| rdfs:comment | - In the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, polaric energy research was investigated, but the destruction of a Romulan research station on Chaltok IV by a polaric ion detonation led to the Polaric Test Ban Treaty of 2268. This agreement effectively halted and prohibited all polaric ion research in the Alpha and Beta Quadrant. One planet in the Delta Quadrant, encountered by the USS Voyager in 2371 of an alternate timeline, was found to be using polaric energy as a planetwide power source. The culture was pre-warp, so contact was not initiated. (VOY: "Time and Again")
- Polaric ion energy was a highly volatile form of energy based on polaric ion particles. Polaric ion energy could be used either in power generation or weapons with unmatched potential, but polaric ion devices were dangerously unstable and prone to causing chain reactions which could vaporize all life on a planet. Attempts to harness polaric ion energy in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants led to the destruction of a Romulan research outpost on Chaltok IV, which prompted the creation of the Polaric Test Ban Treaty of 2268, prohibiting further research with polaric ions.
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| abstract | - Polaric ion energy was a highly volatile form of energy based on polaric ion particles. Polaric ion energy could be used either in power generation or weapons with unmatched potential, but polaric ion devices were dangerously unstable and prone to causing chain reactions which could vaporize all life on a planet. Attempts to harness polaric ion energy in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants led to the destruction of a Romulan research outpost on Chaltok IV, which prompted the creation of the Polaric Test Ban Treaty of 2268, prohibiting further research with polaric ions. Polaric radiation could be released by polaric ion explosions and cause subspace and temporal distortions. In extreme cases subspace fractures could be formed, leading into the past. (VOY: "Time and Again")
- In the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, polaric energy research was investigated, but the destruction of a Romulan research station on Chaltok IV by a polaric ion detonation led to the Polaric Test Ban Treaty of 2268. This agreement effectively halted and prohibited all polaric ion research in the Alpha and Beta Quadrant. One planet in the Delta Quadrant, encountered by the USS Voyager in 2371 of an alternate timeline, was found to be using polaric energy as a planetwide power source. The culture was pre-warp, so contact was not initiated. (VOY: "Time and Again") Originally, the entire civilization of this planet had been annihilated in a polaric catastrophe, but it was found that the shock waves from the explosion had propagated into the past and created subspace fractures. Two members of a Voyager away team, Kathryn Janeway and Tom Paris, moved through one of the fractures and were transported one day into the past, where they discovered that they were the cause of the catastrophe. When they prevented the accident, the timeline was reset so that the explosion never occurred. (VOY: "Time and Again")
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