From an article on advanced propulsion research:
The outlook that all physics has been discovered doesn't resonate well with Andrews. "I'm of the opinion that things like dark matter, dark energy, vacuum point energy … there might be a pony in that pile. And unless we invite people to think outside the box, we may never find the pony."
Worst. Metaphor. Ever. Besides, all I can think of now is a toybox filled with My Little Ponies jumbled up with miniature Enterprises.
Not, of course, that I have any idea what that might look like first-hand...their silky little tails...all painfully tangled up in the warp nacelles...takes hours to brush them out smooth and pretty again...