Verteron
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Verterons are fictional subatomic particles created for the post TOS Star Trek universe. Verterons can interfere with sensor scans and only exist when artificially created.
They were first mentioned with reference to their relationship with wormholes, in Deep Space Nine when a secular humanist and a religious fundamentalist were arguing about the origin of the Bajoran wormhole. The wormhole was referred to as a Celestial Temple by the religious fundamentalist who dismissed the concept of verterons, entirely. This was rebutted by the secular humanist, who claimed that the wormhole was created by the verterons themselves. (See episode In the Hands of the Prophets, season 1.)
In Star Trek fiction, as of the mid-2150s, a verteron-emission array was installed on Mars to redirect comets for terraforming purposes. The Verteron Array was briefly hijacked by Terra Prime supremacists seeking to rid Earth of aliens, but their plot was foiled by Captain Jonathan Archer of Enterprise.
In Star Trek fiction, a pulse of verterons is capable of disabling a starship. The Enterprise-D was disabled by a Hekaran probe in 2370 when the probe emitted a verteron pulse, immediately disabling the Enterprise's warp and impulse drives as well as the ship's shields.
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- In the Star Trek/X-men crossover novel "Planet X", it was revealed that verteron particles are present in subspace, where starships go to reach warp. The novel also revealed that Nightcrawler, an X-man with the power of teleportation, reappears in normal space covered in verteron particles, suggesting that the dimension he travels through when he teleports is related to subspace.
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