- For other uses, see singularity.
A microsingularity was a stellar phenomenon where a black hole had less than one solar mass but still produced a gravity effect. These singularities can be naturally occurring or be generated. Microsingularities have been encountered by the Enterprise (NX-01), the USS Defiant, and the USS Voyager. (ENT episode: "Shuttlepod One", DS9 episode: "Past Tense", VOY episode: "Message in a Bottle")
History[]
In the 2250s decade, microsingularities were considered mythical to Earth science, but Vulcans were open to the possibility that they existed. In November 2151, Enterprise and a Tesnian starship encountered microsingularities within an asteroid field. (ENT episode: "Shuttlepod One")
In the 24th century, an artificial microsingularity served as the power source for Romulan starships. Although extremely efficient, once formed, failure of its complex containment field would lead to the ship's destruction. In 2311, the Tomed Incident involved the obliteration of the Romulan flagship IRW Tomed while traveling at warp nine. The released microsingularity while at warp produced a subspace wave that destroyed the USS Agamemnon, the shuttle Liss Riehn, and everything else in the Foxtrot sector. (TLE novel: Serpents Among the Ruins)
In 2371, Takaran researcher Doctor Ja'Benn worked on a project that incorporated a microsingulary as the power source for a quantum torpedo. When detonated, it formed a subspace rupture that prevented a warp bubble from remaining stable. Ja'Brenn discovered that this prototype had actually been stolen from a Romulan research facility. While it was being tested in the Tararan system, three Klingon B'rel-class birds of prey made off with the prototype. (Adventures RPG module: These are the Voyages: Mission Compendium Vol. 1 mission: That Which is Unknown)
In 2372, Tesnians were conducting promising microsingularity research. (DTI novel: Watching the Clock)
First Splinter timeline[]
In 2374, the crew of USS Voyager encountered communications arrays powered by microscopic singularities. The Hirogen had been also been able to do that. (VOY - String Theory novel: Fusion)
Several months later, the crew of USS Voyager destabilized the unnaturally collapsing white dwarf star Blue Eye in the Monorhan system with trilithium to escape from a subspace fold and reduce radiation harmful to those on the planet Monorha. In normal space, the star would have collapsed, but instead it formed an unusual microsingularity that expanded into a rift. (VOY - String Theory novels: Cohesion, Fusion, Evolution)
In 2381, Seven of Nine fired a tachyon pulse at a class-A magnetar, which forced it to collapse into a microsingularity, in order to increase the range of Voyager's subspace receiver. (VOY novel: Children of the Storm)
In 2384, chief engineer Geordi La Forge suggested to Captain Jean-Luc Picard to seed microsingularities to alter the course of the Nexus away from the space of the Holy Order of the Kinshaya; Picard dismissed the idea believing Starfleet would not approve scattering black holes across the sector. (TNG eBook: The Stuff of Dreams)
Other alternate realities[]
In 2366, Mara speculated that an earthquake which destroyed Benecia City could have been caused by a quantum string fragment or a microsingularity. (ST - Myriad Universes - Shattered Light novel: Honor in the Night)
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| Stellar classification | |
|---|---|
| By class and type | class O blue-violet star • class B blue star • class A blue-white star • class F white star (white dwarf) • class G yellow star (yellow dwarf • yellow giant) • class K orange star (orange giant) • class M red star (red dwarf • red giant • red supergiant) • boson star • brown dwarf • green star • N-type star • R-type star • S-type star • D-type star |
| By size or makeup | black hole/black star • carbon star • dwarf star (brown dwarf • red dwarf • white dwarf • yellow dwarf) • giant star (blue giant • red giant • orange giant • yellow giant) • Lazarus star • microstar • neutron star (collapsar • magnetar • pulsar) • protostar • supergiant star • variable star • white hole • Wolf-Rayet star |
Appearances and references[]
Appearances[]
- TLE novel: Serpents Among the Ruins
- VOY - String Theory novel: Cohesion
- VOY - String Theory novel: Fusion
- VOY - String Theory novel: Evolution
- VOY novel: Children of the Storm
References[]
- DS9 episode: "Past Tense"
- VOY episode: "Message in a Bottle"
- ENT episode: "Shuttlepod One"
- ST - Myriad Universes - Shattered Light novel: Honor in the Night
- DTI novel: Watching the Clock
- TNG eBook: The Stuff of Dreams
- Adventures RPG module: These are the Voyages: Mission Compendium Vol. 1 mission: That Which is Unknown
External links[]
- Micro black hole article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Microsingularities article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.