The Pergamum Nebula, or simply the Pergamum, was an expansive, dense and volatile nebular cloud in the Alpha Quadrant. Due to its "hellish" nature, human cartographers named it after the metaphorical location of "Satan's throne" in the Book of Revelation.
While the Pergamum was close to established space lanes, as well as the smaller and much less dangerous Ionite Nebula, few vessels that had entered the region had ever returned, and probes had returned almost no valuable telemetry.
Travel into and out of the nebula was difficult for most starships, as alternating zones of various gasses and substances constituted a series of boundary layers that required adjustments to navigation and other ship's systems in order to compensate for the changes. It was nearly impossible for scans and subspace communications signals to penetrate from outside the nebula.
The Pergamum was beyond the mid-23rd century borders of the United Federation of Planets, and was largely uncharted. In 2256, the USS Enterprise was refit and equipped for a year-long survey of the nebula. (DSC novel: The Enterprise War)
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External links[]
- Pergamum Nebula article at Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek wiki.