The crew of Voyager first encountered this phenomenon while investigating the destruction of a Vostigye space station, which was destroyed by one of the eddies. Tracking the plasma wake, they encountered another one, which caused the ship's helm and navigational control to go offline. Captain Janeway ordered the ship's phasers utilized in an attempt to disperse the eddy, but before they had a chance to fire it collapsed into itself. The crew later encountered another eddy, which threw off powerful graviton waves causing some difficulty in keeping the ship steady. The crew launched a probe into this eddy, which was pulled into the interfold layer when the eddy collapsed. Later, Tom Paris piloted the class 2 shuttle Cochrane in an attempt to collect the resultant plasma particles with the sh