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Wormhole Accretion Source

Terminus

A distant, directional origin in space that funnels accretion matter into the wormhole — detectable not by visuals but by instruments as a focused inflow of charged particles and gravitational perturbations. Sensors report rising meson and lepton activity and increasing gravitational acceleration tracing back to the terminus, turning empty blackness into a tense corridor of energy. The crew experiences it as an off-screen source of danger: a remote pressure point that warps navigation vectors, corrupts predictions, and converts routine passage into an urgent, unstable hazard.
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S3E8 · The Price
Emergence and Alarm — Ferengi Pod, Wrong Quadrant

The Terminus is invoked by Geordi as the directional source funneling accretion matter into the wormhole; it functions as the off-screen origin of the energetic inflow that heralds increasing instability.

Atmosphere

Implied dynamic — a distant, unseen source of growing energetic pressure.

Functional Role

Source point for incoming matter and particle flux affecting the wormhole.

Symbolic Significance

Represents hidden causal forces complicating otherwise controlled operations.

Access Restrictions

Not directly accessible or visible from the shuttle in this scene.

Referenced through sensor readings rather than visual confirmation Associated with rising accretion matter and particle activity
S3E8 · The Price
Wormhole Displacement and Instability

The terminus is the offstage origin funneling accretion matter into the wormhole; Geordi’s early detection of increased accretion from the terminus helps frame the environmental cause of the instability.

Atmosphere

Imposed external pressure—an invisible but measurable source of increasing turbulence.

Functional Role

Source of energetic inflow driving the wormhole’s instability.

Accretion matter detected streaming from the terminus Contributes to rising meson/lepton activity
S3E8 · The Price
Wrong Exit — Two Hundred Light-Years Off Course

The terminus is referenced as the directional origin funneling accretion matter into the wormhole; the detected inflow from the terminus provides the first sensor cue that the wormhole's stability is changing.

Atmosphere

Distant and mechanistic; a remote source whose behavior manifests as measurable danger.

Functional Role

Source of incoming accretion matter that signals growing instability in the wormhole.

Accretion matter filtering into the wormhole detected by sensors Serves as precursor indicator to rising particle activity

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