Captain, get your ship and crew to the Alpha Centauri Sector Block, and join in the battle against this enormous creature. If you come within hailing range of other Federation ships, urge them to join up; this Crystalline Entity is a destroyer of planets and not to be taken lightly! The Enterprise-D encountered a cosmozoan lifeform known as the Crystalline Entity more than forty years ago. That lifeform was destroyed, and we simply didn't prepare for what we would do if another of its kind appeared. We have to act quickly before the Entity destroys more planets!