The entity entered the minds of several crewmembers before finally settling in Captain Picard's, and ordering the ship back to Beta Renner, where it attempted to merge with Picard's consciousness, converting him into an energy lifeform in order for him to become a permanent inhabitant of the cloud as well. The two intelligences proved incompatible, however, and the captain managed to return to the Enterprise and use the physical pattern stored in the transporter's memory system to regain his body.