Fusion research had reached an impasse with its inability to control the high-energy plasma.
"Captain, the Tholian internal structure- its life force, if you will- consists of highly organized high-energy plasma."
This causes a small burst of high-energy plasma to be released from the power pack and race to the tip of the whip.
It's a mess: high-energy plasma, neutrino storms, tachyon bursts.
Then, once it was clear of the larger vessel, it switched to its warp drive and sped off like a shot, its nacelles emitting blue stream-ers of high-energy plasma.
Plasma speakers are a form of loudspeaker which varies air pressure via a high-energy electrical plasma instead of a solid diaphragm.
Burnout generates high-energy plasma that bursts into flame when exposed to oxygen.
Not with adrenaline pumping through her body like high-energy plasma.
"Anyway, the trouble with betaneutrino drives, and the reason Starfleet largely abandoned them, is that they tend to interact in nasty ways with high-energy plasma and positively charged particulates."
He and his crew were traveling the main corridor of a nebular maze--a gargantuan cloud of dust and destructive high-energy plasma that dominated this part of space.