Star Trek: 10 Most Mind-Bending Spatial Anomalies

10. Graviton Ellipse

Or the 'Kitchen Sink' Anomaly

You can call it what you want — 'spatial anomaly 521,' if you prefer the Borg designation, or the 'kitchen sink' anomaly, as Commander Chakotay nicknamed it — but a 'graviton ellipse,' as per the Federation database, will still be a giant glowing ball of subspace energy (30 million terrajoules' worth) that can emerge into normal space whenever and wherever it pleases. It's most certainly no solar flare, and it's definitely more than a little turbulence!

The most mind-altering aspect of this particular phenomenon is not its sheer size and intensity, however; as with all things in life and the 24th century, if you cut power and reverse shield polarity, the graviton ellipse will just drift on by. What is truly weird is that of all the graviton ellipses in all the quadrants of the galaxy, Voyager stumbled on the one that consumed the Ares IV command module over Mars in 2032. The same as in the teaser? Oh, yeah! Quite the coincidence!

What no one knew until then was that Lt. John Kelly, commander of the Ares IV mission, had survived for quite some time inside the graviton ellipse (humanity's first encounter with a spatial anomaly, no less). 31 years before the Vulcans (officially) showed up, Kelly also got the universe unravelling shock of his life when he saw the wreckage of an alien ship float past the window.