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Wait, what do you mean, 'dark matter'? It's not dark, it interacts with high-energy gamma rays ... right? Oh jeez, did I forget to make it interact?
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3263/
Kill assist ×8Bn!!!
Huh, so we were alone
"Fuck. I meant to make more of them..."
"well you know i figured y'all would fill it out eventually"
Just couldn't leave good enough alone could ya?
In before the antimatter question and the dark matter question are answered by the same mechanism, analogised by antimatter somehow having cloaking technology to avoid annihilation.
Got it: dark matter is Romulan.
Given that it passes through ordinary matter almost entirely undetected, I'd say it was more like the phasing cloak invented by the Federation.
You know, the one that was never heard of again after the episode that featured it.