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| - By one account, the Galactic Barrier was an artificial construct and dated its creation at around four billion years ago. It was speculated that the Galactic barrier was created by the Progenitors when they came under assault by the Totality. This led to the ancient race's downfall, but protected the younger Humanoid species that they had seeded on thousands of worlds. (TOS novel: Captain's Glory)
- The galactic barrier is, by most accounts, a negative energy field either keeping stuff inside the galaxy or outside. One "authority" referred to the barrier as "a load of peanut butter." Whether he meant that the barrier was composed of peanut butter is unclear. The barrier was once immensely powerful, but weakened considerably over a four-year period (2265-2269). When first encountered by the starship SS Valiant in 2065, the barrier caused a person to mutate and the captain to destroy his ship, but not before leaving an engraved invitation to future star-farers to tempt fate.
- It was first discovered by humans circa 2065, when the SS Valiant breached the barrier, and was subsequently destroyed. Two centuries later, in 2265, the USS Enterprise discovered the Valiants recorder-marker and learned that the Valiants captain had destroyed the ship himself, to prevent a mutated crewmember from escaping. In 2268, the Enterprise twice encountered the barrier; once when hijacked by the Kelvans, and again when engineer Lawrence Marvick was driven mad by the sight of Medusan Ambassador Kollos. (TOS: "By Any Other Name", "Is There In Truth No Beauty?")
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| - By one account, the Galactic Barrier was an artificial construct and dated its creation at around four billion years ago. It was speculated that the Galactic barrier was created by the Progenitors when they came under assault by the Totality. This led to the ancient race's downfall, but protected the younger Humanoid species that they had seeded on thousands of worlds. (TOS novel: Captain's Glory)
- The galactic barrier is, by most accounts, a negative energy field either keeping stuff inside the galaxy or outside. One "authority" referred to the barrier as "a load of peanut butter." Whether he meant that the barrier was composed of peanut butter is unclear. The barrier was once immensely powerful, but weakened considerably over a four-year period (2265-2269). When first encountered by the starship SS Valiant in 2065, the barrier caused a person to mutate and the captain to destroy his ship, but not before leaving an engraved invitation to future star-farers to tempt fate. Which, in fact, one named Kirk did. But he had two crew members become super powerful and while he nearly wrecked his ship, Kirk got out of the episode by killing them both. (TOS: "Όπου κανένα άτομο δεν έχει πάει πριν") In an adventure named after something written by Shakespeare, the barrier looked the same as before, but just shook the ship around a lot and didn't even affect the warp drive. By 2269, ships could just float in the barrier at leisure with no ill-effect. (TOS: "What's in the Box?")
- It was first discovered by humans circa 2065, when the SS Valiant breached the barrier, and was subsequently destroyed. Two centuries later, in 2265, the USS Enterprise discovered the Valiants recorder-marker and learned that the Valiants captain had destroyed the ship himself, to prevent a mutated crewmember from escaping. The Enterprise breached the barrier herself, resulting in crewmen Gary Mitchell and Elizabeth Dehner gaining "god-like" powers. Mitchell would have destroyed the ship and threatened the entire galaxy, had he not been killed by his best friend, Captain James T. Kirk, with Dehner's help. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before") In 2268, the Enterprise twice encountered the barrier; once when hijacked by the Kelvans, and again when engineer Lawrence Marvick was driven mad by the sight of Medusan Ambassador Kollos. (TOS: "By Any Other Name", "Is There In Truth No Beauty?") Over the next century, other Starfleet vessels would also encounter the barrier, including the USS Stargazer in 2333 and the USS Enterprise-E in 2374. (TNG novels: The Valiant, The Q Continuum) While on a survey of the galactic rim in 2383, the USS Pendragon was diverted to Delta Vega to recover the bodies of Mitchell and Dehner. Exposure to the residual energy in the bodies altered Lt. Commander Ben Bartholomew, and ultimately resulted in the Pendragon breaching the galactic barrier. (Star Trek: Pendragon: "Whispers As Loud As Thunder") The barrier was once again encountered in 2384, this time by the Phoenix-X, on a dual mission to complete the X-Project testing and use it to travel to the Andromeda galaxy. Upon a rough crossing of the barrier, through the use of ultra-transwarp, the crew were momentarily met with the being 0. Luckily, Q had been traveling aboard the Phoenix-X and was able to deal with the other omnipotent being. (Star Trek: Phoenix-X: "Forbidden Crossing, Parts II & III")
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