Total violation of the Code of Conduct for Bros...

It takes a thief...

Then you haven't been paying very close attention...

That's WARP 10, and the worst ST episode of any series EVER.

...sure you are, sweetie.

...to the "strobe-light" effect I sometimes see late at night when I'm trying to fall asleep? Close my eyes, and I see fluctuating "flashes" behind my eyelids for a few seconds that don't seem to be coming from any lights in the environment. Maybe some sporadic electromagnetic or other RF interference?

Because the devils have horns.

It's ok. He's probably an hallucination, too...

When I was growing up on my grandpa's dairy farm, he used to tell us kids not to pee on the electric fence. When HE was pressed for further citation, his response was, indeed, "Ball lightning."

No, you're right. In those cases, it probably really IS ball lightning. But some reported cases of ball lightning might actually be hallucinations, and not the real thing.

It embiggens all of our vocabularies.

Mine is the day before that.

Well, I am...

I'd say Asimov's Foundation series, but that has more to do with sociopolitical influences on a massive scale and scope than dealing with basic terrestrial energy crises.