Star Trek: 10 Huge Discoveries That No One Cared About
4. The Centre Of The Galaxy
The Earth is 25,800 lightyears from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. That's over a third of the distance of Voyager's 70,000 lightyear journey that was supposed to take them roughly 70 years. Yet, somehow in the infamous Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, the Enterprise makes it there in less than a day.
Let's ignore that small detail for now and talk about how, when the Enterprise does reach the centre of the Milky Way they don't find a supermassive black hole millions of times the mass of the sun, but instead a swirling energy field called the Great Barrier surrounding a planet inhabited solely by a giant head that likes to cosplay as God.
The Klingons proceed to blow him up as the crew escapes and no one ever returns. Who was this entity? Why did he need a starship so bad? Are there any more like him? Why is the centre of the galaxy a giant energy field with a planet in the middle?
At the very least, Voyager could've checked it out on the way back...