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== Notable examples == | == Notable examples == | ||
===TOS=== | ===TOS=== | ||
* Zefram Cochrane's "[[Companion]]" was stated to be electricity and ionized [[hydrogen]].<ref>TOS "Metamorphosis"</ref> | * [[Zefram Cochrane|Zefram Cochrane's]] "[[Companion]]" was stated to be electricity and ionized [[hydrogen]].<ref>TOS "Metamorphosis"</ref> | ||
* The [[Organian]]s were said to have [[evolution|evolved]] into non-corporeal energy beings.<ref>TOS "Errand of Mercy"</ref> | * The [[Organian]]s were said to have [[evolution|evolved]] into non-corporeal energy beings.<ref>TOS "Errand of Mercy"</ref> | ||
* Kirk once hunted an energy cloud that drained the blood of its victims and could only be destroyed by an antimatter explosion for some reason.<ref>TOS "Obsession"</ref> | * Kirk once hunted an energy cloud that drained the blood of its victims and could only be destroyed by an antimatter explosion for some reason.<ref>TOS "Obsession"</ref> | ||
Revision as of 22:45, 23 June 2008
An energy cloud or energy being is a shapeless lifeform supposedly comprised of pure energy, even though it usually appears like a cloud of smoke.
For some strange reason, many science fiction franchises, including Star Trek, seem to think that these "energy clouds" are the ultimate life forms; yet another annoying brain bug. Such beings have appeared since TOS and continued to be seen in Voyager.
Notable examples
TOS
- Zefram Cochrane's "Companion" was stated to be electricity and ionized hydrogen.[1]
- The Organians were said to have evolved into non-corporeal energy beings.[2]
- Kirk once hunted an energy cloud that drained the blood of its victims and could only be destroyed by an antimatter explosion for some reason.[3]
- A pure energy alien possessed several different people and the Enterprise's computer in the middle of a killing spree. This same alien was supposedly responsible for the murders of Jack the Ripper.[4]
- Sargon and his race supposedly transformed themselves into formless beings of pure energy after they destroyed the surface of their world.[5]
- The Enterprise is actually invaded by an "energy storm".[6]
- The Enterprise crew is forced to engage in hand-to-hand combat with Klingons on board by a being that lives on "hate"[7]
TNG
- The Enterprise-D picked up such a being who eventually possessed Jean-Luc Picard and beamed both itself and Picard into the void of space to get back to its own people.[8]
- A brillian human scientist once implanted his "consciousness" into Data[9]
- Deanna Troi was impregnated by such a being once.[10]
- Q tormented a group energy beings known as the Calamarain, and they came back for revenge when he temporarily lost his powers.[11]
- Zalkonians are supposedly in the middle of just such and "evolutionary transformation" (again, completely distorting the entire concept of evolution).[12]
- The Paxans possessed Troi to get the Enterprise to leave them alone.[13]
- An unnamed alien removed the "consciousness" from several hundred criminals and banished them to another planet that served as their prison. These "consciousnesses" could possess other living beings and even Data.[14]
- Such a being seduced female ancestors of Beverly Crusher for many generations[15]
Voyager
- The USS Voyager encountered a living cloud that the crew initially thought was a nebula.[16]
References
- ↑ TOS "Metamorphosis"
- ↑ TOS "Errand of Mercy"
- ↑ TOS "Obsession"
- ↑ TOS "Wolf in the Fold"
- ↑ TOS "Return to Tomorrow"
- ↑ TOS "The Lights of Zetar"
- ↑ TOS "Day of the Dove"
- ↑ TNG "Lonely Among Us"
- ↑ TNG "The Schizoid Man"
- ↑ TNG "The Child"
- ↑ TNG "Déjà Q"
- ↑ TNG "Transfigurations".
- ↑ TNG "Clues"
- ↑ TNG "Power Play"
- ↑ TNG "Sub Rosa"
- ↑ VOY "The Cloud"