Anti-singularity drive

Anti-singularity drive is a drive system combining the matter-antimater warp technology used by the Federation with the quantum singularity powered engines favored by the Romulans. The drive system, known as anti-sing for short, was developed by Lieutenant Shelly Marsden during her time in Starfleet Special Projects and was theoretically capable of amazing speeds. She was unable to stabilize the system, though, until she took the unorthodox step of funneling the drive energies through a piece of space debris that was discovered by the USS Secondprize over a century earlier. This debris was actually part of an advanced culture's starship and served as the housing for the sphere-encased brains they used to regulate their engine systems. Marsden's use of housing attracted Cabral, who phased through the hull of the Hermes-7 prototype containing the housing and took over control of the ship. Once Captain Reginald Bain was able to intercept the Hermes-7 and befriend Cabral. Cabral elected to remain aboard the ship, which was renamed the USS Anomaly. (If I Only Had a Brain [BG])