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The only Star Trek novel to expand on the story of the Dyson Sphere is " Dyson Sphere" by Charles Pellegrino & George Zebrowski. TL DR : We never get an official answer, but one of the TNG follow-up novels takes a few guesses and attempts to expand on the Dyson Sphere artifact.

Neither has ever been addressed, in either canon or in any licensed material.

The sphere was evacuated, but so long ago that the memories of it only live as myths and legends (at best) in the diaspora.

The unstable star irradiated the inside of the sphere, killing quadrillions of sentient humanoids in a gruesome mega-genocide. So I feel like there are two possibilities: (And even a million years isn't much in the lifetime of a star.) It's not a stretch to think that a civilization that could build a Dyson Sphere could make it last hundreds of thousands or even millions of years uninhabited. The Iconians, for instance, were highly developed when their homeworld was destroyed 200,000 years ago. It could easily be a long long long time. The Jenolan crashed on it and was broadcasting a distress call for seventy-five years before the Enterprise passed by.Īs for why there aren't any former inhabitants telling people about it, the episode makes no indication how long the sphere has been abandoned. It also seems to be a bit out of the way. It is only "emitting low intensity subspace signals." It's likely that from a distance, there's nothing to detect at all.

Data finally reports "something on the sphere which could be a communications device" but not until after they've been in orbit for some time. It also seems to not be emitting much in the way of communications signals. Since it completely obscures the star it surrounds, it's pretty hard to distinguish it from open space. How does no one in the known galaxy know about it?įirst, it's hard to find. WORF: Sir, Sensors show a large magnetic disturbance on the star's surface.ĭATA: It is a solar flare, Captain. But if there's no one still living there, how were we brought inside?ĭATA: I believe we triggered a series of automatic piloting beams designed to guide ships into the sphere. PICARD: Then that would explain why they abandoned it. It is experiencing severe bursts of radiation and matter expulsions. Sensors show that the star is extremely unstable. The star is unstable:ĭATA: The sphere appears to be abandoned. Why is the Dyson Sphere uninhabited and abandoned?