It emerged when the Satellite of Love was experiencing unusual technical difficulties and power outages (including the Whirlpool) only to rescue the SOL using a tractor beam. Mike, being his usual dim-witted self, ordered the SOL to enlarge the viewscreen image, fire photon torpedoes and raise shields, only causing the Bots to remind him that the SOL either had no such capabilities or was depleted of such requests, and for the Hexfield viewscreen to malfunction, closing half-way.