Energy cloud

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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 brilliant 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 an "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

  1. ↑ TOS "Metamorphosis"
  2. ↑ TOS "Errand of Mercy"
  3. ↑ TOS "Obsession"
  4. ↑ TOS "Wolf in the Fold"
  5. ↑ TOS "Return to Tomorrow"
  6. ↑ TOS "The Lights of Zetar"
  7. ↑ TOS "Day of the Dove"
  8. ↑ TNG "Lonely Among Us"
  9. ↑ TNG "The Schizoid Man"
  10. ↑ TNG "The Child"
  11. ↑ TNG "Déjà Q"
  12. ↑ TNG "Transfigurations".
  13. ↑ TNG "Clues"
  14. ↑ TNG "Power Play"
  15. ↑ TNG "Sub Rosa"
  16. ↑ VOY "The Cloud"
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