Now she knew how her counterpart felt in the plasma cloud.
Io, in its transit around Jupiter, encounters a plasma cloud.
The plasma cloud hit them less than an hour later.
Picard could see dangerous plasma clouds glowing in the distance.
Reflection from distant plasma clouds coming originally from the sun.
So they do not witness the chaotic tumble of great plasma clouds between the stars.
"We probably passed through a plasma cloud and it overloaded our generators."
So in the middle of that plasma cloud, the sensors can't operate.
By that time, your ship is liable to be a plasma cloud anyway.
Like the business end of an avalanche the plasma cloud rolled toward the screen.