcans seem to have a better time of it, but then again, they're not always as tough as they'd have us believe.

Perhaps Captain Janeway was ultimately right, nonetheless, when she said that there is little more impressive or scarier than watching a bolt of lightning split an oak tree on the plains of Indiana. Spatial anomalies truly exist all around us, ready to blow our minds at any second. Prepare to have yours just a little bit twisted!