That episode was a (poor) adaptation of Robert L. Forward's first contact novel "Dargon's Egg". Humanity discovers life on a neutron star, where the intense gra

That episode was a (poor) adaptation of Robert L. Forward's first contact novel "Dargon's Egg". Humanity discovers life on a neutron star, where the intense gravity (billions of gs) enables degenerate matter chemistry where interactions are orders of magnitude faster than in conventional matter. I highly recommend it.