Two Galactic Barriers

[Nedersong]

So The Cage and The Menagerie reveals that there is some sort of energy barrier that surrounds the entire galaxy.

In ST TFF we see there's an energy barrier that cuts off the center of the Galaxy.

So that's two barriers.

It's been somehow implied that these barries have been placed there by powerful people.

So who did it, and why?

 

[Michael]

It's been somehow implied that these barries have been placed there by powerful people.

Has it?

 

[Kegek]

It's implied the inner barrier was placed by somebody, yes. The God creature is imprisoned on that planet by the barrier. Presumably the barrier was placed there by whoever saw fit to imprison him - perhaps the Cytherians of "The Nth Degree", who have been speculated to be the species of the God creature.

The galactic barrier is sorta similar, but there's no indication there was any purpose for it.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

So The Cage and The Menagerie reveals that there is some sort of energy barrier that surrounds the entire galaxy.

In ST TFF we see there's an energy barrier that cuts off the center of the Galaxy.

So that's two barriers.

It's been somehow implied that these barries have been placed there by powerful people.

So who did it, and why?

The barrier around the galaxy was in Where No Man Has Gone Before.

In ST:TFF Sybok thought God was on a planet behind the barrier, but I don't know of any canon Star Trek that implied the barriers were placed there by a higher power.

 

[3D Master]

In the Q Continuum books, it is revealed (non-canonically of course), that Q once asked the Guardian of Forever a question (A variation on "Is this all there is?" - IIRC), and Guardian opened gateways to several alternate universe. Several god-like beings like Q himself came through. One was the one that taught the children in TOS "And the Children Shall lead..."

One was god-head on the planet at the center of the galaxy (then still having a full, fiery body). And a final one, a very powerful leader.

Q went along with them, wreaking havoc. They like to "test" lesser species. One such test was to see if the then great empire (I can't remember the ffing name) could deal with their sun going nova. They could, they built a massive transporter construct around their sun, and another sun, and were set to beam the sun to exchange position.

The leader god-ling, didn't like it, according to him, none of the lesser species was worthy, they had to fail their test to prove it, so he sped up the star going nova, and boom.

Q tried to stop them but couldn't, afterward the continuum (deciding that Q learned his lesson about playing about with species and unknown omnipotent beings) helped out, and together they weakened the god-beings, blasted the body of "god", and trapped the remainder on the central planet, placing the barrier around the planet so he couldn't escape. The leader god, was tossed out of the galaxy and the barrier around the galaxy was placed to keep him out.

The "pumping up to god-like levels" of Mitchell, the woman (and a few people in the novels) was the god-leader reaching out to them, and corrupting them so they would help him break the barrier so he could go back inside the galaxy.

Good books!