White dwarf

A white dwarf is a star formed when a red giant runs out of helium fuel after losing most of its mass into space.

In 2364, the SS Tsiolkovsky was observing the formation of a white dwarf when its crew succumbed to polywater intoxication. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), sent to investigate, was subsequently threatened by a stellar core fragment thrown off by the collapse of the red giant. 

White dwarfs are the only natural source of vertion particles. In 2370, a network emergent circuit nodes aboard the Enterprise-D collected vertions from the white dwarf Tambor Beta-6 to sustain their growth, but the supply from a single star proved insufficient. 

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