Experimental Romulan cloaking technology that combined a molecular phase inverter with a cloaking device. Matter exposed to the interphase generator would partially exist on a parallel spatial plane and would therefore be undetectable to any known sensing device. Matter so cloaked would theoretically even be able to pass through other matter. During the 2360s, the Klingons experimented with the technology, but after several accidents, they abandoned their research. In 2368, the Romulans developed a similar device that caused catastrophic damage to the warp core of the Romulan test vehicle. The Enterprise-D responded to a distress call from the Romulan ship and suffered chroniton particle contamination as a result of the failure of the interphase generator. During the mission, Geordi LaForge and Ro Laren were lost in an apparent transporter malfunction. It was later discovered that LaForge, Ro, and a Romulan officer were "phased" by the generator and rendered immaterial and invisible to "normal" matter. Commander Data, while acting to remove the chroniton contamination from the Enterprise-D, was coincidentally able to restore LaForge and Ro to normal space. 
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