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From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: Where Were They?
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 16:03:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 16:03:53 1985
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joemu@nsc-pdc.UUCP (Joe Mueller) wrote:
> The energy barrier that the original author talked about was used in
> at least two episodes, one dealt with a creature called a Medusan (sp?) whose
> sight would make people insane, someone saw it and sent the ship headlong into
> the barrier. 

Is There No Truth in Beauty

> The other episode that I remember is that there were two creatures
> from Andromeda? and they took over the ship and took it through the barrier. I
> don't think the barrier really had a name.

(I forget the name of this one, but everyone refers to it as the cube episode.)

It was simply called the energy barrier.  It made its first appearance early in
the first season (first episode with the second cast?), in Where No Man Has
Gone Before.  They were sent there to investigate it.

--Evan Marcus 
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